On the day of the founding of the party, our state-owned unit will hold a series of celebrations as usual, and at the same time, we will prepare some commemorative and condolence gifts for party members and comrades. Shi Nian, as a minion of the Administration Department, was ordered to purchase some supplies, and she said that she wanted to find a man to help as a coolie, and I was honored to be appointed as the youngest male party member in the branch to accompany her to Xiahe Street as a porter. At 10 o'clock in the morning, we set off from the company, and Shi Nian was obviously very excited to be able to come out for activities without having to sit at the desk. She said that she was not in a hurry now, and insisted on walking from the alley behind the company, crossing Beizheng Street and then to Xiahe Street, and dragged me to accompany her to wander through these alleys without any objections.

When passing by Zhou Nan Middle School, Shi Nian must pull me in to see her alma mater, I have long admired Zhou Nan's name but have never had the opportunity to go in to see what is going on, so the two of them happily sneaked in. The back door of the school is hidden in the gap between two houses in the alley, which is very inconspicuous, although the door face is small, it is unique after entering, and the campus is simple and elegant. Few young people in Xingcheng know that the current location of Zhounan Middle School in Tai'anli, once called Yuanyuan, was the city's premier Suzhou-style garden at the beginning of the 20th century, covering an area of more than 80 acres. I remember that Tan Si, whom I admire the most, has a poem "Changsha Garden":

The crystal pavilion leans on the cold jade, and the bamboo green is far away. Xiangbo wet shadow hibiscus soul, thousands of years of defeat grass and flat foot. The flat boat lies down and listens to the roar of the thin dragon, and the ghost of the flower sneaks to cry to the poet. In the past, there were more willow branches than prosperous, and gold filaments hung upside down at the bottom of the water.

Shi Nian gushed with me about the history of her alma mater, this garden was originally the Zhu family, in the 30th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1904) Zhu Jianfan returned to Japan in Japan, and founded the Zhou family school in the second year, and later changed its name to Zhounan Girls' School, and donated the ancestral Tai'anli Garden Mansion to the site of Zhounan School. Zhu Jianfan, the twenty-seventh grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, is of the same ancestry as the general of the dynasty, all of whom are descendants of the Ming royal family. His hatred of the feudal family system prompted him to be enthusiastic about running women's schools and supporting women's emancipation. This Zhu Jianfan is indeed a figure in modern times, General Xiao Jinguang, the first naval commander of New China, and the famous Wang Jiaxiang are his sons-in-law. He also served as Xu Teli's teacher, and according to this generation, he is Mao's master, no wonder once Mao ** sighed and said to his youngest daughter Zhu Zhongli: "Alas! Your father died too soon, or he would have become our Minister of Education, alas. ”

I asked Shi Nian why this garden is also called "Shedding Garden"? She couldn't answer. I seem to have heard my grandfather say that there was a Jinshi named Liu Yu who lived here in the Tang Dynasty, so it is also called "Shen Yuan". I checked the book when I went home, and there really is this person: Liu Yu, the word is foolish, and he is from Changsha. Tang Dazhong four years (850) Jinshi. Liu Gong's ancient texts, with retro as their own responsibility, take more from Yangxiong, and the style is strange and profound. Studying "Chu Ci" is particularly profound. There are ten volumes of the anthology "Wenquanzi".

After the liberation, Zhounan School was once changed to the city's No. 1 Girls' Middle School and the city's No. 4 Middle School, and the name of "Zhounan" was restored in 1984. However, there are still many people in Xingcheng who still like to use the third and fourth middle schools to describe the two middle schools of Mingde and Zhounan. Although the campus is not as large as it used to be, the environment is still very beautiful. Siyuan Pavilion and that pond are still there, surrounded by green bamboo, full of green shade, and cool when the wind does not come. The small pavilion does not need to be much, the light grinding mirror shines on the eaves, and the water is clear and the pond surface is small fish. We took a break in the pavilion, imagining that Xiang Jingyu and Cai Chang had also stood here, looking into the future; On the clear water, there have also been young and beautiful figures of Ding Ling and Liao Jingwen (Xu Beihong's wife); The pavilion also echoed the laughter and laughter of Zhou Nan's alumni such as Qin Houxiu (Ma Ying-jeou's mother) and Lao An (***'s wife...... The bell rang for the end of class, and the students who had just come back from the playground after physical education class walked past us in twos and threes, and the two of us seemed to be regarded as young teachers by the students.

Xiahe Street, as the name suggests, is by the river, is a long street along the river that is all over the riverside wharf in the old days, as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it developed into a prosperous material gathering place, and now it is still a lot of small commodities in our city. We didn't spend a lot of time here, and we basically purchased all the supplies we needed. It was still early, less than 12 o'clock, Shi Nian said: "You accompany me to the front line of Huangxing Road to see the clothes, and then I will invite you to lunch." ”

I was nervous as soon as I heard about shopping, inexplicably, and later I heard that this is a common phenomenon, and some experts say that it has now become a genetic code inherited from many male compatriots. I said, "It's not convenient for us to carry so many things." Why don't you shop first and I'll send these things back to the company myself? ”

"No, you went back alone, so why did they ask me why I went? Others still think that you bought it, and you want to take the lead, right? ”

"Where do you want to go, I can say you're home for dinner." I explained.

"No, you're leaving, which one can help me refer to?! Well, let's drop our stuff in my house and start strolling around from the south gate. If you're hungry, you can have lunch at my house before you start shopping with me! "Shi Nian has already planned it carefully.

I had no choice but to say, "It's okay to put things in your house first, but we don't want to eat at home, and you didn't notify you in advance, so I'm sorry to trouble the people in the house, if you want to be sincere, please ask me to eat at the small shop downstairs." ”

The low unit doors, the narrow staircase, the dark aisles, at first glance look like an outdated design from the sixties and seventies of the last century. This is a very typical old-fashioned model building when New China just began to learn to design and build concrete dormitory buildings, and like the tube building, each floor has a long public passageway, but because the two walls are closed, the lighting and ventilation are not even as good as the old tube building. This is public housing, that is, public housing, which is allocated to houses where there are no houses. Strictly speaking, the lecturer and their family live here, only the lease has no property rights, and they have to pay a small rent every year according to the regulations. Of course, the state's policy on public rental housing is very favorable, only a few hundred yuan a year, which is basically given to you to live, which is a kind of welfare for low-income families.

Shi Nian shouted, "I'm back." Then he opened the curtain and entered. There was no light in the hall, and in the dim light, there was an elderly man shirtless, watching TV on a recliner, and it was easy to guess from his face that it was his father. Sure enough, Shi Nian called out to his father, "This is my colleague Lu Tu, we came out today to help the unit buy things." ”

"Oh, hello Xiao Lu, sit down." Father Shi was very polite, "Sister Nian, you go and help the guests make a cup of tea." So saying, he went into the back room and came out wearing a white vest, and was about to cut watermelons.

I hurriedly said, "Uncle, don't be polite, let's sit down and leave." ”

Shi's father said to me with a smile: "Don't worry, since you're here, let's have a lunch together at home, and Shinian and her mother will be back later." ”

Shi Nian said: "I really don't eat in the house, we just come up to put some things, and we have to go out to run errands soon." Leave us alone. She put the things she had bought first in a corner, and as she spoke, she dragged me out. I said, "Uncle, then we'll go first, goodbye." ”

Father Shi sent it to the door and said, "Really just leave, don't sit for a while?" Then I'll play again next time. "I said yes.

When I came out, I glanced at the three bowls of leftovers under the sand cover on the dining table, and I was glad that I had made the wise decision not to eat lunch at her house.