Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 440 179 Beginning of Spring
When a group of teachers and students from Stockholm Prince's College boarded the ship from the Sea of ​​​​Sea and set sail, Chen Muwu had been paying attention to the ship's trajectory.

He sent telegrams to De Broglie in France every now and then, asking him to check the arrival and departure information of ships in French newspapers on his behalf.

Because these ocean-going ships will dock at the coast of the coast for as long as seven or eight days, or as little as three or two days, firstly to pick up and disembark passengers in large port cities, and secondly to replenish the food, fresh water and water needed on the ship. Coal and other essential life and power resources.

Whenever a ship docks at a port, the shipping company to which the ship belongs will set up a local branch in the port city. On the one hand, it will collect these daily necessities in advance and send them to the ship. On the other hand, it will also notify the ship through the telephone line set up on the mainland. The company's headquarters and branches in other port cities reported that a certain ship has arrived at the port, and then asked them to estimate the arrival time of the ship at each port, so that they could post a message in advance asking passengers who bought tickets to board the ship in advance.

Marcus Jr. bought tickets from a French shipping company for the students at Prince's College. Their final destination was also the Port of Marseille, so it was normal for French newspapers to publish ship arrival and departure information every now and then. .

Chen Muwu has always relied on this method. During the more than a month when the people on the ship lost contact with the land, he roughly estimated the specific time when the ship would finally dock and reach Europe.

Fortunately, he finally waited until the ship docked at the terminal, Marseille Port in France. Shi Ruwei immediately sent him a telegram from Stockholm after landing.

After that, as the large troops traveled all the way from France to Germany, and from Germany to Sweden, the two sides basically relied on telegraphs to communicate.

When they entered Sweden, Chen Muwu even had a phone call with Shi Ruwei.

Relying on the reputation of the Swedish Crown Prince and his relationship with little Marcus, Chen Muwu contacted the relevant staff of the city train station in advance and arranged a simple welcome ceremony on the platform.

Thanks to the fact that this city is Stockholm, it has the annual practice and plan to welcome Nobel Prize winners on the train station platform, so it can respond quickly and fully in a short period of time.

After the train stopped next to the platform, the passengers got out of the carriages one after another.

At first, these local passengers who boarded the train from the port city in southern Sweden were confused as to why there were so many Asians on the train today.

It wasn't until everyone got off the bus that they saw the welcome parade on the platform, and then saw the most famous Chinese in Sweden, Chen Muwu, who would appear in local Swedish newspapers every now and then, and the square banner above Chen Muwu with incomprehensible content. , and then roughly guessed that today's incident seemed to be related to the Prince's College founded by Chen Muwu.

The five large calligraphy characters "Welcome New Students" on the banner were handwritten by Chen Muwu himself. Although it can't be said to be elegant, it can be regarded as quite satisfactory.

Mainly because before the students and teachers from Prince's College arrived, there were really few Chinese people in Stockholm. Even if there were, their calligraphy skills might not be as good as Chen Muwu's, otherwise he would really be unwilling to do this.

The students from China had already arranged themselves in neat formation under Shi Ruwei's command before getting off the train.

However, the Sinology teachers hired by Prince College were not bound by these constraints and stepped off the train one after another. After more than a month of long travel, their muscles and bones were somewhat tired.

The first person to step out of the train car might not be Xu Zhimo.

But he was the first to rush to Chen Muwu and say hello to him.

"Brother Hanchen, since we said goodbye in Cambridge a few years ago, we meet again today! I didn't expect that the fantasy you told me when we last met has become a reality just four years later."

Xu Zhimo came to Europe once in the summer of 1925. First, he failed to visit his sick young son. Second, he traveled between Italy, France and the United Kingdom to visit famous academic masters here.

Xu Zhimo went to Cambridge University to visit Russell, whom he once admired very much and studied under. He also stayed with Shao Xunmei at Cambridge University for a few more days, just to be able to communicate with David - who was at the Royal Institution in London. I met Chen Muwu who was doing experiments in Faraday's laboratory.

During that meeting, Chen Muwu once revealed his thoughts to Xu Zhimo.

"Brother Shima, thank you for coming to teach at Prince College. You have really done me a big favor."

"Nothing to say! And I should be the one thanking Brother Hanchen for giving me an opportunity to go to Europe and make money from foreigners."

Xu Zhimo couldn't wait to reach out his hand to Chen Muwu, and Chen Muwu had no choice but to smile and send his hand away.

After the two shook hands, Xu Zhimo did not leave. Instead, he turned around and looked into the crowd of people getting off the car. Then he raised his right hand and shouted to the crowd: "Ah Mei, Ah Mei, come here quickly!"

Chen Muwu followed his beckoning hand and saw a woman wearing fur among the crowd.

Hearing what Xu Zhimo called her, and seeing her appearance and graceful demeanor, if nothing else happened, this should be Lu Xiaoman, one of the two famous ladies of the Republic of China, the "Southern Tang and Northern Lu".

Mrs. Xu walked towards the place where the two people were standing, with a bit of feigned anger on her face: "I know, I know, don't rush me."

Lu Xiaoman, who was complaining about her husband's attitude, changed his face when he approached the two people.

She greeted Chen Muwu with the same smile: "Dr. Chen, you can always hear Zhimo mentioning you again and again when you are at home, and you can see news and information about you in domestic Chinese and English newspapers from time to time. , I finally saw a real person today! Ha-yeah!"

At the end of the sentence, Lu Xiaoman put his hand in front of his face and couldn't help but yawned.

She had squandered all the X-ray films they had carried with them in their luggage when they left Wuhai in more than a month of travel.

In the various port cities where the ship stopped, there was no place to replenish the goods due to the unfamiliarity of the place. Therefore, in the second half of the journey, Lu Xiaoman's addiction to D-cigarettes was never relieved.

Xu Zhimo, who was standing next to him, quickly introduced the two people: "Brother Hanchen, this is the bitch Xiaoman."

"Hello Mrs. Xu, welcome Zhimo and you to Sweden."

After saying hello, Lu Xiaoman also said hello to the stationmaster of Stockholm Railway Station who was standing not far from Chen Muwu, and he also used Swedish.

Her move made the station master stunned for a moment and asked, are all Chinese people so enthusiastic?
Chen Muwu also didn't understand why she did this. He thought that he thought the foreigner standing near him was a great figure in Sweden.

Chen Muwu has lived in various places in Stockholm for some time, and his future work focus has been transferred from the University of Cambridge in the UK to the Prince's College of Sweden, so he has systematically learned the more commonly used Swedish. Firstly, because in Europe, the language has many similarities with English and German, and secondly, because he is in the local language environment, Chen Muwu's Swedish level has developed by leaps and bounds.

He knew that Lu Xiaoman had just greeted the stationmaster of Stockholm Railway Station and introduced herself, and he also knew that she had arrived at the wrong dock.

However, Chen Muwu did not expose the joke, but changed the topic very kindly.

"Mrs. Xu, you speak Swedish very well. Did you study it for a period of time before coming to Sweden?"

Chen Muwu's sincere compliment made Lu Xiaoman a little embarrassed.

She smiled brightly, but did not take the credit to herself. Instead, she introduced her husband: "This is all requested by Zhimo. He said that when we come to Sweden, we can't speak a word of local dialect and act like mutes when we go out. So when I was still in Qihai, I specially found a Swedish teacher, who often took me to cocktail parties and activities at the Swedish Embassy to improve my Swedish language skills.

"Zhimo's Swedish proficiency is much better than mine. I don't have much patience, so I just learned a few random sentences by his side."

As expected of a very famous socialite in China, Lu Xiaoman still pays attention to making her husband look good when she is away from home.

There were other teachers from China on the train, all waiting to greet Chen Muwu, so Xu Zhimo and his wife were embarrassed to waste too much time. After greetings, they found an excuse to return to the carriage again to pick up the train. The pieces of luggage I brought over from Jihai.

After the Xu couple left, someone else greeted Chen Muwu who was standing on the platform to greet everyone.

Although he didn't know this person, but seeing the glasses on his nose and the Siyi accent when he spoke, based on the memory in his brain and the list Shi Ruwei sent to him via telegram, Chen Muwu already had a feeling in his heart. I have a preliminary judgment on who is coming.

"Mr. Guo, you have come all the way from China. You have worked hard on your journey."

Guo Dingtang, who was born in 1892, has profound attainments in literature and art.

Although he is only thirty-seven years old now, the country has begun to use the honorific "Guo Lao" for him, so Chen Muwu adopted this title obediently.

"Don't dare to take it, don't take it! Brother Hanchen, the school you founded in Sweden is really worthy of immeasurable merit! Especially if it can still accommodate me who has no place in the country, it's up to me to deal with you. Just say 'thank you'."

The two people's hands were tightly held together. At the same time, Guo Dingtang put his head close to Chen Muwu's ear. In the noisy train station environment, he whispered: "There were three places where I was going. One was to the north. The second one is Sulian in the east, and the third one is Stockholm where you invited me.

“I discussed this matter with Mr. Zhou, and he fully agreed to let me come to Sweden.

"Mr. Zhou said that you are a trustworthy and reliable friend, and asked me to express his gratitude to you on his behalf.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Zhou also told me a numerical password, which is 299...9 or something. Hanchen, please wait a moment while I look through the records in my notebook."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Guo, don't bother."

Chen Muwu did indeed tell such a number when Mr. Zhou left Paris. It was none other than the value of the speed of light that had not yet been accurately measured in this era.

Unexpectedly, he saw Guo Dingtang at the Stockholm train station today and heard this string of numbers in his mouth.

Chen Muwu deliberately asked him how the situation was in the country and whether everything was fine with Mr. Zhou and the others.

But firstly, because there were so many people on the platform, secondly, because there were still many people waiting to greet him, and thirdly, because "good people have their own destiny", Mr. Zhou and others have not been able to turn around the bad luck in history. Good luck brings good luck, so there will be no problem this time.

After Chen Muwu briefly greeted the other Sinology teachers he invited to Stockholm on the platform, Shi Ruwei also organized the team of students there.

Since returning to China in 1927 to prepare for the selection examination of the first Prince's College, to selecting the corresponding candidates, organizing them to participate in pre-abroad training at home, and taking the students by ship and train along the way, Shi Ruwei seems to have become He became the head teacher of these students.

Letting a PhD student from Cambridge University, who is still rare in China, be the head teacher, it would be overqualified and underutilized.

Shi Ruwei was the last one to walk to Chen Muwu. The two briefly exchanged words and told each other about their hard work.

Everyone has been lingering on the platform for a while, and there are other trains coming in and out of Stockholm Railway Station. Even if they have already said hello to the railway station, they are not too embarrassed to stay here for too long.

After everyone checked their luggage and belongings and confirmed that nothing was left behind, they left the train station, got on the large bus that had been prepared, and walked towards Prince's College on the outskirts of Stockholm.

The next step is to assign accommodation, visit the campus, and explain things to pay attention to inside and outside the school. No need to go into details.

The opening of every school is a big day, especially since this is the first batch of students enrolled by Prince's College after its founding, so the day must be chosen carefully.

Chen Muwu did not look at the small words of taboos printed on the almanac. Instead, he made his own decision and chose February 1929, 2, as the opening ceremony of Prince's College and the founding date of the school in the next few years.

Because this day happens to be the beginning of spring, which in traditional Chinese culture is the first of the twenty-four solar terms and the beginning of the year.

Although six days later, February 2th, would be the first day of the new year.

But no one would start school during a holiday like the Spring Festival. This is simply making people uncomfortable.

In the auditorium of Prince College, the stage has already been set up for the opening ceremony.

On the morning of February 2th, the students and teachers of Prince College, as well as the guests who came specially to attend the opening ceremony, all took their seats in the auditorium.

(End of this chapter)