On the way back, Lu Bicheng asked curiously: "How do you know such a long story? I have read so many books, but I have never seen it."
Li Yu excused himself: "I made it up myself."
"Can you make it up?" Lu Bicheng's eyes were still a little red, "It is indeed very touching. I have never heard of any story that is all about love."
At present, the domestic industry still remains in the realm of the late Qing Dynasty. The popularity of entertainment has to wait until a few powerful figures such as Zhang Henshui appeared during the Republic of China.
But even they certainly can't write something as imaginative as Westward Journey. After all, the limitations of the times are here.
Li Yu said: "Of course they are made up. How can there be the Monkey King or Fairy Bixia in this world? They are all stories. Isn't even "The Legend of Journey to the West" also made up?"
Lu Bicheng nodded thoughtfully: "But in your story, why are they all monogamous and loyal to their feelings? Among the books I have read, apart from "The Peacock Flies Southeast", I have never seen many of them.
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Li Yu smiled and said: "Isn't this how it should be? Which country in Europe and America do you think is not right?"
"In other words, is this what China should be like in the future?" Lu Bicheng asked.
Li Yu said: "There is no doubt about this! After all, we are setting up new schools everywhere, so we naturally have to learn excellent things."
However, Li Yu actually knew in his heart that even during the Republic of China, the system of monogamy was still difficult to implement. Many people, including educated celebrities, had three wives and four concubines, and even regarded it as a sign of success.
Even Yan Fu, Lu Bicheng's mentor, had two wives and one concubine. Moreover, the second wife was only thirteen years old when he came to the house...
Yan Fu was a leading Western scholar in the country. Even he was like this, which inevitably affected Lu Bicheng.
However, since Lu Bicheng is known as a "wonderful woman", it is because she has a unique temperament. Historically, the reason why she never married was because she could not understand many so-called "feudal morals".
Yan Fu treated Lu Bicheng not only as his apprentice, but almost as a daughter. He also had a close relationship with Lu Bicheng's natal family and gave her a lot of worries.
Lu Bicheng was both talented and beautiful, and there were too many people pursuing her, including Yuan Shikai's son Yuan Kewen, but they were all rejected by her.
Because she knows exactly what these people are like.
Lu Bicheng had a kind of advanced thinking that did not belong to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is not without reason that later generations named her the first of the four talented women of the Republic of China.
Lu Bicheng hesitated and asked, "What about you? You think so too?"
Li Yu said categorically: "Of course! Since I, Li Yu, am a figure of the new era, I will definitely not retain the feudal dross."
Although Lu Bicheng did not fully understand the word "feudal" at this time, she was talented and intelligent and already understood what Li Yu meant.
My heart suddenly felt a little sweet, and it seemed that the wind blowing was fragrant.
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In the hotel where he was staying, Konoe Akiyuki was studying the afternoon tea that British people like to drink.
It happened that Li Yu sent Lu Bicheng back at this time. Lu Bicheng looked even more happy, and Konwei Zhaoxue's face became more solemn.
Li Yu did not stay long and went back to Cambridge to find Rutherford.
Konoe Akihiro asked Lu Bicheng to sit down and said politely: "My sister is in good health, so she walks around all the way."
Lu Bicheng was thinking about Li Yu's story about Journey to the West, and took Konoe Aki to sit aside: "Today at Mr. Hardy's cultural salon, Li Yu told a story about love and gods. It was so exciting!
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"Love? God?" Konoe Akiyuki was full of doubts, "What kind of strange story is this?"
Lu Bicheng immediately started talking to her: "Although the protagonist in it is the Monkey King and Tang Sanzang, it has nothing to do with the Journey to the West."
Konoe Akiyuki didn't know the word "fellow" yet, and was even more confused: "It's not about learning from the West, is it about subduing demons?"
"I've already said it, it's about love, or the love of the Monkey King." Lu Bicheng said.
Konoe Aki felt his scalp numb, "What a mess! The Monkey King finally became a Buddha, how can there be love?"
Lu Bicheng picked up the Assam black tea on the table and poured a cup for Konoe Akiyuki and himself, "Listen to me, it's a tear-jerking tragic story. By the way, you have to prepare handkerchiefs first."
The story has quite a comedic effect at the beginning, especially when it talks about the happy time when Zhizunbao was a bandit in Wuzhi Mountain.
When I heard Bai Jingjing use Samadhi True Fire to burn the Supreme Treasure, she also said, "Change your image, and go on to your promising career as a bandit!"
Konoe Akiyuki laughed so hard: "This is not some kind of fairy love story. It's just like a toad trying to pursue a white swan."
"You won't think so anymore." After Lu Bicheng finished speaking, he continued.
Sure enough, after hearing Zixia Fairy say "I guessed the beginning, but not the ending"; and Patriarch Bodhi saying "One day when you find that you fall in love with someone you hate, this relationship is the most fatal.
"At this time, Konoe Akiyuki was deeply touched.
After the story was told, Konoe Akiyuki kept wiping her tears with a handkerchief.
She wiped her tears and said, "I thought that Li Yu was such a charming person and could tell such a heart-wrenching and tear-jerking story."
Two women can't stop talking about this kind of emotional topic.
After a while, Konoe Aki calmed down and said: "The stories are all lies. There is no such thing as a great sage, colorful auspicious clouds, or unparalleled heroes."
Lu Bicheng said: "Perhaps, there really is someone. Although he is just a mortal, even in this story, there is nothing wrong with being a mortal."
Konoe Akiyuki was silent, not knowing what he was thinking.
At night, she lay in bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Her mind was filled with the big stories about Journey to the West. She suddenly said to herself: "Last night you called Miss Jingjing 98 times, and you called another girl named Zixia."
784 times. Calculating, the difference between the two is exactly 8 times. Is he even so logical when making up stories?"
The next day, Konoe Akiyuki got up very early and was reading the latest "Daily Mail". The front page headline reported the deeds of Li Yu and Lu Bicheng in heaven a few days ago.
The "Daily Mail" mainly targets women, and its circulation is large, so it is expected to spread quickly.
Lu Bicheng walked out of the room, glanced at the newspaper on the table, and immediately picked it up and read it. She suddenly blushed. The newspaper was filled with oil and vinegar, and the writing was even a bit gaudy.
Fortunately, Lu Bicheng himself had been an editor in a newspaper and knew that the newspaper actually only wrote this deliberately to attract attention. However, it was a bit strange for the protagonist of the story to be himself.
Konoe Aki felt an inexplicable sour feeling in her heart, and said with a smile: "It turns out that this is why my sister got on the hot air balloon together."
Lu Bicheng was in a panic at the moment and did not understand the meaning of many of Konoe Akiyuki's words. He quickly said: "I didn't expect that there is such a big difference between high altitude and the ground."
"How could you not know?" Konoe Akiyuki said, "The third section of Chapter 4 of Mr. Li Yu's introductory physics lectures specifically talks about the changes of air pressure and temperature with altitude. You must have read it, right?"
"Yes, yes?" Lu Bicheng said in surprise, "I can't remember."
Konoe Ayuki continued to smile and said: "I really can't remember? Why do I remember it so clearly?"
Lu Bicheng murmured: "Maybe it's me... I don't understand science well enough. I didn't expect that the sky is really so cold and hard to breathe."
Konoe Akiyuki said: "Really? So that's it?"
Lu Bicheng said randomly: "I, I don't know either..."
Konoe Akiyuki looked at the newspaper and said, "Let's wait and see what everyone says."
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At this time, Li Yu and Rutherford were in the Cavendish Laboratory.
Rutherford received a letter from the University of Adelaide in Australia yesterday, specifically asking Li Yu to come and study together.
Rutherford said: "The person who sent the letter is Henry Bragg. He proposed a theory to explain the structure of the atom. Let me take a look at it."
Henry Braque and his son William Bragg later won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics together. Bragg was also the youngest winner in the history of the Nobel Prize, only 25 years old at the time.
Rutherford opened the letter: "Mr. Bragg reached a beautiful conclusion. He found that the blocking ability of a substance against alpha rays is proportional to the square root of the atomic mass of the substance."
Li Yu read the letter. Judging from the current level of technological development, Prague's achievement of this result is indeed worthy of praise.
Li Yu said: "Why don't you show the letter to Director Thomson? Isn't he studying the atomic model?"
Rutherford said: "It's different. Mr. Bragg's theory was originally intended to verify Leonard's material absorption theory."
"Material absorption theory?" Li Yu was a little confused.
Leonard was mentioned before. He also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but later he devoted himself to sodium brittleness.
Rutherford said: "Mr. Leonard believes that the minute structures that make up atoms are called forceons, and each forceton contains a negatively charged ion and a positively charged ion."
——A bit like the dipole of later generations.
Rutherford continued: "When rays travel through matter, they will inevitably be affected by the electric field existing inside the particle or between adjacent particles and deflected unable to move forward, which is equivalent to being absorbed by the matter. This is Leonard
Mr.’s theory of material absorption.”
Li Yu suddenly remembered: "Did Mr. Leonard also come up with the result that the intensity of cathode rays and the penetration depth satisfy the e exponential attenuation relationship?"
This relationship was still used until later generations.
Rutherford nodded: "Yes, so it seems reasonable."
Li Yu read Prague's letter carefully again.
To put it simply, Bragg was inspired by Leonard, and suddenly thought of using particles with a large charge-to-mass ratio (the same charge, but much larger mass than electrons), which would have stronger penetrating capabilities.
This kind of thing is naturally an alpha particle.
Then Prague went through great pains to obtain some radium bromide from France and conducted experiments.
Prague probably has a good relationship with the Curies. Now every university wants radium bromide. It is very scarce and it is not easy to get it. It may have been a gift from the Curies.
Human beings today are really unaware of the dangers of radioactivity, so they were transported on ships.
Li Yu said: "If I remember correctly, you are also doing experiments related to alpha rays."
Rutherford said: "I have been doing this for a long time, and the experimental equipment is in Canada. If you are interested then, you can also go and have a look."
Li Yu said: "The penetration experiment of alpha rays is indeed worthy of further study."
Rutherford nodded: "I am making some more sophisticated instruments. Bragg's letter also inspired me. I will continue to experiment when I return to Canada."
Li Yu smiled and said, "Just wait for the good news."
What Rutherford was doing was, of course, an alpha particle scattering experiment.
There were actually people who thought of this at the same time, but they were not as thorough as he was, and they were not as able to come up with those ingenious experimental designs and instruments as he was. Moreover, he had great assistants like Geiger.
Although Li Yu understands the principles of experiments, it is a bit difficult to make experimental equipment using existing conditions, and rays are always harmful to the body. Unlike Rutherford, Li Yu is already married and has children, so they are still a little worried about this aspect.
Li Yu remembered his bet with Lord Kelvin, so he said to Rutherford: "Lord Kelvin has now accepted your ray theory, and he even lost 10 shillings to me."
Rutherford was very happy: "That's great. If this old man accepts it, I will feel much more at ease when I give lectures at the Royal Society in the future."
Li Yu smiled and said, "Why are you so afraid of your mentor?"
Rutherford smiled bitterly: "Lord Kelvin is very strict, don't you know?"
Li Yu shook his head: "I didn't feel it."
"He is only like this to you," Rutherford sighed. "Anyway, I feel a little nervous every time I see him."
Li Yu said: "I think you can see his public statement in the conference journal today to support your theory."
Owen Richardson suddenly walked in: "Don't read the Lord's statement for now. You can read today's newspaper first."
He placed the "Daily Mail" in front of the two of them. There was a line of big words in the newspaper that was very eye-catching:
"Passion in the sky, male and female authors of Star Wars, disheveled talents and beauties from the East!"
"Oh~~~" Rutherford suddenly became happy and read carefully, "Why didn't I know about this?"
Owen Richardson apologized: "I'm really sorry. I only told Lillian. I didn't expect it to spread so quickly."
Rutherford said: "You really value sex over friends. You don't tell me such interesting things, but you tell your girlfriend!"
Owen Richardson scratched his scalp and said sheepishly: "Miss Lillian and I went on a date that night. I wanted to take it a step further, so I mentioned the incident on the hot air balloon."
Rutherford suddenly became a little gossipy: "Is the base on base?"
Li Yu on the side was a little helpless. He had always heard that the British tabloids were very powerful. Today he saw it. Originally it was only 1, but it can fill it up to 10 for you. If this was published in a newspaper of the Qing Dynasty, it would be unimaginable.