Chapter 259: Senior Brother's Overture (Asking for Subscriptions)

"Ziye, are you home? Free?" After Fang Ziye hung up the phone, he unexpectedly received a WeChat message from Senior Brother Wu Xuanqi, whom he hadn't contacted in a long time.

Fang Ziye even deliberately checked carefully; it was indeed Wu Xuanqi, whom he hadn't contacted much in a long time.

"Planning to go back tomorrow to catch dinner, Senior Brother Wu, aren't you going back?" Fang Ziye hurriedly replied, but just after typing it out, he hurriedly opened Teacher Shen Tao's page again.

Shen Tao also had to go back to Han City for the holiday, but he was rushing for a train earlier, so he and Fang Ziye chatted on and off, mainly about how long Fang Ziye would specifically stay in Enshi, and whether he wanted to bring his students to Enshi as well.

Shen Tao's reply happened to coincide with Wu Xuanqi's reply, and Fang Ziye could only try to please both sides.

"Teacher Shen, I feel it's unnecessary."

"Rather than having classmates run to Enshi, we might as well eat together a few more times privately when we're in Han City. After all, once we come to Enshi, the travel expenses won't be small." Fang Ziye replied.

Shen Tao only thought about whether his students should come at this time; Fang Ziye thought to himself, I'm about to finish my pairing assistance life, why are you still calling students over?

Fang Ziye was not composed of the absolute core members inside the Military Region Yangyuan; he belonged to the marginal, floating figures.

Because Fang Ziye belonged to a purely connections-based entry, it was only because of Teacher Zu that he got in; however, Fang Ziye did not follow Teacher Zu's arrangement to become a spy, so in the sanatorium project, the role he undertook was not important.

Therefore, Fang Ziye planned to take the subsequent experiments of the HK2 gene knockout model small animals to Han City to do, or go abroad to do.

Only two months of time remained; it was really not enough.

If he went abroad himself, he couldn't possibly let his fellow trainees still come to Enshi to clean up his mess.

"That works too, then we'll talk later." Shen Tao said.

"Also, Ziye, thanks for the specialty product you sent. But let me say one thing first: if this is produced by your own family, I won't say anything, but if I find out you bought it, then no matter how long, once I know about this."

"You have to settle the account, treat it as me selling it. This point must be clear, okay?" Shen Tao was politely principled.

"Teacher Shen, look at what you're saying; I wouldn't go so far as to pretend to be rich when I'm not."

"I'm practically broke to death, no money to buy gifts; it really is home-produced."

"At most, that water bean paste bought at the hometown, not made by my mom myself, bought for eighteen yuan, plus the outside bottle is three fifty, total twenty-one fifty, Teacher Shen, will you pay?" Fang Ziye seemed to have a rebellious bone in his body, just wanting to challenge Shen Tao's authority.

Shen Tao: "..."

"Can we not be this blunt?"

"You say it this meticulously, how am I supposed to pay?"

Twenty-one fifty, Shen Tao really couldn't bring himself to transfer the money. Fang Ziye might as well have said under a hundred, much better.

"Teacher Shen, you're welcome then, waiting for Teacher Shen to come back again, please give me more guidance on my clinical work. Next week is when I have to independently perform intramedullary nail internal fixation surgery as lead surgeon, a bit nervous."

"Teacher Shen, you have to teach even more meticulously." Fang Ziye hurriedly changed the subject.

"Bullshit, what teaching do you need now? Don't pretend; just do it however, the surgery is done very well."

After Shen Tao replied, Wu Xuanqi's side sent another message.

"Ziye, it's just that I didn't go back to my hometown."

"Want to go out and eat something together?"

"Most people have already gone back to their hometowns now; those staying in the hospital are all on duty; your sister-in-law was also dragged out to be a companion."

"I figured, maybe you're free." Wu Xuanqi used disjointed logic to say disjointed words.

After reading, Fang Ziye asked: "Senior Brother Wu, don't tell me the person inviting my fellow trainee to eat is sister-in-law's junior sister, and then sister-in-law and her junior sister went to find my fellow trainee to eat together, so both of us lost our meal partners?"

Fang Ziye similarly used a very roundabout tone to answer Wu Xuanqi's words.

This was Fang Ziye's deduction.

Actually easy to understand: Wu Xuanqi's wife Tang Yue is a doctor at Huazhong Affiliated Union Hospital; her junior sister wants to pursue Lan Tianluo, but is afraid to meet Lan Tianluo alone, and this is Enshi, so she could only call her known senior sister.

The Anesthesiology Department and Rehabilitation Department probably have a relatively close inter-departmental relationship, knowing each other is not an accident.

"It's exactly like that." Wu Xuanqi replied.

Half an hour later, the two people who had their meal partners snatched away mutually formed a meal partnership.

They found a barbecue stall, ordered beer and barbecue!

Only Fang Ziye deliberately noted that this time, Wu Xuanqi ordered quite a few sheep testicles.

"Ziye, this is good stuff." Wu Xuanqi said without any taboo.

Fang Ziye could only smile and play along.

The barbecue came up bit by bit slowly; besides common meat skewers, they also ordered mutton skewers and rack meat...

"Senior Brother, eating rack meat in this season, isn't it a bit hot?" Fang Ziye interjected while drinking.

"Then remove the fire pot! Drink more beer, cool down, beer is cold..." Wu Xuanqi said.

The two began to chat slowly.

Mostly Wu Xuanqi saying how awesome Fang Ziye was, especially Fang Ziye's research, awesome to the point of envy, just enviable but unattainable.

In such a praise segment, Fang Ziye only occasionally acted humble; mostly he and Wu Xuanqi engaged in commercial mutual flattery.

Then, Wu Xuanqi also talked about the skill competition prize money being distributed in June, and the matter of Fang Ziye soon receiving a huge sum.

"Senior Brother Wu, don't mention it; the money hasn't arrived yet, I've already lost quite a bit myself." Fang Ziye complained, obviously having strong opinions.

Because Fang Ziye got the Special Prize, people asking him to treat them came wave after wave; currently he's already paid over two thousand.

But heaven have mercy, Fang Ziye really hasn't seen the money; originally not very well-off, he's now a bit strapped.

Time gradually passed; soon it was eight or nine in the evening.

While Fang Ziye was chatting, his phone rang with a WeChat video call notification.

Fang Ziye picked it up and looked; it was surprisingly Luo Tingzhu, because he forgot to tell Luo Tingzhu he was eating with Wu Xuanqi; Luo Tingzhu didn't wait for a reply and just started a video call.

Fang Ziye didn't feel there was anything to avoid, so he answered right in front of Wu Xuanqi.

"Tingzhu, I'm eating with Senior Brother Wu Xuanqi; Senior Brother Wu Xuanqi, you still remember, right? I mentioned you before." Fang Ziye generously pointed at Wu Xuanqi.

Wu Xuanqi could only act as a passive background for a check-in, waving his hand.

Only, after Fang Ziye pointed the video at Wu Xuanqi for a bit, the arc of Wu Xuanqi's wave paused slightly, then continued on.

Only after Fang Ziye withdrew his gaze from the video did Wu Xuanqi joke, "Wife, you're checking up on him a bit too diligently, aren't you?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Tingzhu's face instantly reddened, and she was too shy to speak another word.

Fang Ziye saw Luo Tingzhu's embarrassment and discomfort, so he hurriedly cut off the topic: "Tingzhu, you go to the laboratory first. I'll talk to you more when I get back; I forgot to tell you earlier."

"Okay, you and Senior Brother Wu both drink less." Luo Tingzhu replied with concern.

Luo Tingzhu only lets her guard down when chatting alone with Fang Ziye; it's not that she can handle herself with ease in every situation Fang Ziye currently encounters.

However, Fang Ziye had just hung up the phone and was looking at Wu Xuanqi with a smile, about to explain a few sentences, when Wu Xuanqi fiddled with his phone for a moment and spoke first: "Ziye, just now, is that your girlfriend?"

"Can you be sure?"

"Senior Brother, what do you mean by this?" Fang Ziye found it baffling.

Whether she's his girlfriend or not — does that still need to be asked with a "can you be sure"?

Wu Xuanqi thought seriously for a moment, then said: "Ziye, real talk — I'm telling you this because I treat you as a brother, absolutely no other motives."

"Mainly, I'm just afraid you've been deceived by someone else."

"I don't mind you looking at this group." Wu Xuanqi said while opening a group.

There wasn't much information in the group, but in the message records, Wu Xuanqi scrolled for roughly over a minute, scrolling back to last year's messages.

This is a photo album; the cover of the album is Luo Tingzhu's photo. As if it were Luo Tingzhu's detailed profile, waiting to be reviewed or browsed.

And as Wu Xuanqi scrolled up and down, there were other people's messages too, both male and female.

The images had nothing else, no replies either, but below each image there would be detailed information, and the figures in these images were all very good-looking.

Either very handsome or very beautiful.

Wu Xuanqi tapped into it.

Saying: "Ziye, I can tell you very clearly, this is a relatively high-end companion group, and the companionship method might be in the form of hunting for beauty, not the kind of ordinary transaction you're thinking of!"

"Ordinary decent people don't have access to this."

Fang Ziye's brain crashed for a moment upon hearing this.

Then he recalled everything he knew about Luo Tingzhu's past, and feigning ignorance asked: "Senior Brother Wu, what exactly do you mean by 'not the ordinary transaction you're thinking of'?"

"And, those able to enter this kind of group — shouldn't their status be not low?"

Wu Xuanqi said: "Power games, power-sex games, quota trading, dating games."

"Whatever someone likes to play, there will be someone providing the resources they like to play with, in exchange for what they themselves need; even higher-end ones providing sex partners or blind date partners — none of that is incredible."

"Ziye, actually you don't need to ask so much; if you're not deeply involved, turning back in time definitely still makes it in time!" Wu Xuanqi advised Fang Ziye like this.

As if convinced that since Luo Tingzhu appeared inside, she absolutely couldn't escape her fate.

Actually, those able to get in here have all gone through rigorous selection.

For the people inside, what they need is also a sum of money, a kind of reliance, even economic, career, or other aspects of help, but in reality they cannot obtain such resources.

But if they can have such resources as a transaction, they are all willing to trade.

Fang Ziye looked seriously at Wu Xuanqi, wanting to find other answers from Wu Xuanqi's face.

(Chapter End)