Hu Hongxia ｜ Story of Return

At 9:30 am on June 20, 2022, Xu Yangsheng, the principal of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), welcomed us on the 7th floor of the administrative building on time. The office is located at the east end of the floor. The corner of the fixed one can enjoy the wide scenery outside the window through the large windows of the east and south. Our photographer said that there are too many buildings outside the window. The scaffolding in the camera cannot be avoided. I hope that the principal will sit in a direction to facilitate a "clean" background. The principal didn't say anything and changed a sofa with a smile. However, in my article, I guess he must not agree with the reporter's "unclean" judgment on the scenery outside the window. Since he embarked on this land of Longgang, a university has been built from scratch. It has been flowing away for ten years. The changes that occurred inside and outside the campus can be described. Essence

"The old Longgang was completely different from what I saw today." Three months ago, in the prose "Xu Yangsheng", the prose new work "The Immortal Lake at Dusk", the principal wrote:

"When I refer to the old days, it was actually not less than ten years ago. At that time, the university had just begun to build. I had to drive from Hong Kong almost every day, or the Nanshan who temporarily lived in. Nanshan and Futian are like a towering metropolis, let alone compare with Hong Kong's Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, and it is not a bird -like rural countryside. On the construction site, a group of migrant workers at night, wearing slippers, wearing slippers, talking about hometown words that no one understands, walking on the dim sidewalk ... ... At that time, Longgang was really unsightly, but I just preferred it. I like it here ... ... The streets here are changing every day. The young people walking in a hurry here are from all over the country and even around the world. ! Some of them here are a large number of high -tech companies that are prosperous, and the lights are bright all night. You see hope here and see the future. Isn't this a place where a university should stand on? "

Today, we are on this beautiful, elegant, atmospheric, harmonious Hong Kong University (Shenzhen) campus. Just now our car drove in from the main entrance, and took a large circle of clockwise to stop in front of the administrative building. I saw it after getting off the car. It is one of the "signature landscapes" in Hong Kong: a "landscape painting", and the "landscape painting" of Chinese style faction appears at the top of the wide steps that are tens of steps; In the "frame" formed by the distance, there is a pavilion on the left and a tree on the right. The background is clouds and clouds, and the sky changes with the times.

For Xu Yangsheng, for many years, the scenery outside the office window is his calendar. Others see the streets on the street, the building is the building. What he sees the building is the past, and the street is seeing the future.

He has been interviewed by many media here. It is estimated that the same question he has answered how many times. And the first question I asked, there was nothing new, but I must ask. This issue is related to the main purpose of our interview- "Hong Kong's 25th Anniversary". Ten years ago, he was already the special topic of Xinhua News Agency, "Hong Kong returned 15 people for 15 years"; two years ago, he became "40 people in Shenzhen's 40 years in 40 years." He once laughed at himself as a "marginal person": "I went to the countryside at the age of 15. Rural people were people in the city, but when I arrived in the city, they were seen as rural people. When I arrived in Hong Kong, I was seen as a mainlander. As Hong Kong people. "Of course, he has become a" Shenzhen "now.

My question is: Hong Kong's return 25 years ago directly triggered your return in the United States. In 1997, you gave up the good treatment of the United States. You must return to Hong Kong to teach before returning in Hong Kong. Everyone is familiar with this matter, but I still have to ask from this question today. We want to listen to the story, hesitating, thinking, excitement, tears, etc. 25 years ago.

The principal laughed silently and didn't give himself any preparation time. Those things probably have the eye -catching place in his memory, and it is easy to get it.

[I will then write his "Return Story" tomorrow. Before telling the story of "Return to", I want to share him "starting" today. Let him talk about it-]

This made me recall the scene of leaving my hometown to study in the United States. My hometown is in Shaoxing City and needs to take a train to Shanghai and take a plane from Shanghai to the United States. Starting the luggage one week before the trip, it seems that everything must be brought, and a large box is drumped. The night before leaving, I sat in her room with my grandmother. Seriously, the most important thing in my heart was my grandmother. I have been with her the most since I was a child. It can be said that it was raised by her I do n’t know when I can come back at this time. I sat opposite her and didn't look at her, just said to her, "I will take good care of myself, you can rest assured." She took out a small cloth burden under her box. One count, remember that it was more than 54 yuan, because she took care of housework at home all year round, and there was almost no income. This may be her savings, and she did not know how she deposited the money. She said that she would take me away for me, and she had the rest of her. I know that these money is nothing at all in the United States. She insisted that she kept her, but in the end, she couldn't lift her. She still put the money into my bag.

Early the next morning, my grandmother got up early. The hometown is always like this. After the grandmother got up, the smoke of the roof of the hometown rose, and the whole family began to wake up. A few brothers and sisters went downstairs one after another. "(That is the salt water rinsed with warm water). Every morning, we drink a bowl of salt soup first, and then start washing and breakfast. One of my classmates borrowed a tricycle and put my big box on it. I said to my grandmother, "I'm leaving." My grandmother followed me for a while and said silently, "I probably look at it. You can't come back. "I quickly said," No. "She slowly said," It doesn't matter, a man, a horse, running into the world, don't care about me. " I know that she had thought about these few words and finally said. She silently followed us to the intersection. We asked her not to send it anymore, and she stopped ... The tricycle took a while, and I looked back and saw that my grandmother was still standing there ... (taken from "Ferryman") Hu Hongxia/Wen

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