The next day.
Saturday was a beautiful, sunny day, perfect for going out and having fun.
Thinking about attending an academic exchange conference at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine this year, Su Zhengnan got up early, did his morning exercise, had breakfast, and then took a taxi there.
Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a national key university with traditional Chinese medicine as its specialty. It is also a "Double First-Class" university, and it is quite difficult to get into this school.
The university offers sixteen undergraduate programs, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, Traditional Chinese Pharmaceutical Engineering, Pharmacy, Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Rehabilitation Therapy, Public Administration, Business Administration, Pharmaceutical Administration, Bioengineering, Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology.
This school is huge, with many affiliated colleges. There are over eight thousand teachers on campus alone, not to mention the students.
Of course, it's impossible for so many teachers and students to be on the same campus.
In fact, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has three campuses. Two of the older campuses are located in the city center of Chaoyang District, while the other new campus is far from the city center but closer to a neighboring province.
There are buses running between the three campuses. Faculty and students of the campus can ride for free, while non-campus residents can ride for five yuan for a round trip, which is quite cheap.
Su Zhengnan was going to one of the older campuses, which was also the earliest established campus of the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
When Su Zhengnan arrived at the entrance of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine by taxi, it was just before 8:30 in the morning.
The security guard at the school gate stopped him and said, "Excuse me, sir, non-students or teachers are not allowed to enter the school without an appointment or invitation. Do you have an appointment?"
"Appointment? No!"
Su Zhengnan replied with a smile, "I was invited to attend an academic exchange meeting; I didn't make an appointment."
"Where is your invitation? May I see it?"
Upon hearing that Su Zhengnan had been invited, the security guard's expression changed slightly, and he became very polite.
Su Zhengnan smiled slightly and said, "I don't have an invitation either. How about I make a phone call and ask?"
As he spoke, Su Zhengnan took out his phone and made a call to his second senior brother, Mo Chaoyang.
Ring ring!
The call was answered quickly.
Su Zhengnan briefly explained how he was stopped by the security guards.
Mo Chaoyang didn't say anything, he just asked him to hand the phone to the security guard.
A short while later.
The security guard returned the phone to Su Zhengnan, his smile widening even further: "I'm so sorry, I didn't know you were invited by Dean Mo. Please come in, please come in..."
"Uh, thank you!"
Su Zhengnan thanked him and walked towards the school, not wanting to get entangled with the security guard over such a simple question.
The campus of the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine School is much larger than that of the Beijing Film Academy; the two are simply incomparable.
Su Zhengnan walked for nearly half an hour without finding the meeting room for the academic exchange meeting. Finally, he asked a passing student for directions and found the conference building where the academic exchange was held—Tianxin Building.
Meeting room 6A-101, 6th floor of Tianxin Building.
At this moment, more than half of the seats in the conference room were already occupied.
The academic exchange meeting was scheduled to start at 9:15 a.m., so some participants had not yet arrived.
Su Zhengnan walked into the conference room and glanced around. Finding that he didn't recognize anyone, he simply found a seat and sat down.
Seating at academic conferences like this is usually not arranged, so you can sit however you like.
Of course, the first three rows are reserved for VIPs, and people without a certain level of sophistication would not go to sit in the first three rows.
Su Zhengnan walked to the middle row and found an empty seat. He felt that this place was just right for him to see the conference stage in front of him, but not so bad that he would feel isolated sitting in the back!
No sooner had he sat down than a middle-aged man sitting next to him greeted him, "Young man, which hospital do you work for? I don't think I've seen you before."
"Um?"
Su Zhengnan turned to look at the other person and saw that he was probably in his forties. His middle-part hairstyle made it look like he was already half bald in the front, so it was clear that he was at least a chief physician.
"I'm the school doctor at the Beijing Film Academy. May I ask who you are...?"
Su Zhengnan responded by extending a hand towards the other person with some curiosity.
"You're a school doctor? What brings a school doctor to this exchange meeting?"
The other party was clearly stunned for a moment, seemingly unable to believe his ears, and had no intention of shaking hands with Su Zhengnan at all.
Clearly, he was thinking that Su Zhengnan's status was a bit too low.
After all, those who can come here to participate in academic exchange meetings are either directors of major TCM hospitals or experts or professors in TCM. There has never been a school doctor who has participated in an exchange meeting of this level before.
And are there any traditional Chinese medicine doctors who work as school doctors?
Hao Wanshan felt he had never heard of a traditional Chinese medicine doctor working as a school doctor, so he couldn't quite believe his ears and looked Su Zhengnan up and down with curiosity.
Su Zhengnan smiled and withdrew his right hand, saying calmly, "Hehe, actually I didn't really want to attend this academic exchange meeting, but my senior brother insisted that I come, so I had no choice but to come."
"Your senior brother?"
Hao Wanshan looked at him with some surprise and asked, "May I ask who your senior brother is? Maybe I know him!"
Upon hearing that Su Zhengnan was invited by his senior, Hao Wanshan guessed that his senior must be some big shot here, otherwise, as a school doctor, he would definitely not be qualified to attend this academic exchange meeting.
Su Zhengnan smiled but didn't say anything, because just then the conference room door was pushed open.
Tap tap tap...
The second senior brother, Mo Chaoyang, walked into the conference room with several elderly men with white hair.
In an instant, the previously noisy conference room fell silent.
Upon seeing the group of bigwigs walk in, Hao Wanshan immediately shut his mouth, sat up straight, and turned to look at the stage.
As Mo Chaoyang led several bigwigs from the Beijing Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine into the conference room, he immediately noticed Su Zhengnan sitting in the middle row. He waved to him and said:
"Xiao Su, what are you doing sitting there? You can't hear me from that far away. Come here, sit in the front row!"
"???"
Hao Wanshan, standing to the side, blinked in surprise, his mouth agape, wide enough to fit an egg.
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