Chapter 2419 — Easily Solved
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Upstaged by Wei Zhao, and yet with no way to lose his temper or turn the tables, Kang Jinglong could only swallow his vexation and accept it.
"Dr. Kang, you'd best go back and hit the books while you can, lest your thesis fail to pass," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"Ha... questions like this are really brain teasers — in everyday medical practice and research, they hardly ever come up. They can't be used as a standard of learning!" Kang Jinglong said with a laugh. "On those TV shows, plenty of doctors can't answer the brain teasers either. That's perfectly normal."
Still, once he had said all that, it was nothing more than an excuse for his own blunder. He had no face left to stay on here, so after a few polite pleasantries, he slunk away in disgrace.
And You Panhu at this moment wore a look of utter misery! For no matter what he said, Han Jingyi simply paid him no heed — she ignored him outright!
Han Jingyi was at that moment calculating something on her tablet, utterly absorbed, in the posture of one who hears nothing beyond the window and devotes herself solely to the sages' books. Whatever You Panhu said, her face remained blank — she did not even raise an eyebrow!
In such a state, even if You Panhu had the gift of the gab, Han Jingyi simply played deaf and dumb.
"You Panhu, are you telling stories?" Having settled Kang Jinglong, Wei Zhao turned to the endlessly chattering You Panhu and asked.
"Ha ha, of course not. I only wanted to discuss some thoughts on alchemy with classmate Han Jingyi. We're all alchemists here, after all — the more we exchange, the better," You Panhu said.
"Oh, well, Han Jingyi has lately run into a bottleneck in her alchemy, and she's absorbed in calculating something. It's only natural she didn't hear you. She often doesn't hear me either when I speak to her." Then, as if afraid You Panhu would not believe him, Wei Zhao called out, "Han Jingyi?"
Han Jingyi did not answer, only buried her head and kept calculating.
"I see..." You Panhu nodded half in belief, half in doubt. After all, Wei Zhao had called Han Jingyi's name and she had not answered either; if he said she was absorbed, then it really might be so.
"That's right." Wei Zhao nodded solemnly, laughing inwardly. Han Jingyi was no fool after all — she knew how to play along with him.
"Then what bottleneck has she run into? Tell me, and I'll go consult my grandfather. We can discuss it and then I'll pass it on to her," You Panhu asked, still unwilling to let it go.
"Her? Well, she has indeed run into some trouble — only she doesn't want to trouble others," Wei Zhao said with feigned difficulty. "Because this matter really is quite troublesome. Even I am powerless to help."
"Oh? Even you can't manage it?" You Panhu perked up at once at Wei Zhao's words. He had seen with his own eyes how Wei Zhao had overwhelmed Kang Jinglong earlier, so at this moment he too feared Wei Zhao might pull the same sort of trick and squeeze him out as well!
So You Panhu had been cautious. Hearing Wei Zhao say Han Jingyi had run into trouble, he had not rashly claimed he could solve it, but said he would go back and discuss it with his grandfather — which also guarded against Wei Zhao's suddenly producing some difficult problem to stump him.
But when he heard Wei Zhao say that Wei Zhao too was powerless, You Panhu was delighted!
"That's right. But Han Jingyi feels this matter is quite troublesome, so best not to trouble you. She'll work it out slowly on her own," Wei Zhao said.