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Professor Bruno Bettelheimer was probably taught by Freud, and he always had the old-fashioned elegance of the old Europe that was popular in Vienna and Berlin before the First World War.

Every day at four o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Bruno would bake biscuits as a snack for afternoon tea, and Professor Bettelheimer would take a break from the project research and drink a cup of afternoon tea with his wife.

Both of them liked Edward very fondly, and regarded him as a nephew, and invited him to join him every once in a while.

Edward also enjoyed the laid-back atmosphere, which reminded him of his grandfather, who had a sweet tooth, and the courtyard full of vines, which was always quiet in the middle of the city.

The family relationship between the United States people is quite indifferent, and the children no longer have much contact with the original family when they become adults, so they just send a card and make a phone call during the New Year's holidays.

Edward's blood is as low as half Chinese, and he values his family very seriously, and as his experience grows, he also begins to gradually understand his grandfather's thoughts, but he wants to go to see it often, but he is entangled in official business...... Oops, Megan and other goblins are also haunted......

With Professor Bruno Bettelheimer, he felt the tranquility he had not felt for a long time.

After half an hour of small talk, they went back to their offices and continued their hard and fun work until seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

Edward usually eats dinner with Joel and then returns to the villa alone.

He doesn't like to watch TV, and usually after a shower, he either continues his research or sits on the couch flipping through a law journal, or simply pulls out a Russian version of "How Steel is Made" and reads it aloud.

The strict and regular life is almost like an ascetic.

Meghan Elena wanted to take the opportunity of a business trip to "see" him, and Beth Harmon once said that she didn't mind going to the West Coast for a change of environment, but he politely refused them one by one.

Edward had a deep sense of crisis, he knew that everything had come too easily, and of course there was his unremitting effort and extraordinary talent, but looking back, there were many tricks along the way.

Taking shortcuts is not a bad thing, but the experience of two lives has taught him that it is not necessarily a good thing to be a person if he is too goal-oriented, the process has the same importance, and even sometimes it is more important than the result.

But since he has reached a relatively high position, it is obviously not appropriate to take the initiative to seek abuse, which will be regarded as a fool's fork, so that in addition to using everything to consolidate his theoretical foundation in order to be worthy of his current academic and social status, he cannot think of a better way to take responsibility for his future.

In addition, during this time, he must work very hard and diligently to do research, and it is best to come up with some decent paper results in a short period of time.

At the end of the year, he had to leave the United States for at least two weeks to fly with Beth to cold Moscow, where world champion Tigran Valtanovich Petrosyan had been waiting for a long time.

Known as the Iron Chess Player, he is considered an invincible human being, and has held the World Championship for ten years, during which countless people have challenged him, only to lose in front of his seemingly simple but almost impeccable chess move.

Beth once thought that she could rely on her talent to succeed in slaying dragons, but the reality was extremely cruel, and Pietro's unpretentious but unflawed chess style happened to perfectly seal Beth's proud nerve knife.

For a whole year, Beth worked hard to hone herself, and Edward saw that this girl was watching chess games and playing chess with herself in addition to getting drunk.

So much so that Edward had coveted her for a long time, but he didn't dare to act rashly, for fear of ruining her state of mind, anyway, sooner or later, he would eat it, and he was not in a hurry for a moment.

The last time Beth asked Edward to accompany her to Moscow, it was certainly something that people couldn't refuse.

At the same time, he had a reason to go to Moscow......

Now he has a hat on his head, and he is an important member of the "Soviet Jewish Defense Project".

Ironically, this is an organization founded entirely by American citizens, with a small membership at the moment, but not a single Soviet citizen, but all American Jews.

The reason for the organization was also simple: they had heard that the Red Empire was enforcing unfair policies against its Jewish citizens.

The main reason is that certain occupations are not open to Jews or the threshold is raised, secondly, it is more difficult for Jews to apply to go abroad, and most importantly, the application of these Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel is almost always rejected by the government.

These are just the basics.

What really prompted the establishment of the "Soviet Jewish Defense Plan" was a hilarious-looking case of Jewish hijacking.

The case was foiled by the KGB before it happened, and all the participants without exception were brought to justice.

This also shows the naivety of this group of Soviet Jews, who thought that they could successfully hijack a small plane and fly to Sweden under the watchful eye of KGB!

Comrades Dzerzhinsky, Minzhensky, Yagoda, Yenov, Beria, Sherepin, and now Comrade Andropov feel that their professional abilities and intelligence have been seriously humiliated.

In short, the crime was attempted and did not cause any casualties or property damage, but the highest authorities of the Soviet Union insisted on sentencing the two main persons involved to death.

According to some commentators, the Soviet authorities were trying to flex their authority as a way to intimidate the Jewish community in the territory – to make them all be honest.

This is, of course, an internal affair of the USSR.

But in peacetime, it is more out of the ordinary to sentence a criminal in an attempted case to death, and according to the criminal plan of the two guys, they consider themselves political prisoners rather than criminal prisoners - because they plan to ask the Swedish authorities to return the Soviet government plane - an An-2 - once they have flown to Sweden, so that the property of the Soviet government can be preserved, and they can openly apply for political asylum.

In this regard, Edward had nothing else to say except for a long sigh: the pattern of the monk breaking the mulberry Taimu and taking the clothes.

Don't go to Sweden for this intelligence, or take the free Stolypin Express train directly to the Gulag......

But the lack of intelligence is insufficient, and people should "pursue freedom and go to the free world", but the result is to go to the west.

The Jews of America could not sit still.

So there was this organization, and the first task after the establishment of the organization was to save the lives of these two fools, as for the prison sentence or something, it would be casual...... I have been thinking about hijacking, and I should be beaten by the law.

After some efforts of the "Soviet Jewish Defense Project", they finally began to find the doorknob to solve the problem, and after non-stop diplomatic negotiations and people-to-people exchanges, they lacked the last step to go to Moscow and have a face-to-face "frank exchange of views" with Soviet judicial personnel.

Edward, as one of the founders of this organization, and with a less strong ideological mark, gladly accepted the mission, and he would go with him as an assistant to a certain bigwig.

Therefore, he had to take the time to practice his Russian skills, at least to be able to communicate on a daily basis, and of course there would be an interpreter with him.

However, the translated language always loses a lot of its original flavor and message.

And he also felt that he seemed to be extremely gifted in language, no matter how complex the clause, how desperate the personality change, he could see it at a glance in his eyes, and if he didn't use such talent, he would be punished.

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However, the calm and regular life is always interrupted.

The trouble still came from Franklin, who sometimes went straight to the Research Behavior Center to guard Edward; And around his quiet little cottage, from time to time, Lao Mo would appear, not to attack, but to hold up a sign demanding that Edward be Franklin's defense lawyer—for free; Life in the office was not easy, and he would receive many letters from all over the country, invariably asking him to "pay attention" to the Franklin case, and the same without exception, the writers were outsiders, and they had nothing to do with Franklin and Stanford!

The general situation is not good, and Edward has noticed that there has been more and more news about the Franklin case in the local newspapers and on television recently, and the tone between the two sides has become more and more high, and the contradiction is clearly sharpening.

During this time, Edward often went for walks on mountain trails, and became a member of Stanford faculty and staff.

Most of the casual chats talked about Franklin, and without exception, everyone expressed extreme disgust for Franklin, and some even bluntly scolded "this bastard should go to prison, and the asshole of those violent criminals for a few years will be stopped".

In the eyes of these people, Bruce Franklin is the main culprit who broke the tranquility of Stanford, and this guy has simply become a symbol of Stanford's difficult years.

These private universities were almost unprepared for the radical wave that suddenly emerged in the late '60s, and only found themselves unprepared when various student movements took off.

And the nature of the university itself also makes it difficult for the university to deal with these issues, unlike Mayor Daley, who can order the "Chicago bulldozer" to overturn all the gangsters who try to use their arms as a car.

After all, it is a private university, on the one hand, it has to ensure that public power is not allowed to invade - in fact, this is not necessarily a bad thing, look at what happened to the public Ohio University, the president asked the state government for help because the student tide could not be suppressed, the governor waved his hand, the National Guard entered the school, and after a while, he opened fire on the unarmed students, killing and injuring many people on the spot, and on the other hand, the campus security forces at that time were not worth mentioning in the face of the student movement.

Stanford was actually the hardest hit during this turbulent time, and Stanford is known for its beautiful school landscape on the West Coast, claiming to be the most beautiful university in the United States, because of its late establishment, everything seems to be vibrant, and the teachers and students on campus lack the genes of a radical movement.

And Stanford is also a stronghold of conservatism on the West Coast, knowing that blacks were not recruited until the start of World War II, and racists were once a strong fortress. When World War II ended, Stanford lifted the ban and spent a lot of money to recruit a large number of excellent professors from all over the United States, especially the Ivy League, and gave them incomparable material conditions to retain people's hearts.

It is precisely because of the comfortable and satisfactory arrangement, just like Edward enjoyed, that the teachers of the school consciously and voluntarily tied themselves to the school from both a personal and a professional point of view, sharing honor and disgrace.

So as soon as there was a protest on the Stanford campus against the school, these professors began to substitute themselves and felt that it was aimed at them.

The small-scale incident at the beginning, in fact, was okay, everyone thought that the students were a bit of Form 2, which was not a big problem, give some time, and they will get back on the right track.

But when Franklin joined, everything changed.

Comparing Yale to Yale, Hansen took a large group of drug addicts and drank heavily at most, organized speech rallies on the lawn, and occasionally stormed the president's office, but that's all, except for the ruin of the once green lawn into a potholed vegetable patch, Yale did not suffer much damage.

But Franklin alone destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars in Stanford's assets, which of course was nothing to the deep-pocketed school.

But this guy set fire to it from time to time, burned down buildings and various documents, and organized people to shoot cold guns on campus.

According to the Stanford teacher, this guy is Satan, the mastermind of all violent activities, turning quiet schools into jungles in Indochina.

Edward also gradually learned about Bruce Franklin in relative detail through conversations and newspapers.

Speaking of which, there are a lot of similarities between the two.

They are from similar backgrounds, and they are both Brooklynns, and they are the first people in their families to graduate from a serious university and get a doctorate.

Franklin used to be a good man, attending a reserve officer training course while attending college in Amhurst before being drafted into the Air Force.

He served as an intelligence officer in the Strategic Air Command for three years.

Edward's mind always had such a vision, Franklin sitting in a B52 bomber carrying an atomic bomb, holding a red treasure book and studying carefully, it was really a wonderful picture.

For poor students in the United States, if they want to further their education, on the one hand, they must have enough intelligence, and on the other hand, there is a problem of money, and they usually choose student loans.

But there are also people who are too poor to even raise money for daily living, so joining the army is a good choice.

First of all, the daily welfare of the Mi army is very good, it is not a problem to eat, drink, and dress warmly, which can not only meet the basic survival needs, but even have better daily treatment in the navy or air force.

The army also takes care of undergraduates who should be enlisted, usually directly as officers, mainly responsible for technical work, and daily training, but they do not roll mud and carry big wood every day.

In this way, after three or five years of enlistment, the officer's salary is very high, and a little savings are enough to support the living expenses for the next few years.

From a personal point of view, although it is a "wasted" few years, the comprehensive income is higher.

For example, Peo is a typical example of this type of person.

When they get a master's or doctorate and start looking for a job, their original enlistment experience becomes a plus, and it is also an excellent gilded project for future politics.

This is a federal policy policy, and there are also generous incentives from state governments, which is surprisingly consistent between the federal and state governments.

In this way, we should encourage highly educated personnel to join the army, improve the average quality of the army, and better master technology and equipment.

After saving enough money to retire, Franklin completed graduate school at Stanford with a government grant and received a doctorate in English literature, and was hired to stay on as a teaching assistant.

At that time, although he read the Ruby Book and Stalin's works, his general thinking was still liberal, and he voted for Lyndon Johnson, which is rare in conservative California.

Yet, like many liberal scholars of the period, the expansion of the Vietnam War radicalized their views, and the United States government was inexplicably embroiled in the battlefield thousands of miles away to support a corrupt regime, which in itself was a betrayal of the ideas of the founding fathers.