The north courtyard gate of the Drum Tower in Lianhu District, the courtyard of the Gao family.

14:00 p.m.

The street where the Drum Tower in the center of Xi'an is located is one of the most lively old streets in Xi'an, this street is not only well-known to Xi'an people, but also famous in the country and even the world, it is the unique North Courtyard Gate.

When it comes to the North Courtyard Gate, many people will say that its name is "Muslim Street". In fact, the real name of this street, which is only a few hundred meters long, is not "Muslim Street", but the more historical "North Courtyard Gate".

Today's Beiyuanmen Huifang Cultural Street is a circular tourist promenade formed by Beiyuanmen, Xiyang Market and Huajue Lane, with a total length of 1,100 meters, which is commonly known as "Muslim Street".

The block is an antique Ming and Qing architectural style, there is a drum tower in the south, an archway in the north, a mosque and an ancient house courtyard are inlaid in rows of shops and restaurants. Stepping into it, the ground is inlaid with bluestone, paved with gold plaques, the old street is prosperous, and the delicious fragrance is fragrant, which is a historical and cultural tourism block with unique ancient city style and modern civilization in Xi'an.

Because the North Courtyard Gate is located in the center of Xi'an City, in the Qing Dynasty, it was facing the Shaanxi Governor's Yamen, and there were many prestigious households. Therefore, before the liberation, there was such a sentence in Huifang, "The wall of the Gao family, the house of the Ma family, and the gold of the Mi family are measured".

And now the No. 144 residence at the North Courtyard Gate is the Gao family compound mentioned in this sentence.

The Gao family is of Han nationality and has been an official for generations. The most famous in the family is Gao Yuesong, who was in the Tongzhi period. Gao Yuesong's ancestral home is Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, and he participated in the imperial examination in the tenth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1872), and was hand-picked by the emperor as the list eye, and was given the plaque of "list eye and first".

According to historical records, he was honest and thrifty as an official, and fulfilled his duties. The brick walls of his family's Gao family compound are high and thick, and they are made of glutinous rice juice mixed with lime, clay, and fine sand, which is extremely strong, so there is a saying of "Gao's wall".

This courtyard belongs to the three-courtyard four-entry type, brick and wood structure quadrangle, its main body is the building of the Ming Chongzhen period, it has a history of nearly 400 years, and there are 86 houses. This Gao family compound belongs to the residence of an official eunuch in Xi'an, full of moving stories spanning 400 years of time and space, and is a microcosm of Xi'an's "family" culture.

When visitors walk into the house, they can feel like they are visiting their neighbors hundreds of years ago.

Once upon a time, there were also well-known films such as "The Red Lantern Hangs High", "Xi'an Incident", "Family", "Liao Zhai" and other well-known films, plus it is a well-known ancient house with a long history, so in today's happy and festive National Day, it naturally attracts countless Chinese and foreign tourists to visit here.

No, at this moment, the gate of the Gao family compound is already crowded with people, noisy and abnormal, a spectacular scene of prosperity and prosperity.

Among these people, there was a handsome girl with an expressionless face who also walked absentmindedly with the crowd, her expression that seemed to be preoccupied, and the smiling tourists around her seemed extremely incompatible, as if there were two parallel time and space here at this moment, and she seemed to be in the crowd, but in fact she was in another completely isolated time and space.

She is none other than Yanyu who was sitting in the old He's marinade jelly in the small learning alley before.

The previous meal was the slowest meal Yanyu had ever eaten, and it was the only time it wasn't completely finished.

The reason for this is because she has something on her mind, and she always recalls the amazing content she saw after opening the letter left by her mother-in-law in the morning, and the experience of going to the Grand Hyatt Hotel to secretly observe the engagement ceremony.

During this period, I heard that the groom of the engagement ceremony had an accident and was sent to the emergency room of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiaotong University School of Medicine for rescue, and she was worried about a stranger for the first time, and even heartache.

And then she was extremely confused and helpless, and she also went to the West Temple of Sajinqiao Halal, wanting to ask the imam Adan mentioned in her mother-in-law's letter, and wanted to take this opportunity to completely understand her life experience and why there was this inexplicable marriage contract.

It's a pity that although she was fortunate to meet Imam Adan who was about to go out at the gate of the Halal West Temple, because Imam Adan couldn't calm down for a while, she told her slowly, but she only agreed to meet at the gate of Lianhu Park at 12 o'clock at noon three days later, and then she would naturally tell her the truth.

After saying goodbye to Imam Adam, Yanyu, who was a little disappointed, felt tired and hungry, so she went to Lao He's marinade jelly shop, which she usually loves to eat.

Just when she was depressed and fell into memories while eating, the mobile phone rang, it was her best and only best friend Mi Duo called, after answering the phone, only half of the smoke and rain were eaten, and then she remembered an important thing that she had made an appointment with Mi Duo a few days ago, that is, to go to the tourist attractions of the Gao family compound to accompany her on a blind date in the afternoon.

Although Yanyu, who was physically and mentally exhausted at the time, just wanted to go home and sleep well, she knew that the blind date was a major life event for her best friend Mi Duo, not to mention that she promised to accompany Mi Duo on a blind date a few days ago to help her strengthen her courage and check by the way, so she still kept her promise and ate a few bites casually, and quickly checked out before she finished eating, and went out of the marinade cold powder shop and rushed to the Gao family compound located at the north courtyard gate.

The reason why Yanyu didn't find an excuse to cancel this date, and would rather be a light bulb than rush to participate in someone else's blind date, is because Mi Duo is the best sister who has played with her since she was a child, not only elementary school classmates, junior high school and high school classmates, but also classmates of Jiaotong University, so she can be regarded as a close friend of sisters, and naturally she doesn't want to release each other's pigeons because she is in a bad mood.

Another reason is that she also wants to take this opportunity to find someone she can trust to talk to and have a good chat, otherwise it will only be more painful and irritable in her heart.

Anyway, when Mi Duo called her just now, she told her that the person who was on a blind date with her was stuck in traffic on the road, and it was estimated that it would be an hour late to get to the tourist attractions of the Gao family compound, so she happened to use this time to walk around with Mi Duo in the Gao family compound while talking about her heart, maybe after speaking, she would be in a better mood.

Second, today she also wants to tell Mi Duo that she does not plan to go to the Grand Hyatt Hotel with Mi Duo to apply for a job after the National Day as originally planned, although their dream of applying for the hotel management major was to work in a world-class hotel like the Grand Hyatt.

Because they made an appointment before graduation, after getting the graduation certificate, they went to the best super platinum five-star hotel in Xi'an - Grand Hyatt Hotel to apply, starting from the bottom, and then worked hard to learn advanced hotel management capabilities, as well as accumulate enough hotel management experience, and finally opened a five-star holiday chain hotel that belonged to them together.

The reason why they are so ambitious is mainly because Mi Duo happens to be the descendant of the Mi family mentioned at the end of the sentence "The Mi family's gold is worth the bucket".

And Mi Duo's father has promised that as long as they really have the ability to manage a super platinum five-star hotel, he is willing to fund to realize their wish to have their own five-star hotel, after all, the Mi family is really too rich, plus Mi Duo is the only pearl in the palm of his hand, there is no reason not to support her and her best friend Yanyu's dream.

The reason why Yanyu suddenly changed her plan to apply for a job at the Grand Hyatt Hotel was because she suddenly knew today that she actually had a marriage contract with Jun Bu, the only heir of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and she didn't want to step into the Grand Hyatt Hotel half a step before she figured out why and successfully quit the marriage.

Of course, she believes that after listening to her reasons, Mi Duo will definitely support and understand her idea of giving up working in the hotel for the time being.

Yanyu also thought about it, and when the time came, she planned to let Mi Duo apply for the job first, enter the hotel to work first, and wait until she finished dealing with the marriage contract, and the misunderstanding was resolved, and there were no worries, and then it was not too late to apply.

And she also thought of a temporary plan after temporarily giving up the hotel to work, that is, to use the house left to her by her mother-in-law to open a Taobao store with Shaanxi specialties as a way to support herself.

After all, her mother-in-law didn't leave her too much property, so she couldn't stay at home every day.

In fact, opening a Taobao store has always been her second life goal when she was in college, that is, to open a Taobao store specializing in selling specialty dim sum and delicacies from the workshop.

Because she grew up in the workshop since she was a child, she has a soft spot for all the delicacies on the workshop, and she also hopes that through the online store platform, the most distinctive food in Xi'an will be repackaged and sold all over the country, and even one day in the future, it can be sold to the world.

Carry forward the unique culture of Xi'an and the food of the century-old shop.

Of course, given that she is a Hui girl of faith, Yanyu decided that her Taobao store is a pure halal Taobao store, and all the goods sold are halal food certified by the Islamic Lan Association.

As for the name of this Taobao store with a specialty of Shaanxi, she also thought of a very personal and romantic name - Yanyu on the Fang.

In addition to clearly pointing out that this is a halal Taobao shop, the word "Fangshang" also has a hint of quaint and nostalgic taste, with a deep and intriguing artistic conception.

The word "smoke and rain" is her name, and it gives people a very warm and romantic artistic conception, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, and there is also a subtle and introverted Jiangnan atmosphere.

The above is a series of things that Yanyu thought about while walking in a complicated mood when she hung up Mi Duo's phone and left Lao He's marinade cold powder shop, so her expression did not have a trace of happiness, and she was naturally out of step with the other tourists around her.

When the smoke and rain came as promised, and when she came to the entrance of the Gao family compound on time, she saw that Mi Duo had already bought a ticket and beckoned to her at the ticket gate.

So, Yanyu quickly calmed down, stretched his brows, and made his expression look a little more comfortable, then sped up, passed through the crowd, and squeezed towards Mi Duo.

After checking the tickets, the two of them joined hands and entered the Gao family compound with other tourists, playing aimlessly......