The Chen family's ancestral home is Jiangxi and Yu, and they have been passed down through generations of farming and education. Even though Chen's father was in trouble, he still became a scholar in the county.
Chen Muwu's eldest brother traveled to Qiben to study in his early years and joined the academic field after returning to China. The second brother, with his clever mind, was loved by a senior in the family and inherited a bank on Jiangnan Road.
From this point of view, Chen Muwu, an engineer from the Railway Administration, is the most ordinary member of his family.
It can be said that Chen Muwu's time-travel journey was not the beginning of hell, and he was not reincarnated into one of the tens of thousands of refugees, long-term workers, coolies, and those who died of starvation in the troubled times of the past hundred or so years.
The Chen family can't be said to be the top richest people like their next door neighbor, Hartong Taipan, but at least they can be considered to have surpassed more than 90% of the Republic of China Online players.
However, in the eyes of the young bourgeois in later generations who live in their own fantasies, this kind of naturally chosen start is just the average living standard of their ideal Republic of China era.
Yes, after all, the tens of millions of compatriots living in dire straits are not even human beings in their eyes - even most of these little bourgeoisie are the descendants of these people who are not human in their eyes. .
He thought he would be able to hide and relax when he returned home. Unexpectedly, Chen Muwu's name was called by his elder brother before he even drank the hot water after entering.
"Brother, are you back? Come here and sit down!" Chen Muqiao, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, waved to his third brother in the entrance hall.
Since the death of Mrs. Chen, the eldest brother Chen Muqiao has consciously supported the family, fully worthy of the saying that an elder brother is like a father.
Therefore, Chen Muwu respected this elder brother who was more than ten years older than him. After changing his shoes, he trotted all the way to his elder brother's side.
"The invitation letter you asked me to find for you last week to give a speech at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau is this, right?"
He looked in the direction of his elder brother's finger. What Chen Muqiao was holding was not yesterday's "Declaration". What else could it be?
Chen Muwu was very embarrassed. This kind of embarrassment was like being bored in the future life. He picked up his mobile phone and took a TikTok video. He didn't expect that it would go viral on the Internet and be seen by a relative.
Not only did I see it, I also gave you a like.
Not only did he like it, he also forwarded it to the family group so that everyone could see it.
Chen Muwu could only nod in acquiescence.
"When I came back from the vacation, I had a lot of things to do at school. If my colleague hadn't come to me with a newspaper and asked if this was you, I really wouldn't have noticed this news."
"This... mainly because I didn't expect that a big reporter from "The Shenbao" would have such free time to interview me."
"For a month or two, you have been hiding in your room and typing on the typewriter. Is it all because of this seminar?"
Chen Muwu could only nod his head again.
Participating in a discussion on the theory of relativity has already caused my elder brother to question me.
If I tell my eldest brother that I have sent another paper to Europe, I am afraid that my eldest brother will ask himself how he suddenly became enlightened in physics like Fang Zhongyong who "suddenly cried for it".
If this were the case, Chen Muwu would not even be able to tell if he had actually jumped into the Yellow River.
Fortunately, Chen Muqiao did not go further, but praised him a few words: "Not bad, not bad. It is not easy for ordinary people to be included in the "Declaration", and most of them are scolded. To be praised by reporters like this is really impressive." It's very rare. Today in front of my colleagues at school, Brother You, my face has become even more radiant."
He suddenly changed the subject, sighed, and continued: "If I had known, I shouldn't have listened to my mother and asked you to return to Jihai to work after graduation because I missed my son. Instead, I should have sent you to study abroad. It seems that I can get a doctorate and come back to honor my ancestors."
"'Parents are here, don't travel far away'. My mother is old. As a son, there is no reason for me to travel so far away."
Chen Muwu said something against his will with a smile on his face, comforting his eldest brother who was in self-blame.
In his mind, he scolded the original owner for being stupid. As long as he could be a little more flexible, he would be able to start the United States at the beginning of his time travel.
Chen Muqiao turned to look at his younger brother beside him: "Since you are so talented in physics, are you interested in resigning from the Railway Administration and becoming a teacher in our school?"
In his previous life, Chen Muwu became anxious about employment because he failed to stay in school after graduating from Ph.D. and did not want to work as a blue-collar worker in a nuclear power plant.
Unexpectedly, he lost "Sangyu" and gained "Eastern". Just because he showed his face in a small lecture on the theory of relativity, his elder brother found him a new teaching job.
Moreover, Chen Muqiao's position was not at a pheasant university, but at the Nanyang University of the Ministry of Communications, which was founded two years before Beida. This school also has a famous former name, called Nanyang Public School.
When Chen Muwu was a child, he was a student of Nanyang Public School. Relying on his eldest brother's relationship, he went from the affiliated primary school to the affiliated middle school. Then he was admitted to the college of the Ozan Technical College in the same transportation system, which is now the Ministry of Transportation's Ozan University.
But now that he was offered a teaching position, he couldn't be happy because as time passed, Chen Muwu's mood also changed.
In the past, he only wanted to find an iron job with less money and two vacations a year, but now, he obviously no longer has this ambition.
Chen Muwu said, "My parents are here, so I won't travel far away." In fact, he knew better than anyone else that he might have to go to Europe sometime.
Now it takes more than forty days to send a letter from Sihai to Europe, and it takes eighty days to go back and forth. They can only communicate with each other four times in a year.
Even if the postal route in Siberia becomes unblocked in the future and the mailing time is shortened by half, the number of communications per year will only be nine times, which is really inconvenient.
If you want to get new information about physics as soon as possible, you must go to the academic center of Europe. If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs?
He left the teaching position assigned by his eldest brother before he was done with it. It was okay for others to gossip about him behind his back. He was just afraid of ruining the reputation he had accumulated over so many years of work.
"Brother, how should I put it? I am like a teapot making dumplings. I can't pour out the stuff in my belly. I am not humble. It may be okay for me to do research, but let me teach. I am really afraid of making mistakes. Children of men.”
Chen Muwu declined his eldest brother's invitation.
"Since you don't want to, forget it. Besides, we are an engineering school. Asking you to teach physics is overkill, right? It's also good to do research. Is your workload at the Railway Bureau heavy? Do you want to find some connections? , change to a more leisurely job? Our country not only needs talents in engineering, but also talents in science like you!"
Originally, Chen Muqiao remained calm and calm, but when the topic of saving the country came up, he immediately became excited.
"My job now is very easy and very good. Big brother doesn't have to worry about it."
Chen Muwu was very afraid that his elder brother would talk to him endlessly for half an hour, so he quickly rejected his kindness.
People of their time were very patriotic, but because they were in the stage of blind exploration, many people failed to find the right direction.
Seeing that his brother had no patience to continue talking to him, Chen Muqiao folded the newspaper, stood up, and slapped his brother's shoulder heavily with his palm: "Go back to the house, take a shower, change clothes, and go downstairs to eat." Let’s have dinner.”
"yes, Sir."
