Dirt Dirt –

The chimney at the front of the train from Birmingham to London was belching with steam, which was incompletely burned, causing black smoke to be mixed in.

The conductor passed by pushing a small cart and peddling goods,

risotto,

pie

Fish and chips,

……

Most of them are foods that cannot be stored for a long time.

In one of the compartments of the second carriage, two Chinese sit.

One of them is Gu Hongming,

He whispered, "The service you enjoy on the train of the British Empire is really good." ”

The person on the other side shook his head,

"Isn't it because it's almost time for them to sell the food at a low price? This has nothing to do with the service itself, it is purely a commercial activity. ”

The train they took from Birmingham to Coventry, Northampton, Cambridge and then London

It's just past the last transit station—

Cambridge.

Gu Hongming was helpless and said, "Chief Director Zheng, can you not always think about those business things?" If everything is a commercial act, isn't it going to fall into the eyes of money? It's too boring to live like this! ”

Zheng Zongdong's name is Zheng Guanying,

The general director refers to the general director of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, which is a position.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Guanying was handled by the Hanyang Iron Works and the China Merchants Steamship Bureau at the same time, and came to London to "visit and study".

It just so happened that Gu Hongming returned to London from Edinburgh,

The two of them went together.

Zheng Guanying frowned,

"Don't call me that. I have words and numbers. ”

Gu Hongming hurriedly said: "Okay, Zhengxiang, Tao Zhai, and Qi Worry." ”

Zhengxiang is Zheng Guanying's word,

Tao Zhai is the number, and Qi Worrying is the other number.

Zheng Guanying was helpless and complained: "Hongming, what's wrong with you?" How did you come to England and become so cynical? If I knew that was the case, I shouldn't have gone to London with you. ”

The muscles on Gu Hongming's cheeks jumped, and his expression was complicated,

"I'm just disappointed."

Zheng Guanying asked: "Disappointed? Disappointing with whom? ”

Gu Hongming was silent and did not pick up,

The other party was handled by the Hanyang Iron Works and the Steamship China Merchants Bureau, and the one who ate the imperial grain, of course, could not admit that he was disappointed in the Qing court.

He said, "Are you embarrassed to call me cynical? Just that card game to fight the landlord, don't you pester me and your entourage every day to play together? I heard you talk nonsense after drinking yesterday, 'Zheng Zhengxiang, Zheng Zhengxiang! How can you be so depraved! I can't go on like this anymore. ’”

Zheng Guanying's face is as black as ink,

"You...... I......! @*#￥%……”

Because there is no way to refute it, the back has become a garbled code.

Gu Hongming couldn't help laughing and said, "You have nothing to say, right?" ”

Zheng Guanying was helpless,

"That card game was really fun. Of course, it's far less fun than mahjong, but solitaire is better than being portable. ”

Gu Hongming said: "Yes, you still have the courage to admit it. ”

Zheng Guanying snorted and said, "What is there that you dare not admit?" Zi said, 'It's hard to eat all day long, and you don't care! Don't have a gambler? For this, it is still virtuous. None of the saints are against the game. ”

The so-called "gambler" refers to a person who plays Go.

Can Go be compared with fighting landlords?

Gu Hongming muttered: "Strong words! ”

Zheng Guan smiled and was about to respond a few words, but he heard a commotion outside.

The two couldn't help frowning,

Just now at Cambridge Station, a group of students came up, and the whole train became a lot noisier.

Gu Hongming said: "I used to close the door tightly. ”

So saying, he walked to the door, and took the handle,

As a result, instead of closing the door tightly, he stuck his whole body to the door and eavesdropped through the crack in the door to hear the sound of conversation outside.

Zheng Guanying couldn't help but be stunned,

"What are you doing!?"

He also complained in his heart: "What does it look like to pout your ass!?" ”

At this time, Gu Hongming was indeed pouting his buttocks, pressing his right cheek against the door, and his ears were as close to the crack as possible against the door, like a voyeur enthusiast.

Zheng Guan should raise his voice slightly,

"What are you doing!?"

Gu Hongming returned to his senses,

"Ahem......"

He coughed in embarrassment, then opened the door wider.

The noise outside immediately came to the carriage.

Zheng Guan should be dissatisfied,

"What?"

Gu Hongming made a silent gesture and said, "Listen." Come here, get closer and listen. ”

Zheng Guan should be somewhat disgusted by this kind of impolite behavior,

He sighed, moved his buttocks, and moved a little closer to the box door, his body still tense and straight, like a student sitting upright,

Let him disregard the image like Gu Hongming, he can't do it.

At this time, the sound of recitation came from outside,

“

I have a dream.

I dream of a day when the valleys will rise, the mountains will fall, the bumpy and winding road will become a smooth road, and the holy light will be revealed and full of the world.

No matter who it is, we can all work together, pray together, and fight together.

……

”

Zheng Guanying's English is not as good as Gu Hongming, and he has a little difficulty listening.

In this case, he could not comprehend the shock of this speech, and only vaguely felt that it was very infectious, but that was all.

Gu Hongming was fascinated, and even recited words:

"I have a dream ......"

After two minutes, the presentation ended.

Zheng Guanying asked, "What was that just now?" In the UK, someone will give a speech on a train? ”

Gu Hongming shook his head,

"I don't know. It's just that the content of that speech is really ...... No, I'll have to check it out. ”

He couldn't contain his curiosity and pushed the door open.

Zheng Guanying hesitated for a moment, but still quickly followed.

The two of them walked all the way to the "birthplace" of the speech, and almost all the boxes they passed along the way were filled with college students.

When these college students saw two Chinese, they also cast curious eyes.

Whispers abounded,

"It's Chinese."

"Ah, from the same country as Professor Lu? Why do you feel that their temperament is completely different from Professor Lu? ”

"You ask me that, I ask who to ......"

"By the way, how do you know that people are Chinese, it won't be a blind guess, right?"

"Of course it's not a guess! Look at their braids! ”

……

Zheng Guan couldn't help but be surprised.

He has been to Belgium, England, France,

In the past, although these white people would be curious about Asians and occasionally point fingers, they would never be so chattering.

What's going on today?

Gu Hongming, who was on the side, understood that the "Professor Lu" mentioned by the students was Lu Shi.

Some time ago, he had been paying attention to Lu Shi through the newspaper, and it was not until Zheng Guan should go to England that he had to act as a translator and a card partner, and he had no time to read the newspaper anymore, so he lost his understanding of Lu Shi's recent situation.

Zheng Guanying asked in a low voice, "Why do these students think of us like this?" ”

Gu Hongming chuckled,

"Probably because there are powerful compatriots who have been recognized overseas."

Zheng Guanying resisted the urge to roll his eyes and said, "Hongming, it's a bit too much for you to boast like this, right?" ”

Gu Hongming was stunned for a moment, and then laughed,

"I didn't say myself."

He pointed to the box in front of him and said, "I'll talk to you about this later, I'd like to see where that speech came from." ”

The two of them continued on their way.

Unexpectedly, there were also several college students sitting in their destination box.

Gu Hongming was surprised,

The ambitions of today's young people in Britain are so ambitious that they can't say "I have a dream" or "I dream one day"?

"Hiss......"

The more Gu Hongming thought about it, the more frightened he became.

On the other side, the young people in the box were also looking at them curiously.

The two sides looked at each other.

After a long time, a British student asked, "Chinese?" ”

Gu Hongming and Zheng Guanying nodded.

Seeing the two admitted, the expressions on the faces of the British students changed from doubts to excitement,

Immediately someone said, "You and Professor Lu are from the same country!" That's great! ”

The so-called "love house and black",

Zheng Guan should be able to clearly feel the respect that these students have for "Professor Lu".

It's just that Chinese is a professor in the UK......

What kind of fantasy is this special meow?!

Studied but cannot comprehend.

Zheng Guanying touched Gu Hongming's shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Hongming, you are self-proclaimed 'born in Nanyang and studied in the West', and recently traveled in the UK for more than two months, have you ever heard of a gentleman surnamed Lu who is good at learning?" ”

Gu Hongming did not answer him, but asked those students,

"You're talking about Lu Shi?"

The students nodded.

One of them said, "That's right, the speech just now is from Professor Lu's lecture at Cambridge. ”

Zheng Guanying was a little confused,

"You say...... Speeches from speeches? ”

He thought his English was too bad to understand.

The student also seemed to feel that he was a little awkward, and immediately said to his companion, "Koman, you can show the notes that you have put together." ”

The student named Koman was obviously a little reluctant,

"This ...... I ......"

Gu Hongming said: "Hello, my name is Gu Hongming, and I am a translator. Seeing that you respect Professor Lu so much, you should be interested in Chinese culture, and I am willing to exchange with you the translation of the Analects or the Mean. ”

The students are a little confused,

They saw that Gu Hongming was quite complacent when he mentioned his name,

But here's the problem......

Who is Gu Hongming?

The students couldn't help but look at each other.

Finally, someone said, "The title of Professor Lu's speech today is "Faith, Reach, and Elegance", and the theme is exactly ......."

Before the words fell, Gu Hongming said: "Isn't that the 'translation trilemma' proposed by Mr. Yan Fu?" Land Time ...... Ahem...... Professor Lu gave a speech on this? ”

When he said this, the students believed that he really knew how to do it.

Koeman hesitated for a moment and said, "The topic of Professor Lu's speech today is related to translation...... Forehead...... Mr. Hu is also a translator, so it is natural that he is interested. I can give you the notes I made, but you can't let it deface. ”

Gu Hongming: "......"

Clam up.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Coman was puzzled: "Mr. Hu? ”

The first "Mr. Hu" may also be a mouthful;

The second time "Mr. Hu" can only be that Coman really doesn't know Gu Hongming.

Gu Hongming thought of his confident appearance when he introduced himself just now, and suddenly felt that he had nothing to love, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

He took the note in a gray way,

"Thank you."

Koeman nodded, and then introduced the whole speech today,

From Lu Shi to Yeats's "When You Are Old",

After that, the Anglo-Chinese controversy ensued,

And then "I Have a Dream",

And finally, the poem.

……

Coman went through them one by one, trying not to leave them out.

At the beginning, Gu Hongming replied with a few words of "uh-huh-ahh

Because his attention was already on the speech.

His expression became more and more solemn,

Suddenly, two lines of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes and dripped down his cheeks onto the manuscript paper.

Coman opened his mouth to speak,

But the classmate next to him grabbed him and shook his head.

Coman sighed, and said in his heart,

Anyway, I just sorted out the first draft, and when I go back, I have to sort it out with other school students who took notes, so it's dirty.

For a while, no one spoke in the entire box,

“……”

“……”

“……”

Silence lies between all,

The hustle and bustle outside didn't seem to have anything to do with the atmosphere in the box.

I don't know how long it took,

"Whew~"

Gu Hongming let out a sigh.

Zheng Guan was not so sensitive to English, but he could also detect the power of the speech and said, "That's good...... That's great......"

Gu Hongming shook his head,

"No, you don't know how good it is."

After speaking, take a deep breath and read in Chinese:

“

'I dream of a day in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda where the sons of former slaves will be able to sit at the same table with the sons of former slave owners. ’

……

”

Although the students in the UK could not understand it, they were shocked.

Professor Lu is right, in terms of rhyme, there is indeed something about Chinese, and in some places it is even stronger than English.

As a Chinese, Zheng Guanying's feelings are deeper,

Ostensibly, the speech was about Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Rhodesia, Myanmar, India, and there was no mention of China.

But is that really the case?

Especially those passages of the "Voice of Equality", a Chinese's speech, is not what he thinks?

After a while, Gu Hongming finished reading the Chinese version.

He returned the manuscript to Koeman.

Koman said: "Professor Lu's speech should be published in the newspaper tomorrow. ”

Gu Hongming nodded and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The crowd replied in a big tongue, some saying it was London politics and economics, some saying it was from University College London and King's College London,

They chartered a bus to Cambridge to attend the lecture, but when they returned, they were scattered.

Gu Hongming thanked again: "Thank you." ”

Subsequently, he and Zheng Guanying returned to the box where they were together in despair.

The two were relatively silent.

The scenery outside the car window rushes by,

Gradually, the train began to slow down, and some of the anxious students outside had already walked down the aisle, chatting and tiptoeing to look at the first carriage from time to time to see if there was a conductor.

Zheng Guanying suddenly spoke,

"Hongming, it seems that you know this Professor Lu?"

Gu Hongming nodded,

"Didn't you keep asking me who invented the landlord?"

Zheng Guanying: ???

(⊙_⊙)?

Others are stupid.

I thought this was a game invented by the Germans or the Dutch, but I didn't expect that the real inventor was a Chinese,

The most outrageous thing is that this person is still an all-rounder in a sense,

On the one hand, it can invent card games;

On the one hand, it is possible to make a very incendiary and cohesive speech.

Gu Hongming said: "His name is Lu Shi, and he is the author of "Guns, Germs and Steel". ”

He didn't introduce Lu Shi's other works,

Because both the drama and the drama are more entertaining, far less shocking than "Guns, Germs and Steel".

Sure enough, Zheng Guanying's mouth opened wide in surprise, as if he could eat a whole peach.

After a while, he couldn't help but ask: "Lu Shi said in his speech, 'If Britain wants to become a great country, this dream must be realized', you say, is he really for the good of Britain?" ”

This is a rather damning question.

Gu Hongming shook his head very easily,

"No, it won't."

He had contact with Lu Shi, and he could feel that Lu Shi just looked down on the Qing court, but he had a strong identity.

In other words, in Lu Shi's eyes, the Qing court is just a Qing court and does not represent anything.

Zheng Guanying nodded,

"What I said is that I just heard the student named Koman say that Lu Shi expressed some views on Chinese culture in his speech, and I appreciate it very much."

So it's very magical to say that the land time,

The British think that Lu Shi is really for the good of Britain,

The Chinese, on the other hand, believe that Lu Shi has a strong identity.

Gu Hongming said: "When I get to London, I want to visit. Zhengxiang, do you want to go with me? Just tomorrow. ”

Zheng Guanying said: "Okay! Let's go! ”

(End of chapter)