Xiamen, the city of cats in the sky.

In fact, there is no Maokong Bookstore in Xiamen.

(Cat's Sky City Concept Bookstore, also known as Cat Empty Bookstore. )

Once, when we stopped in Tianjin and had nothing to do, a group of people got into a large shopping mall to kill time. I was lazy to open the map and look up the keywords "cafe" and "bookstore", and then I found a surprise.

At that time, I was wondering who was so talented that I put together all my favorite things, such as cats, books and the city of the sky. ...

I found a window seat and ordered an American cup. I didn't study because I was surprised that I couldn't understand it. In such a pleasant environment, I would rather curl up in this corner like a domestic cat for an afternoon.

For a moment, I even felt that the post-90 s uncle was dying of literature and art, and I liked this moment.

Maokong Bookstore was born in 2009 in Pingjiang Road, Suzhou, an ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River. Once, a good friend told me that he found this store in Suzhou, and he said that it was your favorite style at first sight.

Xiamen is the city I have always longed for. Growing up in the Central Plains, I have always been fascinated by the sea. An adult told me that if I like the sea, I will go to Xiamen, where the sea is beautiful. I said yes.

Maybe it's fate. At the end of 20 17, I stayed in Xiamen for a week because of the bad schedule. I started living in Zeng Cuo An Village Village, eating Satay noodles and listening to the guitar in the music bar.

Later, I walked from Mao Jie to Xiamen University (it was raining in Mao Mao) and saw Zhang Ailing's book in the bookstore of Xiamen University. I took a copy of Dream of Red Mansions.

Encourage each other to climb Mount Putuo with a group of strangers. We complain that we should have breakfast before climbing the mountain. Although the mountain is not high, our blood sugar can't keep up. After seeing the scenery, we agreed to go down the mountain to taste the vegetarian cake in Nanputuo, which is said to be a feature.

Then I came to Gulangyu to step on the beach. The sunshine is just right, the breeze is not dry, the sand is soft and the sea is beautiful. ...

One day in a daze in the hotel, I had a whim to open the map and search for "the city of cats in the sky", which surprised me and puzzled me. Surprisingly, this coordinate really exists, but I am surprised that this coordinate does not show that it is a bookstore, and no one has been there. Out of curiosity, I got dressed and continued on my way. I said, I also want to see the name.

After walking along the road around the sea for two hours, behind a clean temple, I repeatedly confirmed that I was standing on the coordinates. There is no bookstore, no family ... only a few deserted alleys, an old coffee shop and a place that puzzles and surprises me.

Because of this scene, I'm so curious, quiet and broken, clean leaves, curious graffiti ... It's really like the scene written by Grandpa Miyazaki Hayao, and I'm full of fantasy, as if I accidentally broke into a new world.

Of course, the end result was that I quietly returned to the hotel.

Later, I went to some cities one after another, from Xiang Xue in Harbin to Sanya, and from the northernmost to the southernmost, before I found my favorite Na Pianhai.

I still remember "Send the Future" in the cat's space. You can write to your future self, and Maokong Bookstore will mail it to your address at the time you specify. I hesitated for a long time, not knowing where I would be and what kind of life I would lead.

But I know that in the future, you will like what you are now and your life now, right?