Chapter 101: Having One's Home Stolen Just Like That

"Teacher, is that Zhou Jiaoshou the Zhou Congwen you mentioned?" Ji Xiang asked impatiently after returning.

The System NPC raised his eyes and looked at Ji Xiang, "Does it matter whether it is Zhou Congwen or not?"

"Emmmm."

"The most serious complication of a partial Kidney Resection is not failing to remove it cleanly, nor is it even postoperative metastasis, but postoperative hemorrhage," the System NPC said. "Procedures related to hemostasis are of the utmost importance."

Ji Xiang suddenly remembered something and asked, "Teacher, I understand, I will learn from you in a moment. However... I have another question."

The System NPC looked at Ji Xiang kindly, "Speak."

"I didn't see any manufacturer representatives following the professor in the Clinical setting, but when I was experiencing Empathy, I saw Zhou Jiaoshou carrying a manufacturer's manager with him. How is this possible?"

"Is it because the county town lacked equipment and consumables that he brought one?"

"No," the System NPC shook his head. "In the past, as you would put it, the Chief Surgeons who ate the big meat and the Deans in charge of hospital procurement were all VIP-level clients for manufacturer managers. Many requests, even some excessive ones, would be satisfied."

"A normal sales model," Ji Xiang said. "Otherwise, why would there be so many nightclubs in economically developed places? It's all the same, right, Teacher?"

The System NPC ignored Ji Xiang's extrapolation and continued, "Later, with centralized procurement, profits were almost zero, so there were no manufacturer managers. Zhou Congwen was working with Shen Ke on a scientific research project, so there was a manufacturer manager following him the whole way."

Ji Xiang remembered the System NPC telling him to figure out how to solve the problem of that Patient who insisted on not having Laser Stone Crushing. He clearly remembered the System NPC saying that he had a scientific research project at the time.

The manufacturer provides equipment and consumables, the Doctor provides the technology, and they comprehensively solve the problem of the Patient not having money for surgery.

And after that, the operator is also responsible for writing a scientific research paper, which the manufacturer takes for publicity and promotion.

This is a game where everyone benefits, but not many people can set up such a game. Manufacturers are craftier than monkeys; if the publicity isn't enough, who would do such a thing?

So it could be played like this.

This time, Ji Xiang's realization was even more profound.

"Let's go, start learning the surgery," the System NPC said.

Ji Xiang put all his Experience Points into the surgical technique of Interventional Embolization.

The Experience Points obtained from this kind of System Task have their own drawbacks—they do not improve the surgical experience of the entire department.

Perhaps this is what it means to have an unstable foundation? Ji Xiang thought.

The System NPC took him to learn partial Kidney Resection surgery first, teaching every type of surgical approach from laparotomy to laparoscopy.

Afterward, he began to demonstrate the teaching of Interventional Embolization Hemostasis treatment surgery.

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Liu Zhuren hung up the phone and sat on the sofa in deep thought.

"What are you thinking about?" Liu Zhuren's spouse asked. "Are you planning to go fishing with someone again early tomorrow morning? You old men, why do you all like fishing so much? Zhao Zhuren from the Interventional Department is the same, all of you acting like you're sick."

"Hmm?" Liu Zhuren knew his spouse too well; the tone of her voice was off, as if she were implying something.

His spouse didn't continue, just picked up the vacuum cleaner to suck up the dog hair in the house.

The dog also felt that the atmosphere was wrong and ran back to its kennel immediately.

"What's wrong?" Liu Zhuren sighed, putting aside the matter of Ji Xiang breaking the record over a hundred times.

The house was on fire, and inexplicably so; Ji Xiang breaking the record was not that important by comparison.

"The spouse of little Sun at our unit has been going fishing at five o'clock every day recently," Liu Zhuren's spouse said sullenly. "You bunch of fishing enthusiasts! She has always had some doubts and asked me what's going on, but how would I know?"

Liu Zhuren laughed, "There's definitely something going on! Tell little Sun to go catch them in the act."

"How so?" Liu Zhuren's spouse stopped what she was doing and looked at him with sharp eyes.

Although the atmosphere was a bit off, when it came to fishing, Liu Zhuren couldn't help but open the floodgates.

"First of all, going fishing at five o'clock is obviously already late. Calculate it: the travel time is at least half an hour, plus getting to the spot to bait the area and adjust the float—after the whole set, the fish have stopped biting. That's when it's quiet."

"If there are a lot of fishing enthusiasts, leaving at five o'clock means there definitely won't be any fishing spots left."

"Then what did he go do?"

"Imagine this," Liu Zhuren said. "If it were morning exercise, he could just do it openly. I've never heard of any shrew not letting her husband go for morning exercise."

Speaking of shrews, Liu Zhuren's spouse's face changed, but Liu Zhuren was so caught up in his explanation that he didn't even notice.

"If it were a foot massage, the second half of the night would have ended long ago. Going at five o'clock is likely to run into a locked door. Nothing is open. Do you think it's like a hospital, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?"

"You mean... he went to find a little lover?" Liu Zhuren's spouse asked.

"I reckon so," Liu Zhuren said with a smile. "The other person's husband might also be a fishing enthusiast who leaves at two or three in the morning to fish. Who knew he'd have his home stolen just like that."

"!!!"

"That person's husband might have left at two or three in the morning with his fishing gear, and little Sun's husband left at five—the timing is perfect. Two hours of time, the bed is still warm, the beauty has finished washing up, and she's ready to welcome the first catch of the morning."

"That's really damn excessive!"

"Heh," Liu Zhuren chuckled. "Normal, normal, such an obvious thing..."

Having said this, he suddenly remembered that his spouse had just asked him if he was going fishing.

Damn it!

He dug a hole and trapped himself in it.

"I'm not going fishing," Liu Zhuren explained immediately. "You remember Zhao Yuanzhang, right?"

"That's a very stiff change of subject," Liu Zhuren's spouse said expressionlessly.

"I'm being serious," Liu Zhuren said, feigning composure with a smile. "When Zhao Yuanzhang was young, he participated in the Medical Technology Competition and set a record for Tying Knots. A record is just a record, but no one has broken it in over twenty years."

"What does that have to do with you?"

"A Standardized Training Student under me broke the record over a hundred times today."

"???"

"I don't know the specifics either. It's said he ties over 300 knots a minute. Sigh, I'm truly old; some things have to be left to the young."

"Over 300, is that very high?"

"Of course, it's very impressive!" Liu Zhuren praised. "They are eating, and when they mentioned this, they wanted to drag me over to explain it clearly."

The look of vigilance in Liu Zhuren's spouse's eyes flared intensely.

"I'm definitely not going; what time is it already? Isn't it better to just stay home and get a good night's sleep?"

"Good thing you know your place."

Liu Zhuren didn't think much of it; he walked the straight and narrow and wasn't afraid of his spouse at home getting jealous.

What he was puzzled about was just Ji Xiang; this kid was simply too capable!

Breaking a record wouldn't cause much of a stir, but to break a record over a hundred times—what did that make Zhao Yuanzhang's previous record?

Just as he was thinking this, Liu Zhuren's phone rang.

"Hello?"

(End of chapter)