Chapter 1 1. You are thirty years old, how are you?
A certain parallel world.
Magic City.
Jiang Chen was sitting on the bench in the rental house, focusing on operating the keyboard and mouse.
On the computer screen, a skinless nursery is moving forward happily.
Jiang Chen's mouth also showed a trace of relaxed happiness, even though his record at this time was already 0/7, only one short of surpassing the ghost.
But, he is still happy!
When a person reaches thirty, how much such simple happiness can he still have?
What’s even happier is that even though Jiang Chen’s Tuoersuo was already so happy, there was still a big teammate who worked hard and finally won the game.
Twice the happiness.
Listen to the thick and high-spirited song at the end - Victory!
Jiang Chen put his head in his hands, stretched out, and said with a smile: "Haha, I won!"
He turned his head and looked at the live broadcast page on the phone next to him. Surprisingly, there was A barrage floated by.
“It’s unreasonable that even such a good person can win!”
Jiang Chen laughed and said: “It’s fun and it can win, there’s no other way!”
The barrage asked: "What rank?"
Jiang Chen: "The strongest Bronze Four!"
The barrage: "What do you mean by the proud look on your face?"
Jiang Chen: “You’ve never heard of the legendary Bronze Four who single-handedly killed professional players?”
Barrage: “Could it be you?”
Jiang Chen: "No!"
Barrage: "...Farewell!"
Jiang Chen: "Kneel down!"
......
Barrage: "I haven't left yet!"
Jiang Chen: "Then let's get married."
Barrage: "You will lose me like this!"
Jiang Chen grinned: "You are the 105th person to say this to me That’s what you said!”
Barrage: “Don’t you ever remember your ID?”
Jiang Chen: “You don’t have time to remember this.”
Barrage: "The one hundred and four you mentioned before were all me!"
Jiang Chen was speechless now. He took a closer look at the audience ID—Thirty Not Li, who seemed to be It looks a little familiar, but I still can't remember it. I can only smile and say: "Thank you for letting me not So lonely."
Thirty-nineteen: "It's twelve o'clock, I have something to do tomorrow, I really have to say goodbye!"
Jiang Chen: "Okay, get out!"
It seems that he has really left. The live broadcast room has become quiet, and it shows that there are zero people.
However, Jiang Chen didn't care.
He was bored and just started the live broadcast to play.
Otherwise, living alone in a rental house of less than ten square meters would be a bit lonely and depressing.
Now is the era of live broadcasting for almost everyone. Just click on a live broadcast nearby in the magic city, and there will be at least hundreds of thousands of people live broadcasting. Except for those big Internet celebrities who can have tens of thousands of viewers online, other numbers One hundred thousand are ordinary people like Jiang Chen who join in the fun. Dozens of people are considered too many. Basically, they are just a few people, or even no one.
Seeing that the time had passed twelve o'clock, a trace of loneliness appeared on Jiang Chen's face.
because!
After twelve o'clock, he will officially be thirty years old.
Remembering that the audience member just now had an ID of thirty years old, I laughed to myself, wasn’t I also in my thirties?
A boomerang hit him on the head.
I have been living in Shanghai since I was 24 years old. Apart from paying nearly 200,000 yuan in rent to the landlord, supporting the landlord in buying a luxury car, and contributing to the GDP of nearby restaurants and knights, I have nothing else to do. The energy has been contributed, and the balance in the card is less than 20,000 yuan. I don’t even dare to think about a naked tour that just leaves.
Make money in the magic city, spend it in the magic city, and I want to take it home!
I turned off the live broadcast and wanted to try it again while it was still hot.
Beep beep...
The phone rang.
Jiang Chen looked at his mother’s note, picked up the phone and answered the call: “Mom, are you still awake?”
Mom: "How did you spend your birthday?"
Jiang Chen: "I just played games alone, how else can I spend it?"
My mom was silent for a moment, and then said: "After today, you will be thirty, and you are still alone now. It is time to find a partner. Your dad and I will be sixty soon. We don't know how many years we can live. We still want to live to see you get married and have children. You Have a baby early Son, we can still help you take care of your children. When we get older in a few years, we won’t be able to help you anymore.”
Jiang Chen: “Mom, don’t worry about this, I’m not old yet.” Big. There are people in their mid-thirties who are not married. Why should I be anxious? Besides, with my salary, can I support a family? Have you forgotten about Xiaowei?" br>
Mom was silent for a second!
Xiaowei is the child of Jiang Chen's neighbor in the community. He is two years younger than Jiang Chen, at twenty-eight years old. He got married when he was twenty-five, and then divorced when he was twenty-six!
The reason was simply that his wife felt that he made less money and was too tired to live worrying about daily necessities, so she chose to divorce. Now Xiaowei has also started to be single and does not want to get married.
Who is not tired of living in today’s society?
However, when you are tired of living, you have no one to blame but society.
However, if the couple lives a tiring life, it can only be the man's responsibility, so the man will bear double the tiredness.
This kind of thing happens all over the country. The national divorce rate is as high as over 30%. It’s not a lie. Three out of ten couples get divorced.
Jiang Chen said in a relaxed tone: "Mom, don't worry about getting married. According to statistics, there are tens of millions of single young men and women of marriageable age across the country. I am not alone." Mom was a little angry: "You guys should be arrested. You are all so old. Why don't you get married?"
Jiang Chen smiled and said: "Mom, children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Without children and grandchildren, I will enjoy the blessings! One person makes money and one person spends it, no worries, no pressure, how wonderful!"
Mom: "You are cool now. What will happen when you get old? Will you need someone to take care of you?"
Jiang Chen: "Mom, I know that I have an irregular life, and there is a high probability that I will not live long in the future! Even if I can live to be sixty-five years old, there will still be thirty-five years from when I am thirty years old. If I am five I need care at the age of fifteen, and I only have ten years to fend for myself without anyone taking care of me. I lived a comfortable life for twenty-five years, but only suffered for ten years. I still made a profit!"
My mother suddenly became angry: "You are all lying. I don't listen to these lies. I will give you a phone number now. It is the one introduced by your Aunt Zhang. The little girl is from Rongcheng, and she is working in the Magic City. You go and meet her.”
It’s another blind date.
Jiang Chen has become accustomed to it, and first asked: "Mom, let me confirm first, how young is the little girl you are talking about?"
My mother said without confidence: " One year older than you!”
Jiang Chen: "Oh, a thirty-one-year-old girl..."
Mom: "But she is capable. Your Aunt Zhang said that she is now a sales manager, with a monthly salary of ten thousand or twenty thousand, which is better than yours." There are more. I looked at the photos and they look very good. If your baby has the ability to catch up, your dad and I will find a way to help you. When you get married and have a baby, your father and I will use our retirement salary to support your baby and go to school!”
Jiang Chen: “Mom, did you know! All sales are titled as managers? , per capita manager of the sales department, I know that you have saved some money through frugality over the years, and I spend it every year. You haven’t spent the money I gave you this year. But, Mom, I say it again, you don’t have to do this for me.” , don’t save things for me, I will take care of my own affairs, I don’t have the ability to make money to support my family. , I won’t have a family anymore, and I don’t want to add any burden to you.”
Mom: “Don’t talk nonsense, we have been supporting you for so many years, and it will be the next few years as well. Just write down your phone number. Meet her! I’ll ask you Aunt Zhang in two days.”
Jiang Chen heard that his mother's tone was not good, and there was already a hint of crying. He quickly smiled and said: "Okay, okay, you say, you say, I will remember!"
My mother immediately said something quickly phone number, and finally warned: "Take care of yourself when you meet people. Your baby is not bad at all. Have a good chat with them and be patient when chasing girls. How can they act like friends with you as soon as you get here?" You want to ask people out more often and give them some gifts?”
After listening to his mother teach him about love, Jiang Chen smiled: “Mom, your son has been chased by others before. There is a box of love letters, have you forgotten?"
Mom: "What about your girlfriend?"
Jiang Chen: "...Mom, go to bed early, goodbye!" >
Mom: "Run away as soon as I tell you, happy birthday!"
Jiang Chen: "Thank you, Mom!"
Mom: "You should go to bed early and don't stay up late playing games!"
Hung up the phone.
The smile on Jiang Chen's face gradually disappeared, leaving only calmness and a trace of melancholy.
Staying up late without playing games?
That's impossible.
This is the only happiness left for middle-aged men!
If you don’t stay up late playing games, what is left in your life?
Heavy work tasks, false socializing with colleagues, rushing to and from get off work...
If you get married, you still have the burden of family pressure!
If you don’t even have the joy of staying up late and playing games, what’s the difference between being alive and being a walking dead?
Thirty!
Jiang Chen stood up and took two steps to the narrow bathroom where only one person could stand. He looked at the slightly weathered face in the mirror on the wall. Although there was still a hint of handsomeness, there was no Instead of the high-spirited and sunny self-confidence of my youth, I lost some of the fatigue and greasiness of life!
I haven’t washed my hair for two days. It’s a little greasy. Staying up late often also makes my skin very bad. There are some eye bags and dark circles. The hairline on my cheeks and lips has also moved back obviously. Now I can I have a great man’s hair style, and I also have an extra ring of flesh on my belly...
Jiang Chen reached out and touched the face in the mirror, and murmured softly: "You are thirty years old, are you okay?"
After a moment of melancholy, Jiang Chen washed his face with cold water, and then sat back in his chair I picked up my cell phone and sent a message to my boss in the work group: "Boss, I'm taking a day off tomorrow!"
After sending the message, no one responded.
Jiang Chen just wanted to play another game.
Thirty years old!
Jiang Chen decided to reward himself by playing all night.
“Ding!”
“At thirty, start self-discipline!”
“It’s bedtime, please wash up and go to bed immediately!”
Jiang Chen I was stunned for a moment and looked around: "What's the sound?"
He was the only one in the small rental house, and there were six other rental houses outside the door, but he had never visited each other. He didn't even know the names of the other five tenants. He only knew that they were four women and one man. They were all migrant workers who came to Shanghai to contribute to the landlord. Those who could stay in a huge city like Shanghai for more than five or six years. Basically, they are women who are unwilling and still have illusions.
Most men insist that they have not been able to afford a house and get married for more than five or six years. Many of them will go to other cities or hometowns for development.
The original two-bedroom house was divided by the landlord into six small bedrooms of only about ten square meters with a small bathroom. They were rented to six migrant workers at a monthly rent of 2,500 for each room. , the monthly rent for six rooms is 15,000, which is already much higher than the average salary in Magic City.
Jiang Chen has lived here for six years, and the rent has increased from 1,800 at the beginning to 2,500 now. He has already paid 150,000 to 60,000 to the landlord.
Six small rental houses are crowded together, and the sound insulation is naturally very average. It is normal to hear some strange noises occasionally.
Jiang Chen listened carefully and found that there was no unusual sound, so he didn't care and was about to start the game again.
“Ding!”
“Self-discipline starts with sleeping!”
“Please wash up and go to bed immediately.”
Jiang Chen suddenly jumped up from the bench He stood up and looked around in surprise.
This time he was convinced.
I heard it right.
Some sound did appear.
However, it seems that it is not in the ears, but in the mind!
“What?”
Jiang Chen asked himself.
Next second!
Jiang Chen discovered that an illusory screen appeared in front of him.
(End of this chapter)