We walked through the streets full of spring, listened to the cicadas in the midsummer night, experienced the lingering autumn rain, and felt the silence of the winter snow melting. We continue to leave our footprints in this ancient city, and occasionally stop to observe its vicissitudes and thickness, it has always been so silent and so inclusive. It is a city with a story, a city that carries countless joys and sorrows.

If you want to feel the city's sense of gravity and history and humanity directly, it must be to go to the Forbidden City, so one day in early April, we went to visit the long-awaited landmark of Beijing, one of China's most iconic attractions - the Palace Museum.

On the day of the meeting, I saw Jiang Peng carrying a bulging, large and conspicuous backpack from a distance, Yang Mei turned me with her elbow and whispered: "Let's see, do you live like a king."

Razor went over and tried to check it: "Yo, it's really heavy, what do you have in it?" ”

"Water, 40 bottles of mineral water" Jiang Peng opened the zipper and showed it to us.

I couldn't help but complain about him: "There's nothing wrong with you, it's not that it's not sold, why are you filling so many bottles of water, aren't you tired"

He waved his hand, "I'm not tired, I'm not tired, what do you think, how much is the water sold in it?" Eight yuan, eh, I'll take it in and sell it for six yuan, then I can earn five yuan for a bottle, and thirty bottles are one hundred and fifty yuan. ”

Yang Mei sneered on the side: "You are really good, carrying such a big bag of water to visit the Forbidden City, it's really a shame that you can think of it, and you can earn more than 100 yuan, what can you do, you can still send it?" It's not enough to be tired, cut, net calculation of this little profit, drop the money in the eye."

"Hey, you can't say that, you can't accumulate small streams to rivers, you don't accumulate steps to thousands of miles, you really don't look down on it, how many people with thousands of dollars are self-made by earning inconspicuous small money, first find a way to earn small money in order to transition to big money, thinking about taking shortcuts to get rich is unrealistic Okay, how many people are poor because they 'can't earn big money, small money doesn't want to earn'."

The speaker didn't mean to listen, and Razor and I looked at each other, feeling a little as if the words were alluding to themselves.

However, Jiang Peng's picky and calculating label can't be torn off, because when buying tickets, he lived up to expectations and made us gain knowledge.

A few of us were all in order, standing behind the long line to pay money and prepare to buy tickets, but Jiang Peng looked around with a big backpack like a turtle shell, looking at the long line in front of the ticket office, and then approached a few students and muttered a few words in a low voice, and then several people seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, nodded in agreement, and then he dragged us all out of the line.

"What's the situation?" I don't know why.

"Wait, someone has bought tickets for us, not only do we not have to queue up, but we can also get twenty yuan cheaper per person" Jiang Peng had a 'look of 'look at it'.

After a while, several people who had been talking to him before came out of the window one after another, and then handed the tickets to us.

Lei Ze looked at the face of the ticket carefully, and suddenly said, "It turns out that you asked them to use their student ID cards to help buy half-price tickets." ”

Jiang Peng's eyes picked: "Well, on the basis of half-price tickets, we add ten yuan more to each of them for labor fees, and we are equivalent to saving twenty yuan for each person."

"You're so calculating," I sighed sincerely, thinking, this person deserves to have opened a company before, it's a pity that this mind doesn't do business, but how can someone who is so good at calculating lose a lot of money?

"Heh, you can think of this, it's really amazing, have you picked out the experience?" Yangmei's expression revealed surprise and irony.

"I'm going to get by, you know, it's a careful budget." Jiang Peng retorted unconvinced.

Razor and I shook our heads, walked in front, and were the first to check in the door.

Crossing Tiananmen Square, passing by the Noon Gate, entering the Taihe Palace, we chatted all the way, walked on the stone road where the ancestors walked, watched the majestic palace, and walked leisurely while sighing. After a while, she went around to an inner court corridor in the West Palace, and Yang Mei spread her butt on the bench set up under the corridor and waved her hand: "I can't walk, let's rest."

She hammered her legs and kept complaining: "I didn't propose to come to the Forbidden City if I knew it, it's too big, and my feet hurt when I walk."

"The Forbidden City is still coming, how can you not come to the Forbidden City in Beijing to take a look, come here to see the history, the vicissitudes of time, and the wisdom of the ancients." Jiang Peng said in the tone of a hundred forums.

I smiled, suddenly felt that my throat was a little dry, patted him and said, "Eh, you are carrying such a big bag of mineral water, so you took out a bottle and let us drink it, just let us be so thirsty?" ”

Jiang Peng took off his backpack and picked it for a long time before he took out a bottle and handed it to the nearby Lei Ze, who twisted it hard for a long time, and didn't unscrew the cap, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took it, unscrewed the lid with a little force, and handed it back to him.

"Tsk, female man, no wonder you're single" Jiang Peng pouted on the side.

I waited for a long time and didn't see him take out the second bottle, so I crossed my waist and shouted, "Hey, you really took out a bottle, how can we drink it?" ”

"Save a little, we can drink a bottle like this, like this......" he said, taking the bottle of water from Razor and pouring it high to his mouth, and I was amazed that not a drop had leaked out.

After thinking about it, he also learned to put his face up, lifted the bottle and poured it into his mouth, but it turned out that he poured water all over his face and neck, and tried several times without success, and finally the height was not well controlled, and he was unexpected, so he poured a big sip into the mouth of the bottle.

Yang Mei squinted her eyes and smiled: "Oh, you two are kissing indirectly." ”

I wiped the stain on my chin, and when I turned my head, Razor's face was red again.

I patted him on the shoulder, "Don't listen to her nonsense, just kidding, take it seriously"

Jiang Peng opened his backpack widely, sat cross-legged on the ground, and didn't shout or take the initiative to sell, but the sharp-eyed one really took the initiative to ask: "Is such a bag of mineral water to be sold?" ”

He waved his hand: "Well, sell, 6 yuan a bottle." ”

Not to mention, it was really sold, and almost all the tourists resting next to it bought it, and it was sold out after a while.

He patted his pants and stood up: "How about it, there is a way to make money, right?" ”

Yangmei squinted at him: "It's not because there are many tourists sitting here to rest at this time, you will look for business opportunities."

"I heard that the Forbidden City can receive more than 100,000 visitors a day, but the Forbidden City is really big." Razor said as he looked at the tourists resting around him with different expressions.

"Not only the Forbidden City, but also the city of Beijing is too big," Jiang Peng continued.

Yes, the Forbidden City gives people a very intuitive feeling of majesty and shock, just like the city of Beijing, it is not a show of wisdom, but a grand majesty. The city has a magnificent experience, with traces of the change of time, and carries the memories of generations after generations. It has always been stationed gently in time, and it has always been so majestic and resolute.

There are too many stories about this city, each paragraph is unforgettable, every paragraph of encounter and parting, who can say that it is not a full life that has been achieved.