Siheyuan: Living in the People's Community, with a Heart for the Red Star

It is true that the hutong children are not as numerous as the children from the big courtyards. Most of them have to help their families with housework in the morning and have no time to go out and play. There are only about 20 people in the skating rink occupied by the hutong children, while there are at least or people on the side of the big courtyard children.

The people at the Hutong Children's Skating Rink are wearing all kinds of tattered clothes, and some of them are wearing thin clothes, which makes people feel cold just by looking at them. However, they are still full of energy and vigor when playing. They really look young!

Lao Yang and Luo Yun, along with a group of young men from the compound, passed by the skating rink and attracted the attention of the young men from the alley, but no one came up to cause trouble.

Everyone passed smoothly and came to the park after leaving the ice. There was a thick layer of snow on the ground, which was the snow accumulated two days ago. The roads in the city had been cleared, and only on the grass in the park and on the trees on the roadside could you see the snow.

From time to time in the park, you can see young men and women making snowballs and throwing them at each other, playing and laughing as they run away.

Luo Yun was a playful person, and when she saw others throwing snowballs, she also got interested. She grabbed a ball of snow from a nearby tree, made a snowball, and threw it at the unprepared Lao Yang. The snowball exploded on Lao Yang's head, and the snow flew everywhere, with a lot of it falling down his collar into Lao Yang's clothes.

Although Lao Yang was immune to cold and heat, he was still shocked by the sudden attack. Fortunately, Lao Yang's control and reaction ability were far superior to ordinary people, otherwise he might have accidentally knocked the people around him away.

When Luo Yun saw that Lao Yang was hit, he laughed out loud and ran away quickly. He grabbed some snow from the trees and continued to make snowballs to attack Lao Yang. A few snowballs missed their target and flew to other children from the compound next to Lao Yang.

After Lao Yang slapped away several snowballs, he immediately started to fight back. He bent down and grabbed two large pieces of snow from the ground, rolled them into a snowball the size of his head, and threw it at Luo Yun with controlled strength. Such a huge snowball immediately caused exclamations, especially when Luo Yun saw it, she screamed and ran away while dodging left and right. Unfortunately, Lao Yang's snowball was not so easy to dodge. Lao Yang predicted her prediction, and the snowball hit Luo Yun directly on the head.

Although the snowball seemed very big, Lao Yang's force-generating skills were quite good. The snowball exploded immediately after hitting Luo Yun's head, and a large piece of snow covered Luo Yun. Fortunately, Luo Yun was wearing a scarf, so the flying snow did not fall into her collar, but only got all over her head.

Luo Yun immediately called on the children from the compound to attack Lao Yang together. Seeing that the war had begun, the children from the compound hurriedly ran away and picked up snowballs to throw at Lao Yang. As if they were united in hatred of the enemy, countless snowballs flew towards Lao Yang!

Old Yang was not afraid either. He raised his hand to swat away the flying snowballs, and at the same time caught them and fought back against everyone. Old Yang fought with the momentum of a thousand troops. Half of the snowballs were smashed by Old Yang, and the other half were caught by Old Yang and thrown back casually. Old Yang threw snowballs quickly and accurately. Every snowball hit the head of a student from the compound, and snowflakes flew everywhere. Many snowflakes slid down the collar into the front and back of the chest, causing everyone to scream.

Luo Yun, who was taken special care of by Lao Yang, had her hair all whitened by the snow. A lot of melted snow flowed down her scalp into her neck and wet her scarf. Lao Yang also deliberately let a few snowballs hit her, causing the children in the compound who threw the snowballs to cheer loudly. After all, Lao Yang was too strong, and it was such a proud thing to be able to hit the target!

Except for the first sneak attack, Luo Yun basically did not hit Lao Yang afterwards. Instead, he was specially taken care of by Lao Yang and was hit quite a few times.

Seeing that Lao Yang's defense was impenetrable, Luo Yun quickly changed his target and threw snowballs at the children from the compound. He was soon discovered by the children from the compound who were attacking by surprise, and then the war escalated into a complete chaos, with snowballs flying everywhere and hitting anyone he saw.

Everyone finally discovered the fun of snowball fights. Throwing snowballs with Lao Yang was just one-sided abuse. It was more fun to throw snowballs with the kids from the compound!

By the time the young men from the compound had vented their energy, it was almost noon. Lao Yang and Luo Yun were certainly not stingy people, and they were also wealthy. They led the young men from the compound to a restaurant on the beach of Houhai, and Luo Yun invited his brothers and sisters to dine together.

So a group of seven people came to Shaoguoju and ordered hot pot. The hot pot here is different from Sichuan hot pot. It is a copper hot pot with northern characteristics. A total of 4 pots were ordered, which were filled with square meat slices, four-happiness meatballs, cabbage, potatoes, vermicelli, steamed bowls, fish cubes, blood tofu, etc.

There was charcoal in the stove, and steam was bubbling out of the pot. Served with the plain flour steamed buns and flatbreads ordered by Lao Yang, the young men from the compound were eating so much that their mouths were drooling.

Although the children of the compound all have good family conditions, it is very rare for them to eat meat in such big mouthfuls. Especially this kind of hot pot can only be seen at wedding banquets, and there is one for each table. Now two people share one and it is a delicious feast!

Old Yang even secretly took out two bottles of champagne and some drinks from the space, and asked for glasses from the restaurant, giving each person a glass. However, these children from the compound were very happy, especially because champagne was a foreign thing that people had only heard of, but few people had actually tasted it. They were able to drink it because of Luo Yun, so Yu Yanhong, Zhang Yuhan and others were very envious of Luo Yun, and kept toasting Luo Yun with champagne and drinks.

Soon the two bottles of champagne were shared by everyone and the drinks were almost all drunk. The meat and vegetables in the hot pot were picked out cleanly, and the side dishes such as cabbage and potatoes were almost gone.

After eating and drinking, everyone found two decks of cards in the store and started playing Landlord. It was Lao Yang who spread the game of Landlord, and it became popular in Kyoto. The children of the big courtyards also played it frequently, so a group of people occupied two tables and played loudly, which caused dissatisfaction among the waiters. However, seeing that these were lawless children of the big courtyards, there was no good way to deal with them. They could only hide in the kitchen to avoid being annoyed.

Luo Yun led a group of children from the courtyards to play until about two o'clock in the afternoon, and then went to Houhai Park together. At this time, Houhai Park was crowded with people, and there were at least two hundred young men and women playing on the ice. The venue was not as clearly divided as in the morning, and everyone was mixed together chasing and playing, but there were mostly children from the courtyards in the south and mostly children from the hutongs in the north. Looking down from the sky, the south was more green and the north was more gray.

Luo Erpao, who was beaten in the morning, found that Luo Yun, Lao Yang and others had come to the ice. He hurried to find the little bully in his compound - Niu Fugui, and he was determined to avenge what happened in the morning!

It has to be said that the children of these political compounds are divided into gangs and factions and have different circles. For example, there are three little bullies in the General Political Department compound. The most powerful one is Niu Fugui, nicknamed the Bull Demon King!