Chapter 41: Inspection

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“So you want to look up some information about traditional Chinese medicine, but you don’t know any experts in the field, so you want me to introduce you to someone?”

“That’s right!”

“You do realize our university doesn’t have a traditional Chinese medicine department, don’t you? If you wanted someone from the Department of Clinical Medicine, I could try to think of a way to help you, but traditional Chinese medicine…”

“I checked. Jinling University of Chinese Medicine is less than three kilometers away! It’s a nationally renowned school of traditional Chinese medicine. Can’t you get in touch with someone there?”

“???”

The counselor put down the assignments in his hands and stared at Chu Zhu, falling into deep thought. In the end, he asked, “Have you perhaps misunderstood something about me?”

Where was he supposed to find someone from the neighboring university of Chinese medicine for Chu Zhu?!

More importantly, why did Chu Zhu think he had connections in that field?

He was only a counselor, not some kind of medical professor!

“Can’t you do it?” Chu Zhu raised an eyebrow.

“…It’s not completely impossible.” The counselor pursed his lips. If this had been an ordinary student, he would already have told him to go bother someone else—

But the person standing before him was, according to Zhang Song, the future pride of the Chinese people, someone the university president was paying close attention to.

“I’ll see what I can do. But you must have a serious reason, right? What exactly is this about?” The counselor yielded a step, though he still drew a line. If Chu Zhu merely wanted to find someone to fool around with, he certainly would not agree.

“…You’re looking for several medicinal herbs? What do you mean, you have a traditional medicine prescription in your hands? No!” The counselor shuddered. “You wouldn’t dare prepare and take medicine based on an unverified prescription, would you? What good could that possibly do?”

Chu Zhu neither agreed nor disagreed. He merely watched the counselor in silence.

“All right, how about this…” The counselor no longer dared refuse. If Chu Zhu truly intended to take the medicine, then someone had to ask about it. “Tell me the questions you want answered. I’ll ask around and see whether I can get them passed on to the experts and professors at neighboring Jinling University of Chinese Medicine.”

“Fine.”

Chu Zhu gathered his thoughts and described the medicinal properties and general appearance of the remaining four herbs. On a sudden impulse, he even picked up a pen and sketched their forms in a few simple strokes on a sheet of paper.

“You drew these?” The counselor examined them again and again, clicking his tongue in amazement. “Beautiful! I had no idea you had a talent like that.”

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Chu Zhu paused. He had nearly forgotten that, during his youth in the dream world, the countless resets had allowed him to develop a great many impressive skills—

Before he became extraordinary, his memories of the dream world had been hazy, and he could not put those hard-earned abilities to use. But now that his memories had synchronized… well.

Chu Zhu had learned to paint from Xu Zihong, a master of traditional painting and literature who lived in Jinghai City.

He could not claim to be unrivaled under heaven, but his skill was still extraordinary. Xu Zihong had once praised him, saying that if he himself was a once-in-thirty-years genius of traditional painting, then Chu Zhu’s talent was of the once-in-a-century caliber.

Of course, such extravagant praise had been partly due to Chu Zhu’s constant resets at the time, which had made his rate of improvement terrifyingly fast.

Even if that assessment were reduced by half, there would be no problem calling Chu Zhu one of the foremost figures among the younger generation of painters in the Great Qian dream world.

Clearly, however, one could not expect the counselor to possess much artistic sensitivity. He had no way of recognizing how exquisite Chu Zhu’s casual sketch was, or how deep the foundation behind it ran.

“All right, I’ve managed to get in touch with a professor in our university’s medical field. I’ll have him pass the questions on to people elsewhere… But I still have to say this: don’t experiment with medicines recklessly! Be careful not to make yourself ill.” The counselor remained uneasy.

The young man before him was plainly destined to become the university president’s future favorite. If anything happened to him under the counselor’s watch—

Just imagining the scene made the counselor want to let out a piercing scream.

“Once you have an answer, please send it to me on WeChat.” Chu Zhu waved and had just turned around when the counselor’s phone rang.

“?? The president? Wait…”

The counselor sprang to his feet when he saw the caller’s name. Surprise and delight appeared on his face, but he quickly recovered and instinctively said to Chu Zhu, “Don’t leave yet! It might be…”

He answered the call and held the phone to his ear. “Yes, yes, that’s right… Exactly, what a coincidence! He’s right beside me at the moment… Student Chu Zhu, the president is looking for you! I don’t know why, but he couldn’t get through to your phone.”

Chu Zhu: “…”

Perhaps it was because his phone was on silent.

He took the phone wordlessly and said, “This is Chu Zhu.”

“You’re on campus, right?” Li Quanyuan’s voice came through the phone. “Come to my office now. You know where it is, don’t you? If not, have your counselor bring you here.”

“Has someone from the National Sports Administration arrived?” Chu Zhu realized what was going on. After all, he had already made his position clear before.

“Something like that…” Li Quanyuan paused, then decided to be more precise. “To be exact, people from both the national and provincial authorities have arrived.”

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“Actually, under the proper procedure, you should first go to the provincial sports bureau for testing. After passing, you would join the provincial bureau, and then be recommended to the national team… But! Since you need to move as quickly as possible, we’ll do it this way.”

Li Quanyuan was amiable, but his position was exceedingly high. With his word, combined with Zhang Song’s existing connections in this area, they could indeed dispense with a great many tedious procedures. Besides, track and field truly carried that kind of weight.

After hanging up, Chu Zhu returned the phone to the counselor. “Lead the way.”

“?”

The muscles in the counselor’s cheek visibly twitched. He stared at Chu Zhu, several times on the verge of saying something but stopping himself. He had always found it strange that Chu Zhu could remain so calm in situations like this. Even when facing the university president, the counselor himself had not been nearly as composed.

And now people from the national authorities had come—track-and-field champions were being discussed. Even if it was only a possibility, it could still be called a meteoric rise!

Their university was quite good, but the employment situation was so difficult these days. If Chu Zhu truly became a track-and-field champion, it would be no different from hitching a ride on the express train of life.

Though his heart was full of questions, the counselor ultimately said nothing. He led the way, all the while muttering inwardly. Could the president’s earlier suspicion have been correct? Was Chu Zhu really the heir to some enormous conglomerate?

If that was true, why had he never heard even the slightest rumor about it?

After turning the matter over in his mind, the counselor cast Chu Zhu a discreet glance and sighed, “You’re really good at keeping secrets.”

Chu Zhu: “…?”

The President’s Office.

Coach Yuan Qiang, representing the National Sports Administration, and Coach Guo Jun, representing the Provincial Sports Bureau, scrutinized Chu Zhu with peculiar expressions.

“Forgive the intrusion.” Yuan Qiang greeted him. After receiving permission, he squatted down and squeezed the muscles in Chu Zhu’s legs. His brows drew tighter and tighter until, in the end, he said, “No need for formalities. Let’s begin right away… All right, first we’ll do a urine test, followed by a complete examination, and then…”