Chapter 0001: West Lake and Three Forks
In Kyoto in June, the sun is blazing!
The heart of the pride of the sky is more like a flowing fire, and he wants to dedicate what he has learned in the four years of college to this beautiful era.
Xu Le, a graduate of Kyoto Normal University, is faced with the choice of whether to continue his studies or accept fate's arrangement to become the king of children. His family situation is not particularly good, and if he chooses employment directly, he can solve a big problem for the family, but the school's guaranteed quota still includes him. It is his wish to continue studying, but the filial piety of being a child who hopes that his parents can relieve himself of fatigue as soon as possible makes him entangled. Although his parents were very much in favor of him continuing to study, he still couldn't let go of this tangled situation.
Xu Le, in fact, is not happy!
Those people in the mountains and rivers are actually a little stupid when they say they are simple, maybe they can be said to be stupid and cute!
The family does not have any particularly big pursuits, mainly because their own conditions are just like that, and the parents do not have a particularly high culture, the only hope is that the son born by the Xu family can live happily and healthily, which may be the common wish of parents in the world of Chinese people!
So, let's call him "Xu Le"!
It's beautiful, but it's not realistic!
Xu Le likes liberal arts, although his science grades are not bad, but he likes to read, likes to think about life, and can't say that he knows astronomy and geography, even in the case of Kyoto Normal University, which is full of talented and beautiful people and liberal arts education bases, he is still a well-known person!
Because, he's not happy! What he thinks about does not match society, a sense of justice, loyalty, exploration of human beings, questioning reality, although he is kind to others, he always feels that the utilitarianism behind it makes people feel cold!
However, this does not affect Xu Le's great enthusiasm for the society, because people's hearts will eventually be good!
Xu Le has spent four years studying, thinking, reading, and sealing. During these four years, he was passionate about history, because Kyoto Normal University itself is a well-known historical research center in the country, and there are many professional masters in this area, and there are many Taishan Beidou in the field of history.
For example, the Central Plains Theory, Xia Yi Monism, Huaxia Western Theory, etc., especially the Theory of Starry Dou came out, which immediately shocked the world! However, Xu Le still likes Xia Yi's monism and the theory of world unity, which is the doctrine of the old principal.
Xu Le was recommended to study in graduate school, and he has not yet determined the direction, his history and geography are very strong, and the school still takes great care of outstanding students, and it is okay to clarify the direction when the admission report is in September!
In fact, Xu Le's heart is more interested in philosophy and religion, but this can't be eaten, and it's really boring, so you can't do a lifelong cultivation just because you like it, right? Therefore, he can only put this kind of love in his daily life, read and think more, but he can't take a road.
Because of history, because of thinking, because of religion, Xu Le pays more attention to the source of Chinese civilization, the source of world civilization, and where the world is going, especially many seemingly funny or fantastic myths, because he has always believed that in some seemingly absurd myths, there may be a key to open the source of civilization!
It's all a joke, Xu Le also knows that this kind of thinking is actually a comfort to himself!
Because of his surname Xu, Xu Le especially hates Monk Fahai, but he is not disgusted with Buddhism, but he is disgusted with Fahai, and a good ladyboy love doesn't hinder your business, as for it? Look at the current American imperialist blockbuster, Beauty and the Beast, isn't it the same, not to mention, it's a real beast! Species are no longer in the scope of love, let alone Huaxia, a demon who has cultivated into an immortal?
Xu Le also thinks so about himself!
I don't want to do it so much, although I am entangled, but after all, I graduated from the bachelor's degree, and the students have already discussed, in the first few days of July, we will go to Hangzhou to play, play, eat and drink, there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou? Then take a group landscape photo, and finally pat your ass and disband on the spot, go back to your own house to find your mother, maybe you can see each other in the second half of the year, maybe some people will never see each other again!
Xu Le has never been to Hangzhou, but he yearns for it!
Because, in Hangzhou, there is a tower - Leifeng Tower, of course it is not the Leifeng Pagoda built by Lei Feng, it is Fahai's magic weapon, he hates Fahai, but he still wants to go and see it, because I heard that the White Lady is suppressed there!
Thinking of the White Lady, Xu Le couldn't help humming the song "On the shore of West Lake, March day......"
Yes, that tower is on the shore of West Lake!
I'm coming, West Lake!
"Xu Le, are you sure, who will be the mentor?" , a brother in the same dormitory, Zhang Guangran asked him.
"I didn't think about it, I don't want to, maybe I'm happy this time, and I'll know the result!" Xu Le replied with a smile.
In the 90s of the 20th century, the train was still a green car, with a speed of about 80 kilometers per hour, and it took more than 20 hours to travel from Kyoto to Hangzhou. Everyone is a poor student, and no one buys a sleeper, not to mention that there are many people, so there is no need.
Get on the bus at noon, and you can get to Hangzhou at more than 10 o'clock in the morning the next day!
There are a lot of people, they are young, and they are classmates for four years, so there is no shortage of chatting points.
Xu Le himself is the central object of the conversation, because he is a talented man, and more importantly, he is the squad leader. Xu Le's class leader got relatively cheap, and on the first day of class, the head teacher asked everyone, "Who has read through the "Historical Records"? Then Xu Le raised his hand, "Okay, then you can be the squad leader"! That's how Xu Le became a class leader.
Xu Le is twisted, but it doesn't mean that he won't come to things, and coming to things means that he can do things, have vision, and have high emotional intelligence.
Since his squad leader is so cheap and so direct, the first thing Xu Le did after being nominated as the squad leader is to continue to carry forward the teacher's style of selecting the squad leader, some things do not need to be discussed, not to mention that everyone is from all over the world, no one understands anyone, and when they understand the porridge, it will be cold, so it is the most effective way to carry forward the centralized style!
Then, he asked, "Who can run 11 seconds in 100 meters?" Zhang Guangran was the only one in the classroom who raised his hand, this is in the same dormitory with him, when he reported the day before yesterday and sat together to chat, Xu Le listened to his own introduction, sports expertise, "Then Zhang Guangran will be a sports commissioner"! Guang Ran scratched his head with a smile.
"Zhao Wenrong will be the member of the study committee, her college entrance examination score is the first in our class", no one doubts this, the top three liberal arts in Yuzhou Province, this is a powerful faction. A very simple, quite restrained girl, round face, a little dark, all from the countryside, no way, the general examination of the normal school is mainly rural. She walked to the podium, then turned to face everyone, "thank you," bowed, and walked back to her desk.
"Who thinks singing is good and is happy to organize events?" This time the nest exploded, but it wasn't that there were many people who raised their hands, and the discussion immediately began, most of them asked each other, how are you singing, what instruments do you still have, etc.
"Okay, if you feel good about yourself, please raise your hand, and we'll determine the literary and artistic committee!" Don't look at the heated discussion, but when the hand is raised, no one raises their hand. Two or three of the students looked a little eager to try, but they still didn't lift it in the end.
Xu Le took the list of class members and looked at it, "Which one is Qintian Zhuoma"? A girl who seemed to be wearing a white cardigan dress on her upper body and a sauce earth-colored skirt on her lower body stood up, and at first she raised her head, and when she saw that everyone was looking at her, she quickly lowered her head, and then raised her head again, a pair of bright and clear eyes were as light and clear as the water of a lake in the west.
"You're Tibetan, can you sing?" Xu Le asked.
"I... Iā" The girl was a little nervous, Xu Le thought.
"I usually sing to the sheep," some of the students smiled.
"Can you sing a song to everyone, then?" The teacher said from the side.
"I can't sing in front of people!" After Dolma said this, he let out a long sigh of relief.
Xu Le also smiled a little, "Then you close your eyes, think of everyone as a flock, and sing a song to everyone!" After hearing Xu Le's words, the class quickly burst into laughter.
Zhuoma's face turned even redder, and she looked into Xu Le's eyes, as if to confirm whether he was telling the truth, and Xu Le nodded.
The girl really closed her eyes, and in a few seconds, a voice like a heavenly voice floated out from between Dolma's lips, and everyone didn't seem to understand, but it didn't hinder the experience of music, the long tone, the elegant voice, and a deep sadness, like missing a distant lover. If everyone still had a joking attitude at the beginning, but when Dolma's singing voice unfolded, everyone was immersed in it.
Her voice was a little shaky at first, but after a few moments the tension was completely inaudible. Two or three minutes later, when everyone was still unsatisfied, the singing stopped! Xu Le also seems to have not heard enough!
"What song is this?" Xu Le asked.
""The Love Song of the Sixth Cangyang Lama", I don't know many Chinese songs, and I sing Tibetan songs to the sheep!" Dolma is back to his timid appearance!
"That's the love song about 'Cangyang Gyatso'? I heard that his hometown is very beautiful, but I don't know if I will have the opportunity to see it," Xu Le said to Zhuoma. Hearing that Xu Le could directly say Cangyang Gyatso, and also knew his hometown, Zhuoma seemed to be a little excited, "Yes, yes, it's him", she didn't seem to expect Xu Le to know Cangyang Gyatso, maybe she had some good feelings!
"Then Qin Tian Zhuoma will serve as the literary and artistic committee, is there a problem?" Xu Le said to everyone. "No problem", "No problem", everyone happily accepted it!
Subsequently, the life committee and the discipline committee were also elected, and basically the management committee of a class was born!
Four years have passed in a flash, a lot has happened in four years, some people are busy talking about love in four years, and some people are immersed in their own world in four years.
Why Xu Le has such a high prestige in the class, not because he can speak, not because he knows more, not because he has his own thoughts, the most important thing is that he fully exerts the idea of Taoist governance to the extreme, that is, "don't look for me if you have something", you go to the disciplinary committee if you fight; If you can't beat others, you go to the sports commissioner; If you can't study, that's the business of the study committee; If I don't succeed in the choir competition, will I be able to sing? The dormitory is not hygienic, so why do the living committee members eat? In four years, the class management committee has not changed, which is relatively rare in the whole school.
However, the whole school from freshman to senior, and even graduate school knew about Xu Le, because of his good academic performance and scholarship every year, the school wanted him to join the party, but he refused, saying that his thinking was not mature! The school asked him to introduce the management experience of the class management committee, and he said that it had nothing to do with me, they did a good job, but when he asked the committee members why they did so well, their answer was "the class leader manages it well". "Hehe, it's all 'Lao Tzu' who said it well"! Xu Le thought so in his heart.
Xu Le's only concern is to help the teachers of the history and geography teaching and research group to copy materials, his work is neat, never perfunctory, the history and geography teaching and research group is the key teaching and research group since the establishment of the school, because the first principal who opened up the direction of world history research went out from here. Later, the external professor, Mr. Su, who proposed the theory of starry sky, was also hung in the history and geography teaching and research group. So he had met Mr. Su and copied the blackboard newspaper for Mr. Su.
Unexpectedly, in the last semester of his senior year, the school told Xu Le that Mr. Su wanted Xu Le to study for his graduate school. "Is it because you can write well? Or is it because he has published several scholarly articles on history? Xu Le still felt a little confused, because Mr. Su was definitely the Taishan Beidou in today's Chinese historical circles, but he still didn't agree immediately.
Why did Mr. Su let himself go to his graduate school? To be honest, Xu Le didn't particularly agree with the theory of starry stars, and divided China into six or seven civilization sources according to the cultural relics unearthed and customs in various places? It seems that this is indeed the case, but will humans fall from the sky and be distributed in six places? Isn't that funny! Xu Le's evaluation of the theory of starry sky is that this is a compromise based on facts, rather than a kind of scientific inquiry, a spiritual embodiment of the continuous search for the source. Therefore, he actually rejected Mr. Su a little!
However, once he enters Mr. Su's door, it means that Xu Le may become a guest of major universities and dignitaries in his life. For such a child from the countryside, it is a very exciting thing. However, Xu Le is so entangled.
So, he's not happy!
Everyone chatted for an afternoon, Xu Le actually listened for an afternoon, while listening and nodding while thinking about the four-year college career, many people have changed, the study committee is not the kind of person who is dedicated to studying, and it is completely impossible to see that she is a girl from the countryside, although she is not dressed so foreign, but she can also see at a glance that four years of urban life have made her a city person; The literary and artistic committee member from the Tibetan side also became decisive, but the clarity in his eyes was still so clear when he looked at Xu Le, and it seemed to add a warm component; The sports committee also seems to have a literary style, but I don't know why it seems so melancholy! If it hasn't changed, it is Lin Bingsheng, a member of the disciplinary committee, a person born in the barracks, a family of three generations of soldiers, I heard that the family conditions are very good, but I don't know why, the family handed over this only son to the normal school; The life committee is Tian Miaomiao of Kyoto City, who is still thriving, maybe from a metropolis, and has always come to things, and can always take care of the feelings of each student when he speaks and does things, and has a good reputation.
When Zhang Guangran asked Xu Le what he decided in the end, everyone actually quieted down.
Although Xu Le didn't think about it, he looked at everyone's expectant eyes, and continued, "Everyone knows the situation in my family, so I can only say that it's okay, but I don't want them to be too tired!" Xu Le's clothes have always been clean for four years, but basically he has not changed anything, everyone actually knows that he lives more on scholarships, and the subsidy of normal schools is still quite large.
Tian Miaomiao looked at Xu Le and said, "Fun, I think you should still continue to study in graduate school." Her language is very firm, just like she was the first to decide to go to graduate school, her name "Lezi" is not a nickname, this "Zi" is not "four tones", but "three tones", this is an honorific title, even in school, some teachers call Xu Le so, can be called "Zi" (three tones) in four years of college, you can imagine what Xu Le's status is?
Zhuoma didn't know why, she seemed to be a little timid again, "I'm a commission trainee, in Tibet, my undergraduate degree is already a very high diploma, I'm going back, Eminem also wants me to go back", when she said this, she kept staring at Xu Le, "In the future, you... Will you come to see me in Tibet? Guang Ran's melancholy expression became even more melancholy, if it had been rain before, it might have condensed into frost now.
"Yes, we will go to see you", Lin Bingsheng didn't know which tendon was connected, and said to Zhuoma. "Squad leader, did you say yes?" He asked Xu Le again.
Xu Le looked at him and frowned, he actually knew a lot of things, but he never had any thoughts, including the favor of these female classmates in the class, and even some senior and graduate students, and even more, some old professors who had introduced their daughters or nieces to Xu Le were all pushed out by Xu Le on the grounds that he was not good at dating, and everyone was fine.
This is what Xu Le is facing, the three forks, where is he going?