Chen Muwu first came to the meeting of the Apostolic Society, thinking to see if he could meet Montagu, the president of the International Table Tennis Federation, here, and thank him for renting a house in London to him, so that the Chen family could have a place to settle in the UK.

As a result, when he entered the meeting hall, he did not even recognize the faces of the apostles who were attending the meeting, but was dragged by Ramsey to a corner of the meeting hall and introduced him to Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein was also more enthusiastic than Chen Muwu imagined, and if he only looked at the photos before, Chen Muwu thought that the Austrian philosopher was not good at words, and was the type who thought quietly without arguing with the world.

Then the conversation between the two broke Chen Muwu's inherent impression of a philosopher, and in Wittgenstein he also saw the shadow of Russell, not to say that he was chattering, but he was also very talkative and had a clear idea.

Wittgenstein thought clearly, and the more he talked, the happier he became, but when he arrived at Chen Muwu, he began to think chaotically and confused.

Fortunately, the topic between the two people shifted from ethereal philosophy to quantum physics, which Chen Muwu was still able to grasp, and did not let the discussion go farther and farther.

Later, because of Ben's niconico and AcFun in China, there was a spoof word on the Internet called "philosophy" or "philosophy", which means "the science of 'folding' straight into bends", as a synonym for men and gays.

Chen Muwu was originally just a picture of Yile, but now he suddenly understands why he wants to name this kind of Longyang goodness as philosophy.

It is not for nothing that Britain is called a corrupt country, with the further improvement of academic qualifications, the probability of the occurrence of broken sleeves is also getting higher and higher, the probability on the campus of Cambridge University is greater than the British average, and the probability of appearing in the Apostle Society is greater than that of Cambridge University.

Study and discuss philosophy every day, it is strange that it does not bend!

Well, in fact, the serious reason is not this, there is a saying that because these children of the nobility and the children of rich families in Britain have gone to the kind of aristocratic public schools with a very high level of education but also very strict management since they were young, and then if nothing else, those who study well will be successfully promoted to Cambridge and Oxford, the two institutions of higher learning, and if the study is not so good, they will also rely on their family connections to go through the back door and be sent to the army or the Royal Navy to serve as soldiers.

One thing that these three places have in common, from public schools to universities or the military, is that for centuries, all of them were men.

From adolescence to adolescence, there are elites of the same gender as themselves, and they have not been properly guided, but they have always been warned not to get too close to girls and have intimate connections.

In such an educational and living environment, most people may have a rebellious mentality, and their minds are full of women, but there are also a small number of them who will feel disgusted with women because of this, and have another kind of affection for the same sex who is with them all day long.

Fortunately, the people around Chen Muwu are okay, but they are not much better.

Ramsey, for example, was a student at Cambridge University when he met and befriended Jeffrey and Margaret Pike, graduates of Cambridge University's Pembroke College, who had a baby school in Cambridgeshire.

The Pikes, who were ten years older than Ramsay, enthusiastically involved Ramsey in their family life, took him on vacation, and made him the godfather of their youngest son.

Then one afternoon, Ramsey confronted Mrs. Parker's Margaret and asked a question similar to that Ah Q had asked Wu's mother: "Margaret, would you like to sleep with me?" ”

This kind of problem, if you pretend to be confused, everyone can tacitly understand it.

But once you break through that layer of window paper, there is only one embarrassment left for each other.

Margaret was still too reserved to give Ramsey a big mouth, but euphemistically said that she needed a certain amount of time to consider his proposal.

As a result, Ramsey began to suffer from irrepressible depression, and eventually left Cambridge University in 1924 for Vienna, Austria, where he was treated psychoanalytically by psychologists in Freud's stronghold.

It was when he went to Vienna this time that he went to the southern countryside of Austria again, and finally got to know Wittgenstein, who had been friends for a long time.

Later, in the second half of 1924, Chen Muwu met Ramsey for the first time at the Apostolic Society, and the other party said that he had just returned from abroad, and the foreign country referred to the psychoanalytic treatment he received in Austria.

The Austrian psychologist, who was more or less reliable than his counterparts in Paris, France, did not advise Ramsey to find a few prostitutes in Paris, as he had done when he had treated Oppenheimer.

- On the contrary, Chen Muwu felt in his heart that the advice put forward by those psychiatrists in Paris was more reliable for the impatient Ramsey, and a trip to the red light district of Paris was a fierce medicine, and it was also a good medicine that treated both the symptoms and the root cause.

After Ramsey returned to China, it didn't take long for him to find a wife and get married, and the relationship with the Pike family gradually returned to normal, but after all, it was not enough to recover from the time when they first met.

Chen Muwu thinks that Ramsey is a good person, and if he needs help with something as a friend, the other party is also very dedicated.

But next year, when he gets married, he has to be careful, especially to keep Eve away from him.

At the end of the conversation, Chen Muwu asked Wittgenstein where he lived at Cambridge University, told him that he had sent someone to bring him lecture notes on quantum mechanics in the last few days, and that Professor Fowler had been teaching students at Cambridge University with Dirac's book, and that he could go to the classroom if he had time.

Finally, after the conversation with Ramsey and Wittgenstein about philosophy and physics, Chen Muwu found Montagu, who was also here today, and thanked him for doing him a great favor in London.

"Dr. Chen, why be so polite! If you want to say thank you, I should also say it, because you took the time to participate in our World Table Tennis Championships at the end of last year, which was reported by major newspapers in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and since then, in the past six months, not only the membership of the British Table Tennis Association has continued to grow, but even the number of member countries applying to join the ITTF has also increased rapidly, which is due to Dr. Chen's international influence!

"When you go to London again, I will be grateful. In addition, my mother's side has been inviting you to the house as a guest, and if Chen Muwu has time, please be sure to enjoy it. ”

Yes, Chen Muwu originally wanted to be grateful to others, but he was sincerely grateful by others.

Chen Muwu was ashamed, but he was disrespectful, so he could only be polite and humble with Montagu.

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As he was leaving the Apostolic Society, Chen Muwu overheard the topic of these people's discussions, which had drifted to the Arabian Peninsula, where they were discussing the Treaty of Jeddah, signed between the British government and Najd and the Hejaz king Ibn Saud, which formally recognized the independence of the country that owned most of the land on the Arabian Peninsula.

"This treaty is long overdue! My uncle went to the Arabian Peninsula with the delegation, and except for a few areas in the north that were suitable for human habitation, most of the entire peninsula was a desert with no vegetation and no water resources, only yellow sand, cacti, and camels.

"It's a hot place all year round, and the occasional wind is hot, and there's a lot of sand with it, and my uncle said that even if you wear their white robes and ride a camel for a day, all the holes in your head will be filled with sand."

"I also think it's a good treaty to be signed, and it's better to leave this place to the natives in white robes and camels to fend for themselves, rather than being in the hands of us in the UK, spending a lot of pounds a year to maintain law and order and investing in infrastructure."

With Erlang's legs crossed, holding a red wine glass in his hand, leaning on the sofa obliquely, and talking about national affairs unscrupulously, Chen Muwu always felt that this scene in the Apostle Society was not so much like a gathering of elite students at Cambridge University, but more like a hard-seat carriage in a green train, where people were crowded and crowded, and a group of well-informed masters gathered together to talk about it.

He felt that the group of college students in the Apostolic Society, who supported the signing of the Treaty of Jeddah, were as short-sighted as the British government that signed the treaty, and that the Arabian Peninsula was a useless place.

In a few years, when a lot of oil is mined under that land, it will be too late to cry!

Who let the whole country not trust Dr. Chen's oil company and waste a good opportunity to make a fortune?

Finally ended the Apostolic Society meeting that night, and basically sat in the venue all night, Chen Muwu's body was not tired, but his brain was a little overloaded.

After returning to his room at Trinity College, he fell asleep on the bed until he dreamed that a goblin named "Causality" jumped out of his brain and fought tenaciously with a villain who represented him all night.

A night's sleep is equivalent to a vain sleep, and when he got up the next day, Chen Muwu was still tired to death.

The power of philosophy is so terrifying that Dr. Chan thinks it would be better to settle down and study physics.

Regardless of whether Chen Muwu participates or not, the annual intercollegiate sports meeting jointly organized by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford is still held in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, as scheduled.

In the eyes of London, this is much more lively than the FA Cup held at Wembley Stadium just ended, a football team from Cardiff City from Wales won against Arsenal at Highbury Stadium in north London, so that England's FA Cup was taken away by a bunch of stinking people.

The resentment of the trophies can only be tempered by watching the rowers of Cambridge and Oxford universities on the banks of the Thames fight their way through the water.

Chen Muwu, who returned to London to reunite with his family, also asked someone to help take a place in advance, and took the old lady of the Chen family and his eldest brother Chen Muqiao to watch the game together.

——After Chen Muping came to the UK from the sea, he is now the busiest of the three brothers in the Chen family.

He often splits his time between England and Sweden, taking care of his younger brother's business in both countries.

At the beginning, he repeatedly received letters and reports from Chen Muwu in Qianhai, and he thought that what his younger brother said about doing a few businesses in Europe was a joke.

But after arriving in Europe and conducting field trips, Chen Muping saw that his little brother had quietly made several big deals here.

Chen Muwu casually took out a stake in an industry, and the scale and wealth were much larger than the small money bank he opened on Jiangxi Road in the public concession.

No wonder he said that he wanted to leave his family and come to Europe to live, he really had the confidence to say such things!

A family of three sat under a makeshift pergola on the banks of the River Thames, and Chen Muwu introduced his mother and eldest brother to the annual rowing competition, a sight to behold in London and the whole of the United Kingdom.

Chen Muqiao, the former provost of Nanyang University, has been in this position for more than ten years, and has also studied foreign education, so he naturally knows that sports are an indispensable part of foreign universities.

Therefore, when he was in office, he also imitated the sports meeting of the two universities of Oxbridge and agreed to jointly hold the "East China Eight University Games" in several colleges and universities inside and outside the Qihai Concession.

Looking at the athletes in the Thames River, and at the London citizens cheering for these athletes on both sides of the river, Chen Muqiao sighed again: Only when the country is rich and strong, will the people have the time and energy to enthusiastically devote themselves to sports events. If this is in the sea of Qianhai, let alone the sports meeting held by the eight universities in East China, or the Far Eastern Games held in the ten years of the Republic of China, the audience in the stadium will not be full, let alone the two sides of the Thames River like today.

The old lady of the Chen family saw this kind of Western scenery for the first time, she pointed to the two boats in the water, and asked a sentence that made the Chen brothers not know how to respond: "Do these foreigners also celebrate the May Festival and race dragon boats in the river?" ”

After accompanying the old lady to watch the lively Cambridge-Oxford joint sports meeting, and making the family members who had just come to the UK and not yet adapted to life here temporarily forget the pain of homesickness, Chen Muwu rushed back to Cambridge University again without stopping.

The particle accelerator, which had been busy for the past few months, has now cooled down.

The reason for this is not that the accelerator has no experiments to do, but because in the past few days, Cockcroft went to the United States with the parts of several particle accelerators, while Zhao Zhongyao took the train all the way east to install machines for Germany and Sulian.

In order to make money, the Cavendish laboratory has left its machines without operators, Oppenheimer is preparing for graduation, and he is an experimental insulator, so he can only let Chen Muwu, the acting director of the laboratory, personally put on the battle.

Who asked his teacher Rutherford to package this cheap machine into a high-end product that will crumble at the touch of a button in order to sell the machine at a good price?

Chen Muwu was busy in the particle accelerator laboratory for a whole day, and finally processed all the backlog of experimental applications.

As soon as he walked to the door of Trinity College, the superintendent in charge of sending and receiving letters and telegrams stopped the exhausted Acting Director Chen: "Dr. Chen, you have a telegram that has just been delivered in the afternoon. ”

(End of chapter)