Article/From the First Meeting

After graduating from junior high school, I dropped out of school because I failed to enter high school and my family was unwilling to spend money to support my education.

I was 15 years old that year, and I went to Zhejiang to work with people from my village. My first job was as a general worker in a factory. I went to work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day, and my monthly salary was 1,000.

There are many people in the factory, but there are very few people as young as me. There is a boy who is two years older than me, named Liu Hao. Since we are about the same age, we have a lot of topics in common.

After I came to work in Zhejiang, I felt very strange about everything in the city. When I saw the city’s lights and feasting in the evening, I felt that the city was really nice for the first time.

One evening after get off work, Liu Hao mysteriously told me that I will take you to a fun place later. At that time, I didn’t know what the fun part was. I just thought it was novel, so I readily agreed.

Liu Hao took me to an Internet cafe in Zhejiang. Although there is an Internet cafe in the market town of our village, which contains several dilapidated computers and the ground is covered with tangled black wires, I have only seen my classmate Er Gouzi play it, and I have never played it myself. The most fundamental reason is: no money.

That day, I followed Liu Hao to the entrance of the Internet cafe. I stood alone in front of the magnificently decorated Internet cafe, feeling a little scared but also a little expectant.

I kept pulling on Liu Hao's clothes and said, "Let's go back. This looks very expensive, I'm afraid I can't afford it." But Liu Hao just smiled and said to me: " It’s okay, it’s okay, let’s go and have a look, you won’t miss a piece of meat, right?”

So, I was dragged into the bar by Liu Hao. Liu Hao boldly talked to his boss and asked him how much it would cost to surf the Internet for an hour. The boss said three yuan an hour and 20 yuan for the night.

At that time, 20 yuan was a lot of money for me. I took Liu Hao’s hand and said, “Let’s go.” I paid five yuan, swiped my ID card, and then went to a computer with my account number and password.

I watched him sitting on the computer, turning it on skillfully, entering his account and password, and then opening the computer desktop. Enter his game account and password and start his game.

I watched him play happily from behind, sometimes wearing headphones and saying a few words that I didn’t understand. I felt envious, so my heart was shaken, so I held my hand and wrinkled it up. The members of the group handed the five yuan for lunch tomorrow to the boss in a ceremonial manner.

The boss gave me my account and password according to the procedure. I walked next to Liu Hao, followed his previous example and started to turn on my computer, enter my account and password, and then entered the main interface.

I asked him to register a game account for me, and then started the game under his guidance. I hesitated and cowered, which made him helpless. He smoked a cigarette and took it. He walked my mouse and said: "Come on, come on, brother will teach you."

Then, under his guidance, I also learned to play games online. In addition, I also learned to smoke. Like him, holding a cigarette in his mouth, imagining that he is in a fairyland, puffing away smoke.

After that time, we often met to go to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet, and then bought a pack of cigarettes together at the counter of the Internet cafe, and this was the beginning of our comfortable life.

Because I am addicted to the Internet, I don’t want to go to work less and less; and because I stay online until very late every day, I feel very sleepy every day when I go to work. In addition, the money I earn every month It was also gradually contributed to Internet cafes.

I stayed up all night every day to surf the Internet. The 1,000 monthly money I earned was not enough to spend. At that time, my Internet addiction had become very big. Liu Hao and I began to calculate and pass what Find ways to make money to go online.

Later, we decided to go for a robbery. We strategically targeted a woman walking alone on the road at night. In order to prevent those women from resisting, we went to the hardware store to buy a knife for 5 yuan to scare them.

Everything was ready. On the first night, Liu Hao and I were waiting on the dim road and saw a girl in her twenties walking alone on the road. We first laid ambush on both sides and waited for her to come slowly. We came over, pointed the knife at her and said: Robbery, take out the money.

That was my first robbery. I could clearly feel my hands shaking, but I still restrained myself strongly and faced her fiercely.

When the girl saw us, she burst into tears. She gave us all the valuable things she had on her and begged us not to kill him. We were only seeking money, so we didn’t do it. After too much entanglement, he took her money and ran to the Internet cafe.

After the experience of the first robbery, we started the second and third robbery. I robbed two or three orders every night and gradually gained some income. I even felt that robbery was really a good job. The money came in quickly and the cost of crime was low.

Until, we met that woman.

That day, we were lying in ambush on both sides of the path as usual. The woman walked quickly from the path with a thick bag in her hand. Liu Hao and I both felt that we must have made a lot of money this time.

We waited for the woman to come over, surrounded her one after another, and said: "Robbery, hand over the money." But the woman is really a stubborn person, we all said, as long as the money is , but she firmly grabbed the money in her hand and refused to give it to us.

Hey, I have a bad temper. I went over to get her bag, but she refused to give it to me. She said something like, "No, this is my daughter's life-saving money. You can't take it away."

Oh, that's so much. I didn't take it seriously as a sad story. Liu Hao and I continued to fight for her money, but she still wouldn't give it to her. I saw pedestrians coming from the other side of the path, and I thought: "Damn it, I might as well not do it again", so , I stabbed the woman in the abdomen with the knife in my hand, trying to grab the bag. The woman still held on to the bag, so I stabbed her a few more times, then grabbed the bag and fought with Liu Hao. Disappeared into the vast night.

It was a great harvest that day. We had never grabbed so much money, a full 100,000 yuan. We looked at the snowflakes of bills in our bags and smiled at each other.

The next day, I heard many people say that a woman died last night. She was stabbed more than ten times in the abdomen by a robber. The woman was holding a bag full of money. She went to the hospital to save her daughter. Her daughter was still asleep in the hospital due to a car accident.

Later, I couldn't hear clearly what they were saying. I only knew that I had killed someone. I found Liu Hao in a daze and told him, "We killed someone. What should we do?" Liu Hao was also very nervous. He said, "Quick, let's throw away the knife. Quick."

Then, when no one was around, we threw our knives in the trash can. We spent the day in a daze, and everything was fine. We all breathed a sigh of relief and told ourselves, It's okay, it's just like usual, nothing out of the ordinary.

The next day, the police came to our factory and took us away...