Chapter 885 884 [Taking Cigarettes Like a Person]

The couplet "Act when the opportunity arises, you will rest in the grave" clearly draws on Chen Yinke's "Sit when the opportunity arises, and you will rest in the grave".

Fu Sinian, Chen Yinke and others dug a hole in their yard and covered it with wooden boards and sand. When Japanese planes came to bomb, they went into holes in the ground. Since there was often water in the cave, Chen Yinke always brought a bench to sit on, so the word "si" was highlighted, which was often misread by later generations as "zuo".

The real "act when the opportunity arises and bury it in peace" is a couplet written by the playwright Lu Qian, and it was earlier - Lu Qian made a basement in his home when he was avoiding the bombing of Nanjing.

One is from Peiping and the other is from Nanjing. The former went to Kunming and the latter went to Chongqing. Chen Yinke and Lu Qian should have no intersection. Therefore, there is no one who copied the other in these two couplets. They should be inspired by their own feelings, and there happens to be only one word that differs.

On the other hand, another couplet "Geometry of Life, Triangle of Love" is probably really the masterpiece of a certain science student.

For male students at Southwest Associated University, avoiding bombings is not something to be afraid of. Instead, it is a matter of romance. There are more than one or two pairs of students who have become lovers because of avoiding bombings.

There are three types of air raid warnings——

The first is an advance warning, which means that enemy aircraft are found at the border of the defense area and may enter for bombing.

The second type is an air raid warning, which means that Japanese planes have entered Yunnan, but they may not necessarily come to Kunming. If teachers and students heard this kind of alarm, they would simply ignore it and just sit in the classroom and study as usual.

The third type is the emergency alarm, which is a continuous rapid sound, indicating that the early warning officer has determined that the plane is coming to bomb.

During the Anti-Japanese War, China's air defense early warning system was very complete. Like the previous air battle in Chongqing, if the Japanese planes had not circled to the northeast for a sneak attack, they would have been discovered by the air defense observation station before they reached the Three Gorges.

What Zhou Hexuan heard today was an emergency alarm. The first reaction of many male students was not to run away, but to return to the dormitory to get their treasured snacks - peanuts and the like.

After getting the snacks, the male students stood at the back gate and waited. When they saw the female students they liked, they immediately approached them. What danger brings is sharing life and death, and getting closer to each other every minute. If we can go to the cemetery to hide from the sirens and eat peanuts together, and then chat and talk about life ideals, then we are basically not far away from being a couple. .

The "couple" who runs the air raid siren is not fixed. It is possible that just after getting familiar with them this time, someone will steal their "girlfriend" next time. The science student who wrote the couplet "Geometry of Life, Triangle of Love" must have been a girl who was robbed, and he gained a new understanding of geometry with emotion.

Seeing the "love triangle" embedded in the stones, Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but look at Jin Yuelin and found that this gentleman had empty hands and did not bring any suitcase.

Wang Zengqi’s article records that there was a gentleman from Southwest Associated University who studied Eastern philosophy. When he ran to the police, he brought a small suitcase with him. There was no gold or silver in the suitcase, but it contained a letter written to him by a smart woman.

Many people think it is an allusion to Jin Yuelin and Lin Huiyin, but the description is wrong. Although Jin Yuelin also studies Eastern philosophy, he is better at Western philosophy, especially logic. When describing him, the word "Oriental" should be removed.

It seems that the infatuated philosophy professor is someone else...

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The sound of bombing continued, but the gentlemen in the cave remained calm, sitting or standing there chatting.

In addition to Zhou Hexuan and two bodyguards, there are also Mei Yiqi in the cave, who is the "controller of Geng money", Wen Yiduo, who is "flammable and explosive", Jin Yuelin, who is the "love-mad sage", Zhu Ziqing, the "orange master", and the "crotch kicker" "Liu Wendian, "The Stairs Are Hard to Climb" Fei Xiaotong, and a wild male classmate carrying a rice bowl.

Zhu Ziqing blew out smoke rings intoxicatedly and commented: "Mingcheng, you should live in Kunming for a long time. The professors' cigarette problem will be solved. It is not easy to buy Camel cigarettes here in Kunming."

Wen Yiduo smiled and answered: "I don't care, foreign cigarettes and Chinese cigarettes are not rejected, as long as you have cigarettes to smoke."

"You are a generous smoker." Zhu Ziqing said.

Jin Yuelin disagreed with Wen Yiduo's view: "Cigarettes are also divided into several grades. The top grade is cigars, the middle grade is cigarettes, and the bottom grade is water pipes. Chinese cigarettes and water pipes are not easy to smoke. They are too inferior. I would rather not smoke them. .”

These three gentlemen are all old smokers. Zhu Ziqing wrote essays that elevated smoking to a philosophical level; Wen Yiduo smoked with students during class, and sometimes asked students to borrow a light; Jin Yuelin once smoked a large German cigar and got drunk. After smoking, I had suicidal thoughts.

Zhu Ziqing laughed and said to Jin Yuelin: "Then you are an expert in smoking."

Wen Yiduo retorted to Jin Yuelin: "Foreign cigarettes are cigarettes, Chinese cigarettes are also cigarettes, cigars, cigarettes, and hookahs are all cigarettes. According to me, all cigarettes are equal, how can we distinguish between superior and inferior? It's just like people. Officials They are human beings, those who do knowledge are human beings, and those who grow food are human beings. They all have one head and two arms, and they are essentially the same."

Jin Yuelin was not good at words, so he just said harshly: "Anyway, I don't smoke bad cigarettes."

The difference in personality between the two can be seen from smoking. Jin Yuelin is the kind of person who would rather be lacking than excessive. Ever since he fell in love with Lin Huiyin, he has never married, as if he knew the taste of good cigarettes and would rather endure the addiction than smoke bad cigarettes.

Jin Yuelin liked raising chickens all his life. The reason was that Lin Huiyin gave him a big rooster as a joke. He not only raised chickens in Peiping, but also in Kunming, and even raised chickens in Lizhuang. It seemed that when he saw chickens, he saw Lin Huiyin himself.

The topic started from smoking and gradually turned to domestic and foreign industries. They discussed very seriously why Chinese cigarettes taste worse than foreign cigarettes.

Then, the conversation gradually turned to prices and wages. Liu Wendian was also an avid smoker. After smoking one cigarette, he asked Zhou Hexuan for another. He lit up his cigarette and said, "Principal Mei, prices have risen sharply. Shouldn't wages also rise? Some teachers don't have enough to eat. .”

Why did Peking University President Jiang Menglin and Nankai University President Zhang Boling leave voluntarily after the merger of the three universities, leaving Mei Yiqi to serve as the president of Southwest Associated University?

Because Mei Yiqi is the president of Tsinghua University, he has the Gengzi Scholarship in his hands!

You heard it right, Tsinghua University’s Geng Geng money has not been used up yet – until Zhou Hexuan’s time travel, Taiwan’s Tsinghua University was still receiving checks from the Geng Geng money every year.

Mei Yiqi shook his head and said: "Tsinghua University has a limited quota each year, and it also has to pay for students' study abroad expenses in the United States. I dare not use it easily. Moreover, the Ministry of Education has the final say to increase teachers' salaries. I cannot make the decision without authorization. .”

Fei Xiaotong came up with an idea: "You can't decide on salary increases, but you can provide subsidies to teachers."

Zhu Ziqing said: "Yes, the subsidy will be determined according to the circumstances. Those who teach part-time in other schools will receive less or no salary. Those who teach wholeheartedly at the United Nations University may receive more. Professors with other incomes may receive less, and professors who only have salary income may receive more. . Especially professors in science and engineering, their life is really difficult."

Mei Yiqi frowned and said, "I'll think about it again."

Literati like Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, and Jin Yuelin actually had a pretty good life. In addition to being paid as teachers, they also received various royalties and royalties. Their family wealth was relatively strong, which was more than enough to support the prices of goods in 1939. They could even go to restaurants for drinks every now and then.

The really poor people are science and engineering professors like Huang Ziqing. Although he comes from a gentry family, he really doesn't have much spare money in his pocket.

Now that Huang Ziqing has calculated the temperature scale of water, he is considered a master in the international scientific community. He can easily find a job abroad and live a comfortable life. However, he chose to return to Tsinghua University to teach, and overcame many difficulties to establish experimental equipment for electrochemistry research, investing all the money he had saved in the past.

From Peiping to Changsha, and then to Kunming. Huang Ziqing was the breadwinner and had no other income besides his salary. Sometimes he had to pay for experiments himself, so he was so poor that he couldn't even buy cigarettes.