Chapter 659: Chapter 658: Emergency Situation

’Take someone from the Yu Family as a student?’

Yesterday, Shi Min and Wang Chuan had also suggested that Yan Feifan build a stable, loyal, and forward-thinking medical team centered around students and assistants.

Besides, this came with a huge benefit: it was a great advantage at little cost.

After all, maintaining a medical team is very expensive.

Normally, the Affiliated Hospital would only cover the basic salaries of its official staff. The bulk of all other expenses for the research lab would have to be covered by Yan Feifan himself.

For example, Professor Shi Min was retiring from Bin University Medical College in September.

He wasn’t an employee of the Affiliated Hospital. Although he would have a considerable pension, Yan Feifan couldn’t just expect him to help for free.

These days, everything else was just talk. Money was the only thing that was real.

Yan Feifan discreetly consulted Wang Chuan and decided on a salary for Mr. Shi: twenty-five thousand a month.

Year-end bonuses would be handled separately, depending on the team’s performance.

Yan Feifan also learned that for the past two or three months, Meng Yao’s and Ye Lin’s incomes had both been over fifteen thousand, not including extra bonuses.

However, the portion of their salaries covered by the hospital was pitifully small—only three to four thousand.

According to the promise he’d made them, he would have to supplement each of their salaries by at least ten thousand a month going forward.

Besides salaries and other compensation, once he had his own medical team, he would need an office.

Yan Feifan would also be responsible for office equipment, medical devices, and even utilities, travel expenses, and so on.

Fortunately, the research funds Yan Feifan had in his hospital account were quite substantial, so he didn’t need to worry about money in the short term.

Still, he had to crunch the numbers.

As the old saying goes: you don’t go poor from what you eat or wear, but you do from poor planning.

Students were arguably the best source of cheap labor.

So, when it came to Professor Shi Min’s suggestion to take on students, Yan Feifan was genuinely tempted.

Since he was already considering it, and since his relationship with the Yu Family was quite good, Yan Feifan readily told Yu Suye he would agree to the condition.

After ending his call with Yu Suye and having a simple dinner with Dr. Peng Zhanghua, Yan Feifan returned to his apartment in Zuimo Court.

Around 10 PM, he received an email from Dr. Kevin Vega.

In addition to the usual medical file for a brain tumor patient, Dr. Vega asked in the body of the email if he could also bring the daughter of a friend, who had macroglossia, to China this time.

Yan Feifan replied in the affirmative.

Taking into account their partnership and a reasonable profit margin, he offered a friendly, all-inclusive price of sixty thousand US dollars...

The next day, Sunday, was Tian Yu’s school registration day.

The Yan siblings, who treated Tian Yu like a little sister, drove over to Binhai University Affiliated High School after breakfast.

The Affiliated High School was located north of Binhai University, just over a twenty-minute drive from Zuimo Court.

Comparatively, travel between the Affiliated High School and Binhai University was more convenient, as a regular shuttle ran between them during peak commuting hours.

It had to be said, the Affiliated High School was no ordinary place, and neither were its students. Many of them came from wealthy families.

While the Yan siblings waited at the school gate for ten or twenty minutes for Mr. Tian and Tian Yu, who were still on their way, they saw over a dozen high-end sedans like Mercedes S-Class, Bentleys, and Rolls-Royces dropping off students.

Compared to these multi-million-yuan luxury cars, their Cayenne, worth just over a million, didn’t stand out at all.

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but remark, "They say students from humble backgrounds are diligent and hardworking, but judging from the cars dropping off students, it seems the proportion of wealthy kids at the Affiliated High School is much higher."

Yan Ziruo scoffed softly. "Feifan, haven’t you realized? Education has become a pursuit for the elite these days."

"Even a halfway decent private tutor charges three or four hundred yuan per session to start. What regular, working-class family can afford that?"

"From kindergarten to elementary and then to middle school, these little gaps accumulate and act as a filter. By the time you get to an elite high school, most of the students are from well-off families."

"Unless a student from a humble background is exceptionally brilliant, pure diligence and hard work are no longer enough to keep up with the wealthy kids who get a boost in every other area."

As she spoke, Yan Feifan saw Mr. Tian’s Volkswagen Golf slowly pulling up.

Since cars weren’t allowed on campus, Mr. Tian had to stop at the gate, unload Tian Yu’s suitcases and various other bags, and then drive off to find parking.

Tian Yu had a lot of things: two heavy suitcases and two bulging backpacks.

To Yan Feifan’s exasperation, there was also a dog-shaped body pillow that was over three feet long.

"Hehe, it’s my first time living in a dorm. My mom was afraid I wouldn’t be able to adjust, so she packed everything I could possibly bring."

Tian Yu explained, hugging the pillow to her chest and saying in a cutesy voice, "Mr. Yan, with this to keep me company, I’ll sleep soundly at night."

Yan Feifan rolled his eyes, not bothering to respond to the girl who usually slept like a log.

After another ten-odd minutes, Mr. Tian finally returned, jogging back with his forehead covered in sweat after parking the car.

Next, with everyone doting on her, the Yan siblings and Mr. Tian accompanied Tian Yu into the high school to begin the registration process...

With enthusiastic upperclassmen helping out, the whole series of registration procedures—identity verification, payment confirmation, filling out forms, taking a photo, and fingerprint scanning—took only a little over ten minutes to complete.

It was only then that Yan Feifan realized the Affiliated High School had already implemented an electronic, cardless, integrated management system.

The fingerprint Tian Yu had just provided would be her key for everything on campus: paying for meals, accessing the dorms, borrowing library books, logging into the school’s internal network, and more.

This couldn’t help but remind Yan Feifan of the idea he had once pitched to Song Yi: developing an integrated management system for the hospital.

’Perhaps I can have Song Yi send someone to investigate,’ he thought. ’Maybe they can develop the hospital’s system based on the framework of this school’s management system.’

At the registration desk, Yan Feifan also met Tian Yu’s homeroom teacher, a rather handsome and elegant male language arts teacher in his mid-thirties.

Yan Feifan noticed the homeroom teacher glancing at him a few extra times.

After confirming he didn’t recognize the teacher, he privately guessed that the man had probably seen him somewhere before.

Seeing that the other man didn’t take the initiative to greet him, Yan Feifan decided it was best to avoid making things complicated and kept quiet as well...

Tian Yu’s dorm room was a spacious, bright, and clean four-person suite.

The beds were loft-style, and the school-issued bedding was already laid out on top.

Beneath each bed was a desk and a storage cabinet.

The room had air conditioning, an en-suite bathroom, and a balcony for drying clothes.

Each floor also had a laundry room and a hot water room.

These accommodations were a lot better than what Yan Feifan and Yan Ziruo had in college.

This made the Yan siblings marvel. As expected of one of the top four schools, the facilities were truly top-notch.

The group helped Tian Yu put her things away and make her bed. They also exchanged pleasantries with the two other roommates who had already arrived, along with their parents.

Just as they were about to go for a stroll around campus, an announcement suddenly blared from a speaker in the hallway.

"EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!"

"DR. YAN FEIFAN OF THE AFFILIATED HOSPITAL, IF YOU HEAR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, PLEASE COME TO THE SCHOOL INFIRMARY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE..."

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