07 Hearts and minds

Chen Muwu's schedule for lecturing in the province was quite tight.

He first followed Zhang Naiyan to Hainan Station, took the train of the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Line to Jiaxing, and gave a speech at the Provincial No. 2 Middle School.

Then continue to board the bus to Hangzhou County, and give another lecture at the Provincial No. 1 Middle School and the Provincial No. 1 Normal School.

After leaving Hangxian, the two crossed the Qiantang River south from the gate under the Baita Ridge in the south of the city, entered the Xiaocao Canal in Xixing on the other side of the river, took a boat along the thousand-year-old canal waterway, directly passed through Shaoxing City, and finally got off the canopy boat on the west bank of the Cao'e River, and waited for the ferry to cross the river next to the Cao'e Temple.

Cao E's temple is naturally dedicated to Cao E, a filial daughter in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But what makes Cao'e Temple famous all over the world is not Cao E, but his own family Cao Cao.

There is a Cao E stele in the temple, Cai Wenji and his father Cai Yong once inscribed eight big characters for this stele, "Huang Juan young woman, grandson Yan Jiu".

One day, Cao Cao and Yang Xiu passed by here, and Cao Cao asked Yang Xiuzhi if he knew what these eight words meant. Yang Xiu's thinking was quick, and he could see the deep meaning of the words at once, Cao Cao asked him not to say it, and it wasn't until he walked another thirty miles that Cao Cao figured out that the four words behind these eight words were "wonderful words".

After telling Zhang Naiyan this story, the steamer that crossed the river also arrived at the ferry in front of Cao'e Temple.

The two boarded a boat and crossed to the other side of the river, and when they crossed to the other side of the river, they arrived at Chen Muwu's hometown, Qiyu County.

Whether it is on the Qiantang River, or on the Cao'e River, and the Xixing Canal that connects the two, Chen Muwu has never felt the slightest seasickness.

But I don't know why, as soon as he got to sea, he began to spin around, which is really strange!

According to Zhang Naiyan's arrangement, they should board the train of the Yongcao Line from Cao'e Station on the south bank of the Cao'e River, sit directly to the end point, and then give a lecture at the Provincial No. 4 Middle School and Yongjiang Girls' Middle School in Yinxian County, even if they have successfully completed their tasks.

But before leaving, Chen Muwu's eldest brother Chen Muqiao insisted that Zhang Naiyan add one more school to his itinerary, that is, Chunhui Middle School next to Yiting Station in Qiyu County, on the shore of Baima Lake.

Chen Muqiao's move is not because he believes in the sentence in "Xiang Yu Benji", "Wealth does not return to their hometown, such as embroidering clothes at night", but this Chunhui Middle School has a lot of roots with their old Chen family.

Chen Chunlan, the uncle and grandfather of the three brothers of the Chen family, left his hometown and came to Shili Yangchang after opening the port in Qianhai, starting from a young man in a money village, and growing up to open more than a dozen money houses in Qihai.

Chen Chunlan did not have many heirs, and so many money houses lacked people to manage them, so he selected a shrewd and capable one from his own children to take over, and Chen Muwu's second brother Chen Muping got the money village on Jiang Yi Road because of this.

Chen Chunlan did not forget Sangzi after he was old, and first allocated funds to establish Chunhui Primary School in Qiyu, and later allocated a huge amount of 150,000 oceans to build Chunhui Middle School on the shore of Baima Lake.

Jing Hengyi, the current principal of Chunhui Middle School, and Chen Muqiao's fellow villager and senior when he studied in Waben, learned that his third brother was going back to his hometown to give a lecture, so he immediately wrote a letter to invite Chen Muwu to come to Chunhui Middle School to give a lecture.

It is reasonable that Chen Muqiao could not refuse this invitation, so he implored Zhang Naiyan to add this school to his itinerary.

Zhang Naiyan wished that Chen Muwu could talk a few more times, so he responded without hesitation.

It should be said that among these lectures in Jiangjiang Province, the most surprising thing for Chen Muwu was Chunhui Middle School.

Although this school has only been built for less than a year, but the teaching force is very strong, in the school, he met Xia Yazun, who translated "The Education of Love", met Zhu Ziqing, who thought of waiting for the train at Puyan Station, met Feng Zikai, who drew cartoons, and Feng Zikai's teacher, the famous Hongyi Master Li Shutong.

After the lecture, Zhang and Chen stayed in the school for one night and talked with the famous teachers all night.

Chen Muwu said to Master Hongyi that his favorite "Evening Song" composed by his husband was the song he heard when he was a child, which made him develop a good habit of cherishing time since he was a child.

Master Hongyi also praised Chen Muwu's good composition, apparently, he had already seen the song "Orchid Grass" from the newspaper.

After everyone left, the young teacher Feng Zikai suddenly had a sudden inspiration and drew the first cartoon in his life, "After the People Disperse, a Hook of the Crescent Moon is Like Water".

At the end of the lecture, Chen Muwu returned to Qihai from the river, and finally received a telegram from Eddington in the unit.

On the other hand, on the German side, although Einstein had long said that he would recommend Planck to study at the Humboldt University of Berlin, there has been no movement.

Apart from the copy of the paper, he received the January issue of the Annals of Physics, and there was no other news from Germany.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the British Consulate General in Shanghai also sent officials directly to Chen's house on Seymour Road to inform Chen Muwu that he had been invited to study at Cambridge University.

No matter how much you want to hide this matter, you can't hide it, so whether Chen Muwu wants to study west this time has become the top priority discussed by the Chen family these days.

According to Chen Muwu's thoughts, of course he wanted to agree to this matter without hesitation. Because now, everything is still following the life trajectory that Chen Muwu planned for himself when he first crossed over, moving forward step by step: getting to know Einstein, publishing papers in European journals through his recommendation, breaking a certain international reputation, and then going to England, Cambridge, and Cavendish Laboratory to study abroad, and lay a bigger sky for himself.

The second brother Chen Muping didn't have much idea about his younger brother's study abroad, and he thought that since Chen Muwu had grown up, he should act according to his own wishes.

What's more, he is still the second child in the family, and he is the most weightless of the three brothers, so everything will just go naturally.

On the one hand, he regretted that his younger brother could not go abroad directly after graduating from his bachelor's degree, and he regretted that he did not dare to disobey his mother's order to return home to work.

On the other hand, he was really afraid of seeing his mother's sad appearance.

The old lady of the Chen family was really as the eldest son thought, and there were one hundred and eighty unwillingness in her heart.

She secretly cursed in her heart those greedy and lazy matchmakers, the New Year has passed for so long, why haven't they found a good match for their youngest son after taking the money?

The family meeting fell into the tug-of-war between Chen Muwu and Mrs. Chen.

In the end, it was the mother's distress for the child, and the old lady had tears in her eyes and agreed to let Chen Muwu go to the UK to study.

But at the same time, she put forward a request, that is, Chen Muwu must become a family before going abroad.

In addition, you must return to your home country as soon as you get your degree, and do not stay in a foreign country for a long time.

Although Chen Muwu promised on his lips, what he thought in his heart was that after he became famous, he must find an opportunity to take the family away from the sea, and he could not let them live at the forefront of this war.

As for getting married? Of course, the soles of your feet are oiled, and the faster you slip away, the better!

The matter seems to have been solved perfectly, but everyone has a heavy burden in their chest.