After getting off the train and walking onto the platform, Chen Muwu didn't notice any difference between the train station environment in Lezhigrad and the train stations in other countries he had passed through these days.
He originally thought that the train station should be in the socialist style full of Soviet aesthetics, which would allow him to have a little nostalgia for his past life that he could not go back to.
But now it seems that the Lezhigrad side may still be more like Europe. Except for the pedestrians coming and going on the platform, they are all speaking loudly in Russian that he does not understand. Fortunately, there is a translator like Kapitsa. .
However, after coming to Sulian, Chen Muwu, a man with black hair and yellow skin, attracted much less attention than when he was in Britain, France and Europe. People may have mistaken him for a Mongolian.
In addition, they have spent several days and nights on the train with no place to change clothes. It is also the hottest summer of the year. Whether it is Chen Muwu or Kapitsa, what they are wearing now She was not as glamorous as when she first left Paris.
Kapitsa had already sent a report to the country, informing them of the train schedule the two of them were taking and the estimated time of arrival in Lezhigrad.
On the platform of the station, a crowd of people had already stood waiting to welcome them, but no one recognized the two sloppy guys who had just stepped off the train.
However, Kapitsa, who was sharp-eyed, recognized the teacher who had fought against everyone's opinions to raise funds and sent him to study abroad in the Cavendish Laboratory.
"Professor Yofei, Professor Yofei, we are here!"
Following the gaze of Kapitsa, who was waving, Chen Muwu also saw a few unmoving figures standing in the center of the crowd on the platform.
He saw Professor Joffe in the crowd three years ago at the Solvay Conference in Brussels, Belgium, and smiled and nodded to him.
After being called out by Kapitsa, Yofei and his party saw Chen Muwu, this distinguished guest from afar.
But as the party welcoming the guests, they did not come quickly, but still moved slowly and slowly in this direction.
This is not because there are people coming and going on the platform and it is difficult to move, but because there is an elderly man with a cane in the welcoming team.
Seeing this situation, Chen Muwu and Kapitsa beside him said: "Peter, I think it would be better for the two of us to take two steps forward."
Kapitsa nodded, agreeing with his good friend's point of view.
As he approached the welcoming team, Chen Muwu began to stare.
Although it was not like when the head of state visited other countries, there was water splashing on the streets, red carpets, and primary school students presenting flowers, but the size of the welcome group was about 70 or 80 people, but Chen Muwu only knew one of them, Yue Fei.
Not to mention him, Kapitsa, who stayed in the UK all year round and only came back to visit relatives for a month every summer, would not be able to identify all these people.
So in the process of mutual introduction, a very strange situation occurred: Yofei first introduced the person to Kapitsa in Russian, and then he translated it into English and told Chen Muwu.
An introduction is an introduction, but Chen Muwu couldn't remember any of these names.
Generally speaking, Sulian physics has not yet begun to flourish at this time, so it is normal for him not to know these people.
Inviting a world-renowned physicist like him to visit may be an attempt by Soviet academic circles to improve the domestic physics level.
The old man Alexander Karpinsky, who was surrounded by everyone's stars, was seventy-nine years old this year, and he actually came to the Lezhigrad train station to greet the visiting Chen Muwu.
Born in 1847, he was the same age as Edison, the American inventor. He was a geologist and had served as the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg since the Tsarist Russia. After the change of dynasties, he continued to serve as the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Tsarist Russia has such a large land area, and Karpinsky is also a geologist. He has traveled all over the country and seen many places, from the Caucasus Mountains to the Kuril Islands, leaving his presence everywhere.
When he was young, he lived in a period when Tsarist Russia was constantly expanding outwards to seize territory.
Of course, the target of expansion was the Qing Dynasty, which was at the mercy of others.
Karpinski has met many Far Easterners in his life, including himself and people from the Qing Dynasty.
In his impression, his views on both types of people were similar.
However, as time goes by, the former seems to be getting stronger and stronger, while the latter seems to have not changed much, but has become weaker.
Karpinski couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Chen Muwu at the Lezhigrad train station today.
When did the Khitans from the Qing Dynasty also have such strong self-confidence?
It has only been more than ten years since the overthrow of the monarchy. The change in the temperament of the Chinese people is too obvious, right?
Is it possible that overthrowing the monarchy is really useful? Karpinski has already begun to wonder whether in a few years, the vast number of young people in Russia will be like Chen Muwu in front of him.
But what he didn't know was that it didn't take more than ten years for Chen Muwu to develop this kind of confidence, but a full hundred years.
When the old man got excited, he began to utter Russian words one after another. The general content was to welcome Chen Muwu to Lezhigrad and to the Sulian Academy of Sciences for a visit.
Not only was Chen Muwu confused when he was welcomed, but even Kapitsa, who was translating in the middle, was in a daze.
It is appropriate to welcome guests warmly, but is it somewhat abnormal for the dean to be so enthusiastic?
Yofei who was on the side felt that the dean could not be allowed to continue talking like this.
There are people coming and going on the platform of Lezhigrad Railway Station. A group of them gathering together will not only hinder the passage of passengers, but also in a noisy environment, conversations must be loud.
The essence of the big voice Kapitsa learned from Rutherford was certainly not affected, but others were not.
While the old dean had finished speaking and Kapitsa had finished translating, when Chen Muwu was about to speak but before he could, Yofei interrupted.
"Dr. Chen, Dean, academicians and professors, it's not convenient to continue talking here. We still have plenty of time. How about returning to the Academy of Sciences and continuing the exchange?"
Everyone passed with almost no objection, then walked out of the train station exit and boarded the cars that had been waiting here for a long time.
Chen Muwu was still sitting in the same car as Kapitsa. The other cars were driving back to Sulian Academy of Sciences, but their car was heading directly to Kapitsa's local house.
When traveling long distances in the summer without air conditioning, the clothes will be soaked with sweat and dry, soaked and dried with a sour smell.
You must take a shower and change your clothes before you can be a decent guest in the Surian Academy of Sciences.
When arranging Chen Muwu's visit, the Sulian people also asked him about his accommodation requirements for the trip.
However, Kapitsa's suggestion was to let Chen Muwu live with him at his home in Legegler.
After asking and learning that it would not cause trouble or distress to Kapitsa, Chen Muwu agreed to his friend's invitation.
Instead of staying alone in a hotel and unable to understand Russian, it would be better to follow Kapitsa home and find a chance to explore the city's scenery.
After taking a shower and changing into new clothes, the two of them went to the Surian Academy of Sciences in the center of Lezhigrad to attend the welcome banquet held for Chen Muwu.
Although the dinner ingredients of the Sulian people are not as rich as those of the wealthy Trinity College, it may be because they are closer to the Far East, and the taste of their cooking is very consistent with Chen Muwu's taste.
Speaking of which, I have to give the British a thumbs up. They can make such high-end meals so unpalatable, which can be regarded as a kind of talent.
In addition to food, a Russian dinner table cannot be without wine.
Kapitsa is in the Eagle Bar at Cambridge University and will definitely not fall out of the top five on the list of the best drinkers.
But when he arrived in China, he became a side dish on the wine table.
Chen Muwu, who didn't drink, briefly checked everyone's drinking habits, but because he was a distinguished guest, no one could say much.
As a people who are good at singing and dancing, some young people in Sulian Academy of Sciences began to perform their talents after drinking too much.
Chen Muwu even saw the "political commissar dance" performed while squatting on the ground. Someone invited him to come down and give it a try, but Xiao Chen shook his head and refused again as if he was refusing a toast.
He wanted to sing along with two voices, but the only song he could sing in empty Russian, "Katyusha," was still more than ten years away from being released.
The people of the fighting nation are so amazing. They were already drunk at the wine table, but after the dinner, a staff member actually found Chen Muwu and told him that in the next two weeks, he was Lezhigrad itinerary.
Every week, I give a popular science lecture for science enthusiasts at the Sulian Academy of Sciences. There is no limit on the topic. There are two lectures in total.
Then I spent the rest of the morning giving lectures to physics students at Lezhigrad University, with no restrictions on the subject matter.
In the afternoon, I would either have a seminar with teachers and professors, or I would accept the invitation of the organizer and visit various places in Lezhigrad city.
On the last day after Chen Muwu's visit, the Sulian Academy of Sciences will hold a ceremony to announce his acceptance as a foreign academician of the Academy of Sciences.
In the view of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, this last item is purely based on Chen Muwu's reputation to promote their scientific organization, which is far behind its European counterparts.
In other words, conferring this honorary title to Chen Muwu is not the glory of Chen Muwu, but the glory of the Sulian Academy of Sciences.
But in Chen Muwu's eyes, if he had the title of foreign academician of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, after returning to China, he would definitely be a member of the academic department at the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Of course, even if he does not have this title, there is no problem in being elected as a member of the academic department.
Question Xun Zong, understand Xun Zong, and become Xun Zong.
Arriving at Future Xunzong's territory, Chen Muwu suddenly unlocked his hobby of collecting.
He is now a fellow of the Royal Society, and is about to become a foreign academician of the Sulian Academy of Sciences. He will also be a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the future.
In addition, he will marry Eve and become Madame Curie's son-in-law in the future, so he should be a foreign academician of the French Academy of Sciences, right?
After arriving in Sweden, the academician quota of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will definitely not be lost.
Chen Muwu even wondered if he could be on the Nobel Prize jury, but there was probably no hope unless he could change his nationality to Swedish.
In addition to those who will be related to him in the future, there should be no problem with being a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Oh, by the way, I almost forgot about Academia Sinica.
Let alone an academician, if Chen Muwu wanted to give up academics and join the officialdom to get promoted and make a fortune, he would probably be able to get it even as the dean.
After the banquet in the evening, Chen Muwu took Kapitsa, who was drunk and unconscious, back to Kapitsa's home.
Miraculously, the next morning, this guy got up earlier than Chen Muwu. Judging from his lively appearance, it didn't look like he had just been hungover all night.
The first day of the trip was to go to the Sulian Academy of Sciences to give a lecture to the general public.
Chen Muwu was not fully prepared. He even made the outline in a hurry on the train.
But this kind of lecture is not difficult for him, because he has given many similar lectures in the UK and Sweden before, and he is quite familiar with it.
The only thing to note is that Chinese myths and legends cannot be included in the lecture. After all, this is a materialistic country that does not believe in ghosts and gods. People listening to the lecture are not as easy to fool as those superstitious British guys.
But on the second day, everything began to go off the planned track.
According to the arrangement, Chen Muwu will enter Lezhigrad University today, give classes to the physics students, and then meet his college friends.
College students all over the world are the ones with the most hormones and the most energy.
The gang of Cambridge students rowed, swam, played table tennis, raced cars, and took advantage of the heat of the strike.
Students at Lezhigrad University also have energy that needs to be vented.
Chen Muwu and Kapitsa, as well as the accompanying staff from the physics department, walked to the classroom where today's class will be held, talking and laughing.
Before they reached their destination, they heard loud quarrels coming from the classroom in the corridor.
The staff's expression changed immediately and they wanted to stop these students who had embarrassed the school in front of the guests.
Kapitsa smiled and said to Chen Muwu: "It sounds like they are arguing about whether your theory of the origin of the universe is correct or not."
After hearing what he said, Chen Muwu stopped the staff who was about to leave.
In a normal academic debate, there is no need to overreact like this.
It’s normal that many people still don’t believe in the theory of universe expansion and don’t admit it.
Until the cosmic microwave background radiation is dramatically discovered, most of the world's doubts will fall silent.
Chen Muwu curiously stuck his head out and observed the situation inside through the glass of the back door of the classroom.
He saw several people surrounding a young man standing on the podium.
Although he couldn't understand Russian, from the expression on the young man's face, Chen Muwu felt that he was not afraid of what he was seeing.
(End of chapter)
