bookcurios Chapter 106 Penicillin Sample
Chapter 106 Penicillin Sample
It was already the end of May 1937.
Jiayuan Pharmaceutical, Jiang Shiyuan’s independent R&D laboratory.
The bright lights illuminated the bottles and jars on the table, and the air was filled with the faint smell of alcohol and medicine.
Jiang Shiyuan's long black hair was casually tied behind her head, revealing her smooth forehead. A few strands of hair hung playfully on her cheeks, making her clear eyes look even brighter and more charming.
At this moment, she was staring at the petri dish intently, her slender fingers operating the microscope deftly.
The penicillin strains and related research materials sent by Professor Robert Anderson from the United States finally arrived successfully, giving her the opportunity to start a medical revolution in a race against time in this turbulent era.
Like a magician, she carefully inoculated the bacteria into the culture medium and then placed it in an incubator.
Time passed by minute by minute, and her heart beat along with the scale of the thermometer.
"This time I must succeed!" She prayed silently in her heart.
Hard work pays off. A few days later, green mold grew in the culture dish, marking the successful initial cultivation of penicillin.
Jiang Shiyuan was overjoyed and immediately started the next step of extraction and purification.
Although there was a method for purifying and mass-producing penicillin left by his mother, the process of purifying penicillin was not as smooth as expected due to the limited performance of research and development equipment during the Republic of China period.
Jiang Shiyuan conducted repeated experiments and improved his methods, and finally found a feasible path after repeated failures.
"It's done! I finally succeeded!"
Looking at the crystal clear penicillin crystals in the test tube, Jiang Shiyuan was so excited that tears filled his eyes.
"Mom, did you see that? I really did it!"
She seemed to see her mother's gentle and loving smile and hear her whispering encouragement in her ear: "My little wish, you are the best!"
In order to improve the purity of domestic penicillin, Jiang Shiyuan made bold improvements to the extraction process based on the notes left by his mother and his own strongest brain.
She tried various methods and finally identified a new extraction agent that greatly improved the extraction efficiency of penicillin.
Jiang Shiyuan looked at the hard-earned penicillin sample in his hand and muttered to himself.
"Although the penicillin content per milligram is not as high as it is today, as long as it can be produced, it is already ahead of its time!"
That night, the lights in Jiang Shiyuan's independent research and development room were not turned off until one o'clock in the morning.
She rubbed her sore shoulders, stretched, locked the door and went downstairs.
It was late at night and only the dim street lights were lit lonely on the empty streets, lengthening Jiang Shiyuan's figure.
She walked to her black Citroen sedan and was about to take the keys from her bag when her keen senses immediately made her notice something strange.
"Someone is following us, but their tracking skills are quite poor, and they don't look like professionals..."
Jiang Shiyuan's heart was filled with alarm, but he did not act rashly. Instead, he pretended nothing had happened and continued to search for his car keys in his bag.
"Tack, tick, tick..."
There was a sound of light footsteps behind me, getting closer and closer.
Jiang Shiyuan calmly reached into his bag and tightly grasped the pocket Browning pistol.
She looked through the rearview mirror of the car and saw that the man in black was two steps away from her.
Then she turned around suddenly and made a lightning-fast move, grabbing the wrist of the person behind her and twisting it hard, while at the same time pushing her knee into the other person's abdomen.
"Ah!" The man in black let out a scream.
Jiang Shiyuan took advantage of the situation and pushed him to the ground, pressing his knee against his back, and asked sternly, "Tell me! Who are you? Why are you following me?"
The man in black struggled desperately, shouting incoherently: "Lady, spare me! Lady, spare me!"
With the help of the dim street lights, Jiang Shiyuan saw the face of the man in black and was stunned.
"why you?!"
Jiang Shiyuan then remembered that the man in black in front of him was the man in gray who he met on the train and who sold fake cultural relics to Kitahara Sosuke.
The man in black suddenly seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and said excitedly: "Lady, do you still remember me?"
"Before on the train, you were so generous and let me go!"
"Of course I remember you, kid! But you didn't hide yourself properly, and you actually dared to follow me. Are you tired of living?!"
Jiang Shiyuan said this as he searched his entire body without any hesitation. He only let him go after confirming that the other party had no other weapons.
"Ouch! It hurts so much!" The man in black covered his wrist that had just been removed in pain and wailed.
"Tell the truth, why are you following me for no reason?" Jiang Shiyuan asked coldly.
"Lady, I really came here to thank you for not killing me!" The man in black said sincerely, enduring the pain.
"Ever since you let me go on the train last time, I've decided to turn over a new leaf and become a new person!"
"I came back to Shanghai this time just to find a decent job and live a good life."
"Oh? Really?" Jiang Shiyuan obviously didn't quite believe what he said.
"Then tell me, how did you know I was here?"
"I..." The man in black stammered and couldn't make out what he meant for a long time.
"Hmph, it seems you won't shed tears until you see the coffin!"
As Jiang Shiyuan spoke, he attacked again and with lightning speed, he broke the other wrist joint of the man in black.
"Ah! My hand! My hand!" The man in black rolled on the ground in pain.
"Tell me! Who are you? Why are you following me?" Jiang Shiyuan asked sternly.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you! Isn't it enough for me to tell you?" The man in black was sweating profusely from the pain and begged for mercy quickly.
Then he said stutteringly: "My name is Zhao Dalei. I have been responsible for helping the Hydra organization find buyers for fake cultural relics and earning some commissions in the process."
"I had already reached a deal on the train, and was just about to take the check back to Tianxiang Teahouse to report, but you, lady, intercepted me..."
"I was still unconscious when I arrived at Jinling Terminal, so the crew took me to a nearby hospital."
"When I regained consciousness, I immediately fled from the hospital, but because I lost the check and messed up everything, I didn't dare to return to Shanghai right away."
Jiang Shiyuan got a little impatient when he heard this, and kicked him hard, urging him, "Stop talking so much, get to the point!"
Zhao Dalei screamed again, and then his speech speed increased.
"When the Hydra organization saw that I hadn't returned to Shanghai, they thought I had absconded with the money, so they sent people to hunt me down!"
"Fortunately, I was smart enough to disguise myself several times and managed to evade capture by those guys."
"I later thought that the most dangerous place is the safest, so I secretly returned to Shanghai."
"Then I accidentally saw the Shanghai Daily on the street and found out that you, lady, are actually Dr. Jiang who successfully developed the Hualong brand!"