Chapter 650: Two men aren’t as good as one woman Chapter 650: Two men aren’t as good as one woman The three of them headed to the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department.
They took the elevator to the ninth floor and entered the hepatobiliary surgery ward. The wards at night were quiet and still as patients had begun to fall asleep. As they passed the nurse’s station, they could see some nurses busy at work. After greeting the nurses, they walked to the multimedia conference room at the back of the ward.
Standing at the door of the conference room, the three of them felt a bit apprehensive.
“You knock,” Li Qi’an said to Zhao Zhaowei.
Zhao Zhaowei was afraid, his palm touching his own face, hesitating to knock on the door.
Neither classmate dared to knock, so Xie Wanying seized the moment and lifted her hand to knock twice.
“Come in,” someone replied from inside. Upon careful identification, it was the voice of Dr. He Guangyou.
Xie Wanying grabbed the doorknob, twisted it open, and walked in with a clear and spirited voice calling out, “Teacher.”
Inside sat seven doctors, all members of Tao Zhijie’s team, including faces Xie Wanying recognized and some she did not. The one exception was the figure of Song Xueling from Beidu, who they’d thought had left after greeting them that day.
This Beidu man, Xiao Song, hadn’t left. Had he just been holding a meeting here with Tao Zhijie and the others? Zhao Zhaowei and Li Qi’an poked their heads into the room and were equally surprised to see Song Xueling inside.
“Are you here to talk about the things you wanted to discuss this afternoon?” Tao Zhijie, sitting in the middle of everyone, asked Xie Wanying at the door with a smile in his eyes.
Senior Tao started off straightforwardly, one hand resting on an open conference notebook and the other holding a pen, indicating he was leading the meeting. It seemed as though their arrival had interrupted the others’ work. With this thought in mind, Xie Wanying hurried to finish speaking to avoid delaying the meeting, and she opened her mouth to speak.
“Come in and talk,” He Guangyou beckoned her with a wave of his hand.
Standing far away, how could they hear clearly what was being said.
Xie Wanying took a few steps forward and, under the gesture of her seniors, walked up and stopped in front of them.
Li Qi’an and Zhao Zhaowei, still peering in from the doorway, panicked at the sight of her being called forward and felt a sudden urge to flee. But before they could turn around, they heard a shout from behind them.
“You two!” Qiu Ruiyun pointed at the backs of the two men, “A girl comes in and you two just stay at the door, what are you doing?”
The fact that the two boys were more timid than the girl was about to make the seniors angry.
Zhao Zhaowei and Li Qi’an, who had thought about running, could only slowly turn back around, nudging and pushing each other as if they were marching in place at the door.
Tao Zhijie turned his face aside, barely concealing a laugh.
Seeing him laugh, the other doctors felt free from restraint. If it was time to laugh, they laughed; if it was time to be stern, they were stern.
“Are you coming in or not?” He Guangyou made a fierce face at the two men.
Probably scared out of their minds, Li Qi’an ducked and, as if ignited by the senior’s words, dashed into the conference room to stand beside Xie Wanying. Seeing this, Zhao Zhaowei could only follow cautiously, taking up a position behind Li Qi’an, turning to the side, not daring to face Tao Zhijie and the others directly.
Song Xueling, sitting at the back, looked over the two men and then compared them with Xie Wanying, who stood upright at the front, thinking back to what he had witnessed in the staircase earlier. Indeed, the two men were not as competent as the one woman, which was quite rare.
It’s not to say there weren’t any. At Beidu First, there were female academic prodigies as well. But a female medical student like Xie Wanying was extremely rare, especially since she was in the surgical field and outperformed the male students.
He only remembered that at his own alma mater Beidu, there seemed to be no female students like her.