The night was earth-shattering.

After dawn, Mengjie and I went downstairs to have breakfast.

"I'm not going out to play today," I said as I ate, "you can see the north wind blowing outside, and the temperature has dropped a lot!" ”

"Then you can write at home!" Meng Jie smiled slightly, "After I finish eating, I'll walk around and go back in a while!" ”

"Then don't go far," I admonished, "call me if there's something!" ”

Meng Jie smiled and nodded.

After I left the restaurant, I walked upstairs in an irritated mood.

The mind is in turmoil.

I sat in front of my computer with no clue, not knowing what to do.

Time passes little by little.

Outside the window, the north wind is blowing and the sky is full of sand.

I picked up my phone, looked at Ye Qian's mobile phone number in the address book, and after thinking about it, I still didn't have the courage to dial. I put down my phone boredly and went to the rooftop, not knowing what I was going to do. I went back to the room bored, lying on the bed looking at the cracked ceiling above my head, and I wondered what to do next.

At this moment, the mobile phone suddenly rang rapidly.

"I'm lost!" Mengjie's voice came.

"Where are you?" I asked hurriedly.

"Inside those alleys in front of Tianan/Gate," Mengjie said anxiously, "I wanted to go in and have a walk, but I couldn't get out." Just now, a tricycle rider wanted to pull me out, but I didn't dare to sit on it! ”

"Don't sit!" I said seriously, "Didn't you say you were just walking around the neighborhood, how did you run to Dashilar?" ”

"I'm bored!" Mengjie complained, "I haven't taken the subway either, so I want to take a ride." I thought that I would definitely not get lost when I thought about Tianan/Gate, but the more I walked, the more I couldn't get out, and the wind was so strong! ”

"Are there any signs around you?" I asked anxiously.

"This looks like there's a house number for 1 Elm Lane!" Meng Jie said seriously.

"Then you'll be waiting for me there," I said hurriedly, "and don't wander around, and don't ride in someone else's car, be careful of selling you!" ”

"I know!" Meng Jie smiled.

I hung up Mengjie's call and hurriedly dialed Ye Qian's mobile phone.

"Are you free?" I asked.

"What's the matter?" Ye Qian asked.

"Mengjie got lost in Elm Lane," I explained, "and I'm just out of the house right now, and I'm rushing there!" If you have time, go first, you live close to that, and you have a car, can you do a favor? ”

"Not available!" Ye Qian said "click" and hung up the phone.

I sighed and hurried towards the subway station.

Just a few steps away, Ye Qian's phone call came again.

"You're not lying to me?" Ye Qian asked thoughtfully.

"If I lie to you, the sky will thunder!" I said with a smile and tears.

"Give me her phone number!" Ye Qian said seriously.

I smiled slightly, and hurriedly sent Ye Qian's Mengjie's mobile phone number.

In the subway station, pedestrians are in a hurry.

The subway is moving in a regular manner.

I got on the subway and hurried to Qianmen Station.

Just when I was about to arrive at Qianmen Station, Ye Qian's call came.

"Don't go to the alley," Ye Qian said with a smile, "I found her, we're almost to Wangfujing now!" ”

"That's good," I said with a sigh of relief, "then I'll get off at Wangfujing Station!" ”

Ye Qian smiled.

I smiled lightly and happily got off the train at Wangfujing subway station.

As soon as I got out of the subway, I saw Ye Qian and Mengjie waiting for me at the subway entrance from a distance.

"Didn't you say you're just walking around the neighborhood?" I asked Mengjie a little angrily, "Why did you run into the alley?" ”

"I didn't get lost," Mengjie said with a smile, "I want to come out and buy a dress, Beijing is so cold now, and I didn't bring thick clothes when I came!" ”

"Then you can tell me!" I complained angrily, "You said, I will definitely accompany you out to buy clothes!" ”

"You just don't want to come out like that in the morning," Meng Jie said with an aggrieved face, "I don't spend your money on clothes!" This card is the 120,000 we saved before, and I have saved more than 30,000 in it in the past two or three years! ”

"Let's go!" I said to Mengjie, "Go buy clothes!" ”

"Then I'm leaving," Ye Qian said with a smile at this time, "I won't bother you!" ”

"Let's go shopping!" I said to Ye Qian, "Then let's have a meal together, okay!" ”

"That's fine!" Ye Qian thought about it and said.

On the street, pedestrians are in a hurry.

The three of us talked as we walked.

"There are a lot of hutongs in Beijing," I said to Mengjie, "but as long as you have a good general direction, you don't have to worry about getting lost in the hutongs, because they are all connected." I'm afraid I'm afraid to get into a dead end, and I don't know how to turn back! It's the same with love, don't get into a dead end and don't know how to turn back! ”

"You have a voice outside of that!" Meng Jie raised her head and said coquettishly, "I can hear it!" ”

"The place you went to today is the Eight Great Hutongs," I said with a deep face, "These Eight Hutongs, although they are famous at home and abroad, but they are the synonyms of the old Beijing Flower Street Liuxiang, what Baishun Hutong, Rouge Hutong, Stone Hutong, Zhujia Hutong, Li Shamao Hutong, etc., sound very beautiful, but what about the facts?" Because they are all naturally formed and neglected; There are many alleys and streets, and they are all formed along the ancient river channels and ditches, and the inside is narrow and complex; The streets are also chaotic, and the houses and buildings are in the west, bricks and wood, courtyards and buildings, businesses and residences, large and small, inside and out; Public and private estates are intermingled, and the rich and the poor are intertwined...... Here, there are not many courtyard houses in the strict sense, and even if there are, they are all small courtyards......"

"Then why not dismantle them?" Meng Jie asked curiously.

"You're asking a good question," I said seriously, "and sometimes, choice is more important than effort. Just like the contradictory mentality of the residents of the Bada Hutong now, saying that they are the residents of the Bada Hutong, they are always suspected of being splashed with dirty water, because they have nothing to do with the privacy of old Beijing, and they are very aggrieved but there is no way to justify it; Just like a few years ago, someone proposed to build a historical exhibition hall in Bada Hutong here, and local residents strongly opposed it; There are also media often arguing, arguing whether the Eight Hutongs are history or dross? Is it culture or curiosity? The company engaged in Xuanwu Hutong Tour announced that it would no longer include the Qinglou Ruins in the Hutong Tour. According to the requirements of the new morality, the names of the eight major alleys have been changed twice after the liberation, but whether to demolish or not to demolish is still a legend. The local residents know that they are going forward, and they generally do not deliberately operate this place as a place of 100 years old, but they don't know when to go next. And where to go? They're also making difficult choices......"

"I don't know where I'm going?" Mengjie stood still and looked at me and said, "I'm also making a difficult choice!" ”

"Look at the clothes!" Ye Qian reminded, "Don't be an old alley!" ”

I laughed.

Meng Jie smiled slightly.