Chapter 879

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Protagonist:

Fang Ziye

"Director Zhang, it really is you? I thought I had mistaken you for someone else." At Zhongnan Hospital, near the Ben Yuan campus by Donghu Lake, Fang Ziye spotted a familiar shiny bald head while out for a walk.

He was playing with a lure rod; only after walking closer did Fang Ziye confirm that the other party was indeed his old acquaintance Zhang Mingcan.

Zhang Mingcan was the Administrative Director of the Trauma Surgery Department at the former Enshi Central Hospital; later he resigned on his own.

The last time he saw him was still during Fang Ziye's tenure as Chief Resident, when Zhang Mingcan returned to Han City and accidentally fractured a bone, specifically coming to find Fang Ziye for closed reduction.

Since that parting, a full five years had passed.

Zhang Mingcan was already getting on in years, nearing sixty, the wrinkles on his face deepening: "Professor Fang, I'm back in my hometown, and conveniently dropped by to look for Professor Xue. Professor Xue went to perform surgery, so I came over to cast a few lines."

The Professor Xue Zhang Mingcan spoke of is Xue Tao, also one of Yuan Weihong's good brothers, and Fang Ziye's nominal martial uncle; back when Fang Ziye went to "grind levels," Xue Tao happened to be sent down to Enshi Central Hospital for rural rotation while preparing for promotion.

Currently he is likewise an Associate Professor and Deputy Chief Physician.

Xue Tao and Zhang Mingcan and the others are obviously much closer.

After all, that matter was brought back to Han City by Xue Tao; Xue Tao even went into "the sentence" for a while because of it.

As the saying goes, adversity tests true friendship; at the time Fang Ziye couldn't help with anything, he was just a pure bystander.

Zhang Mingcan, Xue Tao, and the others, on the other hand, are grasshoppers on the same rope, all with no small sense of participation.

"Director Zhang, you said you'd call me when you came to Han City; this time you didn't keep your word."

"How many fish did you catch?" Fang Ziye crowded over to ask.

Zhang Mingcan reeled in his vib while laughing: "Blanked so far; the fish keeper hasn't even been lowered yet."

"Professor Fang, are you off work?"

If he hadn't run into Fang Ziye he could have not contacted him; after all, Fang Ziye's status today is extraordinary, Zhang Mingcan didn't want to rashly disturb him, but since he had run into him, Zhang Mingcan dared not pretend not to see him.

"Director Zhang, just call me Ziye."

"I came over because I have a bit of business; after finishing it I'm just taking a stroll."

"Director Zhang, are you still working in Henan Province?" Fang Ziye asked.

"Yes, still at the old place; at this age I can't move anymore. And I don't have your kind of technique and research ability, Professor Fang."

"My student is the same age as you, Professor Fang, but the gap is too large."

"Right, Professor Fang, Guan Hongming asked me to pass on a message, saying thank you for your years of careful teaching, which allowed him to graduate smoothly." Zhang Mingcan was very polite.

After Zhang Mingcan resigned, his students became a different kind of wild/unofficial students. Later he begged Fang Ziye to look after them a bit.

At that time Fang Ziye didn't have much time either, so he could only help them graduate smoothly; it couldn't be called careful guidance.

The faces of Guan Hongming and Du Hai had both dissipated from Fang Ziye's memory about the same amount.

"Director Zhang, where are Guan Hongming and Du Hai working now?" Fang Ziye asked, then said:

"Teacher Xue said he'll be free in a bit and we can go eat together; Director Zhang, you wouldn't mind me disturbing your elegant interest, would you?"

"Of course not; Professor Xue said you're now a big-shot professor who can't be booked even if you try."

"I reckon, Professor Fang, you should be getting the 'Three Highs' soon, right?"

After Zhang Mingcan finished asking, he said: "Du Hai stayed at the hospital; he's now at Enshi Central Hospital, already an Attending Physician. Guan Hongming is now following me, leaving his hometown behind."

The "Three Highs" Zhang Mingcan spoke of are not the medical "Three Highs," but the three parallel senior professional titles in research, clinical practice, and teaching.

"Right, should be this September."

"This time it was proposed by the Hospital and the Health Commission on their own! — I've suffered a loss before." Fang Ziye laughed.

Fang Ziye's promotion to Deputy Chief Physician also took only five years, just hitting the promotion eligibility period; everything happened naturally.

This time Fang Ziye didn't go thinking about any exceptional promotion.

Previous exceptional promotion already burned him once; his own early graduation left Deng Yong still stuck in Hand Surgery to this day.

"Tsk tsk tsk, triple Chief Physician at thirty-four! Professor Fang, if that resume gets out, it'll scare a lot of people to death."

"And it's a clinical Chief Physician, under the current 28-year situation at that." Zhang Mingcan envied endlessly.

Although he is also a Chief Physician, a Chief Physician, he completely cannot compare with Fang Ziye.

"Director Zhang, you cast a few more rods, no rush……"

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Inside the fish restaurant near Han City People's Hospital, Xue Tao took the initiative to order two fish, one stone pot fish style, one grilled.

Xue Tao's big nose was still striking, not shrinking in volume with age; he looked Fang Ziye up and down, then raised his thick eyebrows: "Professor Fang, from now on should I call you Leader? Or call you Director Fang?"

A Deputy Chief Physician is called Director; a Chief Physician is the true top clinical title; placed in any setting, it is a very natural Director identity.

"Teacher Xue, you're just bad-mouthing me."

"That I have today, isn't it thanks to your patronage, Teacher Xue? Without your careful guidance back then, how could there be my Ziye today?"

"Of course, if Teacher Xue really wants to mock me, I'll pinch my nose and accept it."

"After all, you're my martial uncle; I can even take a beating." Fang Ziye's tone was easygoing, not nervous at all.

"Right, Director Zhang, your fracture recovered pretty well, didn't it?" Fang Ziye asked about the past again.

Zhang Mingcan nodded, pulling up his trouser leg: "Professor Fang, look, where can you see any trace of the fracture?"

"Your closed reduction technique, even Old Doctor Chen praised incessantly; how could there be a problem?"

"Just a pity, Old Doctor Chen passed away several years ago; this closed reduction technique has found a home, yet it's hard for anyone to remember its origin."

Times change; back when Zhang Mingcan was still working in Enshi, Old Chinese Doctor Chen's closed reduction technique was a signature of Enshi, and a technique Zhang Mingcan admired but couldn't attain.

Zhang Mingcan still remembers now that Doctor Hong Du, who had a relatively good relationship with Old Doctor Chen, relied on top-tier closed reduction technique, one unique skill to eat his way across the world.

Of course, this situation only changed after Fang Ziye arrived in Enshi.

With his absolute talent, Fang Ziye not only left Hong Du, this direct-line inheritor of Old Doctor Chen's closed reduction technique, dumbfounded, but even Old Chinese Doctor Chen, this master synthesizer, admitted insufficiency.

"Will definitely still remember."

"Teacher Xue remembers, Director Zhang you remember, I also remember, my students also remember."

"But estimate once we all grow old, might truly possibly not remember anymore……"

"Teacher Xue, you have idea come find my Master? My Master often nags about you……" Fang Ziye sighed with emotion, then immediately transformed into a pimp.

Once Chen Fang left, the Department lost another pillar Deputy Chief Physician.

Fang Ziye's first thought was Xue Tao; although poaching people from Professor Duan Hong's side would be even better, that is Professor Duan's team, Fang Ziye dares not casually wield the hoe again.

After poaching Song Yi, currently Wu Xuanqi and the others are all extremely wary of him, interactions have become much fewer.