1981, early November.

It was late autumn, the cold was just beginning, and the first rays of sunlight in the early morning shrouded the entire capital through layers of mist, drying and drying warm, and waking up the sleeping people by the way.

In a large courtyard in Dongcheng District, the creak of opening the door sounded, and the originally silent courtyard gradually became noisy, washing their faces and brushing their teeth, greeting children, lighting the stove to cook, and accompanied by bursts of birds and insects.

"Don't be late for the first day of reporting."

Gu Bei also planned to lie on the bed for a while, but the constant nagging outside the house made him work hard for a long time, but he couldn't shield it, so he could only turn over and sit up.

"You have to be diligent when you just go, and leave a good impression on your leaders."

"Got it, got it."

Gu Bei didn't hesitate, sitting on the bed, his body kept shaking, looking shaky.

"I've been talking for a long time, you can't afford to get up."

The nagging voice suddenly rose, and Gu Bei was excited, and his sleepiness disappeared.

"Up, up, here."

While talking, Gu Bei got off the ground, pulled on his slippers, put on his pants first, and then looked for his shirt all over the house.

"Mom! See my vest? ”

Before the words fell, a middle-aged woman with a gentle face pushed the door and walked in, she was Gu Bei's mother Li Sufen, the first batch of literary and artistic workers in New China.

Li Sufen was in the literary and artistic propaganda team with the army earlier, and later after entering the city, she was first arranged to go to school, and after graduation, she was assigned to work as an artist in the Beijing Film Studio.

During the torrent of the times, she was sent to the countryside, and after implementing the policy, she returned to the capital and continued to do her old job.

"What a person, and how lost are you."

Before the words of disgust could be finished, Li Sufen reached out and flipped out a sky blue vest from the chair next to the wall and threw it over.

"Hurry up, your sister is more diligent than you."

Saying that, he turned around and went out, and went to toss Gu Bei's father, Gu Xiaowu, who was even less diligent.

Gu Xiaowu is a demobilized soldier, working in a food factory, the unit is far away, and he has to go out early every day, but today is obviously late.

"Brother!"

As soon as I put on my clothes, another uninvited guest came.

"What?"

It was Gu Bei's sister Gu Nan who came in, listen to this name, one south and one north, and I am not afraid that the two brothers and sisters will really part ways in the future.

Gu Nan is fourteen years old this year, in the second year of junior high school, and his appearance is very delicate, and his eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Li Sufen when she was young.

"Mom's steamed bun pickles again."

As he spoke, Gu Nan's eyebrows furrowed, maybe he didn't really dislike it, and he was mostly coquettish with Gu Bei.

Gu Bei was helpless: "What do you want?" ”

Hehe!

Gu Nan smiled, leaned over, and looked at the coat that Gu Bei was carrying, she knew that there was money in her jacket pocket.

"Brother, I want to eat fritters."

Look at this little pursuit.

"Wait!"

A small request, when his brother's Gu Bei naturally did not disappoint Gu Nan, fortunately he still had a little bit of scattered silver, all of which he saved when he was in school.

After getting dressed, he was about to go out, stepped out with one foot, thought about it and turned back to take the small pot where the porridge was cooking.

The tofu brain at the early shop at the corner of the street is also good, but it's a pity that the pocket is shy, otherwise come and have a bowl of fried liver......

Gluttonous!

"Why are you going, eating!"

Li Sufen just called Gu Xiaowu up, and when she saw that Gu Bei was going out, she hurriedly stopped him.

"Nannan wants to eat fritters."

Before the words fell, the man had already gone out.

"You just get used to her, keep her mouth dirty, I'll settle accounts with you!"

Gu Bei didn't hear the last sentence, and when he heard it, he only listened to the wind, he was a human being in two lives, just such a sister, can he not get used to it!

That's right, Gu Bei is a reborn, and he doesn't know what's going on, so he woke up in the capital in the early 80s.

For a whole month, Gu Bei has been cautious, living step by step, going to school and leaving school every day, and has great ambitions, but there is no place for him to show them.

In the early 80s, a few years after the torrent of the times, although the spring breeze of the reform has blown to the capital, so that the people here can smell a little different, but the people who have just breathed a sigh of relief from the depression are still cautious.

In today's days, the common people already want to be satisfied, after all, the hat is smaller, the shoes are less, the head is not painful, the feet are not so aggrieved, and there is nothing to be satisfied with.

Moreover, although people in this era break the cage and are full of energy, relatively speaking, they are still keen on comfort and are accustomed to living in a relatively familiar circle.

Not many people dare to take the first step.

But Gu Bei is different, who let him experience a different era.

The experience of his previous life doomed him not to be reconciled to the status quo, and he would have to toss sooner or later.

But now we still have to hold on, and we can't wave.

"Uncle Zhao, have you eaten? Walk the birds? ”

"Uncle Wang, early, how many years have you been on this bicycle, the patent leather has fallen off, and you are reluctant to change it?"

"Grandma Liu, you slow down, don't flash your waist again, I'll help you get it."

Gu Bei walked all the way out, greeted the neighbors all the way, and helped a little favor, and got several little red flowers.

Polite and warm-hearted.

If you have a good reputation in these years, the blind date can be shown as capital.

Gu Bei's family lives in a standard miscellaneous courtyard, with three courtyards in front and back, but there are no three uncles in charge here, and there is no delicate little widow who washes clothes in the yard all day long, waiting for the fool's lunch box.

Although there are indispensable quarrels and quarrels between neighbors, there is absolutely no dirty thing of intrigue, and the people of this era are still very simple in their thoughts and realms.

Gu Bei also gradually integrated into it from the unaccustomed when he first came, living in a big reinforced concrete city in his previous life, closing the door, he didn't even know what his neighbors looked like, and he didn't have any human touch.

It's like now, no matter who has something to do, stand in the yard and say hello, and the neighbors will lend a hand.

It is not difficult to see from the structure of the whole courtyard that it was originally unconventional, but with the more people living in, and the basic national policy has not been implemented before, each family has two children as standard, and it is not for nothing that there are five or six children.

There are more children, but the living space will not increase, when the children are small, they are fine, and they are casually on a kang, but when they grow up one by one, when they reach the age of marriage, each family can only find their own way.

Today you build a side building, tomorrow I will build an ear room, and no one will say anything.

When the neighborhood committee found out, the wood was already in the boat, and the people couldn't come out of it, so they couldn't just pick up the house and stone people to death.

Gu Bei's family didn't join in the fun, on the one hand, because Gu Xiaowu and his wife were in the countryside at that time, and there were two Gu Bei brothers and sisters at home, and no one was in charge, and then there was no shortage of houses in their family.

The three main rooms in the middle courtyard, plus the ear rooms on both sides are theirs, so many people's eyes are hot.

But it's okay to be hot, who made the Gu family have a large population.

Later, with the death of my grandfather and my aunt, my aunt got married, and now there are only four of them left, and the per capita living area is seriously exceeded.

Therefore, Gu Bei's house is the only one that can still maintain its original appearance.

In a few years, some people will stand up to express their regrets, and every green brick and green tile here carries hundreds of years of history.

"Ah~~~~Huh~~~~Ahh~~~~"

Stepping through the weeping flower door, at the door of the east wing of the front yard, a tall and thin girl was hanging her throat, and a middle-aged woman was standing on the side, swinging a T-shaped step, subconsciously forking her waist, this posture lit up, and she knew what she was doing.

"Auntie, morning!"

"Xiaobei! Why go? ”

Gu Bei has a basket in one hand and a pot in the other: "Nannan wants to eat fritters." ”

The woman smiled: "You, just get used to her, go quickly!" Bebe, don't be lazy! ”

The girl, who was about to take a break, stuck out her tongue and began to sing "babbling" again.

Walking out of the courtyard gate, a stronger atmosphere of the times came to the face, familiar and unfamiliar.

There is less hustle and bustle of a modern metropolis and more of the tranquility of a thousand-year-old capital.

The people who got up early had already gone out to work and school, and the bicycles were jingling past Gu Bei, and people greeted each other, their faces were filled with longing for the future, so that he couldn't help but feel the same way, and directly pulled the blue stripes.

"Comrade, eight fritters, a pound of tofu brain."

The basket and pot were handed over, along with money and food stamps.

That's right, food stamps.

In the era when Gu Bei lived, this thing had become a collector's item, and now it still occupies an extremely important position in people's lives with the circulation of money, and it will not be until 94 years before the ticket completely withdraws from the stage of history.

Shouldn't you save some in advance and wait for the value to appreciate?

This thought flashed through the mind and was included in the alternatives.

took the change and returned the same way, the family got up, and Li Sufen also brought the steamed buns and pickles that Gu Nan disliked.

"It's still my brother who treats me well."

This girl is not eye-catching at all, can't you see who is in charge?

Syllable!

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Nan finished speaking, a pair of chopsticks fell on her head, bringing the child to tears of grievance.

"Eat."

Gu Xiaowu is a middle-aged man who doesn't like to talk, after saying two words, grab the steamed buns and eat, get up late today, if you don't hurry up, you should be late for work.

"Xiaobei, you should hurry up, don't be late for the first day."

Li Sufen said and took a fritter to Gu Nan.

Gu Bei responded vaguely and took a sip of tofu brain, sure enough, the salty ones are authentic, and the sweet ones are all sideways.

"Dad, Mom, I'm done eating, let's go first!"

Gu Bei said and went out, there were three bicycles parked by the window, belonging to three adults in the family, Gu Bei is 19 this year, but he is about to join the work, so he naturally belongs to the ranks of adults.

Out of the courtyard gate, turn around the alley, merge into the traffic.

Decades later, the traffic in the capital can starve people to death, and now the bicycles are driving on the motorway in a grand manner, no one cares, and there are not even a few cars along the way, Gu Bei suddenly feels that the air is much fresher.

It would have been better if there had been no sand in the evening.

Ride for 15 minutes to reach your destination.

The building in front of him is the place where Xiao Fei was assigned an internship, and from the perspective of future generations, there is nothing outstanding, but it is a landmark in the capital at the moment.

If nothing else, after the three-month internship period, he will get a formal establishment, and from then on he will hold an iron rice bowl, and after more than 20 years, he can still go to the office with big pants and become a veteran in the eyes of a group of budding newcomers.

On the side of the building hangs a huge butterfly-shaped sign - CCTV!