Watching chess is silent and true gentleman, although Chen Muwu knows that he can play mahjong, he also hates this kind of behavior of pointing behind his back.

When he turned his head with an unkind face, he found that standing behind him was an East Asian wearing a suit and tie, black hair, black eyes and yellow skin.

In the English-only environment of Cambridge, he could only speak a few words of Chinese unscrupulously when he met Ye Gongchao.

But Ye Gongchao, who has been writing recently, has gradually become a bit of a fake foreign devil, and he always likes to mix so many English words in a good sentence.

Chen Muwu was still staring at this person, a little stunned, but he didn't expect his compatriots to be more anxious than him: "Sir, play this two-of-a-kind, no one wants this card anymore." ”

Chen Muwu stretched out his hand in a daze, followed his command, and beat Erjo out.

This step is really the finishing touch of resurrection, and with the cooperation of off-site assistance, Chen Muwu actually miraculously won this one.

It's just that his cards are too small, and the money he makes is completely incomparable to what he just outputs.

"Don't play, don't play," looking at the three people at the card table glaring at him with foreign aid, Chen Muwu stood up from the card table with interest, "I met a fellow on the boat, I want to catch up with him, you can either change people, or rest for a while, it is estimated that it will not be long before you arrive in France." ”

Chen Muwu, who turned around, invited the compatriot behind him to the bar.

Although he still lost a lot of money in total, thanks to this fellow, he was able to win at the end of the hand.

Inviting him for a beer should be the most basic etiquette.

"Chen Muwu, looking at Mr. Mian, it shouldn't be an international student from around London, right? What to call it yet? Chen Muwu, who ordered a glass of beer and a glass of soda as usual, asked.

At the party reported at the Legation this New Year, he basically watched all the people in the London Middle School Student Union, although he couldn't remember all the people's looks at once, but he was also familiar, but he didn't remember that there was such a person.

"It turns out that you are the Mr. Chen who discovered the Yellow Emperor Star as mentioned in the newspaper? I didn't expect you to be so young, I'm glad I will! Hearing Chen Muwu report his name, the other party looked surprised, "Xiangshan Guo Linshuang, I am not an international student, this time I came to Europe to run business for my family." ”

Looking at Guo Linshuang's clothes and good conversation, he really looks like a businessman, either a comprador of a foreign bank or a manager of a money bank.

This kind of person grabs a lot of people in the sea, after all, Chen Muwu and his second brother are also one of them.

But Chen Muwu didn't know what a big deal the Guo family was doing behind it.

Guo Linshuang has been in the UK since last summer and has been traveling between the United States, the United Kingdom and continental Europe because of business matters

So he had also read a lot of news about Chen Muwu from the newspaper, so he naturally knew about the planet he discovered some time ago.

After learning that he was Chen Muwu, Guo Linshuang seemed very excited, and quickly took over the leadership of the conversation: "Mr. Chen, is there anything going to France this time?" ”

"You can call me Hanchen, I'm just passing through France, and I'm going from Paris to Brussels, Belgium, where I'm going to a conference on physics."

However, Guo Linshuang obviously had no interest in physics, so after a few polite chats, he returned to touting Chen Muwu.

From Ye Gongchao and the continuous congratulatory letters sent from China, these praises have long sharpened Chen Muwu's ears out of a lot of calluses, but in the face of the excited Guo Linshuang, he can only keep a gentlemanly smirk and listen quietly.

"Mr. Chen, I only found out today that foreigners also like to play mahjong. I think their level seems to be very high, what the hell is going on? ”

Chen Muwu embarrassedly told him how this mahjong tile became popular at Cambridge University.

The vigorous promotion of Capitsa is one thing, but the key is that the gameplay is novel and attractive.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

As a businessman, Guo Lin Shuang knew a little, but after watching Chen Muwu and the three foreigners play a few rounds of cards, he began to think about the big business hidden behind it.

……

"Hanchen, why don't you see your wife?" After a glass of beer, Guo Linshuang's topic turned to life-related.

"I'm sorry Mr. Guo, I'm still single and not married."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Guo Linshuang apologized again and again, as if he knew that Chen Muwu was not married, and he poked at his sore spot.

However, if a girl from someone's family can marry this personable and knowledgeable young man in front of her, it should also be a good story.

Before parting at the bar, Guo Linshuang took out a business card and handed it to Chen Muwu, saying that if he returned to Lihai in the future, he could go to him according to the address on the business card.

After Chen Muwu took it, he found that in the middle of the top of the business card, the two English words WING ON were printed.

WING ON？ Yong'an?

Wing On Department Store?

This is one of the four major department stores in the sea, when Chen Muwu was a junior clerk of the Railway Administration, every time he commuted home from work, he would change trains at the Rishenglou Station next to the intersection in front of Yongan Department Store.

The founder of Yongan Department Store is the overseas Chinese Guo brothers in Australia, and the person in front of him is also surnamed Guo, so that is to say......

"Mr. Guo, I don't know what your relationship is with Chairman Guo Le of Yongan Department Store?"

"Chairman Guo is my father's second brother and my second uncle." Guo Linshuang replied very briskly and did not hide it.

"It turned out to be the young owner of Yong'an, but I have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and I am disrespectful and disrespectful."

The suit Chen Muwu is wearing now, as well as the pens in his pockets, are all purchased from Yongan Department Store.

He can now see the young owner of Yongan Company, which is basically equivalent to walking on the street in later generations, and when he looks up, he finds that he is facing Dongge, who does not know his wife's beauty.

"Hey, no matter how much money you can make, you can't compare with Mr. Chen, you are the most admirable person who studies science, improves the prestige of your country, and promotes the progress of society and mankind."

The two of them said a few more polite words in front of the bar before parting, and each went to their respective cabins.

Although I am very happy to meet my old acquaintance in a foreign country, I don't know if I can see each other again in the future.

……

After getting off the ship from Calais and then changing trains to Paris, the friendship of the landlords of de Broglie once again made Chen Muwu see what it means to be wealthy.

Not only did the group live in their villa on the outskirts of France, but they also had a sumptuous meal every day.

Although Trinity College's daily dinner is also very rich compared to the average British home, it is not only hearty here, but also tastes much better than British cooking.

De Broglie also led the three of them to his brother's private laboratory, which, as he had told Chen Muwu in Cambridge, was much better than Cavendish Laboratory.

Looking at the bright and clean experimental environment, even Rutherford couldn't help but praise a few words.

In the De Broglie family, he lived a rich life for a few days, either eating, entertaining or playing mahjong every day, and even Rutherford was a little addicted to it, and even refused to be invited to play one of his favorite sports, golf.

However, Chen Muwu still found time to write the first draft of his paper on the principle of incompatibility.

Then, it was time to set off again, and the group returned from their suburban villas to the university in the center of Paris, where they met with their French counterparts who were waiting there.

It's an Olympic year, and slogans and posters have begun to appear in one of the streets of Paris.

Although the official opening ceremony will not be until July, some competitions will start earlier in the near future.

Chen Muwu doesn't remember any useful information about the Olympics a hundred years ago.

The only piece of trivia he knows comes from football.

Uruguay, one of the few countries to have four stars printed on the chest of their jerseys, actually has two stars not because of the World Cup, but because of the Olympics. One of the stars is from this year's Olympic Games.

It's a pity that there is no football lottery or a gaming company, otherwise Chen Muwu would definitely make a lot of money from this matter.

In Paris, the group met de Broglie's teacher, Langevin, an old acquaintance of Chen Muwu's teacher Rutherford, who had been classmates in the Cavendish laboratory when they were young, and then grew up to be great physicists, and had met many times in recent years at various international physics conferences.

And Chen Muwu once again experienced the warm veneer gift of the French, this time of course, from Langevin.

"Chen, it's a pleasure to meet you!

"Ever since you came up with the theory that the electron is a wave, to be honest, I've always been skeptical, thinking to myself how this young man could be so bold and come up with a new idea, it's so shocking.

"Unexpectedly, Louie was convinced of your theory, and he went to England to do experiments with you.

"I really didn't expect that you two would actually be able to do this experiment, and get the expected results!

"After reading the articles published by the two of you, I thought maybe I was getting old, which is why I am so timid."

"Mr. Lang Zhiwan, you have won the award." Chen Muwu said politely

This is actually a wonderful person, unlike Rutherford who did not allow Capitsa to propagate Uh-hum doctrine in Cavendis's laboratory, after Langevin came to power from a mustache, he began to oppose fascism with his academic prestige, so in the years when France was occupied by Germany, the Vichy government threw this respected physicist into prison regardless of Lang's advanced age and his huge influence in the physics community.

After France was restored and Langevin was released from prison, he was still full of fighting passion, and even a year before his death, he became a member of the French Communist Party.

There were several other French physicists standing beside Langevin, including Marcel Brillouin and Leon Brillouin, father and son, and Chen Muwu followed the local customs, and pasted their cheeks one by one, even if they had said hello.

However, there is one heavyweight French physicist who does not appear in this group, and that is Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice.

After the death of Pierre Curie in an accident, there was a lace news story between Langevin and Marie Curie that appeared in the Parisian newspapers.

Although the relationship ended in nothing, from then on, Marie Curie would always avoid suspicion and try not to appear alone on the same occasion as this Langevin.

Therefore, for this Solvay Conference, Marie Curie had already set off ahead of schedule and went to the Belgian capital on her own.

After De Broglie and his group of four met with local French physicists, they boarded the train from Paris to Brussels.

In the carriage, Chen Muwu leaned on the back of an uncomfortable chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, while de Broglie, like Capitsa, seized all his free time to frantically promote mahjong, a game from the mysterious Chinese of the East, to his French teachers and peers.

People are the animals that can adapt to the environment the most, Chen Muwu from the first time he took the train to the north, to now gradually get used to this kind of bumps, this time he actually slept on the train.

It wasn't until it was getting late and the train arrived at the station in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, that Chen Muwu woke up.

Although Ernest Solvay, the man who invented the ammonia-alkali method, died two years ago, his legacy, and the foundation that served the conference, are still in good shape.

So as soon as the train got off the train, there was a special reception staff to take the physicists and their students from France and England to the hotel near the conference center.

The first Solvay Conference in 1911 was held on a whim of Solvay.

He made a fortune by making alkalis, and originally wanted to make a prize with a lot of money to award to physical chemists, but there was already a Nobel Prize in front of him.

At this time, he was told that it would be better to provide travel and accommodation expenses, and bring together the world's most famous physicists and chemists to have a meeting to discuss the future direction of human society.

Solvay thought it was a good suggestion and held its first meeting that year.

Due to the rush of time preparation, the first edition was held in a rented venue.

Solvay felt that this was a bit slow, so he also spent a lot of money to build a Solvay International Institute of Physical Chemistry in Brussels's Leopold Park, so from the second session, the conference began to be held in this magnificent building.

Also from the second edition, each famous group photo of the participants was on a lawn in front of the building, using this building as a backdrop.

Tomorrow, April 24, 1924, is the opening day of the Fourth Solvay Conference, which was originally scheduled to last five days.

During these days, the Solvay building is probably the most physically advanced place in the world.

It is rare to get out of the busy and boring desk and laboratory, and no one of us has a tired sense of travel, but is not happy to play cards on the train, so after entering the hotel and settling down, we get together again and continue to play mahjong.

Of course, they all knew that Chen Muwu's mahjong level was too good, so they didn't call him to the table at all.

Chen Muwu was also happy to be idle, he went back to his room and fell asleep, recuperating for the upcoming meeting tomorrow.

(End of chapter)