My friend forwarded "The Beast Meets Again with a Smile for Twenty Years" in the circle of friends, and talked about Xiaoyun Road's previous life and present life.
Xiaoyun Road, a once far away and strange street, now I spend most of my days here.
more than ten years ago, I learned about Laitai flowers, and I came several times a year to bring all kinds of flowers home and come back after I died. Every time I come to Laitai, I turn from the East Third Ring Road to Xiaoyun Road, and then to the south is the flower market. In the early years, there was another shop selling porcelain in a row of shops opposite Laitai. When we visited there, we met the famous Ni Ping. At that time, every time I came to Xiaoyun Road, I felt so far away.
When the Blue Harbor first opened, it seemed to be the New Year in 29, and I came to participate in the New Year's Eve activities. When I left the Blue Harbor at midnight, the lights of Liangmaqiao and Xiaoyun Road were still dim. As I went south, the lights became more and more sparse. Just before I got home and entered the basement, my silent son suddenly said, This is like two worlds! Then he comforted himself, saying that we are quiet here and suitable for sleeping.
In 216, my son took a leave of absence from school and came to the American Embassy for a visa. The Embassy has moved from Yabao Road to Tianze Road, which is perpendicular to Xiaoyun Road. We made an appointment for the earliest interview, and after the interview, we went to Starbucks in Air China Building for breakfast. At that time, Starbucks had not spread all over Beijing.
Then one day that year, I came to Laitai to buy flowers, parked my car on Xiaoyun Road, and crossed the Netcom Building to Laitai. When I saw an apartment next to me, I turned on my cell phone, checked the nearest chain store and asked them if there was a suitable house nearby.
in the early spring of the following year, I moved to Xiaoyun Road. One month ago, my college friend who had worked nine to five years in the Modern Building on Xiaoyun Road left the workplace.
I have been familiar with Xiaoyun Road for nearly three years, and friends around me often invite me to Xiaoyun Road to chat and talk about things. After all, there are not many streets in Beijing like Xiaoyun Road. There are at least four or five Starbucks in one street, and there are a coffee shop, a tea shop and restaurants with various flavors and prices every few meters away. Restaurants from Netcom to the west are basically economical, mainly for employees of Air China, Hyundai and Netcom to eat working meals, while to the east, there are various grades, including Xiaoyunyuan, which is suitable for entertaining guests, the French old-fashioned Fulou, Xiaoyun Food Street, where dozens of restaurants gather and stores constantly change their names, and restaurants in Pengrun and HNA Buildings also have their own special dishes. The expensive Japanese club downstairs closed a few days after its opening, but the old Jitang on the first floor was lucky enough to catch up with the Michelin star rating as soon as it opened. At night, all kinds of vehicles gathered in the parking lot in front of it, so it is estimated that it will not close down immediately. During the daytime, in the downstairs of Netcom Finance, which fell in the tide of 219, people who came to ask for money gathered almost every day. Sometimes when they stood on the balcony and opened the window, they could hear them shouting in unison: XXX, pay back the money! Police cars also patronize from time to time. Knowing that I live in Xiaoyun Road, my friends will also send gossip and rumors about the boss of the online letter to the group. Friends who go to the United States and China to have children, have a physical examination with their families, and buy things at the Xinyuanli vegetable market will say on WeChat that they will pass by your house immediately. Are you at home? Come out and talk for a while? As the Spring Festival approaches, I will meet several groups of friends in Laitai one day. But this year is different. After many rumors, Lai Tai finally closed the door and waited for upgrading. After several years of demolition, the street opposite was changed into a street garden. In other places where I used to live, the grandfathers and grandmothers who danced in the square dance would never let go of such a place, but at night here, only a few people took a walk occasionally.
On the morning of a working day, office workers who come out of the Liangmaqiao subway ride a yellow car or walk to Xiaoyun Road. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, you can see the school buses of several international schools stop to drop off their children. Except in winter, there are shouts of children who speak various languages in the children's activity area downstairs until eight or nine o'clock in the evening. When I get off work, the yellow car on Xiaoyun Road will be swept away by people coming out of various office buildings, and then there will be a long queue at the subway entrance, waiting for security check to enter the subway. During the summer vacation, the intern's son came back by subway at night and found that the subway heading east was crowded with people. He is a little curious about where they all live. Xiaoyun Road on weekends is as deserted as Beijing during the Spring Festival.
What many people don't know is that most residential areas in Xiaoyun Road, except No.8 Xiaoyun Road, have prices less than half of those in Xicheng School District.
I can't find a suitable word to describe Xiaoyun Road.