Chapter 1191 Alley Tour

To say that the division between the rich and the poor in the capital is still very obvious. Even if Qin Kuairen doesn't know much about the capital, he knows that the rich live in mansions and the poor live in basements. This is not news.

But where is the poorest place in the capital? If you want to look at GDP, it has to be those districts close to northern Henan. What Daxing, Fengtai, Mentougou, Fangshan and so on.

But these places are so far away, so far away that they don't look like they are in the same city as the capital. After all, going to Fangshan and returning, I am afraid that one day may not be enough. I have to go out at about six o'clock in the morning, and walk around Fangshan in the afternoon, and I'm afraid it will be almost early in the morning when I come back at night.

These ultra-long-distance districts are not considered the capital to Qin Kuairen, and if we want to talk about the capital, we still need to talk about several urban areas in the capital.

The four major urban areas in the southeast, northwest, and north are naturally the oldest places. And when it comes to the old city, there is an unavoidable topic, and that is the capital courtyard.

For Dazayuan, the feelings of the people in the capital are complicated.

Many old capital residents born in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s may have grown up in large courtyards. Large courtyards and small alleys, close neighbors and the best food stalls at the entrance of the alleys, pigeons flying overhead and the buzzing sound of the pigeon whistles carried by the pigeons.

The neighbor Xiaopang bought a new 24-inch color TV, and the second uncle next door bought a VCD. You can go to his house to watch movies, and Xiao Lizi’s parents can go to his house to play with him for an afternoon.

After school, my parents got into the top ten in the mid-term exam. I bought half a catty of pea yellow and half a catty of honey for three dollars at the dim sum shop at the entrance of the alley. In the evening, I was rewarded with KFC. There are delicious food!

At that time, the family cooking was full of fragrance, and in a compound with good neighbor relations, every meal would ask each other to come to eat at home. The family bought some snacks, and the children in the compound always got some.

This is the good memory of many old capital residents for life in the courtyard.

However, there are also many bad memories of the old capital people in Dazayuan. For example, living in Dazayuan makes it almost impossible to take a shower and go to the toilet at home. Because many of these large courtyards are converted from old courtyards. The houses built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China did not have such a good sewer system.

Men can still deal with it in summer, and they can take a bath in the courtyard wearing shorts and holding a rubber tube directly. It's troublesome for women, they can only take a basin or a bucket of water into the house to wash. Be careful when taking a bath in the house, don't splash the water everywhere, otherwise the sheets will dry when they are wet.

In winter, the whole family can only go to the bathhouse to take a bath. Therefore, in the early years, there were countless large and small bathhouses in the capital, and it was normal for there to be two or three bathhouses in an alley.

In the past, good units also had a benefit, that is, issuing bath tickets. The unit built a bathhouse by itself, and issued bath tickets to its employees, 30 in summer and 10 to 15 in winter. Some people had good conditions and could take a bath at home, so there was still a business of selling bath tickets at that time.

Capital people born in the early 1990s may not have deep memories, but for many capital people born in the 1970s to the mid-1980s, sitting in front of their father’s 28 bars and going to the unit’s bathhouse with them is a deep memory. Childhood memories.

Later, the development of the capital got better and better, and more and more high-rise buildings were built. Families with a little money began to move into modern buildings with lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs.

The expansion of urbanization and the reconstruction of a large number of old houses. Many people in the old capital have moved away from the former courtyard. Most of the post-00s born in the new century have no memory of Dazayuan.

If there is, their impression may also be: poor.

Indeed, except for those courtyards in the old capital that have undergone sewer renovation and overall decoration of the houses, they are rented out to rich people and foreigners who have the plot of the old capital hutongs. Most of the old courtyards are leased to those who wander the capital but have no money.

Living in the old Capital Hutong compound has all kinds of inconveniences, whether it is the complicated wiring, the inability to go to the toilet at home, or the lack of privacy and confidentiality. But there is also an advantage of living here, that is, it is the center of the city and the transportation is convenient.

Of course, except for those young people who just came to the capital and need a place with convenient transportation but no money. It is true that many old capital residents who still live in the courtyard are relatively poor.

After all, those who were rich had already bought houses and lived in high-rise buildings.

So if you want to talk about the poorer places in the capital city, it is the area where the courtyards are concentrated.

Narrow alleys, tenants from all over the world mixed with some old capital people, the old capital traditional snack bar opened by the owner of Henan Province at the entrance of the alley, the alley aisles full of Laotou Le electric cars and various small electric donkeys.

The low houses and some of the bricks on the walls are exposed. Compared with the magnificence of other parts of the capital, this place does seem a little down and out.

And Qin Kuairen brought Feng Meier and Patton to visit such an alley. Walking in such a small alley, Feng Meier and Barton looked a little awkward.

Because Von Meyer and Barton have typical Central Asian face features, with high nose bridges and deep eye sockets. It seems that even if they are not foreigners, they still look like compatriots from the Western Regions.

"Give way to the front."

Walking in the alley, the three of them walked side by side, blocking the way of the tricycle carrying water behind. Qin Kuiren hastily let Feng Meier and Button get out of the way.

The middle-aged man who delivered the water had a shaved head. It was almost winter and he was wearing a single suit. When he passed the three of them on a tricycle, he cursed in a low voice: "The alley is so narrow and you still walk side by side. You are sick!" Angrily left.

Button glanced at Qin Kuairen: "What did he just say?"

Qin Kuairen said nonsense: "He said thank us for moving out of the way."

"I don't sound like it." Barton shook his head, but he didn't want to pursue it.

As for Feng Meier wandering around such an alley, he was quite interested at the beginning, but after seeing too much, he became very bored. Here are low-rise houses, narrow streets, and the stench of urine from public toilets on the side of the road.

"Why is this place so different from the place we stayed in yesterday?" Feng Meier couldn't help but said, "This is a slum area."

Qin Kuairen thought for a while, and corrected him: "This can only be regarded as a place where low-income people live, and it can't reach the slums. I just don't understand, what's the purpose of Master Barton asking me to show you such a place? "

Master Button put his hands behind his back and didn't explain, he just said: "I'm hungry, Xiao Qin. Find a small restaurant in this alley to eat."