After rebirth, I found out that I have a childhood sweetheart

"Afang, are you playing games?"

Xia Yuan went into Mei Fang's study without knocking.

"Why close the door in such hot weather? Let me see..."

Xia Yuan stared at Mei Fang's screen for a while. "What is this? Is it the code you studied? They are all rectangular and square. I don't understand..."

At this time, Lin Youxi also quickly walked to Mei Fang's side.

"Can you run already?"

"Do you want to operate it?"

"Let me try."

Mei Fang gave up her seat to Lin Youxi. After she sat down, she began to work seriously. "I kept encountering a bug when compiling before. Can you help me solve it?"

"That bug is hard to find."

Xia Yuan listened to Mei Fang and Lin Youxi talking in words that she couldn't understand, and felt like she couldn't fit in.

"Is this the game you guys made recently? It's all regular geometric shapes. It feels a bit boring."

“This is because the art resources have not been implanted yet. Once we find the materials and put them in, it will be a little more interesting.”

Lin Youxi thought about it and said, "However, compared with the games on the market, it is definitely not fun."

"Indeed." Xia Yuan nodded, "Two people can make games together, you are still amazing!"

Mei Fang was just taking advantage of his free time to deal with some other matters. It was rare that Yuanyuan was in such a good mood, and Mei Fang was not an unromantic person, so after Lin Youxi left, he quickly saved the program and closed it.

"So, what are we going to do this afternoon?"

"In the afternoon..."

Xia Yuan raised her hand and said what she thought, "I want to rent a disc and watch a movie together!"

In 2008, there was still no cinema in the small county of Baimei County. If children without computers at home wanted to watch movies, they still relied heavily on video stores, or video rental agencies.

Although Mei Fang's family has a computer, the screen is too small and it is not in the living room, so the viewing experience is always inferior to that of TV, and one cannot watch it while eating on the sofa.

"But now all the audio and video stores that rent discs have closed down." Lin Youxi thought, "Do you know where to find one?"

"Well... just walk around the streets, you can always find it!"

“So you don’t even know where to go.”

Mei Fang shook his head. "The store next door where I bought Subor for Mei Ya last time rents DVDs. I'll take you there."

"it is good!"

Mei Fang and his group were traveling light, walking on the main road baked by the scorching sun of midsummer. The cicadas were chirping, and the hot air was so dry that one could see the heat waves. The three of them walked along the tree-shaded road and accidentally came across a convenience store. Xia Yuan grabbed Mei Fang and stopped him from walking any further.

"Ah Fang, go buy some ice cream or some cold drinks! I'm almost dying of heat."

Xia Yuan stuck out her tongue and fanned her face with her hands. Sweat stuck her hair and cheeks together, and her face was red.

"Why do you always make such exaggerated expressions?" Mei Fang couldn't help but complain.

"Hurry up and buy it, go, go, go."

The three of them were choosing items at the convenience store. Xia Yuan was about to pay when Lin Youxi took the lead and paid.

"I'll treat you this time."

"Well, you don't have to pay to rent the disc later!"

"No need. Treating is just treating. Don't associate it with anything else."

Seeing that there was no embarrassment in Lin Youxi's smile, Xia Yuan nodded.

"Well... that's fine! Ah Fang and I will go back next time."

Lin Youxi's change came this winter.

She told Mei Fang that she wanted to make money, and Mei Fang pointed out a way for her to become a substitute player. From then on, she made this her career in "Fantasy Westward Journey".

Now is the most popular era of "Fantasy Westward Journey". Early startups like Lin Youxi and Mei Fang, because they invested a lot of energy in the early stages, have many out-of-print babies and weapons with overflowing values. Everyone who sees them calls them big guys.

She goes online every weekend to take on coaching jobs, earning a maximum of five dollars per order, and can earn at least twenty or thirty dollars every week.

Lin Youxi's substitute playing skills and understanding of certain dungeons are now deeper than Mei Fang's, and he is slowly making a name for himself in this server.

After starting to make money on his own, Mei Fang could clearly feel that Lin Youxi was less timid and had more confidence in everything he did.

He always remembered the time when he took Lin Youxi to the cemetery to visit her mother, took out three coins from his wrinkled pocket, and timidly asked Mei Fang if they were enough to buy apples.

Perhaps Lin Youxi's childhood timidity and Lin Youxi's childhood compliance were not as complicated as imagined.

All of these are caused by the lack of confidence brought about by poverty.

At least, she looks much better now.

The group drank Coke and ate ice cream as they passed a street lined with closed shops. This scene under the bright sunshine suddenly gave Mei Fang a sense of inexplicable desolation.

In Mei Fang's memory, the small county of Baimei County has a very interesting side, that is, there are many shops there.

There is a street of Internet cafes, a street of boutiques, a street of bookstores, a street of barbecues, and a street of convenience stores.

It would be fine if there were some deviations in the service. For example, a food street would have shops selling different types of food, which is understandable as they are different tracks after all.

But a street in Baimei County is really just a street. The goods sold in the next door, the next door, the next door, the next door, the next door, are exactly the same. I don't know if it's because they are worried about their ideas being copied, but no one has any new marketing ideas, and they just force themselves to open stores here. I really don't know what's the point of following the trend.

Once upon a time, the street that Mei Fang was passing by now, and the shops there, were all prosperous and bustling audio-visual stores. But now, they are all caught up in a wave of store closures. However, it won't be long before this place becomes a prosperous milk tea street and bookstore street.

The wheel of time is always moving forward, as if nothing can remain unchanged forever.

Mei Fang stopped where he was, looking at the petite backs of Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan in front of him.

After being in a daze for a while, Mei Fang trotted after Xia Yuan when he called out.

Chapter 058 Don’t you go to bed at ten o’clock at night?

Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi followed Mei Fang to the store he mentioned. This store was located in a run-down alley. The shops here looked quite old. Some even had door frames made of old-fashioned wooden slats instead of iron rolling shutters.

"This is my first time here... It feels like an adventure. It's really fun!"

Xia Yuan was very interested in the street scenes here, and as they chatted they began to talk about memories of the past.

"Remember when we were kids and we were looking for the pond next to the West River Bridge, but we never found it and kept getting lost?"

"I remember, I remember, that time we walked a long way, and all we saw along the way was wasteland, with no one in sight. In the end, we discovered that the pond had already dried up."

Lin Youxi also fell into the fascination of memories, "And if Ah Fang hadn't been there, we wouldn't have been able to find the way home. Yuanyuan, you were almost scared to tears at that time."

"Well, that's because Ah Fang was there, so I dared to run so far! Also, I didn't cry because I was scared, I cried because I fell and it hurt."

Mei Fang shook his head after hearing this. "We walked 10,000 steps that day, but basically didn't gain anything else."

“But the memories of adventure are wonderful!”

Xia Yuan quickly walked in front of Mei Fang and Lin Youxi, turned around and clapped his hands at them, saying, "But when we grow up a little more, we can take part in real adventures and travel to far, far away places together!"

"You really have a strange obsession with traveling far away."

"That's not."

Xia Yuan said with a smile, "The world is so big, it would be a pity if you don't travel around!"

The group was talking and laughing along the way, and when they arrived at the place, Mei Fang called them over.

“This is the store.”

This audio-visual store is hidden deep in an alley. There are many movie disc covers displayed at the door of the store. The quaint interior decoration and the old rusty yellow ceiling fan all show that the store has been in business for more than 10 years.

The shop owner was an old man wearing reading glasses and a white T-shirt. He leaned back in a recliner and fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan. His eyes were slightly narrowed, and he looked drowsy.

The alley was shady and the environment seemed a bit eerie, but the children did not feel scared.

Xia Yuan suggested: "Let's each choose a disc!"

"How many movies did you watch?" Lin Youxi asked.

"First, let's see if there's anything we particularly want to watch. Let's each pick one!"

Xia Yuan pulled Lin Youxi to one side to choose a CD, while Mei Fang went to the other side to stop and check.

Fortunately, although it is an old store, the latest "Kung Fu" from 08 is also on display on the hot selling shelf. Blockbuster movies from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, are everywhere, and a large exhibition area is occupied by Japanese anime series.

Since it’s the kids watching the movie together, it’s not that interesting to watch a family movie.

Yuanyuan always likes to mock me for being timid, so I'll pick out a super horror movie that she has never seen for her to watch, so that she can experience what real horror is.

The movie Mei Fang picked was "Lonely Ridge". There's not much good to say about this 06 masterpiece, but I don't know if it's appropriate to show such a scary movie to Yuanyuan, Youxi and the others... Of course, Mei Fang herself watched it when she was about the same age.

Mei Fang picked out the movie discs and then went to see Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan choosing movies.

As a result, before he could even walk over, he was pushed away by Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan, and both of them looked a little embarrassed.

"You can't look over there, look over here!"

Mei Fang glanced at the disc area over there. It was full of Hong Kong movies, some of which featured some very seductive and sexy female stars on the covers.

Oh!

Mei Fang smiled but said nothing.

The movies Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi chose were "The Evil Dead 2: Apocalypse" and "Snakes 2".

Mei Fang sighed after reading it: "None of the discs selected by the three people have immortal characters."

"My family usually won't let me rent these discs, but now that I have the chance, I must take a good look at them! And this looks like an ordinary supernatural film, it doesn't look that scary..."

Mei Fang smiled knowingly, "Would you like to take a gamble? What if you get scared and cry?"

"I'm no longer a crybaby. How could I be scared to tears by a horror movie? Hahaha."

Xia Yuan thought for a moment and said, "If I cry when watching your movie, I will cook for you every day at noon!"

"What if you didn't cry?" Mei Fang reminded, "Shouldn't this be what you should be more concerned about?"

"Then..." Xia Yuan thought for a moment, "You have to fulfill one wish of mine, whatever it is!"

"Only if I can do it."

"Okay, you can do it."