Medal of the Republic 功勋 Episode 38

At the beginning of May 1969, the 523 research team of the Institute of Chinese Medicine began to screen from the "Single Secret Formula for Malaria". Tu Youyou was busy with work. It was nine o'clock when he went to eat. The master said that he was out of food, so Old Xu asked the master to bring two steamed buns and told Tu Youyou to do the experiment. The 523 research group will go to the Hainan group for an experiment in a while. Tu Youyou led the team and can also check the results of the experiment. He did not expect that Tu Youyou could really make a name for a blind cat and a dead mouse. Li Wei had received the notice to go to Hainan, and Tu Youyou also asked Liang Xihua to go with him.

Hainan Island. This is an area with a high incidence of malaria. A little girl hadn't eaten for many days. She was dying in the hospital bed. Tu Youyou found something to eat, and she picked a flower and put it in the little girl's hand. The conditions here are so bad that there is no professional statistical data and can only be recorded carefully. A few patients who took the medicine had a high fever again, and when Tu Youyou rushed away, he heard the cry of the little girl's mother, that little girl was dead. The previously suppressed malaria parasites become active again, and their numbers are even increasing. Liang Xihua and Li Wei were very disappointed. They sat on the beach and saw so many people die of malaria. They felt very complicated. I remembered that Tu Youyou said that the 523 research group has only one business group, and the two are not so diametrically opposed.

It has been more than a hundred days since Hainan in a blink of an eye. Tu Youyou wrote to Li Tingzhao, and she was about to return to Beijing. Everything had to be started from scratch. She was not afraid of difficulties. The most troublesome thing was that she didn't know where to go. Tu Youyou looked at the stars, trying to find the next direction. After returning to Beijing, Xiao Min said that Tu Youyou had been away for a full 168 days. The reason for her fight with the children was to protect her mother. She knew that her mother was a good mother. Tu Youyou opened the book, and the scenes in Hainan were still in her mind, so clearly, she thought of the little girl again. Tu Youyou believes that the focus should be placed on the drugs repeatedly mentioned in the antimalarial prescriptions. Neither Li Wei nor Liang Xihua makes sense. Tu Youyou went to report on work, but was told that the next work would change, Director Zhou and Old Xu asked her to do project work. Tu Youyou was unwilling, so the progress of the research team would stop. But Tu Youyou had to report to the inventory team, but all her mind was the work of the research team. Tu Youyou was assigned to Sichuan for foreign transfer. Artemisia annua happened to be Sichuan's prescription, and Tu Youyou agreed.

Tu Youyou and Xiaoji went to Sichuan for outbound transfers very smoothly. After the end, Tu Youyou went to find folk prescriptions. Tu Youyou asked Mr. Feng for advice. At the same time, Tu Youyou's parents also came to Beijing, but she didn't expect that she was not at home, but Grandma Liu helped open the door. Li Tingzhao's sister accompanied Tu Youyou's parents and Xiaojun to Beijing, but she didn't expect that they were not at home. Everything in the kitchen was moldy, and my mother looked worried. His parents helped Tu Youyou clean up the house, but Tu Youyou was looking for a Sichuan folk medicine for a long time. Tu Youyou's parents didn't want to live so long, and they had already taken Xiaojun back to Ningbo. When Tu Youyou returned home, Grandma Liu told her that her parents had been there. The house was cleaned up, and there were special food left in the lunch box. Tu Youyou then remembered the letter she received before she left. It was written by sister Li Tingzhao that she would take her parents to live for two weeks and asked her to prepare in advance, but she didn't see it. Tu Youyou wiped her tears and continued to work.

Xiao Du's transfer was gone, and the screening work stopped. The Revolutionary Committee announced that Liang Xihua was seconded and Li Wei would also leave the research team to work on new projects. Tu Youyou felt sad, and Li Wei felt the same. Li Tingzhao has already gone home and brought Xiao Min back from the kindergarten, but Xiao Min and Tu Youyou have not seen each other for a long time, so they have some fun. Tu Youyou was always unwilling to dismiss the 523 subject, but Li Tingzhao was very optimistic and felt that this project would not be so easy to dismount. Li Tingzhao wants to cancel Xiao Min's full care, and then go to Ningbo to bring Xiaojun back, and the family of four can be reunited.