A true gentleman watches chess without speaking. Although Chen Muwu knows that he is good at mahjong, he also hates this kind of pointing fingers behind his back.
When he turned around with a bad look on his face, he found that the person standing behind him was an East Asian man wearing a suit and tie, with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin. Only then did Chen Muwu realize that the voice that just came from behind was actually Spoken Chinese with a clear accent.
In the pure English environment of Cambridge, he could only speak a few words of Chinese unscrupulously when meeting Ye Gongchao.
But Ye Gongchao, who has been writing recently, has gradually become a bit like a fake foreign devil. He always likes to mix a few English words into every good sentence.
Chen Muwu was still staring at this man, a little dazed, but he didn't expect that his compatriots were more anxious than him: "Sir, hurry up and play this two-piece, no one wants this card anymore."
Chen Muwu stretched out his hand in confusion, followed his command, and beat Er Tiao out.
This step was indeed the finishing touch in coming back to life. With the cooperation of off-field assistance, Chen Muwu miraculously won this round.
It's just that his cards are too small, and the money he earns is completely incomparable to what he just exported.
"No fight, no fight." Seeing the three people at the card table glaring at him with foreign aid, Chen Muwu stood up from the card table knowingly, "I met a fellow countryman on the boat and wanted to go with him. To catch up on old times, you can either find another person or take a break, I guess it won’t be long before we arrive in France.”
Chen Muwu turned around and invited the compatriot behind him to the bar.
Although he still lost a lot of money in total, thanks to this fellow, he was able to win at the end of the game.
Asking him for a beer should be the most basic courtesy.
"Yu Yu Chen Muwu, judging from your appearance, you should not be an international student from around London, right? I haven't asked you what to call me yet?" Chen Muwu asked after ordering a glass of beer and a glass of soda as usual.
At the party at the embassy during the New Year this year, he basically saw everyone at the London Chinese Students Association. Although he couldn't remember the faces of all the people at once, they looked familiar to each other, but he couldn't remember them. There is such a number one person.
"So you are the Mr. Chen who discovered the Yellow Emperor Star as mentioned in the newspaper? I didn't expect you to be really young. I'm so glad to meet you!" Hearing Chen Muwu's self-reported family name, the other party seemed surprised, "Xiangshan Guo Linshuang, I'm not International students, this time I came to Europe to run business for my family."
Looking at Guo Linshuang's clothes and decent conversation, she does look like a businessman, either a comprador of a foreign company or a manager of a bank.
There are a lot of people like this in Qihai. After all, Chen Muwu and his second brother are also one of them.
But Chen Muwu still didn't know how big a business the Guo family was doing behind the scenes.
Guo Linshuang has been in the UK since last summer and has been traveling between the United States, the United Kingdom and the European continent for business matters.
So he also read a lot of news about Chen Muwu from the newspapers, and naturally knew about the planet he discovered some time ago.
After learning that he was Chen Muwu, Guo Linshuang seemed very excited and quickly took over the conversation: "Mr. Chen, what do you want to do in France this time?"
"You can just call me Hanchen. I am just passing through France. I am going from Paris to Brussels, Belgium, to attend a physics conference there."
However, Guo Linshuang obviously had no interest in physics, so after a few polite conversations, she returned to praising Chen Muwu.
From Ye Gongchao and the continuous congratulatory letters sent from China, these compliments have already worn out a lot of calluses on Chen Muwu's ears. However, facing the excited Guo Linshuang, he could only maintain a gentlemanly fake smile and listen quietly. .
"Mr. Chen, I just found out today that foreigners also like to play mahjong. I think their level seems to be very high. What is going on?"
Chen Muwu awkwardly told him how this mahjong tile accidentally became popular in Cambridge University.
The vigorous promotion of Kapitsa is one thing, but the key is that the gameplay is novel and attractive.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
As a businessman, Guo Linshuang knew little about it. After watching Chen Muwu play cards with three foreigners for a few rounds, he began to think about the big business hidden behind it.
…
"Hanchen, why don't you see your wife?" After a glass of beer, Guo Linshuang's topic turned to life-related topics.
"Sorry Mr. Guo, I am still single and not married."
"Sorry, sorry."
Guo Linshuang apologized repeatedly, as if she knew Chen Muwu was not married yet and it hurt him.
However, if someone's girl could marry this handsome and knowledgeable young man in front of her, it would be a good story.
Before saying goodbye at the bar, Guo Linshuang took out a business card and handed it to Chen Muwu, saying that if he returned to Baihai in the future, he could find him at the address on the business card.
After Chen Muwu took it, he found that the two English words WING ON were printed in the middle of the top of the business card.
WING ON? Yongan?
Wing On Department Store?
This is one of the four major department stores in Wuhai. When Chen Muwu was still a clerk at the Railway Administration, every time he went home from work, he would transfer to the tram at Rishenglou Station next to the intersection in front of Yong'an Department Store. .
The founders of Yongan Department Store are the Australian overseas Chinese Guo brothers, and the person in front of me is also surnamed Guo, so that means...
"Mr. Guo, I wonder what your relationship is with Chairman Guo Le of Yong'an Department Store?"
"Chairman Guo is my father's second brother and my second uncle." Guo Linshuang answered readily and without any concealment.
"It turns out it's the young master's family in Yong'an. I'm too blind to recognize Taishan. I'm disrespectful and disrespectful."
The suit Chen Muwu is wearing now and the pen in his pocket were all purchased from Yong'an Department Store.
He can now see the young boss of Yong'an Company, which is basically equivalent to walking on the street in the future, looking up and finding Dong Ge, who doesn't know his wife's beauty, walking towards him.
"Well, no matter how much money you make, you can't compare with Mr. Chen. You study science, improve the reputation of your country, and promote the progress of society and mankind. You are the most admirable people."
The two of them said a few more polite words in front of the bar before parting and heading to their respective cabins.
Although I feel very happy to meet an old friend in a foreign country, I don't know if we will see each other again in the future.
…
After disembarking from Calais and changing trains to Paris, de Broglie's friendship with the landlord once again made Chen Muwu see what it means to be wealthy.
Not only did the group live in their family's villa in the suburbs of France, but they also had sumptuous meals every day.
Although the daily dinners at Trinity College are sumptuous compared to those at ordinary British homes, they are not only sumptuous here, but also taste much better than the meals cooked in the UK.
De Broglie also led the three people to his brother's private laboratory. It was indeed, as he said to Chen Muwu when he was in Cambridge, much better than the Cavendish Laboratory.
Looking at the bright and clean experimental environment, even Rutherford couldn't help but praise it a few times.
He spent a few days in the De Broglie house carelessly living a wealthy life. Every day he was either eating, having fun or playing mahjong. Even Rutherford was a little addicted to it and even refused invitations to play his favorite game. A sport, golf.
However, Chen Muwu still found time to write the first draft of his paper on the exclusion principle.
Then, it was time to set off again. The group returned from the villa in the suburbs to the university in central Paris and met their French colleagues who were waiting here.
It's the Olympic year, and promotional slogans and posters have begun to appear on the streets of Paris.
Although the official opening ceremony will not be until July, some games will start early soon.
Chen Muwu did not remember any useful information about the Olympic Games a hundred years ago.
The only piece of trivia he knows comes from football.
As one of the few countries to have four stars printed on the chest of its jersey, Uruguay actually has two stars not because of winning the World Cup, but because of the Olympic Games. One of the stars comes from this year's Olympic Games.
It's a pity that there is no football lottery or betting company yet, otherwise Chen Muwu would definitely make a lot of money from this matter.
In Paris, the group met de Broglie’s teacher Langevin, who was an old acquaintance of Chen Muwu’s teacher Rutherford. When the two were young, they were classmates in the Cavendish Laboratory, and then each grew into a great Physicist, I have met many times at various international physics conferences in recent years.
Chen Muwu, on the other hand, once again experienced the French's enthusiastic kissing ceremony, this time of course from Langevin.
"Chen, nice to meet you!
"Since you proposed the theory that electrons are a wave, to be honest, I have always been skeptical. I thought to myself, why is this young man so bold? Every time he puts forward a new idea, it is so shocking.
“Unexpectedly, Louis was so convinced of your theory that he even went to England to conduct experiments with you.
"I really didn't expect that you two could actually carry out this experiment and get the expected results!
"After reading the articles you two published, I thought maybe it's because I'm old that I'm as timid as I am now."
"Mr. Langevin, you're very grateful." Chen Muwu said politely.
This man is actually a wonderful man. Unlike Rutherford who did not allow Kapitsa to promote eh-hmm doctrine in the Cavendish Laboratory, Langevin began to rely on his academic reputation to oppose fascism after he came to power with a mustache. So during the years when France was occupied by Germany, the Vichy government, regardless of Langevin's advanced age and his huge influence in the world of physics, threw this highly respected physicist away for any reason. Went to jail.
After France was liberated and Langevin was released from prison, he was still full of passion for struggle and even became a member of the French Communist Party a year before his death.
There were several other French physicists standing next to Langevin, including Marcel Brillouin and Léon Brillouin. Chen Muwu followed the Romans and kissed them one by one. Say hello.
However, there is one heavyweight French physicist who does not appear in this group, and that is Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice.
After Pierre Curie passed away unexpectedly, there was a piece of gossip that appeared in Paris newspapers between Langevin and Madame Curie.
Although this relationship ended without any problems in the end, from then on, Mrs. Curie always avoided suspicion and tried not to appear alone in the same place with Langevin at the same time.
Therefore, for this Solvay Conference, Marie Curie had already set off in advance and headed to the Belgian capital on her own.
After de Broglie and his group of four successfully reunited with local French physicists, everyone boarded the train from Paris to Brussels.
In the carriage, Chen Muwu leaned against the back of an uncomfortable chair and closed his eyes to rest, while De Broglie, like Kapitsa, seized all his free time to crazily promote mahjong to his French teachers and colleagues. The Oriental Mysterious China game is coming.
Humans are the animals that can best adapt to the environment. Chen Muwu has gradually become accustomed to the bumpy ride from the discomfort he felt when he first took the train north. This time, he even slept on the train.
It was not until it was getting late and the train arrived at the station in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, that Chen Muwu woke up.
Although Ernest Solvay, who invented the ammonia-alkali process, died two years ago, the large legacy he left behind, as well as the foundation that served this conference, are still in good operation.
So as soon as they got off the train, there were special receptionists who took these physicists from France and the UK and their students to a hotel near the conference center.
The first Solvay Conference in 1911 was held on a whim by Solvay.
Having made his fortune by making alkali, he originally wanted to create a prize with a large bonus to be awarded to physical chemists, but there was already a Nobel Prize in front of him.
At this time, someone told him that it would be better to provide travel expenses, board and lodging expenses, and bring together the most famous physicists and chemists in the world and let them hold a meeting to discuss the future development direction of human society.
After hearing this, Solvay thought this suggestion was very good, so he held the first meeting that year.
Due to the tight preparation time, the first session was held in a rented venue.
Solvay felt that this was a bit disrespectful, so he spent a huge sum of money to build the Solvay International Institute of Physics and Chemistry in Brussels' Leopold Park. So starting from the second session, the conference began to be held in this magnificent building. held in the building.
Also starting from the second session, every famous photo of participants was taken on a lawn in front of the building, with the building as the background.
Tomorrow, April 24, 1924, is the opening day of the Fourth Solvay Conference. According to the original plan, this conference will last for five days.
In these days, this Solvay building should be the place with the highest physical level in the world.
It was rare to get out of the busy and boring desks and laboratories. No one felt tired from the long journey. On the contrary, playing cards on the train was not enough, so after settling in the hotel, we got together again and continued playing. Play mahjong.
Of course, they all knew that Chen Muwu's mahjong skills were too poor, so they didn't ask him to come to the table at all.
Chen Muwu was also happy to be free. He went back to his room and fell asleep to recharge his energy for the upcoming meeting tomorrow.
(End of chapter)
