Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 348 - 347: Sincere Internet Cafe

Chapter 348: Chapter 347: Sincere Internet Cafe

"Hello?"

"Hello! Is this Zhen Yu?" The voice on the other end of the phone was extremely excited, "Happy holidays!"

Zhen Yu scowled.

Happy holidays, my foot!

She did not want to celebrate Women’s Day!

"Just get to the point!"

"Internet! The internet!! Little sister, I’m congratulating your family’s internet cafe on its grand opening in advance! Ahahaha..."

Zhen Yu was suddenly struck by immense joy! She was speechless for a good ten seconds.

"Hello? Hello! Talk to me! When are you going to start the service? When should I come to wire it up?!" Zhang Liang on the other end kept urging and made Zhen Yu suddenly come back to her senses!

"Right away! Now! I’m going to handle the service immediately! You come over tomorrow with the equipment! We start work early in the morning! I’m going to write a closure notice now!!"

Slam! Zhen Yu threw the receiver back onto the phone set and ran towards the arcade!

"Mom!" Zhen Yu began shouting from several meters away from the counter, "Mom! Where’s my brother? Let him come watch the counter! We both need to go out and handle some things!"

"What’s the matter? You’re in such a hurry!" Mrs. Zhen slowly stood up from her chair and asked.

"Give me a piece of paper first! Oh, and a pen! Our place needs to close tomorrow for a cabling overhaul! We’re finally going to upgrade the internet cafe!!"

"Really?!" Mrs. Zhen, having experienced this once, was just slightly surprised, "Is the service fee cheaper this time? Don’t cry wolf again!"

"This time it’s for real! Zhang Liang’s information is accurate! Besides, we can go inquire about it ourselves!"

"Alright then!" Mrs. Zhen said indifferently: "I’ll go call your brother downstairs."

"No need!" Zhen Yu immediately stopped her: "Wait until I finish writing the notice then I’ll call him myself, just stay here!"

——

After three days of hard work, the ’brand-new’ Sincere Internet Cafe was finally set to ’reopen’ on Arbor Day!

On the evening of March 11th, the three members of the Zhen Family and Zhang San and Li Si gathered at the counter, discussing the opening of the business the next day.

Mrs. Zhen was still somewhat worried, fearing that the ’price increase’ would affect customer flow.

But her daughter solved this issue with just one sentence—and also smoothly handled the issue with membership cards!

"Those without membership cards are charged 6 yuan per hour! For those with membership cards, before the balance runs out, it’s three yuan with a 5% discount off the original price, until the balance is zero! Consider it a benefit for the members! After the balance is zero, if they wish to recharge, it will be six yuan with a 5% discount."

"I’ll write an announcement and paste it on the door later!"

"Xiao Yu, this is a great idea!" Zhang San immediately applauded upon hearing it. "Members are our regular customers, a direct price hike might lead to backlash! This way, it’s a buffer, whether they recharge later is up to them! If it’s too expensive, they don’t have to recharge!"

Li Si, still a bit slow with words, just echoed, "Right, right, right! This is good!"

"Tonight, we’re going to pull an all-nighter! I’ll teach you how to use the internet!" Zhen Yu told Zhang San and Li Si, "So you can teach others tomorrow!"

"Right, right, right! Before, we just listened to you talk about it, now we can finally get some hands-on experience!" Li Si was delighted and hurried along, Zhang San also got up to join.

——

Zhen Yu casually started a computer and, once on the desktop, clicked on the IE icon.

What shall I do? Oh right! Check if there’s any news about the software she wanted most!

Baidu, no! That would come later...

What Chinese search engine should be used in 1998? Google? Not available! Sogou? Also not available!

Hiss... Let me think...

A long, long time ago, was it Yahoo or Sohu? Let’s try both!

Ultimately, what appeared before Zhen Yu was Yahoo!

That nostalgic style, that... no need for more words, start searching!

When it was finally time to search, the first thing Zhen Yu typed was—OICQ, four English letters!

"Oh my God!" Zhen Yu was shaken, almost losing her composure! "It actually exists!"

"What really exists?!" Zhen Yan asked, not knowing when he had also come up behind Zhen Yu.

"QQ! Quick! Turn on all the computers! Install OICQ on each one!" Zhen Yu immediately issued the order, "Also, set all the computers’ IE homepages to Yahoo! This one!"

Zhang San and Li Si had both seen how Zhen Yu opened this website, and immediately sprang into action at her words.

"Brother! You sit here! First, download an installation package, install it, then immediately register an account! I need to make a call!"

"Hey! I may not know how!" Zhen Yan turned around, reaching out intending to grab his sister.

But Zhen Yu moved swiftly, walking fast without looking back: "If you don’t know, just follow the Chinese prompts! Can’t you read Chinese?"

"..." Zhen Yan turned back helplessly, staring blankly at the monitor screen.

Sister’s retorts are painfully sharp! Better he asks fewer questions and fends for himself!

"Hello! Brother Zhang! Sorry to disturb you so late, I really apologize!" Zhen Yu was in a good mood, her polite words flowing freely.

"Hey! It’s nothing!" Zhang Liang also responded politely before saying, "I just left your place not long ago, what do you need me for now?"

Zhen Yu didn’t beat around the bush, "I need a batch of goods! I want to equip each computer with a camera!"

"What do you need that for? I only have one or two of those, I need to order more!"

"Then please order them! 36 pieces! Give me a discount!"

"Rest assured! I won’t overcharge you!"

Zhen Yu, unusually, didn’t haggle but directly brought up something else, "I forgot to ask you last time! Does that internet cafe in the provincial city have any new games? I mean, online games!"

"They don’t have internet access! They just have some LAN games." Zhang Liang recalled for a moment then continued, "I specifically looked, most people in that internet cafe were wearing headsets and browsing web pages, probably listening to music! Otherwise, they were watching movies! There weren’t many playing games!"

"Ah." It seems it’s not the time yet.

Zhen Yu was just about to hang up, but Zhang Liang suddenly added another point, "Oh! Right! Also, many people were chatting! I’m not talking about chat rooms! They were using a little penguin,"

"OICQ?" Zhen Yu immediately interjected.

"Exactly! This one! Lots of people were watching movies and chatting at the same time! I asked around, they all said they were chatting with strangers on the other end! What could be the point of that!" Zhang Liang complained in the end.

"Hehe! What could be the point? That’s quite interesting!" Zhen Yu, reminded of future news related to online chatting, silently thought to herself: "It won’t be long! At most half a year! You’ll know that even internet chats can be quite the scene! I just hope you don’t fall into online dating, much less die from exposure..."