To say that the division between rich and poor in the capital is still very clear. Even Qin Kuairen doesn't know much about the capital, and he knows that the rich live in big mansions and the poor live in basements in the capital, which is not news.

But if you want to talk about the poorest places in the capital? If you want to look at GDP anything, it has to be the districts near northern Henan. What Daxing, Fengtai, Mentougou, Fangshan and so on.

But these places are so far away that they don't look like they are in the same city as the capital. After all, if you go to Fangshan and come back, I'm afraid that one day may not be enough. I have to go out at about six o'clock in the morning, go around Fangshan in the afternoon, and come back in the evening I'm afraid it's almost early in the morning.

These ultra-long-distance districts are not considered the capital for Qin Kuairen, and if you want to talk about the capital, you still have to talk about several urban districts in the capital.

The four major urban districts of the southeast, northwest, and northwest are naturally the oldest places. And when it comes to the old city, then there is a topic that cannot be avoided, that is, the capital compound.

For the miscellaneous courtyard, the feelings of the people of the capital are complicated.

Born in the 70s and 80s and early 90s, many people in the old capital may have grown up living in a large courtyard. The small alleys of the courtyards, the close neighborhoods and the best food stalls at the mouth of the alleys, the flocks of pigeons flying overhead and the buzzing of the pigeon whistles carried by the head pigeon.

The neighbor Xiaopang's family bought a new 24-inch big color TV, and the second uncle's house next door bought a VCD, everyone can go to his house to watch a movie, and Xiao Lizi's parents can go to his house to play with him for an afternoon.

The parents then got out of school and got into the top ten in their midterm exams, bought half a catty of pea yellow and half a catty of honey in the dim sum shop at the mouth of the alley, and there were rewards for KFC to eat at night, there were delicious food!

At that time, the family was full of cooking and fragrant, and in the good compound of the neighborhood relationship, they would ask each other to come home to eat something every day. The family bought snacks, and the children in the compound always got some points.

This is a good memory of many people in the old capital of the life of the courtyard.

However, there are also many bad memories of the old capital people in the courtyard, for example, living in the courtyard, there is almost no way to take a bath and go to the toilet at home. Because many of these miscellaneous courtyards were rebuilt from old courtyard houses. The houses built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China did not have such a good sewer system.

The man can still deal with it in the summer, and he can take a bath directly in the compound with pants and a rubber tube. The woman was in trouble, so she had to take a basin or bucket of water and go into the house to wash. Be careful when taking a bath in the house, don't splash water everywhere, otherwise the sheets will be wet and dry.

In the winter, the whole family has to go to the bathhouse to take a bath. Therefore, in the early years, there were countless large and small baths in the capital, and it was normal to have two or three bathhouses in an alley.

In the past, good units also had a benefit, that is, a bath ticket. The unit built its own bathhouse and issued 30 bath tickets to its employees in the summer and 10 to 15 in the winter. Some people have good conditions and can take a bath at home, so there was still a business of selling bath tickets at that time.

People born in the capital in the early 90s may not have deep memories, but for many people born in the capital from the 70s to the mid-80s, sitting in front of their father's 28 bars and going to the bathhouse of the unit with them is a deep childhood memory.

Later, the development of the capital got better and better, and more and more high-rise buildings were built, and families with a little money began to move into modern buildings with upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones.

Urbanization has expanded, and a large number of old houses have been rebuilt. Many people in the old capital have moved out of what was once a compound. Most of the post-00s born in the new century have little memory of the miscellaneous courtyard.

If anything, they probably have the impression that they are poor.

Indeed, the miscellaneous courtyards of the old capital today are in addition to those who have been renovated in sewers and renovated their houses and rented out to rich people and foreigners who have the plot of the old capital hutongs. Most of the old compounds are rented to those who wander around the capital but don't have the money.

There are a thousand inconveniences in living in the courtyard of the old capital Hutong, whether it is the complicated wires and lines, the inability to go to the toilet at home, and the poor privacy and confidentiality. But there's also an advantage to staying here, which is that it's in the heart of the city and it's easily accessible.

Except, of course, for young people who are new to the capital and need a place to live but don't have much money. Many people in the old capital who still live in the compound are indeed relatively poor.

After all, those who have money have already bought houses and lived in high-rise buildings.

So if you want to talk about the poorer places in the capital city, it is the area where the miscellaneous courtyards are concentrated.

In the narrow alleys, the tenants from all over the world are mixed with some people from the old capital, the traditional snack bar of the old capital opened by the boss in southern Henan at the mouth of the alley, and the alley aisles filled with old man Le electric cars and various small electric donkeys.

Low houses, and some of the bricks on the walls are exposed. Compared to the opulence of the rest of the capital, it does seem a bit downcast.

And Qin Kuairen took Von Meier and Barton to visit such an alley. Von Meier and Barton walked in such a small alley, which seemed a little abrupt.

Because von Meier and Barton have typical Central Asian face features, with a high nose bridge and deep eye sockets. It seems that even if they don't say that they are foreigners, they are also compatriots in the Western Regions.

"Let's let me go in front. ”

Walking in the alley, the three of them walked side by side blocking the way of the tricycle carrying water behind. Qin Kuairen hurriedly asked Von Meier and Barton to get out of the way.

The middle-aged man who delivered the water shaved his head, it was almost winter, and when he passed by the three of them on a tricycle in a single clothes, he scolded in a low voice: "The alley is so narrow, you are still walking side by side, you are sick!"

Barton glanced at Qin Kueren: "What did he just say?"

Qin Kuairen said nonsense: "He said thank you for getting out of the way." ”

"I don't sound like that. Barton shook his head, but didn't want to pursue it.

And Von Meier was wandering around such an alley, and he was quite interested at first, but after watching too much, it was very boring. It's all low houses, narrow streets, and the foul smell of urine coming from the public toilets on the side of the road.

"How this place is so far removed from the place we stayed yesterday. Von Meier couldn't help but say, "This is the slum." ”

Qin Kuairen thought for a while, and he corrected: "This can only be regarded as a place where low-income people live, and it is not yet a slum. I just don't understand, Master Barton, what do you want me to show you around such a place?"

Master Barton didn't explain with his hands behind his back, he only said, "I'm hungry, Xiao Qin." Find a small restaurant to eat in this alley. ”