mtl008 Chapter 130 Glass
Chapter 130 Glass
"Hurry, tell me in detail." Doctor Wu looked at Li Xi with shining eyes.
Li Xi did not hide anything and told Doctor Wu everything he knew about malaria and other miasma.
……
They forgot about time during this chat, and when they came to their senses, the room was already pitch dark and the sun outside had completely disappeared.
"...That's about it." Li Xi pursed her lips, picked up the kettle beside her, poured herself a glass of water, and gulped it down. Only then did she feel alive.
She felt like she had said more this afternoon than she had in the entire day, and she was dying of thirst.
Doctor Wu took out a pen and paper and began to take notes when Li Xi started talking. Now there was a thick stack of notes in front of him. In the dim room, the handwriting on the paper was very blurry, but Doctor Wu felt like he had found a treasure.
"Miracles doctor, Xiaoxi, your master is a contemporary miraculous doctor, the living Hua Tuo. It's a pity that you have no chance to meet him," Doctor Wu's tone was full of regret.
Li Xi, as his disciple, is so capable, he really can't imagine what Li Xi's master looks like.
Hearing what Doctor Wu said, Li Xi couldn't help feeling a little guilty, but not too much. After all, her lies were not easy to expose, and it was impossible for that non-existent master to make any mistakes.
There was a noise outside the door, and Li Xi stood up, "It should be Hu Zi who came back."
Doctor Wu carefully picked up the stack of papers in front of him, held it against his chest with care, and said to Li Xi solemnly, "Thank you very much for sharing with me today. I really have no way to repay you."
Li Xi knew that knowledge in ancient times was monopolized, especially in technical jobs like this, which were passed down from father to son, from son to grandson, and from master to apprentice.
But she doesn't think this is right. If knowledge only circulates among a small number of people, it will definitely limit the development of knowledge.
One person is short-term, two people are long-term.
That's it.
"Doctor Wu, you don't have to be so polite. This is how our school is. My master once said that he hoped I could spread the medical books and medical skills he gave me so that more people would know, understand, and learn from them. This way, more people would not be troubled by diseases."
Doctor Wu was stunned for a moment, and spoke after a while, "What a miracle doctor, what a miracle doctor."
Li Xi accepted his words against his conscience, "Haha, no problem."
"I'm sorry to have wasted too much of your time today. It's getting late, so I'll take my leave now."
The moonlight is bright tonight, illuminating the earth and making the room seem even darker.
Hu Zi pushed the door open and saw that the room was dark. He was a little surprised. At this time of the day, the house should have been lit with kerosene lamps, so why was it so dark?
Just as he was thinking about it, the door of the auxiliary room was opened, and Doctor Wu and Li Xi came out one after another.
Seeing Hu Zi, Doctor Wu smiled and touched his head, "Not bad, you have grown taller and stronger."
"Hello, Grandpa Wu." Hu Zi greeted.
"Okay, okay, good boy."
Doctor Wu did not stay long. He left after a few words of greeting. Li Xi sent him to the door and watched him enter the house before turning back to go home.
Hu Zi looked at the open door behind his sister and reminded her, "Sister, the door is not closed."
"No need to close it, someone will be here soon." When she was sending Doctor Wu away just now, she saw Gu Jingzhi who had already walked to the entrance of the alley.
"Brother Jingzhi."
Hu Zi's initial excitement and joy over Gu Jingzhi's arrival had turned into a state of indifference. After all, he had been used to having three meals a day.
Recently, Hu Zi no longer needs to buy food to bring home, because Gu Jingzhi brings it home every time he comes.
Thinking that Brother Jingzhi would be here soon, Huzi put down his shoulder bag, trotted into the room to clean up, lit the kerosene lamp, and set up the table and chairs.
Just as he finished cleaning up, Gu Jingzhi came over, followed by Zhang Hao carrying a lunch box.
Zhang Hao put the lunch box on the table and left tactfully.
Gu Jingzhi glanced at the kerosene lamp on the table and said to Li Xi, "Just left?"
"Yeah." Li Xi nodded, walked to the table, opened the lunch box, took out the food inside and arranged it one by one, "I forgot the time when I started chatting."
Huzi helped to set the table.
Li Xi sat down and looked at Gu Jingzhi, "Let's eat first."
"it is good."
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After dinner, Gu Jingzhi and Li Xi left for a walk outside. Hu Zi stayed to clean the table and then went back to his room to write his own calligraphy.
Under the moonlight, Gu Jingzhi held Li Xi's hand and walked on the repaired cement road.
Neither of them spoke, but there was an indescribable harmony around them.
Nowadays, taking a walk together after dinner has become a daily routine.
Li Xi: "By the way, I want to ask you for a favor."
Gu Jingzhi was a little surprised to hear her say this. He and Li Xi had known each other for quite some time, but this was the first time she asked him for help.
The matter of Hu Zi entering a private school does not count, after all, at that time they were just exchanging interests.
So, Gu Jingzhi was quite curious, "What help?"
"I want you to help me build some experimental equipment."
If she wants to make an effective drug to treat malaria, it may be difficult to do so with existing means alone. She needs to purify artemisinin for use as medicine.
"Experimental equipment? What kind?"
"I have the blueprints. I'll give them to you when I get back."
Before deciding to make the detoxification pills, Li Xi had already drawn a set of simple chemical purification tools. She was thinking that she would find someone to make them when she had time. Now that she needed them, she gave them to Gu Jingzhi.
This was the first time his girlfriend asked him for help, so of course Gu Jingzhi couldn't refuse.
But what Gu Jingzhi didn't expect was that Li Xi wanted to use glass.
"Glass, what is this?" Gu Jingzhi asked with a frown as he looked at the materials and dimensions marked on the drawing.
These experimental instruments looked strange, but what puzzled him even more was the material marked next to them: glass. What was this? He had never heard of it before.
"It's similar to colored glaze, but clearer and transparent as a whole, making it easier to observe the state of the liquid medicine."
"Liu Li?"
The experimental equipment in the drawing has a strange shape and its thickness must be guaranteed. Even if he is not a craftsman, he can see the difficulty of making it.
"How can we find this glass?" Gu Jingzhi pondered for a moment and said, "The production process of colored glaze is complicated, and I think the glass is similar. If we want to achieve the effect on the drawing, I'm afraid it will take a lot of man-hours."
"There is no need to look for glass, we can make it ourselves." Li Xi said as he took out the glass making process and glass blowing techniques that he had prepared long ago.
To be honest, she has to thank the modern information explosion. She once saw a video on DouLe where a handicraft expert made and blew glass, and now she needs it.
Make it yourself? Gu Jingzhi took the recipe from Li Xi suspiciously, feeling a little speechless. How come she has so many recipes?
"sand?"
"That's right. The raw material for making glass is sand. Although the raw material is sand, the effect it produces is no less than that of colored glaze."
The glass was no less good than colored glaze, and the raw materials were so cheap. Gu Jingzhi looked at Li Xi. He didn't believe that she didn't see the value of this glass. Now that she had money, free time, and the recipe, she could have made it herself, but she still gave the recipe to him.