Chapter 329 The past is like smoke and cannot be forgotten!
"The institute has been run by Dong Tian for many years, with chaotic internal management and irrational resource allocation. It can be said to be a mess now.
Do you know why no one objects to you taking over this stall at your young age? Some people are waiting to see the joke! They just want to know how you will clean up the mess.
There is indeed a need to sort things out, but at your age, I'm afraid you'll be limited in what you can do and it won't be easy to start."
Qin Zhengting let out a long sigh after he finished speaking. He also knew that there were many problems in the institute now.
But he does not think that those drawbacks can be changed overnight.
He had even less hope for Su Mei's assurance.
There are things you have to do to convince people that you can do it.
Su Mei did not argue about this issue.
She will do well in anything she sets her mind to.
Currently, the institute's recruitment process, resource allocation, internal management, and innovation methods are all unreasonable and outdated.
It is indeed difficult to change the status quo.
But nothing is difficult in this world if one sets his mind to it.
Su Mei believed that as long as she was willing to do it, there would be a way out.
Su Mei does not plan to go back to her hometown this holiday. She plans to go directly to the research institute.
Speaking of the research institute, Su Mei recalled what Lu Kai said at school yesterday.
She repeated those words to Qin Zhengting:
"Some people in the institute were talking behind my back, saying that the research results I produced were actually from you, and that you gave them to me on purpose in order to promote me to be the dean."
"I know about this." Qin Zhengting finally smiled after listening to it, "Don't pay attention to this voice! Anyone with a little bit of brains will not believe this.
Such a remarkable research, which could go down in history if it were taken out at random, no researcher would be willing to give it up.
You must have been kicked in the head by a donkey to say such things, and you just pretend you didn't hear it."
"I don't care. The key point is that I think such words are insulting to your dignity. Yesterday, I beat someone up for this matter." Su Mei said, and told Qin Zhengting about the beating of Lu Kai at school yesterday.
Hearing that Su Mei was still fighting, Qin Zhengting frowned:
"You beat up someone from the Lu family? You're in big trouble! Why are you so impulsive?"
"A member of the Lu family?" Su Mei caught the key information. "From the tone of Master, it seems that the Lu family is very powerful."
"Anyway, he's not easy to mess with. It's because I messed with a guy named Lu that I've been staying at the border for so many years." Qin Zhengting said.
Did you offend someone named Lu? Didn’t Su Mei remember that Master said he wanted to come back because his mortal enemy was brought down? “I remember you said before that the people who persecuted you back then have fallen, right?”
"It's not about overthrow. I came back because the head of the Lu family, Lu Xu's grandfather, passed away." Until now, Qin Zhengting has not told Su Mei in detail what happened that year.
Since the conversation had come up today, Qin Zhengting decided to have a talk with Su Mei:
"The one you beat up, Lu Kai's brother Lu Xu, was the one who wanted to become my disciple, but I rejected him.
He wanted to become my disciple, not because of my medical skills or abilities, but because of my status as the dean.
Because as the director of the institute, I can directly recommend the next director of the institute, and he wanted to take a shortcut by becoming my disciple.
I definitely cannot accept someone who is too utilitarian.
Lu Xu's grandfather was a very important figure in Yenching. He was unwilling to see his grandson rejected, so he used his position to force Lu Xu to be my student.
In order to save face, I didn't see Lu Xu for several months, and I even accepted another official's son who wanted to be my disciple as my apprentice.
As a result, this apprentice got into trouble and a hospital received a group of patients suffering from mass poisoning.
Because the whole family was in a coma, the hospital was not sure what kind of poison had taken place.
So the hospital found my apprentice and wanted him to see if there was any way to cure the disease. My apprentice went to check but couldn't find any solution. However, he was very concerned about his reputation and didn't want people to say he was useless, so he used my apprentice's name and said he could cure the disease.
Then, because of his arrogance, all five members of the family died in the hospital.
After the accident, this apprentice insisted that I taught him that poisoning can be treated with acupuncture and bloodletting to remove toxins...
The Lu family used this to win me over, saying that either I accepted Lu Xu as their apprentice, or I would leave Yanjing.
I still rejected the Lu family, and then at the summit that year, the Lu family used some false evidence to have Dong Tianding replace me.
After that, I won’t be hanging around in Yanjing anymore. I’ll be hanging around in the border areas!”
So that's what happened! Su Mei felt that it was not that complicated. "I thought you went to Xinjiang for some shocking conspiracy!"
"As for conspiracy, it is not impossible. I always felt that the death of that family was strange, but I haven't found any evidence." Speaking of the lives of that family, Qin Zhengting's eyes showed a trace of pain.
Su Mei understood: "You mean, that family was deliberately killed by someone in order to control you?"
After hearing this, Su Mei felt that it was indeed possible.
At that time, she was performing surgery on Liu Cuiyun, and someone behind the scenes secretly poisoned Liu Cuiyun, hoping to frame her for the death of someone during the treatment.
But if a whole family was killed just for a frame-up, creating a tragic case that wiped out the entire family, Su Mei thought it was too horrifying.
"I just had this suspicion because the autopsy later found that some people's poisoning doses were not lethal, they ate wild mushrooms...
Just when I was about to examine the bodies further, they were all taken away and buried overnight.
After that, the Lu family kept causing trouble for me, which delayed my further investigation of the incident. I always felt that this was due to the cat being fed up with it." This is also the reason why Qin Zhengting was reluctant to talk about what happened back then for so many years.
He had always been thinking that if he had been more merciful and open-minded and accepted Lu Xu, such a tragic thing would not have happened.
After saying so much, Su Mei still had some doubts. "Why are they so obsessed with becoming the dean of the Medical Research Institute? What are the benefits?"
"For profit! Medicine is a highly profitable industry. The drugs developed by the institute are all distributed by the dean... Who wouldn't be tempted by the huge profits? Do you think everyone is like you, donating hundreds of millions to the country and not taking any kickbacks behind the scenes?" Qin Zhengting sighed again as he spoke.
Now Su Mei understood: "No wonder you look so rich, Master..."
"Get lost~ What kind of person is your master?" Qin Zhengting rolled his eyes at Su Mei. "How can I have any money? Your master's wife is rich. All the money in the family comes from her family. She has a good family background and is an only child... She built the laboratory for me. I have lived up to the country, the people, and my identity as a doctor in my life, but I owe too much to your master's wife."
This is also the reason why Qin Zhengting no longer engaged in any work after returning to Yanjing.
He couldn't give his lover a lot of money, but he could only give her the companionship and love that she had been missing for many years.
Su Mei certainly knew that her master was not that kind of person. If he were that kind of person, he would not have stayed in the border for several years.
But when she heard the master talking about the past, she felt the atmosphere was too heavy, so she wanted to make a joke to change the mood.
The master and his apprentice talked about what happened in the past here.
Outside the door, Dai Yin, who was holding a teacup, heard Qin Zhengting's last words.
Tears streamed down my face.
She wiped her face with her hand before knocking on the door.
"Open the door. I'm bringing tea to you and your disciple!"