After agreeing with the judges, Chen Muwu walked to the auditorium on the side.
The first to leave were the group of people from the Apostolic Society. After they saw that Chen Muwu had successfully obtained his doctorate, they quietly left.
In order to maintain their mystery, the apostles will not show their identities in front of outsiders. The graduation party everyone prepared for Chen Muwu should be held at the party this Saturday if nothing else goes wrong.
Chen Muwu is now said to be one of the Cambridge apostles. In fact, when he is with these people, the relationship is more like a business partner.
Everyone has money to make together, so he doesn't mind playing house with them.
Then he came to Best's side again. After the defense was over, Best did not leave, nor did the people he brought with him.
In this situation, Chen Muwu knew without even thinking that Best wanted to introduce the person next to him to him.
"Chen, congratulations on your successful graduation and your PhD!"
Chen Muwu originally wanted to shake hands, but Best came up and gave him a big hug.
"Lawrence, thank you for coming to support me today."
After the two separated again, Best said excitedly: "Chen, you just finished playing in the Thames that day. I wanted to give you a hug like this, but I never found the chance. You know those two games?" How many seconds did you swim in the competition? Even His Royal Highness the Duke of York wants to..."
Chen Muwu stretched out his hand and made a gesture to stop Best, who wanted to continue: "Stop, stop, Lawrence, is your highness here today?"
"No, he..."
A few days ago, Best had told him that two British princes were going to watch the games.
But this had nothing to do with him, so Chen Muwu interrupted him again: "If you didn't come, it doesn't seem to be an important matter, so let's leave this to the Eagle Bar in the evening. Should you ask me first?" May I introduce the gentleman next to you?"
"Yes, yes... I was so excited that I forgot about it." Best turned slightly to let out the person next to him, "Joseph, this is the Trinity College you have always wanted to know. Chen Muwu, Chen, this person is my classmate, Joseph Needham of Gonville and Caius College, who is also currently studying for his PhD."
"Mr. Chen, congratulations on your PhD graduation."
"Thank you, Mr. Needham."
Chen Muwu didn't know what Best's intention was in introducing this man to him, but he still shook hands with him politely.
Chen Muwu quickly looked at the person opposite him out of the corner of his eye, and found that he had a side-parted haircut, a pair of horny round glasses on his nose, and was about the same height as himself.
Best continued to add: "Joseph didn't ask me to introduce him to you because of your achievements in astronomy and physics.
"In fact, he has recently taken a few courses in the Sinology Department and is also reading Chinese books. He is somewhat interested in Chinese culture and learned that I am familiar with you, so he asked me to introduce him to you."
Although the East has gradually declined in recent years, Oriental studies have always been prominent in the West.
The University of Cambridge also established a Department of Sinology at the end of the 19th century, and its first Sinology professor was Wittmer, who invented the Weishi Pinyin.
Although it started much later than countries closer to the East such as France, Germany and Tsarist Russia, after more than thirty years of development, it has gradually become a small but sophisticated subject in schools.
Except for Rutherford, Chen Muwu rarely saw an Englishman who was interested in Sinology, so he asked a lot: "Oh? Mr. Needham, what books are you reading recently?"
"I have recently been reading a book "Lao-tzu: a Study in Chinese Philosophy" translated by Sir William Wade, and I am very interested in the content..."
Jealousy? I still have peanuts!
Chen Muwu listened to him talk about the views in the book for a long time, and then realized that the British person in front of him had a name that sounded similar to "Old Jealousy", but he was actually Lao Tzu.
The book he was talking about was the Tao Te Ching.
Needham, who was opposite Chen Muwu, continued his spiel: "..., Chen, do you have an English name?"
"I'm sorry, my name is Chen Muwu, there is no other name."
He shook his head, thinking that he didn't work as a white-collar worker in the foreign companies where Vivian was everywhere, and he didn't work as a barber in the hair salon run by Mr. Tony, so why would he make himself uncomfortable and give himself an English name?
If foreigners can't pronounce my Chinese name correctly or pronounce it correctly, that's because they don't respect me, but it's not that I don't respect them.
What's more, the pronunciation of his Chinese name is not difficult. If he can't pronounce it correctly, then why study Chinese?
"It's like this. In the course of our Sinology Department, the teacher asked each of us to give ourselves a Chinese name. I struggled for a long time before I came up with a good English name. Can you please take a look at this name? Is it suitable?"
Needham handed over a piece of paper with three Chinese characters crookedly written on it.
Spring earthworm and autumn snake, the idiom created by the ancients is really vivid.
Chen Muwu glanced at the note while continuing to listen to the man's continued talk: "Because I like the book "Tao Te Ching" very much, so I used the surname of the author, Lao Tzu, as my Chinese surname, and then took the name Joseph. Transliterate the first two sounds of the name and you get..."
By the time Needham finished speaking, Chen Muwu had already finished reading the three traditional Chinese characters written on the paper, and his brain even took the time to shut down for two seconds.
Needham.
Is this the one who wrote a "History of Chinese Science and Technology" and proposed a Needham problem named after him?
Chen Muwu only knew that Joseph Needham later became a China expert, but he knew very little about his life and academic contributions.
But because he dared to investigate the bacterial warfare used by mold on the battlefield, he was Chen Muwu's good friend.
After chatting with these two people for a few more words, Chen Muwu felt that Needham had no intention of letting him go.
Normally, he would have plenty of time to chat with this person.
But not today. He still had a lot of greetings to say and a lot of things to do.
So Chen Muwu found an opportunity to point to Kapitsa, pretending to have a slightly regretful expression, and said to Best and Joseph Needham: "Lawrence, Mr. Needham, I still have a lot to do today, and now I really There is no way to talk anymore. If you have anything else to do in the future, you can come to me anytime and anywhere. In addition, you are also welcome to come to the Eagle Bar tonight, we will not come back until we are drunk!"
"Chen, can I call a few more people over tonight? I really have something important to say to you!" Best asked.
"certainly."
…
Chen Muwu walked to the other side of the auditorium, and the first thing that greeted him was still a hug from Kapitsa.
"Chen, I think I already know the reason why you were able to obtain a PhD from Cambridge University in one year."
He does not mean that.
A string in Chen Muwu's head immediately tightened. Could it be that his identity as a time traveler was discovered by Kapitsa?
But he still pretended to be happy and asked: "Then what do you think the reason is?"
"Because if you want to get a doctorate, you must study at Cambridge for at least one year. If you can graduate in half a year, then you will never choose to wait another half a year!"
Hey, I was shocked!
Except for Kapitsa, the remaining two people were quite reserved.
After Dirac came forward and said a few compliments, he started talking about the theory of relativity and electron spin again.
Just as he sent away a man who was chatting with him about sinology, he welcomed another man who was chatting with him about physics.
These people are really stubborn and will not let Chen Muwu have a good rest today.
"Paul, thank you for taking time to come to my defense meeting during the intense review period. Regarding the question about electron spin and relativity, we will come back after you have finished the exam and I have finished my graduation. Let’s discuss it, okay?”
While Chen Muwu was speaking, he winked at Ye Gongchao.
Chinese people do not deceive Chinese people, but they can still deceive foreigners.
So Mr. Ye took over the conversation naturally and did not give Dirac a chance to ask questions at all: "Paul, our country's embassy has been asking us for some things these days, so I think your question is indeed like Chen's question. As the teacher said, you need to wait a few more days. You can use this time to review for the exam. As long as you do well in the final exam, your scholarship next year will also increase! "
After coaxing Dirac, Ye Gongchao seamlessly switched to Chinese: "Brother Hanchen, congratulations on obtaining your doctorate in one year. This speed should be considered unique in our country.
"The legation I just said was not a lie," Ye Gongchao took advantage of Dirac's attention and nuzzled his lips in his direction, "You really have to go to London with me in the next two days to go through the formalities. We international students are here When going abroad, from enrollment to graduation, you need to prepare the records in advance with the embassy.
"One more thing is that after the diploma and degree uniforms and hats are distributed, I plan to find a photo studio to take a picture and send it to my family. Do you want to take a picture with me?"
Yes, Fang Hongjian did this in "Fortress Besieged", and he, Chen Muwu, was not immune to this.
But even if this photo was not taken, as long as he learned about his PhD graduation, his second brother Chen Muping would definitely publish the news in "Declaration".
In later generations, when entering university, there will be a big thank-you banquet. If you get a doctorate from the world's number one university in this year, if you don't publicize it in the newspaper, wouldn't it be like what King Xiang said, "Wealth and honor are not enough." "Returning to my hometown, walking at night as if I were clothed in brocade"?
It can only be said that Chen Muwu's imagination is still lacking.
After waiting for more than a month, there were photos of him wearing a doctor's suit and a doctor's hat. After taking the train back to Sihai, the Chen and Ye families not only paid for their photos to be published in "Shenbao" - these were Chen Muwu could predict the basic operations.
But he never imagined that Mrs. Chen would instigate her second son, Chen Muping, and even hired someone to carve a plaque with the characters "Doctor" written on it and hang it in the ancestral hall of their old Chen family.
Although the "Jinshi and Diploma" plaque has become an out-of-print decoration, if you hang a "Doctor" plaque in the ancestral hall, you can still honor your ancestors!
(End of chapter)
