Chapter 25: A Good Start

Sunday morning, get up early to wash Cheng Ming saw his dad is shaving in the mirror, these days there is no electric razor, only razor blade shaving.

Unkept for days, Dad’s stubble was a mess, and squeezing out shaving cream onto his jaw rubbed out countless white bubbles.

Cheng Ming stood beside his dad and brushed his teeth in silence, he really didn’t know what to say to his dad, it was too embarrassing.

If you are with your sister, you can still childishly fool around with her.

But in front of his dad, Cheng Ming could neither communicate with him with a mature thirty-year-old mentality, nor could he put on the posture of a junior high school student, at least not face-to-face.

Living in the old mansion that will, rebellious Cheng Ming quite a lot of quarrel with Dad, and even almost fight, feelings complex ah.

It was Dad who finally broke the silence by asking out loud, “You took those pictures.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Just study hard, and stay out of this kind of thing in the future, just leave it to me and your mom.”

All to you and mom before the end, Cheng Ming in the heart of the abdominal slander said.

No matter what, a family of four being able to eat at the same table was a good thing, a good sign, proving that Cheng Ming’s efforts had achieved some results.

The next step is to solve Shen Xiao’s problem, Dad is now just suspecting Ye Binsong, it’s not enough, far from it.

It was necessary to make Dad completely distrust Ye Bin Song and part ways with him.

Dad rushed to the construction site, while Cheng Ming was going to the Internet cafe to meet up with Wang Hao and Zhao Lei.

Cheng Li opened her arms and blocked Cheng Ming’s way, puffing out her cheeks in anger and questioning, “Brother, where are you going? Take me with you.”

“Next week, absolutely take you out next week.” Cheng Ming leaned down and rubbed Cheng Li’s hair, promising, “I’ll bring you delicious food when I come back.”

“Say yes, I want lollipops, chips ……”

Cheng Li said a whole bunch of snacks, and Cheng Ming didn’t remember all of them.

“If you didn’t buy it back, I want you to look good.” Cheng Li put out harsh words.

“Got it Got it.” Cheng Ming responded copiously, he guessed that his sister must not have remembered what he said either, so his sister still understood a little bit better and didn’t cry to follow Cheng Ming out.

Otherwise there would be enough to give Cheng Ming a headache, he could not take his sister to play in an internet cafe.

Internet cafe is a place where the clouds and dragons are mixed, there are people from all religions, and there are many fights at the drop of a hat, so taking her to play in a regular game hall is already the limit.

Cheng Ming first met with Wang Hao in the city library, his family sent him to the library, watched the two of them into the library, before leaving at ease.

The two went to return the books first, and Cheng Ming borrowed a few martial arts novels. Although he had read them long ago, it didn’t stop him from recalling the classics.

But how come there’s only the next book, where’s the first? Whatever, make do with what you’ve got, the storyline is already well known anyway.

Wang Hao looked greedy, can only borrow some masterpieces and tutorials, graphic novels do not dare to touch a bit, if it is torn by parents still have to pay for money.

Datang Internet cafe is considered to be one of the larger and more formal Internet cafes in Nanming City, before it was also called the computer room, this month changed a new plaque, also changed to call this more domineering name.

Zhao Lei had already been waiting at the entrance of the Internet cafe.

“Cheng Ming, is that Zhao Lei?” Wang Hao asked as he looked at the familiar figure.

“Well, I called him.” Cheng Ming nodded and said.

“You?”

After greeting each other and entering the Datang Internet Cafe, Wang Hao and Zhao Lei are not very familiar, and the two did not say much.

The owner and webmaster of the Datang Internet Café is called Xiao Ma, with a slim figure and sunglasses, and after watching the movie Heroes in Color, he admired Xiao Ma very much, and he also happened to be surnamed Ma, so he let other people call him Xiao Ma, and also imitated the classic action of lighting cigarettes with banknotes, although the point is a plutonium note, and Heaven and Earth Bank.

Cheng Ming also came here as a webmaster for a period of time in his previous life to earn some meal money and play games online for free.

Brother Xiao Ma lifted up his sunglasses and hung them on top of his head and asked, “Cheng Ming, Wang Hao, aren’t you two in your junior year? Why are you still running to the Internet cafe, when your midterm is over, brother I’ll treat you to an all-nighter.”

“I wouldn’t dare to surf the internet all night, the dog’s head would be broken.” Wang Hao waved his hand and said.

“What’s there to be afraid of, just say you’re sleeping at your classmate’s house. Oh, and a new face, your classmates?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Three of you, ah, find yourselves an empty seat, register the number of the machine and the time in the book, two dollars an hour.”

Now there is no Internet cafe management software, and naturally there is no function to register ID cards, only the most primitive laptop registration.

When the time comes, it will not automatically shut down the machine, only to let the network administrator to remind the caller to get off the machine, encountering difficult guests, will also be a deadbeat to occupy the position not to get off the machine.

Since there is no Internet Cafe Management System, naturally there is no Restore Wizard or Diskless Assistant.

As soon as you turn on your computer, the desktop is a mess, full of things that other people have downloaded, and 360 Security Antivirus hasn’t been developed yet, and the disinfectant software that’s available on the market is all paid for.

The network administrator can be not good at all, computer problems, not shut down and change the machine can be solved, not too computer literate people also ask all kinds of strange questions, apply for qq number, download the game.

Cheng Ming thought that he wrote a set of Internet cafe management system should be quite marketable.

Especially after a few years when there were more and more bad *** cases in internet cafes, they were tightened up and underage internet access was not allowed and ID registration was required.

Choosing a seat in a company of three, Cheng Ming sat in the center, while Zhao Lei and Wang Hao sat on his left and right sides respectively.

“Zhao Lei, you first familiarize yourself with the game Stone Age.”

If the plugin seller hasn’t even played the game and used the plugin themselves, how can they fool others into using it.

“Good.”

Zhao Lei acted extremely clumsy and careful, after all, it was the first time, understandably, and after that, he would become more and more skillful.

“Wang Hao, have you played Stone Age before?” Cheng Ming asked.

“Played ah, what? This game is not suitable for me, the experience value to be upgraded in the late stage is too much, how much time do I have to play the game, playing this game is not as good as playing a game of cs and playing red police.”

“I’ll show you a good one.”

Cheng Ming logged into the forum and downloaded an external plugin for Wang Hao.

“Isn’t that the plugin that was all over the forums last night?”

“You know that too?”

“Just snuck a peek and it seems like a page of posts are discussing this plugin.”

“It’s a plugin my cousin made, and I just happen to have a few activation codes, so try it out and tell me what you think.”

“You still have a cousin? I’ll have to try then, since your cousin can write plug-ins, does he know how to write game programs?”

Wang Hao is also very interested in making games.

Cheng Ming went to college and broke off contact with Wang Hao. Years later the two met at a developer conference, where Wang Hao was working for a handheld game company making a second-generation card game.

The two had dinner together, talked about the sob story, and didn’t leave contact information for each other, with a chivalrous flavor of destiny will meet.

And here’s where we meet.

In addition to the game, Cheng Ming also taught Zhao Lei how to hang proxies on forums and chat rooms, and also helped him organize a qq number.

Wang Hao has to go home to eat at noon, Wang Hao came back a trip too far, Cheng Ming can not leave Wang Hao directly home, bought two buckets of instant noodles, Xiao Ma also added a strip of ham sausage for them respectively.

“Brother Xiao Ma, do you sell hangouts here?” Cheng Ming asked with his noodles.

“Plug-ins? I’ve heard that the Internet cafes in big cities sell plug-ins on their behalf, and the sales are not bad. But small places like mine feel like they can’t sell a few plug-ins, and they’re afraid of smashing their hands when they enter the store, losing money and losing money.”

“In fact, my cousin also made a Stone Age plug-in, and wants to put the activation code in your place to sell, one activation code sells for fifteen dollars, and you can take two to three dollars out of it as an agent’s fee.”

“The agent fee is not necessary, I can help you guys hang and sell it.” Xiao Ma waved his hand and said, he didn’t care about that small amount of money.

“If someone wants to contact my cousin, let him add this qq number, my cousin also wants to develop a cyber cafe management software, I do not know if I can try it out on Brother Xiao Ma’s computer, the specific function is ……”

Cheng Ming talked about the functions of the Internet Cafe Management System.

Xiao Ma clapped his hands and said with a jaw-dropped expression, “Crap, this is too fierce, with these features, won’t I be able to make money lying down.”

“My cousin also said that with this system it will be easy for Internet cafes to manage their members, what charging 50 bucks to get 50 for a limited time activities can be engaged in, not afraid of the players will run away, it can increase the user stickiness, but also quickly back to the money.”

“When will your cousin make this system? It’s like I can already see my internet cafe filling up and me lighting cigarettes with real money.”

“Next week, but don’t you dare light your cigarettes with real money like Ponyboy, it’s against the law to intentionally damage coins.”

“The little kid knows quite a bit, so I’ll just wait for your cousin to manage this internet cafe system, if it’s really that awesome, I’ll be able to figure out how to open a branch.”

Cheng Ming also matched words with Zhao Lei’s side, such as the plug-in was invented by his cousin who created it out of nothing, and then taught him how to run a business.

“Go to an Internet cafe and see someone playing Stone Age you can introduce this plug-in to him, this is the most primitive and the most offensive, it’s more of a bummer, some people don’t like such a direct sales pitch, it will cause them to be offended.”

“You can start by playing the game, sitting right next to those playing Stone Age, and saying out loud that this plug-in works great to get their attention, and when they ask you where you got the plug-in, you’ll say that you got it from Xiao Ma at the Da Tang Internet Cafe.”

“You can also find other internet cafe owners to represent you and let them help sell it. Let’s say we sell the activation codes for this month for 15 dollars, the wholesale price for them would be 12 or 13 dollars, letting them make a few bucks. Anyway, we’ll split the final net profit 70-30 again.”

“I’ve got a hundred dollars here, consider it your start-up capital, and you can deduct your internet and meal money from here for now, and ask me if you have any specific questions.”

This one hundred dollars was already Cheng Ming’s last ripple, and there was still a bit of money left that he had to save to buy candy for his sister.

Let’s hope the plug-in sells well, otherwise Cheng Ming will have to think of other channels to make money.