This street is the dividing line, and the management of the area on that side is gradually becoming very loose, and the management on this side is more and more standardized as you go further in.

But Ding Xuan also likes that over there.

Ding Xuan said to Jiang Chao: "In the direction of my house, the more you go inside, the higher the status of the owner of the courtyard in the Qing Dynasty, not only the location is good, but the courtyard is also bigger and more magnificent, and the layout is more exquisite." And in the past, the more you go there, the less elaborate the house becomes, and in the Qing Dynasty it was a place for commoners to live. ”

However, the further you go, the more lively it becomes.

Jiang Chao and Ding Xuan walked for a while, and the number of people gradually became more numerous.

Jiang Chao also gradually had a clear understanding of the courtyard houses in Kyoto.

It can be said that there are two kinds of courtyard houses in Kyoto, one is a family living together, just like the kind of Ding Xuan's family, the size of the yard is not necessarily, but the location is generally good, and the house retains the same scenery as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is very meaningful. These courtyards may be the private residences of big people, or clubhouses for wealthy people, or individual companies that rent offices.

There is also a kind of many people who live together, called the Miscellaneous Courtyard, a courtyard, with more than 10 households.

Ding Xuan said: "In the courtyard, the neighborhood relationship is good, but the bad relationship quarrels over trivial matters every day, and some residents really hate it, you are helpless." For example, when I was small, there was a person in the compound where he lived who was particularly annoying, and he used to play music in the middle of the night, and the noisy people couldn't sleep. Once, in elementary school, my little hair dragged me to the family's house to throw water bags, and then we were chased all over the alley, and finally we were both caught, alas......"

Jiang Chao couldn't help laughing, but he felt that it was not appropriate, so he endured it and felt uncomfortable.

"When I was a child, I liked to run here, there were a lot of stalls on the street at that time, I remember that there was an old man selling sugar gourds here, I had to buy two bunches every day after school, and then my teeth also gave me caries......" Ding Xuan pointed to the corner of the alley.

"Later, the city management was strict, and it was difficult to see the stalls. Ding Xuan said while reminiscing.

"Now most of the hutongs are miscellaneous courtyards, which are more chaotic than the miscellaneous courtyards in Huanzhu Geri. ”

"A long alley, dilapidated small rooms, no toilets, many people come out to pee in the morning. It's cold in winter, electric heating is expensive, and it's dark at night. But it's especially fun for noisy kids. ”

Jiang Chao asked, "Hmm...... Why don't you give it a makeover?"

Ding Xuan shook his head: "It's not easy to get it." The underground system within Kyoto's Second Ring Road is too complex to coordinate. ”

At this moment, Ding Xuan stopped at the door of a grocery store, and he frowned slightly.

Jiang Chao looked at Ding Xuan suspiciously.

There was a large TV in front of the grocery store showing pirated discs.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether piracy is pirated or not, the main thing is the content of the disc......

Ding Xuan walked over quickly and walked in front of the grocery store owner: "You have to close this." ”

The boss put down the pirated version of "Playboy" in his hand and glanced up at Ding Xuan, "What?"

Ding Xuan pointed to the TV: "You have to turn this off." Not healthy!"

Jiang Chao went to watch TV, the music on the disc was a country disco with a lot of movement, and the picture was a pole dance of the little girls in the nightclub, these little girls didn't dance well, twisted around, but they were dressed very revealingly. Jiang Chao coughed lightly, then looked away.

The boss was stunned, "Are you a policeman?"

"It's not. ”

The boss breathed a sigh of relief: "Startle me, it's not the police what are you yelling at?"

Ding Xuan snorted: "Don't you know that there are a lot of elementary school students coming and going here?

At this moment, Jiang Chao turned his head and saw a few bear children on the side pointing at the content on the TV with a smile.

Ding Xuan saw that the boss didn't react, so he simply went up and pressed the close button himself.

"Hey!" the boss shouted, "What are you doing!"

"Don't do it, just let you do something serious!" As he spoke, Ding Xuan glared at the children, and the little children scattered.

"I'm going to call the police!"

Then, the boss called the police, and it didn't take long for the police to come.

"Who called the police?"

"I reported it, I reported it!"

"Why did you call the police?"

"They won't let me do business! They turn me off the TV!"

So the policeman became serious and looked at Ding Xuan: "Why are you turning off his TV?"

Ding Xuan said calmly: "The things he put are not healthy. ”

"Unhealthy?" the policeman frowned.

……

With the mediation of the police, the boss agreed not to play the exposed DVDs. The police said that the boss's things are on the verge of breaking the law, but it is difficult to define, but it is not true for children. Ding Xuan felt that he was a winner, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

"Although the boss does not necessarily break the law, it is harmful to morality, especially not conducive to the physical and mental health of young people!" Ding Xuan said to Jiang Chao: "The law is the bottom line of morality, but we can't always use the bottom line to demand ourselves." What do you say?"

Jiang Chao thought for a while: "I think you have a point. ”

At this moment, Jiang Chao felt that Ding Xuan was an angry youth, a righteous anger—even though he seemed calm. When you encounter something that you think is wrong, you have to go up and take care of it, which requires courage, so Jiang Chao also thinks that Ding Xuan is a brave young man.

Grandpa Ding said that he was very likely to become his grandson's friend in the future, and Jiang Chao felt that Grandpa Ding's prediction was accurate.

This area is almost gone, Ding Xuan said to Jiang Chao: "I guess grandpa should come back, let's go back." ”

Jiang Chao thought about it, and became a little annoyed, he should have bought some gifts when he came, so he visited Grandpa Ding empty-handed...... It's so unsophisticated.

"What's wrong?"

Jiang Chao shook his head, "It's nothing." ”

Let's do it again tomorrow, Jiang Chao thought.

The two returned to the door of Ding Xuan's courtyard again, and Ding Xuan opened the door. This time, Ding Xuan finally took Jiang Chao to the living room.

In the evening, Grandpa Ding returned.

Grandpa Ding didn't look the same, he was full of energy, and his waist was straight.

After such a long time, Grandpa Ding still recognized Jiang Chao at a glance. Ding Xuan had already said the news of Jiang Chao's arrival on the phone, so Grandpa Ding didn't seem very surprised at this time, he put down the fish basket and called a nanny: "Today's harvest is abundant, let's make sweet and sour fish at night!"

Then Grandpa Ding said to Jiang Chao very naturally: "I'll eat at home at night!" Where does this sentence look like something that I haven't seen for many years? It is clearly like what the elders said to the juniors who had eaten together yesterday.

Grandpa Ding seemed to have expected Jiang Chao to visit him one day.

Jiang Chao was a little moved, although he hadn't seen Grandpa Ding for a long time, but this meeting didn't make him feel a little rusty and awkward, and for a moment, Jiang Chao even had the illusion that Grandpa Ding was Grandpa.

"Hmm. Jiang Chao laughed. At this moment, the embarrassment and nervousness caused by not preparing a gift vanished.

At dinner, Jiang Chao, who has always talked little, said a lot of things, and told Grandpa Ding in detail how he grew up, Grandpa Ding listened with a smile, and interjected from time to time, ridiculing Jiang Chao for being so old that he had never been in love.

Ding Xuan looked at his grandfather and was happy, and he was also very happy. He was busy with his grandfather and parents since he was a child, and it was he who was always by his grandfather's side, and for this, he even gave up a better school. So seeing that his grandfather liked Jiang Chao a lot, he naturally recognized Jiang Chao more.

Jiang Chao didn't have a mobile phone when he was a child, and he didn't have that awareness, so after dinner this time, he left his contact information.

Before leaving.

"Thank you, grandpa. Jiang Chao said goodbye, and subconsciously omitted the word "D".

Grandpa Ding was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "Ding Xuan will be fine tomorrow, let him accompany you to the location of the piano competition." ”

Jiang Chao's face was slightly red because of the slip of the tongue just now, and when he looked at Ding Xuan, he also smiled, so he nodded: "Okay." ”

……

The evening in Kyoto was dry and cold, and Jiang Chao walked on the way back, gently pulled his clothes, and wrapped them tighter.