So if you don't go to attractions or parks, where can you take the sisters to play? Big shopping malls are an option, although there are many big shopping malls in the United States, but shopping malls like Beijing that are crowded and can be crowded for a day, I'm afraid it's difficult to see them there, and when they come out to play, they have to play in a different place from their own home, which is almost the same, so why spend money to run so far to suffer.

In addition to the big shopping mall, Hong Tao also chose a special project for the two sisters, that is, to experience the life of an ordinary Beijinger in a day, this design has been strongly supported by the Erin sisters and Sam couple, compared to the mountains and rivers to see the natural scenery, Sam and his wife are more willing to let the two daughters see the humanities and culture of Beijing, more contact with ordinary Beijingers, the reason why they did not let their daughters participate in the travel agency but asked Hong Tao to take them on a tour, is not to save money.

Hong Tao designed this one-day life activity for ordinary Beijingers, in fact, it is not really to be completed in one day, because ordinary people may not do anything in a day and sleep for a long time. He just made a rough list of the most representative activities of Beijingers in a day, and then divided them into several days to try them one by one.

For example, from the time you get up in the morning, the first thing you do is to go to a roadside breakfast stall to eat breakfast, which is basically one thing that more than 90% of Beijing families have to do. Northerners seem to be lazier than southerners, and they rarely cook breakfast at home in the morning, unlike many southern families, so in almost all the streets and alleys of Beijing, there will be all kinds of breakfast stalls or breakfast shops, which sell food from the south to the north, with all kinds of flavors.

Among them, fried dough sticks, soy milk, steamed buns, and tofu brain are the most common, and there is no shortage of fried liver, rice porridge, sugar fire, sugar ears, fried cakes, noodle tea, miscellaneous soup, etc., but you have to choose those old shops with better craftsmanship to eat.

The place where Hong Tao lives is very close to the Drum Tower, which is the old town in the old city, so there is no shortage of old shops where the taste and taste are kept very authentic. So early the next morning, Hong Tao took the Erin sisters to start the first stop of a full day of ordinary life, early.

"Yao Ji fried liver" is not far from Hong Tao's house, walk only a few minutes away, it is next to the east side of the drum tower of the Bell and Drum Tower, the door face is not big, it used to be a tavern, Hong Tao remembered that he still took a warm pot here to play loose beer when he was a child. The reason why 3 people came so early was that they were afraid of catching up with the rush hour at work, and there were too many people eating, but Hong Tao still miscalculated, and the store was still overcrowded.

Hong Tao took Erin to line for more than 10 minutes before he bought 3 bowls of fried liver and 2 drawers of xiaolongbao, at this time Katie, who was arranged to occupy a seat, had completed the task excellently, she waited for a seat by herself, then occupied the second seat with her backpack, and finally occupied the third seat next to her with her white thighs. As for the two middle school students opposite who glanced at her thighs while eating buns, she didn't care at all, and happily greeted people and took out her camera to take random pictures.

"This stuff is a bit like jam, is it really delicious?" When her fried liver was placed in front of her, Katie seemed to hesitate a little, looking at the small bowl of black, red, black and red like rice dumplings on the table, and she didn't dare to put her mouth down.

"Don't talk nonsense, didn't we say it before we came out, you have to eat what I can eat, if you want to regret it, we'll go home immediately." Hong Tao didn't care whether they liked to eat these or not, when formulating this plan, he had carefully asked Sam's family if they had any special religious beliefs, or what special foods were taboo, and then reached an agreement with the two sisters, as long as Hong Tao could eat, they must also eat, and if they are not used to eating, they can eat less.

Although I didn't understand the meaning of the bits and pieces in Hong Tao's words, Katie still understood the word agreement, and watched Hong Tao and Erin start to eat with a spoon, so she could only pick up the spoon, dig a little, put it in her mouth and tasted it.

"Well, it tastes good, there's garlic in it!"

"This big dumpling tastes good too." Katie picked up another bun and took a bite of it, giving an affirmative answer.

Fried liver can be a lot of friends in the south do not know what kind of food, this kind of food seems to have appeared in the Song Dynasty, at that time it was called boiled liver and fried lungs, it was made with the pig's large intestine and liver as the main ingredient and starch, and then with garlic juice to taste very good, it is a snack in old Beijing.

Hong Tao knew that people in Europe and the United States rarely eat animal offal, so he also specially consulted Sam's opinion, but Sam did not object to Hong Tao letting his daughter eat these things, he himself liked fried liver stew or something, and even he liked to drink bean juice, which made Hong Tao very depressed, because as a native of Beijing, Hong Tao himself could not drink the taste of bean juice.

Hong Tao didn't plan to tell the Erin sisters what the fried liver was made of, that is, they had to wait until they finished eating, and in addition, for fear that the sisters would regret it, they also made a special agreement with them, so that they couldn't easily give up following Hong Tao to eat all kinds of food they didn't understand.

To say that Erin and the two American girls really maintain the spirit of the contract from the heart, when the three of them walked out of the fried liver shop and came to the vicinity of the bell tower to take pictures, Hong Tao told the sisters the raw materials of the fried liver, but Katie vomited at the time, Erin was a little better, but her face was a little whiter, and her eyes were greener.

Even if they knew that they had been tricked, but when Hong Tao proposed the verbal agreement made in front of Sam and his wife, although the sisters hated it so much, they did not regret it or cheat, but only questioned Hong Tao's character. Although Hong Tao has never been optimistic about his character, he still decided to eat lunch as revenge on Sister Irene.

The second project after the morning is to squeeze the bus, since you want to experience the day of an ordinary Beijinger, you can't leave behind the classic program of Beijing bus, and it has to be the morning rush hour. People who have never lived in Beijing may not understand the congestion of the buses during the morning rush hour, especially on the Third Ring Road, which is basically similar to the train during the Spring Festival, and the doors cannot be closed.

Instead of taking the sisters to the 300 bus on the third ring road, Hong Tao chose to take the No. 13 bus to Di'anmen, because their next target was on the No. 13 bus line. When they arrived at the Di'anmen bus station, there were already more than 10 passengers waiting for the bus, and Sister Erin asked a very embarrassing question to Hong Tao: Where is the tail of the line?

Damn, during rush hour at work, I still want to queue up to get on the bus, which is purely extravagant, although in the subway and many bus stations in later generations have arranged special personnel to organize everyone to queue, but at this time there still seems to be no such mechanism. Hong Tao didn't make up any nonsense about the Meng sisters, and directly told the two of them that when the car came, they must push towards the car door like a center in American football, and then asked for their small hiking bag and took it themselves.

A few minutes later, the car came, and as Hong Tao expected, the car was already overcrowded, and from the outside, there was no space at all. Before the car could stop, the people waiting for the car began to rush to the front and rear doors, and Hong Tao also pushed the sisters to the estimated front door stop position. One of the most important skills in crowding during rush hour is to estimate the stopping position of the door, and only by mastering this skill can you stand out from the crowd and not become the unlucky person who can't squeeze into the car at the very least.

"@%#¥......@%@" Seeing the tall body passing in front of them on the toes of their own toes, the sisters were pushed in front of them by Hong Tao, and they couldn't squeeze back if they wanted to, so they could only shout and close their eyes, waiting for the intimate contact between their bodies and the body like waiting for death, at this time they couldn't care about using Chinese, and the most proficient mother tongue blurted out, Hong Tao estimated that at least 80% of them were cursing and cursing themselves.