Chapter 62: The Quadrangle
After returning to BJ from Yunnan, the white dragon horse was temporarily fostered in BJ Zoo.
On this day, taking advantage of the dubbing, Tang Qin wore a military coat and walked on the street with a sword in his hand.
The sword was given by Director Huang when he heard that Ruan Ruolin was going to transfer him to the center, "Xiao Tang, just dress like you, and then ride on a white horse, what do you say?" Li Chengru played Tang Qin's outfit, the cold wind blew, and the two of them shrank their heads in their necks and ran towards the bus quickly.
BJ in the 80s, the air after the snow is really fresh!
Sitting on the square, white background and red bar bus, looking at the pedestrians in bloated bread clothes on the street, looking at a bicycle with a leatherette handbag on the handlebar, there are not many pedestrians and vehicles, and the road is very spacious, well, the street trees on both sides of the street, the branches are intertwined, and it has been some years.
"Cheng Ru, Cheng Ru ......"
As soon as he walked into the alley of Li Chengru's house, he greeted him as soon as he was young, and he greeted Tang Qin warmly, "You kid have to invite me to dinner, I found the courtyard you are looking for." ”
I really found it!
Li Chengru was also pleasantly surprised, this is really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.
"You know, how many people I mobilized, even my mother-in-law and her second aunt's house, I searched all over the house...... Yes, it was not in vain. ”
Don't you have to hurry up and thank others first, Tang Qin immediately bought two boxes of big front doors from the commissary and stuffed them into people's hands.
"I rode my bicycle everywhere to look for it, I didn't think about it, back to the station, a relative of our station Lao Wang, people are going to the United States, he happened to have a courtyard to be sold out, just in the Qianliang Hutong, you listen to the name, there is money and food...... How wonderful. ”
"Then what are you doing in a daze, hurry up, take us to see." Tang Qin was not in a hurry, Li Chengru urged it.
Getting on the bus again, the three of them talked excitedly, and looked out the window of the car while talking, on the side of the street, piles of Chinese cabbage, Tang Qin knew that whenever the Chinese cabbage was on the market, BJ's cold snap was coming!
Simple people, clean streets, scenes of life, this is the BJ in memory!
"This is your wish, but this courtyard is not cheap, guess where? Right next to the Forbidden City! Li Chengru smiled and said, "You can see the Forbidden City when you sit at home." ”
Oh, it's a great place.
"The courtyard we are looking for, how many in and how out, how big is the area?" The bus stopped, and the three of them tightened their neck scarves, and when they got off the bus, Li Chengru asked.
"Two in and two out," Comrade Fa Xiao was not ambiguous, "People open their mouths to ask for this number, and they don't bargain." ”
Twenty thousand?
Li Chengru has the urge to greet other people's eighth-generation ancestors, 20,000 yuan, don't eat or drink for decades, in order to save enough wages.
The three of them walked forward unhurriedly, the coordinates of the BJ in the 80s, the tube buildings and courtyards everywhere, at this time, the citizens of BJ are not very popular to rent houses, nor are they very popular to buy houses, to solve the housing problem, stay in the three words of "waiting, relying on, and wanting", "waiting for the country to build houses, relying on the organization of housing, and asking for units to give housing", which is the main way to solve the housing problem.
Watching the two aunts push the Chinese cabbage stored in winter with a small bamboo cart, and walk into the alley, the smell of fried cabbage wafts out of every household.
Well, yes, as soon as Tang Qin entered the alley, he fell in love with it.
Although Qianliang Hutong has a long history and has lived in celebrities such as Zhang Taiyan and others, it is not as lively as other Hutongs.
The plum blossoms that emerge from the old brick houses are blooming happily and in brilliant colors, adding a bit of vitality to this quiet alley.
Walking slowly along the bluestone road, there are mottled ancient walls on one side, towering trees on the other, the cold wind blows, and the snow on the top of the trees falls on the shoulders.
Of course, the alley is not very clean, someone is riding a tricycle to move, inside are color TVs, bottles and cans, and the three major pieces of the seventies have also been invited out, "Excuse me, give the two money, you take it." ”
Listening to the authentic Beijing films, Tang Qin was very emotional, and the Hutong was a quiet time for him.
Especially in winter, when you gently slide your hand over the dry old tree at the mouth of the alley, the rough touch comes from the palm of your hand, and you will feel as if you are seeing the scroll of history slowly open through your fingers.
"Is his yard just his family or is there a few families living together?" Tang Qin asked.
As the most common residential style of the old BJ people, at first, the courtyard was generally one household and one residence, but with the increase of population, the courtyard gradually became crowded, many courtyard houses are multi-family sharing, and most of these families are poor families, such courtyard houses are called "miscellaneous courtyards".
"As for his family, I inquired clearly, and there is no trouble." Comrade Fa Xiao looked in along the gate of the street, and in a courtyard house, bicycles, random temporary buildings, Chinese cabbage, dried clothes, and the smell of laundry detergent and soot constantly wafted......
An old man is smearing mud around the stove, and two children are playing cards between two piles of Chinese cabbage.
"The second girl of my aunt's family at the front door, she went abroad in less than two months after being a foreigner, what kind of emotion is not emotional......"
"People are trendy, fashionable, and dare to do things."
"No, the old Li family is also going abroad......"
The two wandered idly, and several aunts wearing red armbands looked at the two vigilantly, at this time the street activists were jokingly called "Little Foot Detective Team", and later upgraded to "Chinese Aunts"!
"Excuse me, does Lu Changxing's family live here?"
"Are you looking for Lu Changxing?" The aunt looked Comrade Fa Xiao up and down, and only then did she relax her vigilance when she heard his BJ accent.
"Yes, let's look at the house."
Comrade Fa Xiao dealt with the aunt, Tang Qin looked at the courtyard, the blue bricks on the wall were broken, and the paint of the thick wooden door was mottled, but the style of the eaves and arches could still be seen.
Green bricks, old tiles, wooden doors, the texture that has been washed and worn by time, give it a gorgeous turn, and such a waste house can also become very fashionable.
Just then, a man wearing a hat and gloves and riding a bicycle rushed back from outside.
"This is my family's ancestral property, if it weren't for going abroad, I wouldn't be willing to sell it," Lu Changxing looked at Comrade Fa Xiao, and then looked at Tang Qin, "Is the buyer here, hey, comrade, it seems that the two of us have met somewhere." ”
Ever seen it?
"I've really seen it," the seller surnamed Lu was sure, "You won't be able to remember it for a while, yes, familiarity is fate, do you want to take a look first or let me introduce you first?" By the way, you have to get married at your age, do you want to be a wedding room? ”
"He's not married, and he doesn't have a partner," Li Chengru replied on behalf of Tang Qin with a smile, "He wants to raise horses here." ”
Raising horses?
Lu Changxing's eyes widened through the lenses.