Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell
For the residents of Hampshire, Southampton, and 86 Eastleigh Road, July 29 is clearly no ordinary day.
The morning bell had just struck seven and young Jon Hart had already gotten out of bed.
Throwing a copy of Nature from his body, he ran out of the room and to the kitchen.
"Mom, has there been a letter?"
Mrs. Judy Hart was the mistress of Eighty-Six Eastleigh Road, a petite blonde woman who was even slightly taller than her 11-year-old son.
"I'm sorry, dear, it doesn't seem to have arrived. She was frying fries in the kitchen and smiled back at Jon, "Your father is waiting at the door." ”
Jon walked out into the courtyard, and sure enough, Mr. Eric Hart was pacing the doorway.
"Erik, there's no need to be so nervous!" Jon whispered.
"Nervous? I'm not nervous at all!" Mr. Hart said, glancing at his son, "Those old professors at Windsor Palace should be honored to have such a good freshman as you at Eton!"
However, as he spoke, his feet kept stomping on the floor frequently.
Eric Hart is a well-known local lawyer, and his wife, Judy, is an excellent fashion designer. The husband and wife are both leaders in their respective fields, with a combined annual income of nearly £200,000, and even in Southampton, a port city with a high level of consumption, a family of three can live a very decent life.
But what makes them even prouder is their child Jon. In Eric and Judy's mind, there is no better child in the world than Jon.
Jon has been a very sensible child since he was a child...... He has begun to learn to speak to his parents seriously when other people's children are crying, and he has begun to read a lot of obscure scientific journals when other people's children are clamoring for all kinds of toys.
At the age of five, in a street interview, he gave an impromptu speech on the theme "The Falkland Islands (Malvinas) are an integral part of Great Britain since ancient times", which was widely circulated and won great acclaim.
In the English SATs (National Primary School Completion Examination) a month ago, Jon scored perfect marks on all six papers, which is second to none in Hampshire's nearly a century of history.
......
Jon Hart, he's a time-traveler.
In his previous life, he was a doctoral student in the biology department of a second-rate 211 in China, and his research direction was microbial and immunology; after an accidental car accident and loss of consciousness, he found that he had actually traveled to a middle-class family in Britain in the eighties of the twentieth century and became a baby.
Jon, who had read books for more than twenty years in his previous life, didn't know lottery numbers and didn't know anything about finance...... As a matter of fact, at the end of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 st century, the classes in the developed capitalist countries had been basically solidified and the systems were quite perfect.
There is no golden finger, but there seems to be a little bit of a crossing perk: after the crossing, his memory is so good that it is almost unforgettable.
Therefore, Jon decided to follow the line of his previous life, study hard, work hard in scientific research, and fight for socialist modernization for the rest of his life in the future!
As early as the age of five, he made detailed plans for the next thirty years or so.
From an early age, he showed a bit of a "child prodigy" trait, and achieved good results in the National Primary School Completion Examination (National Primary School Completion Examination) in the UK, and applied to top secondary schools such as St Paulo, Modlin and Eton.
Then, with the help of an excellent secondary school platform and doing well in the A-Level exams (British college entrance examination), you can enter the microbiology department of Oxford or Cambridge.
With the help of his outstanding memory in this world, Jon can clearly remember the research data and research results decades after his previous life, which can help him avoid many detours on his scientific research path.
In college, Jon would begin to show his "talent" for scientific research, and conduct experiments to reveal the activation and inhibition of innate immunity and publish related papers, which would definitely cause a huge sensation in the microbial community around the turn of the millennium, and Jon would also take the opportunity to meet John Robert Vane, John E. Sulston, and Niels Kaj Bulls like Jerne (both Oxford and Cambridge Nobel laureates in physiology and medicine).
After gaining a certain reputation, he would ask for help from the big guys, and a year or two before graduating from college, he would go to Harvard or MIT for graduate school.
In the early stage of the SARS outbreak in China, Jon will isolate and cultivate a strain of SARS virus, reveal the pathogenic mechanism of SARS virus, and try to develop relevant subunit vaccines as soon as possible.
During his Ph.D., he will shift his focus to cancer and research negative immunomodulation for the treatment of cancer......
Before graduating, it is not surprising that he can publish 3-5 classic papers in the world's most authoritative journals, such as Nature, Lancet, and CA-CancerJClin.
With such outstanding results, he could easily become a professor at Harvard or MIT after graduating as a Ph.D. student.
He will continue to work on these areas, and if all goes well, he could probably win the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine between 2015 and 2020 for his contributions to many aspects of microbiology and immunity.
After becoming famous, he can find an opportunity to go to China, become a visiting professor at Tsinghua University or Peking University, become a Chinese citizen, and begin to fight for socialist modernization for the rest of his life!
......
It's a great idea, but first you have to face it.
He first had to apply to a top secondary school in the UK...... To be reasonable, Eton College is not the best choice, after all, this is a traditional aristocratic high school, although in recent years it has begun to recruit students from civilian backgrounds, but the requirements are extremely high.
However, this is the opinion of his father Eric, who believes that entering an aristocratic secondary school such as Eton College can help Jon meet many future big people and accumulate a lot of contacts in advance.
Honestly, Eric was right.
If memory is correct, in the next few years, Prince William and Prince Harry (both sons of Prince Charles and Princess Diana) will enter Eton College one after another, and William, the direct heir to the royal family, should be a student in the same class as Jon.
Being a classmate of the future King of England seems like a lot of fun.
But think about it, it's also a lifetime series, and Prince William's grandmother is still alive and well when Jon travels through the previous life, but she is a figure who can be compared to a great man!
Jon was bored thinking about it when he heard a click in the mailbox outside the door.
"Oh...... Oh, God...... They're coming!" Eric stammered, his face a little pale.
"I'll go get the letter!"
Jon opened the courtyard door, and the mailbox was painted with three golden lions and a dead brown bear at his feet...... This was posted by Eric more than half a year ago to celebrate a big event.
At the same time, there was a spotted cat, standing next to the mailbox, staring at the gate of 86 Eastleigh Road.
"Go away!" Jon kicked the wildcat away, then pulled a stack of letters out of the mailbox.
As he returned home from the letter, Eric and Judy hurried around.
The first letter was a gas bill.
The second is a postcard from Aunt Arya to Judy.
The third was for him, and Jon slowly tore open the envelope:
"Dear Mr. Hart,
It is my pleasure to inform you that, after our discussions, it has been agreed that you are gifted and qualified to study at Eton College and to be one of the 247 new students in Eton College in 1992.
You're loyal.
Tony Riddo (Head of Eton College)"
"Oh my!" Jon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"How's it going?" asked Eric and Judy in a hurry.
"I've been accepted!" he smiled as he handed over the letter.
Eric and Judy took the letter, and as they read it carefully, the expressions on their faces changed from apprehension, to surprise, and finally to ecstasy.
Jon...... Honey, I knew you could!" Judy hugged her son and kissed him the cheek.
"I'll tell all my colleagues how good my son is......" Eric roared with joy as he sat in the yard.
Then, the couple kissed passionately in the yard without any scruples.
I have to say that it is an extremely honorable thing for a student who was not born in the nobility to be invited to a prestigious school like Eton.
Especially in the atmosphere of Ying's "happy education".
He had been in elementary school for six years, and none of Jon's teachers had asked him about his studies...... All the teachers care about is, "Are you happy at school?"
Basically, all the students grew up in this "happy" atmosphere.
There are only a few exceptions.
For example, a girl named Susan in the same grade was born to an extremely wealthy banker in Southampton. Every day after school at 3 p.m., when the other students were happily carrying out extracurricular activities, Susan would be reluctant to be picked up by her father's Rolls-Royce as soon as possible.
In Susan's words, she was forced to learn piano and dance every day by her father, who hired three tutors and forced her to do a lot of homework and homework.
The classmates were very sympathetic to Susan's plight......
A week ago, it was announced that 11-year-old Susan had scored more than 95 points on every paper in the SATs test and was admitted to St Paul's College for Women in London as soon as possible.
Those students who sympathized with Susan had to go to Southampton's local public secondary school to continue to enjoy their "happy education".
Yingshi Education pays attention to "happy education" in teaching, but it is ruthless when it is eliminated.
SATs (National Primary School Completion Test) are administered to 11-year-old primary school graduates, and the pass rate is only 30%-50% in typical years. And the results of these exams and letters of recommendation determine what level of secondary school 11-year-old primary school graduates attend, and even determine their future fate.
For secondary schools, the gap between prestigious schools and ordinary schools is very large......
Well-known universities such as Cambridge and Oxford will not recognize the transcripts of ordinary public high schools at all, let alone glance at the recommendation letters written by the principals of ordinary public secondary schools, no matter how good your grades are, it is difficult for them to be recognized......
Seeing his parents celebrating in ecstasy, Jon couldn't help but smile on his face.
The initial goal of planning the route has been achieved, and now I have basically stepped into Cambridge and Oxford with one foot......
He even began to think of himself celebrating the success of experiments in the laboratory, publishing papers in his core journals, and even climbing on the podium of the Nobel Prize......
The only regret is that Eton College is a boys' school, and it will be difficult for me to meet girls of the same age in the next seven years.
Pondering, Jon glanced at the last letter.
Hampshire, Southampton, 86 Eastleigh Road, Yard Pacing, by Mr. Jon Hart.
The envelope was made of heavy parchment, and the address was written in emerald green ink. No stamps are affixed.
Jon flipped the envelope over with a trembling hand, revealing a wax seal, a shield coat of arms, and a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounded by a capital "H".
"Oh my god!" Jon couldn't help but curse in Chinese.
At this moment, the bottom of his heart is like a thousand grass and mud horses galloping past.