There is no historical fiction without historical data, and I have always thought so. Creating something out of thin air only feels awkward, and although fiction, especially a time-traveling novel, is a kind of creation in itself, but I obviously don't have such creativity, which is a pity.

"Memoirs of the German Ambassador" is a memoir written by the Chinese ambassador to Germany Cheng Tianfang (1936-1938) in his later years, the thickness of 368 pages and his identity only made me look very hot, such a thick book obviously recorded everything that happened in Germany, and the book contained everything I needed. It is a pity that this book was published in Taiwan, and it was published more than 30 years ago, and it cannot be found on the Internet or in used bookstores, so I can only hope that there are only three libraries in the collection: Peking University, Zhejiang Tu, and Shenzhen University, and none of them have an electronic version.

A few people I know at Peking University are long gone, and Shenzhen University is even more unfamiliar, only Zhejiang Tu has hope - the train goes back to the train, and it can be taken with a camera in one morning (if Zhejiang Tu does not provide photocopying), and then the actual result is depressing, Zhejiang Tu must be a person from Hangzhou, or a person who lives in Hangzhou to get a library card, and outsiders may not be able to do it. In cases where direct access is not possible, indirect methods are resorted to.

In the end, I chose Shenzhen University, searched for all QQ groups with the words "Shenzhen University" and "part-time" in the almighty QQ group, and then asked the students of Shenzhen University in the group to help shoot the book, and was willing to pay a high price for this, about 400-600, which is equivalent to the travel and accommodation expenses in person, but there were few responders, most of the QQ groups were lifeless, and a few promisers finally didn't know why they couldn't do it, maybe it was an exam last month. In the end, I had to pretend to be a freshman or an alumnus to join the student group, some were rejected and some were allowed to join, and the student group was even more difficult to talk about money and had no eyebrows.

The final breakthrough was in the fellow villagers to enter the graduate school group, according to the group owner's request to modify the group business card began to speak, perhaps because the school was a little famous earlier, and someone immediately responded, he is a graduate student of international finance at Shenzhen University, only 21 years old, very, very young, and a party member. I said at the time that studying finance and joining the party was probably not conducive to finding a job in the future. He said that it would be good not to enter a foreign company in the future.

During the conversation, he thought that I was also a student, and I had to follow my identity in the QQ group (only fill in the school and major, not fill in which session), made up a statement that I needed the "Memoirs of the Envoys" in the Shenzhen University Library in order to write a thesis, and the other party readily agreed, he said: He likes people who are serious about reading the most! I immediately embarrassed, I was victimized by novels in the first half of my life, and I am estimated that I will continue to write novels to harm people in the second half of my life, what does it have to do with serious reading?

The eyes of the crowd were bright, and while they were talking, another person jumped out and said: This person is already in his thirties, and he is probably a liar! I'm even more embarrassed.,The age is really filled in.,The previous QQ age was more than a hundred years old.。 But at this time, it was not clear to explain, and the other party asked for my student card head to prove that I was not a liar. It's been a long time since I graduated, and the student card was handed back to the school early, although the student ID card was falsely claimed to be lost and kept through a replacement, but the thing is wrong, and I don't know where to go for a long time, and even the graduation certificate and the like were lost when I moved. I had to say that I showed him a Shanghai residence permit or a passport (the ID card was lost a long time ago) or something like that, and at the same time lied again that I was studying for graduate school on the job. Fortunately, the suspicion was only temporary, and the other party turned to say that there was no need, and he didn't believe that anyone had gone to great lengths to cheat a book.

After everything was decided, the action began, but it was full of twists and turns, first the RTHK reading room on the 6th floor of the North Building of the library was only open from Monday to Friday, he ran sweaty, and finally sent me a picture of the opening hours of the reading room, this time he ran in vain; When I went back the next day, he didn't find the book, and after I reminded him to ask the help desk, the book was turned out; The next is that the pixel of the mobile phone is not high, he is worried that the shooting is not clear, and the final choice is to copy, but after a while, the photocopier broke again, repaired and continued to copy, and his tutor suddenly sent a message asking him to listen to a lecture, otherwise the scene was too cold;

Later, when I came back and copied it, he asked me which chapters I wanted, this is the retribution of the liar, the chapters for writing a novel are completely different from the chapters required for writing a thesis, I have to say that the chapters from Cheng Tian's departure to Germany to his departure from Germany, so in the end he missed the very important chapter 24: Overseas Chinese and Students in Germany. After the copy was made, he couriered the book, only filling in the recipient's address and phone number, not the sender's address and phone number.

I received the courier a few days later.,Thank him in the QQ group.,But I saw that there was a lack of 24 chapters.,But I didn't dare to trouble him anymore.,I had to pay for someone else to shoot again.,This chapter is only 14 pages.,I'm going to pay 200 yuan to ask for help from the part-time group.,But at this time it's already summer vacation.,Drag on until today's plot is getting closer and closer.,I had to find him again.,Ask him if he's in Shenzhen.,Ask him to help go to the library to shoot Chapter 24.,He readily agreed.,A few hours ago, he sent me fourteen clear photos.。

I've thanked him many times before, and my words have turned very pale, but this time I suddenly asked, why are you helping me?

He immediately sent a picture of vomiting blood on the wall, and then told me very formally: because he is a member of the Communist Party!