A Man of Science and Engineering in Troubled Times Wandering in the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 392

Li Yu returned to the laboratory apartment with two tickets, and said to Lu Bicheng, "We're leaving for Greece and Egypt tomorrow."

Lu Bicheng asked: "Is there also a sacred place for science?"

Li Yu said, "No, oh, in terms of Athens, it used to be, but now it's a tourist attraction."

"Travel?" Lu Bicheng wondered.

"Why, aren't you interested?" Li Yu said, "There are a lot of interesting things, including the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Olympic Arena, and the beautiful Aegean Sea; Egypt has the pyramids."

Lu Bicheng has heard of these names, and the temptation of traveling is indeed great, so he hesitated for a while before agreeing: "I'll go clean up, how many days?"

Li Yu said, "A round trip can take up to 20 days."

Lu Bicheng nodded: "It will be fine if you don't delay your trip to Sweden."

When it was time to set off the next day, Konoe Zhaoyuki finally couldn't help asking, "What are you going to do in Athens and Egypt?"

"Travel." Li Yu said, only to realize that she had been forgotten, so he said, "There are only two tickets left. If you can't take a break, you can play around in Berlin. It's also very interesting."

Konoe Zhaoxue bit his lip and could only say, "I hope you are all well."

After a day and a night, the train arrived in Athens. After visiting Athens, I was ready to board a luxury cruise ship, visit the Aegean Sea and head to Cairo.

Li Yu took Lu Bicheng to board the ship early in the morning. There were still a few hours before the departure time, so there were no passengers.

As soon as he boarded the boat, Lu Bicheng suddenly saw a large flower cluster on the opposite side, and wrote "Marry me" in English, and the middle lines were in Chinese:

"There are three thousand things in the world, my love is three,

Sun Moon and Qing,

The sun is morning, the moon is evening,
Qing is day and night. "

Lu Bicheng opened his mouth wide: "This is?"

When he turned around, Li Yu got down on one knee and took out a ring box: "Marry me."

Lu Bicheng's head froze, tears streaming down his face in an instant: "It was so...sudden, I wasn't prepared at all, I woke up so early today, and I didn't even put on makeup."

Li Yu said with a smile: "It's natural, it's like a lotus flower, it doesn't matter whether you put on makeup or not."

The people from the travel agency that had been arranged four weeks ago immediately began to boo: "Marry him! Marry him!"

Lu Bicheng grabbed his hand, "You, you get up first."

Li Yu remained motionless: "Answer first, would you like to?"

Lu Bicheng's face became even redder, and the booing all around became louder, she whispered: "I, I am willing!"

Only then did Li Yu take out a ring for her to put on.

Lu Bicheng couldn't help herself, and hugged him tightly, "I wish to be a tree in the deep mountain, and its branches will grow together."

The nephrite jade is warm and fragrant, and Li Yu's head is also a little dizzy.

The people from the travel agency had already given way.

Li Yu picked her up and entered the reserved suite.

Can't describe.

The whistle on the bow of the ship blared, and it was slowly driving on the shallow waves of the Aegean Sea.

After a long time, Lu Bicheng said: "Don't you get up, the scenery outside will be very good."

Li Yu stretched his waist, "It's better here."

"Stop coming!" Lu Bicheng smiled sweetly, and then said, "Now I'm yours. After returning to China, you're going to come to propose marriage."

Li Yu said: "Don't worry, the bride price will definitely satisfy the mother-in-law!"

Stepping out of the cabin, they had already seen Crete from afar.

Lu Bicheng leaned lazily in Li Yu's arms and heard Li Yu say: "There is an ancient myth and legend on this island. Zeus, the Greek god of heaven, and his lover Europa gave birth to a child Minos. Zeus wanted to meet Europa and avoid It was discovered by the queen of heaven, so it turned into a bull. Later, things offended the queen of heaven, and the queen of Minos fell in love with the bull, leaving a tauren monster. Minos built a labyrinth in Crete to trap the monster, but every time In 9 years, 7 pairs of virgin boys and girls were sent to feed it. Later, the Greek prince wiped out the harm for the people, took the ball of thread given to him by Princess Crete as a mark, entered the maze and killed the monster, and then walked out relying on the ball of thread.”

Lu Bicheng frowned: "Zeus is a god, why are there so many lovers, and the incident happened because of him, is this still a god?"

Li Yu said: "Zeus has too many romantic affairs."

Lu Bicheng said again: "By the way, Europa, isn't that the name of Europe?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "That's right."

"It's really strange to use this name." Lu Bicheng couldn't understand at all.

Li Yu actually couldn't understand either.

After the ship entered the Nile, it quickly reached Cairo upstream.

Then the two rode on the same camel, and after walking a certain distance, they saw the pyramids.

The air is full of the sour smell of love, but Li Yu's mind is full of movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy at this moment——riding a camel is really that smelly.

It's just that after looking at it up close, I don't know why it suddenly doesn't feel as good as I imagined.

Perhaps it is really too deified, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Li Yu is an engineering mind. When watching it, he even kept thinking about how to build and how to pile up soil.

Anyway, I don't think it's an "unsolved mystery".

As for the mathematics embodied in it, it is indeed very delicate, but you can't treat the ancients as fools, right?After all, we are already a civilized society. Shouldn't mathematics, a subject of great practical significance, develop together with other civilizations such as writing?

How come the ancients who knew a little mathematics had to explain that it was built by aliens?

Lu Bicheng suddenly asked: "I heard this is a tomb?"

Li Yu said: "Yes, the tomb of the pharaoh. A pharaoh often starts building pyramids from the moment he ascends the throne."

"It's a waste of money for the people," Lu Bicheng sighed, and then said again, "But it seems that the emperor of our country is the same."

Li Yu said with a smile: "But the Egyptians would hollow out the corpse, make it into a mummy, and then wrap it with layers of white cloth."

Lu Bicheng felt very panicked, and covered his chest: "It's better to bury it directly."

Li Yu said: "It's better to bury it directly, it's better to burn it and scatter it into the sea."

Lu Bicheng said: "It sounds a little romantic, so I have to throw it into the sea, or I won't find you."

Li Yu laughed loudly: "It seems good to be a fish in the next life."

Lu Bicheng added: "Mr. Liang Qichao said that there are four ancient civilizations on the earth: China, India, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Seeing Egypt at close range now seems to be no match for us."

Li Yu said: "The Egyptians of today are not the Egyptians of the past, and the Indians of today are not the Indians of the past. Only the present Chinese have not broken their inheritance."

Lu Bicheng expressed his feelings: "It's not easy!"

Egypt now houses the Sheffield Hotel for tourists, and many of the early tourists stayed here after their visit because of the famous terraced roof.

Lu Bicheng likes it very much: "I can sit here and feel that I won't be tired all day."

Of course, the bigger reason is that I am in a good mood, which is what I say everywhere.

After Egypt, the cruise ship returned to the Dardanelles and went to see Constantinople.

This place is very important to the history of the West and Central Asia. If Constantinople had not fallen and the collection of Greek classics had returned to Europe, the Renaissance might not have started yet.

At that time, Europeans knew that Greece more than 1000 years ago was so good, and knew so much more than themselves.

But the extra itinerary cost a lot of time. Seeing that the day to go to Sweden to receive the award was approaching, Li Yu decided not to disembark and arrived in Stockholm directly by boat.

Thinking about this year's winners, I should also meet Pavlov, an old acquaintance.

The bank who supported Li Yu before is a civil engineering teacher, and Jose, who won a literary award across the bank, will also be present.

(End of this chapter)