After booking the ferry ticket first, the old lady of the Chen family lost her temper again, and she even threatened Chen Muwu that although he escaped marriage this time, when she found a suitable marriage partner for him, she would send the bride to the UK at her own expense, so that she and Chen Muwu could get married.

Of course Chen Muwu won't believe his mother's angry words, no one's daughter was picked up on the street, and it was impossible for him to marry overseas without even seeing the groom once.

But the time he spent in the sea was indeed running out, but his luggage was not finished yet.

Passports, visas from France and Britain, graduation certificates from Jiaotong University's Yanshan School, study abroad certificates issued by the Ministry of Education, and invitation letters from Cambridge University, all of these things are the lifeblood of Chen Muwu's trip, and they must be stored close to him and must not be out of his sight.

As for clothes and the like, Chen Muwu specially told his sister-in-law not to bring too much, "there is no light load on the long journey", he can wait until he arrives in the UK before spending money to buy them.

Chen Muqiao considered the sophistication of the people and asked the third brother if he needed to bring some good tea to his future teachers and classmates in Cambridge.

It's a pity that he left a few days early, if he left ten days and half a month late, he would still be able to catch up with the first batch of Longjing tea before the Ming Dynasty to go on the market, and also let foreigners taste the taste of the best tea in China.

Chen Muwu persuaded the eldest brother why bother, no matter how good the tea is, it is also a cow chewing peony in the mouth of the British, they will never taste the true taste of the tea, and they will definitely add milk and sugar cubes to it.

However, when he heard his eldest brother talk about gifts, Chen Muwu remembered a good thing that could be used as a gift.

He walked from his home to Gordon Road, got on the tram, and went straight to the Commercial Press's distribution department at the intersection of Sima Road and Heyang Road.

After entering the store, Chen Muwu did not look at the bookshelves or ask the clerk, but went straight to the checkout counter and asked the guys inside for "The Spirit of the Chinese People" written by Gu Hongming.

When it comes to Gu Hongming, some people will say that he is a madman and a stubborn old antique.

But in Chen Muwu's view, he is definitely a seriously underestimated people, but it is just a bit overkill.

Gu Hongming once said: "Foreigners will not respect us a little because we cut off our braids and put on suits." I am completely sure that when we Chinese become Westernizers, foreign devils, Europeans and Americans will only despise us even more. In fact, it is only when Europeans and Americans learn about the true Chinese, a people who are very different from them, but in no way inferior to their civilization, that they will have some respect for us. ”

This sentence really spoke to Chen Muwu's heart.

He has crossed over from the afterlife, and naturally knows how dignified these foreigners are, but now people don't know!

Especially when Chen Muwu saw the strange phenomenon of shouting every day for comprehensive Westernization, belittling Sinology, and even declaring that he wanted to replace Chinese characters with the Roman alphabet, he felt even more that this maverick Gu Hongming always insisted on spreading Chinese culture to foreigners, how commendable it was.

Dr. Hu advocates new culture and new ideas every day, but who evaluates him? A model of old morality in the new culture, and a teacher of new ideas in the old ethics!

Scolding people without dirty words but cursing the heart with every word, this can be said to be one of the few literary highlights of the cursive word.

Especially Gu Hongming also hates Dr. Hu, and the street scolds the most, just because of this, he is a good friend of Chen Muwu who has never met! - After Cai Yuanpei's resignation, Gu Hongming, who has always admired Cai Yuanpei, was the first teacher in Shaoda to resign, so Chen Muwu went north before and did not see this geek.

Chen Muwu decided to buy more than a dozen copies of Gu Hongming's book promoting Chinese culture as a gift for his future teachers and classmates.

Cultural export, start with me!

Chen Muwu thought that if he became famous and made a lot of money in the future, he must fund Gu Hongming to produce a series of books: "The Ugly American", "The Ugly British", and "The Ugly Wa Himself......

Then sit back and wait for the books to sell and he will become a monopoly himself!

……

The day of sailing is getting closer and closer, and the Chen family is in a sad parting.

The old lady put a string of sandalwood prayer beads on Chen Muwu's wrist, saying that this was the prayer bead that she had recited the Medicine Master Sutra a thousand times in front of the Bodhisattva, and that it would bless him with good fortune and good fortune along the way.

The second brother, Chen Muping, gave him a slip from the British merchant Mackinley Bank[1], which amounted to 2,000 pounds.

After arriving in the UK, he only needs to open an account with the corresponding bank, and then hand over this slip to the counter, and the money will be transferred to his account.

This money was enough for him to squander in England for several years like a big boy.

The eldest brother, Chen Muqiao, mobilized his connections to write letters to his friends and friends in the United Kingdom and his friends in the same way before he went to Shaojing, asking them to help their little brother as much as possible in a foreign country.

Not only that, but one night before leaving, he called Chen Muwu to his study alone, and asked an inexplicable question with a serious expression: "Little brother, do you know the meaning of the names of our three brothers?" ”

Of course, Chen Muwu knew that the names of the three brothers corresponded to the three ancients.

The eldest brother Chen Muqiao, the word Zheng Xiang, corresponds to Zheng Guo's virtuous grandson Sun Qiao, his other name Zichan, is more widely known, Confucius once praised him as "the love of the ancients".

The second brother Chen Muping, whose name is Chu Qing, corresponds to Qu Ping, the doctor of Chu State, that is, the famous Qu Yuan, who wrote well-known poems such as "Lisao" and "Nine Songs".

And his own name is Chen Muwu, the word Hanchen, which corresponds to the great loyal minister Su Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was trapped in a foreign land, and he has been herding sheep for 19 years, but he has never forgotten his homeland.

Admirers, love also.

These three ancients were the three most admired by Mrs. Chen, so they named their three sons.

After listening to Chen Muwu's explanation, Chen Muqiao nodded and said, "You are right, the reason why my father gave our three brothers such names is that he hopes that we will follow these three sages as an example.

"Big brother, I am not capable, and I struggle every day to barely maintain our family, which is categorically incomparable to the child;

"As for your second brother, I don't think of Xiao Quzi, but more like Chen Ping, the virtuous minister of the Han Dynasty, who takes care of the money village in an orderly manner;

"It's you, junior brother, who is exactly the martial character in your name, like Su Ziqing, is about to go to the country for thousands of miles, and I don't know how many years it will be for you to leave.

"Of course, the eldest brother would like to see you achieve higher achievements, but I would prefer to be like the sages in the name, not to forget your own country, and not to forget where your roots are.

After saying this, Chen Muqiao, who has always been calm and dignified, actually left two lines of tears.

"Yes, the younger brother obeys the teachings of the eldest brother."

Chen Muwu was also infected by this situation, and the two brothers became teary-eyed in the study.

When do you know when you will see each other?

It's hard to feel the night at this point.

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[1] Author's note: the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, that is, Standard Chartered Bank. Because the name of the first general manager in the sea was McKinley, it has continued this name in the old days, and it is called McKinley Bank.