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Chapter 249 Marching Forward (Please Subscribe)

After composing himself for a while, Yuan Weihong asked Fang Ziye some detailed questions in a slightly trembling voice.

The first question was how Fang Ziye obtained his experimental funding.

The small amount of money Deng Yong gave Fang Ziye was far from enough for Fang Ziye to squander on such experiments.

The army hasn't arrived yet, but the supplies have!
Starting animal model experiments isn't something you can buy with a few tens of thousands of dollars; it usually involves hundreds of thousands of dollars going down the drain.

After Fang Ziye explained everything carefully and meticulously to his master Yuan Weihong, Yuan Weihong gritted his teeth and exclaimed in a low, hoarse voice, "Really? There really are pregnant women?"

“Yes, Master, so I think I might have been lucky and encountered the right model during the first preliminary exploratory operation.” Fang Ziye stood in the corridor outside the animal laboratory, talking on the phone while looking into the distance.

In the distance, mountains meet, verdant and lush.

The warm sun overhead hit my face, hot but not dry.

"Why didn't you say so sooner? I just got back from Enshi yesterday!" Yuan Weihong began to complain, his tone full of playful scolding, not anger, but rather the trouble of having to make another trip.

“Master, the animal caretaker at the animal lab didn’t mention this to me before.”

"I originally thought I'd follow Associate Professor Hong Zili's example and spend some money to buy an opportunity, but I didn't expect to actually succeed," Fang Ziye explained.

Fang Ziye is indeed suspected of gambling, but his gambling is not the kind of gambling for money.

"I'll leave this afternoon, arrive tonight, and return in the early hours of the morning..." Yuan Weihong divided his time for the day like this.

I probably can't leave right now.

Today is the group's surgery day. Yuan Weihong has no teaching duties, so he cannot leave his job for such unimportant personal matters.

Fang Ziye has now figured out the possibility of a new gene knockout biological model, regardless of the difficulty of operating this animal experimental model or the depth of research it represents.

Or perhaps it's the rather special direction of HK2, which makes it worthwhile for Yuan Weihong to make another trip to Enshi.

“Yes, Master, I will come to pick you up tonight,” Fang Ziye said.

"Okay, I'll hang up now, I'm going to the operating room." Yuan Weihong, who had just been unable to get through to him on the phone, was now being found offline. He nodded to the distance as he ended his chat with Fang Ziye.

After hanging up the phone, Fang Ziye's mood instantly improved.

This is a brand new animal model!

Although it's only a possibility, once it happens!
If I want to get rich in the future, I can support myself by starting a small company with the technology and patents. In this life, I can do some small business in this direction and achieve a comfortable life. And if the HK2 channel becomes popular in the future, I can earn even more money.

Of course, this is only the most basic meaning.

Then there's the HK2 gene knockout model project, which will undoubtedly be of great benefit to Yuan Weihong and to the future development of his research group.

If, despite the profound foundation of his sect, related research topics continue to be repeatedly withheld, then Fang Ziye can only say—

You win!
I've gone abroad!

And do what you say.

Naturally, it also has implications for higher scientific research fields.

Individuals with the HK2 gene knocked out can survive, so professors of biochemistry and physiology will have a lot more work to do in the future.

Besides basic glucose metabolism, are there other glucose utilization pathways, or pathways equivalent to glucose metabolism?

This is a larger, more forward-looking topic that requires deeper thought and exploration.

As the first person to establish a model in which animals could still survive after the HK2 gene was knocked out, Fang Ziye is likely to be mentioned many times in future discussions on this topic.

Just like how Fang Ziye cites other people's literature and articles when writing his papers, others cite Fang Ziye's articles related to his topic multiple times...

However, thinking about these things now is obviously a bit too far ahead.

Let's eat first!
When Fang Ziye had dinner with Director Wu Guonan, he naturally didn't mention the experiment to them.

However, during the dinner, Professor Shen Tao, who was aware of Fang Ziye's current level of scientific research excellence, carefully explained Fang Ziye's current achievements.

It's fair to say that everyone at the dinner table, except for Shen Tao and Fang Ziye who were speaking, was completely stunned.

Just like before, when Zhang Mingcan's master's students, Guan Hongming and others, saw Fang Ziye's other articles in the laboratory of Enshi Central Hospital, their expressions were exactly the same.

Director Wu Guonan touched his Adam's apple, which he was swallowing enviously, and asked again, "Professor Shen Tao, are Xiao Fang's two articles enough to make him a doctoral supervisor?"

"Yes, it will be earlier, and it definitely will be earlier." Shen Tao nodded.

A doctoral supervisor is someone who mentors doctoral students.

To become a doctoral supervisor, the most important thing is to have research topics and projects, and if you also have high-scoring papers, you can apply for the position earlier.

Of course, high-scoring papers in general might not lead schools or hospitals to consider making you a doctoral supervisor ahead of time, but Fang Ziye's published papers could be a major boost.

"Who knows, in a few years we might have to start calling him professor." Wu Guonan remembered that there was a professor in the orthopedics department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a 36-year-old senior professor.

If Fang Ziye had done it a year or so earlier, that would have been several years earlier, and then he could have completed several consecutive jumps. That's terrifying.

Shen Tao chuckled and teased, "Actually, you can change your address now."

"Professor Shen speaks well!" Fang Ziye quickly added almost immediately after Shen Tao finished speaking.

Fang Ziye's intervention immediately prompted Director Wu Guonan and others to follow his lead and start calling for people.

No one dared to say that they couldn't call Professor Shen Tao in advance.

Upon hearing this, Shen Tao's face showed a strange expression: "You and your teacher are exactly the same, both of you are a bit of a scoundrel."

“No, Teacher Shen, I’ve saved myself at least six years of detours!” Fang Ziye said firmly.

Shen Tao understood what Fang Ziye meant.

After Shen Tao returned, he was promoted to associate professor. Five years later, if he can be promoted to full professor, he will be promoted. If he cannot be promoted, then it is unknown how long he will have to wait.

Calling in advance saved us from taking unnecessary detours.

"I'm not going to engage in any empty flattery with you. Goodbye." Shen Tao then excused himself to go to the restroom.

Because the topic we just discussed seems to have gone a bit off track.

After Shen Tao left, Fang Ziye said, "You see, Director Wu, I simply can't afford to pay anymore, so Professor Shen is unwilling to praise me. But Professor Shen's excellence doesn't need commercial hype; it comes from genuine, heartfelt admiration. I am one such advocate..."

Now, Fang Ziye has gradually become more harmonious with many people at Enshi Central Hospital. He knows clearly which jokes are acceptable and which are not.

When it came to boasting, Fang Ziye didn't hold back.

So when Shen Tao came back from the restroom, Fang Ziye openly admitted that he had published a total of three articles, all of which had decent impact factors.

However, there is another article, which is the BMJ mentioned by Yuan Weihong, which is currently only a small part of the whole picture.

Shen Tao then said, "Ziye, let me tell you, don't think that just because something is very basic, it won't lead to a big breakthrough, and that's when you might slip away."

"The more fundamental something is, the deeper the research becomes, and the greater the impact once a breakthrough is achieved."

"You can actually see that the original inspiration for every important surgical procedure or new instrument is actually very basic..."

Shen Tao was trying to comfort Fang Ziye, telling him not to feel too much pressure from Yuan Weihong's arrogance.

Even if the paper isn't ultimately published in BMJ, your achievement is still a testament to your excellence.

Shen Tao felt that it was Fang Ziye's bad luck to have encountered a teacher like Yuan Weihong.

I wonder how much pressure Fang Ziye usually endures...

A dinner party is either a celebration, a drinking party, a chat, or a combination of all of these; there's no need for it to have a single, overarching theme.

Soon, the dinner party came to an end!
However, when Wu Guonan went to pay the bill, he found that Fang Ziye had already paid it. Taking advantage of his drunkenness, he scolded Fang Ziye, saying that he was just a student and that with so many superiors present, it was not his place to pay the bill.
And they even said it was just a joke before...

Fang Ziye could only listen from the sidelines.

But Wu Guonan was probably a bit drunk. After he finished cursing, he wouldn't let the boss refund the previous bill and let him settle the bill again.

Instead, after cursing, he turned around and walked away.

It's like Fang Ziye treated someone to dinner, paid the bill, and then got scolded by the person who treated him—it was purely a case of paying money to make himself uncomfortable.

Of course, Fang Ziye also knew that Wu Guonan might have drunk too much, which was why he was out of sorts. Furthermore, many of the subsidies Fang Ziye currently receives are not actually things that Enshi Central Hospital is obligated to provide.

Director Wu Guonan has already given Fang Ziye a lot of benefits in private, so let's not be so clear about the accounts.
Shen Tao came over to comfort him, saying, "Director Wu has had too much to drink. Don't take it to heart. He'll make up the money for you when he sobers up."

"Xiao Fang, do you have anything else to do? If not, how about we go out and sing karaoke together?" Shen Tao asked Fang Ziye, implying that there weren't many people around and everyone could come along.

After all, right now, there's only Mao Mao, standing there with a simple and honest look and wearing black-rimmed glasses.

"Teacher Shen, why don't you discuss this with my master? I have an appointment with him tonight." After thinking for a moment, Fang Ziye realized that the best reason to refuse Shen Tao was Yuan Weihong.

"Really?" Shen Tao had almost developed a psychological aversion to Yuan Weihong lately; just hearing the name Yuan Weihong made him feel uneasy.

"Teacher Shen, really? Why don't you get in touch with her?"

"I'll contact his grandpa, and I'll touch two of them by myself. Isn't that better?"

"Ugh, ptooey!" Shen Tao was much more unrestrained in front of Fei Yuanweihong, as if he were aiming for the acting department.

Shen Tao turned to leave, then suddenly remembered something and turned back to say slyly, "Didn't Yuan Weihong just go back yesterday? Why is he coming to Enshi again? There must be something important going on."

Shen Tao was only halfway through his sentence when he saw Fang Ziye's mysterious smile.

He covered his forehead and said, "Damn it, I'm a jerk myself. I knew it all along, but I still asked."

(End of this chapter)