For this question, Chen Muwu thought carefully for a long time, and finally gave a one-word answer: go!

There were two reasons for his decision:

First of all, the reward proposed by the other party in the letter is full of sincerity, and 500 yuan is indeed not a small amount.

Moreover, Chen Muwu knew that he would have to go abroad sooner or later, so that the poor family could be prepared, and one more silver yuan would give him a sense of security in his heart.

Although the Chen family is not short of money, and the brothers and sons are brothers, friends and brothers, and there will be no conflicts and disputes in the distribution of property, this does not mean that Chen Muwu can spend money lavishly at will, otherwise after a long time, there will be disagreements between the harmonious Kunzhong, which will eventually lead to the brothers falling apart.

The second is Chen Muwu's selfishness, he finally returned to this era, in addition to wanting to "make meritorious service and comfort his life", he also wanted to see the famous people recorded in the textbook with his own eyes.

In addition to Dr. Hu, who plays cards all day long in his diary, there is also Mr. Shou Chang who has a one-word beard, Brother Xun, who is still kind and kind, Ding Xilin, who is a professor of physics and an executive director of the Dramatists Association, and so on.

Now that there is such an opportunity to meet with your generous family at public expense, how can he miss it?

(Actually, there is a third reason, and that is plot killing.) If he Chen Muwu doesn't go north, then the lazy dog author will need to rack his brains to think of a more unreasonable reason to change the map. ）

So Chen Muwu took advantage of his lunch break to go to the North Station Telegraph Office located downstairs in the Railway Bureau and took a telegram to Professor Hu of Shao University.

He originally wanted to write a letter, but he also thought that it would take three days for a letter to be sent from Qihai to Shaojing at the earliest.

Hu Shi's letter was written on the 6th, and when he received it today, it was already the 10th four days later.

In this way, I communicated with Shao Jing once, and a week's time was gone.

And writing will also face the risk of losing the letter on the road, and in the future generations of online shopping, there may also be a possibility of express delivery in the north and south of the country to travel around the country, just not to send it to their own hands, not to mention that it is now in this more chaotic era!

The telegram is undoubtedly much more convenient and faster than writing a letter, and he will receive a reply at noon today and at the latest, as soon as tonight, and at the slowest tomorrow morning, when he goes to work, if Dr. Hu is willing to pay money to send him a telegram back.

Chen Muwu replied in such a hurry, because he was afraid that it would change later: if he didn't give this matter down quickly, what if Shao Da regretted it?

Chen Muwu found the registered telegram from the telegram manual and filled in the beginning of the telegram form.

This four-digit code costs only one word for the telegraph to be delivered to Sao Da accurately. If there is no telegram registration, you can only honestly write the detailed address, you know, these addresses are also charged by the word!

He pondered for a long time, took out a pen, and wrote down the twelve words "Brother Suitable, Fish Letter, When You Can Go, Chen, and Gray" in the content column.

Of course, there is no pause number in his message, and how to break the sentence depends on the recipient's writing skills.

This is already the limit of Chen Muwu's abbreviation skills.

The words "suitable brother" indicate the recipient.

After all, the telegram registration can only allow the courier to send the telegram to Peking University, and if the name is not written, the porter will not know which professor to send the telegram to.

According to the red tape between the current people, in fact, Chen Muwu should call Hu Shi Mr. Shizhi, after all, he had listened to Hu Shi's lecture when he was in school, and he was a teacher for one day and a teacher for life...... Forget it, he doesn't want to recognize him as a father.

Chen Muwu originally wanted to write the word "suitable", but because of etiquette, he finally added the word "brother" worth a dime and two cents.

"Fish Letter" means that I have received the letter from the sixth.

"Pingshui Rhyme" is a rhyme book in ancient China, and the word "fish" is the sixth of the fifteen Shangping rhymes in the book, which is used in the telegraph to represent the sixth day of the month, that is, the sixth.

"Fish letter" saves another word of money compared to "six-day letter".

Contrary to the group of online writers who are scheming and only thinking about how to make money, when a telegram is sent now, the sender is racking his brains to think about how to reduce the number of words and deliver the most news in the shortest words, so as to save more money.

"When can I go" does not need to be explained, this is Chen Muwu can go to Shaoda to give a lecture on the day he asked Hu Shi, and it is also the only useful information transmitted in the entire telegram.

"Chen" of course refers to Chen Muwu, the word "gray" is the same as the previous word "fish", and the tenth of the flat rhyme initials on the "Pingshui Rhyme" represents the date when this telegram was sent, that is, the tenth.

Twelve words plus a telegram registration cost Chen Muwu a piece of six cents, and it was almost enough to catch up with the price of the two registered letters sent to Europe in the morning!

In the afternoon of the same day, Hu Shi, who was far away in Shaojing, received this telegram from Chen Muwu.

Seeing that as soon as he received the letter, he couldn't wait to reply, Hu Shi secretly said in his heart that the fish had been hooked, and the task assigned by Minister Shulman was not dishonored.

Since Chen Muwu took a telegram, Hu Shi had no reason to write a reply again, and he immediately prepared a telegram, the general content of which was that Shao Da was waiting for Chen Muwu to go north at any time, please take a telegram three days in advance to inform him of the reception.

For the time being, Hu Shi took the telegram to Cai Yuanpei and informed him that he had successfully invited Chen Muwu to give a lecture.

said that the next day, after Chen Muwu received Hu Shi's reply, he began to prepare for going north.

The most important problem is to take a leave of absence, give lectures for two weeks, plus the preparation work and the back and forth on the road, all together, he estimates that it will take about a month to leave the post.

The British chief engineer only praised himself two days ago, and it shouldn't be difficult to take a half-month long vacation.

Sure enough, when the Englishman heard that Chen Muwu was going to Shao University to give a lecture, he did not hesitate to grant leave.

He also complained a few words to Chen Muwu, saying that our two railway administrations control the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railways, and making money is making money, but they have never forgotten the investment in education, and will hand over 100,000 yuan to the Ministry of Communications every year to run a university, and Nanyang University alone can have 66,000 yuan of silver yuan in the account every year.

Everyone is in the same sea and the same transportation system, and I don't see them Nanyang University inviting you to give lectures, and would rather choose to invest money in holding the eight university football matches, what a bunch of guys who eat inside and out!

Chen Muwuxin said, not only to teach, they even want me to teach!

The chief engineer was talking about the eight university football tournament held a few days ago, in which Nanyang University defeated Fudan 3-1 in the final and won the championship.

Chen Muwu is very strange, how can this Englishman not like football?

How did he know that the gentlemen's wives of the British upper class now watch cricket, football and the entertainment that blue-collar workers love.

Later, most people in Britain loved football, and a special group of football hooligans was born.

But the popularity of cricket in Britain has declined significantly, and even India can't compare with it, is it really British orthodoxy in South Asia?

No wonder the third brother can be the prime minister of the United Kingdom.