When you walk in Wangfujing, you will see the world's luxury brands and fashionable red men and green women; Or drive through the crowded rivers of cars, and the high-rise buildings on both sides of the highway will be filled with the grandeur and wealth of the city.

Yet it, like all the cities of the world, where the rich and the light do not shine, there must be poverty and darkness.

And the two are often close at hand, but far away, like the distance between a neon sign and the moon. People comfort and hug each other in the struggle, looking for and chasing the broken dreams that are dying......

According to the introduction of a small advertisement, I walked into an urban village in Haidian.

The low buildings facing the street, the chaotic streets, the wires in the air, and the windows of each house pull a rope to dry all kinds of clothes......

It is said that there are no less than dozens of such places in this bustling city.

It is located in the Third Ring Road, not far from the Beijing Film Studio, and very close to the Film Academy.

The only good thing is that the prices are cheap.

Ma Xiaoshu and Han Xiaoxue's two beauties are still very righteous, although Xu Zilong was damaged by words and his skin was full of holes, but in the end, he still lent him 1,000 yuan each.

Han Xiaoxue is okay, this girl is a little rich woman in school, all kinds of supplies are the most high-end, and she is never short of money. But Ma Xiaoshu, who was not rich, also took out a thousand yuan, which moved Xu Zilong very much.

This is all a favor, and I have to pay it back in the future......

Instead of renting a "pigeon cage" where one room was divided into several pieces by wooden boards, Xu Zilong found a resident in a hutong.

Xu Zilong walked into the alley, feeling the mottled walls, the old blue bricks and the uneven bluestone slabs under his feet, and a strong historical flavor came to his face.

This is the style that this city should have, those dull and stiff and lifeless high-rise buildings are simply inferior!

It's just that with the rapid development of the city and the more and more popular land, I'm afraid that in a few years, there will be no such alleys in the capital, right?

I have to say that this is the sorrow of the Chinese people, while the GDP is rising like crazy, it has lost the most precious cultural precipitation of thousands of years. When the next generation can only be kept in captivity by the same steel and concrete, and people become more and more indifferent to each other, I don't know how many traditions of this nation will be left......

This hutong is just a street away from the cluttered "slums", where most of the old native-born Beijingers live. A crooked street is like the Chu River and Han Boundary, noisy and chaotic on the one hand, quiet and orderly on the other, which is very magical.

There is quite a charm of "quiet in the noisy, hidden in the city".

Counting the house number according to the small advertisement, he walked into a small courtyard, looked around, although the house was old, but it was cleaned up, and Xiang Dong nodded with satisfaction. In particular, there is a big locust tree in the yard, with lush branches and pavilions, which adds a bit of vitality and coolness to this small yard.

A little girl came out of the main room and asked, "Who are you?" What for? ”

This little girl looks to be fourteen or fifteen years old, thin and delicate, with a small face with delicate eyebrows and eyes, beautiful and natural, pure like a lotus flower in a pond, so beautiful that it is not like words.

Xu Zilong raised the small advertisement in his hand: "I came to rent a house, are you from this family?" ”

As she spoke, her eyes turned around on the little girl's face, and she said that this little girl is so beautiful at such an age, and she can't be at the level of disaster when she grows up?

When the little girl saw it, she turned around and shouted crisply into the house: "Grandma, someone has come to rent a room!" ”

After speaking, he didn't go back to the house, so he stood at the door pretty, staring east with a pair of big eyes.

Xiang Dong was inexplicably watched, and said that if you are five or six years old, my brother will let you see enough, but you are now the same age as a cat, thin like bean sprouts, the fat place is not fat, the place that should be drummed is not drummed, and the whole child is not developed, what is the matter?

He thought that he had something on his face, and when he reached out and touched it, there was nothing, so he wondered: "Little sister, why are you staring at me?" ”

The little girl was not afraid of life at all, her delicate little nose was cocked, and she snorted: "You were looking at me just now!" You're not a good person! ”

Xu Zilong almost fell to his head......

Come on! Little sister, what are your eyes? Brother has long been sad to be issued a good person card by a large group of girls, a model of love and love, why are you not a good person?

Wouldn't I just take a second look at you, as for it?

A big man was said by the little girl to be "not a good person", and Xiang Dong could only touch his nose in embarrassment: "What's that...... Little sister is full of beautiful ......."

In fact, what he wants to say is that everyone has a love for beauty, you are beautiful, it is normal for me to take a second look, and it is not in line with good people and bad people.

"Humph!"

The little girl's sharp jaw is slightly the same, and she snorts, looking a well-deserved arrogant and petite appearance.

Xu Zilong stopped talking, and he sadly found that there was a generation gap between himself and this little sister, which was still very deep......

Fortunately, the appearance of the old lady of the landlady dispelled Xu Zilong's embarrassment.

The old lady was very tall, with crane hair and a childish face, she looked seventy or eighty years old, and her back was a little hunched, but she walked with a steady step, her body was very strong, and her spirit was also very good.

It is estimated that she heard the little girl's words "not a good person", and the old lady glared at her granddaughter with a little reproach, "The little girl is rude!" ”

Then he smiled and said to Xu Zilong: "Don't mind, young man, my granddaughter just spoils her too much, and she has sharp teeth." ”

Xu Zilong looked at the little girl who pouted secretly, and had to say, "It's okay, the little sister is innocent, very cute......"

As soon as she heard this sentence "innocent", the little girl's mouth pouted, and she was about to hang up the oil bottle, staring to the east angrily.

Coaxing a child? I'm not a kid anymore!

This little girl is naturally beautiful and beautiful, and now she makes this expression, she is so "cute", and she is extremely cute, Xu Zilong was immediately amused.

The old lady touched her granddaughter's hair dotingly, and looked at Xu Zilong: "You want to rent a house?" ”

Xu Zilong: "Yes, I saw this little advertisement for your family renting a house......

He raised a piece of advertising paper in his hand.

The old lady looked at it with a neat and neat temperament, and said directly: "In the short term, it will be 500 a month, and 5,000 a year, do you plan to rent it for a short period of time or for a whole year?" ”

"Uh...... For a short period of time, rent for a month. ”

Han Xiaoxue introduced him to the job and didn't know if he could stabilize it, after all, he was now a "stained" person. This "stain" is not big or small, if someone does not want to see him, it will be infinitely magnified; If you can be recognized, it's nothing.

The most important thing is that he now has the two thousand yuan borrowed by Ma Xiaoshu and Han Xiaoxue in his pocket, but after deducting the rent, eating, drinking, and buying some daily necessities, as well as a mobile phone, there really won't be much left.

It's really inconvenient to not have a mobile phone, even if someone else has a job introduction to him, he can't get in touch for a while.

In this way, in a few days, Xu Zilong will have to return to the pre-liberation period again......

"All right," said the old lady, cheerfully, "let the girl show you the room, and if you are satisfied, write an agreement." He turned around and sent his granddaughter and said, "Xiao Shi, take this brother to see the West Wing." ”

The girl snorted: "It's not my brother, it's my uncle......"

The old lady patted her head helplessly: "That's okay, uncle is uncle, I look at the young man who looks quite old......"

Xu Zilong burst into tears, I'm only twenty......