Chapter 8: The Big Red Quilt
"Uncle Li, after getting off work tonight, we will go back to the old house. Nan Zhiqiao replied in the affirmative.
Uncle Li's unchanged smile still hung on his face, "Okay." ”
After delivering the meal and passing on good words, Uncle Li left.
Nan Zhiqiao handed the lunch box in his hand to Zhen Zhen, "You go back to the office first, and I'll process the patient's specimen first." ”
Vera trotted into the office, put her lunch box on her desk, and turned to enter the lab.
It was lunch time, and the students in the experimental group went to the central cafeteria, and the offices and laboratories were empty.
After changing into a lab coat in the buffer room, he entered the P2 experimental area, where Nan Zhiqiao was processing specimens.
Nan Zhiqiao sat in front of the biological safety cabinet, operating the specimens in the safety cabinet with both hands, and before putting the specimens into the gene chip, they had to go through pre-treatment.
Seeing Zhen Zhen come in in a lab coat, Nan Zhiqiao moved to the side, and Zhen Zhen dragged another lab bench and sat next to her to help.
The pre-processing process of the sample is cumbersome, the nucleic acid is extracted from the patient's sample, the gene chip is added, the instrument is put in, and the reaction begins.
The instrument runs automatically, without the need for human care, and it takes more than an hour to wait for the results to come out.
During this time, Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen left the lab and went back to the office for lunch.
The lunch brought by Uncle Li was very rich, and they were all favorite dishes for the two.
After lunch, the students of the experimental group returned to the laboratory from the central cafeteria one after another.
Seeing two teachers eating in the office, the students consciously or unintentionally bypassed the side.
Gao Fushan, a new graduate student in joint training this year, stopped talking at the dinner table.
After the two teachers finished eating, Nan Zhiqiao re-entered the laboratory, and when Zhen Zhen cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Gao Fushan came to Zhen Zhen's side: "Teacher Ye!"
"Xiao Gao, what's the matter? I saw you as if something was wrong when I was eating and putting it away just now. ”
Gao Fushan: "Hmm...... I haven't completed the task assigned to me by Mr. Nan before. ”
"What task?"
"It is the expression of the rabies virus nucleoprotein in S9 insect cells using the baculovirus expression system. ”
Li Guoyi has done this subject before, and the expression effect is very good, and he has also isolated and purified nuclear proteins and done immunogenicity experiments. This experiment is highly reproducible, what is wrong with you?"
"I repeated the steps left by Senior Li, and in the final cell culture medium, no nuclear proteins were detected. ”
Ye Zhenzhen thought to herself, this protein expression experiment has been done before, and the protein content obtained in the end is very high, Gao Fushan can't do it, maybe because of the novice, which link has not been handled well.
Zhen Zhen: "Show me the original record of the experiment. ”
"Oh, here. ”
Ye Zhenzhen began to analyze the problems that Gao Fushan might encounter, first the original records, then the various reagents and cells in the laboratory, and finally found the reason, which turned out to be a problem with a reagent in the protein detection process.
helped Gao Fushan solve the problem, and the gene chip also came out with results, Nan Zhiqiao read the results and came out of the laboratory.
Ye Zhenzhen: "Teacher Nan, the results are out?"
Nan Zhiqiao: "Well, Giardia lambii. ”
"Giardia lamblia, a common pathogen of travel diarrhea, can cause such severe symptoms, and the patients have all their organs failing. ”
Nan Zhiqiao: "Some people who are infected with Giardia lamblia may have no symptoms, or the symptoms may be mild, and they can rarely develop to the fatal level. ”
"As long as the pathogen is identified, there are several special drugs to deal with Giardia lamblia. ”
Nan no Qiao: "Call JS Hospital." ”
"Good. ”
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The specimen of the critically ill patient at JS Hospital has been tested, and it is close to two o'clock in the afternoon.
For the rest of the afternoon, Zhen Zhen was preoccupied.
It wasn't until the evening when the two returned to the old house in the suburbs and saw Grandpa Nan's smiling face that Zhen Zhen was relieved.
The family gathered around the table for dinner, and Grandpa Nan took the initiative to mention that the two got married.
Nan Zhiqiao explained: "Because I am busy with work, I haven't had time to say it yet. ”
Grandpa Nan knew that his baby grandson had found a reason casually, and he didn't care.
After dinner, Grandpa Nan asked Uncle Li to bring a stack of wedding materials, "You two take a look, they are all preparations for the wedding, about the wedding date, I still have to discuss with Zhen Zhen's parents, and the list of banquet guests......"
Zhen Zhen and Nan Zhiqiao glanced at each other, and deeply felt that they were going to be brainwashed again tonight.
Within more than two hours of dinner, Grandpa Nan pulled Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen, and the three of them had been discussing the wedding in the living room.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Uncle Li came to the living room with a cup of soothing tea: "Master, it's time to rest." ”
Grandpa Nan saw the time and patted his head, "I forgot the time to chat, it's time to rest, Zhiqiao, Zhenzhen, you also rest early, and you have to get up early to go to work tomorrow." ”
Grandpa Nan stood up, glanced upstairs, and said with a smile: "Oh, I almost forgot, I have asked Aunt Li to prepare the room for the two of you, remember, don't go to the wrong room." ”
Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen glanced at each other, and they had a bad feeling in their hearts at the same time.
The largest bedroom on the second floor of the old house was decorated with a new house, with a big red quilt and red curtains, everything was beaming.
Pushing open the door, the two of them stood at the door, looking at the bedroom that was arranged as a new house, Ye Zhenzhen sighed: "Grandpa prepared it?"
Nan Zhiqiao was also quite helpless, "In this regard, grandpa has always been happy to do this. ”
Walking into the bedroom, Zhen Zhen sat on the big red quilt.
The bed was soft, but there seemed to be something bumpy under the quilt, and the person with the diaphragm was uncomfortable.
When I lifted the quilt, I saw that the red sheets were sprinkled with peanuts, longan, and dates......
"What are these for?" Ye Zhenzhen looked at the dried fruits on the bed with an inexplicable expression.
"Customs! Take the good omen of 'giving birth to a noble son early'. ”
"We're just getting a license, isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?"
"Well, if that's an exaggeration, then there will be times when you'll be surprised. ”
Looking back at Nan Zhiqiao, Zhen Zhen asked, "What else will there be?"
"I don't know, grandpa surprises people every time, and it's always been like this since I was a kid. ”
"Grandpa is really ...... Lovely!"
Looking at the bed of dried fruits, Zhen Zhen smiled and asked, "What about these things?"
Nan Zhiqiao: "Are you hungry?"
"Not hungry. ”
"Then clean it up, take it to the lab tomorrow, and eat it. ”
"These ...... Can you eat it?"
"Absolutely. ”
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After spending the night in the old mansion, Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen got up early in the morning to get ready for work.
Nan Zhiqiao used the excuse that he was busy with the recent experiment, and discussed with his grandfather that he would only go back to the old house on weekends, and usually lived in the apartment of Longteng Villa, which was relatively close to the disease control compound.
In the morning in the CDC central laboratory, everyone was the same as usual, the students were experimenting in the laboratory, Nan Zhiqiao demonstrated the process of inoculating the strain in the brain of a suckling mouse to the new graduate student, Ye Zhenzhen revived a batch of new cells, and Teacher Li Huizhen was busy cleaning the acid-soaked cell bottles and pipettes......
When it was almost time to eat at noon, the students took off their lab coats one after another and came out of the laboratory.
Nan Zhiqiao received a temporary notice and went to the conference room of the center to discuss matters related to the upcoming Tuanshan Forum with several center leaders.
Less than ten minutes after Nan Zhiqiao left the lab, Zhen Zhen's mobile phone rang.
The caller ID is Minami Joe's number.
"Hey, Senior Nan?"
"......" There was silence on the phone.
"Senior Nan, did you leave something behind, do you want me to send it over?"
"It's me, can you hear me?" said an unfamiliar voice on the phone.