"Don't be greedy, children, it's the New Year after Christmas."

After Christmas and New Year's Day, time entered 1928 without stopping.

Sweden's award ceremony is more grand than the Nobel Prize in the choice of location, no longer the Stockholm City Hall, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but directly to the most nominally honorable place in Sweden - the Swedish Royal Palace.

Chen Muwu changed his dress, which was made in the past few days in the traditional Swedish aristocratic costume, which was similar to the tuxedo system, but with some small changes.

Lei Bingyang, the chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Chinese government in Sweden, and the third secretary, once again appeared at the award ceremony of the Swedish Royal Palace today as a representative of the Chinese side.

However, the expression on his face today is completely different from the one he attended at the Nobel Prize dinner more than half a month ago, and there is a kind of problem solved in his facial features.

Before the award ceremony, Chen Muwu had already exchanged more than 30,000 Swedish kronor and received an IOU from him with Lei Bingyang's signature and the official seal of the Chinese Legation in Sweden.

Chen Muwu did not take too much care to preserve this IOU, which was worth more than 2,000 pounds.

He still has the same point of view, thinking that it is unlikely that this IOU will be converted into cash in the end, and it is more likely that he will learn from Meng Weijun's Feng Chen, who plays the sword and sings at every turn, and burns the IOUs that have not yet been paid into ashes.

Although in the two or three months in Stockholm, there was a heated fight between him and his good friend the Swedish crown prince.

But this is the first time Chen Muwu has seen the father of the Swedish crown prince, that is, the head of state of Sweden, His Majesty King Gustav V.

According to the Chinese way of calculating age, after the Gregorian New Year, this old man in a military uniform has reached the age of seventy.

But he himself is still in good spirits, and his noble status also makes him exude a heroic spirit that is not angry and self-righteous from the inside out.

As a member of the Royal Seraphim Knights of the King of Sweden, the Royal Seraphim, the highest order in Sweden, was awarded by the King of Sweden himself and given him a large ribbon.

As for the second-class Royal Order of the North Star, as well as other medals awarded in the name of the royal family, I ask if it is just a process.

He would read the names of the people who had been honoured this year through the list.

As for the medals of those people, they are awarded by other ceremonial officials.

The ceremony was followed by a dinner at the Royal Palace of Sweden.

Royal dinners are basically ceremonial rather than flavorful, both in China and in the West.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty distributed the meat used in the sacrifice to the princes, elder brothers, and ministers every three or five days, in the name of spreading the good luck and blessings prayed for from the gods and the heavens to the ministers, so as to achieve happiness with the people.

However, the name of this kind of gizzard meat sounds high-end and elegant, but the actual method is to cut the pork into large pieces and cook it in a large pot with no condiments.

Not only boiled meat, but also fatty meat.

In addition, after the sacrifice, these fatty meats cooked in white water have already cooled down.

It was cold, fatty, greasy, and tasteless, and the ministers had to eat it all in front of the emperor.

This kind of gizzard meat is not like a reward from the supreme supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan at all, but more like a criminal law.

There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below.

Later, every time I came to the emperor to distribute sacrifices, the experienced ministers would wet the sleeves of the court clothes with salt water in advance, and I secretly hid a few pieces of marinated dried tofu to give this piece of fat some flavor so that I could barely swallow it.

The award dinner in the Swedish Imperial Palace is slightly stronger than the gizzard of the Qing Dynasty, but the degree of strength is very limited.

Because there is a lot of food to prepare, most of the dishes served are cold cuts.

This is still located in Sweden, which is still located in the cold weather of northern Europe, which is a big challenge for the stomach of the people attending the banquet.

This made Chen Muwu have to take matters into his own hands and add a small stove to himself after finishing the award dinner and returning to the station near the Prince's College.

If it were a hundred years later, he would definitely cook himself a packet of instant noodles and pull it down.

However, in this era, there are no instant noodles, and what he makes by himself are some things that are not very convenient.

Unfortunately, Sweden, located at a high latitude, is not a country capable of producing wheat in large quantities.

Otherwise, Chen Muwu would definitely tell Marcus Jr. to let his family invest in a food factory specializing in instant noodles.

Not only is that good news for lazy people, but it may also be purchased by other countries in World War II as military rations, so as to make a lot of war money.

The only fear is that the Americans have plagiarized the technology of instant noodles and set up factories in North America, which is further away from the war.

The United States itself is a large agricultural country, and the production of wheat and flour is not known to be many times higher than that of Sweden.

Moreover, they still have a relatively mature food industry system in the country, and once this capitalist machine is fully operational, even if Sweden mobilizes the whole country, it will not necessarily be their opponent.

After receiving Sweden's Royal Polaris Medal, I saw that the time had entered the middle of January, and it was about to be time for Chen Muwu and Zhao Zhongyao to leave Stockholm.

With experience in building particle accelerators at Cavendish Labs, the two of them did not mess up with the departure of everyone in the period before Christmas, but worked out a particle source that would be used in the cyclotron in the future.

They can't always use natural radioactive materials and think that the alpha particles emitted are the only particles that are accelerated.

Protons and deuterium nuclei are still the materials of choice for accelerating and then bombarding other target particles, and Chen Muwu is also counting on the first successful experiment with this cyclotron, which is to find element 43, which has not been found for decades.

By that time, Chen Muwu had discovered two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, and discovered the first artificial element synthesized.

With these achievements in hand, if he still can't win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, then he will have to ......

…… It is necessary to continue to work hard and simply get the transuranic element out of the calculation.

Before leaving, Chen Muwu also went to Uppsala University in person to return the natural radioactive source borrowed from here more than a month ago.

He really didn't have any acquaintances at this school, so he didn't want to go there himself.

However, Chen Muwu was afraid that if he paid this extremely radioactive substance to other people, it was likely that the other party would not know the harm and would lose it, causing environmental pollution, which would lead to serious consequences.

Chen Muwu didn't want to be a sinner through the ages, and he didn't want to be scolded by the big-faced plate sister in the future, so he still chose to run away in person.

- He is such a caring person.

Before Chen Muwu left, he met with the Swedish crown prince and Marcus Jr. separately.

For the former, he said that he asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to rest assured that he was just going back to England for a year and would be back soon.

As for the latter, Chen Muwu began to abuse power for personal gain.

He asked the little Marcus, who was in charge of docking with the Volvo car factory in Gothenburg in the Wallenberg family, if he could produce a special right-hand drive Volvo car for him to be shipped to England by sea.

Just last year, Chen Muwu bought Capitsa an Austin sedan as his wedding gift, and drove it himself a few times before giving it away.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

Chen Muwu, who is accustomed to walking and taking public transportation, gradually found the joy of driving after driving cars of this era - just need to treat these brand-new cars as the classic cars of the future.

It's just that there are cars on the British market, and there is basically no style he likes.

So Chen Muwu came up with this idea and used his relationship with Volvo to customize some privileges.

And his reason is particularly high-sounding, the reason why he wants to customize a right-hand drive car that meets the British driving habits is not for him Chen Muwu to enjoy.

Instead, he wanted to use his own fame in the UK to advertise Volvo, an emerging Nordic car brand, so that he could better open up the British market in the future.

This requirement is actually nothing to a rich kid like Marcus Jr.

He even asked Chen Muwu with some joking hints if he needed to simply give him a Volvo team to pick up the bride when he got married this year.

"If that's the case, of course it would be great."

Chen Muwu really felt that the other party was joking, so he also responded in a playful tone.

Chen Muwu and Zhao Zhongyao eventually left Stockholm, and instead of taking a steamship to the North Sea via the Baltic Sea and then arriving directly in England – although a few years have passed, Chen Muwu still has lingering fears about the North Sea – but chose to return the same way, via the European continent, across the English Channel, and before the lunar New Year, to land on British soil and return to Chen's home in London.

Zhao Zhongyao did not insist on returning to Cambridge, but after some polite excuses, he agreed to Chen Muwu's invitation and came to his home as a guest.

After arriving home, the first thing Chen Muwu did was to take Zhao Zhongyao to the local bank to open a new account, transfer more than 2,000 pounds of Nobel prize money to this account, and pay off the arrears brought by the sponsorship of the Chinese Legation in Sweden.

Then he sent a telegram to Cambridge, inviting several other Chinese students who had stayed at the school to his home in London for the New Year.

The number of guests who came to London from Cambridge University was far greater than the list of people invited by Chen Muwu on the telegram.

In addition to Wang Ganchang, Wu Dayou and Chern Shiingshen, three Chinese students who were brought to Cambridge University from China by Chen Muwu, Ramsey and Kapitsa also came to guide these students' studies.

The latter, who was newly married, also brought his wife Anna.

When Anna came to Cambridge University, she met a close friend, Irene Marie Fowler.

She is not only the wife of Fowler, the only professor of mathematics in the Cavendish Laboratory, who is engaged in theoretical research, but also the only daughter of Rutherford, the director of the laboratory.

Therefore, the Chen Mansion, which originally planned to invite three guests, welcomed nearly ten guests during the Lunar New Year.

Fortunately, the house that the family rented belonged to Montagu was large enough, and everyone was able to spend a lively and lively New Year together.

In addition to following his daughter and son-in-law, Rutherford, who went to his best student's house to join in the fun, was a little unhappy, because after arriving at Chen Muwu's house, he, an increasingly rebellious student, did not let him smoke in the house.

Fortunately, Rutherford's depression soon disappeared because his attention was diverted.

After learning that this white tough guy with a big beard and a strong figure was a witness at her youngest son's wedding, Mrs. Chen and her peer exchanged cordially.

Of course, one of these two people speaks Chinese and the other speaks English, and Chen Muwu, who has a close relationship with them, is still sandwiched between them as a translator.

Chen Muwu, who behaved very well-behaved in front of the division commander, translated his mother's modest and polite words and scolded his son for not being able to do it into English for a while; After a while, he translated into Chinese the words that Rutherford, who liked to express his personal feelings directly.

In this way, back and forth, Chen Muwu himself was schizophrenic.

Rutherford also asked very tactfully whether Mrs. Chen was still used to living in England, and whether the winters here were very cold compared to the sea.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Rutherford continued to talk about the situation in Europe, saying that there were colder places in the north of Europe than in England.

At first, Chen Muwu didn't think much of it when he translated, he felt that it was just two elders chatting in the east and west, passing the boring New Year's time.

After all, there was no television at this time, let alone the Spring Festival Gala, and in a foreign country like London, there was not even a radio program broadcast in Chinese on the radio.

But after the words were spoken, Chen Muwu realized the teacher's "sinister" intentions.

Rutherford complained that the cold winter in Britain was fake, and his real purpose was to give Mrs. Chen a vaccination.

The subtext is: Nordic winters are too cold for human habitation, and for the sake of your health, it would be better to leave your son in the UK.

The situation of the British legation is slightly better than that on the European continent, and although there is a chargé d'affaires in London, Chen Weicheng, its basic functions are also paralyzed, and there is no New Year reunion that brings together students and overseas Chinese in the vicinity of London as it did in previous years.

During the Spring Festival, Chen Muwu received several visiting guests in his home.

(End of chapter)