Chapter 74 1. Champs Elysees

Chou'er led me to a hotel called Champs Elysees on Guijie Street. The archway at the entrance exuded a grandeur. Walking in, the big locust tree and Eucommia tree made the small courtyard lively; the erhu and pipa gave off a Beijing accent. The rhyme is tactful, although the courtyard is not big, it is simple and pleasant.Go west a few steps, and you will see the Champs.This is an upright courtyard house, so hurry up and look around first, the plaque for feasting on Yaochi is hung right above the main house. Brother, this plaque is genuine from the Qianlong period.Ugly said braggingly. Ugly, the four marble screens are quite old, so they must be from the Republic of China, right?I asked with a look of appreciation.

Chou'er nodded and led me into the chic and small East and West Wing.Coming out of the wing room, the branches and leaves of the walnut trees are lush, and the whole courtyard is washed away from the noise of the outside world, and it is fresh and dusty.The weather was getting dark, and Chou'er and I walked back to Liyuan slowly.The courtyard is already very lively.A row of lanterns in front of the archway made the street red.Nostalgic open-air movies are shown on the small square with old-fashioned projectors. Chou'er and I found a place to sit down.Chou'er ordered spicy crayfish, boiled fish and spicy crab.I ordered two big beers and started to eat and drink.

Chou, why is this street called Guijie?I used to think it was called Ghost Street. Eight or nine years ago, there were only a few restaurants on this street. Chou'er ate and said: There are state-run restaurants and individual restaurants, which are no different from other places in the capital, because at nine o'clock in the evening, there will be a group of customers coming for supper , several restaurants extended their business hours one after another, and later simply changed it to a 24-hour business. Unexpectedly, they gained a bit of fame after going here and there. The night owls in the city know that there is a place to eat at midnight in Dongzhimen, and the scale of business is very important. The effect, love to get together, the business here is booming, and more and more stores are opening. Xindong'an's fried belly and Longfu Temple's snacks all come to set up camp.Gradually, more than a hundred 24-hour restaurants opened in less than two miles long street.In Beijing dialect, it is: If you don't sleep until midnight, what the hell is going on.That's how Ghost Street got its name.But calling Ghost Street is really easy to misunderstand. The competent department simply changed the character ghost into Gui, which is both homonymous and appropriate.

Chou Erlian said, writing a character Gui on the table with his oily hands. What does the word gui mean?I asked puzzledly. Gui is a food container with a round mouth and two ears in ancient China.A street is named after Gui, so it is naturally a place to eat.Chou'er said it very proudly. Interesting, I used to think that Guijie Street was a street of ghosts, but I didn't expect there to be so much knowledge.I say with admiration. Chou'er is the kind of girl with a lot of cultural background. Although she looks very ordinary, she has fair skin and elegant temperament. As the saying goes, one white covers all ugliness. The more I like it.

Chou'er is embarrassed by me, why don't you eat well, what are you looking at me for?she said a little shyly. Maybe I have seen too many women, and the way of expression is too straightforward. Ugly, I said sweetly: When we first met, what attracted me the most was not your appearance, but the faint fragrance of your body.A woman's fragrance may attract a man's attention more than a pretty face, because smell is something of the soul, has a strong penetrating power, and can enhance a woman's charm. Brother, I know that I am ugly, so you don't need to use some fragrance to coax me.Ugly said coquettishly.

I don't know what's wrong, I kept complimenting Chou'er today, of course, what I said was from the bottom of my heart.Chou'er's eyes are small and have single eyelids, but they can convey a vivid feeling with my conversation.All the figurative things of women can be quantified and decorated, but vividness cannot be quantified and decorated.Vividness is a feeling that makes people daydream and fantasize. Chou'er saw that I was thinking wildly, so he changed the subject. Brother, when will the novel be published? I have searched for several publishing houses, but there is no news, and I am almost dying of worry.

Don't worry, I will help you find friends in Beijing. How can I get involved with TV dramas if I ask Lu Yuan for help. This is called Beauty Saving Heroes.Ugly said with some envy. Chou'er, Brother Na is happy, he's mixed up to the point of writing a novel, and he's still a hero. What's wrong with writing novels, I also plan to ask you to write TV series. Writing a novel and writing a TV series are two different things, I'm afraid I can't, I haven't even read the script of a TV series. Later, I will bring you some scripts and CDs filmed by the unit, and a few books on how to write TV dramas. You can read them first.Maybe after reading it, you will have the urge to create.After publication, the screenplay will be written by you.

I never thought it would be so difficult to write a novel. It's not difficult to become a writer, and this is called good things take a long time. Ugly, I have never understood what is the relationship between screenwriters, directors and actors? The screenwriter builds the skeleton, the director builds the soul, and the actors make up the flesh and blood.Chou'er spoke very incisively, and I suddenly realized after hearing it. The spicy crayfish in the Champs Elysees is very delicious, and Chou'er and I ordered another two catties.Chou'er is a woman who knows how to communicate, is good at listening, and is willing to understand the state of mind of others.Such a woman is as sensual as a trickle and as sexy as a raging sea.

Brother, do you like traveling?Chou'er asked flickeringly. I especially like traveling.Especially standing alone in the wilderness, looking far into the distance, it is a kind of emptiness to the extreme loneliness, thinking in this kind of loneliness, if you are not careful, you will pierce your own soul.When it comes to travel, my emotions run high. Brother, I have also experienced this feeling. It is a feeling of baptizing the soul, but the most sacred place for baptizing the soul is Tibet. I have always dreamed of going to Tibet.Chou'er showed a longing expression. You told me before that I have always wanted to go to Tibet. When my novel is published and the TV series is finished, I will accompany you to Tibet.Take a look at the sacred mountain and holy water there, maybe the two of us can write another good work when we come back.

Brother, it's a deal!Chou'er happily said that the task was completed, and raised a draft beer to do it with me. My inner world has been beating for this woman. This is a pure and holy feeling. I concealed my excitement and drank it. I found this woman who I thought was ugly when I first met, like a warm sunset. , Natural and simple.The faint deodorant exudes a kind of spirituality, permeating around me, living freely in this unexpected happiness, infecting me with colorful fantasies about the future. Twenty-two o'clock is the busiest time on Guijie Street. Looking from Dongzhimen Bridge, it is brightly lit.I'm afraid that the bosses here prefer red lanterns, big and small, round and long in rows.At this time, the traffic police who towed the truck were also off duty, and all kinds of small cars almost stopped in the middle of the road.After eating and drinking, Chou'er and I left the Champs-Elysees, strolled along the street and watched the excitement.

Brother, all the popular foods in Beijing at different stages have been deposited on Guijie Street: sheep scorpion that was popular seven or eight years ago, Malatang that was popular five or six years ago, fat beef hot pot that was popular three or four years ago, and crayfish that was popular in recent years , fried escargot.Of course, there are also those repertoires that are weather-proof, such as hot-boiled mutton and home-cooked dishes.Ugly said like a few treasures. This is like fashion, there are different trends every year.I agree. As soon as the word fashion came out of my mouth, I immediately thought of Yingjie, Mayflower Company, Luo Wen, Liu Hui, Javert, and Chi Xiaomu, and I couldn't help feeling a little sad.This sadness is relentless, and it makes me feel hot from the bottom of my heart.Summer nights in Beijing are hotter than I imagined. It is the kind of heat that can breed wild desire and life-and-death love.This heat aggravated the dry heat in my heart. I got into Chou'er's white Honda and went back to the hotel, excited for my reunion with Chou'er.The heat of midsummer and the dryness in the heart, coupled with eating the spicy and delicious food and sweating, there is a kind of pleasure that burns out the filth of the soul, and this kind of pleasure is particularly transparent. When I got back to the hotel, Chou Er kept sending me to the room. Chou'er, I'm going back to Dongzhou tomorrow.I said reluctantly. I will send you off!Chou'er's tone was very light, but full of affection. It's too late, go back and rest.I say it reluctantly. Chou'er stood still.I walked over and hugged her gently, ugly tears fell to my shoulders.There was a tenderness in my heart, and the tenderness tormented me like a fire.I hugged her tightly again, and kept reminding myself not to make the mistake I made two years ago, otherwise Chou Er would look down on me.Chou'er seemed to see through my mind, she gently pushed me away, her eyes blurred with dreamlike commotion. Brother, take a shower and sleep, I will take you to the airport tomorrow.After Chou'er finished speaking softly, she turned around and left, leaving behind a faint fragrance and me as if in a dream. I still can't tell what is between Chou'er and me.True love does not need to be expressed in words, let alone verified by chastity.But one thing is for sure, we really started to be attracted to each other from the day we met. I lay in bed reminiscing about this attraction, as if in a dream.I found that in reality, I have never really belonged to myself, because our hearts have never lived in reality at all. I am a mediocre person who has one foot in reality and the other in dreams. Even if one foot is in reality, it just proves my mediocrity.Because of my mediocrity, I can't do anything, feel depressed, restless, and even escape when faced with confusing subjects. Everyone is limited by their own destiny.There are only two kinds of successful people, those who live in reality without dreams, and those who live in dreams without knowing reality.The former live a heavy life, while the latter live a light life.What is heavy is not necessarily tragic, and what is light is not necessarily brilliant.The soul can live forever, but only once. In the face of life, any choice has sufficient reasons, and any result is logical. The ending is often not the truth, and the truth often has no ending. The final demise of human beings may be due to being too deep in fairy tales, or it may be because they cannot escape in reality, but these two phenomena are precisely the most successful life states in fate. Chou'er drove me to the airport in the morning, his eyes filled with reluctance.I asked her to go to Dongzhou some time.She said affectionately that she would go after Sihai gained a firm foothold. I suddenly realized that it can also be understood as dreaming to the end of the sky, love to the end of the sky, hate to the end of the sky, love to the end of the sky.Whether the end of the day is good or bad, I dare not think about it.I hope that the book will have results soon, and the TV series will have results soon, so that I can go to Tibet with Chouer, which is the place for our spiritual practice. Chou'er's tears fell on my shoulders again. Brother, I know you are not mine, but I will always be yours!Chou'er hugged me tightly and said.