In 1903, the Chinese and Western women's mature was located at the junction of Xizang Road and Hankou Road, and across the Xizang Road was the famous racecourse, which was later known as the People's Square. However, at this time, the Tibet Road was still only a small road, and the mud city bang, the concession moat excavated during the Xiaodaohui period, would not be filled in until ten years later, and it would not become the main north-south artery of the city until ten years later.

The gate of the school opens on Hankou Road, and after entering the gate is a very narrow small garden square, about 30 meters long and about 7 meters wide, opposite the garden is a cloister closed by long windows all with floor-to-ceiling windows, which is a very typical English style foyer structure, which allows horse-drawn carriages to drive directly to the cloister and get off.

On the left side of the garden is the corner of Hankou Road and Xizang Road, and on the right, facing east, is the janitor's hut and a gate leading to the stable. In this way, the stables are completely isolated from the main building of the school.

The school has two main buildings, one is a teaching building facing Xizang Road, and the other is a mixed office and accommodation building located in the northeast corner of the entire complex. What is more unusual is that the axis of the building in the northeast corner is not north-south or east-west, but northeast. Lian Jisheng's office is in this building.

Connecting the two buildings is an English cloister, a Greek colonnade and a Roman arcade 20 meters long, making the school feel like a museum of architectural history showcasing the architectural styles of corridors from different historical periods. Divided by these three corridors are two lawns and a small square.

The English cloister at the entrance is connected to the Xizang Road School Building on the west side, and the west side is flush with the west courtyard wall of the stable. The twenty-meter corridor has three gates on the left, middle and right, and there is a door at the end of the east and west sides after entering the corridor, the door on the west side leads to the teaching building on Tibet Road, and the door on the east side connects the Romanesque arcade in the north and south, which in turn connects the accommodation building in the northeast corner, and the Greek colonnade in the east and west, parallel to the English cloister. Directly opposite the east gate was the quarters of the servants, separated by a wall from the courtyard of the stable.

Between the servants' quarters and the dormitory, there is a small ashlar plaza for the servants to do laundry and dry sheets. On the east side of the small plaza against the wall is a row of kitchens, while the large dining room, shared by teachers and students, is located on the northeast side of the ground floor of the residence building, adjacent to the kitchen. Probably due to the growing number of students, the original design was no longer sufficient, and a large circle was built around the restaurant, so that the entire residence complex looks like a very thick 'T' with a short horizontal width from a bird's-eye view.

Sandwiched between the three corridors and the Xizang Road teaching building is a 20-meter-square lawn, which is the playground for the students, and is also a place for Western-style tea parties on a sunny day.

The other lawn is located on the other side of the Hellenistic colonnade, the northernmost side of the complex. Due to the dormitory building on the northeast corner, this lawn is roughly trapezoidal, about fifteen meters wide, with the long side being the north wall of the school, which exceeds sixty meters, and the short side, which is along the Greek colonnade to the west wall of the school, which is forty meters long.

The tennis game that Gao Yi saw in Lian Jisheng's office before was played on this lawn. However, the girl who was waving her racket and laughing loudly was not a student as he had assumed.

"This is Miss Louisa McBride, our botany teacher."

"Louise, come here, this is Mr. William Goy, who is about to join our school to take charge of chemistry." After a slight pause, Lian Jisheng explained: "Louise is my sister's daughter, who has just graduated from school, and she has set the destination of her graduation trip in the East, and I happen to be happy that she can come over and help me for half a year. ”

Botany is an eighth-grade course, and students are about thirteen or fourteen years old, and it is not a problem for recent high school graduates to teach it, at least in terms of age.

Miss McBride stood up from the microscope and walked over to Gao Yi and the others.

Gao Yi noticed that she was a beautiful girl, and if it weren't for the freckles on the wings of her nose, she would have been able to score at least 90 points. But what attracted him the most was the smell of her—

That's the smell of cedar oil, which means that her microscope is currently using a 100x objective, and it means that in the near future, Gao Yi will be able to use this microscope to clearly observe the coveted actinomycetes and small monospores! Coupled with the dazzling array of experimental instruments in the chemistry laboratory he just visited, as well as the neatly arranged various reagents in the storage room, he finally had the feeling that the curtain of the drama was slowly opening.

Lian Jisheng kept sending Gao Yi to the cloister. The carriage was parked at the foot of the steps, and the car was brought by Mahan to pick up Gao Yi for the interview, and according to Rida's instructions, Gao Yi was free to use the car when he needed it.

After saying goodbye to Lian Jisheng, Gao Yi stepped into the carriage, and the wheels rumbled on the cobblestone ground.

After the carriage drove onto Hankou Road, it did not turn right to return to Yaxianju on Wuma Road, but drove in the direction of Hongkou again. Gao Yi rented a small workshop outside the concession and only charged a rent of two yuan a month.

After walking along Broadway Road to the Ningbo Wharf, Gao Yi ordered the car to stop, and from here to the place he rented was a small road, and the carriage could no longer go and could only walk.

This time, Gao Yi did not pretend to take any rickshaw, but hired a wheelbarrow, and followed by himself and Mahan and another Indian servant on foot. Because of the consideration of the rental industry, Gao Yi specially took care of Mahando and brought someone over, after he was robbed last time, he fell into post-traumatic sequelae, and generally does not go to remote places where there are few people.

The reason why the rent is so cheap is that there is a small smelly river behind the house, and there are seventy or eighty pig sheds on the opposite side of the house. Walking here, all you can smell in your nose is the smell of pigs, all you hear in your ears is the sound of pigs, all you see is the scene of pigs, the blood everywhere, the miserable screams, plus the swarms of flies and mosquitoes, and sometimes even the small blood stains on the feet of the flies, such a scene even the broad-shouldered Sikh who was called by Mahan to act as a bodyguard looked nervous.

Gao Yi built the workshop in this kind of place, naturally not because of cheapness, but because of the smell here. Ammonia is used in his production process, and only in this foul-smelling place does he dare to start work. And there is another advantage here is that the sewage can be directly discharged into the Huangpu River, and if the wastewater he produces is discharged into a small ditch or underground water, it is trivial to poison a person, and if it is not done well, it will cause a mass incident.

There weren't many things to take away, the workshop was full of tattered bottles and cans, and there was no serious equipment at all.

Gao Yi took out a powder bag of white crystals from a wooden barrel with lime as a desiccant, about ten catties in weight, this is Nacodin, which is intolerant and dependent after taking the drug, and is a legal cough suppressant.

The by-products of the other production process were discharged by Gao Yi as wastewater, but Nakeding was very convenient because it could be extracted with ether, so he made it easily.

Originally, without Rida's help, he was going to make cough medicine to make money to get through this difficult time. The dosage of Nacodine is very small, generally 10 mg at a time can suppress cough for four hours, ten catties can make 500,000 copies of medicine, even if it is sold cheaply for a copper dollar, he can also earn 5,000 oceans.

The reason why he didn't make medicine before was because the main product was really profitable, in fact, his 600 oceans could be turned into at least 6,000 as long as he did another round. Although the total amount of these cough medicines may reach 5,000 oceans, it is really unknown when they will be sold and how long it will take before they find a way to sell out.

In addition to Na Ke Ding, Gao Yi also had to take a set of equipment that he designed and built with his own hands. This device uses the Venturi effect to automatically extract a quantitative solution, and Gao Yi needs to use it to divide the ten catties of Nacodine into 500,000 parts.

Since the next work is non-toxic, harmless and has no side effects, Gao Yi decided to carry out it in Yaxianju. The roof of his pavilion is a terrace, where he can produce production. Moreover, several guests living in the three-story pavilion have already checked out and gone home for the New Year, so he can rent it so that he can have a completely undisturbed independent space.

As for the money, there is no need to think about it at all, he is carrying a check for 200 US dollars, which is equivalent to 400 yuan in the ocean. As for why the dollar, of course, American schools are talking about the dollar, but will it still be a silver dollar? In fact, when talking about the salary just now, because Dayang also used the word dollar, Gao Yi never reacted, and he didn't find out that it was dollars until he got the check. This feeling of directly doubling the salary is really not too good.