Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

Today, Shi Lei brought a "good thing" with him!

What is it? Many people only know that the betrothal gift at that time was called "three turns and one ring", but they don't know that for the really rich families, there is another thing behind it, called "three turns, one ring and one click."

What Shi Lei has hanging around his neck today is this "Kacha", which is a camera.

Seagull, 4B twin-lens reflex camera.

How precious is this camera these days? Take Liu Yueru for example. She works in a hospital and gets 58 yuan a month. If she wants to buy this camera, she has to save money for almost two years!

That's it. Don't think it's expensive. Even if you have money and no connections, you have nowhere to buy it.

When Shi Lei first took out the camera, he was thinking of showing off in front of Xu Dacan.

Xu Dacan took it over and fiddled with it more skillfully than he did...

Shi Lei felt terrible. Seeing that he looked devastated, Xu Dacan could only blame Wang Min: "I have an old classmate who is in Damao. She came to our place last year. She brought a camera with her."

Shi Lei sighed helplessly. It seemed as if the knowledge in Xu Dacan's head would never be exhausted.

He can always surprise him. If he compares himself to a well, then Xu Dacan is the abyss...

You can always teach him a lesson!

"..."

Xu Dacan had a question in his previous life: what was there to see in the Summer Palace?

It was not until he traveled across 58 years of time and space that he finally found the answer to this question.

See with your eyes, and feel with your heart. Enjoy the feeling of the past and the future colliding with each other!

The current Summer Palace is very different from what it was later. Since it was just opened, many scenic spots have not had time to be repaired.

For example, Suzhou Street will use water as the street and the shore as the market in the future. It will be a very famous check-in spot for internet celebrities.

But now it is still called "Buying and Selling Street", and only broken walls and ruins remain. This was originally a water street for the emperor and his concubines to stroll around. It was built in the Qianlong period to imitate the Jiangnan water town. It was destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance and was not rebuilt on the original site until 1990.

As soon as Xu Dacan and his companions entered the garden, a strong historical atmosphere hit them.

The main buildings of the Summer Palace have been basically preserved, and there are so many places worth visiting!

The key is that it is still unpopular now. The feeling of suffocation caused by the crowds of people everywhere and the crowds of people at every photo-taking spot is gone.

The first thing Shi Lei did when entering the garden was to suggest that everyone take a photo together.

Xu Dacan seriously underestimated people of this era's enthusiasm for taking photos.

Then I saw Zhang Tao and the others excitedly surrounding Shi Lei, looking for scenery everywhere, even if it was a tree or a big rock, they wanted to take a picture in front of it.

Xu Dacan could no longer bear it and could not stand them anymore.

People in this era had almost no knowledge of photography. Even Shi Lei, who had a camera at home, had a poor understanding of composition and framing, even worse than the "Huakai Fugui" of later generations!

Xu Dacan, unable to bear it any longer, snatched the camera and directed them.

“If you want to take a photo of a promenade, you have to capture its extension!”

The long corridor that Xu Dacan mentioned is the "World's No. 1 Corridor" located to the south of the Tower of Buddhist Incense. It is nestled against the mountains and beside the water, like a colorful ribbon, connecting the beautiful scenery everywhere.

Xu Dacan pointed at the viewfinder and said to Shi Lei: "Look up, do you see these eaves? There are colorful paintings on each eave. In such a long corridor, no two paintings are the same!"

Shi Lei understood that these paintings were the protagonists, and the corridors below, including them, were just winding accompaniments.

Shi Lei scratched his forehead and asked him: "Brother Dacan, so are we redundant?"

Xu Dacan laughed: "That's right, we are all redundant, but this photo is not redundant. There are not many people who like photography now, and this is a new track that has not yet been developed. Didn't you submit your work to the newspaper before, but it was not published? Let's take two good photos today, and send them to the newspaper after they are developed!"

When Shi Lei heard this, his eyes lit up instantly.

Unfortunately, the article he wrote on the first night of school, "University Appointment in February 1978," was not published in the newspaper.

He was depressed for a while because of this.

Xu Dacan comforted him, "I don't think it's because our essay wasn't good enough, but the editor of the newspaper was jealous of us, jealous that we got into college, he didn't even go to college! Who knows what he was thinking about us, look how proud you guys are of us!"

Shi Lei laughed out loud at first, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt it made sense...

Now Xu Dacan has opened up a new track for him.

What Shi Lei particularly admires about Xu Dacan is how he came up with the idea of ​​using a race to describe competition?

Just like in a race on the playground, during long-distance running everyone is crowded in 1~2 tracks; but it is different for short-distance running, everyone has an exclusive track and runs on their own!

"..."

Under Xu Dacan's guidance, Shi Lei took a photo.

Next, everyone followed Xu Dacan without any prior agreement, just like people who come to travel in the future follow their tour guides.

Xu Dacan is currently working as a tour guide.

Every time he arrived at a place, he would explain to his roommates what the main attraction of this place was, what kind of story happened there, and what the emperor and his concubines did here in the past...

The result was that the people in their dormitory were fascinated by the song, and they would sigh from time to time while listening.

It’s a pity that this journey is full of regrets.

It is impossible to get up to the Buddha Incense Pavilion. It has been closed to the public for a long time due to disrepair, and the door is tied with an iron chain.

You can't swim in Kunming Lake either, there are no boats, and no lifeguards...

On this 3000-acre lake, there is a lonely, dilapidated houseboat floating.

Even Xiti did not have the magnificent scene of rows of peach and willow trees that was later seen.

Standing by the lake, a sense of brokenness and desolation arises spontaneously.

Xu Dacan had no idea how many times he had said “what the Eight-Nation Alliance did back then” along the way, and he was almost turning into Old Lady Qi from Dingxianglou.

Xu Dacan looked regretful and said, "We came here 20 years earlier."

At first glance, this sounds like a joke, but the more you think about it, the more you can understand Xu Dacan's mood at this moment.

Xiao Jizi was the youngest and the most cheerful. He said, "What's the big deal? We can do it again in 20 years!"

Everyone's spirits were lifted. Yes, they were still young, and it would be far from retirement age in 20 years.

Anyway, the Summer Palace is right here and I won’t leave. Whenever I want to come, I can just come and take a look.

"..."

In front of the famous Seventeen-Arch Bridge, Xu Dacan took another photo.