On April 28, 1985, the headquarters of Merck (Merck & Co., Ltd.) in the United States held a press conference to announce that imipenem was approved by the FDA and officially launched globally.
North America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China have become the first regions and countries for imipenem.
For a time, the major media rushed to report. Biologists call it a major change in the history of antibiotics, and the laboratories of Merck & Co and Zheng Li have been in the limelight for a while.
As the global media scrambled to report the good news and express great confidence in humanity's victory over the disease, certain dissonant voices also came out.
South Korean media voiced their strong dissatisfaction with the lack of South Korea as the starting country. Korean folks have directly put forward why China is the starting country and South Korea is not. The South Korean health department held an emergency meeting and negotiated with Merck overnight, hoping to include South Korea in the ranks of the starting countries.
Merck said that due to the limited production capacity of new drugs, they could not be simultaneously launched globally. They deeply regret and apologize for this. Moreover, Merck is a global pharmaceutical company with social responsibilities. While pursuing interests, it also values the company's contribution to society. Contribution, China is a country with a large population, and the national population accounts for one-fifth of the global population. The listing of imipenem in China can better enable the drug to serve human beings.
Those long and selfless words made the Chinese people's favorability towards Merck instantly exploded.
"Li, I'm sorry, this is the best result I can strive for. The pricing of drugs must be globally unified. As for Huaguo, I have discussed with Mr. Smith, we will cooperate with the Huaguo Ministry of Health to develop a drug assistance project, as long as The materials are well prepared, and the patient's medication cost is half of the actual price." Kent on the phone was a little helpless.
Li Zheng smiled, "Thank you, Kent. I understand." Pharmaceutical companies will not change their pricing strategy because of anyone, let alone imipenem, a drug that is completely a seller's market.
The Dok virus vaccine has also officially entered the human clinical stage. The drug regulatory authorities of the United States and South Africa are simultaneously conducting human clinical trials on vaccines, and the launch of vaccines has also entered the high-speed channel.
Li Zheng's preparations have been completed, and he has scheduled a flight for May 8th.
As the days of Li Zheng's departure approached, Liang Zhe's temper became irritable.
"Not in a good mood? Listen to Uncle Fang, you poured a girl a glass of water at dinner tonight?" Li Zheng walked into Liang Zhe's study.
Liang Zhe sat in front of the desk and lowered his head, making it difficult to see his expression.
Li Zheng opened the curtains halfway, and then sat opposite Liang Zhe.
"She moves her hands and feet..." Liang Zhe said in a low voice.
Li Zheng raised his eyebrows and said amusedly, "She molested you?"
"Yeah." Although he felt that the word "molestation" was a bit wrong, the aggrieved Liang Zhe nodded.
Li Zheng leaned forward slightly, and moved his head toward Liang Zhe, "Splash well."
Liang Zhe looked up at him, the eyes of the two met, and they did not separate for a long time.
After about five minutes, Liang Zhe pursed his lips and said, "I regret it..." Because of Liang's family and Hua Jingfang, Liang Zhe could not leave Xiangjiang for the time being.
In other words, once Li Zheng returned to the inland, the two would have to be separated. Liang Zhe thought it was nothing, the big deal was that he flew to Huajing several times a month.
But seeing that the time for Li Zheng to go back was getting closer and closer, he began to become restless. If he is well versed in Chinese classical literature, he will know that there is a sentence in ancient China that is very suitable for his current state of mind.
"I regret teaching my husband and son-in-law to find a marquis." His current mood is not much different from that of the deep niece of the ancient times.
Li Zheng's heart contracted slightly, and he placed his right hand on Liang Zhe's head and rubbed it lightly.
"Got it." He lowered his eyelids, making it impossible to see the emotion in his eyes.
Liang Zhe suddenly stood up abruptly, wrapped his hands around Li Zheng's back, and pressed the person's head on his shoulder across the table.
The shoulders of the two were tightly pressed together, the heat of the other's body could be clearly felt through the thin shirt, and the hot breath hit the side of the face.
"I regret."
"I know."
"I really regret it."
"Um."
The dense kiss, only the breathing of the two of them could be heard in the empty study, and the lights in the room seemed to sense the owner's mood, and it became darker and darker.
The starlight outside the window, through the floor-to-ceiling windows, fell mottled on the marble floor of the study, casting a beautiful shadow.
the next day
Butler Fang looked at the two who walked down hand in hand, his mouth wide open.
"Mr. Li Zheng, did you live here last night?" he asked loudly.
Liang Zhe's face no longer had the irritability and uncertainty of yesterday. After he went downstairs, he quickly went to the table to get a hand wipe and handed it to Li Zheng.
"Breakfast is ready, you wipe, let's go eat." He was full of eyes full of this person in front of him, as for Butler Fang... I'm sorry, he was selectively blind.
Li Zheng's face turned pale, "Well, it was late last night and I didn't go back."
"Then why didn't you ask me to clean up a guest room! Oops, I'm so embarrassed." Sure enough, when Mr. Li Zheng came, his family's Mr. Liang was in a good mood. Thinking of this, Butler Fang's smile became more earnest, "I I'll go ahead and prepare a standing room for you. In my opinion, don't go back to your laboratory. It's deserted and unpopular, so there's no such thing as a place here."
Before Li Zheng could speak, Liang Zhe intercepted Fang's words.
"No, he lives with me." Liang Zhe seemed to have sworn an oath of sovereignty and pulled Li Zheng behind him. After a slight hesitation, he continued, "Uncle Fang is right, don't go back, stay here."
In Liang Zhe's eyes, there is a pitiful earnestness, and there is absolutely no domineering of last night.
"Okay." Li Zheng looked at Liang Zhe with a bit of indulgence that he couldn't find himself.
Butler Fang finally came to his senses, the interaction between the two was not right.
He looked at Liang Zhe, then at Li Zheng, but he couldn't ask, what was wrong
"Eat, eat, breakfast is ready." Butler Fang couldn't figure it out for a while, so he didn't think about it, and greeted people to go to the restaurant.
The large pear wood table and pear wood chair look magnificent, but it is really uncomfortable to sit up.
Seeing Li Zheng frowning, Liang Zhe hurriedly stood up, took a cushion from the living room and put it on Li Zheng's chair.
"It's okay." His lips pursed tightly, looking at Li Zheng cautiously.
"It's okay." Li Zheng rubbed his temples helplessly and sent the person to his place.
Butler Fang is even more confused. Mr. Li Zheng is uncomfortable and can't sit there
The work in the laboratory is tight, and meal time is almost the only time when researchers are relaxed. Therefore, Li Zheng has developed the habit of organizing his thoughts during meal time.
And Liang Zhe has never been a talkative person. He took a bite, looked at Li Zheng, and even saved the side dishes.
Butler Fang felt that the room was too quiet, so he couldn't help but speak to enliven the atmosphere.
"I heard that Mr. Li Zheng is going back to the inland next month? Will he come back?"
Li Zheng put down the spoon in his hand, "Of course I'll come back to see it." It's to come back to see, not to come back.
The temperature in the room seemed to have dropped by two degrees.
"Mr. Li Zheng, you are an adult this year. Such a handsome and capable guy, I don't know which girl is cheaper."
"Pata." Liang Zhe put down the tableware, "mine!"
"What?" Butler Fang looked at his little master suspiciously.
"Li Zheng is mine!" Liang Zhe said word by word, his mouth tightly pressed into a straight line.
Butler Fang frowned.
"Sir, I know that you rely on Mr. Li Zheng, but even so, you can't stop people from looking for a wife." Fang Steward said righteously.
Liang Zhe's face flushed, "I... I'm his wife!" He opened his mouth and said it.
There was a moment of silence in the restaurant, Fang Fang's mouth was wide, Liang Zhe's dependence on Li Zheng, the unprepared guest room last night, and the abnormal interaction between the two.
His complexion suddenly changed.
Butler Fang's face became solemn, and his gaze towards Li Zheng was also filled with hostility and dissatisfaction.
"What's your relationship with Ah Zhe?"
The expression on Li Zheng's face was a little stiff. He knew that the social atmosphere of the 1980s was far less open than later generations, and love between same-sex people was often not recognized.
In Li Zheng's mind, Fang Butler is a housekeeper, but in Liang Zhe's life, he often plays the role of an elder.
"Well, we're... mates." Li Zheng hesitated for a while, but said the same.
Butler Fang was instantly furious when he heard this. He clapped the table and stood up.
"Since you are partners, and you have slept in the same bed, how can you be in a mess! Leave Xiangjiang to work inland, come back and see, you think our Mr. Liang is your little lover. !"
Li Zheng…
Liang Zhe…
After crossing the bright road in front of Butler Fang, Liang Zhe was obviously more unscrupulous. In the next few days, he was like a pet with the automatic tracking function turned on. He followed Li Zheng wherever he went.
This made Steward Fang more certain that their Mr. Liang was the one below. While heaving a sigh, he went to Jiulong specially, found an old Chinese doctor and took several medicines, and heard that it was good for the person below.
Every time Liang Zhe was forced to drink the medicine, he always took a sip, and then made various excuses to enter the room. Of course, the medicine ended up in Li Zheng's stomach.
In addition, the number of encounters between Butler Fang and Li Zheng has increased sharply. The Liang family is really big, there are five or six in the living room. On weekdays, Li Zheng can see Butler Fang every time he eats, but after that time, Butler Fang has Like a ghost, wherever Li Zheng is, he will appear.
In his mouth, he seemed to be muttering to himself that Liang Zhe and his wife died when Liang Zhe was a child. Later, he met those unfortunate relatives, almost died in the sea, and autism. Li Zheng felt helpless for a while.
He really didn't give up, and... he's the one below, okay