Chapter 309: Salted Fish Turns Over (Bonus Chapter for the Alliance Leader Seeing My Master)

"Little Zhao, why are you only just back?"

Zhao Zhe was preparing to go home to pack his things and was calculating what essentials he should express to the Provincial Hospital when he was suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Director Xu." Zhao Zhe's waist bent habitually, his face full of smiles, "I went to see off Ji Yisheng Xiang and came back late. Why are you here... Oh, look at you, were you waiting for me? Come on up and sit."

Although Zhao Zhe knew Director Xu's purpose for coming, having been suppressed for so many years, he couldn't be bothered to argue about anything.

The sky in the distance was clear for thousands of miles; why make things unpleasant with Director Xu?

Although he was a bit cowardly, and although he still felt a bit uncomfortable inside, Zhao Zhe didn't care.

He had long since grown accustomed to this over the years, and looking at Director Xu, who had always been arrogant and haughty in front of him, now acting so submissive, Zhao Zhe felt gratified.

However, while he wouldn't go so far as to have a bloody confrontation with Director Xu, he did need to scare him a little, lest he continue to live peacefully after bullying him.

Going upstairs and opening the door, Director Xu also felt that the tone he had just used was wrong, and he tried hard to make his attitude toward Zhao Zhe more gentle.

"Little Zhao, you're really something, I'm envious, truly. Are you moving or what? I know the head of a moving company; just send your old furniture in two containers and have it all shipped to the Provincial Hospital together, no need for you to worry about it."

"Director, look at what you're saying." Zhao Zhe smiled, "I don't have much confidence in my heart."

"No confidence?" Director Xu was startled.

"To tell you the truth, I was even prepared to stay behind." Zhao Zhe laughed, "That young master who came today, you saw him, right?"

"That young man? What about him?"

Director Xu immediately recalled the sunny, cheerful young man who was half a head taller than himself.

"Shanghai Hepatobiliary Hospital, you know it, right?"

"I know it, a world-famous hospital."

"A while ago..." Zhao Zhe's floodgates opened, and he recounted Ji Xiang's experiences at Shanghai Hepatobiliary Hospital in an endless stream.

This matter itself carried infinite legendary quality, and coupled with the fact that Zhao Zhe's own memory had issues... the cognition he had formed while under the suppression of the advanced version of 【Superior Doctor's Gaze】 at the time, between the lines, vividly described the Great Demon King state Ji Xiang was in back then.

Director Xu was dumbfounded listening to this.

Who was Zhao Zhe talking about? Was he talking about a damn Standardized Training Student?

He scolded a big director from Shanghai, the famous Qin Chu of the academic world, like a dog!

Although Director Xu was in Urology Department and didn't know who this Qin Chu was, he knew exactly what level a doctor was who could invite an Academician from the Chinese Academy of Sciences like Academician Teng to preside over things.

This young man was simply too arrogant and domineering, too reckless. No wonder he felt that although the young man was polite and courteous at the time, there was a sense of indifference about him.

Especially when Zhao Zhe mentioned that Ji Xiang had slammed an A4 paper onto Ling Tian's face in front of Academician Teng and many colleagues from the Interventional Department in Nan Fang, Director Xu immediately recalled the scene where Ji Xiang had handed him an A4 paper with both hands.

It was damn dangerous; it was almost a matter of a single thought.

"Little Zhao, really?" Director Xu's gossiping heart flared up.

"Really, I saw it with my own eyes. Director, in the past, when people talked about geniuses, I didn't really believe it. Honestly, when I was young, I was also someone who could read a tablet at a glance; my reading and memorization skills were top-tier.

But you know what I'm like, so the geniuses in my understanding were just so-so. It wasn't until I saw Ji Yisheng perform surgery that I realized what a real genius is like."

"The way he performs surgery, you have to admire it."

"Wait, Little Zhao." Director Xu knew Zhao Zhe's habit of being a chatterbox, so he interrupted him without ceremony.

If this were in the past, he would probably have insulted Zhao Zhe a few times; today, he was being polite.

"Surgery performed well, still begging for food when you're old—you know that as well as I do."

Saying this, Director Xu looked deeply at Zhao Zhe.

"Just by relying on surgery, you can suppress top domestic Experts?"

"Director, let me tell you a secret." Zhao Zhe leaned in and said mysteriously.

"What is it?"

"That day when Qin Chu, Qin, didn't he find Academician Teng to endorse him? I saw a man and a woman following Academician Teng."

"Hmm?"

"I've been to Ji Yisheng's house and met his father."

"Could it be that the young man's parents went with Academician Teng?" Director Xu asked.

By the time he said this, he already believed it ninety-nine percent.

No wonder the Dean wanted to slap him; the Dean was actually caring for him, terrified that he might have caused a catastrophe that couldn't be cleaned up.

"Yes." Zhao Zhe said, "But Ji Yisheng's behavior has nothing to do with his parents. You didn't see how overbearing Ji Yisheng is. As the old saying goes, that which is too rigid is easily broken; working for such a young master, one must surely be trembling with fear."

"Bullshit, you brat, you're still acting coy after getting the advantage." Director Xu scolded, "You're really lucky; how did Ji Yisheng take a liking to you?"

It sounded like a reprimand, but in fact, Director Xu already had a fawning tone; Zhao Zhe could feel it and felt proud inside.

Director Xu didn't ask much else; he also knew that these were all things Zhao Zhe wanted him to know.

It meant both telling him that Zhao Zhe was no longer the old Attending Physician he once was and had a background, and also a gesture of goodwill to make him restrain himself so as not to offend someone who shouldn't be offended.

As for Zhao Zhe...

Director Xu was also helpless; his strength was that he was capable, and his weakness was that he was too damn capable. It was only by using his status as a department director that he had barely managed to suppress him.

And the suppression wasn't even thorough; one stint of advanced training, and he had turned the tables.

Thinking of the past, Director Xu felt regret; who could have known that Zhao Zhe would suddenly have a change of luck and latch onto such a thick thigh.

He immediately became much more attentive, his attitude dropped to the limit, completely disregarding his dignity, and even had a bit of a sycophant's vibe.

Director Xu knew Zhao Zhe too well, otherwise he wouldn't have bullied him to death.

Zhao Zhe was thin-skinned; as long as he knelt thoroughly enough, there would be no future trouble.

Thinking of this, Director Xu cast aside all dignity and busied himself around.

It was as if he were a different person in the morning and the afternoon; if someone didn't know, they would think Director Xu was so reluctant to see Zhao Zhe leave.

Zhao Zhe knew it in his heart, but he just couldn't be bothered to care.

……

……

Ji Xiang returned to the Provincial Hospital after finishing his business.

He had thought about this matter carefully; it was a part of growing up. Although he had borrowed the influence of others, they had helped him out of respect for the elders in his family, but Ji Xiang felt it was worth it.

Zhao Zhe performed surgeries well and was reliable; he had no other flaws besides talking too much.

There was one thing that troubled Ji Xiang now—he was about to go to the Orthopedics Department for his Standardized Residency Training rotation, but there was still a major project over at the Urology Department.

He still remembered the System NPC telling him back then that he needed to make up his mind and think it through.

Now, less than two months later, Ji Xiang vaguely felt that he could not keep up with the project.

A large number of surgeries and post-operative follow-ups sounded simple and easy, and they had to be done. But after experiencing it personally and feeling the Empathy, he had a sense that while knowing is easy, doing is difficult.

There was no other way; Ji Xiang felt somewhat distressed.

(End of this chapter)