The whistle blew, and the Porthos cruise ship slowly left the river bank.
The pier was crowded with people bidding farewell.
Li Yaoting kept waving his hat and said goodbye to Chen Zikun and Jian Bing on the ship's side.
The cruise ship's huge body floated on the Huangpu River.
Fading away, the pier became quiet again.
Only Li Yaoting still stood leaning on the railing, with tears in the corners of his eyes.
At the stern of the cruise ship, Jian Bing was holding a handkerchief and bursting into tears.
The rows of Western buildings on the bank of the Huangpu River gradually blurred.
A large group of snow-white gulls circled overhead.
A French red, white and blue flag fluttered.
From today on, we will live with our lives.
I say goodbye to Shanghai that I have lived in for more than ten years.
I don’t know how long it will take to see the familiar scenery and familiar people.
The sea breeze gradually picked up, and Chen Zikun took Jian Bing back to the cabin.
They lived in the first-class cabin on the upper deck.
The room had a porthole window that could see the sea.
Gu Weijun and his newlywed wife Huang Huilan lived next door, and the guests on the same floor also There were all diplomats, rich people and other figures.
Jian Bing quickly wiped away her tears and mingled with these people.
She was naturally beautiful and very sociable, so she was able to blend into such occasions with ease.
The cruise ship arrived at Victoria Bay in Hong Kong after two days of sailing and anchored here for one night.
This was the second time that Chen Zikun stopped in Hong Kong.
Thinking that at this time last year he was still a killer and assassin, but today he is a government-sponsored overseas student, he couldn't help but lament the choice of going north to join the army.
Extremely correct.
The next day, the cruise ship left Hong Kong and headed to Saigon, Annan.
It anchored in this French colony for three days.
During this period, passengers came ashore one after another to visit the tropical scenery of Southeast Asia and taste Annamese delicacies.
It was already mid-November, and the autumn wind was already bleak in Beijing. , but it is still spring in Saigon, the streets are green, and pedestrians are wearing tulle, which makes people feel how big the world is.
After leaving Saigon, the cruise ship crossed the Strait of Malacca, stopped for one night in the bullet-sized British colony of Singapore, refueled with coal and water, and then continued on into the vast Indian Ocean.
The next stop was Ceylon.
When the cruise ship docked in Ceylon, passengers swarmed off the ship to buy local specialty gemstones, jewelry and black tea.
Jian Bing also took Chen Zikun off the ship to shop.
The blue sky and blue sea, the setting sun in the coconut grove, and the milky white wooden port authority building were fluttering with British rice.
In the word flag, a white customs officer was lying lazily on a wicker chair, with two local footmen and a dog standing beside him.
"Oh my god, why are British territories everywhere, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Colombo?
I finally understand that the British are really much more powerful than us Chinese."
Jian Bing said with emotion.
Chen Zikun said: "Isn't it?
Otherwise, how can we call it an empire on which the sun never sets?
The world has been divided up by the great powers.
It will take at least a hundred years for China to catch up."
"One hundred years" Jian Bing couldn't help but feel sad and walked forward silently.
Suddenly he saw a Ceylonese boy begging with a rice bowl under a coconut tree on the roadside.
One leg was broken and the wound was covered with flies, which he could no longer drive away. .
Jian Bing was soft-hearted and did not want to see others suffer.
Just as he was about to take out his wallet, a young passenger on the same boat had already placed the banknotes in front of the young man, and turned to smile friendly at them.
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"Brother is so kind-hearted.
Let's go to France."
As a stranger in a foreign land, Jian Bing took the initiative to strike up a conversation and at the same time took out a gold pound and placed it in front of the beggar.
One pound is equivalent to seven and a half dollars, which is not a small amount of money.
The young man was surprised by Jian Bing's generosity, his pupils were slightly dilated, and he said very politely: "Yes, go to France to study."
Chen Zikun stretched out his hand: "Nice to meet you, Chen Zikun, a government-sponsored American West Point student.
This is my wife Shen Jianbing."
The young man stretched out his hand and shook his hand: "Zhou Enlai, Nankai, what did you call me just now?"
"Chen Zikun, what, you know me?"
The young man became excited: "I have heard of this name, one of the heroes who burned Zhaojialou" After saying this, the two parties became familiar with each other.
It turned out that during the May Fourth Movement, Zhou Enlai had established the Awakening Society in Tianjin and led the anti-Japanese demonstrations, which were also very troublesome.
For this, he was detained by the Police Department for a period of time.
It can be said that he was a revolutionary comrade. .
It was a joyful thing to suddenly have a like-minded travel companion on a lonely journey.
Chen Zikun immediately invited Zhou Enlai and his companions to have a meal at a local restaurant.
During the dinner, they had a lot of conversation.
After Zhou Enlai heard that Chen Zikun was proficient in French, he He said that he was going to France to study on a work-study program, but he didn’t know anything about French, and he wanted Brother Chen to give him some advice.
Chen Zikun naturally agreed.
After dinner, he boarded the ship.
Zhou Enlai and Chen Zikun went to the cabin to borrow books.
Before leaving, Chen Zikun bought many original foreign language books from a bookstore in Shanghai, ranging from philosophical treatises to leisure novels.
Unfortunately, there were not many in French.
Zhou Enlai read through them. , just when I was feeling regretful, I saw a copy of the Communist Manifesto lying on the bedside.
The pages were a little old, and my eyes suddenly lit up.
"This is a banned book."
Zhou Enlai half-joked.
"Haha, I must watch it every day.
I can't sleep if I don't watch it."
Chen Zikun said.
Zhou Enlai picked up the pamphlet, flipped through it, and nodded thoughtfully.
On the occasion of the New Year of 1921, the cruise ship Bordeaux finally crossed Asia and Europe and arrived at the port of Marseille on the Mediterranean coast.
Marseille belongs to the Provence department and is the second largest city in France.
Although it is already the middle of winter, the coastal city in the Mediterranean climate does not feel the chill.
After more than a month of wandering at sea, tourists can finally set foot on the mainland. .
Zhou Enlai and other students studying in France had a very tight schedule.
They took the train to Paris first.
Before leaving, everyone said goodbye.
After meeting, they contacted each other through letters and said goodbye to the college students.
Chen Zikun and Jian Bing, accompanied by Gu Weijun and his wife, visited Marseille.
A few days later I took the train to Paris.
After staying in Paris for a few more days, Chen Zikun saw the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Fontainebleau and other places of interest.
The former little thief in Guandong seemed to have been completely transformed, and his actions and gestures had become gentlemanly.
After communicating with the locals, he was already very proficient in French. , so masterful that he would be mistaken for a fellow Parisian by Parisians.
Even Gu Weijun marveled at his talent in language.
While in Paris, the Chinese Embassy in France launched a fund-raising event for the helpless Chinese students studying in France.
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Chen Zikun and Jian Bing participated in this event.
The people present were all upper-class people, and their actions were extraordinary, but the most eye-catching thing was Gu Weijun’s new wife, Huang Huilan, actually donated three thousand pounds.
Chen Zikun was stunned.
Three thousand pounds equaled more than twenty thousand dollars, which could buy a prince's palace in Beijing.
He actually donated it when he asked.
Minister Gu really had money, but Jian Bing whispered from the side: "Don't compare with others." , Mrs.
Gu is the daughter of Huang Zhonghan, the king of the Asian sugar industry, and her family fortune is huge, which we cannot compare with. " "Then how much should we pay?"
Chen Zikun lost his mind.
"Look at me."
Jian Bing took out a gold coin with a face value of fifty francs and put it into the donation box, which got a burst of applause.
After the European War, the French currency depreciated sharply, and the franc was worthless at all, but Jian Bing took out It was a gold coin minted in 1857.
Although it has been withdrawn from circulation, it is still valuable, which is appropriate for Chen Zikun's status as an overseas student.
Gu Weijun was newly married, and after enough sightseeing in Paris, he went to London to take up his post.
Chen Zikun and Chen Zikun followed them across the sea to London.
Compared with the sunny Marseille, this huge city shrouded in mist gave people a strong sense of depression.
After a long trip to the UK, we had to take a walk when we should, including Big Ben, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, all in one circle.
When Gu Weijun took office, he was busy with official duties, so the couple just wandered around by themselves.
On the streets of London where winter rain fell heavily, Chen Zikun and Jian Bing were walking aimlessly along the wet streets.
Suddenly, they saw a Chinese girl with picturesque features standing next to the mailbox on the roadside, holding a letter and putting it inside. plug.
"They seem to be Chinese."
Jian Bing muttered in a low voice.
The girl turned her head when she heard the sound, her eyes flashed over Jian Bing, but stayed on Chen Zikun's face, with a puzzled look on her face, as if she couldn't believe her eyes.
"Hello, Miss Lin."
Chen Zikun took off his hat and said, puffing out a cloud of white mist from his mouth.
The girl said: "Ah, it's really you, Mr.
Julian."
Jian Bing chuckled and said, "I met an old friend in a foreign country, Zikun, please introduce me."
A hand hidden behind his back secretly pinched the soft flesh of Chen Zikun's waist.
The girl's eyes were wide open and her expression was a little exaggerated: "Zi Kun, are you not Julian, but the one from my cousin's family?"
After saying this, she glanced at Jian Bing and swallowed the rest of the words.
Chen Zikun said: "Let me introduce you.
This is the daughter of Mr.
Lin Changmin of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Miss Lin Huiyin.
Miss Lin, this is the wife-in-law, Shen Jianbing."
"Hello."
The two women shook hands and greeted each other.
Just as he was talking, a gentle young man came out of the post office and asked, "Huiyin, who are these two?"
Lin Huiyin said: "These are friends from China, Mr.
Chen and Mrs.
Chen.
This is Xu Zhimo, studying in Cambridge."
After thinking for a while, he added: "Zhimo is a poet."
"Brother Xu, nice to meet you."
Chen Zikun and Xu Zhimo shook hands.
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Suddenly a tram passed by, and Xu Zhimo said: "No, the time is almost up."
Lin Huiyin said hurriedly: "Okay, let's go first."
Following Xu Zhimo, he quickly jumped on the tram and said to Chen Zikun: "I live on Cromwell Road."
The sound behind him was masked by the ringing of the tram.
"Goodbye."
Chen Zikun waved goodbye, feeling lost.
Jian Bing also waved his hands with a smile, and waited for the tram to disappear into the distance before he pretended to be angry and said, "Tell me, what's going on?"
Chen Zikun said: "I used to be a monthly rickshaw driver for her cousin's family, and I have only met half of Miss Lin."
Jian Bing's eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand to grab Chen Zikun's ear: "You are telling lies without drafting, right?
Returning the coachman, aren't you a top student at St.
John's University and Peking University?
Why did you become a long-term worker at the house?
Could it be you?
He is imitating Tang Bohu in stealing jade and fragrance, deliberately getting close to others."
After being poked into his mind, Chen Zikun naturally denied it, but Jian Bing did not spare him.
He repeatedly made fun of him about the incident.
He chuckled, and Chen Zikun also laughed.
The shadow of Lin Wenjing flashed in his mind, and he smiled.
It's a little bitter.
The next day, the two took the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship and set sail from Southampton Port to begin their transatlantic journey to the United States
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