In 1997, Beijing was already an open city, and most of the northerners loved to go south to Guangdong and Fujian to do business, in the words of the northerners, they should be called "inverted masters", and most of them resold some northern specialties, such as ginseng and deer antler velvet in the northeast. After the reform and opening up, Feifang's economy has also leaped forward, and Beijing, as the first in China, is already a very modern city, although many places in Beijing still maintain some customs of the Republic of China and even the late Qing Dynasty, but these have also been integrated with the modern economy.

At this time, many people in the south loved to run to Beijing, and everyone thought that Beijing was the capital of China, and naturally they could reap the benefits. And Beijing has the best universities and education, if you can let your children go to middle and high school in Beijing, they will naturally be admitted to a good university.

At the end of the 20th century, there were still many old-fashioned residential buildings in Beijing that had not been demolished, which should be called "tube buildings" in Beijing dialect, but these buildings were rarely inhabited by locals. Because this kind of shared building is extremely inconvenient, the whole building uses the same public toilet, and the bathing is also a large bathhouse. Even the cooking is carried out in the corridors, and there is only one wall between each house, and the sound insulation is not good, so most of the locals in Beijing rent out these buildings to outsiders, and they can also have some extra income every month, and they don't have to leave the buildings empty.

Foreigners are also willing to rent in this place, firstly, the rent is cheaper, and secondly, they can avoid applying for a temporary residence permit, which can save them a lot of expenses. Another important factor is that everyone comes from other places to make a living, although everyone is not necessarily a fellow villager, but at least they are not like those locals, who often bully them or give them a look, so it is quite pleasant to live here.

Lao Qi is a Cantonese man, he has been selling pork since he was a child, and he didn't mix well when he was in Guangdong. Lao Qi is actually not old, he is really only in his twenties, but because he looks fierce, he looks older than people of the same age. Lao Qi did not catch the opportunity to make a fortune when he was in Guangdong, and many of his friends around him have become bosses, but he is still a butcher who sells pork, guarding a stall selling pork all day long, and his life is not salty or light.

But the old seven is getting older, and his family always urges him to get married sooner. Lao Qi is actually a person with ideas and ambitions, he doesn't want to let his wife and children be with pork all day long after he gets married, and live in the world of pork all his life. One day in May, Lao Qi left a letter to his family, went north to Beijing with some small money, and decided to go back to Guangdong to marry a wife and have children.

However, it is not easy for a foreigner to survive in one place, not to mention that the Chinese have a consistent idea of foreign affairs since ancient times. No matter what time it is, everyone's position is to favor the locals, so in the month that Lao Qi came to Beijing, sometimes even eating and drinking was a big problem, not to mention things that could make a lot of money. Fortunately, Lao Qi still has the family heirloom ability to kill pigs and sheep, and this is still a must.

By chance, Lao Qi found that the people who sold pork in this area didn't know how to kill pigs, and they all asked others to take the knife. The people who kill pigs with knives are not only not skilled, but sometimes the pig hair on the pork is not cleaned up. Although the residents in this neighborhood don't say anything, they naturally have ideas, and some residents simply go to more remote places to buy pork, in order to buy it with confidence.

So Lao Qi lived a life of killing pigs and selling meat again, and his life slowly became better, and he himself moved out of a house shared by a few people, and rented a tube building after being introduced. The living environment of the tube building cannot be said to be bad, at least it is much cleaner to live alone. And Lao Qi is a very noisy person, the kind who can't sleep whenever there is movement. It turned out that when I shared a house with a few Cantonese people, they often didn't go to bed until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, and the snoring was like thunder, and the seventh child couldn't sleep at all.

This is also an important reason why Lao Qi wants to move out as soon as possible, and his fellow villagers don't like to be clean, and the clothes they wear are casually thrown in the house, and sometimes they are thrown into Lao Qi's bed. So after Lao Qi made money selling pork on the first day, the first thing he did was to think of renting a house.

But after living in the tube building for a few days, Lao Qi found that this was not a quiet place either. Lao Qi's profession is "self-employed" if it sounds good, and it sells meat if it doesn't sound good, and the working hours are not stable every day. Every day, I have to get up very early to go to the countryside around Beijing to collect live pigs, and then I have to kill the pigs and cut them into large pieces and bring them back to Beijing to sell. Sometimes if the business is good, it only takes one morning to sell all the pigs, and before noon, the seventh child has already returned home, bathed and prepared to go to bed to rest.

To the left of Lao Qi lived a young couple, who seemed to be only about twenty-one or twelve years old, two intellectuals. On weekdays, he is also respectful to Lao Qi, and he does not discriminate against him because of his profession, and the couple is also a regular customer of Lao Qi, so whenever the couple wants to buy meat, Lao Qi will always give them more. The couple had to go to work during the day, so the home was also very quiet, but at night, they could always clearly hear the sound of the bed made of wooden planks swaying, so that the seventh child could not sleep peacefully.

Living on the right side of the seventh is a family of three, the middle-aged couple has an eleven or twelve-year-old daughter, always get up very early every day, carry a small stool and sit in the corridor and read aloud the English that the seventh does not understand. There was a girl in her twenties who lived opposite Lao Qi, and her accent seemed to be from a certain southern province, and she was dressed very delicately all day long, and her clothes were extremely revealing, and she always brought a different man home every day. Whenever Lao Qi came home after selling pork and wanted to take a nap, he could always hear the sound of women moaning from the opposite room.

The one who lives diagonally opposite Lao Qi's left is also a family of three, and there is also a teenage daughter who seems to be studying music. Every day after school, she always picks up her erhu and keeps pulling, but her technique is not good, and it can't even reach the level of a beginner. So there is no difference between the music and the noise at all, but the article has to be practiced all day long, and it seems that I never know what it means to be boring.

Living diagonally opposite Lao Qi's right is a young man who plays around the house with a guitar all day long, and sings like a roar every time he plays. The young man also has a girlfriend in her twenties, who always quarrels with the young man all day long, often hearing the sound of breaking things, and every time after a quarrel, he can always hear the old wooden door being slammed shut, often scaring the old seven who had just fallen asleep to wake up.

In fact, Lao Qi also reported this problem to them, and he didn't have enough rest every day, so he had to go home to supplement his sleep. The two couples who lived next door to Lao Qi always promised Lao Qi that they would go to change a good bed next month and come back, but they always talked and didn't count, and the wooden bed sounded every night. And the two couples with children are not easy to talk to, and the women of the two families are very pungent housewives, and every time they return to the house like a bloody dog scolded by Lao Qi. The woman who was dressed up very delicately was even more difficult to communicate, and every time Lao Qi went to discuss with her, she always pushed Lao Qi out on the grounds that she wanted to take off her clothes and sleep. Although the young man is easier to talk to, his girlfriend is a difficult guy, and every time he scares Lao Qi back with the words "The tube building is like this, if you don't like it, get away".

Every time Lao Qi goes down at night, listening to the sound of the wooden bed shaking next door and the ** voice made by the delicate woman opposite, Lao Qi always starts a fire namelessly, and there is an urge to kill all these families, so that the whole world can become quiet.