Chapter 13: The Smoke of China

At seven o'clock in the morning, Ha Ji Won and Jiang Meteor walked out of the residential building together, walked into the garage, and got into a sky blue car.

This sky blue sedan is Ha Ji Won's car, it is not a luxury, it is a mid-range car.

Even the car is sky blue, which shows that Ha Ji Won does have a soft spot for sky blue.

Kang Meteor knows that blue has a variety of meanings, and several of them match Ha Ji Won, for example, blue is very pure, blue appears serene, and blue symbolizes honesty and trustworthiness...... In Jiang Liuxing's mind, Ha Ji Won is not only cheerful and smiling, but also pure, serene, honest and credible.

Although she has her own car, Ha Ji Won doesn't like to drive, and she prefers to ride in a car than to drive, just as she is better at eating than cooking. This indirectly shows that she is not a hard-working woman in life, but she is really dedicated to her work, she will be very careful and accurate when working, and she will abide by the agreement, which is related to Tian's father's teaching in this regard.

Ha Ji Won drove Jiang Meteor to a nearby subway station, in fact, the subway station is not far from the residential building, and it takes a few minutes to go, and Ha Ji Won still insists on sending Jiang Meteor.

When he arrived at the subway station, Jiang Liuxing advised: "Sister, drive carefully." ”

"You have to be careful when you go." Ha Ji Won responded with a smile and waved his hand: "Goodbye." ”

"Goodbye." Jiang Liuxing also waved his hand and immediately got out of the car.

This kind of simple mutual care also seems very warm and beautiful.

Ha Ji Won drove away.

Riding the crisp morning sun, riding the crisp morning breeze, and breathing the fresh morning air, Jiang Liuxing walked under the subway station and took the subway towards the Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University.

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Kyung Hee University, a well-known institution of higher learning in South Korea, has opened more than 100 majors since its establishment in 1949, among which the research achievements in management, economics, medicine, journalism and informatics are particularly prominent, and the most famous is the Department of Postmodern Music, which has many star singers among the graduates or students in the department.

Although Kyung Hee University is not considered a top university in Korea, it is the top in terms of music teaching, and Kyung Hee University has a beautiful campus scenery and can be described as one of the most beautiful universities in Korea.

Kyung Hee University has two campuses, the Seoul Campus in Seoul and the Suwon Campus in Suwon, the capital city of Gyeonggi Province.

The Seoul campus is the main campus, and liberal arts majors are concentrated on this campus, including the Faculty of Liberal Arts, the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, and the Faculty of Economics.

The Suwon campus concentrates a number of science and engineering majors, including the College of Engineering, the School of Electronics and Information, and the School of Life Sciences, as well as the College of Foreign Chinese, the College of Art and Design, and the College of Physical Education.

The Department of Postmodern Music, also known as the Department of Post-Modern Musicology, was established in 2000 and teaches Western classical music, Oriental traditional music, popular music, film music, JAZZ music, and more.

The Department of Education is based on the teaching philosophy of creating a new 21st century music, and is led by the educational process of cutting-edge sound and music production techniques related to computers, with the educational goal of responding to the Internet era and cultivating students' ability to create music.

Although the department was only established in 2000, it has now produced many famous composers, performers, professors, TV PDs, music managers, CD producers, musical arrangers, opera singers, advertising musicians, multimedia coordinators, film and television musicians, music PDs, music engineers, and of course, star singers!

The college entrance examination in South Korea is held in mid-November every year, and the end of the year is the time for university admissions.

A year and a half ago, at the end of 2005, Jiang Liuxing, who was only 17 years old, was admitted to the Department of Postmodern Music of Kyung Hee University with his excellent music expertise.

At that time, Kang Ryung-sung was still living in Suwon City with Tian's father and mother, and the Department of Postmodern Music of Kyung Hee University was on the Suwon campus, but after Kang Ryung-sung was admitted to the special recruitment, he insisted on moving to Seoul for the reason that he wanted to better pursue his dreams.

Father Tian had an opinion about this at the time, thinking that Jiang Liuxing lived in Suwon City, which was not only convenient for going to school, but also could be supervised by him, and when he went to Seoul, he had to go to school every day, and he had to travel back long way after school, so why should he be so trouble-seeking.

Father Tian thinks that living in Suwon City is to let Jiang Liuxing continue to live with his parents, and will not consider letting Jiang Liuxing live in school, Tian's father knows that with Jiang Liuxing's character, it is not appropriate to live with a few boys, and it will affect his studies, and even his ideology will be affected by some bad influences, and it is impossible for Ha Ji Yuan to let Jiang Liuxing live in school.

Fortunately, Tian's father later understood, and he also knew that Seoul was the center of South Korea, and young people wanted to develop, especially those who were engaged in music, and it was almost impossible to break through without going to Seoul.

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It is indeed very far from the community where the apartment is located to the Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University, but fortunately, the transportation is very convenient, it takes about an hour and more than an hour by subway, and the fastest line 1 takes about one hour and five minutes, in addition, there are many direct buses to Suwon, and there are even shuttle buses to the Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University.

Class starts at 8:50 in the morning, it's 7 o'clock now, and there is still more than an hour, because there is a transfer in the middle, and according to convention, when Kang Meteor arrives at the Suwon campus, classes will start soon.

Five days a week, Jiang Liuxing has to go to class like this, and then rush back to Seoul after school at 1:50 in the afternoon, it is really a crime, Tian's father's original opinion is not unreasonable, if Jiang Liuxing lives with Tian's father in Suwon, he will not have to suffer this crime.

The reason why Jiang Liuxing has been absent from class many times is that he thinks he knows all the content of some classes, and he understands them well, and he wants to save time to do what he really wants to do and needs to do, and occasionally because he is too late to travel.

But Jiang Liuxing has no regrets, his pursuit of his dream is unswerving, only Seoul can make his dream blossom, not to mention that if he hadn't lived in Seoul, he wouldn't have met Yuna and wouldn't have had a first love with Yuna.

Whether it is going to school or leaving school, whether it is taking the subway or bus shuttle, Jiang Liuxing will listen to music while wearing headphones and reading a book, after all, there is more than an hour away, Jiang Liuxing will not waste it, he is stingy with time, and will make full use of time to enrich himself.

At this time, Jiang Liuxing usually reads literary books, he likes literature very much, and he also works hard in literature, and he has dabbled a lot in poetry, prose, novels, etc. at home and abroad.

Jiang Liuxing knows that music and literature have a lot in common, and being good at literature is conducive to his music creation, poetry and prose are directly related to the level of lyrics, and novels can allow him to expand his horizons and dig deeper into human stories and emotions.

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Today, Jiang Meteor, who took the subway to school, was listening to soft music while reading a book.

Some idle passengers around will look at Jiang Liuxing with curiosity or surprise, because his dress and the way he reads with headphones are really special, looking avant-garde and individual. For these gazes, Jiang Liuxing will not worry, and he is used to it, I do my own thing, I do mine, what do I have to do with others?

The book Jiang Liuxing was reading at this time was "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds"!

"Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" is a large novel written by Lin Yutang, a famous writer and scholar in China.

This book was written in English between August 1938 and August 1939 by Lin Yutang when he lived in Paris, modeled on the structure of "Dream of the Red Chamber", aiming to introduce Taoist culture to the West, promote Taoist thought, and tell the joys and sorrows, grievances and hatreds of the three major families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping for more than 30 years, and show the changing historical style of modern Chinese society in a panoramic way.

There are good stories, philosophies, historical interpretations, changes in customs, deep conversations, gossip, the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the characters in the play, and of course, the Chinese state in that chaotic war years.

There are many mysteries in the book, which are often incomprehensible to non-Chinese people, because it is modeled after "Dream of Red Mansions", which not only has a structure very similar to "Dream of Red Mansions", but also directly involves relevant passages of "Dream of Red Mansions", which is difficult for Chinese people to comprehend if they do not have a certain amount of knowledge.

What Jiang Liuxing is reading is the Chinese version of "Jinghua Smoke Cloud", and being able to directly read such a very large and very Chinese essence of the Chinese version of the novel is enough to see that he is indeed very proficient in Chinese.

However, about the relevant passages of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the book, Jiang Liuxing looked a little confused, he had read "Dream of the Red Mansion", read the same Chinese version, but did not understand much, because this book is really too classic and too profound, even if Jiang Meteor is proficient in Chinese, after all, it is still limited, now only 19 years old, if he can deeply understand "Dream of the Red Mansion", it is a fantasy.

But this "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", on the whole, Jiang Meteor can still understand it.

Because it is a large novel, it has a lot of words and a very thick book.

Jiang Liuxing's reading efficiency is very high, but he has been reading this novel for a week, and now he has finally finished reading it.

“…… In front of the temple gate, the old abbot still stands. He could still see Mulan and Sunya, their children, the children who walked with them, all their shadows. He watched for a while, until they gradually blended in with the shadows of others, and disappeared into the crowd of people who were walking towards Lingshan under the dust—into the crowd of people who were walking towards the great interior of China. ”

After reading the end of this last paragraph, Jiang Liuxing gently closed the tome novel.

At this moment, Jiang Liuxing had a lot of thoughts, part of it was about the novel, and part of it was about himself.

Turning around, Jiang Liuxing looked out of the subway window, looking at the rapidly flowing light and shadow in the dark tunnel outside the window, didn't it look like a turbulent smoke cloud?

"Am I really from the future?"

"If I came through time, then in my previous life, was I really a member of China?"

Jiang Liuxing couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, unconsciously remembering something, so his brain suddenly became confused, and suddenly a little pain was born. In the confusion and pain, Jiang Liuxing deeply felt that China was like a misty cloud of smoke for him, and he couldn't help but feel an inexplicable nostalgia......