In 1927, house prices in Britain entered a long bear market of ten years, ahead of the imminent Great Depression.

Capitsa is a wise move to buy a house at this time.

It seems that he plans to settle his family in Cambridgeshire, after all, after having a wife, it will be inconvenient to live in the dormitory of Trinity College with his family.

Due to limited money, Capitsa's new house is not very large, but fortunately it is located in a faculty residential area of the University of Cambridge, not too far from Trinity College and Cavendish Laboratory.

So for Chen Muwu, who helped to move, it was good news, Dirac drove back and forth a few times, and carried all the luggage and belongings of Kapitsa.

Chen Muwu has no intention of buying a house in the UK, even if the value of the house here will appreciate after the war, but he must first ensure that the house can survive safely until after the war, right?

Kapitsa had set the date for his wedding in late September, and Chadwick had already rushed back to Cambridge from his father-in-law's house in Liverpool.

Taking advantage of the good days to go, Chen Muwu, who had been experimenting in Cavendish for almost a summer, briefly handed over work with Chadwick and took time to return to his home in London.

The old lady of the Chen family is very open-minded about working overtime and not being at home, not only does she not complain that Chen Muwu almost never returns home during the summer vacation, but also thinks that he has done a good job.

Chinese people have never been too resistant to rolling, as long as they keep rolling, then sooner or later one day they will be able to continue to be promoted and raised.

- How did she know that even if her youngest son achieved great results, the channels and ways to continue to promote in the white society of Britain were very limited.

This will be true not only now, but also a hundred years from now.

On the other side of the Atlantic in the Americas, the status of dark-skinned people has risen sharply.

On the English Islands on this side of the Atlantic, it is the same dark-skinned Indians who have begun to resurrect their souls and dominate the world.

Yellow-skinned East Asians are still not welcomed wherever they go.

That is to say, most of the people in Cambridge University are looking at other people's academic results, and the teachers and students in Cavendish Laboratories are even more so, plus there are teachers such as Tomson Sr. and Rutherford to take care of him, Chen Muwu can have a smooth life in his study abroad career.

However, there is also some credit for this, because the literary image of George Chen was very successful, and it spread widely in the English-speaking world, and severely hit the Fu Manchu who smeared the Chinese, so that the latter did not form a climate, and suppressed the Yellow Peril theory to a certain extent.

Mrs. Chen is leisurely and contented as a public servant overseas, but Chen Muqiao can understand what is written in the newspaper.

"Little brother, not long ago the newspaper said that the sun was going to explode, and I see that you have responded to this matter recently. What is going on, and are you sure about it? ”

"Of course!"

Chen Muwu didn't expect that his eldest brother was also one of the victims of this rumor.

"The American astronomer's point is not substantiated at all, it is completely false.

"And we just did a crucial experiment in the lab, which is quite a blow to that ridiculous idea.

"Our ancestors have long persuaded that the sky will not fall. Then the sun will naturally not explode.

"Big brother, I advise you to read less British newspapers and tabloids if you are usually fine, the shamelessness of their media is much higher than that in our country."

"Okay, then it's all based on what you said."

Chen Muwu himself is an expert in physics and astronomy, and Chen Muqiao did not believe in his own brother and believed in the truth of a foreigner he did not know.

"Let's not talk about that, I have another thing to look for you. Not long ago, I received a telegram from the Chinese side of Beijing, saying that the education system wants to ask you to return to China to take up a post, and it seems that it is a unit called the Academia Sinica.

"The telegram said that you had declined the previous invitation, and they asked me to persuade you again. Little brother, I don't know what your specific intentions are? ”

Chen Muwu didn't expect that those people in China really had the energy to send a telegram inviting him to return to his eldest brother.

He shook his head: "I received a handwritten letter inviting me back to serve as this dean, and I did reject him at that time.

"I don't want to go back, and I don't want to be involved in what they call politics.

"Especially the southern government, which may come to power in the next few years, always says that they will inherit the legacy of the former prime minister, but before it has fully succeeded, internal strife has broken out, killing their own people more ruthlessly than killing the enemy.

"How can you do politics well with such worms?"

"They asked you to go back to academic research, and they didn't let you get involved in politics, why did you suddenly react so excitedly?"

Chen Muqiao asked with some confusion.

"Wherever there is a crowd, there is a left, a center, and a right."

After saying the words, Chen Muwu realized that what he said seemed to be a little too early.

"Especially his research institute, which is nominally a place for scientific research, but the intrigue in the academic circle is no worse than that in the political circle. I don't want to be part of them and fall victim to the struggle.

"I don't think in two years, their research institute will fall apart for various reasons.

"What's more, the research conditions in the UK are much better than those in China, even if the talents who return to China to teach, they will always have to study abroad to be gilded with gold.

"Wouldn't it be better for me to stay in the UK and invite people abroad as I am now?

"Do you remember the two Mr. Zhao and Mr. Shi who helped buy ferry tickets and boarded the ship from Qihai to the UK two years ago?

"Both of them have completed all of their courses this year and both have earned their PhDs!"

Chen Muwu solemnly lowered his "judgment" of the future situation.

"Of course I do! That's a student sent by Mr. Ye from National Southeast University. I didn't expect time to pass so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, both of them also graduated with PhDs.

"Little brother, since you have already made your own decision, then I won't persuade you much.

"This is also because friends in China are finding me layer by layer, so I have to ask you a question.

"How long are you going to stay in London this time?" What day does school start? ”

"School starts in October, but I'm going back in a few days, and there's someone at the school who is going to get married, and you probably know him, and that's the Russian guy named Kapitsa.

"Then at the end of September, I will leave the UK again and go to Brussels, the Belgian capital of Europe, where there is an academic conference on physics."

"You're really busy, when I was the provost of Nanyang University, I wasn't as busy as you are now. This foreign university is indeed completely different from that in China. ”

Chen Muwu heard a hint of envy from his eldest brother's words.

A person who has been busy at Nanyang University for more than ten years suddenly moves his family abroad to relax, and he must have an adaptation process.

"Big brother, if you really have nothing to do in the UK, do you consider teaching in a school?"

Letting Chen Muqiao teach in the UK is really a good idea.

If Chen Muwu plans to stay at Cambridge University for a long time, he will definitely introduce his eldest brother to become a teacher in the Department of Sinology.

But he didn't know when he was going to Stockholm, and his eldest brother, who had rich experience in school management, was the dean of the school in Sweden that Chen Muwu had appointed, which doomed Chen Muqiao to teach in the UK for not too long.

In addition, the old lady still lives in London, and she can't take care of both ends at her age, let alone let her older brother be busy.

So Chen Muwu plans to introduce his eldest brother to the Oriental College of the University of London as a teacher, which is the place where Lao She is now teaching.

It just so happened that he had a relationship with many people at the University of London, and this matter was probably not a problem for the old Prague or Huxley, who also worked at the University of London.

"Me? Forget it, I haven't taught for a long time when I'm in China, and I can't do these things when I'm abroad. You are busy working at Cambridge University, and everything at home is left to me, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.

"Are you ready for Mr. Kapitsa's wedding gift? Do you need me to do it for you? ”

"Big brother, don't worry, you don't have to worry about this little thing."

When Chen Muwu returned to London, in addition to taking a vacation, he had to do this thing.

One morning he got up early in the morning, walked out of his house with a checkbook that he didn't usually use.

He had already made an appointment with the rich son Montague in advance, and he was going to go to the car agent to see the car today.

When the car seat belt ratchet was invented, Chen Muwu was confident that he could sell this patent to Rolls Royce, so he boasted that Haikou promised to give a new car to Capica, who likes racing cars, in the future.

Unexpectedly, the other party didn't take his invention seriously at all, and Chen Muwu's patent failed to get any money, let alone Capitsa's new car.

Xiao Chen's character is not said to be revenge, but he also has some grudges, he will definitely not go to the cold ass of Rolls-Royce with a hot face, and the car Montague took him to see today is another national brand in the United Kingdom, Austin, that is, the one that will donate hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Cavendish Laboratory to build a cyclotron in the future.

Through various patented technologies and copyrights, Chen Muwu has actually made a lot of money in the past few years when he came to the UK, but he usually has nothing to spend, and today he finally spent his first large expenditure, and won an Austin 12-4 Clifton station wagon at a price of 900 pounds.

Although the price is half the average price of a Rolls-Royce, this is already the most expensive of all the models in Austin.

The Austin XII is the best-selling car in the UK this year, with more than 10,000 units sold in the UK from the beginning of this year to September.

Especially last year, the car also upgraded the powertrain, the engine was increased from 1661cc to 1861cc, and the station wagon was large enough for daily use after marriage, even if there were two more children.

Chen Muwu's gift is really intimate.

After seeing the signature on the check, the salesperson of Austin Motors offered to say that the price was still negotiable, even if it was a direct drop of 100 pounds.

But there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and the other party's request was to publish a photo of Chen Muwu and their Austin car in the newspaper for publicity.

Chen Muwu declined the "kindness" of the business-oriented car salesman, and he was not willing to model an Austin car in the newspaper for a hundred pounds discount.

It's almost the same to give away a car for nothing, but the other party doesn't seem to have this plan.

After handing over the money and delivering the goods, Montague also asked Chen Muwu if he needed to send someone to transport the car back to Cambridge University, because he had never seen Dr. Chen drive a car once, and he was on the campus all day long, either on foot or riding the same bicycle as Director Eddington.

So it was normal for Montagu to think that Chen Muwu couldn't drive.

"Ivo, thank you for your kindness. I used to drive a car when I was in China, but I haven't gotten a UK driver's license yet. Except for the right-hand drive, this car should be no different from the one I drove in China. ”

Chen Muwu didn't lie, he just said that he could drive when he was in China, and he didn't say when he was in China.

Because of his driver's license, he used to spend a lot of his personal time running errands for his mentor.

Chen Muwu just doesn't know how the cars of the twenties are different from the future, and he needs to make a lot of effort to get familiar with them.

It just so happened that he was going to stay in London for a few days, so he could take advantage of this time to be a road killer on the road a few times.

Of course, Chen Muwu's main purpose is not to create traffic chaos in London, but to stay here and wait for someone.

By the way, during this period, he passed the theory and driving tests through Montagu's connections, and received his driver's license at the speed of light.

Then he waited until he finally returned to England from the United States, disembarked at Southampton and headed north to Cockcroft via London.

After he bought a ticket back to New York, he immediately telegraphed to the Cavendish laboratory.

When Chen Muwu heard that Cockcroft had disembarked at Southampton in the south, rather than Liverpool in the west, he called back and said that the two had met in London and were just in time to pick him up and go back to Cambridge together, and talk about various things that happened when he installed particle accelerators in various schools in the United States.

At the first glance of the meeting, Cockcroft saw the new car next to Chen Muwu.

"Dr. Chen, have you finally bought a car?"

"No, no, isn't Peter going to get married soon, and this is my wedding gift for him."

Chen Muwu's answer shocked Cockcroft, he didn't think about it in a way that he shouldn't have thought about, but he just felt that Dr. Chen's action was really generous.

It was a wise decision to move from Kapitsa to Dr. Chan, and he strengthened his determination to stay with Dr. Chan.

- Not for the Austin car, but for the sake of being able to do more!

(End of chapter)