Yan Funing took the subway to Heathrow Airport, and then transferred from Heathrow Airport to Oxford, the station of Heathrow Airport is still the kind of magnificent dome station, to Oxford, it is the kind of station that is very ordinary light rail, just from the station can not see a little humanistic atmosphere, not at all like arriving at the second oldest university in the world (the first is the University of Bologna in Italy, the third is Cambridge).

Because Oxford University is picturesque and an important tourist destination, there are many people who get off the train at Oxford Station, Yan Funing got up from his seat, put the kindle in his hand into his backpack, put it on his shoulder, lifted the matcha mille-feuille cake bought in KOVA and followed the flow of people to get off the train, out of the station, Yan Funing took out his mobile phone and was just about to dial Feng Zhenzhen's phone, when he saw Feng Zhenzhen wearing a burgundy long-sleeved dress standing not far from the exit and waiting for him.

Even if Yan Funing is not at all emotional about the subjective consciousness of "beauty", he prefers the beauty of laws that are difficult to concretize, such as writing the circumference as an arc-length curve integral and expanding it into a power function series, such as the continuous fractional expansion of e, and Euler's formula, the "formula created by God......

But at this moment, Yan Funing felt a little bit of beauty from Feng Zhenzhen and Oxford, where the Georgian and Victorian stone buildings hibernate in the shadows, and the chimneys, domed towers and Gothic minarets lined up in the sun higher up. ”

And Feng Zhenzhen's beautiful figure in front of her is very in line with the golden ratio, and Yan Funing feels the graceful beauty of the hourglass line of the Cartesian line on Feng Zhenzhen's body.

However, this kind of admiration existed in Yan Funing's heart for a short moment, and he was not interested in things like scenery, and he didn't come here to play, but to have a task, so he quickly withdrew his gaze that fell on Feng Zhenzhen's body, put the phone back in his trouser pocket, walked over with a smile, held a white KOVA paper bag and said, "I bought you your favorite matcha mille-feuille....."

Feng Zhenzhen didn't expect that Yan Funing would know her favorite KOVA's matcha mille-feuille cake at all, and she didn't expect that Yan Funing would go out of her way to buy it at a detour party, so she folded her hands and said with surprise on her face: "Thank you so much..... I've been thinking about going to London next week to see my sister and have a KOVA .....

Although Yan Funing is not interested in Feng Zhenzhen, he usually has the habit of turning over the circle of friends and recording other people's hobbies, so the KOVA that appears frequently in Feng Zhenzhen's circle of friends is naturally remembered by Yan Funing. However, Yan Funing did not follow Feng Zhenzhen's words of "having a soul", but said: "If you come to London next week to see you Sissi, you can come to me..... I invite you sisters to dinner..... Don't go back to China and complain again, I won't contact you. ”

Feng Zhenzhen stretched out her hand to take the paper bag, but Yan Funing put down the hand holding the bag, and said very gentlemanly: "I'll mention it! How can such a beautiful lady be allowed to carry something!"

Hearing Yan Funing's praise, Feng Zhenzhen smiled brightly, "Well, it's time to invite us to dinner, I have made a lot of money for you today." ”

Although Yan Funing didn't know what Feng Zhenzhen meant by the so-called blood capital, he immediately turned around and bowed slightly and said, "Well, thank you so much..... Next week I'll set a place in the alley of The Shard and invite Miss Fung to dinner....."

Feng Zhenzhen nodded with satisfaction, "It's pretty much the same, if it's just a KOVA matcha mille-feuille cake, it won't be able to send me away." ”

Yan Funing knew that Feng Zhenzhen was not a stingy person, on the contrary, she was very generous, and when she emphasized it so much, she said apologetically: "It seems that this time it is really troublesome for you!"

"It's not a trouble, but it's a big favor......"

"How?"

"You should know that our formal dinner in Oxford is the most frequent and important social event, in Oxford, the formal dinner characteristics of each college are different, almost all students, will set the next goal, that is, to eat all the formal of all colleges in Oxford, which is also one of our social motivations......"

But very few people are able to achieve this wish...... Among the thirty-eight houses in Oxford, the top three houses that are the most difficult to find are Christ Church Hall (Christ Church College Canteen), if you have seen Harry Potter, you will know that the Gryffindor House cafeteria of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was filmed here, so Christ Church Hall is now our Internet celebrity canteen in Oxford. The second is the Queens College's formal, because the number of forms they have each year is so small that it is more difficult to determine. Of course..... The most difficult thing is the Academy of All Souls, and if you want to go in and visit, you are not allowed to visit, let alone a formal dinner..."

Yan Funing looked at Feng Zhenzhen and pretended to be a little surprised and said, "Don't say it, you can do such a difficult thing!!"

Feng Zhenzhen smiled a little proudly, "You listen to me first..... Our formal dinner in Oxford is not something you can order if you want to, first of all, you have to be a student of that house, and secondly, you have to meet the standard of final exam results to be eligible for the book..... Fortunately, my classmate's boyfriend is from Wanling Academy, and I usually have a good relationship with her, this time I was originally asking her to help see if I could go in and have a second look, but she told me that it was impossible to go in and visit, and the only chance for other colleges to go to Wanling College was a formal dinner... Because of this our Oxford tradition...."

Hearing her say this, I asked her with a dead face if her boyfriend was qualified to be invited, and if she could give me this opportunity.... It just so happened that her boyfriend's family had some business in China, so she agreed to me....." Feng Zhenzhen said later was an understatement, in fact, if she hadn't told her classmate Isabella, Yan Funing was a double master's degree from Imperial College London and had published papers in important journals such as the Annals of Mathematics, and Isabella's boyfriend also happened to be studying mathematics, and others would not agree.

Compared with other schools, Oxford has a stricter hierarchy and circle, and if you can't reach a level, it is impossible to become friends, and there are only two ways to break through the class barrier, one is to be born, and the other is academic, so Oxford students only have three things to do: academic, social and sleeping, generally speaking, these three things can only take care of two things, and those who can take care of both academic and social are super cows.

Yan Funing naturally knew that things were not as easy as Feng Zhenzhen said, but he didn't guess that it was his academic achievements that made the other party agree to the request, only at that time Feng Zhenzhen promised something, and the other party agreed, so he said: "Then how can I thank you? As long as I can do it, you can mention it!"

Feng Zhenzhen joked and said, "Then it's good for you to make a promise!"

Yan Funing paused slightly, and before he could speak, Feng Zhenzhen reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "Just kidding! Look at the ..... that scares you."

Yan Funing pretended to be helpless and shook his head, "Make me happy in vain, I still think about how this kind of good thing can be my turn!"

Feng Zhenzhen didn't expect that Yan Funing, who had always been lukewarm to her, would answer like this, which made her see a glimmer of opportunity to be with him, and her heart was like a deer, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she felt that it was worth doing anything for Yan Funing, and hinted softly: "If you are really sincere, it's not impossible....."

Yan Funing understood Feng Zhenzhen's intentions, but it was impossible for him to upgrade the relationship between the two to a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship for the time being, and said with a smile: "Then I'll try my best to show sincerity!"

Yan Funing didn't show her attitude very clearly, she brought this matter over, and Feng Zhenzhen didn't continue to ask, although she has always been straightforward and doesn't mind taking the initiative to confess to Yan Funing, but now Yan Funing seems to have the intention of pursuing her, which makes her heart sweet, feeling that she has been suffering for many years and victory is in sight, thinking that she just needs to be reserved and wait for Yan Funing to confess, so Feng Zhenzhen forcibly suppressed the throbbing and surging sweetness in her heart, and asked happily: "Where are we going now?"

Yan Funing said: "Recently, I have been interested in evolution, genes and dinosaurs, so I want to visit your natural history museum. ”

Feng Zhenzhen stuck out her tongue, "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited, you started to say it..... Let's go this way, the Natural History Museum is across from Kiebor College, and its director, geologist John Phillips, is actually one of the leading skeptics of Darwin's evolutionary theory....."

"Is it? The theory of evolution and the theory of evolution should only be the difference in translation, right?" Yan Funing was not so interested in such things as natural history, but at the moment he had no choice but to make people feel that he was interested in this aspect, so he could only say that.

In fact, he also made up some knowledge about evolution, genes and dinosaurs on the train just now, but the time was too short, and he only touched some skin, and it seemed that he would have to study these things that he didn't care about for a long time in the future.

Feng Zhenzhen said: "It's just that the theory of evolution is translated by Mr. Ma Junwu with a sense of superiority, which makes people subconsciously feel that living things are constantly evolving forward, and it is relatively appropriate for Mr. Yan Fu to translate it into "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", after all, living things do not necessarily evolve forward, and sometimes they will degenerate, and the evolution of living things does not have a definite direction, so it is more appropriate to use evolution...."

The two of them chatted as they walked towards Kibor College, the city of Oxford is different from other cities, this city exists for the University of Oxford, so the city of Oxford and the university can be said to be one, and the streets run through the campus. Not only do universities have no gates or walls, but they don't even have official signboards.

Moreover, the University of Oxford belongs to the collegiate university, which is completely different from the domestic colleges divided into "Faculty of Science", "Faculty of Arts" and "Faculty of Architecture" according to majors, each college of Oxford University can be said to be an independent small university, and Oxford University is a consortium of thirty-eight colleges with different names.

This is the same as "Imperial College", in fact, Imperial College is only a college of the University of London, but unlike the University of Oxford, outsiders rarely hear the name of the University of London, but they know Imperial College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In fact, Oxford University College also has internal rankings, and it stands to reason that "All Souls College" should be the first place, but whether it is for the outside world or Oxford students, All Souls College is too difficult to enter, and All Souls College itself does not care about the ranking in the world, so All Souls College is not high in the ranking of Oxford University.

And the internal ranking of Oxford University College is ranked according to wealth value, and All Souls College is of course the richest college, but because it must be low-key, it can only be relegated to the back.

The higher the ranking of the college in Oxford, the more difficult it is to enter, the various scholarships and bursaries are also available, and the equipment for teaching, scientific research, library, life, sports and other facilities will be better, not to mention the college, and the college will also organize high-level activities and reimburse various expenses.

On the surface, the first place is Christ Church (Christ Church College), the main reason why Christ Church College can rank first is the donation and influence of alumni, you must know that Christ Church College has produced several kings, bishops, and many national dignitaries have graduated from here.

As for Feng Zhenzhen, she studied at Modlin College, which is not only the most beautiful college in Oxford, but also the top college in Oxford's wealth value, and one of the colleges with the largest number of undergraduates, don't think that Oxford's undergraduates have no status, in fact, Oxford's undergraduates are often better than most graduate and master's students, of course, if you study in Oxford as an undergraduate, graduate and master's degree are also in Oxford, then the situation is different, it is definitely the most awesome type of people in Oxford.

Autumn in Oxford is sunny and dark, cool in the morning and evening, and the afternoon sun is shining, and a gust of autumn wind blows the yellowing maple leaves all over the ground. For students, autumn is the start of a new school year, with students in formal attire waddling their bicycles through the backlit college alleys, flanked by rows of libraries and churches, and a heavy sense of history is paved.

It feels like Oxford's past is like a transparent pyramid that stands above the city, as if it were the only edifice of ideas and the tomb of ideas that have been piled up over hundreds of years. This wonderful solemnity and solemnity is difficult to give at other universities.

Yan Funing and Feng Zhenzhen crossed the bell tower of St. Mary's Church, the Gothic drip spout, Radcliffe Square, the grey college roofs and green gardens, and walked through several alleys and gables to the Oxford Museum of Natural History.

The University of Oxford's richness is reflected in the fact that there are more than 100 libraries large and small, including nine museums, and the Natural History Museum is just one of them......