"The world of adults is strange, and they are all crying when they are very happy. Unlike me, I only cry when my ass is beaten. ”

"But what does it feel like when you grow up?"

With careful thought, the child stepped back from his mother's lap and sneaked behind his father with small steps.

The little hand poked his father and bit his finger in his mouth: "Dad, when will I grow up." ”

The father turned his head and saw his son running over, and quickly blinked, not wanting his son to look at his embarrassed appearance, so he hugged him.

"Son, how did you get here, Mom?"

"Mom is still sitting there, I came here secretly, I want to ask you, when will I grow up."

"That's so easy, when you become a man, you'll grow up."

"But how can you become a man, is it okay to eat less sugar gourds?"

"Haha, son, that's not going to work." The father laughed heartily and pricked his son with the stubble on his chin, so that the little one hurriedly held his hands and refused to let his father come near.

Catching a glimpse of the warm fruit wine on the table, my father had a plan and took the smallest cup and poured a few drops into it.

"Good son, don't you want to be a man, just drink it like an uncle and uncle."

The child held the wine cup in both hands, with innocence on his face: "Can you cry as happily as you and become a man after drinking it?" ”

The father's old face turned red, and he didn't dare to look directly at his son's gaze: "How can there be, it's not for you to recite the ancient poem 'Men don't flick when they have tears', how can a manly man cry when he says he will cry, son, you must have read it wrong." ”

The child's eyes were full of confusion, but out of trust in his father, he drank the little wine.

"Wow...... It's spicy! ”

"Don't keep it in your mouth, just swallow it."

The child swallowed obediently, but felt hotter in his stomach.

"Dad, is there a fire in my stomach, it's so hot."

The unscrupulous father laughed: "Son, this is what it is like to grow up, and it is not easy to be a man." ”

The boy didn't seem to understand, his eyes were filled with tears from the wine, and he nodded silently: "It turns out that the feeling of laughing and crying is like this." ”

When the mother over there saw this scene, she hurriedly ran over, picked up her son, and glared at her husband while everyone was not paying attention, and secretly twisted it around his waist.

The father didn't care, and instead grimaced at his son.

"Son, you will be a man from today onwards, I will not be at home often in the future, you are the only man in the family, take good care of your mother."

......

The night was dark, Cheng Nuo and Cai Yuanpei stood in the dark outside the door, looking at the bright lights inside, listening to their laughter, they couldn't help but smile.

Cai Yuanpei waved his hand outside the door: "Zhiyuan, are you interested in accompanying my old guy to walk outside." ”

"Cai Gong invited, how can I refuse." Cheng Nuo walked to the door first and opened it: "Gong Cai, please first." ”

Cai Yuanpei nodded, crossed the threshold and walked out: "Zhiyuan, listening to your speech just now, I think your academy of sciences has completely laid a solid framework, and I have never touched such professional matters, needless to say, superfluous opinions, so as not to be self-defeating, but I still don't know anything, where are you going to settle on this academy?" ”

Although Cheng Nuo has a preliminary goal, he is still hesitating, after all, before the Anti-Japanese War, there were the Civil War, the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains War, etc., it is not easy to find a peaceful place, not to mention that there will be a war of resistance against Japan in the future, most of the rivers have been lost, and it is even more difficult to find a peaceful place.

When the Academy of Sciences really enters the formalization, all kinds of instruments have been bought, and even their own power plants, family buildings and other infrastructure have to be built, and the cost of moving once is too high, and the time spent is too much, which affects the scientific research process.

After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Nuo shook his head: "At present, it is tentatively set for Beiping, and the future development has not yet been completely determined, and I also ask Cai Gong to give me some pointers." ”

Cai Yuanpei smiled, and did not rush to give his opinion: "Beiping is also a place of right and wrong, the two parties in the court are fighting, and sooner or later the conflict will inevitably escalate, leading to the confrontation, it is not impossible to see each other, and under the noses of those big people, there is no academic freedom at all, and there are constraints to development." ”

"Northeast? The industrial base is a little better. But as soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Nuo himself laughed, Mao Zi and the devil were eyeing him, and after the 918 incident, he was the first to fall, and many high-priced planes were cheaper in the future before they could take off.

Zhang Zuolin was also born as a bandit, moody, and intolerant of other people's opinions, Mr. Li was killed by him, as a person who has received many years of ideological and political education, Cheng Nuo really doesn't want to worry about this all day long.

And with the planning of Little Japan, I am afraid that the Northeast has now been infiltrated into a sieve.

"Not in the Northeast." Cheng Nuo asked and answered himself, and then said: "How about Nachuan Province, the country of abundance, rich in resources. ”

At this time, the mountain city had not yet been established, and now it was just a simple treaty port, and it was not really established until 1929, so Chengnuo was covered by Sichuan Province.

Cai Yuanpei thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Sichuan Province is also okay, but the public side is about to reorganize the local army in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, reduce the military strength, and with the thinking of those old-style warlords, it is inevitable that they will fight for military power, and they have to guard against it." ”

Next, Cheng Nuo proposed several locations one after another, and Cai Yuanpei gave his suggestions more or less, and in the end, Cheng Nuo also fell into contemplation.

Stopping, Cai Yuanpei held the railing of the moat with both hands: "Zhiyuan, judging from the current situation and future development of China, it is difficult to find a perfect and qualified location, whether it is to run education or do scientific research, it is a process of survival in the cracks, but because of this, I see your persistence and the shadow of our generation in the past." ”

"No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, you can come to me, and if I can't solve it, I will also pull this old face to find some old friends to accompany you to talk about one or two."

Snorting, Cheng Nuo and Cai Yuanpei held the railing side by side: "Thank you Cai Gong, I will definitely not let you down." ”

Cai Yuanpei smiled and waved his hand, took out a letter from his bag and handed it over: "Jiang Menglin wants to invite someone to set up a Chinese vocational education society, I recommended you to him, and after learning about your experience, I attach great importance to you, and I specially hire you as the director of the education society, of course, there is no salary." ”

"This ......" Cheng Nuo did not rush to accept it, although Jiang Menglin is also a famous educator, the first Minister of Education of the future National Government, and the longest-serving president in the history of Peking University, but there is already a lot of work in hand at the moment, and he has not yet found time to sort it out, and it is likely that he will suffer from indigestion if there are too many things.

Cai Yuanpei didn't let him output the reason for refusal, and said seriously: "I hope you take it and take the opportunity to move around more with the outside world, although Beiping is not small, it still can't fit your talent." ”

After speaking, he directly stuffed the letter to Cheng Nuo, and turned around to leave.

"Zhiyuan, you go back and think about it, and it's not too late to reply to me another day."

Cheng Nuo had no choice but to put the letter away and shouted to Li Laosan behind him: "Lao Li, you ride a tricycle to send Cai Gong back first, this is close to home, and I will walk back by myself in a while." ”

At this time, Cai Yuanpei in front suddenly turned half of his body and patted his head.

"It's really getting older and more forgetful, Zhiyuan almost forgot to tell you, the Higher Department of Tsinghua School invited me to give a speech tomorrow, if you have nothing to do, can you go with me?"

Cheng Nuo nodded heavily and waved his hand: "Thank you Cai Gong, I will definitely arrive early tomorrow." ”

Cai Yuan bowed his head, got on the tricycle and slowly walked away.

Cheng Nuo still stood there, silently watching their backs, and the shadows grew longer and longer in the moonlight, until they could no longer be seen.