Chapter 150: Iron Fist Hwarang (1/2)
Chapter 150: Iron Fist Hwarang (Second)
“Jingjing?”
When Cao Yi mentioned her name, Wang Chao had then remembered the his class president during his high school time.
When Wang Chao had been in high school, he hadn’t any close friends due to his introverted personality, poor lifestyle, and silentness. After graduation, everyone had gone their own separate ways, some continuing into university, the others straight into work. They had cut all communications with each other there, and Wang Chao wouldn’t even be able to remember any one of his classmate’s names.
But the only name he would be able to remember would be the class president Cao Jingjing. But he had not been in touch with her either.
A bubbling sensation had suddenly risen up within Wang Chao’s body when Cao Yi had reminded him of her name.
Three years had gone by since his high school graduation.
In these three years, he had experienced a plethora of events. From a green horned youth, he had quickly transformed into a master of martial arts with the blood of many on his hands.
This had been a joyous growth, but at the same time, he had lost his youthfulness.
He had been trained by these years of dangerous bloodshed. Wang Chao had no longer the young state of mind of a 20 year old and was like an elderly man stuck in the body of a youth.
This was no deep delusions of a youngster, but rather the result of being tempered and baptized with life-risking and bloody combat.
“When Zhang Tong had asked whether I would continue my education or not, I said that I wouldn’t. That it was a waste of my youth. In response, she had said that the time of youth was meant to be wasted by playing around. Otherwise, when my youth was gone and I had money, I would no longer be able to reflect upon the impetuous times I had as a youth. That youth would be thrown away, to be never returned. I laughed then at her words, but now that I look back. I really did lose that youthful mind from long ago.”
The young, hot-blooded, impulsive signs of being a youth would never be reflected on Wang Chao. He wouldn’t even be able to pretend to be.
“Jingjing is learning Taekwondo?” Wang Chao thought back to his high school memories with a bit of sorrow before giving a tsking sound to Cao Yi. “What good is Taekwondo? Don’t you remember when you and I would help Li Wanji protect her dojo from any challengers? You might as well have Jingjing come to my Shandong School of Internal Martial Arts to learn. I guarantee that in just two years, she’ll surpass you.”
“That’s fine!” Cao Yi had laughed. “Your fist can kill a person with a single punch, what use is that for the future? Taekwondo is an Olympic event, it has a bigger future than your own Chinese boxing.”
“That much is true.” Wang Chao had admitted. “As long as Jingjing practices well and enters the Olympics, she could get the gold medal and gain both fame and fortune.”
“She’s already a black belt, you’d do well to not underestimate her.” Cao Yi couldn’t help but feel pleased.
“I’ll take note of that. Then, I’ll go and drop off the records. When I have time, I’ll go look for Jingjing.” After that, Wang Chao had asked Cao Yi for Cao Jingjing’s cellphone number.
“I have full confidence that even amongst the millions of people within the People’s Liberation Army, you are the number one expert. But teaching Jingjing, that’s not an easy task.” Cao Yi chuckled before hanging up.
With the line cut loose, Wang Chao grew calm once more.
“Party School? Major general? A rank like that is already an extremely high ranking in some countries. That is to say, there is nowhere to go but down from there.”
Wang Chao had known that much about the military ranking aspect. When a person’s contributions were high enough, the highest ranking they would generally be awarded would be the title of major general. Yang Liwei for example, was the first Chinese citizen to be in space. After his return, he had been conferred the title of major general.
But that was the ceiling to it. The higher ranks of lieutenant general and general belonged to people with actual power. No one outside the military would be given those ranks.
As for the Central Party School, it was a good commission. For the general official that wished to be promoted, they would have to first study at this institute. The Central Party School was no campus. One wouldn’t be able to get here through test scores alone. Those who were able to get in was because of their elder official relatives who all were major individuals. Those who studied here would also be able to become people of power. For them to be influential and had open futures, that went without saying here.
Cao Jingjing was at Beijing University while Wang Chao was at Central Party School. Both were schools, but the differences between both was like the earth’s soil and the heaven’s clouds. It could not be compared.
“Ai!” Although he had been promoted to an unbelievable height that very few people could get, Wang Chao did not feel even the smallest bit of joy in his heart. This was not what he wanted. On the contrary, he was now embroiled in between the quarrels of many that would be hard to escape from.
With each promotion was yet another shackle to his body.
But Wang Chao had no other choice at this point. He could only blindly stumble along this road.
After some thought, Wang Chao had been unexpectedly able to calm down. Immediately washing his face and changing his clothes, he tidied up his things before exiting the room and hailed a taxi to get to the Central Party School.
The Central Party School wasn’t in a spectacular place, and neither did it have the youthful flavor to it. The people that came and went around this place were officials with magnificent and steady auras to them. For a young person like Wang Chao to come walking in, it was unusually eye-catching in the sense that he did not belong.
Wang Chao hadn’t come across any problems, and after asking several people in succession, he had found the registration area for the Central Party School. With his records all in order, he was immediately guided through the process for registering. With some new papers, he was then arranged to go to the dormitories.
The dormitories to this school was far different from those of an ordinary school. The conditions were better and everyone had their own bedding. Each day, a person would come in to help clean and clothe them as well.
Author note: I have never been to the Central Party School, only in my YYs. If one of my readers has attended before, then please submit your complaints.
After his living quarters were arranged, Wang Chao had asked several questions more on his classes, the subjects he would be learning and the time. He had also obtained the roster of his class and the timetables before he walked out from the gates to the school.
Wang Chao had gone to Beijing twice now. The first time had been with Zhu Jia to see elder Li before leaving equally fast as he had come. This time, he would be learning here for two months, so Wang Chao was naturally ready to go sightseeing around the capital.
“I wonder if Zhu Jia is here in Beijing? She’s at CCTV international, is she still running around all year long? Forget it then, in this two months worth of time, I should go see Cao Jingjing. I haven’t seen any of my old classmates in forever.”
When Wang Chao thought back to his high school days, there was another bubbling sensation in his mind.
Fishing out his phone, Wang Chao punched in a single digit before his hand came to a stop, “I should go to Beijing University before anything. Now that I’m in university, I don’t know what will be going on.”
His taxi had finally arrived at the gates to Beijing Unversity. Upon seeing the red pillars and rustic feel to the gates, Wang Chao noticed the throng of young exuberant youths walking in and out from between the gates. With the sunshine raining down on them, Wang Chao had felt the strong youthful nature of university.
The atmosphere between here and the Central Party School was completely different.
When Wang Chao stepped past the gates, he had been stopped by the keen-eyed security guard. Because of Wang Chao’s personality, he was clearly not a university student here. But after showing his papers of being a student of the Central Party School, the guard had let him pass after giving him an unfathomable stare.