As soon as Chen Muwu's words fell, Kapitsa, who was sitting in the driver's seat next to him, seemed to be a different person.

He no longer looked like a passionate race car driver, but suddenly became cautious: not only was the action of driving intimidating, but even the voice of his voice was rarely soft.

That is, Kapitsa has not watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", otherwise he would definitely park the car on the side of the road, and after going down, he knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, lowered his head and said gratefully such things as "If the public does not give up, Cha is willing to worship as his father-in-law".

"It's too precious, Chen, this gift from you is too precious."

Now, while driving, Kapitsa kept muttering this sentence in his mouth.

"Take it easy, Peter, take it easy. I said I was going to give you a car a long time ago, and after so long, I just took this opportunity to fulfill my promise. You don't have any psychological burden, isn't it that I'm going to get married next year? Wouldn't it be okay to return it then? ”

"Don't worry, when you get married, I will definitely send my sincere wishes," the serious expression on Kapitsa's face didn't last for a few seconds, and then began to smile, "But forget about a car, I'm not like a rich man like you, and we can't afford to exchange gifts." ”

After a quick drive around the Cambridge campus, Capitsa returned to where the two men had been, and pulled up safely in front of his house.

He had to forcibly invite Chen Muwu to stay at home for dinner, which was a kind of return gift for receiving such a valuable gift.

Although the Russians have a better level of cooking than the British, today's meal is more of a light meal than a dinner in the evening.

After all, the wedding date is approaching, and there are a lot of things to be busy, and no one has the heart to prepare food carefully every night.

After dinner, Kapitsa left Chen Muwu at his home and chatted for a while, talking about various things he encountered when preparing for the wedding, and spat out bitterness at him.

It wasn't until it was late that Chen Muwu was finally able to decline the kindness of Kapitsa, who had drunk too much, to drive him back, leave his house, and walk back to the residence of Trinity College on foot.

Because of the small size of the city and its strong academic atmosphere, the security environment in Cambridgeshire was much better than that of the cosmopolitan city of London, which was more than 50 miles to the south.

But even so, Chen Muwu, who was walking at night, was still cautious, because there was a lesson from Ye Gongchao who was inexplicably punched, and he was afraid that a drunkard who would not open his eyes would come out of a certain alley and make a provocation to himself.

He is not afraid of fighting with others, especially if the opponent is still a weak chicken who has drunk too much beer and lost most of his strength and consciousness.

Chen Muwu was just afraid that the matter of the fight would be known by the school, and it would give an excellent reason to those who wanted to see him unhappy and wanted to expel him from Cambridge University.

Fortunately, the above things were just his cranky thoughts when he walked at night, and when he walked to the gate of Trinity College, Chen Muwu did not encounter any problems.

While resting in the school for a few days, he sorted out a number of photographs of the cloud chamber taken in the laboratory with Eddington not long ago, as well as the experimental data recorded, and on this basis, compiled the first draft of the speech he will make at the Solvay conference in Brussels, Belgium, next month.

Chen Muwu also listened carefully to the report made by Cockcroft, who went to see his wife and children at home and returned to school, and listened to him talk about the various things he encountered when he installed particle accelerators for the funders of various universities in the United States.

At the end of the long holidays, more and more teachers and students returned to Cambridge University, many of whom had returned a few days earlier than usual to attend the wedding of Kapitsa, the "first acquaintance in Cambridgeshire".

Chen Muwu had already informed his eldest brother Chen Muqiao in advance, asking him to take the old lady to Cambridge by train, and at the same time he was filled with joy and excitement while watching the ceremony, so as to dispel the haze accumulated in his heart because of living in a foreign land.

This is the second wedding that Chen Muwu has attended in the United Kingdom after attending Chadwick's wedding in Liverpool.

Unlike the last traditional British wedding, this wedding was full of Russian elements, which was quite exotic for the British locals and Chen Muwu, a foreigner.

In the selection of the best man, Chen Muwu was mercilessly given up by the groom's official Kapitsa because he was too handsome, and the latter chose another of the "Three Musketeers of Cavendish Sh" who often had a straight face and did not smile, Blackett.

And because Rutherford, the director of the laboratory, is still adrift in the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean on a steamer, the witness to this wedding has also been replaced by another highly respected person at Cambridge University, Sir Thomson, the dean of Trinity College.

Russian weddings are indispensable for wine, singing and dancing.

Chen Muwu, who does not drink, has once again become a busy man for this wedding, using the Leica camera he bought in Berlin to run back and forth to take pictures of the newlyweds and other guests, and at the same time take care of the drunk guests so that they do not make any moths after drinking.

After the whole wedding, Director Chen was the most tired one in it.

In this world, some people are happy and some people are lost.

The day after Capitsa's wedding, when many people were still drunk and hungovers and couldn't get out of bed, Chen Muwu received new guests from the United States at Cambridge University.

This group of guests is also from Lianmei Pictures, which has contacted him before.

But their identities are no longer staff members of Luen Mei Pictures, but several co-founders of the film company.

Chen Muwu had never seen Fan Punk in old photos, so he didn't know Fan Punk himself, who had signed an agreement with him to help promote a future alien movie.

But Chen Muwu recognized at a glance another middle-aged man who was by Fan Punk's side and was not very tall.

He does not wear a top hat on his head, a tuxedo, a civilized stick in his hand, an exaggerated expression on his face, and comical body movements like in the movie, but has a serious face and a solemn behavior.

This is none other than the world humor master off camera, Charlie Chaplin.

Just past the end of August, Chaplin ended a not-so-successful marriage.

His divorce lawsuit with his ex-wife, Rita Gray Chaplin, ended in a record-breaking settlement, with his ex-wife receiving $625,000 in damages and their son receiving $200,000 in trust funds.

Together, there are more than $800,000 in total, and even in 2023, you can buy a good house in a second-tier city.

Such a large sum of money is beyond the reach of Chen Muwu, a poor ghost in his previous life.

What's more, it is 1927, and the purchasing power of the dollar is much higher than a hundred years later, more than 800,000 US dollars, which is undoubtedly an astronomical amount.

For Chaplin, this money cannot be said to have made him a lot of blood, but it should be said that it almost drove him to the brink of bankruptcy.

The original intention of Luen Mei Film Company was to give their directors and actors greater creative freedom and make more money.

I heard that Fan Punk was going to Europe to meet with Chen Muwu and talk about his views on aliens.

Chaplin, who had just suffered a divorce and was desperate, chose to come to England with him, wanting to see if he could find some good ideas to make money on the other side of the ocean.

Because he knew Chaplin, after listening to Fan Punk's straightforward self-introduction, Chen Muwu had no doubt that they were cheating and wanted to use their fake identities to defraud themselves.

Buddy is a person who has downloaded the anti-fraud APP on his mobile phone, if he was deceived by the fraud methods of a hundred years ago, it would be too ridiculous and generous.

Fan Punk brought a script about aliens this time, and he felt that instead of letting the staff of Luen Mei Pictures in Europe run before and after being the microphone, it would be better to come here himself, meet Chen Muwu, and talk face-to-face about his views on this rough script.

There are new hot spots happening in the world every moment, such as the question of whether the sun will explode, which has been hotly debated in the United States recently.

Although less than half a year has passed, the alien incident has become a hot topic in the previous version, and if you don't take advantage of this point in time when people have not completely forgotten it, you choose to spend a lot of time polishing a complete script and making it into a movie, you are likely to face a dilemma of losing all your money.

Fan Punk came to the UK this time and asked Chen Muwu to check whether there were any common-sense errors about aliens in the script, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to be like His Majesty the Pope trapped in the city of Rome, rubbing the popularity of Chen Muwu, an evergreen in the scientific community, so that the alien movie they were about to shoot could return to people's sight.

The two of them were accompanied by photographers and videographers, who chose the angle and began to take photos and footage, which were useful materials for future promotion.

Chen Muwu not only did not have any resistance to this kind of publicity of Luen Mei Pictures, but he also took out his camera with great interest and asked the photographer to help take many photos of him with Chaplin and Fan Punk, as well as a number of signed photos of the two of them.

The Solvay meeting is coming up next month, and you'll be able to meet Pauli, the upright tsundere.

He was a big fan of Chaplin, and every time a new film was released in Germany, Pauli would buy a ticket to watch it in the cinema as soon as possible.

And when I am idle and bored, or when I encounter a bottleneck in academic research, I will unconsciously wander into the cinema and watch a Chaplin movie to get inspiration.

If Chen Muwu "inadvertently" took out a photo of himself and Chaplin at Cambridge University during the casual chat during the Solvay Conference, he would probably have received the eyes of Pauli, a loyal Chaplin fan.

If he took out another autographed photo of Chaplin with Pauli's name on it, would he be able to take this opportunity to reap a wave of Pauli's favorability.

Although this guy has always been known for being vitriolic, the fact that he has a genius brain in physics is also undeniable.

The school in Stockholm is about to be put into operation, and there is an urgent need for a large number of teachers in various disciplines and scientific research.

Chen Muwu carefully prepared this small gift, maybe it could make the balance in Pauli's heart, which had begun to tilt, more inclined to his side.

After taking a group photo with Chaplin and Van Punk, and dealing with other students from Cambridge University and Cavendish Lab who rushed over to ask for a group photo, the conversation with the visiting filmmakers finally got to the point.

Chen Muwu took the first draft of the script handed over by Fan Punk, he only read the synopsis of the story printed on the first few pages, and did not carefully read the details of the back, and realized that this must be a work produced by Fan Punk in a short time.

The design and interior of the alien image in the script are simple, not like a higher creature capable of interstellar travel through the universe, but more like a person wearing only a layer of alien skin.

The content is also inseparable from the love story that is easiest to make into a movie, not so much a sci-fi movie about aliens, but an interstellar version of Tarzan the Apes, or more accurately, Tarzan the Alien.

The original work of Tarzan of the Apes was serialized in 1912 by the American writer Edgar Burroughs in the magazine Quan, which was the equivalent of the American people's "Story Club" in the early twentieth century, and in addition to Tarzan, Zorro was also one of the most representative literary figures that came out of the magazine, and was published as a complete book in 1914.

In 1918, it began to be adapted into a film version and put on the screen, and by 1929 eight silent films were made, and from 1932 to 1958, 23 sound films were made, which is indeed a popular and popular film theme in this era.

Chen Muwu's old rival in the pool, Wes Mueller, also entered Hollywood after retiring and became the queen actor of the image of Taishan.

As the saying goes, "those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die", the success of Tarzan of the apes does not mean that the alien Tarzan can also succeed.

Chen Muwu always felt that if Fan Punk really made such a movie, the ending waiting for him would definitely be a hit on the street, so he shook his head honestly.

"Dr. Chen, what do you think?"

"It's a good script, but I don't think it's good enough. Coincidentally, I was also thinking about a story recently: in a small village in Austria, there was a village teacher who came one day......"

(End of chapter)