1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 17
The students of the Institute of Literature are not pure nerds. Occasionally, they will organize a basketball game at night. There is a mini basketball court in D school. The conditions are simple, but it does not prevent everyone from sweating.

As a rare young man in the class, Lin Weimin is not very interested in this thing, so let the old men play with it.

On the weekend, during the rare break time, the members of the class made an agreement in advance to go to the Summer Palace together.

Early on Sunday morning, as soon as the No. 18 bus arrived, more than 20 people swarmed onto the bus, which shocked the driver.

After getting into the car, everyone talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was relaxed and happy.

The Summer Palace is a royal garden in the Qing Dynasty. It was formerly known as Qingyi Garden. It is located in the western suburbs of Yanjing. It is one east and one west from the eastern suburbs where D School is located. It is more than 20 kilometers away. In today’s era without private cars, it is a long journey. It's time to go.

A group of people tossed and tossed for almost two hours on the road.

Counting, the Summer Palace has been officially open to the public since 1928, but at that time the ticket price for visiting the park was extremely expensive.

Wu Yu, who once taught at Yenching University, once led his family to visit the Summer Palace. He recorded in his diary that day:
Thursday, May [-]th, cloudy and sunny.With three daughters and four daughters, we traveled to the Summer Palace by car.The round-trip fare is ten yuan, and the wine is one yuan.Tickets are one yuan and two yuan.To enter Paiyun Palace and buy another ticket, [-] cents per person, and to buy another ticket for Harmonious Fun Garden, [-] cents per person.Western food costs [-] yuan, and tea costs [-] cents.Car park parking fee triangle.A picture of the Summer Palace purchased, and a corner of the ocean.The fourth daughter bought a jujube wood walking stick for me, which cost five cents.All the furnishings in the garden are collected, the vases on the table, only the wooden base, the dust has gathered for several inches, and the door is sealed with a seal. You can only see the grandeur of the building... There are boats in the lake, and the lake tour can cost three yuan to five yuan.

The three of Wu's father and daughter visited the Summer Palace and spent more than 20 yuan, which is equivalent to the money for buying 10 bags of flour that year. It weighs more than 400 catties, which can be eaten by one person for more than a year.

Such an expensive fare was naturally beyond the reach of ordinary people, so the rich and powerful were still able to visit the Summer Palace at that time.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, each ticket for the Summer Palace was set at 2 jiao, and later it was changed to 1 jiao.It was changed to 5 cents for a period of time, and when Lin Weimin and the others came to play this time, the ticket price was changed back to 1 dime.

A group of people entered the Summer Palace after buying tickets. Lin Weimin's first impression was that there was a lot of water. From a rough look, the water surface can account for more than half of the park area.

Qu Xiaowei is from Yanjing, and he acted as a tour guide temporarily.

"Next to us is the Old Summer Palace. This Summer Palace is a large-scale landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and absorbing the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved today. A royal palace and imperial garden..."

Lin Weimin felt that the particularly large water surface constituted one of the most important attractions of the Summer Palace—Kunming Lake. The entire Summer Palace was basically built around Hunming Lake.

It was mid-April at this time, and Yanjing, which is located in the northern country, was already in spring, and the weeping willow branches by the lake were showing bright yellow vitality. The sun was just right, and the spring breeze was blowing.

Today's Summer Palace is not as brand-new as the ones renovated in later generations, but it is better because there are not so many commercial operations. One ticket to play to the end is better than nature and simplicity.

Walking around Kunming Lake, there are several temples along the way, such as the Hall of Renshou, Dehe Garden, Yulan Hall, and passing through the building complex is the Longevity Hill.

Wanshou Mountain is the remaining vein of Yanshan Mountain. The buildings on it are built close to the mountain. When you go up the mountain, you can see the huge main building group with the Buddha Incense Pavilion as the center.From the Yunhui Yuyu Pailou at the foot of the mountain, through the Paiyun Gate, the Second Palace Gate, the Paiyun Hall, the Dehui Hall, and the Foxiang Pavilion, to the Wisdom Sea at the top of the mountain, a central axis is formed that rises layer by layer.

On the east side, there are Zhuanlun Zang and the stele of Longevity Mountain and Kunming Lake.On the west side are the Wufang Pavilion and the copper-cast Baoyun Pavilion.There are XZ Buddhist buildings and multi-colored glazed pagodas on the back mountain.

There are Jingfu Pavilion, Chongcui Pavilion, Shuqiu Pavilion, Huazhongyou and other towers and pavilions on the mountain.

A group of large and colorful central buildings is built in the center.This group of large buildings includes the main building in the garden-the emperor, the cloud-dispelling hall where the celebration and court meeting will be held later, and the Buddhist incense pavilion of the Buddhist temple.

Echoing the longitudinal axis of the central building complex is a promenade that traverses the foothills and winds east and west along the north shore of the lake.

There are many scenic spots and a large place. Just visiting Longevity Hill makes everyone's legs weak, and it is noon before they know it.

Tired, thirsty and hungry, everyone went down the Longevity Hill and came to the Kunming Lake, looking for food and drink.There is not as rich food and drink as the scenic spots of later generations, but there is food and drink in the garden.

Lin Weimin was sitting by the lake like everyone else, drinking tea, eating a mouthful of donkey meat, looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, it was very beautiful.

When he was eating his lunch slowly, he saw Cheng Shixu in his class took out a pen and paper after finishing his meal.

Huang Zonghan joked: "Shi Xu really worked hard enough."

Cheng Shixu smiled and said nothing, Huang Zonghan turned around and said, "Look at him!"

That tone was similar to training a son.

Lin Weimin was speechless, I was shot while sitting!

Lao Huang, are you a little drifting?

Lin Weimin gave Huang Zonghan a look. After weighing the pros and cons, Huang Zonghan decided to take advantage and run away, turning his head to whisper to Guo Yudao.

Lin Weimin finished chewing the things in his hands, clapped his hands, stood up, facing the spring full of garden scenery, and was thinking about whether to compose an impromptu poem when another voice sounded next to him.

"This scenery is really beautiful. Xiao Weimin, why don't you find a female classmate to go boating on the lake with such a good opportunity?"

Lin Weimin half-turned his head, "Sister Tang, don't let the old and the young care for the people, it's as if you've seen it before."

"I'm going to kill you!" Lin Weimin started driving at the first disagreement. Tang Kang gave him a white look and spat at him, "I really don't know what's so good about you, you can make An Yi fall in love with you."

Lin Weimin was taken aback, and first looked for Wang Anyi with his eyes to confirm that she was not around, and then said: "I don't want to talk nonsense. It's just a matter of dirtying her innocence!"

"You still know?"

"I mean my innocence."

"you……"

Tang Kangmei got angry and gave Lin Weimin a hard look.

There were indeed a few people going boating on the lake during the noon break, but it was not Lin Weimin and Wang Anyi, but a few seniors among the classmates who were "old men talking about teenage madness".

Lin Weimin saw that Huang Zonghan and Guo Yudao boarded the boat together. When they got on the boat, the boat was unstable, and the two even helped each other. At this moment, Lin Weimin felt that his eyes were dirty.

When a few people were swimming in the lake, everyone rested aside. After they finished swimming in the lake, everyone got up and walked around until the afternoon.

Come with pleasure, return with pleasure.

It was past six o'clock in the evening to go back to school D, and I missed dinner, which didn't lessen everyone's interest in the slightest.

(End of this chapter)