After breakfast the next day, Sun Yuanqi asked Lao Zheng to go out and hire a few more cars to send these foreigners, as well as supplies, clothes and quilts to the new campus. Because of the construction of the new campus of Jingshi University, it is necessary to travel between the two places frequently, and the family has already prepared two horses and a big cart. Now there are twenty people, but one car is not enough.

In the past, when I went out of the city, I always had to check the door with an excuse, but in fact, I wanted some tea money. Now that there are foreigners in the car, it is like having Zhang Tianshi's talisman, and the little ghosts are looking at the wind and hiding. Six or seven cars drove along the official road. In the car at the front, in addition to the driver, there were six people crowded. If it weren't for the two-horse cart, it probably wouldn't have been able to walk.

Originally, Sun Yuanqi wanted to sit with Bourne, the deputy chief designer of O&C Architects, and introduce to him his ideals and some design aspirations, such as preserving the natural scenery within the school as much as possible, and hoping that they would consider it when making designs. As a result, as soon as he pulled Byrne into the car, Lilith sat beside her with a big grin, Nina also led Vera to sit behind her, and Elena, who was flushed, finally sat in the back of the car......

What can Sun Yuanqi say? In the spirit of a gentleman, Comrade Bourne switched places with Elena. The two hung on the back of the car, relatively silent, because they might choke on dirt when they spoke. The four girls ignored the two poor fellows at the back of the car, and whispered in a circle, "covering their mouths and laughing" from time to time.

After walking for more than two hours, I finally turned from the official road to the concrete avenue. Sun Yuanqi, who was angry all the way, beckoned the coachman to stop the car, pulled Bourne out of the car, and prepared to walk. As a result, "Hula-la-", and the four girls all got out of the car. The foreigner in the back is unknown, so it is estimated that he has arrived, and he has learned one and got off the car. Sun Yuanqi couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to beckon them over and give them a general explanation of the school's structure and future vision

Although only twenty days have passed, it is very different from the last time Shi Yunyu came. The humble roadside, no longer bare dirt, has been paved with cobblestones, and a few stubborn weeds poke their heads out of the cracks in the stones. On the edge of the stone path are small pine trees that have been transplanted very early, and some of them have already pulled out new leaves. Probably due to frequent watering, all kinds of weeds and wild vegetables spread all over the open space under the trees.

Walking further, the small square was very lively, the three boys of the Tong family and the two boys of the old Zhao family were having fun on it, and Zhao Jinghui and Song Jingyao were standing aside and talking. Seeing Sun Yuanqi leading people over, they all stopped and saluted. The name of the school inscribed by Mr. Sun Jianai has been engraved, and there is no gilding, but it is filled with black lacquer, which has a sense of simplicity and solemnity.

After passing the school gate, you will see a green meadow, and you can see the wind and rain bridge in the distance through the grass. The group walked along the road, and Sun Yuanqi was surrounded by four designers from O&C Architectural Design Firm, talking in a low voice. Nina, Lilith and the other four girls fell behind in interest and looked at the campus in amazement.

Han Yu was behind, saw the four girls, and greeted them in English: "Hello, girls." I know you, you're Lilith, right? ”

Chongshi Middle School was run by Western missionaries and has always focused on foreign languages. Han Yu graduated from Chongshi High School and speaks English decently. And the teachers in the middle school are all foreigners, and they don't think these four girls look demonic. Especially when I saw Lilith, who looked sweeter, I wanted to talk to her.

Lilith is a good stubble? Then I heard her say, "Little boy, I am a good friend of your teacher Johnson. So, you should call me 'Teacher Lilith' or 'Ms. Lilith', you know? ”

"Little boy" Han Yu touched his nose and retreated.

It happened that Pan Xian saw this scene and patted Han Xian's shoulder: "Haha, senior brother, 'no diamond diamonds, don't do porcelain work', these ghost girls are not easy to mess with!" ”

"Pickles, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk. There's a kind, you try to go? Han Yu said angrily.

Pan Xian was full of confidence: "Senior brother, just take a look!" ”

After speaking, look at the front Mr. Sun has gone far with a group of foreigners. After a few steps, he rushed to Lilith's side and asked in a low voice, "Miss Lilith, we heard that the teacher has a fiancée in the United States, is that you?" ”

Originally, Lilith's face was not good, but when she heard Pan Xian's words, she suddenly turned from cloudy to sunny, and rubbed the corners of her clothes with both hands: "Hmm...... What kind of fiancée and the like, how can people say it? However, when Yank was in the United States, he did have a close relationship with others. Fiancée, hehehe...... By the way, what's your name? What else have you heard? ”

Looking at Lilith, who originally had a frosty face, and now pulled Pan Xian to ask questions with a pleasant face, Han Yu was so impressed that he couldn't help but sigh: There is a specialization in the art industry!

Sun Yuanqi walked in front, but he didn't know the tricks of Han Yu and Pan Xian. Walking across the wind and rain bridge, Sun Yuanqi pointed to the undulating peaks on the opposite side, and introduced to Bourne: "Mr. Bourne, almost all the peaks you can see now are within the campus area, as I said just now, the total area of the campus is 3,500 acres, if there is no planning, it will bring great inconvenience to the teachers and students living here, especially when the municipal facilities are completely blank." ”

Mr. Byrne nodded, "You're right. ”

Sun Yuanqi continued: "The work I want to hand over to O&C Architects is to give a long-term plan for the campus in the next 10 to 100 years, such as the construction progress and regional planning of the living and teaching areas according to the speed of the school's development. He also gave reasonable suggestions for the recent campus construction. ”

Speaking of the question of the professional field, Byrne was naturally unequivocal: "Mr. Johnson, I have a general understanding of the task entrusted to you. However, we need a site survey and the corresponding data from the school before we can come up with a design that is satisfactory to both parties. ”

"It's just what we're going to talk about next." Sun Yuanqi said, "Because the school is about to open, the main part of the school now is only the playground, a teaching building, and a library. I think that in April next year, we will have to know where to build a comfortable dormitory building, a modern laboratory building and two teaching buildings, so that construction can start in June and be delivered by September. ”

Byrne jotted down the request in a small notebook: "We will consider your request first. Because of the size of the land, it may take us about 2 months to prepare and then go back to the U.S. to complete the final design. ”

Sun Yuanqi knows that this kind of thing can't be rushed, and he still understands the principle of "slow work and meticulous work": "Well, I recognize and appreciate your cautious and meticulous approach. When your preliminary preparations are completed, I will pay 30% of the cost first; When I get and confirm the final design plan, I pay 50% of the cost. As for the last 20 per cent, it is paid within the next five years. Because there are so many uncertain factors in the future, it is possible that at any time a factor will cause the design to be modified. ”

Byrne thought for a while: "Your payment method is reasonable, and I will suggest to the firm that you should adopt the method you said." ”

Sun Yuanqi sighed, thinking that there would be no deficit in this year's finances, right?

In the next few days, Sun Yuan first arranged for Lao Zhao to take a few nearby mountain people to accompany the designers of the O&C office around the mountains. did not arrange for those remnants of the Boxer Rebellion to accompany them, firstly, they were not familiar with the situation in the mountains, and secondly, they were afraid that their hatred for foreigners had not faded.

As for the so-called "assistants" sent by the three universities, there are no students to teach them, and they cannot be idle, so they have to be allowed to compile books. Of course, instead of compiling university textbooks, they haven't learned Chinese, so how can they translate? Since Sun Yuanqi beckoned them under the banner of "needing assistants", he naturally had to make the best use of them.

There are five people from Yale University and McGill University, all of whom study the structure of atoms, and can form a group, and Sun Yuanqi will give a theme and several research directions every other week, and they will discuss the research and report to Sun Yuanqi next week, and Sun Yuanqi will make comments: what is right, what is wrong, what is wrong, what theory is wrong, and how it should be, and analyze it to them one by one. After that, they went back to think about it, and formed a text about it, asking Sun Yuanqi to correct it. After the revision, new themes and research directions were re-proposed. The results of these discussions were later compiled into a book entitled "Basic Principles of Atomic Physics and Some Frontier Issues", which was published in Canada by a collective of six people in McGill University Press.

MIT's four assistants are dedicated to studying the design principles and design schemes of some electronic components proposed by Sun Yuanqi, such as tape recorders, black-and-white televisions, and solar water heaters. Even if it can be achieved theoretically, on the one hand, we will have to return to MIT's electronics laboratory for experiments, and on the other hand, we will have to wait for the continued development of science and technology.

The lecture hall of the school, because of the most money, so the manpower and material resources are also very rich, although the amount of work is the largest, but it is the first to be completed. After the lime was brushed, the children who had been herding sheep for a month returned to the classroom, and the old students such as Han Yu and Chen Jide were already familiar with being teachers. I haven't seen it for more than a year, and the students in the Jingzi class are all junior high school level, but it is a few grandchildren of Sun Jianai's boss, because they came late, and they missed school for more than a year in the middle and went to Xi'an to escape, and now they are still about the third grade of primary school.

Of the four American girls, except for Vera, who is elegant and generous, who can give English lessons to students, the other three troublemakers were all distributed by Sun Yuanqi to the library on the top of the mountain. After the library was repaired, someone was sent to quietly transport all the books from home to the mountain. Now that Lao Tong has passed away, the Hanlin Academy has been burned, and the emperor and the empress dowager have not come back from Xi'an, it is estimated that these books can only be regarded as "burned" in the official archives. As everyone knows, they have already crossed the world and arrived in the library of Jingshi University. All the three girls had to do was to put the scattered books together in a set and put them on the shelves. It's a meticulous job, and it doesn't matter if you don't know kanji, as long as you follow the pattern of the cover, you can do it, and even the youngest Nina is enough to do it. So the girls are busy.

Of course, Sun Yuanqi, the "supervisor", still had to come to the scene, mainly because he was afraid that these girls would do something. Also, these girls need to ask some questions. For example, the "Xingshui Jinjian", which was originally stored in the hall of Jingshi University, has a total of 175 volumes, divided into 36 volumes, and they don't know how to arrange them. This can only be regarded as a mediocre book in the collection.

One day, Lilith came downstairs as if she were compiling the manuscript, and pulled Sun Yuanqi upstairs to see their "latest and most significant results", despite the fact that Sun Yuanqi was compiling the manuscript. Sun Yuanqi only went up with her, and saw Elena and Nina standing in front of the big bookshelf, and there were the same kind of books on the whole two bookshelves. The cover is bound in coarse yellow cloth, and the folio is the size of A3 paper. Sun Yuanqi was stunned: Where did Lao Tong get this from?

The three girls saw Sun Yuanqi's surprised look, and felt that their hard work was not in vain, and they were relatively beautiful.

Sun Yuanqi walked closer, took out a volume casually, and saw that the big characters on the cover read "Yongle Grand Canon", and below it were two lines of small characters "Volume 7603" and "Hangzhou Character Department". When I opened it, there was a white rice paper and a silk bar, and the content was carefully copied in neat regular script. "Yongle Ceremony"! It's definitely the real "Yongle Canon"! Even if Sun Yuanqi had never seen the "Yongle Canon", he had already determined in his heart that this was the national treasure "Yongle Canon".

The "Yongle Canon" is mentioned countless times in the books of later generations, and it is said that the book is scattered and there is not a single one in a hundred. Now it's in their own hands! Sun Yuanqi asked excitedly, "How many volumes are there?" ”

"Six hundred and thirty-two volumes!" Nina said proudly, "I counted twice, and I can't be wrong!" ”

"Huh?" Sun Yuanqi opened his mouth wide.

Seeing Sun Yuanqi's mouth wide open, Elena was very happy: "This is something that we spent a few days sorting out, maybe there are still books in the stack, but there will definitely be no more than 10 books!" ”

"Good, good, you're doing a great job!" Sun Yuanqi high-fived and praised.

"That's it!" Lilith cocked her chin triumphantly, her ponytail dangling from the back of her head.

Sun Yuanqi patted the three of them on the shoulder: "Your work is very valuable!" I'm going to have a separate room for this set of books! ”

In the next few days, the three little girls who were encouraged made persistent efforts and successively found more than 2,000 copies of the "Siku Quanshu" from the stacks of books, as well as more than 20 kinds of Song engravings and more than 30 Yuan engravings. As for the Ming engravings, they abound, and there are always four or five hundred.

Sun Yuanqi doesn't know the knowledge of editions, but he can know the characters: looking at those densely covered with vermilion seals, plus the inscriptions of famous people in the Ming and Qing dynasties, he naturally knows how valuable these Song and Yuan carved books are. In order to store these precious treasures, I deliberately found the safest and most suitable room on the fifth floor of the library. In the end, more and more copies of the "Siku Quanshu" were sorted out from the stacks, so I had to find a few more rooms on the fourth floor to settle these books.

As for the largest number of clear books, they had to stay aggrievedly on the bookshelves on the second and third floors. The old yellow calendar and textbooks are placed in the bottom hall. Some books were broken when Lao Tong came back, so they had to be put together and sent to the Liuli Factory in the city, where someone was asked to re-repair and reload the pool, and then re-send them to the bookshelf.

Sun Yuanqi compiles textbooks downstairs, and whenever he is tired, he will wander in the library on the fifth floor of the collection of precious books, and feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture between the book seals, inscriptions, and pages. These books, before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that they could not be published, because these are actually the things of the owner, especially the fragments of the "Yongle Canon" and the base of the "Siku Quanshu", which are definitely royal collections. If the imperial court knew about it and wanted to expropriate it, would Jingshi University still dare to confront the central government?

Once, when Sun Yuanqi was rubbing the "Yongle Canon", he suddenly thought that the Dunhuang testament and Anyang oracle bones, which are as famous as "Siku Quanshu" and "Yongle Canon", have been unearthed now? That's going to have to be collected. If there are so many treasures in Tong Wen's library, Lao Tong and Tong Wenlou will definitely be immortal. Perhaps, this is the best commemoration of Lao Tong!

September 27, 1901 is the Mid-Autumn Festival in the year of Xinchou. In traditional Chinese customs, this is the most solemn festival after the Spring Festival. Sun Yuanqi regretted that the start of school was set for October 1, so that many students had to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival on the journey.

Two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lao Tong's two nephews, Tong You and Tong Yi, drove a car to pick up the children and go home for the holiday. When they arrived in the city, they learned that the school had now moved outside the city, and Lao Zheng led them to find them.

Hearing the arrival of Lao Tong's nephew, Sun Yuanqi hurriedly came down from the library. Seeing Sun Yuanqi, Tong You and Tong Yi hurriedly knelt down to say goodbye. Sun Yuanqi avoided it: "I don't deserve your gift!" stepped forward to help the two of them, but bowed to them: "Lao Tong's matter, I'm sorry for you." ”

Sun Yuanqi remembered that the first Mid-Autumn Festival in the Qing Dynasty was spent with Lao Tong and the two of them in the Horse Temple. In the past three years, Sun Yuanqi has a university outside the city, but Lao Tong has passed away for a year, and the Beijing Normal University Hall has also existed in name only. On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when I saw Tong You and Tong Yi, I couldn't help but sigh when I talked about the things of Lao Tong before his death.

After talking for a long time, Sun Yuanqi asked, "How is this year's harvest?" How's life going? ”

Tong You, the eldest of the Tong family, replied respectfully: "This year's harvest is okay, and life can go on." If you are not afraid of Mr. jokes, they all say, 'Half the size, eat the old man', the three boys are sent to you, and the family suddenly has three mouths, but it is a lot more comfortable. The harvest is almost full, and I can eat half full. ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "That's good, that's good." Now that the school has been built, there are still some insufficient manpower, and it used to be the help of Lao Tong...... If your brother is free, come here and help! ”

Tong You and Tong Yi thanked again and again: "Thank you, sir." Let's go back and talk about it and see who's coming! ”

This matter was settled, and Sun Yuanqi felt a little relieved in his heart.

The next day, the old man Sun Jianai also came to the house, and he wanted to pick up the three little masters to go home for the holiday, and he had to send gifts for the festival with the car. Sun Yuanqi couldn't refuse, so he returned some gifts to express his visit to the boss.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the students who were close to home all went back, and the rest gathered in the new school site to watch the moon and eat mooncakes. Even Lao Zheng's family came. The more than 10 or 20 foreigners celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in China for the first time, and there was endless laughter during the banquet. Lilith would never give up the right to sit next to Sun Yuanqi on this occasion, but she watched Sun Yuanqi talk to the designer and researcher with a pious face, and even took a bite of the moon cake in her hand. In contrast, the little girl Nina sitting on the other side of Sun Yuanqi is much more powerful, listening to lectures and eating at the same time, and the moon cakes in her hand are only left with crescents.

Chen Jide, Gu Zhilin, and Liu Bin were directly affiliated and did not go back, sitting at the other end of the table, talking with the researchers. Several of Sun Yuanqi's students now not only have to give lessons to their children and prepare for their university homework, but also accompany researchers from various universities, which can be regarded as completely integrating into the atmosphere of university learning and research.

Sun Yuanqi saw Vera sitting quietly on the side, and she didn't talk much, just nibbling on moon cakes in small bites, as if she had been left out in the cold. In the season of reunion in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sun Yuanqi, who is gradually integrating into this era, will also think of his parents, girlfriend, teachers, and classmates in his previous life, and maybe the current Vera also thinks of her hometown. Maybe it's sympathy, or maybe it's because of the unhappiness of a person in this festival, Sun Yuanqi asked, "Vera, are you homesick?" ”

Vera nodded first, then shook her head: "Well, it's a little homesick." But it's also very good here, don't want to go home. ”

Don't want to go home? Do you still want to live in? Sun Yuanqi didn't dare to answer, so he turned around and asked Elena: "Elena, do you want to go home?" ”

"Hmm!" It seems that Elena is indeed homesick.

"Lilith, what about you?"

Lilith struggled out of her obsession: "I...... I'm a little homesick, but that's okay, as long as I'm with you, Mr. Yanke, I'm fine! ”

Sun Yuanqi has a black line: I just asked if you want to go home!

Ignoring her, he asked Nina again: "Nina, what about you?" Do you want to go back to Boston? ”

"Yes, I want to go back to Boston." Nina nodded, "But, Yank, are you going back with us too?" ”

“……！ Nina, I think you should call me Uncle Johnson, don't you? Sun Yuanqi decided to correct the little girl's cognitive bias, "I won't go back with you." However, I will go to the US for three months a year in the future, don't worry, we will meet again. ”

"Well......" Nina said disappointedly, twisting her chair a few times, "actually...... It's okay for me to stay in the U.S. for three months a year......"

Nina's blunt words made the designers and researchers around laugh. Sun Yuanqi also felt embarrassed, but it was difficult to say anything.

Lao Zhao and Lao Zheng's families, as well as Lao Zhao's fellow villagers, I don't know if they are afraid of foreigners, or they can't understand English and can't blend in, so they set up another table next to them, forming an independent circle. When they heard the laughter, they all looked over.

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