1979 Golden Age

"Huahuahua!"

"Huahuahua!"

It was a shower today, not heavy, teasing the pedestrians on the ground from time to time, adding a touch of coolness to the sultry summer.

It was afternoon.

Gong Xue left the crew early, hurried to buy vegetables, and rushed to Lechunfang again.

She wore a pink hooded raincoat, red rain boots, and rode an exquisite women's bicycle. In the front basket was a basket filled with freshly bought vegetables and fruits.

Where are the plastic bags now? Buy vegetables in baskets or baskets, buy tofu in a basin, buy meat in paper, buy fish and carry it with a straw rope, buy fruit in a net bag...

After riding for a while, she stopped.

She felt that the vegetables on the top were about to fall, and she stuffed them in, but they still fell, so she had to lean forward, holding the handlebars with one hand and holding the front with the other hand.

After riding for a while, she saw that she was almost at Lechunfang. She was happy and sped up. As a result, she heard a noise of tires rolling on the road and splashing water from behind, followed by a sound:

"Beep--"

The loud bus horn suddenly sounded, and she was startled. She tilted her body and fell down with a bang.

"Ouch!"

She grimaced in pain, and after a while, she moved around. She felt that she should be fine. She climbed up and held the bike, picked up the scattered vegetables, and saw that they were all covered with mud spots, and some were rotten.

"What a pity, they are all fresh vegetables."

Gong Xue felt sorry for the waste, so she rode the bike and set off again. Fortunately, it was not far away.

After entering Lechunfang, Chen Qi was waiting in the alley. He took her to Courtyard No. 6. She was a little afraid to recognize it for a while. She hadn't been here for a while, and had never seen a fully decorated courtyard. The old wooden door had been demolished and replaced by a brand new gatehouse.

Three steps, double-opening vermilion door panels, and a bright gate with five purlins and four rafters are very impressive.

"Come on, I'll take you around first!"

The two of them went in, and faced the screen wall, which was carved with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum patterns. There was a large water tank below, and a moon gate on the right, which was a utility room.

Gong Xue had seen a quadrangle courtyard before, and so far, everything was quite in line with the style of a traditional quadrangle courtyard.

But turning left again, it was different.

The front yard of a traditional quadrangle courtyard is very small, with only a row of back houses and a hanging flower gate, but Chen Qi didn't build a hanging flower gate at all. He didn't like the traditional style and thought it was a waste of space.

He made it into two complete courtyards, one in front and one in the back.

So the front yard is, three back rooms, all with bright large glass windows, tables and chairs have been placed inside, looking transparent and decent, he said: "This is the magazine's office, it can accommodate more than a dozen people."

Then there are two rooms on the left, two rooms on the right, plus a separate kitchen, and a few places have not been installed, which will be completed in the fall.

"This is the staff dormitory, each room can accommodate four people, let's live in two people now, it's spacious."

The main house in the front yard is three large rooms, plus two side rooms.

"Of these three rooms, one is my and Lao Liang's office, one is Lao Liang's dormitory, and one is his living room, which is also a reception room."

"Wow! This room is better than Lao Liang's tube building. He must be satisfied."

Gong Xue looked at it with great interest, praised sincerely, and said: "Huh? There is no door here, can't enter the backyard?"

"I said that we must ensure private space. Can we enter the backyard casually? Come with me!"

Chen Qi pulled her out, walked to the right, bypassed the ear room, passed through a narrow corridor, and there was a door. Push it open and go in, it is the scope of the backyard.

"This door is locked from the inside, and inside is my territory."

The layout of the backyard is similar, with two rooms on the left and right with a small kitchen. The difference is that the main house has a floor and a half, with a loft and a terrace. The terrace is open to the inside, but when you look from the front yard, it is just blocked by the roof of the main house in the front yard, and the view cannot pass through.

Who cares about illegal construction these days? It will take decades for someone to take care of it. Even decades later, there are still two-story courtyard houses within the second ring road of Beijing. The owners are either rich or noble. This thing depends on connections.

Chen Qi pulled her upstairs. Because the back faces the street, the windows are not wide, but they are enough.

He quickly pulled open the curtain and smiled, "Look!"

Gong Xue leaned over and opened her eyes wide: "Shichahai?!"

"This is called a sea view room, how is it?"

"I didn't expect that your house is so beautiful after decoration? How many rooms are there in total?"

"More than 20 rooms, the utilization rate of traditional courtyard houses is too small, mine is so good, beautiful and practical. This yard is 800 square meters, and the courtyard area is enough. I plan to plant a pomegranate tree first."

"Well, it's good to plant trees. I see there is a small door in the backyard?"

"Yes! You can go in and out directly without going through the front yard."

Gong Xue is the same as Yu Xiuli , also liked it very much. Chen Qi took her to see the big drawing table in the left room of the backyard and said, "This is the study and library. Look at this table."

"Wow!"

Gong Xue went straight to the big drawing table, her eyes sparkling, and touched it up and down, saying, "This is, this is..."

"I bought it for you, do you like it?"

"Yeah, yeah! You know what my home looks like. When I was a child, I had to lie on a stool to learn to paint. I always wanted to have a spacious place to paint. Such a big table is enough for several people."

She was really happy and turned around to hug Chen Qi's neck.

The two of them were intimate for a while, and the movements were a little bigger. She suddenly cried out.

"What's wrong?"

"My legs hurt a little. I fell when I came here."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Let me see!"

Chen Qi asked her to sit on the Luohan bed. He lifted up his trouser leg and saw that there was an obvious bruise. It was obviously pressed by the bicycle. He asked, "Does it hurt a lot?"

"It's nothing. Did you forget that I walked dozens of miles a day to train with the troops?"

Gong Xue touched the area, put down his trouser legs nonchalantly, and said with a smile: "It's almost time, get ready to cook, they are coming soon."

…………

The rain stopped again.

After one o'clock in the evening, Liang Xiaosheng and Jiao Dan, Li Lianlian and Ji Chunhua arrived on a bicycle respectively.

After looking at the yard, he naturally yelled. Ji Chunhua was used to being rough and had no big emotions. Li Lianjie was very envious, Liang Xiaosheng was especially satisfied, and Chen Qi gave himself enough respect as the editor-in-chief.

Brothers are brothers, and benefits belong to benefits. We must account for them.

Jiao Dan was even more satisfied. There were too many people in the Tongzi Building of the Beijing Film Studio, and the corridors were crowded. How nice it was here. They were united behind closed doors, and Lao Liang was still a leader.

Gong Xue and Jiao Dan cooked a table of food, and the six of them ate and drank.

The topic of Chen Qi's trip to Hong Kong was unavoidable during the dinner, but he didn't want to talk about it, so he quoted the content to the magazine and said: "Taking this opportunity, we just decided on a name. What do you think it should be called?"

"How about the starting point? It means the starting point of magazines and the starting point of popular literature?" Liang Xiaosheng suggested.

"Just so so, change it to another one!"

"How about reading articles? Read all the articles in the world!"

"Nine is the end of a number, and one is the beginning of a number. This is called having a beginning and an end. I think it's better to call it 91?"

All six people expressed their opinions, and after all the nonsense, Chen Qi made the final decision, saying: "Some people just talked about the world, and some people talked about strange stories. Why don't we combine them and call it "The Strange Stories of the World"!"

(There are not two chapters today, the next chapter is under review...)