The First Day of 2002

Looking at the handsome face in the mirror, it looked a bit like my old self, but also a bit different, especially the eyes, which had a bit more...confidence? And wisdom? 

"calm!" 

Ye Lengsong patted his face in the mirror, walked into the bathroom, took off his clothes, took a shower, and changed into a new pair of underwear. 

After all, he was not used to his new identity yet, and this pair of underwear that he had never seen before made him feel a little uncomfortable. 

I returned to the living room half-naked, and looked at myself in the mirror with some doubt. I saw my burly, or rather strong, self. 

This body is stronger than my previous self. Although the muscles are not like those of a bodybuilder, he has obvious eight-pack abs and bulging pectoral muscles. He has a good figure that all men envy, especially the big bulge in his crotch, which shows his strong capital. 

The new year was about to begin, and Ye Lengsong didn't care whether he would catch a cold. He looked at the bedroom that was both familiar and unfamiliar and the 1.5-meter-wide single bed. He lifted the quilt and sat in it, leaning against the head of the bed in a daze. 

The fragments of memory were slowly sorted out in his mind. His name in this life was still Ye Lengsong, but his personality was completely different from that of his previous life. To use Ye Lengsong's previous words, he was a little eccentric and a little crooked. 

My grandfather was a general in the founding period of the People's Republic of China. He fought in the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation and the Korean War. He is now retired and enjoying his retirement. My father is the youngest in the family. He is also a soldier. He serves as a lieutenant colonel in a group army and can be considered a young and vigorous person. 

Ever since he could remember, Ye Lengsong grew up in a military compound. Perhaps he inherited his mother's looks, and he was very handsome and likable since he was a child. He was often surrounded by a group of girls who also lived in the military compound. 

Originally, Ye Lengsong, perhaps influenced by his family environment, was a cold-tempered person who didn't like to talk or communicate with others. Apart from going to and from school every day, his father arranged for him to exercise his body so that he could be admitted to a military academy in the future and then develop in the army. 

It was not known when it started, but Ye Lengsong was particularly obsessed with movies and wanted to be an actor or director. During the college entrance examination, he secretly changed his application to Beijing Film Academy. 

It was not until the admission letter came that Ye Lengsong's father found out that his choice had been changed and the military academy he wanted had passed the registration period. Even so, Ye's father would never agree to Ye Lengsong studying film. 

This was the first and only time that Ye Lengsong refused to listen to his father's advice and insisted on going to Beijing Film Academy, even though his father threatened him: "If you dare to go, don't enter this house, don't recognize me as your father, and don't even think about getting a penny from home." 

Even so, Ye Lengsong resolutely left home with the admission letter and a simple small bag on his back. 

Ye Lengsong, who was aloof by nature, had few friends. In order to pay for his tuition, he had to do odd jobs everywhere. However, Ye's mother felt sorry for her son and asked Zhang Zilin, who grew up with Ye Lengsong in the compound, to find Ye Lengsong and give him 30,000 yuan. 

Recalling this, Ye Lengsong remembered the northern girl who used to follow him around all day when he was a child. She was carefree and tall since she was young. 

"What a beautiful girl, with a thin waist, long legs and a round butt. Why didn't Ye Lengsong like to talk to her before? Doesn't he like tall girls? Is he just an unscrupulous beauty-obsessed person? He hasn't gotten tired of playing with her legs for half a year, and she's also very beautiful." 

Ye Lengsong realized that the object of his ridicule should be himself, and he smiled, feeling it was quite boring. 

In his memory, Zhang Zilin followed him around all day long like a wild boy and was particularly fascinated by him. When she was five years old, she said while playing house that Dachang wanted to marry him, but Ye Lengsong ignored her. 

However, Ye Lengsong used to be quite righteous. When he was in the first grade of junior high school, a little gangster who was a few years older than him and had dropped out of school early bullied Zhang Zilin and Zhu Zhu by relying on his family's powerful influence. Ye Lengsong helped fight with that guy. Although he lost the fight, he was "secondarily hurt" by Ye's father when he returned home. Because of this, he still feels a little pain when he twists his nose hard. But since that time, he has had another little fan girl. 

Before he knew it, the New Year's bell rang, and the reborn Ye Lengsong welcomed the first day of his new life, which was also the first day of 2002. 

The only thing the two Ye Lengsongs have in common is that their biological clocks are the same. When the first ray of sunlight shines in from the window in the early morning, Ye Lengsong wakes up and opens the refrigerator, which contains instant and frozen foods, as well as drinks and beer. 

"Another one who doesn't like to cook." 

In his previous life, Ye Lengsong's family was not wealthy, and after he started teaching independently, his income was even meager, so he almost always cooked for himself. 

After eating a bag of bread and drinking a glass of milk, he turned on the TV, which was playing a news that Ye Lengsong was both familiar with and unfamiliar with: "Today, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held a New Year's tea party, and the General Secretary delivered an important speech... 

Euro coins and banknotes are now in circulation in 12 EU member states... 

China's economy is expected to jump to the sixth place in the world. Financial news group Bloomberg believes that China's economy is growing rapidly and its economic output has surpassed Italy to become the world's sixth largest economy. At the current exchange rate level, China's economic output will surpass France in 2002 and Britain in 2005 or 2006..." 

"2002...the sixth largest economy..." Ye Lengsong muttered casually. 

After taking another look at the big-butt computer monitor, Ye Lengsong lost interest in even turning on the computer. 

Sitting back at his desk, Ye Lengsong thought about what he could do in 2002? Should he continue to be this seemingly good teaching beast and flirt with the female students? Or make some extra money to improve his life? 

In the past, Ye Lengsong had a very strained relationship with his father because of the issue of schooling. In the end, his grandfather stepped in and told him to stay in school to teach and settle down for a few years before making any plans. Only then did the relationship between him and his family ease a little. During those years of strained relationship, his family sent him some living expenses every month, but that was just living expenses. Compared with ordinary families, it might be a lot, but at the end of the month, there was not much money left after food and drink. As far as I remember, there was only a few thousand yuan in his bank card. 

"There's no hope of investing this amount of money. What other opportunities will there be in 2002?" He kept recalling the major events of 2002 in his mind. 

"The 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea! This is a good opportunity. Although the bookmakers are in charge, as long as I don't win too much, it won't attract too much attention." 

It was too long ago, and even though he was a fan at the time, he can't remember many results of the games. Apart from the referee-brushed games against the South Korean team, he can only remember the finals and semi-finals. Oh yes, and the first game, when the last champion France team suffered an upset and lost to Senegal 0:1. France did not win a single game in the entire group stage. 

Ye Lengsong was afraid that he would forget it later, so he took out a pen and a notebook and wrote down the results he could remember. 

I worked so hard that I forgot to eat and sleep, and even had only a pack of instant noodles for lunch. 

After lunch, Ye Lengsong was bored and wanted to play some King of Glory on his phone, but when he took out his phone, he found it was an old Motorola V66. Not to mention King of Glory, it didn't even have 3G.