Early summer, 1956.

Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Zhou Weilie threw away the chalk, patted the chalk ash on his hands and said, "Okay, this semester's course is over, I wish the students a smooth exam." Class! ”

The students left the classroom one after another, but a blonde girl came to the podium with a textbook in her hand.

"Professor, can you tell us about your new 'Zhou Weilie Program'? I'm very interested in this. The blonde schoolgirl blinked her eyes, smiled brightly, and seemed to come alive with a little freckles.

Zhou Weilie packed up the handouts and said, "You are only in your second year of college now, and you will ask this question when you finish grad school." ”

"Why?" The blonde schoolgirl dragged on in a long tone, sounding more like a coquette.

Zhou Weilie completely ignored it and said mercilessly: "Because you still don't understand it now." ”

The blonde student girl persevered: "Then tell me how you perfected and proved the 'Gushan-Shimura-Zhou conjecture', and how you combined this conjecture with your 'Zhou Weilie Program'?" Let's go to a bar or café and have a chat. ”

"Another day." Zhou Weilie walked out of the classroom with the handouts in his hand.

The blonde student girl stomped her feet in anger and muttered and cursed: "What a cold machine, it deserves to be single for the rest of your life!" ”

……

Of course, Zhou Weilie has not been single all the time, he spent four years to get two master's degrees and a doctorate from Cambridge University. At the age of nineteen, Zhou Weilie followed Turing to the University of Manchester in the United States as a researcher in the computer laboratory, engaged in the software development of "Manchester One".

While in the United States, Zhou Weilie had a girlfriend.

The relationship ended without a hitch, and Zhou returned to the UK with some depression and was hired as a lecturer in mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Two years later, thanks to the extended application of the "Riemann-Roch theorem", Zhou Weilie made a name for himself in the international mathematical community, and thus became an associate professor at Cambridge University.

This year is the year of Zhou's mathematical achievements, and he meets Yutaka Taniyama and Goro Shimura at an international mathematical conference, and during casual conversation, he learns that they have proposed new conjectures about elliptic curves and modeling. He was very interested in this, and in the course of his research, he discovered that the conjecture was flawed, so he completed and proved it.

The mathematical community named it "Taniyama-Shimura-Zhou Conjecture".

At the same time, Zhou Weilie published "Preliminary Conception of Connected Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Reduced Groups" in the journal Nature. This is a topic that he began to study during his doctoral studies, and at that time it was only a scattered idea, but combined with the new theoretical results introduced by other mathematicians in recent years, Zhou Weilie finally completed his conjecture.

Once this paper was published, it directly shook the entire mathematical community and played a pivotal role in the future development of mathematics.

He was not only promoted to Professor at the University of Cambridge, but also awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, a member of the Royal Society, and was praised by scientific magazines as "a rising star in the world of mathematics".

At this time, Zhou Weilie was only 26 years old.

……

When students at the University of Cambridge were taking their final exams, Zhou Weilie left for Hong Kong early under the pretext of visiting relatives.

Walking out of the dock with suitcases, seven or eight rickshaw drivers suddenly solicited business and asked earnestly, "Sir, are you riding in a car?" ”

"Go to Taiping Mountain." Zhou Weilie chose one at random.

Hong Kong and the UK seem to be two worlds, with streets lined with not only whirlpools, slow-crawling trams, but also ox carts and donkey carts pulling goods. Many street children running and frolicking are actually covered in slickness, as if their families can't even afford clothes.

Poor, Hong Kong is very poor, and it has nothing to do with the "Pearl of the Orient" at all.

The coachman asked as he ran, "Where is the gentleman going to Taiping Mountain?" ”

Zhou Weilie said: "Go to the foot of the mountain and take the cable car." ”

"The scenery on the top of the mountain is so beautiful that you can see most of Hong Kong," the coachman asked with a smile, "Did you come back from studying abroad?" ”

Zhou Weilie replied casually: "Yes." ”

The coachman said, "That gentleman has a future, and anyone who has drunk foreign ink can make a lot of money." My cub is studying in Mr. Zhou's Hope Primary School, and his grades are very good, and when he grows up, I will send him to study abroad. By the way, what is your surname, sir? ”

"Surname Zhou." Zhou Weilie said.

"Oh, and Mr. Zhou is the same family," the coachman said, "Mr. Zhou is a good man, he runs a school without tuition fees, and takes care of the poor." My cub can also speak Chinese, which is standard, more than many people from the mainland. ”

In Hong Kong in the 50s, Chinese was the common language of society, because most Hong Kong people fled from the mainland. Hong Kong films are also basically Chinese, the main box office market is Taiwan (it can be sold to the mainland in previous years), and Cantonese films did not gradually become mainstream until the early 70s.

Zhou Hexuan has been moving to Hong Kong for 10 years, and in addition to opening mines and factories and smuggling materials to the mainland, the most he has done is to set up education.

Not to mention the establishment of private middle schools and universities, Zhou Hexuan also ran more than 30 hope primary schools in Hong Kong. At this time, the number of schools in Hong Kong was limited, and most children could not study, so Zhou Hexuan's Hope Primary School became the first choice for poor families.

Zhou Hexuan mixed private goods in his education, but in all schools he paid for, students must be able to listen to and speak Chinese, and there is a Chinese oral test at the end of the term.

……

Victoria Peak, Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Weilie rang the doorbell, the old man in the porter rubbed his eyes, and suddenly said happily: "It's the eldest young master who is back!" ”

"Uncle Du is good." Zhou Weilie said with a smile.

"The young master is still so polite." The old man at the porter said with a smile.

Several children in the garden were running and playing, and when they saw Zhou Weilie coming, they immediately shouted:

"Uncle!"

"Brother!"

The two eldest are both Zhou Hexuan's sons, and Zhou Xuan also gave birth to a little daughter last year. As for the one who shouted "uncle", it was Wanrong's own grandson, Zhou Shuoming got married and had children when he was 18 years old.

Zhou Shuoming, the second young master of the Zhou family, can't study, and can't do business, the only advantage is that he is tall and handsome. When he was in college, he made the niece and granddaughter of He Dong, the richest man in Hong Kong, have a big belly, and he has no choice but to get married - this is also a marriage between two major families in Hong Kong.

After graduating from college, the young master joined the family company on Tuesday, but he messed things up again and again, so angry that Zhou Hexuan threw him into Hope Primary School as a teacher. But Zhou Shuoming actually had a female teacher at school, and after his wife found out, the school suddenly made a disturbance.

After leaving school, Zhou Shuoming soon ran to become an actor again, and he became an instant hit, turning into a big star in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and by the way, he was promoted to a humanoid self-propelled cannon in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

In just a few years, there have been no less than ten female stars who have had scandals with Zhou Shuoming, and recently they are frantically pursuing the newly popular actress Chen Sisi. And he seems to have moved his real character, repeatedly clamoring for divorce and remarriage, and his wife was so angry that he went directly back to her parents' house to complain.

As for Zhou Yangji, the third son of the Zhou family, he lives in Japan all the year round and assists his mother Liao Yaquan in managing more than ten enterprises. This kid seems to still want to enter politics, clamoring to join the Japanese nationality, and was scolded by Zhou Hexuan during the Spring Festival last year.

Zhou Lingjun, the eldest lady of the Zhou family, is also not worried, she is still single at the age of 27, and she has been studying for a doctorate at the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom. She is proficient in literature, music, and painting, and looks down on men with her eyes above the top, and has never been in a serious relationship after graduating from the doctorate.

Zhou Hexuan doubted whether his daughter was gay, and suddenly led a boyfriend home this year. That man is only 20 years old, he hasn't graduated from college, and he is seven years younger than Zhou Lingjun!

But I have to say that Zhou Lingjun's little boyfriend is so handsome, not handsome with a sissy temperament, but handsome with heroic spirit, just like what came out of the comics.

Zhou Hexuan finally knew that his daughter was not gay, but a super Yan control party.

The second lady of the Zhou family, Zhou Chunxi, settled in the United Kingdom, she was Queen Elizabeth's best friend, and became a strong woman under the influence of Her Majesty. When she was still in high school, Zhou Chunxi followed her grandfather Ernis to learn to manage the company, and now she is basically in charge of the Royal Pharmaceutical Company, and Annis is only responsible for the helm behind the scenes.

At the beginning of last year, Zhou Chunxi attended a royal dinner with Queen Elizabeth, and King Baudouin of Belgium fell in love with her at first sight and asked Queen Elizabeth to come forward as a matchmaker in person.

With an indifferent mentality, Zhou Chunxi tried to date the King of Belgium a few times, and it felt pretty good, and he kept in touch since then. This king is young and handsome, talkative, knowledgeable, and cheerful, and he is simply a first-class diamond king.

The two exchanged letters for more than a year, and Mr. King, believing that the time was ripe, flew to London to propose marriage.

Zhou Chunxi's reply was: She can agree to get married, but there are three requirements. First, she has to live in the UK for at least nine months of the year to run the company; second, the Belgian royal family must not interfere in her private life; Thirdly, Mr. King must not have an affair, and if he has an affair, he will divorce immediately.

His Majesty agrees with both the second and third requests, and it is the first request that makes him so difficult that he is still under consideration.

……

Meeting room.

Zhou Hexuan, Xu Zhimo, Ye Lingfeng and Xu Hu are playing mahjong, playing cards and chatting about the situation of literary creation in Hong Kong.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Zhimo stayed in Shanghai, and the war quickly washed away his innocence and casualness. Together with his friends Shao Xunmei and Xiang Meili, he engaged in underground publishing in Shanghai, specializing in printing various patriotic pamphlets of the Anti-Japanese War.

In this time and space, "On Protracted War" can spread rapidly in Shanghai, and Xu Zhimo also has a credit.

For this reason, Xu Zhimo and Shao Xunmei, two rich boys, smashed all their property into it, and also hired bodyguards to hide in Tibet.

It was in the days of hiding from the Japanese that Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman finally broke up completely. Lu Xiaoman finally got together with Weng Ruiwu, and both chose to stay in the mainland. Xu Zhimo came to Hong Kong and remarried Zhang Youyi in 1950, and now both husband and wife are teachers at the University of Hong Kong, Xu Zhimo teaches literature, and Zhang Youyi teaches German.

As for Ye Lingfeng, he belongs to the old man of the Creation Society, and he was a comrade-in-arms of the literary front with Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, and Tian Han back then. He edited "Phantom Continent" with Pan Hannian, was banned, and edited "Modern" again, and was arrested. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Lingfeng participated in the editing of "Salvation Daily", moved to Hong Kong after the fall of Guangzhou, and has remained in Hong Kong without moving his nest.

Compared with Xu Zhimo and Ye Lingfeng, Xu Hu's reputation is much weaker. This person graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University and went to study at the University of Paris, and returned to China immediately after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, but was trapped in Shanghai. He made a living by selling literature, spending two years and ten years to raise travel expenses, passing through Guangdong and Guangxi all the way to Chongqing, where he served as a professor at Central University.

Xu Hu is known as a "ghost talent" in the literary circle of the Republic of China, and his works always contain gods and ghosts, and the most popular thing in 1943 is his "Feng Xiaoxiao". Estimated to be the earliest spy war in China, this work tells the story of the struggle between three female spies (Kuomintang, Japanese, and American spies).

"Feng Xiao Xiao", which describes spy warfare, is refreshing to readers, and it was described like this at the time: "On the Chongqing River Steamer, almost everyone has a piece of paper...... Reproduce the grand occasion of Luoyang paper expensive. Not only that, but it also gave birth to a new literary genre in China, the "Late Romanticism".

After moving to Hong Kong, Xu Hu's creative career entered another peak, and throughout the 60s and 70s, Xu Hu was a leading figure in the Hong Kong literary scene!

"Four-of-a-kind!" Zhou Hexuan shot out a mahjong.

Xu Yu smiled and said: "Old principal, you play this card tricky, it's not for me to eat it, and it's not for me to eat it." ”

When Xu Hu was studying at Peking University, Zhou Hexuan happened to be the president, so he called Zhou Hexuan "the old principal".

"Eat, don't you eat the one delivered to the door?" Ye Lingfeng said with a smile.

"Don't eat, don't eat, self-reliance, it's important to touch the cards," Xu Hu said with a smile, "We are all people with a bottom line, and we resolutely don't eat the food that comes to us." ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "Xiao Xu's sarcasm skills are good again. ”

"Those green backs should be scolded!" Xu Hu said and shot a card, "Nine cylinders!" ”

The "greenback culture" was very popular in Hong Kong at this time, and almost dominated the Hong Kong literary scene. The "green back" is the green of the dollar, and the US government has set up an "Asia Foundation" in Hong Kong to fund publishing companies and magazines to distribute political literature.

Countless literati who fled from the mainland to Hong Kong were unable to eat and lived in embarrassment, so they led the dollar to engage in creation, and it became politically correct to attack the mainland and communism. Among them, Zhang Ailing's "Yangge" and "Love on the Earth" were written when she first arrived in Hong Kong and lived in difficulty, and the literary quality was extremely poor, just to live on US dollars.

At this moment, the four people at the card table still adhere to the bottom line of literary creation and hate the "greenback culture". It has nothing to do with politics, they simply think it's disgusting to use dollars for creation and lie in their own works.

Take Zhang Ailing's "Yangge" as an example, it is about the "tragic status quo" of rural New China. This woman has never been in the countryside of New China at all, what can she write? It's all made up.

Throughout the 50s, the Hong Kong literary scene was in a camp confrontation, with one side being the "greenback group" and the other side being the "anti-greenback group".

"Dad, I'm back," Zhou Weilie pushed the door in, "Hello Uncle Ye, hello Uncle Xu!" ”

……

Night.

Zhou Hexuan exclaimed: "What, are you going to go to the mainland?" ”

"Yes," Zhou Weilie explained, "China has set up a computing technology planning group, with Professor Hua Luogeng as the team leader, to prepare for the development of electronic computers belonging to China." Two months ago, I received a secret letter in London inviting me to join the soon-to-be-created Computing Technology Planning Group and the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ”

Zhou Hexuan objected: "You are a mathematician and software engineering expert, what kind of computer did you go to develop and develop?" ”

Zhou Weilie took out two rolls of microfilm from his bag and said: "These are the design drawings of the latest generation of computers in the United Kingdom, and I have taken them with microfilm. ”

"You're crazy, it's an act of espionage!" Zhou Hexuan exclaimed, "Also, how did you get the design drawings?" ”

"You don't care about this," Zhou Weilie said with a grin, "When I left England, I hid the microfilm in the gift given to me by the Empress, and no one in England dared to open it to see." ”

Zhou Hexuan was silent for a moment and asked, "You really decided?" ”

"It's decided." Zhou Weilie said with a serious expression.

"Wait a minute," Zhou Hexuan quickly finished writing a letter and admonished, "Give the letter to Zhou Gong, remember, only engage in research, not politics!" ”

"Understood." Zhou Weilie put the letter away.

Regarding his son's choice, Zhou Hexuan did not interfere too much. With the role he played in Hong Kong, he could completely guarantee that his son was safe and sound, and Zhou Weilie went to the north to definitely belong to the key protection objects.