After rebirth, they all moved into my house.

As night fell, a few blue lights suddenly shone in from the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Looking back, I saw the shimmering colors of the Water Cube, as if the entire swimming pool was a cube formed by water. The Bird's Nest was faintly visible in the distance, illuminating half of the night sky with its bright red light.

"So beautiful." Xu Ruolin said softly.

Ye Yuhan had also picked up her phone and started taking pictures. Although Gu Jiuyi had seen it many times, she had only watched it with her family before, and the feeling was naturally different from now, so she took a few more glances.

Tao Ye and Xiao Yida didn't say much, they were already leaning against the window and praising it.

Lu Yuan was also shocked by this scene. He thought that no matter how many times he had seen it on TV, sometimes he had to experience it in person to feel it.

The changes in the scenery outside naturally attracted Gu Ying and Shen Yuzhu.

Shen Yuzhu felt satisfied after watching the children's performance.

Uncle Gu Ying now looks like he is thinking about something important.

Looking at Lu Yuan not far away, I couldn't help but feel respect. He is indeed Uncle Gu, with a very broad vision.

Uncle Gu must be tired of seeing this kind of scene, so there is nothing to worry about.

Gu Ying was actually thinking about an important matter in her life.

What excuse can I find to not go home tonight?

44. Flag Raising

After the dinner, Lu Yuan and the others returned to their respective classes and took the bus back to the hotel.

Taking the number of people into consideration, the hotel provides a room for four people, with men and women on different floors.

Lu Yuan lived in the same dormitory with Tao Ye, Xiao Yida, and his former roommate Zhou Xiaocong, which divided the school dormitory into two.

After packing up his things, Lu Yuan turned on his mobile phone and received messages from Gu Jiuyi and Xu Ruolin.

Xu Ruolin: Photos.

Gu Jiuyi: Photos.

The two photos were taken by the two of them from different directions in the room, and Lu Yuan could clearly see the figures of Li Yajing and Chen Ziyi.

It seems they are in the same dormitory.

Lu Yuan also took a photo of his room and sent it over, and soon received a reply.

Gu Jiuyi: "Why are they here again?"

Xu Ruolin: "You two have a really good relationship."

Lu Yuan: emmm

He had some suspicion that Gu Jiuyi and Xu Ruolin were looking at their phones together and then replying to him separately.

However, Lu Yuan didn't chat with them for too long. After all, the travel plan arranged by the travel agency was to watch the flag-raising ceremony tomorrow, then go out for breakfast, and then return to visit the Forbidden City.

However, the flag-raising ceremony in December is usually a little after seven in the morning. Including the security entrance on that section of Chang'an Avenue, they basically have to arrive before 6:12 in the morning. This also means that they have to wash up from the hotel at five in the morning and set off at five-thirty in the morning, with their destination being the security entrance of East Chang'an Avenue.

However, it was now half past ten in the evening, which meant they only had six hours of sleep at most.

"Oh my God, does the school want us to work ourselves to death?" Xiao Yida complained while waiting for Zhou Xiaocong to take a shower.

"You know what? Beijing is quite big. We can't see it all in five days and four nights." Tao Ye shrugged. "It is said that we can only visit the highlights. And what is the first stop of a Beijing tour if it is not the Forbidden City? So we have to go to bed early tonight."

"The problem is that even if we know we should go to bed early, it's not easy for us to fall asleep when we usually go to bed at 11:30 pm?" Xiao Yida complained.

Tao Ye rolled his eyes and said, "That's you. The school ended evening study at 8 o'clock last night and asked us to go back to the dormitory to adjust. Who can you blame for not sleeping?"

"How the hell did I know that the flag-raising ceremony was at 7 o'clock!" Xiao Yida was in tears. If others hadn't told him, he really didn't know that the flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square was at the moment of dawn.

Normally, schools require students to have morning reading first and then raise the flag after morning reading, without any delay. After all, the latitude is different from that of Beijing, so it is impossible to unify the schedule.

But now in the capital, of course we have to follow the official rules.

Lu Yuan listened quietly to the two people's complaints, then glanced at the class notification group, and then walked to the door of the room and opened it. Lao Chen was standing outside the door, and behind him was a group of waiters pushing a food cart with hot milk on it.

"Go to bed early, okay?" Old Chen advised.

Lu Yuan nodded.

After drinking the hot milk, Lu Yuan fell asleep very quickly, or rather, all three people in the room fell asleep very quickly.

Except Xiao Yida.

When they woke up at 2:30 in the morning, everyone looked at Xiao Yida with his big black eyes open, and they all tried not to laugh out loud.

Lu Yuan patted Xiao Yida's shoulder and said, "Panda, do you eat bamboo shoots?"

Tao Ye: "Brother Lu, are you stealing bamboo shoots?"

Xiao Yida was in tears.

At five o'clock in the morning, the students all yawned and got on the bus while feeling sleepy. After the roll call, he was the last one to get on the bus as the journey was long.

To be honest, it’s really cold in Beijing in late December.

"The road is long, cover it with this."

As soon as Lu Yuan sat down, Gu Jiuyi took out a scarf from her schoolbag and put it on him, while Xu Ruolin was helping Lu Yuan sweep the snow off his body.

Tao Ye and Xiao Yida, who were standing by, couldn't stand it when they saw this.

But even though they couldn't bear it, they didn't want to be beaten.

"Okay, let's change seats." Lu Yuan said.

This time, Lu Yuan still sat in the last row of the bus. In the last row, only the middle seat was inconvenient for sleeping, while the other four seats were convenient.

Because she had to help Lu Yuan brush off the snow and put on a scarf, Gu Jiuyi sat in the middle at first. After they had taken care of keeping warm, Lu Yuan and Gu Jiuyi switched back.

Although girls in high school don’t have much habit of dressing up, it still takes longer than boys overall. Therefore, you can use the time from the suburbs to Tiananmen Square and Chang'an Avenue to catch up on sleep.

At 6:30 in the morning, a layer of white frost had already covered Chang'an Avenue, and the Forbidden City, covered in silver, could be vaguely seen not far away.

"It's so huge! Is this Chang'an Avenue?"

In the early morning, many passers-by came to the flag-raising ceremony, and many students expressed their admiration.

"It's a long way to go, so wear more clothes."

When getting off the car, Gu Jiuyi did not forget to give Lu Yuan some instructions.

Because the road was long and roll call was required, he would definitely be the last one to get on the bus, which also meant that he would have to endure the cold outside for a while.

"I'm fine, don't worry. Ruolin, did you bring a selfie stick?" Lu Yuan asked.

He had researched the information and found that if he wanted to watch the entire flag-raising ceremony, he would have to use his mobile phone unless he was at the front.

Of course, Lu Yuan would not stand in the front because there were too many people, so it would be better for him to stand at the back.

He pulled out his phone and sent a message to a certain girl who also needed to be named: "Stay warm."

Soon, the top of the screen showed that the other party was typing...

"You too."

At seven o'clock, Lu Yuan, Gu Jiuyi and others stood near the gate of Tiananmen Square, waiting from afar for the guard of honor to appear.

Suddenly, he felt someone patting his left shoulder from behind. He turned around and saw no one.

When he turned around, he found that Ye Yuhan had appeared on his right side without him noticing.

She was wearing a pink tight-fitting trench coat, which showed off her tall and slender figure to the fullest. Her black hair fell behind her like a waterfall, occasionally fluttering in the breeze.

But she was smiling, and the smile on her beautiful face made people feel the warmth of melting ice and snow in this winter, which was refreshing.

"Vice President, good morning." Ye Yuhan greeted.

"Good morning." Lu Yuan's heartstrings trembled at Ye Yuhan's momentary smile, and his heart was beating like a deer.

Our eyes met. Her eyes were beautiful, hazy and charming, and her seductive cherry mouth was slightly open.

Lu Yuan looked away slightly and changed the subject: "It's amazing that you could find us."

Ye Yuhan got the answer she wanted from Lu Yuan's eyes. She smiled cunningly, but it was only a momentary thing and neither Gu Jiuyi nor Xu Ruolin could notice it.

She did not push her luck, but took out three hot packs from her pocket and handed them to Lu Yuan and the others.

"That's thoughtful." Lu Yuan thanked.

"Thank you, Yu Han." Gu Jiuyi/Xu Ruolin.

It's now more than ten degrees below zero in Beijing and it's snowing. It's really cold.

"yawn."

At this moment, a sneezing sound suddenly appeared behind Ye Yuhan. Lu Yuan looked back and found senior Wang Xinyi following behind Ye Yuhan.

"What? Have you never seen anyone sneeze?"

Seeing Lu Yuan looking over, Wang Xinyi waved her fist, showing her fangs, and threatened: "If you laugh again, I will photoshop you into a ugly picture!"

"Ah?" Lu Yuan was puzzled.

Ye Yuhan smiled and explained, "The students will take a photo of Tiananmen Square and the flag-raising ceremony."

"Oh!"

Just as Lu Yuan was feeling grateful for Ye Yuhan's thoughtfulness, cheers suddenly came from not far away.

Turning your head, you can see the honor guard in white military uniforms marching straight in step and with handsome postures, walking towards Tiananmen Square.

Lu Yuan was filled with awe.

As the national anthem sounded, everyone raised their hands and saluted at the same time, watching the national flag fluttering in the wind.

45. Singing flag

Maybe it was because they were too excited about the flag-raising ceremony in the morning, or maybe they had to adjust their work and rest schedule temporarily, but in any case, they almost all seemed a little lacking in energy when eating breakfast.

Lu Yuan was actually a little sleepy. It wasn't that he hadn't adjusted his sleep schedule. As a day student, he was also responsible for breakfast at home, so he usually got up more than half an hour earlier than the boarding students.

I felt sleepy only because I was woken up several times in the middle of the night by Tao Ye's snoring and teeth grinding.

Counting the time, from the end of the first semester of the first year of high school in the previous life to now, it has been about two and a half years, almost three years, that I haven't slept with them. I even forgot that Tao Ye would snore and grind his teeth when he sleeps at night.

At this time, Lu Yuan suddenly missed the time when he slept with the girls at home.

Gu Jiuyi and the others don’t snore, they sleep very well and quietly.

Except using him as a pillow.

After breakfast, the itinerary is to visit the Forbidden City, formerly known as the Purple Forbidden City, where the royal family lived.

Even though it is no longer inhabited, it is undoubtedly a symbol of history, representing the past six hundred years of China.

"The Forbidden City is really huge." Xu Ruolin sighed.

No matter who comes to the Forbidden City for the first time, they will surely be shocked.

Lu Yuan, Ye Yuhan and others walked along the central axis of the Forbidden City towards the Jinshui Bridge.

Walk through the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Preserving Harmony, and arrive at the Qianqing Gate. As you walk closer, you can clearly see the resounding plaque "Zhengda Guangming" on the Qianqing Palace.

It seems as if one can see the emperor of the past and the most powerful ministers of the current dynasty attending court here.

In addition to the students from Yunhai No. 1 Middle School, there were many other young people who looked like students nearby, of all ages, and even newlyweds wearing dragon robes taking commemorative photos here.

Because today is Saturday, there are a little more people here. The more than a thousand people in Yunhai No. 1 Middle School are just the tip of the iceberg.

Sometimes, seeing some attractions in magazines, on TV, or on social networks is a completely different experience than seeing them in person.

It's not just the long journey. Ye Yuhan and Xu Ruolin are actually quite curious about the Forbidden City. Even Gu Jiuyi, who has been there many times, became interested because she had never visited it when it snowed before.

After passing through the red wall outside the East Six Palaces and outside the Huangji Gate, Lu Yuan and his companions finally saw the Nine Dragon Wall, which was full of historical allusions and anecdotes and was personally inspected by the emperor.

The Nine Dragon Screen is a single-sided glazed screen built against the palace wall. It is named after the nine dragons carved on it.

Each dragon is made of colored glaze, demonstrating the high skills of the craftsmen of the past.

Looking at the legendary Nine Dragon Wall, Lu Yuan's heart was slightly touched, and a sense of pride lingered in his chest. He couldn't help but hum:

"This land, I started writing, and the blood of our nation stretches thousands of miles.

Over the past six hundred years, the descendants of the dragon have gone through many ups and downs.

This capital, the central axis, is like a gentleman with unshakable integrity.