Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 267 An Engagement Banquet Invitation
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year month day.

The next night after leaving Tianqi, we got off the train at Pu Station on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Whether in the United States, Europe or Taiwan, long-distance trains are not that pleasant even if they are riding in a sleeper car.

Fortunately, in China, the snacks and delicacies along the railway lines are much better than in the food desert of Britain.

What's more, the price is cheap. As long as you have money, you can buy enough and extremely delicious food from the vendors on the platform anytime and anywhere when the train stops at the station.

According to Dr. Chen, our route south this time is basically consistent with the southward tour route of an ancient Chinese emperor named Ch'ien Lung.

The emperor was probably China's most famous gourmet, and while inspecting the living conditions of the people under his rule, he also ate countless snacks from various places.

Therefore, along the way, many of the snacks we saw on the train station platform had advertisements that the emperor later praised endlessly.

But Dr. Chen told me that these advertisements were basically far-fetched, because the emperor could not have eaten so many snacks.

It's like many people in the West like to give examples and say that a certain dish is a delicacy that appeared in Shakespeare's works.

But in fact, if you look through the complete works of Shakespeare, you won't find such a dish - it's just that no one will read Shakespeare when they are idle, so no one will check whether the emperor has eaten this snack.

Dr. Chen also said that because we were traveling all the way south, the protagonists of local food legends are all this emperor.

If we had traveled west instead of south, the protagonist of the story might have been Tz'u Hsi, a queen mother who was almost contemporary with Queen Victoria.

When we got off the train at Pu Station, we hired two luggage porters and walked non-stop to the pier near the train station, where we boarded a boat and crossed the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River is the largest and longest river in China.

Tingjing is a city located on the banks of the Yangtze River. It is also the second largest city in the Yangtze River basin after Baihai.

We didn’t stay here longer. After crossing the river, we arrived at Xingjing Station, where we boarded the evening train that connected with the previous train.

Today, we will spend the night on the train jingling, and when we open our eyes tomorrow, we will reach the last stop of Dr. Chen's long journey back home, the largest city in China and even the Far East, Baihai.

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Although before leaving Tianli, Chen Muwu was startled by a group of uninvited guests who suddenly appeared on the platform.

But after seeing Ma Yuzao and Ye Qisun's group, he immediately understood the purpose of these two people coming to Tianyi.

Next to him, Oppenheimer and soldiers from the Fengjun were carrying their luggage down from the bed of the truck.

Chen Muwu made up his mind at this moment. During his journey home, he stayed in Tianli for two days, which was beyond his plan.

No matter what they say this time, he will never turn back north to Beijing again.

Chen Muwu first asked Oppenheimer to move his luggage into the carriage with the soldier.

Then he jumped out of the carriage and walked towards some old acquaintances with a smile.

After greeting each other, it turned out that just as Chen Muwu guessed, they came to Tianyi just to invite Chen Muwu to give lectures in Beijing.

In addition to two old friends, Ma Yuzao and Ye Qisun, Chen Muwu also met Stewart, the president of Wujing University, and his assistant and secretary, Fu Jingbo, after an introduction.

Chen Muwu never expected that he would disturb such a person when he returned home.

The situation in Beijing is far more complicated than that in Tianqi.

The latter has only one Nankai University, but the former, as the capital of China, has first-class educational resources.

Today alone, three universities have sent representatives to Tianyi, and there are still a few universities that have not come.

Even if you only give one lecture at each university, it adds up to a large sum.

As long as you agree to go to Beijing, you have to drive around there for at least half a week to a week.

Chen Muwu really didn't want to go through another trip with a bunch of luggage.

If he had decided to go to Beijing long ago, he would not have said goodbye to the Swedish Crown Prince and his entourage in Fengtian in advance, because the Swedish mission's first stop after coming to China was Beijing.

Historically, because this was the first foreign head of state who was interested in ancient Chinese culture to visit China, the Palace Museum in Beijing also specially unsealed a batch of rare cultural relics for the Crown Prince of Sweden for him to play with and appreciate.

How the Crown Prince of Sweden is welcomed in Beijing is a matter for the Beiyang government and scholars from all walks of life in Beijing, and Chen Muwu is beyond his reach.

But since leaving Cambridge University in the UK, Chen Muwu has spent more than a month on the road.

At this time, even if you don't take the faster train, you can almost reach the Baihai Sea by taking a boat from Marseille Port in France.

As a result, he is still wandering on the road. Chen Muwu only has one thought in his mind, and that is to return to his home as soon as possible.

But everyone who came to Tianyi from Beijing didn't know what Chen Muwu was thinking.

I met the real owner on the train platform without going to Nankai University, so everyone launched an offensive and invited him to give lectures at the schools they represented.

Stewart, who was least familiar with Chen Muwu, tried to "tempt" Chen Muwu with money.

He felt that he had made an offer too high to refuse, a thousand dollars a week.

Little did they know that Chen Muwu only stayed in Tianyi for two days, and President Zhang Boling of Nankai University prepared a gift of 500 silver yuan.

Although Stewart claims to be a China expert and the prices he gives are quite reasonable, he still has a bit of American arrogance.

Ye Qisun began to draw cakes for Chen Muwu.

Perhaps he thought that Chen Muwu wanted to stay in China when he returned to China, so he invited Chen Muwu to work with him to build the physics department of Tsinghua University and train a new generation of physics talents for the country.

He also said that he also discovered a good prospect in physics at Tsinghua University, a student named Wang from Changshu, Suzhou.

As soon as he heard about the good idea, Chen Muwu immediately became interested.

It was Ye Qisun who understood him best and knew what he wanted most at the moment.

However, there are too many physics talents trained by Ye Qisun. Even if the two conditions of surname and place of origin are given, Chen Muwu doesn't know who he is talking about.

This time he really wanted to follow Ye Qisun to visit Tsinghua University in Beijing, but looking at the luggage that had been loaded into the car, and Oppenheimer who was sitting in the car staring at him while looking at the luggage, Chen Muwu was still a little undecided.

The one who had been waiting for the end was Ma Yuzao, who was very close to Chen Muwu, and was the last one to step forward.

He knew that Bei University was not as rich as Tsinghua University and Wu University, and could not offer as much remuneration, nor could it make a promise to build a laboratory together.

But thinking of the way Principal Jiang Menglin asked him to be in his office, Ma Yuzao had no choice but to step forward.

Having no money and no skills, he decided to play the emotional card after careful consideration.

Ma Yuzao held Chen Muwu's hand and talked for a long time about his family affairs, recalling everything that happened in Ma's house when he was lecturing at Bei University three years ago.

At the end, he dropped a very damaging sentence, saying that the children at home also missed him very much.

It was okay that Ma Yuzao didn't say this, but when he finished speaking, Chen Muwu suddenly realized that Beijing was absolutely not allowed to go.After so many years, the children of the Ma family have now passed the age of cardamom and become beauties.

He, Old Chen, was about to get married, so he couldn't afford to incur more romantic debts for himself.

Although the current Republic of China emphasizes that "real celebrities will be romantic", Chen Muwu still doesn't want future marketing accounts to arrange all kinds of sexy news for him.

Just at this time, the preparation bell rang before departure on the Tianqidong Station platform.

But because Chen Muwu came to the platform in a Fengjun military vehicle, neither the staff at the train station nor the drivers on the train dared to show their usual bossy attitude towards the passengers.

A staff member approached carefully and asked Chen Muwu if he could drive now.

After all, Chen Muwu was a good and law-abiding citizen. He absolutely did not want to see that the entire bus of passengers could not reach their destination on time due to his own fault, so he nodded hastily in agreement.

The staff finally gave Chen Muwu an excuse and gave him an excuse to escape.

He could only regretfully inform the four people from the three universities in Beijing that he would not be able to go to Beijing to give lectures this time.

Fortunately, he will pass by Beijing on his way back. If he has the opportunity at that time, he will definitely accept everyone's invitation.

Before getting into the car, Chen Muwu also left a small note for Ye Qisun with his home address in Baihai, asking him to inform the student named Wang that if he went home during the summer vacation and had the opportunity, please come to Come to your own home.

Anyway, it's not far from Wuhai. Although there is no train, the way to Wuhai is still very convenient.

After saying these words, Chen Muwu, who was standing at the door of the car, waved goodbye to these people.

He suddenly wanted to say goodbye, Situ...

But when the words came to his lips, they were not spoken in the end.

The conductor closed the carriage door, and the train left Tianlingdong Station on time.

He, Chen Muwu, focuses on not causing trouble to others.

It wasn't until he got off the train and crossed the Yangtze River that Chen Muwu took advantage of the time he was waiting for the train to hang up a phone call at home at the post office of Tengjing Station on the other side of the river to inform himself that he would be arriving in Jihai the next morning.

The family had long known that Chen Muwu was going to return to China, but they never knew the specific date of his return until they received a long-distance call from him.

The main reason why Chen Muwu did this was because he was afraid of his second brother.

Whenever he achieves something, the second brother always uses the latest trendy method to publish it in newspapers to tell the world.

Chen Muwu clearly remembered that the day after he accepted the invitation to give lectures at Beida University, the largest newspaper in Shanghai, "Shenbao", published a piece of news that his second brother had paid for and that he was going to give lectures.

It is estimated that during these years abroad, newspapers must have published a lot of various news about him.

If he was told in advance the date of his return when he left Tianyi this time, Chen Muwu felt that his second brother would inevitably be published in the newspaper.

When he walked out of the train station, he would be greeted by various reporters from Shanghai's major newspapers holding notebooks and pens in their hands, with photographers following behind them.

Chen Muwu doesn't like liveliness by nature, so he thinks it's better to have fewer scenes like this.

But even if he didn't notify in advance, and the second brother didn't report the news in advance, but the next morning when he walked out of the exit of Gahai North Station, Chen Muwu saw old acquaintances besides the second brother who came to pick him up.

Chen Muwu had met Zhao Junhao, a reporter for Shenbao, twice, during Einstein’s speech at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on New Year’s Day in 1923, and during an interview at Cangzhou Hotel a few days later.

"Yi Shi Bao" published the entire itinerary of Chen Muwu's arrival in Tianjin, and the "Shen Shen" bureau had reporters in Tianjin.

They deduced the approximate date of Chen Muwu's return from the news, and then sent his old acquaintance Zhao Junhao to wait at the North Station every day.

Although Chen Muwu, who left home as a young boy and returned home as a eldest son, may have some changes in appearance and dress compared to a few years ago.

But his second brother Chen Muping is a banker on Jiangnao Road and can be regarded as the number one figure in Shili Yangchang.

You only need to see who Chen Muping picked up to know who the famous Chen Muwu is.

So when Chen Muping ran towards the exit and hugged his third brother, weeping and greeting each other - he was not surprised that Chen Muwu also brought back a foreigner, because the eldest brother once went to Europe to attend an award ceremony for his younger brother and said that in Overseas, Chen Muwu was very popular with foreigners and made many friends - Zhao Junhao also quietly joined in.

He didn't intend to spoil the moment when the relatives met, but he wanted to wait until the two brothers finished greeting each other and were about to get in the car, and then went forward to see if he could interview a few words.

Chen Muwu had seen Zhao Junhao a long time ago. He had experienced many battles and had seen a lot about being interviewed by reporters.

Which country in the West has he... visited?

Chen Muwu really didn't want Zhao Junhao to publish this news in "Shenbao" and tell the whole world that he himself had returned home in glory.

On my trip home this time, I had a tight time schedule and heavy tasks, so I didn’t want many people to visit me and say meaningless compliments after learning about this incident.

As the time gets closer to 1927, storms are coming, and the situation in Jihai becomes more complicated.

Suddenly, many people poured in inside and outside the concession, belonging to various factions.

Chen Muwu's move was also a wise way to protect himself in troubled times.

He and Zhao Junhao promised that as long as the news about his return to Shanghai was not published in "Shenbao", he would accept an exclusive interview with Zhao Da's reporter later.

Zhao Junhao could still tell the difference between these two pieces of news.

Reporting Chen Muwu's return to Shanghai was just a field trip at best.

But if there could be another exclusive interview with Chen Muwu like the one at Cangzhou Hotel, it would be big news.

The remuneration received from the newspaper for these two pieces of news is completely different.

So Zhao Junhao agreed to the matter without hesitation, and the news of Chen Muwu returning to Baihai did not appear at all in the "Declaration".

Although Zhao Junhao patted his chest and promised that he would never break his promise, they were by no means the only newspaper in Shanghai.

The next day, this news appeared in "Holmes", one of the four major newspapers in Shanghai, which was launched in Xiangfen Lane on July [-] this year.

As for who the source is...

Chen Muwu, who was busy lobbying Mrs. Chen to give up her business and go to Europe with him, was bothered by the constant invitations and business cards. He could only complain about being ill at home and said that he had started to Unaccustomed to the environment.

Everyone knew that Chen Muwu was pretending to be ill.

But the other party has already shown such an attitude, so it is inconvenient to continue to harass him shamelessly.

After all, they are all high-society figures with dignity.

Until another person who didn't open his eyes sent an invitation to the engagement banquet.

After seeing the names of the newlyweds written on it, Chen Muwu, who had been hiding at home for several days, finally decided to go out and have some fun.

(End of this chapter)