Bright Sword: Starting from the Improved Grenade

"The garlic is gone again, Xiao Wang, go to the cellar and get some back later!"

Zhao Tianyang, who was eating in the cafeteria in the afternoon, accidentally overheard the conversation between the cafeteria chef and a helper.

"Yes, the cellar!"

Zhao Tianyang suddenly remembered that in his previous life, his family had a cellar filled with sweet potatoes. The most important thing was that there would always be one or two sweet potatoes in the cellar that would become moldy.

And that mold was most likely Penicillium. Thinking of this, he immediately stood up and asked the helper to take him to the cellar.

Although he didn't quite understand what Zhao Tianyang wanted to do, the canteen chef immediately ordered the helper to take Zhao Tianyang to the cellar.

After passing through the residential area, the two came to the foot of Taihang Mountain, a place with firm soil and slightly higher terrain.

"The soil here is very sandy, so the chef led us to dig a cellar here, and we usually put the vegetables and sweet potatoes we bought in it."

The helper explained casually as he took out the key to unlock the door.

Hearing this, Zhao Tianyang took a look at the cellar and found that it was indeed a good choice. A good cellar must have stable soil texture and strong load-bearing capacity.

Good drainage can prevent water accumulation in the cellar during rain or flooding, and ensure acid-base balance so as not to affect the structure of the cellar and the food stored in it.

The best soil for building a cellar is clay or loam.

While Zhao Tianyang was daydreaming, the helper had already taken down all the long wooden blocks on the cellar, then looked at Zhao Tianyang and asked tentatively: "Director, do you want to go down?"

"want."

Zhao Tianyang nodded, walked over and crawled down, using his hands and feet to crawl towards the entrance of the cellar. The bad thing about the cellar was that the entrance was too small.

Of course, the cellar was quite large, enough for an adult to squat in. Zhao Tianyang took a look and found that most of the things in the cellar were sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, cabbage and so on.

Sweet potatoes are the most numerous, occupying half of the space in the cellar.

After seeing the sweet potatoes, Zhao Tianyang immediately walked over and started searching carefully.

"What are you looking for, Director?"

The helper who climbed down followed asked curiously.

“Moldy sweet potatoes.”

Zhao Tianyang ordered without even looking up: "Help to look for it too."

"Oh."

The helper nodded and started looking for it.

"Black spots, no!"

"Hazel, neither!"

"Gray and black silk, not even that!"

Zhao Tianyang was a little distressed, why were there so many soft rot bacteria?

“Is this the factory manager?”

Suddenly, a helper at the side handed over a sweet potato with white fibers on it. Zhao Tianyang took it and looked at the sweet potato with white fibers with some hesitation.

Penicillium is a large family with many species, but only "Penicillium punctatum" and "Penicillium chrysogenum" can extract penicillin.

Moreover, the penicillins produced by different strains are completely different. The white-threaded sweet potato found by the helper may be an underdeveloped Penicillium, or it may not be.

Zhao Tianyang patted his head with a headache: "Forget it, let's use tangerines."

The Penicillium taken from the orange is a very excellent strain of fungus. If you don’t know what Penicillium odoratum and Penicillium luteum are, then just look for the Penicillium on the orange.

After making up his mind, Zhao Tianyang asked the helper for the spare key, returned to the room, took one of the two oranges and put it in the cellar.

The other one was taken to the side of the blast furnace and placed at a distance from the blast furnace. After making sure that it would not be dried out and the temperature would not be too low, Zhao Tianyang instructed the workers to take good care of the oranges.

After that, I returned to my room in a happy mood and prepared to go to bed.

The next day, after getting up and having breakfast, Zhao Tianyang came to Xingjiazhuang to see the young soldier who took allicin.

"After taking allicin, the third brother no longer speaks nonsense, and his complexion has improved a lot!"

After listening to the medical officer's description, Zhao Tianyang nodded, did not disturb the young soldier, and quickly returned to the arsenal to check the oranges in the cellar, and then inspected the arsenal again.

Zhao Tianyang repeated the same action for several days. Sometimes, Mr. Liu would pull him to see the manufacturing work of rifles and mortars and give some suggestions.

That day, Zhao Tianyang whistled leisurely as he walked towards the cellar. The little soldier's condition had completely stabilized.

After the doctor Li Yunlong invited made a follow-up examination and confirmed that there was no problem, his allicin experiment could be declared a success.

“Bang bang…”

After quickly taking down the wooden board, Zhao Tianyang entered the cellar and immediately noticed that the oranges, which were originally yellow, had some green spots.

"Haha, double happiness!"

Zhao Tianyang picked up the orange in surprise and looked at it carefully, then smiled happily for a while.

"Yes, this is Penicillium."

After putting the orange back to its place with excitement, Zhao Tianyang hurried out of the cellar again. He just remembered that he had put an orange next to the blast furnace, and he didn't know what happened to it?

"You mean this, the orange I put here?"

Zhao Tianyang looked at the dry orange in his hand and asked in surprise.

"Yup!"

An employee nearby complained: "Director, please be kind to us. We didn't steal any of the oranges. These oranges are roasted here every day and slowly dried up."

"Okay, got it."

Zhao Tianyang waved his hand to signal his employees that they could go to work. He just realized that the air near the blast furnace was probably too dry.

In order to produce Penicillium, temperature alone is not enough, humidity is also needed.

"It seems that this orange is useless."

Zhao Tianyang threw it away, put his hands in his pockets and continued to inspect the arsenal.

.................

In the afternoon, when Zhao Tianyang was eating, Li Yunlong came over with a smile.

"Eating!"

Zhao Tianyang glanced at the large bowl in Li Yunlong's hand and was a little speechless: "Can you finish it?"

"How can you not finish it? Today is pork stew with cabbage. I can finish it no matter how much."

Li Yunlong put down his bowl and squeezed next to Zhao Tianyang: "Move over a little, I can't even sit on the stool."

Helplessly, Zhao Tianyang moved aside and asked, "How is the condition of the young soldier?"

"All right."

Li Yunlong laughed: "The doctor has examined Sanzi's condition and said that he will be able to get out of bed after a month of rest."

"Yeah, great!"

Zhao Tianyang was very happy.

Later, we will give allicin to more patients. If there is no problem, allicin can be directly mass-produced. It’s just that garlic is a bit difficult to deal with.

Zhao Tianyang scratched his head. Although garlic was widely grown in Yuncheng, Linfen, Jincheng and other places in Shanxi, it had nothing to do with him!

If he purchased garlic on a large scale, it would be bad if the matter of allicin got out. He was also planning to exchange the allicin for some good things!

"Hey, what are you thinking about?"

Li Yunlong nudged Zhao Tianyang with his shoulder and said, "Come to think of it, your allicin is really a good thing. The only raw material is garlic, it is easy to extract, and it has a strong anti-inflammatory effect."

"You guys have to keep it a secret. I have already issued a confidentiality order to anyone who has come into contact with allicin. You have to keep it a secret!"

Hearing Li Yunlong's reminder, Zhao Tianyang patted his head. There were people coming and going in the arsenal, and there were so many secrets, so it was time to do some confidentiality work.

Thinking of this, he quickly finished his meal, picked up his bowl and ran out, ready to discuss the confidentiality with Mr. Liu.

"Hey, why are you running?"

Li Yunlong called out but failed to stop Zhao Tianyang. He said to himself, "Hey, you run really fast. I was just asking for some garlic extract!"