Hua Luogeng squatted behind a tombstone, holding a stone in his hand, with numbers and symbols densely written on the ground. Beside him were his wife and five children. The younger son was not born yet, but he would soon be pregnant and be conceived. The name is Huaguang, which reflects both the hope of China's restoration and the self-mockery of the family's wealth.
Recently, Hua Luogeng wanted to summarize and improve the Hardy and Littlewood circle methods. As the research became more and more in-depth, more and more problems were involved. He came up with the idea of writing a mathematical monograph, which will be the future " "The Theory of Stacked Prime Numbers".
Hua Luogeng has also quit smoking now. He is very confident in the monograph he is about to write. One day he even said to his wife: "After my manuscript is published, we will cut a few pounds of meat and have a delicious meal for the whole family. If only I still have money left, so I buy some new clothes for the children and two packs of cigarettes for myself... I really want to smoke a cigarette."
In order to support his family, Hua Luogeng has to work as a professor at Southwest Associated University and as a substitute teacher in a middle school. He walks more than ten miles outside the city every day, and continues to do research at night, sleeping no more than five hours a day. Hour.
One day in the future, Hua Luogeng was studying mathematics in an air-raid shelter when a bomb fell and buried him alive. Fortunately, two students nearby came to dig the soil and exposed Hua Luogeng's head to keep him breathing.
That bombing not only destroyed Hua Luogeng's workshop (air raid shelter), but also destroyed his house in the suburbs. After Wen Yiduo learned the news, he immediately took Hua Luogeng to live in his home.
At that time, Hua Luogeng's youngest son Hua Guang had been born. There were 14 people in the two families, all crowded into one room, with a piece of cloth as a screen in the middle. Hua Luogeng also joked: "Brother Wen, our two families seem to be living in a hotel. Yes." Wen Yiduo was amused and laughed.
Unfortunately, Hua Luogeng's "Theory of Prime Numbers", which he devoted himself to studying, was lost when he submitted it for the first time. It was a full 300,000 words! Naturally, the royalties he eagerly desired also came to nothing, and he did not resume it until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Wrote an improved English version.
The same tragedy as Hua Luogeng is Jin Yuelin. This gentleman has completed "On Tao" and is writing his life's masterpiece "On Knowledge". This book has hundreds of thousands of words, and he will finish it next year, but in one go They were all lost while escaping the bombing.
At that time, Jin Yuelin took the manuscript with him, put it on the ground in the wild, sat on the manuscript and chatted with others. Because he was chatting so enthusiastically, he actually forgot about the manuscript when he left, and went back to look for it, which had been blown to an unknown location by the wind.
Lao Jin was as good as Hua Luogeng. He rewrote everything from memory and spent several years writing "Theory of Knowledge".
At this moment, Hua Luogeng probably encountered difficulties. He threw away the stones and stood up, walking back and forth with a limp. He thought hard that Hua Luogeng was a lame. When walking, he had to draw a big circle with his left leg first, and then take a small step with his right leg. He said Walking by oneself is a "circular and tangent movement". In Kunming, I walked more than ten miles every day with a limp like this.
His wife Wu Xiaozhi did not disturb him, but hugged her youngest daughter and took the other four children away. She knew that her husband needed to be quiet at the moment.
Not far away, Shen Congwen was bragging to the students. Old Shen's lectures were not very good, but he was a wonderful person when chatting. As Liu Wendian said, Shen Congwen's academic level was not high, and he He admits it himself, but his advantage is that he is knowledgeable in general knowledge, can read all kinds of books, and can chat with anyone.
Students in the Chinese Department like to chat with Shen Congwen the most, and many students go to Shen Congwen's home every weekend. The students not only listen to Shen Congwen's bragging, but also always borrow books from Shen Congwen, because Old Shen has a lot of books and enjoys them. I borrowed it accidentally and never registered it.
So many students have graduated several years ago, and one day they suddenly find a book in their box, and it takes them a long time to recall that they borrowed it from Shen Congwen.
"Professor Shen, Mr. Zhou came to school today, do you know him?" a student asked.
Shen Congwen recalled: "Speaking of Zhou Mingcheng, he and I are old friends. At that time, Ding Ling and his wife and I were renting near Peking University, and we happened to witness Mr. Zhou's inaugural speech as the president of Peking University. Later, he hired me to do the reissue. Editor, in the editorial department, I met Li Shoumin, Zheng Zhengyin and Zhu Xiang."
One student said confusedly: "I know Zheng Zhengyin and Zhu Xiang. One is a martial arts master and the other is a poet. Then who is Li Shoumin?"
Shen Congwen laughed and said: "Li Shoumin is the master of Huanzhu Tower who wrote "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman"."
"It's him!" the students exclaimed, obviously they had all seen Li Shoumin.
Another student asked: "What kind of person is Mr. Zhou in private? Is he easy to get along with? What is his temper?"
Shen Congwen described: "Zhou Mingcheng has a good personality. He never loses his temper with his friends and is very kind to ordinary people. But he is very scary when he gets angry. At that time, someone embezzled and misappropriated the funds from the Hope Primary School. Those people were all He was Zhang Xueliang's old subordinate, and everyone advised him to just give him a small punishment. But Mr. Zhou didn't give Zhang Xueliang face at all, and directly called the police to arrest him. The person responsible was sentenced to more than ten years, and later he was released from prison early by paying money for bail."
The students begged one after another: "Professor Shen, please tell me more about Mr. Zhou's punishment of evildoers."
Shen Congwen thought for a while and said: "There is one thing that I heard from a friend. The eldest son of President Kong Xiangxi's family was a promiscuous man. He molested women in front of Mr. Zhou, and was shot directly into the hospital by Mr. Zhou. .”
"Kong Xiangxi's son dares to use a gun?" the students asked in shock.
Shen Congwen said with a smile: "Not only did he fire the gun, but the gun was also a gift from the German head of state Hitler."
The students asked: "Is it okay if Mr. Zhou offended Kong Xiangxi?"
Shen Congwen said: "The police station arrested the man and did not dare to lock him up, so he sent him directly to the Nanjing Police Department. Soong Meiling went to the police department in person to release Mr. Zhou."
"Mr. Zhou is so awesome!" The students admired him inexplicably.
Shen Congwen added: "The concept of the book "Goddess" was also adapted from a real person. At that time..."
The students sat around and listened to Shen Congwen's story about "The Goddess". Wu Xiaozhi brought his children over and listened with great interest.
Shen Congwen suddenly laughed: "There was a grand event that I missed. That time Brother Zhimo wanted to become a monk, and no one could persuade him. Mingcheng was still so powerful that he summoned friends from the literary world to Xiangfu Zen Temple and invited the monks to eat hot pot together. We played boxing and cards, and even held a farewell party for Brother Zhimo to become a monk. The originally serious issue of becoming a monk was made laughable by Mingcheng, and he gave up the idea of becoming a monk since then."
The students said one after another: "I know, I know, the Xiangfu Zen Meeting, a major event in the literary world, was reported in the newspapers at that time."
A student asked: "Professor Shen, I heard that Mr. Xu Zhimo became a monk because of emotional problems. Can you tell me about it?"
Shen Congwen waved his hand and said: "I can't say more about personal privacy. But brother Zhimo is an interesting person. I remember that the boycott of foreign goods movement was very fierce at that time. Although Zhimo did not stand up to support it, he brought a big one to class. Yantai apples. He was eating apples while giving lectures, and said to the students: 'Not all Chinese things are worse than foreign ones, Yantai apples are very good."
The student was not satisfied yet and wanted to ask about the gossip: "Mr. Xu Zhimo seems to have a close personal relationship with Mr. Lin Huiyin."
Shen Congwen didn't take the bait, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin Huiyin is also a wonderful person. She likes to hold a salon at home. Once she had a high fever, and she was lying on the sofa in the living room, talking to the guests about domestic and foreign literature and art."
"Is Professor Jin pursuing Mr. Lin?" another student asked.
Shen Congwen said: "Professor Jin Yuelin is like an innocent naughty boy. He likes to raise chickens. He raised a big fighting cock in Peking. The chicken can stand on the ground and stretch its neck on the table to eat with Professor Jin. . He also collected large pomegranates and large pears everywhere, and compared them with the children of his colleagues. If he lost, he gave these fruits to the children, and then went to buy bigger ones."
The student was finally distracted and asked: "Does Professor Jin like gambling?"
Shen Congwen shook his head and said: "Professor Jin just likes to have fun, he doesn't like gambling. I don't like gambling myself. Although I am good at gambling, I think gambling is a waste of life. The most important thing for you is not to gamble, not even Don’t even play cards where money is about winning or losing.”
Just when Shen Congwen was bragging to the students, in the cave, Zhou Hexuan suddenly said: "Principal Mei, I plan to jointly open a chicken farm with Southwest Associated University."
"A chicken farm?" Mei Yiqi asked in surprise.
Zhou Hexuan nodded and said: "Yes, the teachers and students are not well-nourished. Let me think about it, now that prices are getting more and more expensive, the school might as well be self-sufficient. The eggs produced by the chicken farm can be used to improve the food for teachers and students. "
Chicken raising expert Jin Yuelin immediately said happily: "It's good to run a chicken farm. I have a lot of research on this. I can recommend myself to be the farm manager!"