SIAS Chapter 244.2

“Then let’s go to one place a day.” Wang Lingling said.

She added, “We’ll have time to explore other places later on during our holidays.”

“Let’s go buy a map of Beijing first, otherwise, we won’t know where to go.” The map Yi Qingqing received from sign-in reminded her.

None of the seven of them knew Beijing very well. At the very least, they needed to figure out the bus routes so that they could be more at ease when they went out.

“That’s right. Let’s go buy a map and study it first.” Li Mengxue said, equally clueless about the capital city in this era.

“I remember seeing a bookstore on the bus ride here, not far away. Let’s go check it out.”

The bookstore did indeed sell maps, not only bus route maps of the capital, but also large maps of the capital and maps of Beijing University.

Yi Qingqing also bought one for each.

Even if she had a more detailed panoramic three-dimensional map of the Beijing University, this map of the Beijing University could serve as a cover for her.

With the map, they returned to the guesthouse to plan their itinerary for touring the capital in the next few days.

Yi Qingqing, meanwhile, studied the large map of the capital, trying to figure out which location would be considered the capital’s main gate, the kind where she could sign in a panoramic map.

The sign-in map of the Beijing University was signed out at the main gate of the Beijing University. According to this rule, should the sign-in map of Beijing be at the main gate of Beijing?

If it were ten or twenty years ago, when the city walls of Beijing had not yet been demolished, perhaps one could still find a main entrance. But now, most of them have been torn down for road construction.

Yi Qingqing was somewhat troubled.

The old city gates used to be the gateways to a city.

Now that the old city gate is gone, is there any place in Beijing that could be called a gateway?

A gateway—the first thing you see when you enter a place…

Yi Qingqing had a bold idea.

When they first entered Beijing, wasn’t the first place they saw the train station?

Could she try the sign-in location at the train station?

They had planned to go to Tiananmen Square tomorrow, and then to the Forbidden City. They would need to transfer at the bus stop near the train station. She could try that.

“Will we all live in the same dormitory?” Li Mengxue asked.

She added, “We’re not from the same department, so we shouldn’t live in the same dormitory!”

Yi Qingqing and Yun Guyuan are both in the medical department, one studying Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmacy and the other Clinical Medicine. Li Mengxue is studying finance, Qian Lailai is studying accounting, Wang Lingling is in Chinese Literature, Chen Zhihe is studying law, and Xie Shiyan is studying journalism.

“Where will we live if we don’t live in the dorms?” Qian Lailai asked.

“I’m just thinking it would be great if the four of us could continue living together.” Li Mengxue said.

“I wonder if there’s any house to rent near the school.”

In fact, she wanted to buy a house, but she didn’t know whether the housing purchase policy in the capital had been relaxed. She had originally wanted to buy a house in Tieling County, but she found that the houses were all allocated by their work units, and residents only had the right to use them, not ownership. They couldn’t buy or sell them, only rent them out.

She just didn’t know what the situation was like in Beijing.

“I also want to continue living with you guys.” Wang Lingling sighed.

Looking at the map, Beijing University was quite large; living further away meant being far from her girlfriends. It’s hard to get used to it.

“It may not be easy to rent a house that can accommodate so many of us.” Said Yi Qingqing.

 

 

 

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