Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 355 94 Austrian Rural Teacher

As soon as Chen Muwu finished speaking, Kapitsa sitting in the driving seat next to him seemed to be a different person.

He no longer looked like a passionate racing driver, but suddenly became cautious: not only was he timid in his driving movements, but his voice rarely turned into a soft whisper when he spoke.

That is to say, Kapitsa has not watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", otherwise he will definitely park the car on the side of the road. After getting out, he will kneel on one knee, clasping his fists with both hands, lowering his head and saying very gratefully, such as "Just as you do, you will never give up." I would like to be worshiped as a foster father" and so on.

"It's too expensive, Chen. This gift you gave me is really too expensive."

Now, Kapitsa kept mumbling these words in his mouth while driving.

"Relax, Peter, relax. I have already said that I will give you a car, but I have delayed it for so long. I am just taking this opportunity to fulfill my promise. Don't have any psychological burden. This is not what I will give you next year." Are you getting married? Wouldn’t it be okay if you come back when the time comes?"

"Don't worry, I will definitely send you my sincere blessings when you get married." The serious expression on Kapitsa's face did not last for a few seconds, and then he started to smile playfully, "But just return the car, I will Unlike a rich man like you, I can't afford to be polite."

After a quick drive around the Cambridge University campus, Kapitsa returned to the starting point of the two of them and parked the car safely in front of his house.

He insisted on forcing Chen Muwu to stay at home for a dinner as a return gift for receiving such a precious gift.

Although the cooking level of the Russians is much higher than that of the British, today's meal is more of a simple meal than a dinner in the evening.

After all, the wedding was approaching and there were a lot of things to do, and no one had the time to carefully prepare food every night.

After dinner, Kapitsa kept Chen Muwu at his home and chatted for a long time. He talked about various things he encountered while preparing for the wedding and complained to him.

It wasn't until it was getting very late that Chen Muwu was finally able to decline Kapitsa's offer to drive him back after he had drunk too much. He left his house and walked back to his residence at Trinity College.

Due to the small size of the city and its strong academic atmosphere, the public security environment in Cambridgeshire is much better than that of the international metropolis London, which is more than 50 miles to the south.

But even so, Chen Muwu was still cautious when walking at night, because he had learned from the experience of Ye Gongchao being punched inexplicably, and he was also afraid that a blind drunk would emerge from a certain alley and provoke him. .

He is not afraid of fighting with others, especially when his opponent is a weakling who has lost most of his strength and consciousness after drinking too much beer.

Chen Muwu was just afraid that the school would find out about the fight, which would give those who wanted to see him unhappy and want to expel him from Cambridge University a perfect reason.

Fortunately, the above-mentioned things were just his random thoughts while walking at night. Chen Muwu did not encounter any problems until he reached the gate of Trinity College.

While he was resting for a few days at school, he sorted out some of the photographic plates of the cloud chamber that he and Eddington had taken not long ago in the laboratory, as well as the recorded experimental data. On this basis, he sorted out the following First draft of a speech delivered at the Solvay Conference in Brussels, Belgium, in March.

Chen Muwu also listened carefully to the report given by Cockcroft, who went back to school after seeing his wife and children at home, and listened to him describe the various problems he encountered when installing particle accelerators for funders of various universities in the United States. kind of thing.

After the long vacation, more and more teachers and students have returned to Cambridge University. Many of them have come back a few days earlier than usual in order to participate in the "Cambridge County No. [-] Self-Training" Wedding in Kapitsa.

Chen Muwu also notified his elder brother Chen Muqiao in advance, asking him to take the old lady to Cambridge by train. While watching the ceremony, he felt happy and lively, and dispelled the gloom accumulated in his heart due to living in a foreign land.

This is Chen Muwu's second wedding in the UK after attending Chadwick's wedding in Liverpool.

Different from the last traditional British wedding, this wedding is full of Russian elements, which is quite exotic to the British natives and foreigners like Chen Muwu.

When it came to selecting the best man, Chen Muwu was mercilessly rejected by the groom, Kapitsa, because he was too handsome. The latter chose another one of the "Three Musketeers of Cavendish" who always had a straight face and was unsmiling. Blackett.

And because Rutherford, the lab's ever-promising director, is still sailing on a steamship, drifting on the Pacific or Indian Ocean, the witness of this wedding was also replaced by another highly respected man from Cambridge University. One, Sir Thomson, Dean of Trinity College.

Russian weddings are indispensable with wine, singing and dancing.

Chen Muwu, who does not drink, once again became the busy man at this wedding. He used the Leica camera he bought in Berlin to run back and forth to take photos of the newlyweds and guests, while also taking care of the drunk guests. They, so that they will not do anything bad after drinking.

After the whole wedding, Director Chen was the most tired one.

In this world, some people are happy and some are disappointed.

On the day after Kapitsa's wedding, when many people were still too drunk to get out of bed with a hangover, Chen Muwu received new guests from the United States at Cambridge University.

This group of guests also came from United Artists Pictures, who had contacted him before.

But their identities are no longer United Artists staff, but several co-founders of the film company.

Chen Muwu had never seen Fairbanks in old photos, so he did not know Fairbanks who had signed an agreement with him to help promote a future alien movie.

But Chen Muwu recognized at a glance another middle-aged man who was not tall and who was accompanying Fairbanks.

He does not wear a top hat on his head, a tuxedo on his body, a civilized stick in his hand, an exaggerated expression on his face, and funny body movements like in the movie, but he has a serious face and a solemn behavior.

This is none other than the master of humor in the world beyond the camera, Charlie Chaplin.

Just this past August, Chaplin ended a less than successful marriage.His divorce from his ex-wife, Rita Gray Chaplin, ended in a record settlement, with his ex-wife receiving $62 and their son receiving $20. of trust funds.

Added together, there is a total of more than 80 US dollars. Even in 2023, you can buy a good house in a second-tier city.

Such a large amount of money was beyond the reach of Chen Muwu, a poor man in his previous life.

What's more, it's 1927 now, and the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is much higher than it was 100 years later. More than 80 U.S. dollars is undoubtedly an astronomical sum.

For Chaplin, this money cannot be said to have caused him to spend a lot of blood, but it should be said that it almost pushed him to the edge of bankruptcy.

The original intention of United Artists Film Company was to allow their directors and actors to gain greater creative freedom and make more money.

I heard that Fairbanks is going to Europe to meet with Chen Muwu to discuss his views on aliens.

Having just suffered the blow of divorce, Chaplin, who was somewhat desperate, chose to come to England with him, hoping to see if he could find some good ideas to make money on the other side of the ocean.

Because he knew Chaplin, after listening to Fairbanks' straightforward self-introduction, Chen Muwu had no doubt that they were committing fraud and wanted to use false identities to defraud him.

My friend has downloaded an anti-fraud APP on his mobile phone. It would be ridiculous if he was defrauded of money by a fraud method from 100 years ago.

Fairbanks brought a script about aliens this time. He felt that instead of letting the staff of United Artists Pictures in Europe run around and act as microphones, it would be better for him to come here himself and meet Chen Muwu. On the previous page, we had a face-to-face chat about his views on this roughly produced script.

There are new hot spots happening in the world every moment, such as the issue of whether the sun will explode, which has been hotly discussed in the United States recently.

Although less than half a year has passed, the matter of aliens has become a hot topic in the previous version. If you don't take advantage of this time when people have not completely forgotten about it, and choose to Spending a lot of time carefully crafting a complete script and shooting it into a movie will probably face the dilemma of losing all your money.

Fairbanks came to the UK this time and asked Chen Muwu to check whether there were any common sense mistakes about aliens in the script. On the one hand, he also wanted to be like the Pope trapped in Rome and talk about scientific topics. The popularity of Evergreen Chen Muwu has allowed the alien movie they are planning to shoot to return to people's attention.

The two of them were accompanied by photographers and videographers. After choosing the angle, they began to take photos and behind-the-scenes, which will be beneficial materials for future publicity.

Not only did Chen Muwu have no objection to this kind of publicity by United Artists Pictures, he also enthusiastically took out his camera and asked the photographer to help take many photos of him, Chaplin and Fairbanks, and many more. A signed photo of both of them.

The Solvay Conference will be held next month, and we will also be able to see Pauli, the arrogant and arrogant man who talks about integrity.

He was a loyal fan of Chaplin. As soon as Chaplin's new movie was released in Germany, Pauli would buy a ticket and go to the cinema to watch it as soon as possible.

And when I am idle and bored on weekdays, or when I encounter bottlenecks in academic research, I will unknowingly wander into the cinema and watch a Chaplin movie to get inspiration.

If during the chat at the Solvay Conference, Chen Muwu had "accidentally" pulled out a photo of himself and Chaplin at Cambridge University, he would probably have received the jealousy of Pauli, a loyal fan of Chaplin.

If he takes out another signed photo of Chaplin with Pauli's name written on it, will he be able to take this opportunity to gain Pauli's favorability?

Although this guy has always been known for his acrimony, the fact that he has a genius brain in physics cannot be denied.

It is better to dissolve enemies than to make enemies. The school in Stockholm is about to be put into operation, and there is an urgent need for a large number of teachers in various disciplines and scientific research capabilities.

Chen Muwu carefully prepared this small gift, which might make the balance in Pauli's heart tilt even more toward him.

After taking a group photo with Chaplin and Fairbanks, he also dealt with the other students from Cambridge University and the Cavendish Laboratory who rushed over to ask for pictures, and the two visiting filmmakers. The content of the discussion finally came to the point.

Chen Muwu took the first draft of the script that Fairbanks handed over. He only read the outline of the story printed on the first few pages, without looking carefully at the details at the back, and realized that this must be a script written by Fairbanks in a short period of time. works.

The design and interior of the alien image in the script are crude. They don't look like advanced creatures that can travel across the universe and travel interstellar, but more like a person wearing only a layer of alien skin.

The content is also inseparable from the easiest to film love story, not so much a science fiction movie about aliens, but more like an interstellar version of Tarzan, or more accurately, Tarzan the alien.

The original novel "Tarzan" was serialized and published in 1912 by the American writer Edgar Burroughs in the magazine "Total Fiction" - this magazine was equivalent to the "Story Club" of the American people in the early 1914th century, except Tarzan and Zorro are also one of the most representative literary images that came out of the magazine - compiled and published as a complete novel in [-].

It was adapted into a movie version and put on the screen in 1918. By 1929, eight silent films were made. From 1932 to 1958, 23 sound movies were made. It is indeed a popular and popular movie theme in this era.

Chen Muwu's old rival in the swimming pool, Weiss Muller, also entered Hollywood after retiring and became the queen actor for the image of Taishan.

As the saying goes, "Those who learn from me will live, those who resemble me will die." Just because Tarzan the ape can succeed does not mean that Tarzan the alien can also succeed.

Chen Muwu always felt that if Fairbanks really made such a movie, the ending waiting for him would definitely be a bust, so he shook his head honestly.

"Dr. Chen, what do you have to say?"

"This script is good, but I don't think it is good enough. Coincidentally, I have also recently been imagining a story: In a small village in Austria, such a rural teacher came one day..."

(End of this chapter)