Chapter 7: Dating Battles (7)
Ai Ye squatted on the chair with her knees crossed, her big white coat dragged down and hung to the floor, she remained motionless, staring at the water bath on the table.
The water bath made a slight hissing sound, and the white-hot water vapor overflowed from the edge of the lid, Ai Ye reached out and turned the test tube immersed in water to one side, and gently shook it to mix the liquid in the test tube evenly, and she also took care not to touch the hot water...... The water in the pot is 60 degrees Celsius, and you may get burned if you touch it.
According to Ariana's request, the tubes needed to be heated in 60 degrees of water for two hours, and they had to be stirred every ten minutes, and Ai Ye had been squatting here for more than an hour, only going out to the toilet once.
Anna was in the lab next door, Ai Ye didn't know what she was doing, and once the director got into the working state, he was like a wooden man, motionless and silent...... Ai Ye was amazed at Anna's concentration like an old monk's zazen, and when she was preoccupied with what she was doing, she was almost completely unaffected by the outside world.
The laboratory was silent, there was no sound outside the library, the wind blew through the evergreen pine trees, and for the most part, the college was calm, there were no pedestrians on the road, and life in the laboratory was monotonous and boring, dealing with bottles and cans of various reagents all day long.
This kind of life is ...... for Ai Ye It's boring indeed.
She was Anna's hand-picked assistant, and after being appointed by the colonel as the new head of the Executive Department, Ariana left the library's Virology Institute, and Ariana had to find a new helper.
She walked back and forth for a long time between a whole row of Angzang men, looking at the strong pectoral muscles and biceps of those people with the eyes of the emperor's concubine, and finally chose a little black-haired girl who was less than half the height of these people.
The haughty queen stopped in front of Ai Ye and said condescendingly, "It's you."
The little girl immediately felt like she had been selected as a concubine in the palace.
In a way, Ai Ye is actually afraid of Ariana...... In the eyes of the former, Anna is a character between an old lady and a teacher, beautiful and stern, and has a fierce personality.
Ai Ye, who had just entered the research institute, didn't understand anything, smashed a lot of test tubes and beakers, and caused a lot of trouble, the most serious one was because she overslept and failed to turn off the electric stove in time, which caused the sample that Ariana spent a whole night refining to be burned to ashes...... Ai Ye knew that he had caused a big disaster, and he was so frightened that he hid in the waste cardboard box in the underground warehouse of the library and did not dare to come out.
Anna spent the whole afternoon looking for Ai Ye, from the upper floor to the lower floor, if it weren't for the lack of intrusion in the library, Ariana would have almost called the house to the top of the house, and when she finally found the girl, she was curled up in a cardboard box, trembling with tears streaming down her face.
Anna pulled her up and took her to the bath and dinner, without saying anything.
Arianna spent a long time training Aiye, she never beat and scolded the little girl, and even rarely criticized her, but Aiye was still very afraid of Anna, probably a bit like a student meeting her homeroom teacher and meeting her natural enemy.
Ai Ye raised his head and pinched the test tube to shake, and the light blue liquid in the test tube didn't know what it was...... It must be shaken every ten minutes, otherwise it will solidify into a jelly-like gel.
Her first job tonight was to take care of it, there were twenty test tubes in the water bath, and after all the test tubes were out of the pot, she needed to transfer all the liquid into a large volumetric flask, and then set the volume to 200 ml.
More than two dozen organic samples were then needed to be determined for purity.
Three DNA samples need to be PCR and then sequenced.
Thirty full pages of data need to be sorted and stored in a database.
Ai Ye sighed.
She's been in the institute for more than seven months, and God knows how they've come by.
"Why sigh?" Someone behind her suddenly asked softly, and her long pale blonde hair hung down and landed on Ai Ye's shoulder, and then she smelled the signature fragrance of lilies.
"Sister Anna?" Ai Ye turned her head, startled.
Anna stood behind Aiye at some point, and she leaned over, reached out and pinched a test tube against the light, squinting her eyes slightly.
"It's not bad, it can be used." Anna nodded, she stood beside Ai Ye, still wearing a slender white coat with a dark turtleneck sweater underneath the white coat, and her eyes were as transparent as emerald gems. The only change is that Anna's hair is now long, and the original ear-length is found to be draped over her shoulders, and her hair falls down as soon as she bends over.
"Sister Anna, your job is done?"
"My job is done, and now it's up to me to take over here." Anna nodded, reached out and pulled over a chair and sat down, "Aiye, go and rest." β
"I'd better stay here and help Sister Anna." Ai Ye lowered her feet from the chair and sat upright, "I've rested all day, it doesn't matter." β
"What did you do today?" Anna asked leisurely.
Ai Ye choked, blushing, not knowing how to answer this question.
"Oh, looking for that kid from Lu Xun again?" Anna immediately understood, raising an eyebrow.
Since these days, Ai Ye has run to the main building whenever she has time, at first Anna thought she had some personal affairs, but then she happened to hear that this little girl often walked with Lu Xun, and then she understood.
"Ah...... No...... No, I'm just...... I just ......" Ai Ye spoke incoherently, her tongue began to knot, Anna's expression seemed to be smiling, as if she knew everything, Ai Ye's face finally turned red, she slowly lowered her head, her eyes looked at her toes, and nodded imperceptibly.
"What is that kid doing Lu Xun?" Anna asked.
"Brother Lu Xun is also very busy, he locks himself in the office all day, I ...... I just said a few words to him. Ai Ye whispered, she could feel that her face was burning violently, and she wrapped the fingers of her hands around it, and her knuckles turned white.
"What's so good about that kid Lu Xun? Clumsy, or an unenlightened elm lump. Anna frowned, "Why are you all so interested in him?" β
"No...... I'm not interested...... I didn't ......" Ai Ye was about to defend herself, when she was suddenly stunned, she noticed Anna's words, "I...... We? β
Anna nodded.
"Except ...... Except for me, it's hard to ...... Is there any other ......?"
"Of course there is." "For example, his girlfriend. β
Ai Ye was so dizzy that she almost fell out of her chair.
"Female ...... Friend? β
Anna tapped her head with her index finger, "So to speak?" Girlfriend? Or is it a fiancΓ©e? Or maybe they both have a baby? β
Aiye fell out of her chair.