"As you can see! Indeed so!" Cheng Yue sighed and couldn’t help but lift his foot to shuffle it around.
"Why were you punished to stand? Making trouble again? How do you expect me to save you?" Yan Ye, holding his book, looked at the three of them with a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.
Although these three students often caused mischief, they had clever minds.
Yan Ye’s discovery of them was accidental.
He wasn’t originally teaching their course, but he took over someone else’s class just once and noticed these three students.
They didn’t listen carefully during the lecture, constantly fidgeting.
Yan Ye never went easy on such students, pulling them up to answer questions on the spot. If they answered correctly, they could continue with the class; if not, he would punish them by having them copy the textbook from beginning to end.
Amazingly, these three easily came up with the answers.
This meant that even when they were only half paying attention, the other half of their brains were also working and performing exceptionally well.
Yan Ye silently noted these three, resolved to properly sculpt such uncut jades.
Medicine is a rigorous discipline, a slight oversight could cost a patient’s life. Since these three had sharp minds, he had to thoroughly assess them.
Yan Ye examined their records and found they had all scored highly to get in. Although they weren’t serious in class, their grades were decent.
After getting to know them, Yan Ye singled them out for special attention and polishing, then had them join his research project team.
In the eighties, the treatment for heart disease lacked many medications. In his field of research, he hoped to improve old drugs and create new ones with fewer side effects and low costs.
This was his research topic.
Those who could join the research team were all elites.
In this team, there were fellow faculty members, graduate students, and doctors from the affiliated hospital. The inclusion of these three was indeed quite surprising.
But Yan Ye was willing to give them this learning opportunity, hoping they would make the most of their strengths.
Yan Ye was very protective of his students.
These guys hadn’t caused just a little trouble, and he had smoothed things over for them more than once.
Because of this, he and these three rascals were well-known at the director’s office of student affairs.
Given that, he didn’t mind helping them out one more time.
"Teacher Yan, after we were punished to stand, we still have a five-kilometer run. With our puny physiques, we’ll probably end up spitting blood after we finish. Could you maybe speak to the director of student affairs, saying the lab is very busy and needs our participation?" Cheng Yue had already prepared a justification for Yan Ye.
"Hmm. Can do!" Yan Ye readily agreed.
"Teacher Yan, you’re awesome! If I were a girl, I’d really want to marry you!" Li Zhi exclaimed excitedly.
"No way! I wouldn’t dare take you," Yan Ye coughed lightly, laughing, "I can help you, but the reason for the punishment?"
"Ah! It’s a long story!" Li Zhi sighed.
"Then make it short."
"Alright. It all started because Cheng Yue took a fancy to the younger junior sister An Hao and after doggedly pursuing her for quite a while, he suddenly discovered she had a husband! And just when her husband sent a letter, he snatched it, opened it, and even had Zhang Chaoqian read the contents aloud. It ended up angering An Hao, who took the matter straight to the director of student affairs..."
Li Zhi hadn’t finished his sentence when he was coldly interrupted by Yan Ye: "Very well! You guys can continue standing! Until you deeply reflect on your mistakes! After the punishment, come find me in the faculty office building! I’ve prepared a ’gift’ for you."