When the teachers and students of the Prince of Stockholm College boarded the ship and set sail from the sea, Chen Muwu kept an eye on the trajectory of the ship.

Every once in a while, he telegraphed to de Broglie on the French side, asking him to check the French newspapers for information on the arrival and departure of the steamer.

Because these ocean-going steamers, most of them take seven or eight days, and at least three or two days, they will dock at the coast near the sea, one is to pick up and drop off passengers in the big port cities, and the other is to supply the essential living and power resources such as food, fresh water, and coal needed on the ships.

Whenever the ship docks at the port, the shipping company to which the ship belongs sets up a local branch in the port city, on the one hand, it will collect these daily necessities in advance and send them to the ship, and on the other hand, it will also notify the company's headquarters and branches in other port cities through the telephone line set up on the mainland, and then ask them to estimate the time of the arrival of the ship at each port, so as to post the news in advance that the passengers who have bought tickets will board the ship in advance.

Marcus Jr. bought tickets for the students of Prince's College from a French steamship company, and the final destination was also the port of Marseille, so it was not uncommon for French newspapers to publish the arrival and departure information of the ship every now and then.

Chen Muwu has always relied on this method, and in the more than one month that the people on board the ship have lost contact with the land, he has roughly estimated the specific time when the ship will finally dock in Europe.

Fortunately, he finally waited for the ship to dock at the port of Marseille in France, where he sent him a telegram from Stockholm as soon as he landed.

After that, with the large army all the way from France to Germany, and from Germany to Sweden, the two sides basically relied on telegraphs.

When they entered Sweden, Chen Muwu even talked to Shi Ruwei on the phone.

Relying on the face of the Crown Prince of Sweden and the relationship between Marcus Jr., Chen Muwu contacted the relevant staff of the city railway station in advance and arranged a simple place for the welcome ceremony on the platform.

Thanks to the fact that the city is Stockholm, it has the annual convention and plan to greet Nobel laureates on the platform of the train station, so it can react quickly and adequately in a short time.

After the train came to a stop next to the platform, the passengers stepped out of their carriages.

At first, the local passengers who boarded the train from a port city in southern Sweden wondered why there were so many Asians on the train today.

It wasn't until everyone got off the train and saw the welcome battle on the platform, and saw Chen Muwu, Sweden's most famous Chinese who would appear in the local newspaper in Sweden every once in a while, and the square banner above Chen Muwu with what content was written that they couldn't understand it, that they probably guessed that today's incident seemed to have something to do with the Prince College founded by Chen Muwu.

The five big characters of "Welcome New Students" on the banner are handwritten by Chen Muwu himself, although they cannot be said to be Yan muscles and willow bones, but they can also be regarded as decent.

Mainly before the arrival of the students and teachers of the Prince's College, Stockholm really couldn't find a few Chinese, and even if there were, their calligraphy level might not be as good as Chen Muwu's, otherwise he really didn't want to do it.

The students from China had lined up neatly under Shi Ruwei's command before getting off the train.

However, those Sinology teachers hired by the Prince College were not bound by these and walked off the train one after another, and after a long journey of more than a month, they were a little tired.

The first person to get out of the train car may not be Xu Zhimo.

But he was the first to rush to Chen Muwu's side and greet him.

"Brother Hanchen, since we said goodbye in Kangqiao a few years ago, we meet again today! I didn't expect that the imagination you had told me the last time we met had become a reality just four years later. ”

In the summer of 1925, Xu Zhimo once came to Europe to visit his sick young son, and secondly, he traveled between Italy, France, and England to meet the famous academic masters here.

Xu Zhimo went to Cambridge University to visit Russell, whom he once admired and taught him very much, and by the way, he stayed with Shao Xunmei at Cambridge University for a few more days, so that he could meet Chen Muwu, who was doing experiments in the laboratory of David Faraday at the Royal Institution in London.

At that meeting, Chen Muwu once revealed his thoughts to Xu Zhimo.

"Brother Shima, thank you for coming to teach at Prince Academy, you have really done me a great favor."

"I don't have to say! And it should be that I am grateful to Brother Hanchen for giving me a chance to go to Europe to make foreign money. ”

Xu Zhimo couldn't wait to stretch out his hand towards Chen Muwu, and Chen Muwu had no choice but to give his hand away with a smile.

After the two shook hands, Xu Zhimo did not leave, but turned around and looked into the crowd of people who got off the car, and then raised his right hand and shouted to the crowd: "Ah Mei, Ah Mei, come here!" ”

Chen Muwu's gaze followed his beckoned hand, and he saw a woman wearing fur in the crowd.

Hearing Xu Zhimo's name for her, as well as seeing her appearance and the graceful and luxurious posture on her body, if nothing else, this should be Lu Xiaoman among the two celebrities of the "Southern Tang Dynasty and Northern Continent".

Mrs. Xu walked over to the place where the two people were standing, with a slight feint on her face: "I know, I know, don't rush." ”

Lu Xiaoman, who complained about her husband's attitude, changed her face when she walked close to the two of them.

She also greeted Chen Muwu with a smile: "Dr. Chen, when you are at home, you can always hear Shima mention it again and again, and you can see news and news about you in Chinese and English newspapers in China every now and then, and today I finally met a real person!" Ha-yawn! ”

In the end, Lu Xiaoman stretched out his hand to block it in front of him and couldn't help yawning.

The X-films they carried with them in their luggage when they left the sea had been squandered by her in more than a month of travel.

The various port cities where the ship stopped, because of the unfamiliarity of life, could not find a place to replenish the goods, so in the second half of the journey, Lu Xiaoman's D smoking addiction has not been resolved.

Xu Zhimo, who was standing beside him, hurriedly introduced the two people: "Brother Hanchen, this is Xiaoman." ”

"Hello, Mrs. Xu, welcome Shima and you to Sweden."

After the greeting, Lu Xiaoman also said hello to the stationmaster of the Stockholm railway station who was standing not far from Chen Muwu, and he was still in Swedish.

Her move made the stationmaster of the railway station stunned for a moment, and said in his heart, Are Chinese people so enthusiastic?

Chen Muwu also didn't understand why she did this, thinking that she probably regarded the foreigner standing near her as a great big man in Sweden.

Chen Muwu has lived in Stockholm for some time, and his future focus has shifted from Cambridge University to Prince College, so he has systematically learned the more commonly used Swedish.

First, because the language is similar to English and German in Europe, and secondly, because it is in the local language environment, Chen Muwu's Swedish level has ushered in a rapid development.

He knew that Lu Xiaoman had just greeted and introduced herself to the stationmaster of the Stockholm train station, and he also knew that she had placed the wrong dock when she first arrived.

However, Chen Muwu did not debunk the joke, but changed the topic very kindly.

"Mrs. Xu, you speak Swedish very well, did you study for a while before coming to Sweden?"

Chen Muwu's sincere praise made Lu Xiaoman a little embarrassed.

She smiled, but instead of taking the credit for herself, she introduced her husband: "This is all requested by Shima, he said that we can't come to Sweden without knowing a word of the local language, and we will be dumb when we go out, so when I was still in the sea, I specially found a Swedish teacher, and often took me to the Swedish Legation to participate in cocktail parties and activities to cultivate and exercise my Swedish language skills."

"Shima's Swedish skills are much better than mine, and I don't have much patience, so I just followed him and learned a few sentences randomly."

is worthy of being a very famous socialite in China, and when she goes out, Lu Xiaoman still pays attention to giving her husband a long face.

There were other teachers from China on the train, all waiting to greet Chen Muwu, so Xu Zhimo and his wife were not too embarrassed to delay too much, and after greeting them, they found an excuse and returned to the carriage again to carry the luggage they brought from Qihai.

After the Xu couple left, someone greeted Chen Muwu, who was standing on the platform to greet everyone.

Although he didn't know this one, seeing the glasses on his nose and the four-way accent when he spoke, according to the memory in his brain and the list that Shi Ruwei sent to him through telegram, Chen Muwu already had a preliminary judgment in his heart about who he was.

"Guo Lao, you have come all the way from China, you have worked hard along the way."

Guo Dingtang, who was born in 1892, has a deep knowledge in literature and art.

Although he is only thirty-seven years old now, the country has begun to use the honorific title "Guo Lao" for him, so Chen Muwu has also adopted this title as smoothly as possible.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be! Brother Hanchen, the school you founded in Sweden is truly a great merit! Especially since I can still stay in the country, there is no place for me, and it is up to me to say 'thanks' to you. ”

The hands of the two people were tightly clasped together, and at the same time, Guo Dingtang also put his head close to Chen Muwu's ear, and whispered in the noisy railway station environment: "At that time, there were three places where I went, one was Sulian in the north, the second was Ben in the east, and the third was Stockholm where you invited me.

"I discussed this with Mr. Zhou, and he was very much in agreement with me to come to Sweden.

"Mr. Zhou said that you are a trustworthy and reliable friend, and asked me to express my gratitude to you on his behalf.

"Oh yes, Mr. Zhou also gave me a digital password, what is 299...... 9 What's coming, Hanchen, wait a minute, I'll flip through the records in my notebook. ”

"Okay, okay, Guo Lao, don't bother."

When Mr. Zhou left Paris, Chen Muwu did say such a number, nothing else, it was the value of the speed of light that had not been accurately measured in this era.

Unexpectedly, he met Guo Dingtang at the Stockholm train station today, and he could still hear this string of numbers in his mouth.

Chen Muwu had the heart to ask him how the situation was in China, and whether Mr. Zhou and them were all right.

But one is because there are many people on the platform, the second is because there are still many people waiting to greet him, and the third is because "Ji people have their own natural appearance", Mr. Zhou and they have not been able to turn evil into good fortune in history, and this time there is naturally no problem.

After Chen Muwu briefly greeted the other sinology teachers he had invited to Stockholm on the platform, Shi Ruwei also sorted out the student line.

From returning to China in 1927 to prepare for the selection examination for the first Prince College, to selecting the corresponding candidates, organizing them to participate in pre-departure training in China, and taking the students on a ship and train along the way, Shi Ruwei seems to have become the homeroom teacher of these students.

Letting a Cambridge University doctoral student, who is still rare in China, be the head teacher is inevitably too big and a little useless.

Shi Ruwei was the last to walk to Chen Muwu's side, and the two of them simply handed over and said hard work to each other.

The crowd had been on the platform for some time, and there were other trains coming out of the Stockholm train station, so even if they had already greeted the train station, they were too embarrassed to be delayed for too long.

After checking their luggage and belongings and making sure that nothing had been left behind, they left the train station and boarded the large bus that had been prepared for the Prince's College on the outskirts of Stockholm.

The next step is to allocate accommodation, visit the campus, and explain the precautions inside and outside the school, so I don't need to go into too much detail.

The opening of every school is a big day, especially since this is the first batch of students admitted by Prince College after the establishment of the school, and it is necessary to be careful in the choice of dates.

Chen Muwu did not look at the small characters printed on the yellow calendar, but made his own decision, and chose February 4, 1929, as the opening ceremony of the Prince's College, and also the founding date of the school in the next few years.

Because this day happens to be the beginning of spring, in the traditional culture of China, it is the first of the 24 solar terms, and it is also the beginning of the year.

Although six days later, February 10, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

But no one will start school during the Spring Festival holiday, which is pure and uncomfortable.

In the auditorium of the Prince's College, the stage for the opening ceremony has already been set up.

On the morning of February 4, the students and teachers of Prince College, as well as the guests who had come to attend the opening ceremony, all sat in the auditorium.

(End of chapter)

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