Buy a house with 30,000 yuan and live in a small town

Tao Huayu gave Xu Qingsong the MP4 and said the game had been deleted. Xu Qingsong then took Tao Huayu to the town's grocery store to reinstall the game. After leaving the store, he started playing with the game. When he got home, he had already finished the game and showed it to Tao Huayu.

Tao Huayu took a look and burst out in surprise. This was a high score that he had not gotten even after studying day and night for half a semester. "How did you do that?"

Xu Qingsong asked him back: "Is it difficult to just move your fingers?"

Tao Huayu felt the dimensionality reduction attack and deleted the game again in anger.

"You are so arrogant," Liu Wangxue commented on Xu Qingsong. "If I were Tao Huayu, I would be pissed off by you too. It's so humiliating."

Xu Qingsong put his hand on her waist and tickled her: "It's really simple. I'm telling the truth."

Liu Wangxue twisted her body to avoid it, but couldn't avoid it, so she had to grab his hand and laughed a little breathlessly: "What does this have to do with your game? You don't think that if it's so easy to play, it might be easy to make it too?"

Xu Qingsong's hands pinched her waist twice dishonestly, but Liu Wangxue simply interlocked her fingers to control him and urged him to answer quickly.

Xu Qingsong smiled and rubbed her shoulder, saying, "You really understand me."

"Do you really think so?" Liu Wangxue looked at him with surprise.

Xu Qingsong nodded and said, "Really, after the winter vacation, I bought a few books and tried to learn by myself." He chuckled and said, "After learning, I realized that I thought it was a bit simple. Playing games is easy, but making games is not easy."

At that time, the family had a computer installed in the living room on the first floor, which was used by the family to search for information. Since Xu Qingsong began to teach himself programming, he would sit in front of the computer after school and continue working after dinner.

His family members regarded this as his hobby and did not interfere, allowing him to develop on his own. Xu Chonglin even asked him if he wanted to invite a teacher to come to his home to give him lessons, saying that it would be better to let a teacher guide him instead of figuring things out on his own, so that he could learn faster and better.

Xu Qingsong was thinking the same thing, so he nodded and agreed. Grandpa Xu then invited a teacher from the Computer Science Department of Peking University to come and tutor him, giving him an hour's lesson every night.

The more Xu Qingsong learned, the more he liked it. The sense of accomplishment from solving one difficult problem after another was really addictive. It didn't take long for him to successfully design his first small game. He even asked his family to come over and try it out. The elders had a filter for him and praised him highly. He felt that he didn't get the feedback he wanted, so he took it to school to let his classmates try it out and made several revisions.

In the first semester of senior year, the final revised version was recommended by the teacher to participate in an international youth game design competition, where I won a silver medal.

"That's amazing!" Liu Wangxue exclaimed, and asked him excitedly, "Is the trophy still there? Let me see it."

"Yes, they are all kept in the study next door." Xu Qingsong stood up with Liu Wangxue, took her hand and went out to the next door.

The layout of the study room upstairs is basically the same as that of the downstairs, except that there is no small sofa and coffee table. The two desks are placed next to the balcony, and there is a whole wall of display cabinets next to the door. The upper part is a glass door, which is filled with trophies, awards and certificates of honor that Xu Qingsong has won since he was a child.

Liu Wangxue pointed at an acrylic box that looked like it was vacuumed and asked Xu Qingsong, "Is this the little red flower from the kindergarten?"

Xu Qingsong nodded and smiled helplessly: "My grandfather insisted on keeping it, and he also asked someone to make this box."

As he spoke, he opened the cabinet door and took out the box. Liu Wangxue looked at the little red flowers inside with a nostalgic look on her face. She couldn't help but reach out and touch the corner of the box: "I never thought that your grandfather and my grandfather had the same hobby. He also collected all the little red flowers I got in kindergarten."

However, Grandpa Liu didn’t know that it could be preserved in this way, so he just put it in a tin box and placed it in a cardboard box together with the awards Liu Wangxue had won in school.

Grandpa Liu and Grandma Liu had been living with Liu Wangxue's family. Not long after Grandma Liu passed away, Grandpa Liu also passed away. When the family was sorting out the old man's belongings and cleaning the house, they found this cardboard box under the bed. When the tin box was opened, the small red flowers made of red paper inside had become brittle and broke when touched. Liu Wangxue cried a lot.

Xu Qingsong put the box back, hugged her, and stroked her back with his hand: "I'm sorry, I made you sad."

"What are you apologizing for?" Liu Wangxue hugged him back, patted him on the back, and said with a smile, "It's all in the past. The little red flowers weren't all broken. I later took them to the city and made a box like this to store them. They are all well kept in my house in my hometown."

Xu Qingsong was relieved to see that she was really fine, and suddenly had an idea: "If you have time in a few days, can you take me to your house to see it?"

Liu Wangxue told Xu Qingsong that her home was in Anshi, next to Beijing, and could be reached in half an hour by high-speed rail.

"Okay," Liu Wangxue agreed happily, "I'll take you to see my cousin's silly golden retriever."

Xu Qingsong had also heard her talk about this silly golden retriever with a slow mind, and he found it funny every time he thought about it.

Liu Wangxue then looked at the display in the cabinet, and soon found the game trophy, and took it out to look at it carefully. There was nothing special about the trophy, it was just a general trophy style, with the logo and name of the competition printed on the base, and the award date engraved on the bottom. The reason why Liu Wangxue wanted to see it was because she wanted to see Xu Qingsong's past through such an item, and understand those green years that she had never participated in.

Xu Qingsong said: "This competition was held in Country M. I signed up for it just to participate, but I didn't expect to win the prize in the end."

The notice said that they had to go to the scene to receive the award, but at that time an ancient tomb was excavated in Shaanxi Province, and Grandpa Xu was assigned to help. Xu Chonglin was participating in a research project at the museum and could not leave. Grandma Xu was leading a research group, and Meng Wanqing was her student so naturally she had to participate as well. In the end, it was Uncle Meng Duanyang who took Xu Qingsong to receive the award.

Liu Wangxue asked casually: "Is it just a trophy? Doesn't the organizer give out some bonus or something?" If not, that would be too stingy.

"Of course," Xu Qingsong raised his hand and scratched the tip of her nose, "It seems to be five thousand dollars. In addition, after I received the prize, a game manufacturer came to discuss purchasing, so I asked my uncle to help sell the game."

"Wow!" Liu Wangxue exclaimed in admiration. She became curious about the game and asked, "Can I still download it now? I want to play it."

"It should have been eliminated by the market," Xu Qingsong said with a little regret, and simply described it in words, "It's quite similar to some of the current parkour games, using time and gold coins to break records."

After the game was sold, he didn't pay much attention to it. He only occasionally heard his classmates discussing it at school. It seemed to be popular for a while. He was also a senior in high school at that time. Academics were important because he had set a goal to enter the computer science department of Beijing University.

Seeing that Liu Wangxue was also quite regretful, Xu Qingsong said, "If you want to play, then I'll make it for you." Now this kind of small game is a piece of cake for him. If he takes some time, he can make it in a few days.

Liu Wangxue shook his head: "You are so busy working on the PC game now, so don't waste time on such trivial matters. Although I am very curious, I'd better wait until the PC game is online and you have time to do it, okay?"

Xu Qingsong hugged her and nodded: "Okay."

Liu Wangxue changed the subject and asked him, "Does this count as your first pot of gold? Let me guess. From then on, did you become even more passionate about game development? Did you use this money as start-up capital to upgrade your home equipment, and then make a few more games and put them on the market? Then, every day, you have a steady stream of money coming in?"

Xu Qingsong was amused by her "fantasy": "I will disappoint the expectations of our great screenwriter. The bonus includes the money from selling games, and I will spend it as soon as it arrives."

Liu Wangxue was surprised: "No, you were just a senior high school student at that time, how did you spend so much money?"

Xu Qingsong said: "As you imagined at the beginning, I first bought myself a top-of-the-line computer. After all, I would need it often in the future, so a good computer would be easy to use. In addition, smartphones seemed to have just been launched at that time, so I bought one for each of my family members."

There are ones from mom and dad, grandparents, grandparents, uncles and uncles’ families, no matter adults or children, everyone has one.

Xu Qingsong laughed when he thought of this: "At that time, the clerk who sold mobile phones thought I was going to their store for wholesale. He looked at me with a puzzled look, and in his puzzled expression he wrote four big words -"

Liu Wangxue continued: "He is stupid and has a lot of money?"

Xu Qingsong nodded: "Yes, yes, hahahaha... He didn't dare to make the decision, so he called the store manager. When the store manager saw that I looked young, he asked me if I was an adult and insisted on seeing my ID card. As a result, he found out that I was still a high school student and refused to sell anything to me. "

"What happened next?" Liu Wangxue asked, "How did you buy it?"

"Of course I called my parents, hahaha..." Xu Qingsong kept laughing and said, "I had no choice but to call my mom. After she persuaded me and finally showed me her teacher's ID, the store manager sold me the phone."

Liu Wangxue thought it was hilarious: "But the store manager was also responsible. After all, you were still a minor at the time. Who would carry so much money with them as a child from an average family? And you bought more than 20 movies at once. He must have thought twice about it."

"Yes!" Xu Qingsong nodded, pretending to be angry. "I didn't think about this at all at the time. I just wanted to buy a gift for my family. In the end, I gave it to them, but my mother also told everyone about it. As a result, I was laughed at by the elders for half a year."

Liu Wangxue was on the same side as him with a very strong show: "That's right, how could they do this? They use the phone you gave them and still make fun of you. Hahaha..." As she spoke, she couldn't pretend anymore.

Xu Qingsong held her with one hand and tickled her with the other, making it impossible for her to dodge and she could only beg for mercy. After a while, the two of them went downstairs together. Downstairs, Xu Chonglin and Grandpa Xu were sitting on the balcony setting up chess, but they hadn't started playing yet.

Grandma Xu and Meng Wanqing were sitting aside ready to watch the fight. When they saw the two of them coming down, they called them over to watch.

Meng Wanqing said, "Come on, Xuxu, come and appreciate how the son is crushed by his father in all aspects."

When Xu Chonglin heard this, he moved the chess pieces with more force: "How could you do this? The game hasn't even started yet, and you're already trying to boost my dad's ambitions and destroy my prestige."

Grandma Xu glanced at him and said, "Your wife is not wrong. Count on your fingers. How many times have you beaten your father since you were a child?"

Grandpa Xu stroked his nonexistent beard with a smug look on his face: "Xu Xu is here today, so in order to prevent you from losing too badly, I will let you win with one horse and one cannon."

"Dad, you are humiliating me," Xu Chonglin said indignantly, but his hands honestly took away a horse and a cannon from the red pieces on the opposite side, "It is absolutely a humiliation!"

Meng Wanqing laughed at him: "It's a humiliation, so don't agree to it!"

Liu Wangxue was pulled by Xu Qingsong to sit on the other side. Grandma Xu stuffed a peeled orange in her hand. After thanking her, she broke half of it and gave it to Xu Qingsong, and she was overjoyed with everyone else.

Grandpa Xu suddenly asked Liu Wangxue: "Can Xuxu play chess?"

Liu Wangxue quickly swallowed the orange slice in her mouth and replied, "I can play a little, but not well." She knew how to play chess and Go, but she was not good at them because she learned them in order to write scripts and she did not have much interest in studying them.

Grandpa Xu was delighted when he heard this, and immediately waved for her to sit at the table: "Come on, you play this game." As he spoke, he moved the chessboard towards her.

Liu Wangxue waved his hands repeatedly: "Grandpa, I can't do it. I really only know the basics."

Xu Chonglin put back the horse and cannon he had just taken, and greeted Liu Wangxue with interest: "It's just for fun, don't be nervous, uncle will let you have a horse and a cannon first." Then he took away the horse and cannon on his side.

Grandma Xu peeled another orange and gave half to Meng Wanqing, mocking Xu Chonglin: "I think you can't beat me, so you want to find a sense of existence through the child."

Xu Chonglin took the quarter of an orange that Meng Wanqing handed to him and said, "Mom, I'm your own son. How can you slander me like this?"

Grandma Xu smiled and snorted, then said to Liu Wangxue, "Xuxu, don't be afraid, just follow him!"

Meng Wanqing and Grandpa Xu also asked Liu Wangxue to leave. Xu Qingsong then stood up, picked up the chair and moved forward to the edge of the table. He took the opportunity to whisper, "Don't worry. With my grandpa here, you will definitely win."

No, isn't this a question of winning or losing? Liu Wangxue turned to look at him.

Xu Qingsong gave her an encouraging look, and the four elders also advised her that it was just a game.

Liu Wangxue took a deep breath and asked Xu Chonglin: "Uncle, do you want to go first or should I go first?"

Xu Chonglin made a "please" gesture; "You first."

How to move this? Liu Wangxue glanced at the chessboard and reached out to push a pawn forward.

The rules of chess are simple, but playing it requires a lot of brainpower. When a novice faces off against an expert, the opponent will be completely defeated in a short time.

Liu Wangxue felt that the reason she had been able to remain undefeated for such a long time was entirely because Xu Chonglin was letting her win a little bit.

Finally, Xu Chonglin's black pieces pushed Liu Wangxue's red pieces into a desperate situation. It seemed that no matter how they moved, the "Shi", "Xiang" and "Knight" protecting the "Jiang" would be eaten by the opponent and then be checked. Liu Wangxue thought hard, but could not find a way to crack it.

Just when she was about to give in, Grandpa Xu spoke up and reminded her: "Xuxu, car."

Xu Chonglin immediately said, "Dad, watch the game of chess without saying a word, watch the game of chess without saying a word!"

Grandma Xu, Meng Wanqing, and Xu Qingsong chuckled.

"Car"? Liu Wangxue was about to say there was no "car", but when she looked up, she saw the red "car" in the other camp, and suddenly realized it. She had been led by Xu Chonglin, only paying attention to her own side, and forgot to look at the situation on the other side.

Liu Wangxue reached out and moved the red "rook" to eat the black "elephant": "Checkmate!"

However, her glory only lasted for a short while. In the end, she was defeated by Xu Chonglin and only the lonely "general" was left. She lost and felt like many brain cells had died.

After this round, there was no further game, and everyone just sat there and chatted for a while.

Liu Wangxue went to the bathroom and came out. She looked at the clock on the living room wall and it was almost ten o'clock.

Xu Qingsong also came over from the balcony at this time, picked up Liu Wangxue's down jacket on the sofa, and pretended to help her put it on. Liu Wangxue didn't let him, and asked him: "What are you doing? Are you going out?"

Xu Qingsong put his down jacket on her shoulders and said, "Well, let's go home."

Liu Wangxue thought she had heard wrongly: "Go home?" Isn't this your home? She thought.

Soon after, the four elders came over.

Grandma Xu just went back to her room and took out the old massager. She didn't even throw away the box. Meng Wanqing helped pack it and handed it to Xu Qingsong, asking him to take some time to send it back to the store to check what was wrong. She also handed over a handbag for Liu Wangxue, which contained a gift for her.

Liu Wangxue hurriedly thanked him, and Xu Qingsong reached out to take it, holding Liu Wangxue's hand and walking towards the entrance: "Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, we'll go back now."

Grandpa Xu asked: "Will you and Xuxu come over for lunch tomorrow?"

Xu Qingsong put the massager and handbag on the shoe cabinet first, and answered while opening the cabinet door to take out the shoes: "But don't come, I have to go to my grandma's house in the evening, and I have to buy some things, so I may be too late."

Grandma Xu said, "Okay, then take Xuxu to a nicer restaurant tomorrow."

Xu Qingsong nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Liu Wangxue still had her down jacket on her shoulders, Meng Wanqing told her to put it on: "It's cold outside at night, don't catch a cold."

Liu Wangxue agreed and put on her down jacket before changing her shoes.

Xu Chonglin also told Xu Qingsong: "Drive slowly and pay attention to safety."

After Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong had changed their shoes, the four elders gave them a few more instructions, asking Liu Wangxue to eat well and have fun, and asking Xu Qingsong to treat her well.

After the two of them responded one by one, they said goodbye to the four elders. The four elders saw them out and watched them get into the elevator.

The elevator door closed and began to move downward. Liu Wangxue felt that she had just come to her senses: "Leaving now?"

Xu Qingsong leaned over and asked her with a smile, "Haven't you stayed long enough? How about we go up again?"

Liu Wangxue pushed him away, revealing the dimple on her cheek: "No, I want to ask, where are you taking me? Which home are you going back to?"

Xu Qingsong just smiled and said nothing. (End of this chapter)