Volume 1 Love Test Paper Your Name My Heart Matter 001 Midnight Rain Lane

  Midnight Rain Lane

  That evening, the originally clear sky of the small town suddenly started to drizzle with rain. The dense raindrops enveloped the cold reinforced concrete buildings, and the streets were desolate. Xia Jianing walked through the pedestrian path between road signs and advertisements, holding an umbrella in one hand and a stack of students' homework books in the other.

  This is the most prosperous and fashionable pedestrian shopping street in the city, with tourists flocking to it, but just around the corner of a street away, there is another scene.

  Guo Street is a gate of the Ming Dynasty, with a small alley on either side of the gate, called Jiangnan Alley.

  The buildings in Jiangnan Lane are all two-story wooden houses, some of which still retain their carved window frames. They are the only remaining ancient alleys in the city, with a uniform style of Republican and pre-Liberation architecture. In its heyday, merchants and traders thronged to the area, and high-ranking officials resided here.

  Having gone through countless historical upheavals and wars, it has long lost its ancient charm, leaving only various forms of dirtiness and disorder.

  The tiles on the roof are overgrown with weeds, and after the wild cat runs through, it has to climb up to pick up the tiles, otherwise it will leak rain on rainy days and leak light on sunny days. The decayed wood is infested with termites.

  In the attic, as soon as it rained or was windy outside, the room would be filled with gloom and dampness. Xia Jianing started showing symptoms of rheumatism at just 26 years old.

  The messy wires in the alley also pose a major safety hazard. In the alley, many residential houses still have dry toilets that need to be cleaned regularly by sanitation workers.

  Due to its large area and extremely superior geographical location, Jiangnan Alley has been targeted by countless developers, but the original residents of Jiangnan Alley have resolutely resisted demolition, with some elderly people even risking their lives.

  Since she was in high school, she has witnessed countless scenes of her parents and neighbors fighting with government departments, so several city governments have not been able to demolish it, becoming the largest nail household group in the city.

  Her father was the leader of the demolition team, and in fact, there were issues with compensation for violent resistance to demolition, as well as a strong reluctance to leave this old house.

  She also deeply loves the place where she grew up for more than 20 years, just like everyone else. Even though the school has a dormitory for teachers and staff, she still insists on going home no matter how late it is.

  Ever since she learned Dai Wangshu's "Rain Alley", she fell in love with the feeling of walking barefoot on the bluestone road in a small alley on rainy days, holding an umbrella.

  It was as if at this moment, she had already taken off her sandals at the entrance of the alley, stepping onto the smooth and cool bluestones, wandering alone in the long, long and desolate rain alley.

  It's already past 10 o'clock on this late summer night. Although it's early summer, the rain has driven away the old men and women who usually sit outside their homes in the alleys to enjoy the cool evening air, leaving the alley empty and quiet.

  She, a girl walking alone, was still somewhat afraid, and could only reluctantly cast aside the poetic rain, quickening her pace as she walked towards home in the middle of the alley. You can search for "Forced Trial Marriage: High Official's Little Woman Ha Eighteen" on Baidu.