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Chapter 22 A Abundance of Talented Individuals (Please add to your favorites and continue reading)

At 10 a.m., Fang Ziye, his junior brother Jie Han, and his follower Lan Tianluo gathered around a control panel and focused their attention on it.

In front of the workbench, a pair of very delicate hands skillfully held a willow leaf knife in a "bow-holding" grip, and then engraved the three-dimensional simplified Chinese character "工".

She is currently repairing another section of the I-beam.

Although the character "工" is not complicated, it is extremely difficult to carve it out from soft tofu.

Because the ends are easily broken, this is a relatively difficult type of simplified Chinese character engraving. It requires very precise control over the thickness of the horizontal and vertical strokes of the character "工" to prevent it from collapsing.

Generally speaking, although the simplified Chinese characters for "field" have more strokes, their three-dimensional structure is more stable. They are the simplified characters that are often engraved when practicing debridement techniques in the first training room of trauma surgery.

"hiss!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd gasped.

"Those who want to make noise, go outside; it's spacious outside," Dr. Gu Yi immediately warned coldly.

However, neither Dr. Gu Yi's stern rebuke nor the gasp of the person before her had affected the girl's attention or her hands. She continued to control the knife and cut, and it looked like she was about to finish the other half of the character "工".

However, just as the character "工" was about to take shape and align, the horizontal stroke of the other side of the "工" that had been carved earlier collapsed.

It seemed to declare that all previous efforts had been in vain.

"Sigh!" Luo Tingzhu sighed softly after finishing the operation.

Then, seeing a large crowd gathered around her, she covered her expression with a mask, but her eyes were squinted, even obscuring part of her pupils.

"Senior Brother Gu, we still couldn't finish." Luo Tingzhu had just started her doctoral studies under Professor Deng Yong, so the only person she knew was Gu Yi, and she was somewhat disappointed.

Gu Yi said, "Junior Sister Luo, you are already incredibly amazing!"

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, considering that Luo Tingzhu was his junior sister, and that he couldn't be too blunt: "You're very impressive."

“Even Senior Brother Sun can’t control the knife like you right now. I reckon that in the group, the only one who can definitely beat you in wound cleaning is Brother Wei. If Brother Luo doesn’t perform well, he won’t be able to complete the ‘工’ character.”

Fang Ziye and the others nodded, their gazes towards Luo Tingzhu filled with admiration.

Surgery is a discipline that places great emphasis on practical skills. There is no room for faking your abilities, especially in the training room, where your skill level is usually immediately apparent.

With that, everyone dispersed and returned to their respective workstations.

Luo Tingzhu continued her training.

Fang Ziye, after allocating all his knowledge points to the debridement procedure, accidentally discovered something like this.

It seems he can now engrave some simple simplified Chinese characters on the surface of tofu.

With a level 27/50 proficiency in debridement, he can't complete some difficult characters, such as the character "我" (I), but he can still complete relatively complex simplified Chinese character engravings.

For example, the character “回” and the character “田”.

After completing the engraving of the characters "回" and "田", Fang Ziye increased the difficulty by choosing the character "心".

Don't think that the character for "heart" has few strokes. To carve simplified Chinese characters on tofu with a scalpel, straight strokes are simpler than left-falling and right-falling strokes. The curve of the character for "heart" is even more difficult to control. If you only need to write the character for "heart", then you don't need to practice debridement techniques at all.

Even someone who has completed junior high school can dig out this character, which naturally requires a certain physical form to allow the surgeon to perform the debridement procedure.

Ordinary dots are quite easy to carve, but the hook stroke seems to have reached a barrier in Fang Ziye's current skill level. Fang Ziye tried more than ten times in a row, but each time he ended up flipping over a large piece of tofu because of the difficulty in controlling the knife at the hook step.

Fortunately, tofu is cheap, and when practicing simplified Chinese characters, it can be cut into 'thick' thin slices.

Otherwise, Fang Ziye would probably have had difficulty affording the cost of these dozen or so practice sessions.

"Don't treat the scalpel like a pen. Abandon the mindset of writing with a pen. When you carve words with a scalpel, it's not about strokes, it's about carving." "Strokes are written out, carving is done by removing the dirt or necrotic tissue you need to clean. It's not about carving for the purpose of writing..." Fang Ziye was practicing for the eighteenth time when he suddenly heard someone explaining this to him.

Fang Ziye glanced to the side and saw that it was Luo Tingzhu. After finishing her practice, she packed her things and was about to leave when she, carrying her bag, stopped to watch, just like the other junior brothers. After watching, she gave them a word of advice.

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye seemed to understand something, then smiled and said, "Thank you, Junior Sister."

"These are things my former surgical skills teachers taught me." Luo Tingzhu smiled with narrowed eyes, then silently left the crowd and walked away.

This sudden stop caused Gu Yi, a senior student only two years ahead of Fang Ziye, to stand on tiptoe and carefully observe Fang Ziye's control over the cutting depth of the simplified Chinese characters engraved on the tofu surface. He then gasped in surprise.

"Ziye? Where did you buy this feed?"

"Could you bring some back for your senior brother?" Gu Yi's gaze wasn't on Fang Ziye, but only on his knife skills. He turned his head away after speaking.

Fang Ziye wanted to make a playful remark about the ward, but such a joke was inappropriate and disrespectful to the patients.

"Senior brother, we just need to practice slowly. Where can we get feed?"

"With feed like this, I'll surpass both Junior Sister Luo and Senior Brother Sun," Fang Ziye said without any reservation.

Gu Yi immediately retorted jokingly, "You still want to surpass Junior Sister Luo and Senior Brother Sun? You've got some nerve!"

Gu Yi thought to himself, "Fang Ziye, are you still not quite clear about the gap between you and Senior Brother Sun and Junior Sister Luo?"
Of course, Gu Yi couldn't say that. Fang Ziye's statement had a premise: that there was skill-enhancing feed.

Forcing an overinterpretation of other people's jokes and then using them for rumors and gossip is a disgrace to one's own character.

"It's all thanks to Senior Brother Gu's influence and teachings..." Fang Ziye said, using words to deflect the question.

Gu Yi shouted, "Shut up. You're framing me!"

Gu Yi quickly moved away.

As a senior apprentice, some burdens, once taken on, become like the Kitchen God's—there's no way to get rid of them.

Fang Ziye quickly said to the others, "Just kidding, don't take it seriously."

The junior disciples all smiled and returned to their places.

Fang Ziye also paused his practice, called out to Lan Tianluo and Jie Han, and went out to find food.

On the way, Jie Han asked, "Senior Brother Fang, do you think Senior Brother Sun is confident that he's stronger than Senior Sister Luo? Our orthopedics department is full of men, and we're going to be dominated by a girl?"

"Is this uncomfortable?" As the most senior senior brother, Fang Ziye naturally became the one in charge.

Jie Han's eyes widened, and after thinking about it carefully for a moment, he nodded in a lewd manner.

Lan Tianluo nodded in agreement.

Fang Ziye patted one of them on the shoulder and said, "Don't have a sense of gender superiority. Professor Deng Yong's group is full of talented people. Study hard."

"In the future, I will not become a doctor to outdo others, but to grasp what I can do for patients and what aspect of academia I can advance."

"Just because you're a guy doesn't mean you have to be better than other girls."

"Professor Tu is also a female teacher, why don't you try to be better than her?"

"Then I'll admit defeat."

Jie Han immediately wilted.

(End of this chapter)