The Fiery Era: Starting from Longxugou

Ding-a-ling! The bell rang, signaling the end of get out of class.

Upon hearing the bell, Hu Chengzhi closed his book and emphasized to the students:

"Chemical equations are of paramount importance in high school chemistry. Everyone must study them carefully and not take them lightly. Whether it's calculations, deductions, or experiments, you can't do without them... Okay, get out of class dismissed!"

After finishing his sentence, Hu Chengzhi took his books and walked out of the classroom.

After the teacher left, the classroom instantly became lively.

"Shi'an, you're amazing! You can even answer questions correctly when the teacher wakes you up from your sleep!"

"Indeed, if it were me, I'd definitely make them stand in the back row as punishment!"

"I wish I had that ability!"

After the teacher left, the surrounding students started teasing Zhao Shi'an.

"Alright, alright, stop making a fuss. Shi-an is like this because he didn't sleep well while working at home!"

If he had taken leave, he would have finished all the housework long ago, and this wouldn't have happened. Stop making sarcastic remarks!

"Shi'an, school's over, let's go!"

Hearing everyone's teasing, Wang Zhijie couldn't help but speak up in defense.

"Want to have this skill? It's easy! Just preview the material before class and you'll remember it. Okay, that's all, I have to go home, I'm so sleepy!"

Following the original owner's habits, Zhao Shi'an responded with a few words, then yawned before following Wang Zhijie out of the classroom.

The two walked out of the classroom and arrived at the school gate. Zhao Shi'an was very surprised to see the school gate. It was more like a temple gate than a gate, with morning bells and evening drums on both sides. He knew from the original owner's memories that the school was converted from the Medicine King Temple, and the temple name was changed to the school name.

"Shi'an, I'm going home. Take a nap at noon, and don't be sleepy this afternoon!"

After leaving the school gate, Wang Zhijie said goodbye to his friend.

"Don't worry! I understand!"

Zhao Shi'an waved and turned to walk towards home.

After walking for a while, he found that the environment in front of him was actually quite good. There was a wide main road, the road surface was paved with asphalt and gravel, and there were streetlights on both sides of the road. At a rough glance, the road surface was at least six or seven meters wide.

Looking at the modern road, Zhao Shi'an couldn't believe that it was a road that was 54 years old.

Such a road didn't even exist in his hometown in 2000, yet Beijing had it in 1954. Even if Beijing, as the capital, was ahead, it shouldn't be fifty years ahead, right? This is too exaggerated!

Fortunately, the original owner's memories gave him the answer: the road in front of him was called Goldfish Pond Street, and four years ago, this place was called Dragon Beard Ditch.

Wait, Dragon Beard Ditch?

Isn't this where the original owner grew up? How did it become like this? The contrast is too great!

Having perfectly absorbed the original owner's memories, Zhao Shi'an knew that Longxu Gully was of great significance to the original owner!

After fleeing famine to the capital, the family settled in Longxugou, where the original owner grew up. Longxugou was the place with the deepest childhood memories for him.

Zhao Shi'an hadn't quite reacted yet. Looking at the almost modern facilities in front of him, he was surprised and became increasingly curious. His curiosity drove him to explore the secrets within.

Longxugou is a very famous place. Lao She won the title of "People's Artist" for his play "Longxugou".

In addition, there is a movie of the same name. He had seen the scenes of sewage flowing everywhere in the old movie, but he hadn't seen many of the renovated scenes, and he couldn't see much in the black and white movie.

The scenes in the movie were far less impressive than the original owner's personal experience. The original owner grew up in Longxugou and witnessed the stinking ditch turn into what it is today.

The once stinking, mosquito-infested open ditch has been transformed into a culvert. The original Longxu Ditch has been buried underground and transformed into the wide and flat Jinyuchi Street, which is six miles long and has a maximum width of ten meters.

The renovated Longxugou is a benchmark in the southern part of the city. Looking at the whole of Beijing, its infrastructure is very good, second only to the already extremely prosperous areas such as Chang'an Avenue, Wangfujing, and Dongjiaomin Lane.

It is said that this renovation used nearly 700 million catties of millet, making it the largest municipal project in Beijing. After the renovation of Longxu Ditch is completed, it will benefit tens of thousands of residents in the surrounding area.

In addition to road repairs, every household in the vicinity now has access to electric lights, and public toilets and water stations have been built. Residents no longer have to drink dirty or bitter water as before, and a tram line has been installed on Jinyuchi Street.

It can be said that, apart from the unchanged residences on both banks, Longxugou now boasts external facilities comparable to a modern new rural area.

People now have access to running water, electric lights in their homes, trams for transportation, streetlights at night, and public toilets, which, although dry toilets, are much better built than those in the inner city.

Combining the original owner's memories with the old movie, Zhao Shi'an looked at the completely changed Longxugou and his steps became much lighter. He walked and looked around, and soon saw a pond. Upon closer inspection, he found that the water surface was quite large.

According to the original owner's memories, this place was originally a large kiln pit in Longxugou. When the city was built in the Jin Dynasty, soil was taken to fire bricks, and a large area of ​​kiln pits were dug out. Later, water accumulated and formed a pond. Fresh water was introduced. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a place to raise goldfish. After the Republic of China, the upstream water source was cut off, and it became a stinking puddle.

After the renovation of Longxu Ditch, this place was transformed into a pond named Goldfish Pond, with a water surface of about 30 acres. The entire pond is shaped like a gold ingot.

The pond's banks were neatly constructed with bluestone and old city bricks, surrounded by a sturdy gray stone railing about one meter high. The weeping willows planted along the banks had already sprouted tender yellow buds, and several small boats were moored on the water. Goldfish swam around in the water, shimmering in the sunlight.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Shi'an compared it with the Dragon Beard Gully in the original owner's memory and found that the two places were completely different, with a difference as vast as heaven and earth!

Zhao Shi'an stood on the bank, watching the goldfish swimming in the pond. Thinking of his own space, he casually folded a willow branch and threw the tender yellow-green shoots into the water.

Tender shoots fall onto the water's surface, creating ripples, and little goldfish chase after them eagerly.

Zhao Shi'an watched this scene, leaned on the railing, bent down, locked onto a small yellow goldfish, and with a thought, the goldfish instantly entered the space and landed in the spatial river.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, he tried to increase his distance, from almost lying on the water's surface to half-squatting.

After some experimentation, Zhao Shi'an discovered that the range of his mental power started from his waist and covered a radius of nearly one meter.

Overjoyed at this discovery, Zhao Shi'an realized that by maximizing his mental focus when encountering danger, he could avoid the vast majority of perils.

Most importantly, it is possible to completely isolate toxic and harmful substances during experiments.

He's definitely born with a genius for scientific research!

"Brother, what are you doing here? Come home and eat, Mom has cooked!"

Zhao Xiaoyue stood on the earthen slope, eagerly waiting for her older brother. When she saw him playing on the railing, she immediately shouted loudly.

"Hey! They're here!"

As Zhao Shi'an spoke, he stood up, casually tossed the broken willow branch into the pond, and stored it in his spatial storage just before it hit the water's surface. He then planted it in the black soil.

Turning around, I saw a little girl standing on a hillside not far away. She was wearing a cotton-padded jacket that was obviously an old adult's clothes that had been altered. It was too big and loose on her, reaching down to her knees, and the sleeves were a bit long, like a theatrical robe.

His little face was red from the cold. He recognized her as the original owner's little sister and waved to her.