Chapter 31 Chapter 30 "U" Shaped Committee

Hull honked the horn twice, but there was no response from the dark red two-story building.But the iron garden gate was ajar, and it opened with a push.The brothers walked in along the cobbled path.The green space on both sides of the path is full of various orchid grasses.Although Berkeley's climate is much colder than Pasadena's, orchids can still grow outdoors. "Joan bought this house with her patent income. It is mainly a patent for a new cloud chamber and a counting tube." Roman said, "She said that she likes this house because it has a garden and can be used to grow orchids. "

"Joan knows we're coming?" "Of course I know. But I don't know it's today. I want to give her a surprise." Aum listened carefully, and finally heard some kind of soft music.He judged the position and waved his hand: "Go, she is in the ballroom." Behind the small building, a spacious one-story house extends down the hillside covered with redwoods, which is what Aum called the "dance hall".There is no carpet on the dark yellow floor, two wooden handrails for practicing exercises are installed under the glass wall, and a grand piano and fitness equipment are placed at one end of the room.The music is played from the tape recorder.The Olmhouse brothers came to a corridor and glanced into the hall through the glass wall there. It is true that I have never seen it!

In addition to appearance, figure and skin color, Joan's beauty is mainly manifested in her attire and charm: her long chestnut black hair is draped over her shoulders, or tied into a "ponytail" and hung behind her back in a big braid; For example, in the laboratory conference room, it is tied into a bun, and with her oval face and long and fair neck, she is very charming.Usually dressed like the average young American or Chinese women, but no matter what you wear and how you wear it, you are very attractive; in public, you wear a deep purple cheongsam with a close-fitting cut and lace, a high collar, and high slits , tall breasts, with a few pieces of jewelry, every line of the body is soft and graceful, looks noble and elegant, and has a great manner - in the words of Dr. Kruin, who studies turbulence: all are "flowing"!Professor Carmon is a well-known disciple of Freud. His evaluation of Joan's cheongsam, especially the "high slit" is "spiritual"...

But Joan in front of her was only wearing a swimsuit—this outfit was not only unknown to ordinary people, even Roman and Hull had never seen it before.At this moment, Aum suddenly felt that it would be impolite to sneak into other people's rooms, and wanted to scream, but although he opened his mouth, he didn't scream.In fact, Hull has seen that what Joan is wearing is not a "swimsuit", but a kind of tights for dance practice, similar to a gymnastics suit, with a soft and delicate waist exposed, and it really feels "flowing" during the dance. !Joan was dancing, or rather practicing—that's why she was wearing tights.She danced not ballroom dances such as tango, foxtrot, and waltz, but a solo dance; it seemed that she was intoxicated in some dreamlike state...

Joan had studied ballet--this was evident from the "flare-out" foot shape that Joan often displayed without realizing it.But she was more influenced by Duncan, and Duncan didn't like ballet.Duncan yearns for the liberation of human nature, loves the confession of the soul and the unrestrained rhythm, and pursues the unique expression of thoughts and feelings; on the stage, he breaks the formula, does not use sets, does not lay carpets, does not require standardized movements, and actors do not wear clothes, shoes and socks, but wear Light gauze, long hair fluttering, barefoot dancing...

"Just like another Duncan!" Hull stared intently. "What did you say?" Roman asked. "Wedding..." Hale murmured. "What wedding, whose wedding?" "I say the name of the dance Joan dances. It's a famous ballet premiered in Paris in 1923." The original play should be a group dance.Joan, who dances solo, can only play the bride, of course.She is expressing the joy, shyness and dressing of the bride to the fullest, seeing the warm wedding and wedding feast, seeing the "bridal chamber wedding night" and the love between men and women...

Berkeley is very cold this winter, but the small dark red building is as warm as spring. Ding Jieqiong admired Duncan and once dreamed of becoming a dancer; although she changed her career later, she never gave up her love for dancing and her habit of dancing.Americans love sports. She also participates in skiing, skating and playing tennis, watching basketball and softball games, but her most frequent form of exercise is dancing, and she dances alone, seriously, dancing "symphonic ballet" and "natural ballet". Movement", dance "Human Rhythm", dance "Expressionism", dance "Chance Dance", "Pop Dance", "Mime Dance" and "Freedom Dance", etc.She often dances alone, spends time in dance, and uses dance to express her longing for her lover and desire for love...

Ding Jieqiong's favorite is Duncan's "Free Dance".This kind of dance is indeed "freedom". You can freely choose the works of Beethoven, Schubert or other composers and arrange the movements at will. Unleash your inner emotions... Yes, what she danced just now is true, but she is not limited by the original work.She enjoys dreams in the dance, imagining herself putting on a wedding dress and becoming a bride; imagining her own marriage and Guanlan's wedding; The restlessness of new life... She got up and went to the tape recorder to play another piece of music, which was a cello solo with a lingering melody.Along with the music, her arms staggered like waves, the muscles on her arms and back were painfully tightened, and her slender neck stretched with difficulty... She turned into a big bird, a wounded bird, and her body was full of pain. Trembling, struggling alone and in agony, he thrust his head to the surface and began to sip.In the end, her whole body's joints were loose and she collapsed on the floor.

"Dead..." Hull said softly. "What, who died?" Roman was surprised. "The swan is dead!" Ding Jieqiong lay on the floor for a long time, motionless.She is using "Death of the Swan" to express her state of mind.The endless separation from Guanlan made her unbearable and painful; she even had an ominous premonition that she would be separated from Guanlan forever in this life, and could never be together or combined; The artistic conception of incomparable luck can never be realized!One day, like that beautiful and proud white swan, she will die silently and helplessly in loneliness...

She wasn't motionless, she was crying, her shoulders were shaking, her body was twitching... The Olmhos brothers had delusions and even hallucinations in an instant, and shouted almost simultaneously: "Joan!" "Swan" moved slightly, and seemed to wake up a little bit. "Joan, Joan! It's us—Roman and Hull!" The brothers tapped on the windowpane.Ding Jieqiong finally woke up from the nightmare.She looked up and saw the Olmhouse brothers through the reflection of the glass; still dignified, she stood up calmly, nodded, gestured to them, and took the The few clothes on the bar went upstairs.

"She told us to go to the living room." Roman was familiar with Joan's gestures. After Ding Jieqiong took a bath, she went downstairs slowly.Her thick chestnut black long hair is fluffy on the top of her head, her thin water-red underwear is close to her slender body, and she wears a belt of the same color at a slant, and her light steps are ethereal.She walked up to Hull first, and stretched out her right hand: "Lieutenant, you are thinner, darker, and you have worked hard!" "Almost died a few times!" Hull stood at attention as usual, saluted, and was meticulous. "The previous few times were in China, and the latest time was in Honolulu." Hull, who has experienced the battle, his voice and skin are much rougher, and the whole body has matured. "Thank you, Hull" "Why thank me?" "You are a hero. All heroes should be thanked." "Dear Joan, do you know the best way to thank me?" "Of course I know!" Ding Jieqiong smiled, "If you're not afraid that Roman will be jealous—" She stretched out her hands to hold Hel's cheeks, and kissed on the left side and the right side. "Very well, now it's time for me to thank you!" Hull said cheerfully, "Besides, dear Joan, I am no longer a lieutenant, but a captain." "That's great, congratulations, Captain—oh, didn't you retire long ago?" "I just resumed my military status and was promoted to a military rank, a few days ago." "Pearl Harbor changed everything!" Ding Jieqiong tugged at Hull's sleeve, "Don't always be so respectful, sit down, and tell me about the situation in China—you mentioned in your letter that you often fly over Guizhou." "yes." "What is Guizhou like?" "Guizhou doesn't have our base. So, although I fly over Guizhou a lot, I've never set foot on the ground there—unless I get shot down by the Japanese, but I don't want that to happen." "I don't even want it!" Ding Jieqiong laughed again, "So, what about Guizhou seen from the sky?" "That's hard to say. I heard that Guizhou is famous for its poor mountains and bad waters, and has the most typical 'karst' landform in the world; now that many places have been bombed, it is of course even worse..." Ding Jieqiong listened carefully. "Hey, Joan," Hull was a little surprised, "China is so big, why do you keep staring at Guizhou?" "Oh, Guizhou has my relatives." "What kind of relative?" Ding Jieqiong pretended not to hear, and changed the subject. After the "July 7th Incident", Pingjin, Shanghai and Nanjing fell one after another, and Jinan was also occupied by the Japanese army at the end of 1937.Chalude, the president of Qilu University, already had "experience" in May 1928, and this time he showed enough foresight: starting from October 1937, most of the teachers, students, staff and their families were moved to the university. Southwest, and the first batch of immigrants are most of the School of Medicine and all of the School of Science.When bidding farewell to the teachers and students who moved in from the two colleges, President Chalude delivered a farewell speech with tears in his eyes: "You are arranged to go first because you physicists, chemists, pharmacists and doctors are the pillars of the nation. You are the country's elite! Your knowledge and talents are urgently needed for the War of Resistance!" Su Guanlan was evacuated with the Faculty of Science.Before leaving, he asked, "What are you going to do, principal?" "I won't leave. The part where Qi Da stayed here will continue to teach." Chalude shook his head, pointing to his own cheeks and arms: "The white skin of us people is still useful now." "I, the 'special assistant to the principal', can't leave the principal alone." "Then you can help me manage some things." The principal smiled bitterly, "Dr. William Peck, the head of the Department of Pharmacy, has returned to England, and it seems that he will not come again—from now on, you will act as the head of the Department of Pharmacy." He knew that Su Guanlan had contacted his father Xiang Shao, and said, "My father doesn't want to go into politics anymore, he has already submitted his resignation, and recommended a Dr. Zhao Jiuzhen as the successor director of the National Observatory." "Zhao Jiuzhen?" "Yes. Graduated from the University of Göttingen, studying geophysics." "It's the University of Göttingen again!" Su Guanlan shrugged, "Germany has really cultivated many enemies for itself." "In addition to astronomical phenomena, the National Observatory also manages geomagnetism, earthquakes, tides, ocean currents, hydrology and meteorology. He is suitable." Chalude didn't know that Su Guanlan had met Zhao Jiuzhen a long time ago, so he continued, "My lord wants to go back. Come to the astronomy and calendar, and they are escorting dozens of trucks to the Purple Mountain Observatory." "Where does Zitai move to?" "Phoenix Mountain in Kunming—the location was chosen by him." Su Guanlan couldn't figure out what Chalude meant.Did he mean that if the father ceases to be in politics, he will have no power, so he will not be able to control his son, and will not be able to prevent Su Guanlan from going abroad?No, I'm afraid the problem is not that simple... The relocation of the two colleges of Qi University to Chengdu lasted for several months, and the journey was extremely difficult.After arriving, he negotiated with West China Union University to "borrow" for one year, and then resumed classes with other church universities that moved inland.Su Guanlan organized teaching under very difficult conditions, and later shifted her focus to the development of drugs that were urgently needed in the war, and organized teachers and students to participate in laboratory work and factory production to support the front line.Due to the extreme lack of equipment and equipment, he pedaled a broken bicycle to shop around, went to second-hand stalls, rummaged through waste piles, looked for alternatives, and asked other schools and hospitals for help, etc.He also opened a "list" to send to the United States, and Ding Jieqiong used his salary and patent income to purchase equipment and send it to China to help Su Guanlan as much as possible.As the war went on and the battlefield situation became more severe, vast cities and towns in China were bombed crazily, causing heavy military and civilian casualties, and the shortage of medicines was getting bigger and bigger... Under such circumstances, Su Guanlan decided to find another way to find natural medicine in the vast mountains and wilds of the Southwest. medicinal resources.To this end, he organized several chemists, plant taxonomists, medicinal botanists and technicians.Just at this time, Guiyang Medical College intends to hire Su Guanlan as the director of the pharmaceutical department of the hospital, and their group of like-minded people set their first choice of destination as Guizhou.An important reason for this decision is that the climate in southern China is hot and the malaria epidemic is serious. At the same time, the import channel of antimalarial drugs has been interrupted, the original stock of drugs in China has run out, and the resistance of malaria parasites has also increased significantly.The information Su Guanlan possesses proves that more than one kind of traditional Chinese medicine can be used to fight malaria, and the largest treasure house of this kind of medicinal plant resources is in the Chongshan Junling in Guizhou.So, they planned to start from Guiyang and head northeast... Once again, Ding Jieqiong agreed and supported Su Guanlan's choice without hesitation. He also purchased a batch of chemical experiment equipment, reference materials and power generation equipment suitable for analysis, determination and synthesis under simple conditions, and transported them all the way to Kunming and then to Guiyang... In this way, Guizhou has Ding Jieqiong's "relatives". "Hull, have you completed your mission well this time when you return home?" "A thousand times better than planned, dear Joan!" "Oh, what's the matter?" "It's simple: instead of recruiting volunteers, the government sends troops directly." "That's great." "You're right: Pearl Harbor changed everything!" On July 1, 1941, Germany and Italy decided to recognize the Wang puppet regime in Nanjing.On July 2, the Chinese government announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany and Italy.On December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor Incident, China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy, and Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.On the 11th, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States-the Second World War broke out in full swing.Japan quickly attacked the British and American territories in Asia such as Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore, Kalimantan, Malaya, and the Philippines, and had already occupied Vietnam.The British and American industries in the occupied areas of China were all confiscated by Japan, including all schools, such as Shanghai St. John’s University, Nanjing Jinling University and Jinling Women’s College of Arts and Sciences, Peking Yenching University and Union Medical College, Jinan Qilu University, etc.Qilu University’s campus became a Japanese barracks, Qilu Hospital became a Japanese hospital for wounded soldiers, and all the missionaries, including the principal Pastor Chalud, became prisoners of war and were transferred to a concentration camp in Weixian, Shandong... Hull was a professional soldier, and he talked endlessly about the war.According to him, the Second World War began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident when Japan launched an all-out attack on China on July 7, 1937; then, Hitler annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, Intervened in the Spanish Civil War with Mussolini, who annexed Abyssinia and Albania.Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, occupied Denmark and Norway in April 1940, occupied the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in May, and invaded mainland France.Then, Hitler and Mussolini hit southern Europe and North Africa... The first turning point of "World War II" was Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the German-Soviet War broke out, and Stalin changed from a secret alliance with Germany to an open alliance with Britain and the United States; the second turning point was December 1941 The Pearl Harbor Incident on the 7th, the war between Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China has been in full swing since then.In the past few years, two billion people in more than 60 countries and regions have been involved in the whirlpool of war... "Hull," Ding Jieqiong laughed, "you are not a captain, but a five-star general!" "A gypsy once gave me a fortune-telling, saying that I would not even become a colonel in my life." Hull also smiled, "You know, my dear Joan, the original mission of my return this time is to recruit more volunteers But now it has changed, even we ourselves are not counted as volunteers, and we will all resume our status as active-duty soldiers; we will no longer have to use the flag of the 'Chinese Air Force', and we will all use the logo and designation of the U.S. Air Force..." "Great!" Joan clapped her hands, "The United States is so powerful, plus China, Britain and the Soviet Union, it will soon be able to defeat Japan, Germany and Italy." "You're wrong," interjected the silent Roman. "It's not that easy." "Why are you throwing cold water?" Joan turned to look at Aum. "Not to throw cold water," Dr. Olmhaus said. "Whether you like it or not, the fact is that Germany and Japan are still strong enough." "To what extent is 'enough' enough to defeat America?" "That's not enough. The United States is powerful and invincible. A country that can defeat the United States has not yet appeared. But it can kill millions more in the United States and thousands more in our allies and countries around the world, including our enemies." Thousands of people." "Oh?" "To avoid killing people on such a large scale, we must take all necessary means to destroy fascism and end the war as soon as possible. This requires us to master and use an unprecedented and extremely terrible weapon to deter the enemy and use it to destroy the enemy if necessary! Only when they are overwhelmed and threatened with total annihilation will they capitulate and surrender." "'Unprecedented and extremely terrifying weapon'—" Ding Jieqiong looked at Aum and pondered for a while, "Are you talking about the atomic bomb?" "You, how do you know?" Aum was taken aback. "You forget that I study nuclear physics." "but……" "But this is a top secret—is it?" Ding Jieqiong had already brewed a pot of Indian black tea.Now, she puts a cup in front of everyone, "Oh, just talking, the tea is cold." "I, I never told you!" Aum's eyes widened. "Do you need to talk about it?" Ding Jieqiong still smiled, "Not long after I arrived in Berkeley, I found that you often 'travel', and every time you kept your mouth shut, never talking about your mission and location—this shows that you have some kind of burden. Secret mission. Certain designs, experiments, and calculations you entrusted to me, as well as certain theoretical questions you raised, lead to only one conclusion." Joan arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in March 1939.Aum recalled that he had indeed started to engage in some kind of mysterious mission shortly thereafter... Ding Jieqiong took a sip of black tea, put her elbows on the armrest of the sofa, and leaned back.She wanted to make herself more comfortable. "Once, you inadvertently mentioned attending a 'Committee U' meeting and said there was a lot of debate - I thought, 'Committee U', what a queer title!" Aum stared at the female scientist intently. "The other day, after you left, I thought, what's 'U'? Isn't that the element symbol for 'uranium'? Uranium, the actinides. Chemically extremely reactive. Atomic number ninety-two. Silvery white. Radioactive. There are three natural isotopes, 234, 235 and 238, which are symbiotic in pitchblende or other uranium-containing ores. It has little use, and has been used only as coatings in the watch and ceramic industries for a long time." The female scientist overlapped two slender with his hands on his knees, with a calm expression and a calm tone: "Is there any other use? By the way, it can also be used to make atomic bombs, which is what you call an 'unprecedented and extremely terrifying weapon', but it is extremely difficult." Among the three isotopes, only uranium 235 can undergo a chain reaction, which can be used to make atomic bombs; but uranium 235 only accounts for 0.7% of natural uranium, and because it is very close to the physical properties of uranium 238, separation It's almost impossible to say. But no matter how difficult it is, it must be separated, otherwise it will not be possible to manufacture that kind of 'unprecedented and extremely terrible weapon'-I think that is what the so-called 'U Committee' does. From the nature and Functionally, it’s supposed to be an agency reporting directly to the President; it’s been in existence and functioning for about two years from your initial disclosure.” "Joan!" Orm gasped and stood up. Hull looked at his brother, then at Joan, not understanding what they were talking about, let alone what was happening and what was about to happen... "Don't be nervous, dear Orm. I'm not a spy. But from your previous conversations, it is easy for a reasonable person to deduce something." The female scientist was almost thirty-two years old, but she still looked Young as a girl, with fair face, rosy cheeks, slim, dignified and beautiful; there is still a charming smile on his face: "You seem to have forgotten that you have provided me with samples of uranium metal and uranium oxide. Although the quantity is small, But it is enough for me. I have been studying it for two years, but most of the research results have not had time to tell you.” At this point, Ding Jieqiong also stood up and stretched out her hands, “Aum, Is there anything I can do for you?"