Chapter 7: Being a Good Englishman (1)

The little girl picking mushrooms has a big basket

In the morning, barefoot people are all over the forests and hills

She picks the most mushrooms

There are too many stars to count

She picks the largest mushrooms

It was as big as the little umbrella that filled the basket

One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five

One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five, five, five

Who doesn't know the aroma of mushrooms in the basket

But she refused to taste it

Still have to wait for the little buddy

Share happiness together

…………

"Mr. Gao Yi, although I don't know Chinese very well, I guess you just sang one-two-three-four-five in the song, and five was repeated many times."

"It seems that your Chinese is improving very quickly, Miss McBride, you guessed right."

"Why? I mean, it's weird to have lyrics like this in a song, isn't it? And it doesn't sound good. ”

"Because they have a special meaning, there is no one, two, three, four, five, this is an ordinary song that can no longer be ordinary, but it is different after having it."

"Well, I think you answered my questions very well, Mr. Gao Yi."

"Well, you see, this is a song about sharing, about a little girl looking for a big mushroom, and when she finally finds the big mushroom, she doesn't plan to have it alone, but shares it with her good friends."

"I think we're talking about numbers, Mr. Gao Yi, and there are no numbers in the story you told me."

"No, Miss McBride, we're talking about a question of logic, how does a little girl know if a mushroom is big enough? She had to put it in her basket and try it, once, twice, three times, four times, but the mushrooms were so big that she couldn't count them until she reached five. ”

"I must admit that your explanation has made me even more confused."

"It's normal, Miss McBride, and it's strange if a lady like you could understand it, considering that even most Chinese don't know the true meaning of the song...... So, I guess you should come over a little more, Miss McBride, you're not exactly aligned. ”

"On your side?"

"Uh-huh."

"But I think it's in the right place."

"That's your point of view, you should come to me again...... Okay, come over a little more, um, very good, this is the location! ”

A drop of cedar oil drops on the coverslip, and Gao Yi switches to the oil lens position, then lowers the lens barrel until the lens is immersed in the oil droplet.

"The next piece." After observation, Gao Yi raised the lens barrel and removed the slides on the mirror stage.

"This is a new set of samples, from ......," said Miss McBride, Lian Jisheng's niece, as she handed over the new slides and looked at the notebook at hand, "from a dock in Hongkou." ”

Gao Yi first switched to a low magnification coarse adjustment to ensure that the sample to be observed was in the center of the field of view, then cut the high magnification lens for fine adjustment, then raised the lens barrel, and Miss McBride dripped cedar oil, and finally switched to a 100x oil lens.

Although sometimes it is not as efficient for two people to work together as one person, there is a saying that men and women are not tired of working together, at least Gao Yi's mental efficiency has been significantly improved.

"The little girl picking mushrooms has a big basket ......"

Gao Yi slowly turned the propeller bolt under the mirror table, scanning the entire sample backwards, backwards, left and right. The microscope produced by Watson & Sons in his hand, except for the brass tube and mirror table, which are too tyrannical, is not much different from the products of later generations in terms of function, and has everything that should be used for condensers, converters, and regulators.

"Picking the forests and hills with bare feet early in the morning......"

The strange singing voice floated in the teaching building of Chinese and Western women, but fortunately, there were only two of them in the whole building, and no one would hear it.

Today is the second time I have left home and returned to school, and after the morning service, the campus is quiet, most of the faculty and staff are entertaining and resting in the dormitory, only they are still in the laboratory and continue to work selflessly.

In the past two weeks, Gao Yi received a total of 276 soil samples. These soils need to be soaked, the supernatant is taken, diluted into three gradients of 100 times, 1000 times and 10000 times, and then put it on the beef broth jelly cooked by the proprietress to spread the plate for culture, and finally pick the colonies to make plates.

In order to complete the above work, Gao Yi can be said to have mobilized all the forces that can be used around him, needless to say the proprietress - Gao Yi spent an extra yuan and two cents a day to rent the four beds in the front attic - he also temporarily hired four little maids from the opposite hall to come over as part-time workers, responsible for shaking the soaked soil every once in a while.

Miss McBride volunteered to help, and she helped more than all the others combined, and she did almost all the slides except for the Red Sleeves, which was no easy task, and so far more than 1,300 slides had been made, and there was at least so much unfinished work left.

Gao Yi is responsible for picking colonies, which is the main job that no one can replace. He had no choice but to pick small plaques away from the edges of the colonies, and then dilute the large plaques that had gathered in the colonies again, incubate them again, and then re-plate. The selected colonies must also be re-cultured to grow the population.

He now has more than 3,000 microflora to take care of, and sometimes he can't wait to grow a thousand hands and eyes. What's even more frustrating is that this kind of screening is a matter of chance, and it's likely that what you need to find is right in front of you, but it's disposed of as waste. In this regard, he has long been ready to fight a protracted war, and it is luck to find it in two years, and it is basic to fight hard for five years. If it doesn't work out after five years, to be honest, he doesn't know what to do.

The future is always bright, the process is always tortuous, and the outcome is always unpredictable. Even if he is a traverser, he is no exception, it is not that the right direction, the right method, can get the right answer, there is often only a trace of luck between success and failure.

It's no wonder that he's been in a mood of both hope and bitterness lately, often oscillating back and forth between the two extremes, and needs to sing a few words from time to time to spice things up.

The new group of soil collected from a dock in Hongkou has 17 samples, and as many as 62 colonies have been selected from it.

"How many slides are there in the next set?" Gao Yi asked. He looked at his watch, the time was already two or three quarters, and in a few minutes the kitchen grandma would bring afternoon tea, if the next group still had dozens of slides to see, it would be better to rest for a while, and wait for afternoon tea.

"The next set is three samples with only five slides." Miss McBride replied.

"Then we'll rest after watching this group." Gao Yi said.

A new slide was mounted on the stage, and the action repeated thousands of times was repeated again, and the results were still none. Another new slide was replaced, and this time Gao Yi didn't move the thruster, but adjusted the fine adjustment knob, and then he said:

"Miss McBride, can I kiss you?"

"What?"

"I said, can I kiss you? Miss McBride. ”

For a moment, various expressions of surprise, shyness, panic, and shame were mixed on McBride's face, making the few freckles on the bridge of her nose do fractal Brownian motion, and she said in a sullen voice: "Mr. Gao Yi, do you know what you are talking about?" I'm a fiancΓ©! ”

"Yes, I know that, but I don't think your fiancΓ© will know, will he?" Gao Yi spoke, but his eyes were still fixed on the eyepiece, and he began to carefully turn the thruster bolts.

"Oh! I didn't expect you to be such a person! How can you say such a thing, it's really unashamed, who do you think I am? Is it the kind of woman who is watery Yanghua......" McBride was really angry this time, she blushed and said unceremoniously to Gao Yi.

"It's an angel, it's Lady Luck!"

"What?"

"You are my goddess of luck, the Virgin Mary, you are ...... Guanyin, in short, is this kind of woman, the kind that can bring me good luck, so this kiss you must give me. ”

"Did you make any new discoveries?" McBride frowned, "But even that doesn't justify you for such a thing. ”

"I think I have a good reason, because you brought me luck, so you have to be responsible for me, and I have power over you, you see this is the logic."

"It's the most shameless logic I've ever heard!" McBride laughed angrily.

"So how about being a friend? Let's have a friendship kiss? ”

"No!"

"So in exchange, I'll show you my new discoveries, how about you let me kiss it?" said that Gao Yi turned around.

It was the first time he looked back, and McBride noticed that his eyes were unusually clear.

"It can't be!"

Gao Yi stood up and turned to McBride. Just when McBride thought he was going to do something, he suddenly put his legs together, bent his knees, and then pouted his ass at a very ugly angle, then straightened his chest and raised his chin, his hands clenched into fists, and his arms bent close to his chest, turning left and right like a train crankshaft, and as his arms turned, his body gradually twisted in the same rhythm.

At that moment when McBride was shocked beyond measure, he heard him sing:

"Is it okay to give me a kiss, can you leave a love mark on my face, can you give me a kiss, kiss me on my heart and make me miss you, even if I stare at you and you don't agree, I have to ask you never to be discouraged, even if you close your lips and you don't reply, I have to plead with you and never be sad......"

What Gao Yi sings, McBride can't understand at all, but the melody is simple and catchy, making her, who doesn't speak Chinese at all, want to sing along. And the other party looked so funny that she could only cover her face with her hands to prevent her smile from being revealed.

Gao Yi bowed very exaggerated after singing, and then he did not straighten his waist, but waved his arms a few times to make a solemn invitation gesture.

"Please, ma'am, please see the greatest discovery of the century!"

This time, McBride laughed out loud at his funny appearance, and sat down on a stool as if he was embarrassed, and put his eyes in front of the eyepiece to observe.

There were small tadpole-like things in the field of vision, but the tail was much longer and thinner, like a long silk thread dragging behind it. The silk tails of these tadpoles are intertwined with each other to form a tree-like structure, so that these small tadpoles look like small round fruits on a branch.

"Is that it? Tadpole-like things? ”

To be honest, McBride was really a little excited to see such a thing, and the singing and bowing just now was like a gorgeous opening, but waiting for the main drama to come on gave people a feeling that it was nothing more than that.

"How? Are these tadpoles pretty? ”

"Well, it's better to say ...... than pretty," McBride searched for words so as not to dampen the other party's high spirits, but she couldn't say anything if she had to admit that these little tadpoles were pretty.

"I see what you mean. But whether you're not happy with these little tadpoles, the deal we agreed to keep going. ”

McBride looked back at Gao Yi's expression and found that the other party was not disappointed by his reaction, so he also returned to his normal attitude.

"I don't remember, I promised you a deal, I just accepted your invitation to sit here and observe what you call the greatest discovery."

She was about to stand up, but a pair of hands pressed on her shoulders to keep her from moving, and then they pulled her shoulders to the side, and she quickly closed her eyes.

However, the contact she expected did not come for a long time, only a gentle voice sounded in her ears.

"Louise." The other party intimately called her nickname.

"How?"

"You have the smell of shareholder fish in your mouth."

McBride opened her eyes, and suddenly felt the urge to grab someone's face, but before she could act, the other man had already jumped away lightly, and then pulled the glass slide off the mirror table with a long arm, and then before she could get up from her seat, two arrows rushed to the door. McBride looked around for tools to throw and smash people, but she was surrounded by either expensive microscopes or glass slides she had worked so hard to make, and by the time she finally picked up the notebook she could throw on, the figure had disappeared from the doorway.

McBride waited for a while, but the other party did not appear outside the door with a hippie smile, so she walked to the door and looked out, only to see that the other party was almost at the top of the stairs, as if he had the idea of never returning.

"Where are you going?" McBride couldn't help but shout.

"Take a trip home."

"What? Are you not coming back? ”

"Yes, you know I'm going to Ridda's house for dinner tonight, so I'll go there when I get home and not come back here."

"And what about the rest of the slides that haven't been processed yet?"

"Tomorrow we'll continue."

"Why? Why are you suddenly going home? ”

"For this!" As he spoke, Gao Yi raised the slide in his hand.

"Two billion!" Gao Yi added.

"What?" McBride didn't know why.

But Gao Yi did not explain further, but ordered: "I'll come over tomorrow afternoon, remember not to eat fish at noon, I'll bring something for you to eat." So saying, he turned to the top of the stairs and went downstairs.

"Bastard!" McBride yelled at his back.