Chapter 346: Core Interests

"Snap~~~"

"Boom~~~"

A burst of chaotic noise interrupted Zhou Tianbo's train of thought.

An expert from the Expert Group kicked a chair over, glaring fiercely at the person opposite, the veins on his forehead bulging.

Zhou Tianbo had not expected that these experts would truly be at daggers drawn over competing for Ji Xiang, as if the other party had dug up their ancestral graves.

The experts in the Imperial Capital see each other constantly; everyone mainly engages in mutual commercial flattery, as people lift each other up like a fancy sedan chair.

But that is in normal times; when truly facing core interests, no one is willing to let go.

Ji Xiang is the core interest that no one is willing to give up.

Zhou Tianbo felt a sense of powerlessness; he was also clear on this point, and Zhou Tianbo even vaguely understood why his own boss thought so highly of Ji Xiang yet never recruited him—his own boss's level was not yet high enough.

Suddenly, he thought of Qin, Qin Chu of Shanghai Hepatobiliary Hospital.

"I want this child! Whoever snatches him is going against me, Ge Tianming!"

The person who kicked the chair roared in a deep voice.

"On what grounds?" another person said, "Your Director Ge's level is high, but you want to take this child away just by standing here and saying a few big words? That's a bit arrogant."

Zhou Tianbo almost covered his forehead.

When the big shots are truly enraged and start fighting over "core interests," they are no different from ordinary people.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and Zhou Tianbo thought of the movie *Forbidden City Cop* starring Stephen Chow.

Unknowingly, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Tianbo's mouth.

The big shots look steady and are all smiles, but when encountering this kind of situation in a rush, one never knows what they might do.

In his distraction, Zhou Tianbo did not pay attention to what the few were arguing about.

Just then, suddenly, the entire room seemed to have been cast with a spell, instantly falling silent.

Creak~ Zhou Tianbo vaguely heard the sound of the air solidifying.

"Bickering and squabbling, what does this look like?"

"Dean Hao."

"Teacher Hao."

"Academician Hao."

The crowd spoke in a jumble of voices.

Their voices were very soft, especially the few who had been making the most noise; their faces flushed red, looking very embarrassed.

"You are all big directors of various hospitals; bickering and squabbling like this, what does it look like? Pay attention to the influence."

The person who arrived walked in slowly and said softly.

Zhou Tianbo was stunned.

How did this person actually come!

The Dean of Beijing Tumor Hospital, Academician of the Academy of Engineering, Hao Zhongming.

It is said that he is a strong contender for the next Dean of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and his status in the Imperial Capital's medical circle belongs to the highest tier, ranked at least in the top five.

"I heard a child actually got a perfect score on the Practicing Physician Examination? Let me see the test paper." Academician Hao sat down, and She Yong bowed his waist, his face full of smiles. Hearing Academician Hao finish speaking, he immediately moved the laptop over and opened Ji Xiang's test paper.

Academician Hao looked at it bit by bit, his brows furrowing and relaxing from time to time.

The small Demonstration Room was quiet, the smell of gunpowder dissipated into nothingness, but the atmosphere was even more oppressive.

Everyone knew in their hearts why Academician Hao had come. If he were to speak up, no one present would truly dare, or be able, to say no.

Ten-plus minutes later, Academician Hao finished reading Ji Xiang's test paper, smiled slightly, and placed his hands together with fingers interlaced in front of him, his thumbs circling each other.

But before he could speak, one person suddenly said, "Academician Hao, I have heard of this child."

"Oh?" Academician Hao glanced over, "How long have you been looking favorably upon him? Gold will always shine, but to be able to see it before it shines, your eye for talent is not bad."

That person hurriedly said, "No, no, no, Academician Hao, I have just heard of him; I didn't intend to recruit him as my graduate student."

"What did you hear?"

"The first to look favorably upon him was Qin, Qin Chu of Shanghai." That person told the story of Ji Xiang in Shanghai from beginning to end.

He did not add fuel to the fire, but every sentence sounded as if he were adding fuel to the fire.

"!!!"

"!!!"

The vast majority of people in the small Demonstration Room did not know about this matter and were so shocked that their spectacle lenses fell all over the floor.

Academician Hao said gold will always shine; where is this child gold? He is simply a diamond.

It's just that this temper is a bit too poor.

"I know Qin Chu has been ill recently." Academician Hao smiled and said softly, "I thought it was just old age; so that's how it is."

"Yes, this child..."

"This child didn't do anything wrong." Academician Hao interrupted the person's words, directly defining the nature of Ji Xiang's affair.

"..."

That person stopped speaking.

Academician Hao truly likes this child, actually standing openly on the side of a Standardized Training Doctor in front of so many people.

Then,

what else is there to say.

Zhou Tianbo shivered, goosebumps rising all over his body.

Academician Hao, that is Academician Hao!

At Ji Xiang's age, as long as Academician Hao can live to eighty, Ji Xiang could potentially become an Academician of the Academy of Engineering before forty.

He and his boss had racked their brains to arrange a path for himself, yet he was actually moving slower than a Standardized Training Student?

Zhou Tianbo felt somewhat bewildered.

"The interventional surgery on their side is done too crudely; it's no wonder Doctor Ji Yisheng would be unhappy. As doctors, we do work of conscience; we must have some bottom line." Academician Hao did not mince words and laid it out directly.

Given his status and position, he naturally did not fear offending Qin Chu; even if Qin Chu were to jump up and curse, what could he do?

To Academician Hao, Qin Chu was merely a director of an Interventional Department in Shanghai, a grassroots surgeon at best.

If he was offended, then so be it; Qin Chu had no remarkable backing behind him anyway.

It was Ji Xiang, rather, who made Academician Hao look at him with new eyes.

Academician Hao looked at the test paper on the computer and smiled, "This kid is not bad, that... who is it."

She Yong immediately responded by Academician Hao's side, "Teacher Hao, you speak."

"Where is the phone? I'll give this kid a call."

Academician Hao was actually going to call Ji Xiang personally; Zhou Tianbo's heart was filled with envy and jealousy, crushed into eight pieces by an invisible force.

Before his eyes, Academician Hao did not hide his eagerness to cherish talent in the slightest.

It looks like Ji Xiang will surely soar to great heights in the future, with a limitless future, Zhou Tianbo thought to himself.

"Teacher Hao, it's here." She Yong found Ji Xiang's mobile number.

Academician Hao took out his phone and, without avoiding anyone, dialed the number directly.

He had just pressed four keys when the phone rang.

After glancing at the phone number, Academician Hao's expression turned grave; he stood up abruptly and walked out of the small Demonstration Room with his phone.

The experts of the Expert Group in the room looked at each other in dismay.

However, a long time passed, and Academician Hao did not return; after taking one call, he had vanished without a trace.

Academician Hao was a true bigwig in the Imperial Capital's medical circle; he appreciated Ji Xiang and, for the sake of this little fellow, had struck a blow directly at the long-established Qin Chu.

But why didn't he come back?

Could there be some other major event?

After more than ten minutes, She Yong scratched his head and went out to call Academician Hao.

A few minutes later, he walked back in with a look of astonishment on his face.

"Little She, what happened?"

(End of this chapter)