Originally, he was waiting at home for the British factory to finish the parts of their customized accelerator, but for Chen Muwu, it was the beginning of 1928 to give himself a long vacation.

As a result, I never expected that Conan Doyle's side first associated himself with the new religion of spiritism.

After he made a clarification, it caused even more trouble.

The pen name that was originally well hidden by him is now completely exposed.

Now, the whole world knows who is Chandler Yorke, the author behind the George Chen series of detective books that have been selling well in the UK and even Europe and the United States in recent years.

Not long after the courtyard of Chen Muwu's house was cleaned, reporters came to the door again.

And this time, there are even more people coming than a few days ago.

If you want to say how much the British respect a popular writer, it is not necessarily.

It's just that because George Chen's series has sold too much, its influence in the UK is much greater than Conan Doyle's insistence on that spiritism.

As long as there is influence, then there is newspaper sales, which is why British journalists go and come back.

Not only did they go to Chen Muwu's house, but even the publisher of George Chen's series, Penguin Press, was not spared.

Their main concern is all two questions:

The first is whether Chandler York is Chen Muwu, as Conan Doyle said at the press conference.

The second is that the George Chen series has been stopped for a while, when will a new book be published for this series.

The trouble encountered by Penguin Press is even more tricky than that of Chen Muwu.

Because they didn't communicate with each other in advance, I don't know if Chen Muwu's pen name should be exposed.

They had no choice but to call Chen Muwu's home and discuss with the author himself how to deal with the current emergency.

Chen Muwu felt that it was meaningless for him to admit or deny it now, because everyone was only willing to believe what they believed.

He felt that even if he confessed, the situation would not be eased by this, and it was estimated that a new wave of new peaks would be reached, and more and more reporters would ask all kinds of new questions about the series of books he had written, and by that time, he would probably be in no less trouble than it is now.

So the best way is to treat it coldly, neither admit nor deny, let these reporters who have nothing to do every day, just to find hot news, and the readers of George Chen's series to speculate wildly.

Moreover, the less this identity is revealed, the hotter the discussion of the pen name Chandler York will be.

According to the experience he summed up from later generations, Tanigawa Ryu wrote, and Sorachi Hideaki, who never showed his true face to draw manga, people were always curious about their true identities.

After exchanging ideas with Penguin Press on the phone, the other party had no objection to Chen Muwu's proposal.

After all, Chen Muwu was also one of the major shareholders of this publishing house during its founding years.

They just put forward an opinion very euphemistically, that is, to ask Chen Muwu if he could write a new book for the George Chen series.

Although Penguin Publishing is now on the right track, there is no longer a need for George Chen to build up the prestige of the new publishing house.

But in the past few years, the image of the smart Chinese student in the book has already had a large number of fans in the UK.

Basically, every day, the publishing house receives letters from readers, asking or urging or denouncing when a new book will be published in the George Chen series.

Penguin felt that if it could take this opportunity to launch a new book, it could continue to add to the heat of George Chen's discussion, and to a certain extent, it could also slightly cover up the question of whether Chandler York was Chen Muwu.

So Chen Muwu's long vacation came to an end completely.

He had to stay at home and deal with a steady stream of visiting reporters and real and fake customers, while moving out of his typewriter for the first time in a long time and starting to "write" his first English book in his life.

Chen Muwu wrote "ABC Murder" this time, and he still collected wool from the same sheep.

He stayed at home until March, eating and sleeping, drinking tea and reading the newspaper every day, or typing on his typewriter.

Occasionally, I would write a few replies to letters from friends and physicists to exchange feelings or discuss physics issues.

The old lady doesn't know anything about physics or physics, he can only see that his children are busy with their careers every day.

The machine spit out one piece of paper after another, and the ghostly letters written on it should be the result of the younger son's thinking.

But Chen Muqiao knew the specific situation of the third brother, and he felt that it was not a way to let him stay at home all the time.

More than a month has passed, and there are always new hot spots in the world, and the questions of whether Chen Muwu supports spiritism and whether he is Chandler Yorke, the author of George Chen, are no longer the object of great concern of newspapers and readers in the United Kingdom.

Chen Muqiao persuaded Chen Muwu to take this opportunity to go out for a walk, to relax, and to suffocate his mood at home every day.

He also prepared clothes for his third brother to wear makeup and travel more intimately, so as to prevent him from being recognized by reporters who might have hidden his door as soon as he went out.

Chen Muwu was very helpless, he could only accept the kindness of his eldest brother with a smile.

He put on a trench coat with a standing collar, pressed down the brim of his hood tightly, and walked out of his house like a private detective who could not see the light.

At the end of March, the busiest place in London is the banks of the River Thames.

Athletes from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford hold rowing races in the river every year, and this year, 1928, is the 80th edition.

I have to say that the outfit that Chen Muqiao prepared for him is really good, Chen Muwu just looked at this kind of dress, went out from his house, took various public transportation, and walked all the way to the bank of the Thames, and he was not noticed.

After arriving at the riverside of the Thames, Chen Muwu did not crowd around the audience like ordinary people, in order to compete for a good position to watch the rowing race.

He made it all the way to the Cambridge University Eagles Club, where the other athletes who didn't compete in the rowing were watching, and Chen Muwu squeezed in amid everyone's astonished gaze.

At this time, he took off his hat unhurriedly and tidied up the collar of his trench coat that had been standing up all the way.

"Chen!"

"Dr. Chen!"

After he showed his true face, all the Cambridge University athletes present cheered.

Chen Muwu's old acquaintance, Lawrence Best, president of the Cambridge University Swimming and Water Polo Club, walked directly in front of him and said: "Dr. Chen, long time no see." ”

"Lawrence, it's been a long time since you've seen you."

Chen Muwu's sudden appearance even made the group around him almost forget to watch the game that took place in the course of the Thames, but kept secretly watching him directly or indirectly.

It wasn't until the cheers from the rest of the audience grew louder that everyone realized that this year's rowing competition was about to produce a champion.

By the time they turned to look at the Thames again, the rowing boat in Oxford had surpassed more than half the captain of Cambridge.

And it's about to reach the finish line, and it seems that Cambridge University will not be able to return this year.

The end result, as they saw, was the Oxford University rowing team, which won the 80th Cambridge Oxford Intercollegiate Rowing Competition.

Generally speaking, in previous years, rowing competitions were held in the summer.

But this year, we moved it forward to March in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.

Basically, the vast majority of the team that won today's competition will be selected to represent Great Britain at the Olympics.

Among the defeated Cambridge rowing team, only the most important athletes can hope to enter the British rowing team and fight for the country on behalf of the United Kingdom.

Cambridge's defeat made the athletes of the Eagle Club around Chen Muwu have visible expressions of disappointment on their faces.

The audience is 108,000 miles away from the surface of the Thames, it can't be said that Chen Muwu's sudden appearance has affected the competitive state of the athletes, right?

Best also sighed beside Chen Muwu: "Alas, it seems that this year's rowing Olympic champion has little to do with our Cambridge University." ”

However, when it came to the Olympic Games, there was the champion of the previous Olympic Games standing next to him, and he couldn't help but ask Chen Muwu: "Dr. Chen, it depends on the upcoming Olympic Games, how many gold medals are you going to win this time?" ”

Best didn't even ask Chen Muwu if he would participate in this year's Olympics again, because in his consciousness, Chen Muwu would definitely go.

You can get a few gold medals casually, and fools don't go.

But his thoughts were exactly the opposite of the thoughts in Chen Muwu's head.

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, Chen Muwu trained for a long time in Cambridgeshire's Cam River and at De Broglie's home in Paris.

But now that four years have passed, his swimming time in these four years, not to mention that compared with the professional athletes who train every day, even compared with the amateur swimmers of Cambridge University, Ramsey, Chen Muwu's total swimming time is not necessarily more than the latter.

With his current competitive state, it should be said that he will not be able to participate in this year's Olympics at all.

Not to mention winning a gold medal, the hope of winning a medal or reaching the final is slim.

But it doesn't matter whether you get results or not, there is another point that makes Chen Muwu very troubled.

Even if he was busy with his marriage and work at the Stockholm Princes' College at that time, and really had time to go to the Netherlands to compete in the Olympics, what kind of flag should he hold when he enters?

The Beiyang government represented by the five-color flag is in danger, and the other government represented by the other flag, Chen Muwu is ashamed to be with them, let alone hold up their flag that has changed its taste.

I don't know if the current Olympic Games can allow athletes to participate as freelancers instead of taking the country as a unit, just like in the later Olympic Games, there was a team of athletes holding the Olympic five-ring flag every three or five times and not representing any country.

After thinking about the question in his brain, Chen Muwu replied to Best's slightly flattering question: "Besides, Lawrence, I'm getting married this year, and I have a lot of work to do, so it's likely that I won't have much time to prepare for swimming, so there is a high probability that I won't go to the Olympics." ”

Because the Cambridge University rowing team lost this year's rowing competition, Best, who had already been disappointed once, ushered in his second disappointment today after hearing Chen Muwu's answer.

"Dr. Chen, if you don't participate in the Olympics this year, then we at Cambridge University don't know how many gold medals we have to lose."

Since the last Paris Olympics, Chen Muwu won four gold medals, the Cambridge University swimming and water polo club, the status of the school has also risen.

The number of people who signed up to join the swimming club was also increasing, and swimming became the second most popular sport on the Cambridge campus after rowing.

Chen Muwu didn't care whether the Cambridge rowing team won or lost in this rowing competition, so his mood was not affected by Cambridge's loss.

In short, after following the advice of his eldest brother Chen Muqiao, taking a walk outside, and then returning home, Chen Muwu's mood really became good.

April 1st is April Fool's Day, but it is not an official holiday in the United Kingdom, and the British government still works on this day.

The "Film Act", a law approved by the British royal family last year, came into effect on this day, stipulating that cinemas in the United Kingdom must show a certain number of domestic British films, in order to cope with the impact of the maturing Hollywood film industry on the British domestic film industry and avoid the decline of the British film industry.

This operation is very familiar to Chen Muwu, and in the future, China has also launched a domestic film protection week, but the effect is very little.

He also thought that if he set up a film company in the UK, would it be able to be regarded as a domestic film in the UK, so as to enjoy policy support?

Even if the British don't like to watch the George Chen series, it doesn't matter, he can also shoot 007! You only need to set the villain as Germany, set the cost, set up a black-hearted Jew like Charlotte, and the decent is the British gentleman James Bond, so you don't have to worry that this movie won't be a big hit in the UK.

On the same day, French Prime Minister Poincaré told the U.S. government that he hoped they would repeal Prohibition so that France's best wines could open up the U.S. market.

Also on the same day, Chen Muwu received a letter from Ottawa forwarded from Cambridge University.

(End of chapter)