Rebirth of the Forbidden City: The Troublemaker in the Courtyard

(The full text is based on the TV series Bloody Romance. Due to force majeure, many parts have been deleted. There will be reminders for specific chapters!)

1967 years, winter!

The Shichahai Ice Rink has become a happy place for young people.

From afar, the northeast corner of Shichahai was once again filled with quarrels as regular as a daily routine.

On the left side, standing in the front were four or five gangsters in officer uniforms, and behind them were thirty or forty people, all wearing old-fashioned yellow or green military uniforms.

The group of people opposite them were mostly wearing blue work clothes, and there were also about forty or fifty of them.

The two groups of people standing face to face were each holding a spring lock, bricks, and there were even a few fierce-looking young men holding triangular scrapers and kitchen knives.

There was no middleman to mediate, so neither side said much nonsense and just started to attack the other side with the weapons in their hands.

Among the group wearing military uniforms, there was a leader wearing a dark yellow officer's wool coat, who charged the most fiercely.

He was quite ruthless in his attack, holding a solid short stick in his hand, and he kept hitting the opponent's head and lower back, which were vital parts of his body.

In just a few minutes, four people in work clothes were knocked down by this man.

However, he was too reckless and rushed directly into the rear of the workers' uniforms. His overly eye-catching officer's woolen coat became the most dazzling symbol.

It was too late when he reacted. As soon as he turned his head, three or four bricks hit his head. He couldn't block them and was knocked unconscious on the ice!

……

Ning Yuan was awakened by the pain in his head.

"Brother, you finally woke up!"

Ning Yuan looked at the little kid of about eleven or twelve years old standing in front of his bed and blinked in confusion.

He looked around blankly again, and what caught his eye was the extremely simple decoration, with large white walls all around, and the two hospital beds were the simplest wooden beds.

The sheets were almost faded from washing, and the cabinet at the head of the bed was just a simple wooden cabinet.

The lights above my head used large old-fashioned tungsten filament bulbs, and even the windows were framed with wooden strips and inlaid with several thin square glass panels.

"elder brother?"

The little ghost beside the bed looked at Ning Yuan who had woken up on the hospital bed, looked around blankly, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

The doctor had already explained that injuries to the back of the head and neck are very likely to cause amnesia or memory disorder.

This child is Ning Yuan’s younger brother, little Ning Wei.

He was quite smart, so how could he not understand what the doctor said?

Seeing his brother's indifferent and confused expression at this moment, he naturally put himself in the shoes of the doctor who described the condition.

However, it was Ning Wei's two calls of "brother" that brought Ning Yuan, who was in a daze on the hospital bed, back to reality.

Ning Yuan looked at little Ning Wei standing at the head of the bed. For a moment he didn't know how to start speaking and stared at Ning Wei in a daze.

Fortunately, Ning Wei spoke again at this time.

"Brother, I'm Ning Wei. Can you remember me? You got into a fight with someone at the Shichahai Ice Arena a few days ago and got hit on the head with a brick. You're now in the hospital. Can you still remember me, brother?"

Ning Wei heard from the doctor that if such a reaction occurs, then saying some names he knows or things that happened recently may stimulate memory recovery.

"Ning Wei? A fight? Shichahai?"

Ning Yuan sat on the bed and heard these names and places, and finally felt somewhat familiar.

After a while, his mind became much clearer, just like a bubble in the water that suddenly burst. Many memories that did not belong to him also flooded into his mind.

"Ning Wei, Zhong Yuemin, Li Yuanchao, Shichahai, Chajia..."

Ning Yuan lowered his head and digested it for a while before finally understanding that this was the plot of Bloody Romance. He just said a few more words, but he actually came to this time and space and story.

After a wry smile, Ning Yuan shook his head.

But before I had time to feel disappointed, I suddenly remembered that I knew the plot of this TV series very well.

Ning Yuan instantly became excited. Isn't this like cheating?

Thinking of the feelings he had when watching this drama in another time and space, Ning Yuan suddenly had more expectations for this world!

The doctor called by Ning Wei examined and diagnosed Ning Yuan for an entire afternoon and finally confirmed that Ning Yuan was not feeling unwell. In line with the idea of not wasting national medical resources, Ning Yuan immediately asked to be discharged from the hospital, and the doctor naturally agreed happily.

Ning Wei brought Ning Yuan his clothes, a dark brown wool sweater that didn't fit him well and a dark yellow officer's coat.

Ning Yuan dressed neatly and swiftly. Apart from the gauze wrapped around his head which didn't look very nice, he still looked very majestic.

After taking the military satchel handed over by Ning Wei, brothers Ning Yuan and Ning Wei left the hospital together.

The compound where their family lived was in Baiwanzhuang, not far from the military hospital. Besides, it was only a little after four in the afternoon, and it was not yet dark.

Ning Wei thought that his brother should not walk too fast since he had just been discharged from the hospital, so he did not walk too fast.

Ning Yuan didn't notice it. He curiously turned over the officer's woolen coat on his body and looked at it.

To me, who comes from another time and space, the style is not novel, but this dress is afraid of comparison.

After seeing the pedestrians hurrying back and forth on the street wearing the same blue work clothes, or the simpler khaki old military uniforms.

The more Ning Yuan looked at it, the more he felt that the officer's suit he was wearing was elegant and beautiful.

It has to be said that this kind of officer's wool coat is indeed a rare item that leads the fashion trend at this time of year, and countless people in the courtyards or alleys want to get one.

Wearing it is a symbol of status, and it is also a magical tool that can be used to smuggle money!

However, these officers and soldiers were all custom-made, and there were only about one or two thousand of them in the entire city, even including those imitated on the black market.

This number is just a drop in the bucket for the city of Beijing, whose population has exceeded 6.5 million.

Therefore, it was common for people to stop officers and rob their coats on the road.

Many hooligans from the alleys also snatched many coats from the men in the compound by showing off their ruthlessness and bravery.

As this situation spread, within a few months, all these officers and generals were replaced by the "capable ones"!

Now Ning Yuan was walking on the street wearing a military uniform. The people around him saw that he still had a gauze bandage on his head, and they unconsciously moved away.

The winter in Beijing is dry and cold. When the northwest wind blows, I feel like I want to shrink back into my mother's belly, as if a knife is cutting across my face.

Ning Yuan shrank his neck and put his hand into his coat pocket.

As soon as he put the money into his pocket, Ning Yuan's heart skipped a beat!