Maybe I was too eager for this snow, or maybe God was moved by my longing, and the snow fell down the city overnight, and the morning news on various radio stations were reminding everyone to pay attention to travel safety.

I got up early, freshened up, grabbed my phone, carried the SLR, and ran downstairs to the bedroom to meet Xu Zhekai.

As soon as we met, we all laughed. I didn't make an appointment about what to wear in advance, but I was so tacitly wearing a white short down jacket, tight blue skinny jeans, and black boots. It's just that I wear a red hat and Xu Zhekai wears a black one.

Xu Zhekai described it funny and accurately, if it weren't for the difference between height and hat, maybe others would still think that they were dazzled!

Ha ha! This neuropathy!

When I set off, it was not yet dawn, and the campus was quiet, and occasionally some students with luggage passed by. The thick snow squeaked under my feet, making a nice creaking sound, and for a few moments, I felt as if I had returned to my hometown, back to my school days with my friends in the snow. It's been a long time since it's snowed so heavily in Beijing. That's nice!

It's still early, there are not many people on the bus, the snow is slippery, the driver is slow, and we are not in a hurry, but we can take advantage of this time to take a good look at the snowy city outside the window.

When a snow fell, the pace of the whole of Beijing seemed to slow down. The snow was still falling silently, vehicles and pedestrians were walking slowly, and the houses on the side of the road were silent in the snow. Especially those old alleys, the dust that usually gets up with the flow of people is covered with snow at this time. The city seems to have regressed to the seventies and eighties overnight, and everything is not so new, but everything is comfortable.

Later, people often said that "when it snows, Beijing will become Beiping", and I think it is more because people miss the tranquility and slow rhythm of the city.

I sat against the window, and on the left was Xu Zhekai. Holding hands together, the car drove through the snowy old city, and I had the illusion of taking him back to that time and space in the past.

We reversed the train in the middle, and we arrived near our destination at about nine o'clock. Passing through the city gates, from the present to history, we finally stood in front of the Forbidden City in the snow.

Today is Wednesday, and it is the off-season for tourism, so there are not many people, but there are some photography enthusiasts, and they have finally waited for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shoot the Forbidden City in the snow.

After buying a ticket, passing through the noon gate, and walking all the way forward, we finally stood on the vast and solemn Taihedian Square. I've been here many times, but every time I stand on the steps and look down on the plaza in front of me, I'm really shocked. And this time, I was completely overwhelmed by the scenery in front of me.

Yellow tiles and red walls, white marble steps, dragon pattern carvings, wooden mortise and tenon structure...... Each one of them is a landscape that I've seen many times and still love it.

When I was in high school, I had no feeling for Beijing, maybe it was a common problem of young girls, and I always blindly pursued ethereal romance, so I resisted the bright and solemn color matching of the Forbidden City for no reason in my heart, but I yearned for the blue bricks and tiles of the Jiangnan water town.

When I applied for the college entrance examination, I was really entangled for a long time, and finally I followed my parents' advice and came here in order to rank first in the country in my major and see a better world. This is a magical city, you can complain about its traffic, you can complain about its urban construction, but it just has such a powerful force that makes you put aside everything and fall in love with it.

It turns out that I often hear people talk about the word "grounded", and I also stand on this land to understand more thoroughly what grounding is, which is a sense of security without a reason, as if your past life belongs here, your present life is looking for the memory of your past life back, and no matter where you are in your next life, you will never forget its existence.

Some people don't like the Forbidden City, thinking that it represents imperial power and repression. And I think that as the largest wooden building complex in the world, it has carried too much history, so don't let it bear other heavy responsibilities, just look at this brick and tile, tree and flower, and even the occasional chubby "royal cat" passing by, it is enough to be satisfied.

Xu Zhekai and I walked all the way, chatting about the parts we were interested in, Xu Zhekai liked the caisson of the main hall, and I was interested in the spine beast and all the mortise and tenon structures. Although it was snowing, it wasn't very cold, so we walked slowly, watching it carefully, and our hearts were full of joy. Of course, don't forget to take all kinds of snow and red wall pictures. My DSLR was a gift from my college dad, and this time it finally came into play.

When I passed the long red-walled street on the side of the East Sixth Palace, there was basically no one except us. As I walked, I couldn't help but stop, didn't speak, and stood there quietly, looking around at the red walls on both sides, looking up at the sky above. Xu Zhekai also stopped, sometimes looking at me, sometimes pressing the shutter to catch the way he saw me.

"My dear, do you say, are the people who lived here in those ancient dynasties really as unhappy as in the play?" I asked.

"Everyone has joys and sorrows, and they are different. I don't think they're necessarily as unhappy as later generations think, but they won't be perfect. ”

"Do you want to travel back in time to that era?"

"No, unless you go back with me. You are a brutal little palace maid, I am a little brother, you have to occupy me for nothing. As he spoke, he began to lose his shape again.

"I want to travel through the past and see their lives as a bystander, the kind of transparent people, who don't participate, just see."

"There are no bystanders in this world, you think you are, but you are already a part of the story."

I didn't know the meaning of the song at first acquaintance, but I was already a person in the song when I listened to it again. So what am I in now? As a person who has come before, I once again walked into the time and space I once was, into the stories I had participated in, and approached the girlfriends and lovers I once knew, but I still couldn't be a good bystander. I still fell back into the emotional entanglement with Xu Zhekai, I know how we ended in the past, but I don't know what kind of ending we will have now. Even if it's your own, how can you be sure that you can understand it?

Xu Zhekai leaned against the red wall, I stood facing him, and he gently took me into his arms.

"Yiyi, do you know why I'm attracted to you?"

"Of course, it's because I'm beautiful and smart."

He didn't smile, but said seriously, "It's the way you look at me in the debate tournament." Growing up, I had seen too many girls look at me, and I knew all too well the adoration or affection in their eyes. But your eyes are different from everyone else, you may not believe it, but when you look at me, it makes me have the illusion of an old reunion, as if we have known each other for a long time, separated for a long time, and have countless words to confide in each other, but we don't need to say anything more to understand. But I'm sure it was the first time we met, so I'm curious about you. I really want to see you, I want to know you. ”

I didn't speak, but there was infinite emotion in my heart, sure enough, no matter how chaotic time and space were, no matter where I was, how old I was, no matter how I restrained my emotions from seeing him again, my eyes still betrayed me, this is fate, if you can't hide, you don't need to hide anymore.

The various palaces and corners looked over, the time was close to noon, the snow gradually stopped, the sun still showed its face, the sun was not strong and shone on the snow, the Forbidden City in the snow was solemn and solemn just now, but at this time there was more lustrous gentleness, as if it was a majestic emperor just now, and now it is a bright concubine.

I said to Xu Zhekai, "Look at those spine beasts on the roof, they have been standing there like this, they have seen the past and present life of this city, if they can speak, what do you say they will communicate?" ”

"Maybe they'll say, I'm so tired from standing, I really want to lie down and rest for a while." Xu Zhekai replied with a smile.

He always gags when I'm serious, and I can't stop laughing as I ponder his words.

"But I think it's more that they don't say anything, after all, for them, what passes is not clouds, it's years, the years are silent, and the beauty is silent." He became serious again and spoke softly.

"The years are silent, and the beauty is silent. That's nice. I repeated his words, silently admiring.

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when I came out of the Shenwu Gate. We leaned over the low wall of one of the corner towers and looked at the moat that was already frozen and covered with snow. The water no longer flows, but time will not stop because of this, everything in the world has its own time sequence, and the time sequence also has its own time sequence, I don't know how long I can stay in this time and space, and after this time and Xu Zhekai get along again, I don't regret that I once loved him, and it is the same now. I wish I could stay longer, or even stay here and start a new life, as long as he is by my side. I wonder if this idea is too naïve and extravagant.

"Yiyi, when you go home tomorrow afternoon, I'll see you off." Xu Zhekai finally talked about the separation of winter vacation.

"Okay. In the more than one month that I have been away, you have to guard me like a jade. I stuck out my index finger and slid it over his angular face in a mocking gesture.

He looked at me fixedly, with stars in his eyes, and he was so beautiful.

He took my face and leaned over to kiss it.

I think that even if one day, fate arranges for me to return to that time and space without Xu Zhekai, I will not forget this day. Hold the hand of the person you love, cross the distance between the new city and the old city, and measure the length of history.

The heavy snow is pouring over the city, the years are silent, and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are picturesque. This Sifang City has witnessed the lives of countless heroes and angry horses, witnessed the history of countless dynasties, and now also looks at the small ones in the big world who love and live seriously. We walked through the years blankly and firmly, and walked into history without knowing it. Time is really a mysterious thing, let us be deeply immersed in it and never get tired of it.