"Hey, why are you leaving, I'm still cooking soup in this pot, it's not too late to leave after drinking this mouthful."

As the night got late, some of the editors who lived outside the city were about to leave after a little half-full after talking about business, never thinking that they happened to run into Xiuni at the door, holding a plate of lard stewed garlic sprouts.

"Mr. Guo, you can eat some more, the lard that just kao was a little before, it's old and fragrant, I don't believe you smell it."

As she spoke, Xiuni deliberately put the food in front of the noses of a few people and let them smell it, the verdant garlic seedlings still have some golden oil residue on them, although the appearance is not as good as the likes of the Eight Buildings, but this regular dish is delicious in the mouth.

Guo Shouchun couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw this, but when he saw the hot fist inside, he would inevitably have to drink a few times if he went in again, not to mention anything else, just Shi Jin's "careful eye", he had to pour a few bottles.

"Bao Yi pair, a little bit, good brothers, three stars, four Hongxi, five heads, six Shun, seven Qiao, eight seats, nine longevity, full house!"

"Wrong, wrong, wrong, Lao Wu, you quickly give Lao Cheng Man."

"Fish in the cup, hurry up and finish drinking, I saluted you as the dean just now, and now we won't do this when we get to the wine table."

"Hey, hey, Lao Guo, why did you run away, it's not okay to be a deserter......

Shi Jin was dizzy when he drank himself, and when he saw Guo Shouchun wanting to run, he instinctively wanted to chase, but the bench he was sitting on was light at one end and heavy at the other, and before his butt moved two steps, he arched under the table, and the others also drank to the up, but they didn't see this scene.

Seeing this, Xiuni hurriedly took the food aside and stepped forward to help.

"I said a long time ago, you drink too much ink in your stomach, and you definitely can't drink or something, just don't listen to my old sister-in-law, hurry up and eat some cold dishes to press."

After Shi Jin got up, he was still muttering in his mouth, and smirked: "Thank you, sister-in-law, Lao Guo......

Seeing this, Guo Shouchun hurriedly walked out, passing by the kitchen and suddenly asked, "Sister-in-law Xiuni, what kind of soup is stewed in the pot?"

"Old turtle soup, it was just slaughtered in the afternoon, and it is fresh."

"Okay, when you remember to let Brother Li go to the experimental field to find me, I will teach him some things."

Talking on his lips, Guo Shouchun's subordinates were not idle, they came to the kitchen to see that the old turtle soup was almost boiled, Xing Chong fished one and put it in an empty basin, covered it with a lid and found a bundle of hemp rope to tie it up, and said with a smile: "Little rabbit cubs, don't say that you Teacher Guo eats alone."

"What's that, sister-in-law Xiuni, I see that an old turtle is suffering from heat stroke, take it to the river to relax, let's go first."

The lame reason is paired with the old turtle soup, it is simply a good job, and I didn't care about answering Xiuni's sister-in-law's question, so I ran away quickly with the old turtle.

Xiuni came out of the hall after finishing her work, wiped her hands with a scarf, and looked at her back a little helplessly.

"Mr. Guo, I haven't put salt in my soup yet, what will it taste like when you eat it?"

............

When the bright moon was in the sky, Cheng Nuo lay under the grapevines, holding a pu fan in his hand and shaking it slowly, patting his thighs from time to time to drive away the annoying mosquitoes.

"Sir, I've cooked some tomato soup here, and you can drink it while it's hot, so that you can relieve your hangover."

"It's okay, let's put it there first, I'll drink it myself later." ….

At present, although the courtyard is good, but after all, it can't fit the entire Academy of Sciences, and now there are dozens of people, and it is not a way to always live here, and if you want to develop in the long run, you must go out.

At present, there are still nearly 20 years before the Lugou Bridge Incident, and Beiping, as one of the central cities in China, has a period of relative peace, and the resources are not comparable to most cities, so the center of the Academy of Sciences is still in Beiping, and then radiate to northern Shaanxi and Sichuan after the future political situation is slightly clearer.

The reason for the former is well known to everyone, and the latter is not only respectful to the Sichuan army and wants to provide them with ordnance for the development industry, but also the rear of the Anti-Japanese War in the future, and the impact of the intrusion is a little weaker.

In addition, the local non-ferrous metals are relatively abundant, which is also more beneficial for the development of heavy industry.

At the same time, you can also train some guards to protect the safety of the Academy of Sciences, if you "happen" to meet some so-called international friends in Dunhuang, Tianlongshan Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and other places, you can also have a friendly exchange, and now you don't want to see the things left by your ancestors being Huo Huo abroad.

The more I thought about it, the hotter it became, and even the mosquitoes were much more numerous, until a breeze blew and I drank the warm tomato soup in one go, and I felt cooler.

The road ahead is long, but only the line is strong.

The next day, Cheng Nuo, as usual, got up early in the morning, shouted slogans to himself, and did radio gymnastics.

But as he was doing, he felt that it was not interesting to be alone, so he was about to call the children up to exercise together, but as soon as he turned around, he saw that they were learning from each other and began to practice.

"The lights of the three watches and the five watches of chickens are when children exercise. yes, the little ones are up early, so I'll give you a chirp." Cheng Nuo smiled and applauded: "Practice hard, with your body as your capital, you can go further in the future."

Goudan'er rubbed his nose, and got up too early and had a stuffy nose: "Sir, what are you practicing, you look like the martial artists on the stage, that is, there is a little less heel."

Cheng Nuo smiled and handed over the handkerchief, squatted down and was at the same height as the child: "This, it's called gymnastics, if you practice hard since you were a child, your body will be very good, and you can be very powerful when you do other things."

Wen Cong's eyes lit up: "Then I practice, will I be able to protect my sister well in the future?"

"yes, a two-pit one." Cheng Nuo said.

"Then I'm done, don't you have to be afraid of my father." Dogdaner didn't take the handkerchief and took care of his snot by himself.

"Little rabbit, what are you talking about, you won't go to the house for three days, right?" Without waiting for Cheng Nuo to reply, Li Laosan came back from buying soy milk fritters from outside, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard such an "unfilial" answer, so he was angry, and he had to take off his shoes when he put the food in the kitchen.

In the end, under Cheng Nuo's appeasement, the courtyard calmed down, but in addition to the four children who followed the practice, there was also Li Laosan.

This is a father, and he is really afraid of being compared to his son.

Because today is a rest day, Cheng Nuo doesn't have any classes at school, so he came to the front yard with peace of mind, and began to compile the "Concise Mathematical Dictionary" with his colleagues from the Academy of Sciences. ….

However, there are still some debates in between, and the most controversial of them is the way of arrangement.

No matter how you look at it, Cheng Nuo feels that it is awkward to read vertically and from right to left, especially on the one hand, it is the habit of studying for many years in his previous life, and on the other hand, it is also related to his education at Western University.

In this regard, when Chinese and Western cultures collide, foreigners can't help but ridicule: you see that we write horizontally and our heads swing from side to side, which shows that we dare to shake our heads and say "NO"; You Chinese characters are written vertically, nodding up and down, so you will only say "YES" only in a promise, which is the embodiment of servility under totalitarianism. Some Chinese people are not convinced by this, saying that we nod our heads, which is a manifestation of the habit of praising others in an ancient civilization of thousands of years, and we also have horizontal rows, such as horizontal criticism of couplets.

When Science was first published in 1915, the inaugural words of the first horizontal Chinese magazine explained: "This magazine is printed in a way, with the upper left side of the line, and read it in Western sentences, so as to insert arithmetic and physical and chemical programs. The general idea is that we are in line with international science, not for the sake of Dese.

Now it seems that there is no obvious superiority or disadvantage between horizontal and vertical rows, and it is more out of personal habits.

Therefore, Cheng Nuo thought about it again and again, and decided to arrange the text on the "Concise Mathematical Dictionary" horizontally, as for the punctuation marks, there were not too many changes, there were already preliminary punctuation marks in this era, but it was relatively simple, only solid circles and hollow circles.

Now take advantage of the magazine revision, you might as well go straight to the full implementation of horizontal layout and punctuation.

Originally, other editors still had objections, but Cheng Nuo came directly:

"Comrades, the purpose of our journal is to disseminate scientific knowledge and make it catch up with the advanced pace of the world.

As he spoke, he wrote several common chemical formulas on papyrus, and it was clear which one was easier to understand when comparing horizontally and vertically.

For this reason, Cheng Nuo deliberately pulled the pioneer of vernacular "New Youth", but he did not expect to get strong support from Chen and Qian.

Qian Hyuntong held the first draft of the revised magazine and said excitedly: "I have already told Zhongfu that people's eyes are horizontally long, so it is obvious that out of human choice, they should also be arranged horizontally."

Mr. Chen habitually leaned against the corner of the table and looked at the "National" magazine closely: "Zhiyuan, your magazine's ambition is not small, in addition to promoting Mr. Sai, there are other gentlemen, which is very amazing."

Turning his head to look at Qian Xuntong, he pointed at the magazine with his finger: "Deqian, I said a long time ago that Zhiyuan should be absorbed as our same editor, and everyone is ahead of us."

Qian Hyuntong said seriously: "Zhongfu, you see, in addition to the horizontal row, Western symbols are also added, the whole book is horizontal, the calculation formula is even, and the cycle is taught to each other, so that the reader can see at a glance, which convenience to use, it is needless to say."

As a paleographer, Qian Hyuntong has always been sensitive to the issue of writing. In his diary at the end of 1922, he concluded that his "thoughts and opinions have changed a lot in the last twenty years", one of which is that "in 1912 he vigorously opposed the rampant rewriting of Chinese characters. Since 1917, he has vigorously advocated the rewriting of Chinese characters." ….

In 1912, he said that Chinese characters should be divided into eight parts (i.e., the eight methods of Yongzi, Yi, 丨, ╰, etc.), but this year, his attitude changed greatly, and he strongly promoted horizontal writing, and even proposed in a letter to Mr. Chen in the "Correspondence" column of Volume 3, No. 3 of New Youth, that "Chinese characters should be changed to left-hand horizontal lines".

Of course, he didn't say it so simply, and the university lecture notes he wrote were re-transcribed in horizontal format, and his business card was also printed in horizontal format, which was extremely rare at that time.

The more I read the magazine, the more amazing it became, and Mr. Chen squinted at it for a while and suddenly said in surprise: "Zhiyuan, you have a lot of new symbols, it seems that you are not just copying Western symbols."

Seeing this, Qian Hyun Tong also came over, met his head and said, "The little tadpole indicates a pause in the sentence, and the hollow circle should be the end of the sentence, these two dots ......."

Cheng Nuo smiled and came to the blackboard in the editing room, wrote down all the punctuation marks, and explained them one by one.

"The comma and the full stop Mr. De Qian have already said, and the two points are colons, indicating the pause in the passage that prompts the following or summarizes the above, and the exclamation mark......

"Of course, for the sake of our own writing habits, our full stop is not a solid circle, but a hollow circle that everyone is accustomed to. In addition, we have tonnes, ellipses, book titles, parentheses, and so on."

After finishing the punctuation system, the two people in the audience nodded their heads again and again, and couldn't help but applaud when the lecture was over.

Qian Hyuntong couldn't help but say: "The new symbols are remarkable, which is really gratifying. He replied, 'I think so, and now I think, since Mr. agrees with this meaning, why should we change the New Youth from Volume IV, No. 1, to the horizontal form?'

After listening to and thinking for a while, Mr. Chen nodded and smiled: ""New Youth" has changed to a left-hand line, which can not only avoid ink staining the sleeves, but also place sentence reading symbols. After consultation with the distribution department and other members, it can be implemented if agreed."

At this time, Mr. Li came in, and after hearing what everyone was discussing, he smiled kindly: "Have you ever considered that the magazine is not only as simple as finishing the compilation, but also needs the help of the typesetter's master, and it is not a simple matter to change the vertical version to the horizontal version."

In the crowd, Mr. Li was the only one who was familiar with the workers, so everyone didn't know how to answer this remark.

Typesetting workers due to long-term reading and typesetting of straight text, formed a huge inertia, although it can be changed to horizontal typesetting, but it is bound to affect work efficiency, increase labor costs, in addition, for the magazine that has been according to the straight line plate

Changing to a horizontal line requires re-making and will add additional costs.

Historically, "New Youth" has long been aware of the problem of horizontal rows, Mr. Chen has communicated with the book club many times, but unfortunately it has not been effectively solved, and it is generally believed that there are too many good flower heads, which are slightly more troublesome, and they all expressed their reluctance to change, and when "Diary of a Madman" was published, it was still arranged vertically, and the punctuation marks were frequently misprinted, which has to be said to be a pity.

In this regard, Cheng Nuo is smiling, the problem that Oriental Library and Qunyi Books can't solve is not a big deal in his opinion.

"Gentlemen, as long as you can promote vernacular writing and punctuation, this matter is up to me."

Their typographers can't do it, so naturally there is a place for it.

96.

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