Rebirth: Finding Happiness

Jin Zhongguo just followed behind Cheng Xiaoting, admiring the palace and listening to Cheng Xiaoting's explanation.At this time, everyone around seemed to have disappeared, leaving only the two of them.Kim Jong Kook very much hoped that time would stop here so that they could be together forever like this. When Kim Jong Kook found that the thoughts in his heart made him feel a little at a loss and a little excited, at this time Kim Jong Kook finally understood why he did what he did yesterday. It turns out that this is the so-called Love at first sight, goodbye love.Looking up at the girl who was only one step away from him, Kim Jong Kook felt his heart was beating so fast, as if it was about to jump out, and felt his face was a little hot, I think my face must be red at this time , just when Jin Zhongguo was thinking wildly, a voice brought him back to reality, when Jin Zhongguo saw clearly that the person standing behind him was Cheng Xiaoting, Jin Zhongguo felt the temperature on his face rise again.

Cheng Xiaoting was telling Jin Zhongguo the history of these palaces while walking, and occasionally turned her head to look at Jin Zhongguo to see if he was following.When I arrived at the Royal Garden, I saw a stool for tourists to rest in front of me, so I wanted to ask Kim Jong Kook if he would like to take a rest here and drink some water.When Cheng Xiaoting turned around, she saw Jin Zhongguo standing behind her in a daze, her eyes were a little distracted, she didn't know what she was thinking, she called him, but Jin Zhongguo still stood there as if she didn't hear it.Cheng Xiaoting took a step forward and called him again, and then saw that he looked up at her without speaking, just staring at her intently, Cheng Xiaoting is beautiful, not only in school but also outside, and the rate of turning heads is 100%. % also find that I am very used to being looked at like this, no matter what, everyone loves to appreciate beautiful things, but now Cheng Xiaoting who is looked at like this by Jin Zhongguo is a little embarrassed for some reason, and seeing it from around her The tourists passing by would look at them from time to time, as if the expressions on their faces were a little unnatural, which made Cheng Xiaoting a little embarrassed.

"Zhong Guoqiba, what's wrong with you, is there something on my face?"

Hearing Cheng Xiaoting's question, Jin Zhongguo immediately came back to his senses and replied: "No, why do you ask such a question."

"It's you who have been staring at me, and those passing tourists looked at me a little strangely, so I thought it was something dirty on my face that you all looked at me like that."

"No, it's very clean and you can't even see the pores. People just look at you because you are beautiful. There is no other meaning."

"Is that so? Am I really overthinking?"

"Yeah, yeah, don't think about it, what did you call me just now?"

"Oh, I just wanted to ask you if you want to sit in the rest area over there and have something to eat before going shopping. It's almost noon now."

"Okay, let's go over there and eat something."

Jin Zhongguo and Cheng Xiaoting sat in the rest area for a while and ate something, Jin Zhongguo said to Cheng Xiaoting again: "Xiaoting, you plan to take me to visit the Old Summer Palace in the afternoon, let's go later, otherwise there is nothing here It looks good."

"Okay, let's go to the Old Summer Palace in the afternoon. After visiting the Old Summer Palace, I will treat you to dinner. I made it myself. My craftsmanship is very good. You are the first one to eat it with my own hands besides my family. The person who cooked the dishes, do you feel honored?"

"Really? That's such an honor. I'm going to have a taste of your craft tonight."

Jin Zhongguo and Cheng Xiaoting came out of the Forbidden City after sitting for a while, took the car, talked and laughed all the way to Yuanmingyuan.

The Old Summer Palace is a royal garden in the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the western suburbs of Beijing. There are continuous beautiful peaks in the west mountains: Yuquan Mountain, Longevity Mountain, Wanquanzhuang, Beihai and other terrains. Artesian springs are everywhere, converging in low-lying places. Large and small lakes and ponds.The Yuquan landscape flows into Kunming Lake from west to east along the mountain, becoming the largest water surface in the western suburbs.A large area of ​​rice fields has been reclaimed here, forming a natural scenic spot.As early as the Liao Dynasty, the feudal emperors chose this place to build the Yuquan Mountain Palace. In the Ming Dynasty, the natural scenery here attracted more tourists, so some dignitaries and dignitaries occupied the countryside to build villas, and large tracts of land were occupied piece by piece.During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Wei, the pro-Ming Emperor Wuqing, made a large-scale construction project here, and first built the grand Tsinghua Garden (the former site is outside the west wall of Peking University), which is known as the "No. 1 Garden in Jingguo".Afterwards, Mi Wanzhong guided the lake water outside the east wall of Tsinghua Garden to build the elegant and beautiful "Spoon Garden", which means "a spoonful of Haidian".In the open countryside, there are pavilions, terraces and buildings, which complement each other with the scenery of lakes and mountains, and it has become a famous garden gathering place in the suburbs of Beijing.In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor also took a fancy to the excellent land of gardening in the western suburbs.Started to build gardens on a large scale.The Old Summer Palace is located in the north of Guajiatun, about one mile away from Changchun Garden, which is now north of Peking University and west of Tsinghua University.The Old Summer Palace in the Kangxi era contained front lakes, back lakes, etc., and built-in landscapes such as "Peony Terrace" and "Natural Pictures".When the Old Summer Palace was still a vassal garden, its scale could not exceed the emperor's Changchun Garden, so there were not many buildings and reputation, and it was far inferior to Changchun Garden.But later, with the enthronement of the owner, the Qing Dynasty came to a peaceful and prosperous age. After more than 60 years of continuous expansion, it finally became the most magnificent royal garden in Chinese history.The chief designer of the Old Summer Palace was named Lei Jinyu. He was favored by Kangxi when he was building the Forbidden City, but most of the actual construction was still the emperor's opinion. Whether it was Kangxi, Yongzheng or Qianlong, he personally guided him, so Lei Jinyu was very happy.And created the "ironing board" model method.But it was destroyed by Xianfeng. In October 1856, with the support and cooperation of Tsarist Russia and the United States, Britain and France jointly launched a new war of aggression against China—the Second Opium War. On October 10, 1860, the British and French allied forces went around the northeast suburbs of Beijing and went straight to the Old Summer Palace.The French army went first and passed through Haidian in the afternoon. On the evening of October 10, 6, the invading army broke into the Grand Palace Gate of the Old Summer Palace.At this time, more than 1860 Yuanmingyuan skilled and brave eunuchs fought against the enemy inside and outside the Xianliang Gate. die in line of duty.At 10:6 p.m., the French invading army captured the Old Summer Palace.Wen Feng, the minister in charge of the garden, threw himself into the sea of ​​fortune and died.Concubine Chang, who lived in the garden, was frightened to death.From the second day onwards, officers and soldiers looted and destroyed frantically.In order to force the Qing government to accept the terms of the peace as soon as possible, the British and French allied forces marched into the city after looting for two days. On October 7, 1860, after the leaders of the British and French invaders broke into the Old Summer Palace, they immediately "sent three members of the British and French committees to discuss the distribution of the treasures in the garden." Attention the committee members, first take the most valuable items in art and archaeology. I will present the extremely rare items in France to His Majesty the Emperor (Napoleon III), and hide them in the French Museum.” British Commander Grant also immediately “sent officers Do your best to collect objects that should belong to the British.” The second day after the French and British invaders entered the park, they could no longer resist the temptation of the objects, and all the officers and soldiers rushed forward in groups to rob the gold and silver treasures in the park and cultural art treasures.There are too many things to grab in Yuanmingyuan.According to an eyewitness of the British army, the entire French army camp was filled with many clocks and clocks with extremely gorgeous decorations, and around the soldiers' tents, there were silks, satins and embroidery everywhere.A British second-class military officer named Helisi got rich by plundering the Old Summer Palace and spent his whole life, so he got the nickname "China James"...

It was four o'clock when Jin Zhongguo and Cheng Xiaoting finished visiting the Old Summer Palace, and then Cheng Xiaoting drove Jin Zhongguo to the vegetable market next to her community to buy some meat and vegetables. Although there are poultry animals in the space, I will not Fortunately, I prefer to eat vegetables. Usually, if I want to eat meat, I go to the vegetable market to buy it, and then I go home.After Cheng Xiaoting took a taxi and parked in the underground garage, she prepared to take out the things she bought from the vegetable market from the trunk, and saw that Jin Zhongguo had already picked up the things, and then stood aside waiting for her, Cheng Xiaoting was stunned for a moment, and put the car in After locking it, he took the elevator with Kim Jong Kook to the door of his house, then pretended to take out the key from his pocket to open the door, and then took out a pair of men's slippers from the shoe cabinet for Kim Jong Kook to change into, and went to the living room by himself.When Jin Zhongguo saw the men's slippers that Cheng Xiaoting took out, he felt a little uncomfortable, so he didn't put them on in time and just stood at the door.Cheng Xiaoting turned her head and saw that Jin Zhongguo hadn't put on his slippers and came in, thinking that he was not used to wearing other people's shoes, so she said to him: "Zhong Guoqiba, these slippers are new and never worn. I originally bought them for my brother, but He hasn’t been to Beijing before, so I’ll leave it on, so don’t worry about wearing it.” After hearing what Cheng Xiaoting said, Jin Zhongguo’s feeling of discomfort disappeared immediately, and then he put on his slippers, followed her into the kitchen, and put his hands on his slippers. things on the stovetop.After Cheng Xiaoting watched him put down his things, she asked him to rest in the living room, where he could watch TV or play on the computer as he chose, and then she started washing vegetables and preparing dinner in the kitchen.

Cheng Xiaoting is from Zhejiang, so what Cheng Xiaoting cooked this evening was some Zhejiang dishes, such as Dongpo pork, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, Yue chicken in clear soup, and a stir-fried small green vegetable, a total of five dishes are quite enough.

And Jin Zhongguo came out of the kitchen and came to the living room, sitting on the sofa and looking at the layout and decoration of the house.According to Jin Zhongguo, this house is about [-] square meters. The decoration is mainly in white, which makes people feel that the whole house is full of leisure and elegance. It is quiet and luxurious, but full of intelligence, frankness, and simplicity. It is very impactful. pure.When Jin Zhongguo was commenting on the decoration of this house, Cheng Xiaoting prepared all the meals according to the scriptures, and put them on the dining table in the same way. Wash your hands and eat."

"Okay, I see." Jin Zhongguo washed his hands, walked to the dining table and sat opposite Cheng Xiaoting, looked at the chicken soup that Cheng Xiaoting gave him, picked it up and took a sip: "It's really delicious, Xiaoting, you really It’s so amazing, it’s even better than the ones made by hotel chefs.”

"Drink more if it tastes good. There are many more. Don't just drink soup and order dishes. These are all dishes from our Zhejiang side. I don't know if you like it or not."

"It's delicious, I like you so much, so eat more." Jin Zhongguo concentrated on eating Cheng Xiaoting's cooking, but thought in his heart, "I really hope that Xiaoting will only cook for me in this life."

This meal was very warm.After the meal, Cheng Xiaoting washed some fruits and put them on the coffee table in the living room for Jin Zhongguo to sit and eat, and then Cheng Xiaoting went to the kitchen to do the aftermath.After Cheng Xiaoting finished cleaning the kitchen, she came to sit on the single sofa next to Jin Zhongguo and chatted with Jin Zhongguo, and before she knew it, it was almost nine o'clock.

"Xiao Ting, it's getting late, I have to go back to the hotel."

"I'll see you off, Zhong Guobao."

"No, I can just take a taxi back. It's not safe for you to come back alone at this late hour."

"Okay then, I'll take you to the car." Cheng Xiaoting sent Jin Zhongguo to the car, told the driver the address, and wrote down the driver's information and license plate number of the taxi, watching the taxi slowly disappear into the night Li didn't return to his home until he couldn't see it anymore, and he took a hot bath to rest after receiving a call from Kim Jong-kook saying that he had arrived at the hotel safely.

In the next two days, I will take Kim Jong-kook to visit and play around according to the original plan, but time always passes very quickly. Kim Jong-kook will return to Korea tomorrow. Before getting off the car, Cheng Xiaoting asked him: "Zhong Guoqiba, what time is your flight tomorrow?"

"Nine o'clock tomorrow."

"Then I'll take you to the airport tomorrow."

"No need, I'll take a taxi by myself." Jin Zhongguo felt very sad when he thought that he would leave tomorrow, he didn't know when he would see Cheng Xiaoting again, and he was afraid that she would forget him.

"Okay, I'll see you off tomorrow, so it's a deal, don't go back on your word, or I'll ignore you." Hearing what Cheng Xiaoting said, Jin Zhongguo had no choice but to agree.After Jin Zhongguo got out of the car, he watched Cheng Xiaoting's car disappear into the traffic until he could no longer see him before turning around and entering the hotel.

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