In 2000, the city of Beijing was not as big as it is today, there were no 5th and 6th Ring Road, and even the 4th Ring Road was only open to traffic. Wangjing, which is said to be the largest residential community in Asia, has just begun construction, and the subway is only Line 1 and Line 2, unlike the more than 10 lines now, which are about to hollow out the underground.

As the capital of the country, the only characteristic of Beijing is that there are many people, there are people everywhere, behind the daily commute, from the second ring road to the Chang'an Avenue extension, several commercial areas are even more crowded, if there is no special demand, locals generally rarely go to these places to wander, and the time to buy things is not more than traffic jams and time to find goods.

However, as an ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, there are many good places in the city that are not known to outsiders to take a break from the hustle and bustle, such as Sanhai, which is located on the north side of Xicheng District.

Sanhai is the general name of an area that includes three artificial lakes, Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai (also known as Jishuitan), which are roughly located from the north gate of Beihai Park to the north, and then along Gulou West Street to the west to the vicinity of Xinjiekou. This large area is estimated to be 3 square kilometers in size, basically bungalows, around these 3 large lakes, there are no commercial areas, no tourist areas, not office areas, most of the residents are locals.

In fact, Beijing's real three seas refer not to these three artificial lakes, but to the North Sea, the Middle Sea and the South China Sea. Now Beihai is a park, and Zhonghai and Nanhai are collectively called Zhongnanhai, which has become the office of the State Council and the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and ordinary people cannot enter it. And the common people have also called the Qianhai, Houhai and West Seas to the north of them the three seas, which can be regarded as the new three seas.

Since there are no tourist areas here, there are no commercial areas, and they are all bungalows, so the pace of life is relatively slow, and the nearby residents will get up in the morning to do morning exercises on the shore of Sanhai; When the weather is hot, adults and children living nearby jump into the clear lake water in groups of three or five to swim a few laps, and the heat is fully effective; In the evening, it's a great place to walk and fall in love after dinner, and the chairs in the groves are basically one-to-one, so you're too embarrassed to sit alone.

In addition, it is also an important place for nearby residents to carry out sports and leisure sports, when winter comes, Sanhai is covered by thick ice, adults put on skates to skate on the ice, children take a homemade ice car, with two iron rods (generally the whole strip used to poke the coal stove at home) a pestle to advance on the ice, there is really no ice car, it doesn't matter, put on Beijing's unique white plastic-soled cotton shoes to squat on the ice, a child pulls in front, a child pushes back, you are an ice car.

If there are movies or TV series that show Beijing in the 70s, 80s and 90s, especially when talking about the life of young people at that time, most of them will choose a very famous event venue, Qianhai Ice Rink. At that time, this place was equivalent to the JJ disco in the 90s, Houhai Bar Street in the 00s, and Sanlitun Bar Street in the 10s.

When the spring flowers bloom, along the three seas in a circle, you will see people fishing, the three seas in the perennial water flow continuously, the water is full of aquatic plants, the fish resources are very rich, and most of them are wild fish, artificially scattered fish fry are not much. There are old people, middle-aged people, young people, small P children who fish here, all kinds of colors, some use very particular commercial fishing rods, often more than ten meters long, from the shore with a self-made steel frame erected, straight stretching out to the water surface, Beijing is commonly known as "cannon".

There are also those who are not particular, using a thin bamboo to cut off the branches themselves, 2 or 3 meters long, which is also a good fishing rod; And those children can just pluck a willow stick, tie some cotton thread, burn the sewing needle and bend it into a hook, and a little white dough, add some sesame oil or something, and catch some small fish for fun.

On the north shore of Houhai, in a small garden in front of Song Qingling's former residence (Prince Alcohol Mansion of the Qing Dynasty), a young man was sitting on the railing of Houhai, staring at the lake in a daze. In fact, some of the young people who take a break and hang out here are not new when they look at the lake in a daze, but this young man has been sitting here for several hours, and even the old man fishing on the shore of the lake not far in front of him has already noticed the young man behind him, and looks back at him from time to time, for fear that this master will not want to jump into the lake again.

This young man is wearing a pair of jeans, a short green shirt, short hair, and a little thin face, although he is sitting, but he is not short, he is eighteen or nineteen or twenty years old, and all his places are no different from ordinary people, that is, his small eyes staring at the lake make people look a little cautious, that look, how to describe it? There is hope in despair, connotation in emptiness, and a trace of clarity in the stupidity, anyway, it is a type of underpumping.

If you have seen the unlucky "thunder shock death" Hong Tao, you will find that this young man really looks like Hong Tao, except for being thinner and beardless, he is basically a copy of Hong Tao, is he Hong Tao's son? No, Hong Tao and his wife have no children, even if they do, they don't grow up so reversely, the father is a post-70s, and his son is also a post-70s.

In fact, this is the Hong Tao who was struck by lightning, as the saying goes, he was struck by lightning back to N years ago, in professional terms, he crossed over. When the unlucky Hong Tao woke up from his coma, the first thing he saw was the big black circle that he was surprisingly annoying when he was in junior high school, and put two kicks in the house, and as a result, the roof jumped out.

Then he turned his head, and before he finished reading it for the second time, he jumped up from the bed like a ghost, and there was a photo of his college graduation on the bedside table.

We can't panic, we can't shout, and we don't have to run out of the house to ask others, Hong Tao, who was already in his 40s in his previous life, already has basic experience, and this kind of thing is clear to analyze and analyze by himself, there are only 2 reasons, one is that he has burped, and now he is in the underworld; The second is that he was struck by that thick lightning many years ago, look at the furnishings in the house, just look at this big head monitor, it is estimated that it was not long after graduating from college, because there are traces of cigarette butts burning on the monitor, and the traces were made in the university dormitory, and this computer moved home from the dormitory after he graduated, and it didn't take long for it to be replaced, and the time in between was at most a year.

Hong Tao graduated from the University of Science and Technology in 2000 and moved 1 year later, so now it is likely to be 2000, or the beginning of 2001, and then wiped the sweat on his head and felt the temperature, don't start 2001, this temperature must be summer, in the original history, he moved early.

Although I have roughly determined what is going on in my mind, I have to confirm my thoughts, Hong Tao's parents died in a car accident, and the time of death was half a year before he graduated, so at present, there should be only 2 families in this small courtyard belonging to Hong Tao, one is Hong Tao's family, he lives in 2 north rooms and one south, and the other is a pair of foreign teachers who teach in Beijing, and the two of them occupy the remaining 3 north rooms and 2 east rooms.

This is after his parents left, the neighbor helped him introduce a tenant, because the parents left early, did not leave a large inheritance, and the driver who caused the accident was not found, at that time there was no commercial insurance, so Hong Tao except for a small courtyard here and an old house in Dongcheng District, it is considered poor and white.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of things in Beijing, but there is a shortage of houses, for a city with a permanent population of 13 million and a registered population of 10 million, finding a suitable temporary residence is the top priority for everyone who comes to Beijing to start a business and live. Therefore, Hong Tao will not starve to death, and he will not be too poor, and his two houses can rent 3,000 yuan a month, which is basically equal to the salary of two people at that time.

Push the door and walk out of the house, the sun outside is very full, the time is almost close to noon, the yard is very quiet, this is why Hong Tao's father was reluctant to move to the building allocated by the unit to live, and chose to give the building of the Asian Games Village to his colleagues, only symbolically asked for a simple building in Dongcheng. His father was a university teacher, and because he had to prepare for classes, he especially liked the cleanliness and tranquility of the courtyard.