After such a thing, no one had the heart to go out for such a celebration banquet again.

Blackett, who also lived in Magdalen Academy, stayed to continue to appease Ye Gongchao's emotions, while Chen Muwu and Kapitsa could only leave together.

The three of them came in high spirits and returned in disappointment.

Back at Mrs. Brown's house, Chen Muwu lay on the bed, pondering for a long time about Ye Gongchao's beating, but he didn't come up with any good solutions.

……

The next day, Blackett began to tinker with the borrowed mass spectrometer, hoping to prove with the experimental results in the photo that the particle he found was indeed a new isotope of oxygen, oxygen-17.

Chen Muwu, on the other hand, continued to look at Blackett's remaining photographic negatives, hoping to find more proton trajectories from them to provide more evidence for the writing of the paper.

Although at the beginning, Chen Muwu only looked at a few photos, found the trajectory of protons, and made a new reasonable explanation for the experimental phenomenon.

In his opinion, these are simply simple efforts and not things, but in Blackett's eyes, they are another great help for Chen Muwu to himself.

Therefore, Blackett strongly requested that Chen Muwu's name be added to the paper, and the two resigned each other for a long time, and finally ended with Chen Muwu taking over all the writing of the paper and replacing him as a second author.

In this way, inadvertently doing Blackett a small favor, Chen Muwu picked up a paper of sufficient weight for nothing, beautiful, beautiful!

Chen Muwu's typewriter was so good that the papers he wrote were beautiful and neat, and they were already an open secret in the Cavendish lab.

His crackling typing speed was a few points faster than that of the typist lady hired by the lab.

If it weren't for Chen Muwu's daily rush to think about all kinds of new theories and experiments, perhaps Miss Typist would have lost her job, because everyone wanted to ask Chen Muwu to print papers for her.

At the beginning of December, Blackett finally collected enough experimental results on the mass spectrometer to prove that the helium nucleus bombarded by alpha particles did indeed generate a new nucleus after radiating a proton outward, and this nucleus was the oxygen-17 that Chen Muwu had "guessed" before.

By mid-December, Chen Muwu had combined the part of the photographic negatives that he had written long ago, together with the part of the mass spectrometer that Blackett had provided to him a few days earlier, and finally compiled a complete paper signed by the two men, and sent it to the Natural Philosophy Journal in London.

The fall semester has long since ended, and now it's Christmas and New Year's holidays.

Blackett and Dirac, two native Britons, naturally want to go home for the holidays.

Both of them also sent an invitation to Chen Muwu to go home with them for the holiday.

Kapitsa had no intention of going home again this time like in the summer, firstly because the holiday was not as long as in the summer vacation, and secondly, because the time of Christmas in the Russians was not the same as that on the European continent, and the difference between the two was more than half a month.

Kapitsa wants to take Chen Muwu for a spin on the European continent, go skiing in the Alps in Switzerland, or go to Paris in France to feel the atmosphere of the romantic city.

Chen Muwu declined the invitation because he wanted to make another trip to London to participate in the annual celebration of the founding anniversary and the new year.

Unlike the previous balls held by the London Chinese Students' Union through various beginnings, this time the organizer was the Legation of the People's Republic of China in the UK, and the signatory on the invitation letter naturally became the temporary chargé d'affaires of the Legation, Zhu Zhaoxin.

Chen Muwu still didn't dare to offend this God of Wealth, who controlled his official expenses, so as soon as he received the letter, he took the train to London on a day.

In winter, the smell of London is even stronger, and Chen Muwu, who has just gotten off the train, uses a scarf to cover his mouth and nose tightly, trying to minimize the smog that enters his nose and mouth.

Ye Gongchao didn't have to write papers, the holidays were naturally early, and he had already left Cambridge to play around the UK to relax.

It wasn't until they sat down in the venue that the two finally met again.

The National Day of the People's Republic of China is October 10, the day of the Kuochang Uprising, and the New Year's Day of 1912, when the proclamation of the provisional president of the People's Republic of China in Nanjing, became the founding day.

The invitation letter said that I would celebrate this day with New Year's Day, and by the way, I would like to convey to everyone the news from China.

However, Zhu Zhaoxin, the chargé d'affaires ad interim who came to power, only talked about the "glorious deeds" of the newly appointed president Cao Gong, and that was all.

But these are no longer news, except for Chen Muwu, who hasn't read it in the newspaper a long time ago?

To put it bluntly, this party is more like the big companies in the future after squeezing the employees for a whole year, holding an annual meeting at the end of the year, giving small favors and giving chicken blood to the social animals.

The legation also collected a whole year's wool from these boys, and of course it is necessary to appease these rich leeks so that they can grow a newer and greener stubble at the beginning of spring next year.

Although Chen Muwu had tried very hard to pull Ye Gongchao to hide in the corner, because in the past year, his reputation was too prominent, and he had never seen the end of the dragon.

Therefore, when the news of "Chen Muwu also appeared in the venue" spread, there was an endless stream of people who came to greet him with wine glasses, batch after batch.

Chen Muwu felt like a penguin in an aquarium, a panda in a foreign zoo, and felt very uncomfortable being watched.

He finally met a group of people from the London Secondary Students' Union.

Among these people, some Chen Muwu had heard of names, but more of them were things he had not heard of.

But whether he had heard of it or not, Chen Muwu didn't want to go further with them and have more intersections.

He was in the venue and met the famous "lover" Jin Yuelin in later generations.

After obtaining his doctorate from Columbia University, he audited politics and economics in London for several years, and lived a less prosperous life without the financial support of Gengzi's indemnity.

Ye Gongchao said that he basically relied on Yin to eat food and borrow money to survive.

But unlike Chen Muwu's expectations, Jin Yuelin also has a beauty by his side, and he is also a blonde and blue-eyed foreign girl Taylor.

The two of them were arguing in the venue, completely ignoring the eyes of others.

He is so suave now, who would have thought that he would change his appearance in the future?

There was also a person who came with a wine glass, which made Chen Muwu remember deeply.

It's not because this person's expression is exactly the same as the one who occupies the "lead the knife into a fast and live up to the young man's head", but he just opened his mouth to invite Chen Muwu to a bitter steamed bun party.

This frightened Chen Muwu and pulled Ye Gongchao and fled directly from the celebration scene of the legation.

If you offend Zhu Zhaoxin, you can offend it, at this time, it is more important to save your life.

The two stayed in London for another day, and the next day they went to Chinatown to buy a lot of spices and New Year's goods before taking the train back to Cambridge.

"Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of relatives every festival", the New Year is approaching, and you can't treat yourself badly when you are wandering, you still have to have a good year.

Since suffering an unwarranted disaster in the alley that day, Ye Gongchao has been a little sluggish, although he scattered his heart during the winter vacation, it was just better than nothing.

This is the most serious blow he has suffered because of racial discrimination after studying in Europe and the United States for so many years, both mentally and physically.

Even now, two people are dressed in smart clothes and sit in the first class of the train, and the invisible discrimination still exists.

Sitting in the bumpy train with jingling bells, feeling the very oppressive low pressure in the carriage, Chen Muwu suddenly thought of a way that might enlighten the little brother beside him.

So he touched Ye Gongchao beside him with his elbow: "I said Lao Ye, after you came to the UK, have you read the detectives they wrote?" ”

"Of course, when I was in the United States, I read Sir Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" and "Four Signatures", and after I came to England, I read all the books in the Sherlock Holmes series in the library of Magdalen's College."

"Then have you ever thought about writing a detective yourself? You see in the carriages, everybody has books and newspapers and magazines in their hands to pass the time, and I bet most of them are detectives. I thought that if I could write a best-selling book, I would definitely make a lot of money. ”

Since Sherlock Holmes became popular in Britain, reasoning has entered a golden age, and detective cases can be regarded as one of the best-selling themes in Britain nowadays.

"I write? Brother Hanchen, don't hide it, although I am a literature major, but I really don't have such a bright brain, not to mention that I can study physics like you, I am a thoughtful detective, and I can't write it. ”

Ye Gongchao rejected Chen Muwu's proposal.

"I have the idea that on a train from Moscow to Paris, when it arrived on the streets of Berlin in the middle of the night, a rich man sleeping in a first-class box was suddenly found stabbed twelve times and died in the box.

"The suspects in the carriage include a noblewoman from Russia, an officer in India, an ambassador from Hungary, and a salesman from the United States......

"And these people are no more, no less, just a full twelve.

“……

"What happens after that, you say?"

The bumpy train gave Chen Muwu inspiration, and he basically gave Ye Gongchao a brief overview of the book "Murder on the Orient Express".

The story he told really aroused Ye Gongchao's interest.

"And then, then what?" He couldn't wait to ask.

After that, Chen Muwu was unbridled nonsense, he changed the identity of the great detective Poito to a Chinese student studying in Britain who arrived in Moscow from Kazakhstan on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and he also happened to take this train to Paris, and then transfer to the United Kingdom to study.

This Chinese student witnessed the whole thing, and finally solved the case of the murder of the rich man.

Ye Gongchao couldn't help but praise: "This is really a wonderful story, Brother Hanchen, you really should write this story, you can definitely make a lot of money in the UK!" ”

Chen Muwu shook his head: "With my level of English, it's not a problem to write a few physics papers, but let me write it, I still won't take it out to show my ugliness." Gongchao, if you are interested, you can expand the story I just told into a book, and find a publishing house to try your luck. As for the name of this Chinese student, how about taking half of the names of you and me and calling him George Chen? Although the name is half Chinese and half Western, it not only retains the characteristics of the Chinese people, but also makes it easier for the British to accept. ”

"It's an interesting idea. Brother Hanchen, I should do this job, if I can really get royalties in the end, then the two of us are seven and three, and you are seven and I are three, how about it? ”

"Hey, if I come up with an idea, you should write it."

"Absolutely not, either I don't take a penny or use this pen; Either press seven or three. My brother also has to settle accounts, and if you agree, I will take out a pen and paper and write a note. ”

Seeing Ye Gongchao so persistent, Chen Muwu had no choice but to accept such a large amount of royalties in tears.

Unlike "Shooting the Condor", which he wrote a million words in China and only earned 10,000 yuan, the royalties in Europe and the United States were very high at this time.

In 1920, Fitzgerald, who later wrote The Great Gatsby, published his first book, Paradise on Earth.

With this 90,000-word book alone, he made a lot of money, and the royalty income of that year alone was as high as more than 13,000 US dollars.

And in the twenties and thirties, the golden age of reasoning, the royalty of publishing a best-selling detective could only be much more than that of Fitzgerald.

Once this book "Murder on the Paris Express" is published, the royalties should be enough to support Chen Muwu to complete his electron diffraction experiment.

I only hope that after the specific royalty number comes out, Ye Gongchao will not cry out loud because he always insisted on it and wrote it in black and white on paper.

The reason why he didn't choose to write by himself, but provided ideas for Ye Gongchao to do it for him was because there were still more physics experiments waiting for Chen Muwu to do, and there were more stars and seas waiting for him to explore.

Of course, Chen Muwu asked Ye Gongchao to write this book, not only to make quick money, but also to have other ideas.

Just a few copies of Fu Manchu can fool the European and American people into panicking the Chinese, and even the high-IQ college students at Cambridge University can be encouraged to give Ye Gongchao a punch to Ye Gongchao, who is walking on the road.

This shows how popular detectives are now in Britain since Sherlock Holmes.

The detective would also dominate the British and American bestseller scene for nearly two decades, and it was not until after World War II that he gradually turned to the hard-boiled faction.

If the image of a genius Chinese detective George Chen is successfully created during this period, it may subtly affect the views of a generation of Europeans and Americans on Chinese.

The character of George Chen can also be built into a powerful IP for cultural export.

That's why Chen Muwu chose the story of "Paris Express" to let a Chinese student from the far east make a shining appearance on the train.

After that, there is "Tragedy on the Nile", what is a narrative trick, which is Blizzard Villa, all of which can be placed on George Chen's body.

Agatha Christie, Ellery Quinn and Dixon Carr will no longer be the three greats of the golden age, and George Chen will be dubbed "the greatest man in the history of reasoning since Sherlock Holmes".

The classical reasoning stored in Chen Muwu's brain is inexhaustible, and he can completely allow Ye Gongchao to make George Chen a romantic and adventurous James Bond-like character.

As for the nationality of the villains in the book, now in order to cater to the mainstream, they can be Germans who are looked down upon by all of Europe.

After this period of time, slowly transfer to the kid.

In this way, it not only improves the image of Chinese people in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, but also lowers their perception of themselves with one stone.

When the film adaptation is released on the big screen, this influence will spread more widely.

Perhaps, in the future, when the bombing of Tokyo is carried out, there will even be pilots who will draw the portrait of George Chen on the fuselage of the plane.

Americans' aid to China may also be more generous than it has historically been.

But being generous or not here is basically useless, because the vast majority of the aid will flow into Mrs. Chang's bank account in the United States.

It's just that those Americans who will be imprisoned in concentration camps by the United States in the future will definitely be treated worse than in history in the future.

(End of chapter)