The lady who accosted Zhong Yuemin at Charles de Gaulle Airport was Hannah, and her grandfather was from Shandong Province and was a laborer in World War I.

Hannah grew up living with her grandparents, which is why she can speak Chinese, and she grew up listening to her grandfather tell stories about the mysterious China of the East.

Grandpa misses the people of his hometown, the sorghum wine, white flour buns and bangzi opera in his hometown.

Hannah has Chinese blood in her blood and is fascinated by Chinese culture. But after her grandfather died, she never saw another Chinese person, because their town was too small, so she came to Paris, where she hoped to learn more about Chinese people and stories.

As soon as Hannah heard that a group of guests from China had arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport, she couldn't wait to come here to meet people from her grandfather's hometown.

"Hannah, why did you choose me?" Zhong Yuemin asked with some curiosity after listening to Hannah's self-introduction.

Hannah said, "I just heard you speak, and I think you are more open than the others, and you are the only one who is acting alone. I hope you don't think I'm too abrupt. ”

"No, I'm very glad to meet you!" Zhong Yuemin smiled, "I think I met my compatriots in beautiful Paris, even though you have never been to China." ”

"Sometimes I feel different too, and I often fall into doubt......"

Zhong Yuemin continued: "Doubt that you are Chinese?"

"Hmm. Hannah nodded slightly, "But apart from speaking Chinese, my complexion, my nose, and my eyes are French, I don't understand why?"

"Because you inherited the identity of Chinese culture from your grandfather, and in China, no matter what ethnicity, what faith, what look, as long as you identify with our culture, you are Chinese, and everyone will identify with this." Zhong Yuemin replied.

"Oh, China is such an amazing country, you have a mind as big as the sea!" Hannah sighed.

"The sea is tolerant of all rivers, and tolerance is great, this is our belief. Zhong Yuemin suddenly felt that he was a little pretending.

"If I have the chance, I must go to China and see the places where my grandfather lived. Hannah said.

"Well, there will definitely be a chance. ”

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The bus that Zhong Yuemin and his entourage took soon arrived at the Liaison Office in the United States, and the staff of the Liaison Office warmly received the first batch of scholars studying in the United States and arranged a sumptuous welcome banquet for everyone.

However, the group soon encountered a problem, the room of the liaison office was too hot, and the coat on the body could not be worn at all, but there were too few hooks for the guests to hang their clothes.

Eventually, the staff of the liaison office came up with a way to set up two tables in the hallway for people to put their coats.

"The climate in the United States is similar to that in China, but this vegetable is really scarce, and the master chef in our kitchen is also a skillful woman who can cook without rice. Director Tang of the liaison office said to everyone, "Fortunately, beef and mutton are cheap here, everyone should eat as much as possible, and take care of enough!"

The long dining table is full of meat, roast beef ribs, roast lamb chops, potato beef stew, mutton vermicelli soup...... Almost every recipe imaginable, but the only vegetables in between are lettuce, carrots and kale.

"This director is really funny, who still eats vegetables if there is meat to eat!?" Zhong Yuemin heard someone whispering, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

In fact, there is no need for Director Tang to say more, everyone started to move regardless of reserve, and there are too few opportunities to eat meat in China, and many people can't eat half a catty of meat a year.

Zhong Yuemin and Mei are slightly better, because there is a way to get meat tickets, they have often opened a small stove in the office of the teaching and research department in the past year, and Zhong Yuemin is almost a hard dish.

"Yuemin, this meat is a bit of firewood, and the smell of meat is too strong, it's not delicious. Xie Mei complained in a low voice, worried that others would hear it.

Zhong Yuemin also felt the same way, it was not bad to enter the barbecue, and the dishes of other Chinese food practices were indeed a little difficult to eat, "The United States pays attention to animal rights and interests, and it does not bleed when it kills pigs and cattle, and it does not incite pigs and cattle to incite sheep, and the meat is very angry, and it is really not delicious." ”

"Oh!" Xie Mei nodded understandingly, "Yuemin, how do you know so well?"

"Forehead······ I read it in the book, and I happened to see this when I was at the airport in France. ”

"So that's the case, and Americans are too good to talk about the rights of animals. Xie Mei suddenly sighed, "We have never thought about this in China before." ”

"Now that the rights and interests of people in China can't even be protected, how can we take care of animals?" Zhong Yuemin stopped his chopsticks, "When we are as rich as the United States one day, we will pay more attention to animal protection than them!"

Xie Mei looked at Zhong Yuemin in surprise, "Can we really be as rich as the United States?"

"Why can't it?" Zhong Yuemin asked rhetorically, "Do you mean that we don't even have enough to eat now, we don't have wide roads, we don't have high-rise buildings, and we don't have so many cars?"

Xie Mei subconsciously wanted to object, but found that she did think so, and she was suddenly there.

"Be patient, I'm sure my generation will be able to see it. After Zhong Yuemin finished speaking, he continued to bury his head in eating, leaving Xie Mei deep in thought.

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"Hello, you're Japanese?"

"No, I'm Chinese. ”

More than 50 international students with different majors and chose different universities for further study and study, and after a short break in Washington, D.C., they went their separate ways.

Zhong Yuemin also got on the long-distance bus to Pittsburgh, and it was obvious that his black-haired, black-eyed Asian image was really eye-catching, and the old man sitting next to him quickly accosted him.

"Oh my God, Chinese!" the old man was a little surprised and a little curious, "where are you from?"

"Beijing, I'm from Beijing, I'm going to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Zhong Yuemin replied, completely out of respect for the old man.

The old man's eyes widened, "Beijing?"

"That's right, I just landed in Washington the day before yesterday. Zhong Yuemin asked, "Is there any problem?"

"Are China and the United States going to establish diplomatic relations?" the old man exclaimed, "Red China has actually sent students to the United States!"

This time it was Zhong Yuemin's turn to be shocked, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States is in the final stage, and it is a state of secrecy for any aspect, and the old man in front of him actually saw him and asserted that China and the United States were about to establish diplomatic relations, this person is really god!

"Old man, why do you assert that?" Zhong Yuemin asked.

"I'm a professor of Asian politics at the University of Pennsylvania, and my name is Paul Walker. I still know a little bit about the situation in China. The old man introduced himself.

Zhong Yuemin suddenly knew that most Americans were not interested in politics and other countries in his impression, and the sudden appearance of such a god really startled him.

"Mr. Professor, I'm just a student, and I don't know much, but I hope that China and the United States can establish diplomatic relations and the two countries can communicate peacefully and amicably. Zhong Yuemin said.

"Of course, I sincerely hope so. "China is a country worthy of our respect, with a long history, a mysterious culture, and brave and tenacious soldiers. ”

"Have you ever been to China?" Zhong Yuemin thought to himself, this old man did not need to praise China in front of a person like him, the other party must have some story to tell.

Paul Walker shook his head, "I haven't been, but I've been to South Korea, and I've fought against the Chinese army back then, and it's really a great and terrible army! Since then, I've been more interested in Chinese culture, and even re-chosen my major in college." ”

Well, this is still an old devil who participated in the Korean War!

"Professor, thank you very much for your praise of the Chinese army, but I still hope that there will be no more wars in the world. ”

"Yes, war is indeed very bad!" Paul Walker nodded solemnly, "Young man, what did you study at Carnegie Mellon?"

"I chose to major in software engineering. ”

"Oh, why?"

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"Mr. Zhong Yuemin, as far as I know, China doesn't even have a computer, why did you choose to come to Carnegie Mellon to study computer software engineering?"

The same question was asked by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who was also asking Zhong Yuemin.

"Mr. Professor, it is precisely because there are no computers in China that I came here to study. Zhong Yuemin patted his ass sincerely, "Carnegie Mellon University has the best computer science major in the world and the best faculty team, and I hope to gain a lot here." ”

"As you wish, once you pass the language assessment, you will be treated like all students in the School of Computer Science, not only in terms of teaching knowledge, but also in terms of assessment!" the professor stressed, "If you fail the assessment of the college, you will be kicked out by me like other students!"

"Thank you for the reminder, I will not let what you say about this day happen. "Zhong Yuemin has long understood the urine nature of Americans, and it is useless to instigate intercession, they only respect the strong!

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Pittsburgh is located in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania, USA, at the mouth of the Ohio River where the Oligna River and the Monlonmay-Hera River merge into the Ohio River.

Pittsburgh is a famous steel industry city in the United States and is known as the "steel capital of the world". So Zhong Yuemin has a bit of intimacy here, because the smell of coal in the air is no different from Beijing's, or even more pure.

It's only a three-hour drive from the Washington area, six hours east to New York, five hours to Philadelphia, one hour to Cleveland to the west, two hours north to Lake Erie, and five hours northeast to Niagara Falls.

It has been an extremely important transportation hub since the European colonial era, and it is also the center of the American Industrial Revolution, where a large number of pioneers were born. Among them was steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who founded Carnegie Steel (later American Steel) here, monopolizing more than half of the country's steel production and becoming the trust of the steel industry.

Even Zhong Yuemin's Carnegie Mellon University amateur steel king has a lot of origins, and the campus is full of the deeds and memories of this steel king.

Carnegie Mellon University is located in the southeast corner of Pittsburgh, built on a mountain, and Zhong Yuemin is standing on the peak of the mountain at this time, quietly looking at the quiet campus below the mountain and the noisy industrial city in the distance, and his heart is quite emotional.

After the initial discomfort and painful improvement of language communication, Zhong Yuemin finally officially began to study computer science. And the teachers and students in the school also began to get used to his existence as the only Chinese.

And just yesterday, China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations on January 1.

Zhong Yuemin was quite excited when he saw the news in the newspaper, although he had long known that all this would happen, he still couldn't suppress the fluctuation of his mood. This means that the 40-year honeymoon period between China and the United States is about to begin, and China will also enter an upward path of rapid development.

Even though the road ahead was bumpy and tortuous, encountering abysses and minefields from time to time, the Chinese were not afraid of hardships and eventually stepped on all the bumps and trivial, leading to prosperity and national rejuvenation.

Around him, Zhong Yuemin found that no one cared about this matter, they didn't even read the political section of the newspaper, and even if they did, it was just a boring piece of political news.

They didn't know that history had changed dramatically at this moment, and that the dragon of the East had already begun to move forward at this moment!

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"Hi, Min, where have you been?"

Zhong Yuemin was greeted by a teaching assistant for the software major, a blonde girl from California, who was quite enthusiastic.

"Hi, Jane, what's the matter? You're in such a hurry to find me?"

"Of course!" said Jane, quickly, "we have received a telegram from Washington inviting you to a dinner party, and it is said that a big man from your country has arrived. ”

When Zhong Yuemin heard this, he immediately understood that it was Comrade Adult who had visited the United States, took the telegram in Jane's hand, and carefully looked at the dinner time above, "Jane, next Thursday is Professor Anderson's class, I may not be able to go, can you ask for leave on my behalf?"

"No, Professor Anderson is not a good talker!" Jane refused, "He likes you very much, why don't you go and talk to him yourself?"

"Anderson won't be coming to school until next Thursday, and I need to leave early, so I won't be able to meet him at all!" Zhong Yuemin begged, "I write a note, can you pass it on to him for me?"

"Hmmm······" Jane was reluctant to agree.

"I'll treat you to Chinese food!" Zhong Yuemin made a big move.

"Just tonight!" Jane immediately added, "Don't postpone it or you'll be waiting to be deducted zero points by Professor Anderson!"

Zhong Yuemin surrendered, "OK, you have the final say!"

"Yay!" Jane jumped up excitedly, "I want to eat Kung Pao chicken, mapo tofu, sweet and sour tenderloin······"

"Oh, Jane, you're so greedy, we can't buy so many ingredients!" Zhong Yuemin said.

"Then hurry up, I'll drive, let's go to the supermarket in Pittsburgh to shop!" Jian Cai didn't care so much, and ran away with Zhong Yuemin.