HP's Chinese Parents

The impact of the Great Depression finally spread from the United States to Europe on the other side of the ocean. The manufacturing industry declined, and millions of people lost their jobs and had to reduce their purchases of daily necessities to a minimum.The most direct effect of deflation is that things have become cheaper. Nick only spent half the usual pound to buy all the furniture that needed to be purchased.

Nick sighed as Tom ran up and down to decorate his room.Although he had known about this history for a long time and had sold his family's unsatisfactory factory for gold and persuaded his father to invest in a small pharmaceutical research institute for him, he felt powerless and frustrated when he was actually in it.

Fortunately, Nick is not a person who likes to be sad. Although his birth point allowed him to survive the Great Depression before World War II, he must work harder to protect himself and his family in future wars. Do more of what you want to do.

The next day, Nick went to visit the author of the paper, Alexander Fleming, with a paper titled "On the Bactericidal Effect of Mold Culture" as planned.

The bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin decades later was a cheerful and easy-going man, especially tolerant of young people.Nick guessed that this may be the trait of their school. When Nick was an assistant beside Wright, Wright, who was an academic authority at the time, allowed Fleming to conduct scientific research according to his own interests. Later, Fleming became his own boss. At that time, his assistant also rejected the bacterial experiment he arranged to study the pathology he was interested in, so Fleming could only do the experiment by himself.

In June last year, Fleming published his discovery of penicillin, but unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of the academic circle. In the history of his previous life, Fleming took a whole decade of detours. Because the normal intestinal flora of guinea pigs was killed by penicillin, there was a very high lethality rate, which greatly affected Fleming’s confidence. Later, when he found that Staphylococcus quickly developed resistance after being exposed to penicillin, he once gave up on it. Penicillin research, became no interest in penicillin.

Although Nick identified penicillin as one of the important directions in the future three years ago, and recruited a group of young biochemical research talents with the connivance of his doting father, Nick did not preempt Fleming Thanks to the plan, he hopes to cooperate with Fleming to make penicillin available earlier.

Nick gave Fleming feedback on the clinical use of penicillin crude extract by his own research institute.

"Professor Fleming, after reading your paper, our researchers were very interested in the crude extraction of penicillin. Later clinical trials confirmed the curative effect of penicillin on streptococcus, diphtheria and other bacterial infections. We It was found that the reason why penicillin can kill germs without damaging human cells is that the penicillane contained in penicillin can hinder the synthesis of germ cell walls, leading to the dissolution and death of germs, while human and animal cells do not have cell walls.”

"I didn't expect to hear that." Fleming's eyes grew brighter. "Just like I didn't expect you to be so young, Mr. Riddle."

Then they discussed the selection of mold strains and the high purification of penicillin.

"The selection and cultivation of mold strains capable of producing a large amount of penicillin requires a lot of tedious work and money investment. Yes, we are mentally prepared for this." Nick affirmed Fleming's concerns and extended an olive branch, "As for Purification work, if you are interested, you can go to my research institute to communicate, as far as I know, our researchers have made a little progress."

An hour later, Nick, who had a good chat with Fleming, declined the lunch invitation and went home to pick Tom up to visit the pet store.

"I'm starting school soon, so you'll be home alone during the day, and I think you need a pet, Tom."

So Tom picked out a mutated silver-white adder.The little snake hissed twice at Tom, and Tom also hissed at the snake twice after being surprised, as if imitating a snake, and the snake climbed up Tom's wrist.

"Oh, this baby is so cute!" The proprietress of the pet shop looked at Tom full of maternal love, and then smiled and asked Nick a sky-high price.Nick immediately cut the price by more than half, which made the mother's love disappear from the eyes of the proprietress, and the small pet shop was immediately filled with invisible gunpowder.

"No, no, you can only buy a golden python at this price," the proprietress pointed contemptuously at the pale golden young snake in the corner.

Too bad it didn't work out for Nick, who grinded the price down calmly and patiently.Considering the current economic downturn, the proprietress was actually not too tough. In the end, Nick managed to buy one gold, one silver and two snakes at half the price.

"What a stingy customer," muttered the proprietress, and then changed her face instantly, smiling and recommending high-quality feed to them—rats.So they bought another pair of stud mice and a dozen newborn pups.

"You can only feed their newborn rats." Nick pointed to the silver snake on Tom's wrist pretending to be a bracelet and the lazy golden python in the box and told Tom, "Don't let them eat things indiscriminately."

Because it was still early, they continued to visit the flower shop next door. Nick bought several packets of flower seeds and ordered grape vines and cherry saplings from the boss.Tom instantly fell in love with a series of carnivorous plants such as the pitcher plant flytrap.

"Nick, we can buy some pots, there are so many mosquitoes lately!" said Tom.

"In terms of getting rid of mosquitoes, I actually recommend sundew," Nick touched Tom's head, "Nepenthes can't catch mosquitoes, but instead make mosquitoes lay eggs in the liquid of its cage and hatch them." The emerging larvae provide adequate nutrition."

"Uh..." Tom looked at the sundew that Nick said. How should I put it, this plant is like a big tongue covered with fluff, and each fluff is covered with shiny slime.He pointed to the plant with small yellow flowers next to him as if changing the subject and asked, "What is this?"

"Honey, this is French jasmine." The boss who wrote down the customer's address and order replied, "The flower has a strong fragrance and tenacious vitality, which is very suitable for planting in the yard."

"Yes," Nick nodded to the boss, and added to Tom, "Its scientific name is golden hook kiss, which can withstand the low temperature of minus 28 degrees Celsius. It blooms three seasons a year, and the flowering period exceeds 3 days. But the whole plant is highly poisonous, and the juice can It can cause a strong allergic reaction on the skin, and eating it by mistake will lead to intestinal adhesions that cannot be cured, so it is also nicknamed Broken Intestine Grass, and you must be careful if you want to raise it.”

The boss applauded: "Oh, sir, you are too professional."

Tom, who just wanted to change the subject, immediately fell in love with the golden hook kiss again.Maybe he's just naturally interested in aggressive things, Nick thought resignedly, and satisfied him.

They bought a small pot of golden gooseberry and planted it in the yard.Nick took Tom to build a frame for this vine, and instructed Tom to wrap its young branches on the frame with his own hands, "Be gentle, Tom, we must be gentle, and don't hurt its stems and leaves."

Tom took care of the newly purchased heartbreak grass with great interest, hissing with the two snakes beside him from time to time.

Tom proudly showed off in Parseltongue: [Nick knows so much! 】

Two Snakes: [Okay...but he can't understand us. 】

So Tom became lost again.

The author has something to say: Under the background of World War II, Nick still regards HP as a branch line. After all, wizards have the magical world of wizards, and Muggles have the stars and seas of Muggles.