Overview of Longxugou and Teahouse

In the era when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, Yutai Teahouse in Beijing was still a scene of "prosperity": caged birds, fortune-telling, selling antiques and jade articles, and playing cricket.

Wang Lifa, a smart young shopkeeper, is taken care of by all parties. However, behind this "prosperity" lies the suffocating decline of the whole society: foreign goods flooded the market, the countryside went bankrupt, eunuchs married, and patriots were arrested.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the people suffered from years of civil war. All the big teahouses in Beijing are closed. Only Wang Zhanggui has improved its management, turned the backyard of the teahouse into an apartment rented to college students, and put a phonograph in the main hall. Nevertheless, social unrest spread to the teahouse: refugees blocked the door, soldiers took the shopkeeper's money, and detectives came to extort money from time to time.

Thirty years later, Wang Zhanggui is still desperately supporting the teahouse. Japan surrendered, but the Kuomintang and American imperialism plunged the people into the disaster of civil war. Jeeps went on the rampage, patriots were suppressed, and rogue agents wanted to occupy the teahouse that Wang Zhanggui had painstakingly managed all his life. Wang Lifa is desperate. At this time, two friends who made friends 50 years ago happened to come. One is Mr. Chang, who was arrested by the Qing court, and the other is Mr. Qin, who completely collapsed in business for half his life. The three old people scattered the paper money they found all over the floor, crying and laughing sadly. In the end, Wang Lifa was left alone. He picked up his belt, went into the inner room, looked up at the roof, and looked for a place where he could safely end his life.

& lt& lt Long Xiugou >> Longxugou was a stinking ditch in the east of Tianqiao in Beijing before liberation. There are four families living in a small miscellaneous yard along the ravine. The young girl and her mother, Aunt Wang, live by welding frames. Chun Er is passionate and stubborn. She hates this stinking ditch, and even more hates the people who bully them. She hopes to get out of this bad environment. Aunt Wang is weather-beaten and timid, and the mother and daughter often quarrel about it. Lao Zhao Man, a bricklayer, is helpful and respected by the poor and suffering people by the valley. Every rainy season, he is often troubled by malaria. Ding Si lives by pedaling tricycles, and Ding Sisao lives by sewing. My son, Er Gazi, was picking coal pits outside all day, and her little daughter, Xiao Zi, who was under ten years old, also helped her mother with some heavy work. Later, she accidentally fell into Longxugou and drowned. Cheng, an honest and frank old artist, once sang "Being Idle" in Tianqiao Teahouse. Because he didn't please everyone, he was injured by the bully's black whirlwind and his favorite Feng Gouzi, so he took refuge here, set up cigarettes and his wife Cheng Niangzi, and barely made a living. He was called crazy, and his anger was only understood by his wife. After the liberation of Beijing, Longxugou slum changed its old appearance. The people's government punished Black Cyclone and Feng Gouzi. Cheng went out of the house and took over the management of the water station; Zhao laotou no longer suffers from bed sheets, but also becomes a representative of the district people's congress; Ergaz found a job; Chun Er walked into the factory happily. Two years later, the people's government issued a call for a thorough rectification of Longxugou, and the people on both sides of the ditch responded positively. The old gutter was built into a road, and the dirty and smelly slum became a beautiful garden.