Chapter 252

When Yuan Weihong left Enshi, he wasn't drunk; instead, he departed on a flight with remarkable composure.

Master left directly, but Lan Tianluo, who came over to record experimental data, stayed behind and still needed Fang Ziye to arrange his next steps.

Fang Ziye simply had Lan Tianluo come home with him.

The house Fang Ziye rented was a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment for family use; having Lan Tianluo stay as an extra person was perfectly fine.

Before Lan Tianluo confirmed moving into the room, Fang Ziye deliberately asked once more: "Tian Luo, are you sure you don't want to find your own place? Since Master agreed to cover your accommodation, he'll definitely make it happen."

Fang Ziye didn't know if Lan Tianluo had a preference for living alone.

If it were Fang Ziye himself, given the choice, he would probably choose to live alone.

"No need, Senior Brother. I think it's pretty good here."

"Besides, I don't have bed management duties now, so I can sleep in until eight or nine every day; it shouldn't affect your routine, Senior Brother." Lan Tianluo was a guest on his first visit, so his words were still relatively cautious.

Fang Ziye brought Lan Tianluo to drop off his things first, then bought a new set of bedding and such.

It wasn't that Fang Ziye wasn't generous enough to give Lan Tianluo the bedding from his cousin's house, but bedding is intimate; Lan Tianluo had his own preferences, and even if washed, he'd rather not use something a stranger had used.

On the way back from shopping, Fang Ziye gripped the steering wheel in his role as senior brother: "Tian Luo, if you get a girlfriend later and she hints at going to a hotel, would you bring a quilt along?"

"Uh... ~" Lan Tianluo's eyes tightened slightly.

Then he said playfully: "Senior Brother, how could that be the same?"

"How is it not the same? A quilt? You don't use a quilt?" Fang Ziye pointed at the things Lan Tianluo was holding.

But Lan Tianluo, already contaminated for nearly a year, was no longer the green rookie he'd been at first; with a half-smile he said: "Senior Brother, a quilt will be used — that's the more traditional way."

"No quilt, not even a quilt, not even a bed — that's the higher realm of happiness."

"Or maybe not even a room?" Compared to before, Lan Tianluo was slightly more arrogant and playful.

He saw Fang Ziye's gaze gradually turn strange, so he quickly added: "Of course, Senior Brother, I'm definitely still a very traditional and conservative person. I can't play those fancy games."

"Bullshit!"

"Who did you learn this talk from?" Fang Ziye retorted helplessly; why had no one taught him like this before?

"Senior Brother Yan Zhiming, Brother Yan — he's quite the talker." Lan Tianluo sold out Yan Zhiming at the first opportunity.

Actually, Fang Ziye had guessed long ago; if someone really taught Lan Tianluo these things, the most likely candidate was Yan Zhiming, now a first-year doctoral student.

Fang Ziye had spent the least time with Yan Zhiming; in the group, the newcomers were just Yan Zhiming, Jie Han, and Zhu Yunwen — three first-year PhD and master's students.

……

After returning to the room, Fang Ziye didn't help Lan Tianluo make the bed or such things.

This kind of thing — two grown men — they mostly just shove everything in; besides, Fang Ziye wasn't very good at it, so he'd rather not embarrass himself in front of others.

Lan Tianluo indeed wasn't good at it either; Fang Ziye watched him stand on the bed, twist the duvet cover, and shake it straight down to the floor — Fang Ziye felt like he was seeing his long-lost self...

However, just as Lan Tianluo was making the bed, Fang Ziye chatted with Luo Tingzhu, who was about to eat lunch, about Lan Tianluo staying with him for a while.

Luo Tingzhu fell silent for a moment, then asked on her own: "Is it that he helped you a lot on the previous closed reduction and fracture definition project?"

"Xiao Luo, his name is Lan Tianluo. There's no need to avoid saying his name."

"Tian Luo helped a lot, including this time — he came over to help record experimental data." Fang Ziye switched to a more formal address.

"Senior Sister" — that's what you call her when the chat gets heated and you blurt it out unthinkingly.

"Xiao Luo" — that's the address for relatively formal occasions.

The name "Tingzhu" is what Fang Ziye uses as an opener when he speaks first; after all, it's a bit ambiguous, and keeping it on his lips all the time — Fang Ziye felt his face wasn't thick enough to mess around to that extent yet.

"Senior Brother, I'm not avoiding it; I just can't fully accept it for now."

"Actually, what I'm more curious about is how exactly Lan Tianluo will record these growth data. Honestly, our team — I participated in data recording and registration a while back."

"The raw data materials are truly too tedious." Luo Tingzhu actually put it that way.

Hearing this, Fang Ziye didn't pursue what experiment Luo Tingzhu had done, but said: "When did you go do data registration? I don't recall you mentioning it?"

"Just the past few days; I only went once, following Senior Sister."

"I thought you were doing similar animal experiments, Senior Brother, so I didn't bring it up directly, afraid of pressuring you." Luo Tingzhu stated the reason quite generously and directly.

"Senior Sister, am I that competitive a person?" Fang Ziye glanced at Lan Tianluo, who had stopped shaking the duvet cover, and asked: "Tian Luo, want a hand?"

"No need, Senior Brother. I've already got it sorted."

"Then plug in an Ethernet cable..." Lan Tianluo had brought his own router, and the room happened to have an adapter; for convenience, Lan Tianluo said Fang Ziye could use the router he brought, which would be a bit faster than ordinary routers.

"Mm, should count as it."

"Although you're low-key, Senior Brother, you're actually a bit stubborn, even proud inside — just maybe better at letting go of face." Luo Tingzhu spoke her perception.

Seeing this, Fang Ziye's brow couldn't help but twitch.

This Luo Tingzhu might have read him inside out, so she'd always known he had a bit of an 'inferiority complex,' and why — and now that he'd just stopped feeling inferior, she'd caught that too.

Dealing with smart people can be simple, or brain-taxing, or you might never imagine the outcome.

"Probably most people are like me, right?" Fang Ziye said.

Fang Ziye didn't believe Luo Tingzhu had no little pride of her own.

"Senior Brother, for a while now, in the research group, I've operated gene knockout on animal experiment models several times, then did gene sequencing operations several times."

"It's just a pity — they all failed..." Luo Tingzhu expressed her own little pride in this rather subtle way.

She also didn't want to be pulled too far behind Fang Ziye in those aspects; she hadn't produced final results, but she'd participated in the whole process.

Whether you can operate, and whether you get results — that's a matter of luck, not purely ability anymore.

"Not at all; didn't you teach me? That can't count as total failure, right?" Fang Ziye soothed.

"Senior Brother, a lot of the materials you gave me can be found online. Teaching like that is far too simple!" Luo Tingzhu dared not claim credit.

"But if no one gave them to me, I'd still have to search, and I wouldn't find them this comprehensively — so you're still Teacher Xiao Luo."

"Teacher Xiao Luo should teach more classes from now on." Fang Ziye said.

"Don't say that; I recently heard that calling a girl 'teacher' and asking her to teach is insulting language." Luo Tingzhu suddenly turned serious.

Fang Ziye: "???"

If you don't understand, just search for it.

And then Fang Ziye actually searched up some messy stuff.

"Who did you hear all this from?" Fang Ziye's heart tightened slightly inside, he asked like this.

"Lan Tianluo!!" Luo Tingzhu sent a name, adding two exclamation marks.

Fang Ziye's heart, only then relaxed down.

This is Lan Tianluo, as a younger brother, doing a kind of probing or popular science, right?

However, actually Fang Ziye might have overthought it himself.

Generally, girls who aren't short of money, it's very hard for them to walk down that path, it's just that I was too nervous...

After Lan Tianluo finished arranging the room, he came out of the room holding his own notebook.

Fang Ziye merely glanced at Lan Tianluo, then said: "Enshi Central Hospital also has a Training Room, although it's not as good as Zhongnan Hospital's Training Room, you can also go practice more, don't let your hands get rusty."

"Scientific research only serves the clinical."

Originally Lan Tianluo was planning to speak, but interrupted by Fang Ziye inserting a word, he stopped halfway, then said: "Okay Senior Brother, I've noted it down."

"Senior Brother, so our current Small Group, the recent Main Task is, Brother Jie is responsible for the Writing of the paper, Master goes to prepare for the Outstanding Youth Fund Thesis Defense, the two of us are responsible for Data Collection."

"Then in the second half of this year, me and Senior Brother you, we both have to start applying for Research Projects, although at that time Senior Brother you will be Abroad, but..."

Fang Ziye listened and listened, feeling a bit off.

He reached out his hand and said: "Tian Luo, how come now it's you arranging these things? Where's Master? And Jie Han, are they in Han City, bullying you?"

Fang Ziye originally hadn't thought too much about it, but after Lan Tianluo actually spoke, Fang Ziye keenly felt that the current Lan Tianluo seemed to be the Main Planner inside the Research Project Small Group.

"Senior Brother, you're all busy, so. I just act as a Surgical Assistant like this..."

"And Master and Brother Jie are both used to it, so they just." Lan Tianluo explained like this.

However, Fang Ziye still discovered some clues.

"Tian Luo, is it that you're not just participating in one Research Project Group, so, you occasionally can't shift your Identity left or right?"

"I feel, even I've discovered this point, Master couldn't possibly not have discovered it." Fang Ziye said like this.

Right now, my own Small Team, Development Prospects are extremely good, it belongs to a benignly developing team, if Lan Tianluo chooses at this time to have a foot in two boats, it's actually the least worthwhile.

(Chapter End)