**** Internet Cafe.
Several students are playing PUBG fiercely.
"Alas, I lost again. That guy even dared to mock me?! F***! Why hasn't Fang Moyan come yet? If he were here, the two of us would work together in the midfield and jungle to beat these bastards to death!"
"Do you want me to go look for him?"
"Forget it, let's wait."
Under the shade of the trees outside the school gate.
"This is the tuition, books and living expenses for the entire senior year of high school, a total of 5,400 yuan. Take it back and pay the tuition first. Don't make it hard on yourself, study hard, and get into a good university next year, and bring honor to your father."
Fang Zhiwen said earnestly. His face was full of wrinkles, making a fifty-year-old man look like he was sixty-five. Rural people suffer more and look much older than city people.
"I know, Dad. I'm going back to school first. My homework is very tight right now, and I have to go back to review." Fang Moyan was a little absent-minded.
It took so long, my teammates should scold me.
"Yes, yes, review. I'll go back too." Fang Zhiwen heard that and he couldn't delay his son's review.
"How are you going to get back? The long-distance buses have already stopped."
"I'll just find a place to sleep."
"Then I'm leaving."
"Wait I'll take you back."
"No, I can go in by myself...Okay, you go ahead, you go ahead."
Under the gaze of his father, Fang Moyan walked into the gate of Qidu No. 5 Middle School.
"Hey, my old man! Why did you have to send me into this cage again?
"I had originally made an appointment with Shen Tianlei and others to go to the Internet cafe to play League of Legends, but the old man was so stubborn and insisted on seeing me go into the school.
"Well, I have to climb out again."
Fang Moyan was helpless and didn't dare to climb for now.
" I have a huge amount of money in my pocket, one year's tuition and living expenses, it's all here."
He has to go to the school finance department to pay the money first.
It's not safe to carry such a large sum of money, which is the income of my father's three months' hard work.
Qidu No.5 Middle School is a municipal key school and a semi-boarding school. Students are not allowed to go out at will unless they ask for leave.
Fang Moyan came to the finance office. The teacher in charge of finance had not yet finished to get off work. He hurried forward, paid the tuition, food and accommodation fees first, and received a thin receipt.
With this receipt, he won't have to worry about food and accommodation at school in the future.
There is a wall behind the dormitory building. With the help of two big trees, he can climb up easily. On the other side is a small fitness square in a nearby community. With the help of fitness equipment outside the wall, he can climb back and enter school easily.
This is the secret of their dormitory.
"Fang Moyan!"
It was the head teacher, Ma Xuefeng.
"Come with me to the Academic Affairs Office to do some work."
"Well, I have something else to do..."
"You have a shit problem, aren't you playing games? Do you think I don't know!"
"I understand, Teacher Ma." Fang Moyan said helplessly.
By the time he finished helping Ma Xuefeng with his work, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
"Okay, thanks to you tonight, take this back as compensation for your labor today."
It's a box of yogurt.
Ma Xuefeng knew that Fang Moyan's family was not well off, so he would sometimes make excuses to ask him to help with some chores, and then throw him some milk, fruit, dried meat, etc. to supplement his nutrition.
However, it's already nine o'clock, and in another hour the Internet cafe will be closed and no one will be allowed to enter.
This is also the usual practice in nearby Internet cafes. They close at 10 pm and do not open until early the next morning, unless you stay there all night.
It is said that this is to cope with the inspection.
Fang Moyan took the yogurt without hesitation and ran to the dormitory. After returning, he quietly went to the back of the dormitory building.
Those animals must be getting impatient. Without me to carry the team, how can those losers win?
He quickened his pace and ran towards the Internet cafe.
On the street.
Fang Zhiwen held his empty wallet, which now contained only 158 yuan, 68 yuan of which was for transportation, leaving 90 yuan.
He came to a shabby little hotel, the kind with high-end decoration that was obviously not cheap but this kind of small hotel would be much cheaper.
Although it was his first time to come to school, rural people have their own survival wisdom.
"Boss, how much is one night's stay?"
"80!"
"80? Does it include meals?"
"..." The hotel owner looked at the rustic Fang Zhiwen and thought, are you kidding me? 80 a night with meals included?
"If you want to stay, stay. If you don't, get out!"
"20."
"20? Hahaha, you can sleep on the street. It doesn't cost you a penny."
Fang Zhiwen didn't get angry after being scolded. He just looked up at the weather and it didn't look like it was going to rain.
The boss' words reminded him,
It's free to sleep on the street, and the 80 yuan saved is enough for him to do a day and a half of labor. He only earns 50 yuan a day by helping others in the farm.
Instead of looking for a hotel, he walked around and found a good place to sleep.
...
Fang Moyan was familiar with the route and in two or three steps, he jumped onto the top of the wall.
You bunch of scumbags, wait for me to take you flying!
His mind had already flown to the Internet cafe.
The lights outside were on and there were a few people scattered around in the fitness square.
Fang Moyan was about to slide down the fitness equipment when he accidentally saw a person sleeping on the pedestrian bench.
After taking a look, he was struck by lightning and couldn't take his eyes away.
Dad?
Didn't he send himself back to school and then go find a place to sleep?
There are many small hotels near the school, and the price per night is only fifty yuan.
It's to save money.
He believed his father could do it.
In order to save three dollars on bus fare, my father often walked for an hour straight, and his feet were covered with blisters.
The accommodation fee was fifty per night, and he would have to walk for sixteen or seventeen hours to make up the money.
Fang Moyan suddenly jumped off the wall, ran all the way back to the dormitory, rushed into the bathroom, and frantically rinsed his head with cold water to wash away the sweat or tears on his face.
Thinks for a long time.
I wasn't like this before.
When did I start to fall?
Fang Moyan still remembers when he first entered high school, he was full of vigor and ambition, and had the aura of a noble man who despised all the people in the world.
I am a star student in my small town, having been ranked first in the school for nine consecutive years.
But in the first placement test, he didn't even make it into the top ten.
When the teacher read out "Fang Moyan, 22nd", Fang Moyan suddenly collapsed mentally.
Before high school, he had no idea what it felt like to be ranked second. Now,22
In his junior high school opinion, he didn't need to remember the names of the students after the top five.
However, there is a huge gap in teaching between children in rural areas and children in cities.
Fang Moyan initially thought that he had not performed well, so he worked even harder and studied until 1 or 2 in the morning every day, hoping to make up for his previous failure in the next exam.
But too much is as bad as too little, and the result went against his wishes. In another exam, he only ranked 33rd.
There are 60 students in the class, and 33 of them belong to the second half.
Fang Moyan, who had never experienced such a setback, was devastated.
Why do I work so hard but still can't get as good a score as others who pass the exam easily?
In extreme boredom, Shen Tianlei took him to an Internet cafe to play games. From then on, he opened the door to the gaming world. In the games, he found a sense of identity, the meaning of life, and the taste of dignity.
In reality, no matter how hard you try, you can't compare to others, so why not relax a little?
Life is like this. It is difficult to persist, but it only takes a moment to give up.
After giving up, Fang Moyan fell down all the way and became the last in Class Four.
I think of my father's wrinkled face and slightly hunched back. Since he had no education, he could only do hard labor. He only earned 70 or 80 yuan a day on average. After deducting basic living expenses, there was not much left.
In order to save fifty dollars, he could calmly sleep on a bench in the fitness square.
And what about myself?
I stay online all night every day and don't even blink an eye at the ten-dollar internet fee.
He felt like he was a piece of s***
"Study hard and get into a good university in the future to bring honor to your father."
His father's words echoed in his ears.
"Yes, I want to go to college, a good university, so that everyone in the village will envy me!"
Fang Moyan swore secretly!