50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 200 Red Star Over China
"I came early today. My sister told me that when we gathered this morning, one of the young people who had just arrived a few days ago was missing, and they were just deciding to send someone to look for him."

"I think it's most likely that the team that just came back was looking for someone, and it might not be good news."

When she said this, Sun Zhiwei thought of the result.

There are only two possible outcomes for this kind of disappearance: one is getting lost or encountering some other accident, and the other is running away. Looking at the leader's terrifying expression just now, there's no need to guess, he must have run away.

Wu Zuze also thought of this outcome and sighed, "This guy is really brave. Doesn't he care about his family? Is he mentally ill?"

Sun Manyi and Wu Zuze seemed to be just watching the fun, but Sun Zhiwei looked a little solemn.

"Who knows? I'm worried that once this happens, the higher-ups will definitely tighten personnel management. If they have to limit us to just two people a day, that'll be a problem."

"Ah, this, fuck, is really possible." Sun Wu and the other two were a little dumbfounded. This was really a case of the fire in the city gate affecting the fish in the pond, and the blame fell from the sky.

After that, no further news came until lunch.

When Sun Zhiwei and his friends started eating dumplings, they noticed that none of the leaders were in the cafeteria today. This was a rare occasion, so needless to say, they must be in a meeting.

While everyone was eating, a staff member came to the cafeteria and announced to everyone: "Everyone, please stay after dinner today. There will be a general meeting this afternoon. The specific time will be announced later."

After hearing this, the three of them looked at each other and knew that the afternoon meeting was the focus, and the specific arrangements would be announced at the afternoon meeting.

Thinking that they would have to travel in pairs in the future, their appetites were not as good as before.

After lunch, the three of them went to the hall, found an empty chair to sit down and rest, waiting for the meeting notice.

We waited until 3 pm before someone came to notify us of the meeting.

After the meeting started, the leader did not make any opening remarks. He directly explained the situation and then announced a new approach.

All the language trainees in the junior class were concentrated in the guesthouse of the Cultural and Educational Office nearby for study. They would live and eat in the embassy and no longer go to school in the surrounding small towns.

The embassy has hired a new teacher for them, Edgar Snow's second wife, Lois Wheeler Snow, who can reassure the country.

When talking about Lois Wheeler Snow, we have to mention Edgar Snow. The leader said that he was "a good friend of the Chinese people". I believe many people know his famous work "Red Star Over China".

Edgar Snow was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago. Lois asked for help from all over the world, and a medical team was quickly sent from the country to provide assistance.

Although we failed to save Edgar Snow's life in the end, our actions still touched the Snow family.

A few years later, Lois wrote a book about this experience, "Death with Dignity: When the Chinese Come."

This book also records Edgar Snow's last words: "I love China."

Edgar Snow was recognized by the people of the whole country, and his wife Lois was naturally reliable. Lois happened to be in London, so there was no problem in asking her to teach English to the junior class.

Except for the junior class, everyone else was strictly required to stay indoors unless necessary, and to travel in groups of three. However, this requirement was impossible for the science and technology class, as they were all interning at different schools, labs, and companies, making it impossible for them to travel in groups.

The same is true for Sun Zhiwei. He is the only one in Cambridge now. The language students who were supposed to come later have not passed the language training yet.

Therefore, Sun Zhiwei, like his comrades in the science and technology class, enjoyed special treatment and did not have to abide by the peer principle, but had to report his personal movements every week.

They are all adults with families and are past the age of being impulsive. They would not do such stupid things, so the higher-ups are actually confident in them.

It was already October at this time, and the next batch of students would not arrive until early next year, so Sun Zhiwei still had a few months of leisure time.

In fact, there are many holidays every year in British universities, including summer vacation, winter vacation and spring vacation.

There are also many statutory holidays, such as Good Friday, Christmas, Easter Day, Labor Day, etc.

This statutory holiday is also known as a "bank holiday". On this bank holiday, banks and other financial institutions will close and stock exchanges will stop trading.

Many universities also set their own holidays, such as the "Reading Week" that Sun Zhiwei took last month.

There are also some break weeks in spring and summer, plus every weekend, so British universities have more than 100 days of vacation a year.

Although international students like Sun Zhiwei do not want to take a holiday, the teachers and professors in the school need a holiday. It is inhumane to ask professors to work overtime.

Therefore, every time the holidays come, there are often only Chinese students in laboratories, libraries and other places.

These frequent holidays also gave Sun Zhiwei time to act.

During a holiday in mid-October, Sun Zhiwei changed his clothes and walked into the British Museum with a camera.

In the Chinese Gallery of the British Museum, Sun Zhiwei saw many national treasures: "The Admonitions of the Court Instructress" (a Tang copy) (stolen from the Old Summer Palace), Tang Sancai tomb figurines (lost in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China), the mural of three Bodhisattvas (donated after being purchased by Hongqing), nine-patterned glazed bricks (donated after being purchased by the British), and a bronze double-ram vase (stolen from the Old Summer Palace).

The British Museum houses over 2 Chinese cultural relics, most of which were stolen during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
There are more than 200 foreign museums around the world that have collections of more than 160 million Chinese cultural relics. The number of private collections is ten times that number, and there are thousands of national treasures.

Among them, four institutions have the largest collections of fine works: the British Museum, the Louvre in France, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.

As for the items that were bought, we can't say much, they are just squanderers of their wealth, but the items that were stolen, robbed, or donated by overseas Chinese make him feel a little uncomfortable.

Sun Zhiwei's purpose of coming today was also for these things. He heard that many collections of the British Museum would be resold by collusion between internal and external staff, and then pretended to be stolen.

In that case, he wouldn't be polite. Let's check out the place today and see where everything is.

He had heard that some museums would make replicas of their precious collections for display, while the real ones were stored in warehouses.

He spent a whole day touring the entire museum, and then used space to find out the location of the cultural relics warehouse. Finally, he decided to target hundreds of the most precious cultural relics.

(End of this chapter)