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In the 1950s and 1960s, in No. 81 Xiang'er Hutong, Beixinqiao, Beijing, the origins and disputes of the Sun family and the Guan family were seen by Zhang Yajuan, a street activist. Who poisoned Guan's cat? Will the Sun family respond to the government's call to hand over the small courtyard? Among those forgotten stories, warm a pot of wine and re-experience the taste of old Beijing. A person who lives in an alley may not be very knowledgeable. He is only familiar with a few alleys in front of his home, which are not bigger than a village. Like the people in Xiang'er Hutong, they know the stories of three generations of ancestors of every family around them, just like they are familiar with every national event on TV. They all know that in a courtyard at the east entrance, there is an old lady with white hair who has been standing numbly all year round, with several small shabby houses behind her crowded together. The yard was so dilapidated that there wasn't even a decent door, just a big red iron gate, which was bolted shut at night and made a rumbling sound when pulled.

Uninteresting long descriptions, content that is out of touch with the times, themes of bitterness and hatred... In the eyes of many people, serious literature has been equated with boredom. As a rare serious literary writer born in the 1980s, Hou Lei's works are never "serious". He starts from daily life and directly touches the readers' hearts with wonderful words and real trivial things.

"Sexy Wild Notes" is a collection of cultural essays written by Hou Lei, a master of historical research. The manuscript content includes the lives of small people in the old days, the incisive spring classics of Jianghu people, the details of opera and folk art, the elegance of traditional scholarly families, and green forests. The legend of the murder... Recounts the prosperity of the past and those unknown cultural anecdotes in the gossip notes, systematically combing China's history, social changes, and Chinese thinking patterns. It is interesting, well-founded, and can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people.

The novel "The Harem Returns to the Sun" is a parody of the secret history of the palace full of witty lines. A series of farce continues one after another. Bi Yu, a scholar, was deceived into marriage after failing in the scientific examination, and his family property was wiped out. He came to the imperial capital to work and make a living. Not wanting to be bullied by his brothers, he entered the palace in confusion, started as a low-level eunuch, and suffered all kinds of humiliation. Bi Yu accidentally meets Concubine Shu, who has been thrown into the cold palace, and a strange combination of circumstances develops into a "food-for-food" relationship. In order to become a man again, Bi Yu, although trapped in the vortex of power in the harem, still worked hard to find the secret of returning to Yang, which triggered a series of ridiculous stories.