In Poincaré's dormitory, a strong smell of smoke lingered for a long time.

Verne slowly opened his eyes,

His coat had been taken off and draped over his body in the form of a quilt.

Beneath him was a plank bed, very hard, but he didn't sleep as hard as he expected, because there were several layers of clothes on the bed for Simmons.

In the clothes, there is a smell of camphor,

The clothes were apparently fresh out of the cupboard.

Verne muttered, "What about the others? ”

He propped himself up.

I saw that at the table not far away, two armchairs were placed opposite each other,

Poincaré lay inside, his hands folded, his legs stretched up and down, leaning back on the back of his armchair, muttering from time to time: "Bomb! I want a bomb! ”

Verne couldn't help but want to laugh,

My friend was still thinking about fighting the landlord in his sleep.

Unexpectedly, this game can be so addictive, they played for an unknown number of games, until two o'clock in the morning to find a place to sleep.

Verne continued to search for Roland.

Roland was young, so he didn't have a bed to build, so he just lay on the table, holding the piles of cards scattered in his arms.

"Whew~"

Verne took a deep breath, walked to the window, and pulled back the curtains.

I didn't sleep long, and it was just dawning outside.

The morning breeze blows the panes, and the wooden strips shake with it,

Outside, there seemed to be a passing staff member of the Collège de France, their feet on the cobblestone floor, their heels making a "click" sound when they made contact with the stones.

Verne tiptoed to the table and poured himself a glass of water,

At this moment,

"Knock knock—"

Suddenly, there was a very rapid knock on the door.

Poincaré in his sleep sprung up,

As a result, he kicked down the armchair under him, and his center of gravity was unstable, and if it wasn't for Verne's help, he would have thrown himself into the street.

Poincaré rubbed his eyes and asked, "Who is it?" ”

George Bernard Shaw's voice came from outside,

"It's me! And Lu! ”

Poincaré muttered, his voice muttered as his voice was muffled as he pressed his throat.

Verne handed him his water,

"You drink saliva and sober up."

Poincaré nodded, glanced at Roland, who was sleeping thunderously, and said enviously: "It's good to be young." Unlike us old people, who sleep very lightly, we wake up inexplicably at the slightest disturbance. ”

Verne walked over and opened the door.

I saw George Bernard Shaw and Lu Shi standing outside the door,

The two are in stark contrast,

George Bernard Shaw was in good spirits, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood;

And Lu Shi looked like he was seriously sleep-deprived, his eyelids were fighting, and his chin was still little by little from time to time, as if he could fall asleep at any time.

Verne curious,

"Professor Lu, what's wrong? Insomnia? ”

George Bernard Shaw entered the room when he landed, put Lu Shi on the bed, and said, "No, he didn't lose sleep, he just wrote an all-nighter yesterday and finished your request." ”

Verne said "um",

"It turned out to be like ...... Wait a minute! What did you just say?! What is done?! ”

George Bernard Shaw chuckled,

"Draft."

As he spoke, he handed over the stack of papers.

Verne's whole person was confused,

He patted his cheek to make sure it wasn't a dream, so he turned his gaze to the manuscript and asked, "What do you mean, Professor Lu wrote innovative science fiction in one night?" ”

George Bernard Shaw sighed with emotion,

"It's not just 'innovative'......"

Verne frowned slightly,

For the vast majority of best-selling authors, it doesn't necessarily have to be "slow and detailed".

Take himself as an example, he has written more than 60 novels in his life, and has also participated in the adaptation of plays, written poems, essays, and short stories.

Therefore, the writer's creation is very dependent on the state.

But it can be written overnight, which is indeed a bit beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding.

Poincaré, who was on the side, also felt the same way, and asked, "Not kidding?" ”

George Bernard Shaw nodded solemnly,

"Of course. I know you'll be suspicious, but if you've been in contact with Lu before, you should be able to understand that he's a fast gunner, and if he is locked in a small dark room and equipped with a typewriter that never jams or swallows words, he can write 700,000 words a week. ”

It's not writing anymore,

This special meow is cultivating immortals!

Poincaré glanced at Lu Shi, who was still confused over there, and hurriedly ran to the cabinet, took out his treasured tea leaves, and learned how to make tea when landing.

After a while, a faint smell of tea wafted from the house.

Lu Shi drank tea and sobered up a little.

He sniffled,

"What's going on? Why does it smell so heavy? ”

Both Poincaré and Verne were a little embarrassed,

Both of them are scholars who have been famous for a long time, and they are embarrassed to say that they did not resist the temptation and fought the landlord all night.

Verne digressed the topic,

"Professor Lu, are you done?"

Lu Shi said: "Well, this is the manuscript I prepared. At first, I wanted to set the story in Nantes, France, but halfway through the book, I felt that I should set it in my familiar country. It may be a little unrealistic, but please allow me to be selfish. ”

At the beginning of the 20th century, it would have made more sense for the story to be set in Nantes.

At this time in Western Europe, basic education was gradually popularized, but it was still very poor, but it was very similar to the great northwest in "The Rural Teacher".

Verne said: "I haven't seen it yet, and I ...... you tell me these details I just want to ask, what type is this? Didn't you say before that science fiction includes world exploration, between civilizations, parallel worlds, time travel, disaster and rebirth, human and humanoid, what kind of category is this? ”

Lu Shi couldn't help but scratch his head,

In fact, I can't tell what kind of "Country Teacher" it is.

He said, "Monsieur Verne, read it. ”

Verne counted the number of pages in the manuscript,

"This has to be 20,000 words, right?"

Lu Shi said: "There must be more than that. ”

In concise Chinese, "The Rural Teacher" is nearly 20,000 words, and English must far exceed this number.

Verne was secretly frightened,

Professor Lu wrote the book so fast!

He took a sip of tea, letting the faint and slightly bitter aroma of tea permeate his mouth, washing away the corruption of playing cards all night, and then began to read the manuscript.

The first thing that catches your eye is the title -

"The Village Teacher".

Verne showed an inexplicable expression,

This title ......

Is it sci-fi?!

He raised his head in confusion, looked at Lu Shi, then at George Bernard Shaw, and asked, "Is this really science fiction?" ”

"Yes." ×2

Lu Shi and George Bernard Shaw spoke in unison.

Verne felt like the two were playing with themselves.

However, seeing their serious expressions, and as if they were serious, Verne put away the strange feeling in his heart and read the content of the text.

Beginning:

“

He knew that this last lesson was going to be taught in advance.

Another sharp pain hit his lungs, almost knocking him out.

”

Good writing!

Although Verne's first language was French, he was fluent in reading and writing English.

He chuckled and said, "Worthy of the best-selling popular author, this beginning is much softer than the average sci-fi beginning." The average science fiction writer likes to get straight to the point, and it's inevitable that it's too blunt. ”

Even Verne himself was like this,

However, as he wrote more and more, he broke the habit.

Lu Shi said: "Science fiction, writing is not the main thing. ”

Verne agreed,

"That's right."

He continued to read back.

Unexpectedly, the pace was very slow.

The early plot is very simple, about a private school teacher named "Mr. Li", after returning from studying in London, he taught in a private school.

He wanted to teach modern science, but because of the stubbornness of the villagers, he could only teach the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Verne muttered, "What a fool......"

Lu Shi chuckled,

"It's not ignorance. After all, the imperial examination does not test mathematics, physics, and chemistry. ”

Verne nodded, then shook his head again, and complained: "Professor Lu, I must point out that there is a problem at the beginning of your article. How could a foreign student who had returned from the Qing court teach in a private school? Aren't they all foreign jinshi? ”

After all, he wrote "What a Chinese Encounters in China",

Although it is full of stereotypes, some of the basics are known.

Lu Shi said: "You are right, international students can generally serve in the Qing court after returning to China, and what I wrote is really unrealistic. That's why I said I was selfish. ”

Verne replied: "I understand. ”

After that, read on.

In it, Mr. Li suffered from tuberculosis and saw that he was about to die, so he decided to be willful and teach the three laws of classical mechanics to the children.

Even if it's rote memorization, be sure to remember.

Verne looked straight and muttered,

Just now he just thought the rhythm was slow, but now he felt that the rhythm was like a turtle crawling on the ground—

Ridiculously slow.

Up to now, "The Country Teacher" is more like a vernacular documentary literature:

When the children apprentice, they have to pay six salutations;

The old man of which family died, and the banquet was set up for two days;

……

It's all of that.

No matter how good Lu Shi's writing is, looking at it this way, Verne's temperament has also been worn out.

I'm here for science fiction!

He asked, "Is this really science fiction?" ”

Lu Shi didn't squeak.

George Bernard Shaw opened his mouth and said, "Monsieur Verne, keep looking back. To judge a work, you first have to read it, right? ”

Verne continued to read,

Finally, it's time for the sci-fi part:

“

Fifty thousand light-years away from Earth, in the center of the Milky Way, an interstellar war that has lasted for 20,000 years is nearing its end.

”

Verne's hanging heart was let go.

There are eleven chapters in total, and the fifth chapter only enters the science fiction theme, which is definitely unqualified,

But it's not that you can't read it reluctantly.

Verne patiently looked back, but he didn't expect that he was firmly attracted by the story behind,

The first is the depiction of war,

Lu Shi's style is like a different person,

In the first four chapters, it is as soft as swallowing water, and it is eloquent;

When it came to the war, he became a straight man in science and engineering, and he was portrayed from an almost cold, God-overlooking perspective.

Thousands of detonated stars,

chaotic spatial structure,

……

Countless astrophysics knowledge that Verne could not have imagined combined,

But this knowledge complements each other well.

Poincaré was also watching from the side, showing a shocked expression from time to time, and said: "Professor Lu, you are worthy of being a scholar of all sciences, and it is really beyond people's imagination that many cutting-edge knowledge of physics can be used so skillfully. ”

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"It's just some hearsay."

Poincaré shook his head,

"Even if it's hearsay, it's not easy to use it so skillfully."

Verne on the side also became more and more excited,

This is science fiction!

When his imagination was still limited to the earth, Lu Shi's mind had already put on wings and flew to the galaxy!

He continued to read back.

In the plot, the alliance of carbon-based civilizations has won and will establish a barrier zone in the first spiral arm of the galaxy, destroying most of the stars in the barrier to stop the silicon-based civilization from entering the central region of the galaxy.

They will screen and test the degree of evolution of civilization here to avoid destroying carbon-based life with advanced intelligence.

And the Earth is unfortunately within the Separation Zone.

And so, the test came.

By this time, Verne could already guess how the story would play out,

Even so, he was still moved by Lu Shi's words, until that classic question arose:

"3C Civilization Test Question No. 14: Please describe the relationship between the forces between two interacting objects."

Naturally, the children gave the correct answer: "When one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object also exerts a force on the first object, and the two forces are equal in magnitude and in opposite directions!" ”

Verne couldn't help but applaud,

"Good! Enjoyable! ”

He never imagined that a film could make his blood boil.

But what really shocked him was in the last chapter,

In the eleventh chapter of The Village Teacher, the fleet commander of the Carbon-Based Federation becomes curious about life on Earth,

The commander-in-chief of the fleet asked about the characteristics of life on Earth.

As a result, he got an unexpected answer,

Human beings on Earth do not have memory inheritance, and all memories are acquired;

And the way of human information exchange is very primitive and very rare, in the words of the original text of "The Village Teacher":

“

They have a thin organ in their body that generates sound waves when the planet's oxygen-dominated atmosphere vibrates, and at the same time modulates the information to be transmitted into the sound waves, and the receiver also uses a thin film organ to receive information from the sound waves.

”

This passage describes the process of vocal cord vibration to tympanic membrane acceptance.

But after Lu Shi's processing, the whole description seems very lofty, and the style of science fiction is instantaneous.

The Fleet Commander of the Carbon-Based Federation could not understand how a species that had no memory inheritance and used sound waves to communicate information with each other could create civilization.

His subordinate replied:

“

They have an individual, a certain number of individuals, distributed throughout the population, who act as a medium for the transfer of knowledge between the two generations of life.

”

This passage is, of course, about the teacher.

Lu Shi's use of the setting of the carbon-based federation is equivalent to giving the reader a God's perspective, allowing the reader to understand that the profession of teacher is a great possibility.

Verne couldn't help but exclaim: "Is this really science fiction!?" ”

Lu Shi chuckled,

"It looks like I'm hearing this question for the third time today."

Verne's old face flushed,

The first two times, he said that this sentence contained the flavor of questioning, and he felt that Lu Shi's writing was not strong.

The last time was completely different, it was admiration and exclamation.

Verne served,

Thoroughly convinced.

(End of chapter)