When the train was leaving Yanjing, the eastern sky was just welcoming the rising sun, instantly painting the sky with spectacular bands of red.
Li Shi was lying on his reclined 45-degree angle business class seat, watching the scenery outside the dwelling into the distance and felt a sense of desolate vastness.
The smoke from people's homes hung above the cold citrus trees, autumn colored the old phoenix trees.
Looking at the monotonous and dried up trees on both sides of the railway, he thought to himself, the next time he visited, this world would probably be cloaked in green.
Domestic transportation was exceedingly well-developed nowadays.
The over 1100 kilometers journey from Beijing to Shanghai would only take four and a half hours by express high-speed rail.
In the past, this duration gave Li Shi just enough time to do a little studying.
