I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 399 - 166: So What If They’re Small? Maybe They’ll Get Bigger After Having Kids (Part 2)
He wasn’t familiar with the person. It was just because the person was a friend of Huang Beishan that he chatted a bit more. If it were someone else, he wouldn’t talk so much.
Seeing this, Wu Beiming didn’t suspect anything, but looked at Lu Xuan with surprise, remembering him in his heart, thinking that Huang Beishan would be back soon, and then smiled and said, "I won’t disturb you any longer."
After greeting a few people, Wu Beiming turned and left Yong’s Famous Food.
Not long after Wu Beiming left, Huang Beishan returned.
"Old Huang, was the person named Wu Beiming your friend?" Ye Haishen asked directly.
"He was here?"
"Yes, he said he was your friend."
"Friend my ass, he was a pharmaceutical representative when I was the director at City First Hospital. I think he’s the VP of that pharmaceutical company now. Not a good person; I’ve heard about their drugs. No issues, but not very effective either. I chased him away several times back then. Didn’t expect to meet him here today."
"Understood, not pure in intent."
Ye Haishen laughed and said, "No wonder I always felt his smile was fake. But considering he was your friend, I didn’t think much about it. Now I understand."
"I never said he was my friend."
"That’s what he said. I didn’t say you said it."
"Even if he said it, it doesn’t count."
Faced with this situation, Ye Haishen chose not to speak. Moreover, he changed the topic directly: "Forget about that guy, let’s talk about Lu’s role as a council member of the association."
"Old Huang, have you talked to Old Cui about this?"
Huang Beishan nodded and said, "I did, it should be this Wednesday morning after next. I’ve invited the other members of the association. Over half of the council members can make it. I’m just not sure if Lu has time. He’s consulting at the Health Center every day. If he can’t find the time, we’ll have to postpone it by another week."
"No worries, I have time. We can’t have everyone adjusting their schedules just for me, right?" Lu Xuan quickly replied.
"What about your consultations at the Health Center?" Zhang Jingcai asked.
Lu Xuan said, "It’s okay. The Health Center is aware of these issues. My appointments can only be made a week in advance. For the Wednesday after next, I can take the day off."
"That’s settled then."
"Old Zhang, what about you? You have a consultation somewhere else on Wednesday, don’t you?"
"I can manage. Over there, people get appointments on-site, no online booking. I’ll just have the Health Center notify people through our official account."
"Then it’s decided."
Huang Beishan finalized the decision.
So quick?
Lu Xuan was startled by how efficient they were. A few had come to discuss his role as a council member of the Yong City Chinese Medical Association, and he thought it would take much longer. Now it seems he made the issue more complicated than it was.
Throughout the process, he just needed to be available. As for others, Huang Beishan and his group took care of everything.
To put it bluntly, if he could be absent, Huang Beishan and the others wouldn’t even need to mention it; he would just receive a certificate later on.
After the matter was discussed, Huang Beishan proactively brought up Wu Beiming: "That Wu Beiming approaching you might have ulterior motives. Old Zhang, you guys know how to handle people like Wu Beiming. But Lu...
By the way, you didn’t tell Wu Beiming that Lu is a consulting doctor at the United South Chinese Medicine Association, did you?"
"We did," Ye Haishen replied honestly.
"Wu Beiming asked directly, and since he’s supposed to be your friend, we couldn’t not introduce him."
Huang Beishan’s frown relaxed: "If you’ve introduced him, so be it. For you few, there’s little chance of him targeting you, but as for Lu, there’s indeed a possibility of him planning in advance. After all, to be consulting at the United South Chinese Medicine Association at such a young age, who knows if you might become the head of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital someday. Wu Beiming could definitely be setting the stage for an investment."
"As a Western medicine representative, what use would he have in targeting Lu?"
"No use?"
Huang Beishan chuckled, "I’ve heard his company not only does research on Western medicine but is also involved in traditional Chinese medicine."
"No wonder Wu Beiming was so courteous. Turns out his target is us. But we hold no official positions; does he really need to bother?"
"Do you guys not understand your standing in Yong City’s traditional Chinese medicine circle?" Huang Beishan said with slight annoyance.
The group suddenly fell silent.
Huang Beishan turned to Lu Xuan: "Lu, next time you run into Wu Beiming, be careful. The keyword is: don’t listen, no matter what he says, don’t take any advantage, no matter how small. Once you take a favor, there will always be a second time. No one can escape this rule.
Those who got successfully ensnared once had such thoughts. But in the end, who could escape?"
"Lu, Old Huang is right. You’re still young and most vulnerable to temptation. Be cautious," Zhang Jingcai added.
"People from companies like Wu Beiming’s use all sorts of schemes to trap you. Of course, we trust your character implicitly. But better safe than sorry."
"Exactly, just now Wu Beiming casually asked which table I was at. I’ve long since stopped being the director and have been retired for years. I let my guard down. Plus, he was neither warm nor cold, so I thought nothing of it. But that’s precisely when it’s easiest to passively accept favors from people like him."
