Chapter 177 Endless joy
Watching Princess Louise running away, the Duchess wondered, "What's wrong with her?"
Tang Ning: "Her father suffered from a terminal illness that is likely to be incurable. This news was brought by me. Louise called me back from Shanghai from thousands of miles away. Unexpectedly, it would bring her a bad news. Maybe she couldn't accept it for the time being. (Please visit the latest chapters to read) It feels like she released the demon with her own hands."
Duchess: "No, I'm talking about why she ran away when she saw me? When did I offend her?"
Tang Ning was inexplicably far away from Europe for so long, and his wife had long been resentful. He had to serve him carefully these days, so he answered carefully: "Maybe he doesn't want others to see her crying like a popsicle."
The Duchess burst into laughter and bewitched, and then blamed herself: "Hey, her father is sick like this, I can't have a happy expression, right?"
When Tangning saw that his wife was as carefree as before, he felt a little better and said, "That's because you don't know Albert very much, it's best. I won't take you to see a patient. It's really rare to be happy."
At this time, he noticed that Sissi was holding a letter in her hand and asked, "What's it?"
Xixi handed him the letter and said, "You have to explain to me why you support the slave states in the southern United States. This is your friends... Oh, a joint letter written to us. Please don't support the southern part!"
The envelope indeed read "To the Duke and Duchess of London".
This is a letter written by Hugo, a large number of letters jointly signed by old friends, including Dumas, Dickens, Milley, Andersen, Faraday, Wallace, Darwin, etc. They expressed that they were "very surprised, confused and uneasy" by Downing's support for the South.
After Tang Ning finished reading the letter, he looked up, but still had no intention of speaking. Xixi asked, "Why is it?"
Tangning would never admit to anyone that he wanted to dismember the Great America, including his wife, so he just said lightly: "If you don't support the Southern War, you will fight. If you support the South, it may bring peace, because the North sees that the war is too expensive, and Congress will stop the war from expanding. Is it reasonable to say that?"
Xixi: "This... seems to make some sense, but now the two sides are fighting fiercely, and it is the first place that the south invaded the north."
Tangning: "Yes, the United States has been peaceful for too long, and I can't believe that the civilians on both sides are passionate about the war. They can only let them first understand the cruelty of the war, so that peace negotiations can be carried out."
Xixi: "Okay, I don't understand these anyway. You'll be whatever you say."
Tang Ning smiled and said, "That's right. Don't think too much about war, just live a good life. (Please visit the latest chapters)"
Xixi: "Then are you going to reply to Hugo and the others like this?"
Tang Ning shook his head: "Hugo is too idealistic. It's not a political material. The more you explain, the more you become, the more confused you will be. Let's leave them alone first." These literati and scientists are not as easy to fool as Xixi, so it's better to say less.
The couple who met again after a long time seemed to be more intimate. Xixi held her husband's arm and said, "Let's go for a walk."
Situo Garden spent 200,000 pounds to buy a super luxurious manor, which was quite pleasant to use for a walk.
Sissi: "Do you know Alexander Pope?"
As the wife expected, the rich husband knew very little about literature and art, so he knew a little about philosophy, such as Theseus's ship.
Sissi can show off her knowledge in front of her husband: "He is the greatest British poet of the last century, and he wrote the epitaph of your idol Newton:
Nature and the laws of nature are hidden in the darkness.
God said: Let Newton be born,
So everything suddenly became clear."
Tang Ning: "Huh? I seem to have heard of it somewhere, but I forgot. Thank you for your reminder."
Princess Sissi smiled: "Pope wrote a poem for our manor!"
Tang Ning was surprised: "Really?"
Xixi then told the poem:
“Build, cultivate, whatever you love,
Raise Roman columns, or curved arches,
Uplifting large balcony or settlement cave,
In short, let the charm of nature never be forgotten.
But, the goddess should be treated like a shy beauty.
Don't dress too complicatedly, and don't show it all;
Don't let every beauty be peeked,
Half of the skills are elegantly hidden.
It is a complex of endless joy—
Surprise, change, and invisible boundaries
…”
The golden sunset gently scattered between the green grass and the lake waters, the lotus on the waves enjoyed the quiet beauty of the midsummer evening, and the rich duke enjoyed the whispers of the literary duke. The first half of the poem was so beautiful that his brain was short-circuited, and he could not hear what was behind him at all, and he only knew that the endless pleasure continued to sublimate.
"Dear, I want a baby... When you are not here, I can think of you through the baby." The wife made a reasonable request. They have been together for many years.
"Okay, my dear." Without thinking, Tang Ning agreed. He did not have to be with his wife for many times, and was in the world, and he could not help himself. Can he take care of his family when he went to war? It was too dangerous.
The wife finally found a reason to be angry: "Hey, where did you promise my wedding? When will you go to the Taj Mahal?"
Tangning: "Oh, I said that, I haven't been to India much. Besides, I have no friends there because they are not convenient for them to participate, so I'd better change my mind."
The wife was even more angry: "I just knew you were unreliable, no, I absolutely needed a grand wedding."
Tang Ning: "It's all an old husband and wife..."
Mrs.: "You are old! I'm still young. Anyway, I'm going to have a wedding. Go to my house, Munich, okay?"
She became worried again: "Hey, we have been together for so long before we held a wedding. Will we be laughed at?"
Tang Ning laughed: "What's your logic? I've been together for so long and I'll be laughed at if I don't hold a wedding!"
The wife couldn't stop her mood: "It's all your fault! You're causing trouble everywhere, do you know? The Times said that you went from the best good man to the biggest evil man because you supported the southern slave states."
Tang Ning's imagination opened: "With it! We have to do something that can divert others' attention, and no one will make any jokes."
Mrs.: "What's the bad idea?"
Downing: "The Pope in Rome has been surrounded by Italian troops, but they swear to fight to the death. Mazinni is still hesitating whether to rush in and do the Pope, I am afraid that this will cause public outrage. I am soft now. In this way, I ask the Pope to host the wedding for us. We will hold the wedding in the cathedral in Rome, and it is convenient for relatives and friends to go."
Mrs.: "It's a bad idea. You, the notorious atheist, also want the Pope to preside over the wedding? He will not refuse to beat him to death."
Tangning: "If he doesn't want to, I will drive him out of Rome. If he wants to, he can leave the Vatican to the Pope."
The wife burst into laughter: "It's so bad! But it's quite fun."
The fate of the Pope was so happy to decide. Sissi recommended herself and wrote to the Pope in person, saying that if he was willing to condescend to host the wedding for them, she could beg her husband to leave a piece of territory for the Pope in Rome, guarded by Swiss volunteers, and not interfere with the Italian government. In order to pursue proper wording, she also invited George Eliot, the female editor of the Westminster Review, to advise, who had some contact with the Duke's family because of the feminist movement.
Pope Pius IX received a letter from the Duchess, knowing that this was his last chance, but he still wanted to delay for a while. The armed confrontation between the Windsor Consortium and the NATO top four countries is the most important event in the world today. What if the Windsor Consortium is defeated? Maybe Italy falls apart again, and the Pope still has a little chance of revival.
After Tangning's strange comfort, I don't know if it was to know that there was a glimmer of hope or the metaphor of "marrying to a distant country" played a role. In short, Louise was not as desperate as before. In turn, she comforted Prince Albert not to be confused, which made her father secretly amazed. After asking, it turned out that Tangning had told her that magical treatment method. Unfortunately, the literary little princess only remembered to use "gold" and "light". She didn't know what the nano-level level was, and she thought it was ordinary gold.
The curious prince went to Tangning's house to inquire about it. It was related to his life. Of course, he had sufficient reasons to give up all official duties. Everyone lives in Buckingham County, and the two families are quite convenient to get along, not to mention that now is the era of hydrogen fuel trucks.
Louise also went to Tangning's house with her father. She had to confirm whether someone comforted her that day and bullied her not knowing science. Of course, the president of Cambridge University was not that easy to fool. After some thought, Tangning decided to publish a paper on subatomic structure in the journal Nature, allowing humans to officially enter the subatomic era.
However, he needed a team to conduct experiments and data sorting, otherwise it would be difficult to convince scientists. You should know that starting from the ancient Greek naturalist philosopher Democritus to the father of chemistry, Dalton, everyone believed that atoms were the inviolable smallest units that constitute everything. This concept has penetrated into the brains of scientists. Performing subatomic research that is smaller than atoms is like digging a hole in the brains of scientists.
Sure enough, a subatomic sentence shocked the prince, and there was something smaller than the atom? The prince said: "I hope I will see this paper in my lifetime... I will simply resign from the position of president of Cambridge University and let you do it. I believe no one will have any objections. (http://.). Anyway, I can't live for a few days..."
When Louise heard this, she shook her father's arm aside and protested that he would say discouraged words.
Tang Ning: "Uh... no one has any objections? The Times said that I am the biggest evil person in history now. And I am very concerned about China's affairs. I am afraid that the first person who happened after taking office was to set up the University of Cambridge, Shanghai. I was having a headache about how to do higher education in a place in China without a university tradition."
Prince: "It's so strange, it seems that the Times always likes to report your negative news, alarmist... political things, those populist newspapers don't understand. American division helps the security of my British Empire colony."
Tang Ning was surprised: "Wow, you really told the secret of heaven in one word..."
The Duchess was serving tea to the guests, and immediately responded: "What? This is the secret of heaven? That day you said that you supported the south, but the north dared not fight. Is it a lie to me for peace?"
Chapter completed!