Li Yu returned to the laboratory apartment with two tickets and said to Lu Bicheng: "We will leave for Greece and Egypt tomorrow."
Lu Bicheng asked: "Is that also a holy land for science?"
Li Yu said: "No, oh, as for Athens, it used to be, but now it is a tourist attraction."
"Travel?" Lu Bicheng wondered.
"What, you're not interested?" Li Yu said, "There are a lot of interesting things, including the Acropolis of Athens, the Parthenon, the Olympic Arena, and the beautiful Aegean Sea; there are pyramids in Egypt."
Lu Bicheng had heard of these names, and the temptation of traveling was indeed great. After a little hesitation, he agreed: "I'll go and clean up. How many days will I go?"
Li Yu said: "It will take up to twenty days to go back and forth."
Lu Bicheng nodded: "As long as it doesn't delay your trip to Sweden."
When they were about to set off the next day, Konoe Akiyuki finally couldn't help but asked: "What are you going to Athens and Egypt for?"
"It's a trip." Li Yu said. Then he realized that he had forgotten her, so he said, "There are only two tickets left. If you can't stay idle, you can play around in Berlin. It's also very interesting."
Konoe Akiyuki bit her lip and could only say: "I hope everything is well with you."
After a day and night, the train arrived in Athens. After visiting Athens, we were ready to board a luxury cruise ship to visit the Aegean Sea and go to Cairo.
Li Yu took Lu Bicheng on board the ship early in the morning. There were still a few hours before the departure time, so there were no passengers.
As soon as he got on the boat, Lu Bicheng suddenly saw a large flower cluster opposite, with "marry me" written in English, and a few lines in the middle in Chinese:
"There are three thousand things in this world, but there are three that I love.
The sun, the moon and your Majesty,
The sun is morning, the moon is evening,
Your Majesty will be with you day and night."
Lu Bicheng opened her mouth wide: "This is?"
When he turned around, Li Yu knelt down on one knee and took out a ring box: "Marry me."
Lu Bicheng was stunned and burst into tears instantly: "It's so...sudden. I'm not prepared at all. I got up so early today and didn't even put on makeup."
Li Yu said with a smile: "It's natural, like a hibiscus. It doesn't matter if you wear makeup or not."
The people from the travel agencies who had arranged it in advance immediately began to shout: "marry him! marry him!"
Lu Bicheng grabbed his hand and said, "You, you get up first."
Li Yu remained motionless: "Answer first, are you willing?"
Lu Bicheng's face turned redder, and the cheers around her became louder. She whispered: "I, I do!"
Li Yu then took out a ring and put it on her.
Lu Bicheng couldn't help but hugged him tightly, "I wish to be a tree in the deep mountains, with branches connected and growing."
The soft jade smells warm and fragrant, and Li Yu's head feels a little dizzy.
The people from the travel agency had already moved out of the way.
Li Yu picked her up and entered the booked suite.
Indescribable.
The whistle on the bow of the ship sounded long, and it slowly sailed on the shallow waves of the Aegean Sea.
After a long while, Lu Bicheng said: "Why don't you get up? Will the scenery outside be very nice?"
Li Yu stretched and said, "It's better here."
"Don't come here!" Lu Bicheng smiled sweetly, and then said, "Now I am yours. After returning to China, you have to go and propose marriage."
Li Yu said: "Don't worry, the betrothal gift will definitely satisfy the mother-in-law!"
Stepping out of the cabin, they had seen Crete in the distance.
Lu Bicheng leaned lazily in Li Yu's arms and listened to Li Yu say: "There is an ancient myth and legend on this island. The Greek god Zeus and his lover Europa gave birth to a child Minos. In order to meet Europa, Zeus avoided
He was discovered by the Queen of Heaven, so he turned into a bull. Later, the incident angered the Queen of Heaven and made the Queen of Minos
After falling in love with the bull, a minotaur monster was left. Minos built a labyrinth on Crete to trap the monster, but every 9 years he had to send 7 pairs of boys and girls to feed it. Later, the Greek prince eliminated evil for the people and brought him
Taking the ball of thread given to him by the Princess of Crete as a mark, he entered the maze and killed the monster. Then he came out relying on the ball of thread."
Lu Bicheng frowned: "Zeus is a god, why do he have so many lovers, and the whole thing happened because of him? Is this still a god?"
Li Yu said: "Zeus has many romantic affairs."
Lu Bicheng added: "By the way, Europa, isn't that the name of Europe?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "That's right."
"It's really strange to use this name." Lu Bicheng couldn't understand it at all.
Li Yu actually couldn't understand it either.
After entering the Nile River, the ship sailed upstream and quickly reached Cairo.
Then the two of them rode the same camel and walked a certain distance before seeing the pyramids.
The air was filled with the sour smell of love, but Li Yu's mind was filled with movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy - riding a camel was so exciting.
But after looking at it up close, I don’t know why it suddenly didn’t feel as good as I imagined.
Perhaps it is really too mythical. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Li Yu is a science and engineering brain, and he was even thinking about how to build and how to pile soil while watching it.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s an “unsolved mystery”.
As for the mathematics embodied in it, it is indeed very sophisticated, but you can't just regard the ancients as fools, right? After all, we are already a civilized society. Mathematics, a subject with great practical significance, should not develop together with other civilizations such as writing.
Get up?
Why do ancient people who knew some mathematics have to explain that it was built by aliens?
Lu Bicheng suddenly asked: "I heard this is a tomb?"
Li Yu said: "Yes, the tomb of a pharaoh. A pharaoh often starts building a pyramid from the time he ascends the throne."
"It wastes money and wastes people," Lu Bicheng sighed, and then added, "But it seems that the emperor of our country is the same."
Li Yu laughed and said: "But the Egyptians would hollow out the body, make it into a mummy, and then wrap it in layers of white cloth."
Lu Bicheng felt very scared and covered her chest: "It would be better to bury her directly."
Li Yu said: "What if we bury it directly? It would be better to burn it with fire and scatter it into the sea."
Lu Bicheng said: "This sounds a bit romantic, so I will throw it into the sea, otherwise I won't be able to find you."
Li Yu laughed loudly: "It seems good to be a fish in the next life."
Lu Bicheng added: "Mr. Liang Qichao once said that there were four ancient civilizations on earth: China, India, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Now that we see Egypt from a close distance, it seems that it is not as good as us at all."
Li Yu said: "The Egyptians of today are no longer the Egyptians of the past, and the Indians of today are no longer the Indians of the past. Only the Chinese today have not lost their inheritance."
Lu Bicheng said with emotion: "It's not easy!"
Egypt has now built the Sheffield Hotel for tourists to stay. Many early tourists would stay here after visiting because of its famous platform roof.
Lu Bicheng likes it very much: "I don't feel tired even if I sit here all day long."
Of course, the bigger reason is that I am in a good mood, and I will say this everywhere.
After Egypt, the cruise ship entered the Dardanelles again on its way back to see Constantinople.
This place is crucial to the history of the West and Central Asia. If Constantinople had not fallen and the collection of Greek classics had once again spread back to Europe, the Renaissance might not have started yet.
At that time, Europeans realized that Greece from more than a thousand years ago was so awesome and knew so many more things than they did.
However, the extra itinerary took a lot of time. Seeing that the day to go to Sweden to receive the award was approaching, Li Yu decided not to get off the ship and took the ship directly to Stockholm.
Thinking about it, among the winners of this year, we should also meet an old acquaintance named Pavlov.
Jose, a civil engineering teacher in his profession who had previously supported Li Yu, and Jose, who won a literature award across his profession, will also be present.