50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 207 All the way east

After seeing off this group of science students, Sun Zhiwei felt homesick as if he had grown weeds in his heart.

He only wrote three letters to his family this year, and each letter took an average of two months to deliver.

Thinking about his two children who will graduate from junior high school next year, if he is not at home to look after them, and if the two children cannot go to high school, they will have to go directly to the countryside.

This is not the result he wants to see.

Thinking of this, he became more eager to return home.

According to the original plan, these language trainees need to study in the UK for three years and will not graduate and return home until the year after next.

But he is different. He has to report his learning progress to the organization every month. The higher-ups are also very clear that his learning progress far exceeds that of other students, and they have sent people to investigate and verify it.

What he is studying now are all postgraduate studies. In order not to abandon his studies halfway, he decided to speed up his study progress again so that he can return home early.

Therefore, with him working at full speed, Sun Zhiwei's learning progress increased visibly in the following months.

His main research areas are computation, cognition and linguistics, which are extensions of several subjects he chose in undergraduate studies.

Including natural language processing, computational and corpus linguistics, multilingual technology, education and assistive technology, etc.

Especially in the multilingual courses, at the request of Professor Feynman, he also dabbled in several other major European languages, including German from the Germanic language family, French from the Latin language family, and

By the end of November, he had successfully completed all subject areas and obtained recognition from his professors.

On December 12st, Sun Zhiwei successfully passed the joint assessment of the faculty, led by his mentor, Professor Feynman of the Cambridge School of Languages, and officially graduated.

On the day the assessment was over, Professor Feynman found him and said to him:
"Although you haven't applied for a degree, with the results of this joint assessment, I can make the decision and award you a doctorate in computational, cognitive, and linguistics."

Unfortunately, although Sun Zhiwei was very tempted by this proposal, he couldn't accept it and could only shake his head and smile.

Professor Feynman's private life was a bit messy, but his teaching level was impeccable, and he was also quite authoritative in the School of Languages. This statement was not empty talk.

The professor knew his difficulties and did not make things difficult for him.

"Okay, okay. I'll take your degree certificate and keep it with me. When you think the time is right, just write to me and I'll mail it to you."

Sun Zhiwei was very grateful to Professor Feynman and agreed with this method, but he was helpless because he couldn't say it out loud.

This is the examination site, and there are so many teachers and classmates here. Who knows if anyone inside will report his words.

But regardless of whether or not he has it, he must be careful with his words and actions. Sun Zhiwei did not respond to Professor Feynman's words, but bowed to thank all the professors who had assessed him.

That afternoon, he packed his luggage from the dormitory and returned to the embassy.

When arranging temporary accommodation for him, the embassy staff also complained to him that the penalty notice from China had come down and those students who did not comply with the regulations would have to start another round of education.

The situation the staff described has actually happened quite frequently over the years. It's simply that some students rely on their parents' power and want to be treated specially.

He failed to comply with the various rules and regulations of the embassy and international students, and refused to behave himself even after being educated by the embassy. In the end, the embassy was forced to report the situation back to China.

Now that the punishment decision has been made in China, not only will they be punished, but their parents will also be implicated. This can be regarded as the earliest "cheating" incident in China.

There were hundreds of students currently staying at the embassy, ​​all of them teenagers who had been there for a long time, and they had made a mess of the place. He was very grateful to be able to return home early; his application to return home had been approved a few days ago, and his departure time was two days later.

After the assessment, he had nothing else to do outside, so he simply moved into the embassy to avoid having to write an out-of-office report in the last few days.

On the morning of December 12, accompanied by a third-class secretary of the embassy, ​​he boarded a train to Dover Port.

His route back this time was also from The Hague to Moscow, and then back to China via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

After the embassy's third-class secretary sent him on board the ship at Dover Port, a third-class secretary from the Dutch embassy met him at the port in The Hague.

He enjoyed the most stringent escort. Whenever he had to change buses, there would be embassy staff to pick him up.

The embassies along the way escorted him like precious cargo, relaying him back from one stop to another.

Fortunately, if the transfer time is long, the embassy staff along the way will take him to visit local famous attractions.

For example, there are only two trains from The Hague to Moscow per week, so he stayed in the Dutch Embassy for two days, during which he visited the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Port of Rotterdam.

When sending him on the train, the third secretary also gave the conductor of the carriage he was riding 15 Dutch guilders and two bottles of wine each, asking them to give Sun Zhiwei special care.

Once you get on the train from The Hague, you can go directly to Moscow. Of course, when you pass the border, there will be fully armed troops boarding the train for inspection.

The embassy prepared complete documents for Sun Zhiwei, allowing him to pass through customs smoothly.

A few days later, the train arrived in Moscow, and the person who came to greet him in Moscow was a third-class secretary of the embassy.

Along the way, he felt as if the third secretary of the embassy was just a person with some authority who did odd jobs.

In fact, this is not the case at all. The third-class secretary of the embassy is equivalent to a regular section-level cadre in the country. It is just that the level of the embassy’s external affairs is relatively high, which makes the third secretary seem worthless.

This also shows that embassies around the world attach great importance to these international students.

The embassy in Moscow is located on Lenin Hill. For security reasons, the embassy does not allow him to go out without permission, and he has no plans to go out on his own.

Our situation here is not very good right now, so he'd better not get himself into trouble.

However, because they had to wait for the next train to Beijing, the embassy's third secretary still drove him to visit Lenin's Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square during his free time.

He looked at Lenin's remains lying in the crystal coffin in a proper manner, and learned the origin of the memorial hall in the capital.

To his regret, Stalin's body had been moved out of the Red Square Mausoleum at that time, so he did not see it.

Two days later, he boarded the K3 train from Moscow to Beijing. It was a long-distance train, and the embassy bought him a sleeper car.

The K3 train covers a total distance of 7692 kilometers and is expected to take eight days. If there is a snowstorm along the way, the time will be extended.

When he boarded the train, the embassy's third secretary gave him enough rubles for him to eat in the restaurant on the train.

Looking at the rubles in his hand and comparing them with the 2 pounds he had in his hand when he boarded the plane from Beijing, Sun Zhiwei felt emotional.

Only then did he realize that his value had increased. No wonder people used to say for a while that going abroad was called gilding.

(End of this chapter)