On Thursday in Binhai, a light rain fell!

Close to nine in the morning, a Phaeton car drove into the outdoor parking lot of the Affiliated Hospital.

As soon as the car stopped, Lin Jie wanted to get out, and Zhang Xiaoxiao, who was sitting beside him, hurriedly shouted, "Wait a minute!"

She took an umbrella out of her satchel, got out from the other side, walked around with the umbrella to Lin Jie's side, opened the car door, and said with a straight face, "Mr. Lin, please get out!"

Lin Jie got out of the car, looked at the small flower umbrella above his head, and said, "Sister Xiaoxiao, it's hot, a little rain won't matter."

"Hmph, I'm just doing the job of a personal assistant, I can't take your salary for nothing!"

Zhang Xiaoxiao said earnestly, "Besides, Miaomiao specifically instructed me to take good care of you. Ah Jie, stop talking and hurry into the building!"

Lin Jie shook his head and smiled, quickly walking into the hospital's inpatient building, where he met Cheng Xingguang waiting in the lobby.

Cheng Xingguang handed a white coat to Lin Jie and said with a smile, "Expert Lin, you arrived just in time, let's go to Xiaoyudi's ward together now!"

While putting on the white coat, Lin Jie puzzledly asked, "Dean Cheng, Xiaoyudi has been recovering well, why has it taken so long to discharge?"

"This is the request from Ying Xiaoxiao's side!"

Cheng Xingguang softly explained, "They need the topic of Xiaoyudi for ongoing publicity, and we can also gain some exposure. Besides, staying in the hospital allows Xiaoyudi to enjoy better and free follow-up treatment than at home."

"This benefits all three parties involved."

He cheerfully said, "Expert Lin, I have some statistics here."

"During this time, the number of outpatients and inpatients accepted by the hospital has increased by 17% compared to the same period. The publicity effect is quite significant!"

"Oh, and I have an interesting thing to tell you!"

"No less than thirty or forty people came to the hospital specifically to consult about voice-altering surgery. Expert Lin, would you consider starting a voice cosmetic service?"

Cheng Xingguang wore a teasing look.

Lin Jie shook his head and said lightly, "The fact that Xiaoxiao's voice turned out this way has some element of chance."

Cheng Xingguang also understood that having Lin Jie do voice makeovers would be an underutilization of his talents and quite wasteful.

He then turned to another concern, "Is the research project going smoothly? Is there anything you need me to resolve?"

Lin Jie seriously replied, "I have to thank you and Dean Yuan for your strong support. Currently, the project is still in the theoretical research phase and is progressing very smoothly."

"According to the plan, it will enter the animal testing phase in a few weeks."

"The experimental monkeys we need?"

Cheng Xingguang assured, "In this area, you need not worry. The approval process is in progress, and it absolutely will not delay the research schedule..."

As they approached the floor where Xiaoyudi's ward was located, they were warmly welcomed by a dozen or so journalists. The sound of camera shutters clicking made Lin Jie rather uncomfortable.

With the help of Zhang Xiaoxiao and Qin Gang, Lin Jie maneuvered away from the journalists and entered the ward with Cheng Xingguang.

The ward was also quite crowded.

Besides Xiaoyudi and her parents, there was Xiaoxiao and her three assistants, plus four journalists equipped with cameras.

Lin Jie understood that today was essentially a publicity event.

Under the full documentation of the journalists, he carefully examined Xiaoyudi's condition.

Acting as the attending physician, Lin Jie detailed the post-discharge care considerations, signed the discharge papers, and warmly embraced Xiaoyudi and her parents.

Dean Cheng, on behalf of the hospital, gave Xiaoyudi a bouquet of flowers and a free medical card!

Finally, Xiaoxiao also joined in the celebratory embrace.

Watching her during the embrace with Xiaoyudi and her parents, occasionally glancing at the camera lenses, Lin Jie inexplicably felt a bit uncomfortable inside.

Then, he saw Xiaoyudi giving him a sweet smile, making a few gestures!

"Expert Lin, Xiaoyudi is saying thank you, thank you for saving her life!"

Xiaoyudi's mother approached Lin Jie slightly, explaining in a low voice, "This is sign language that Xiaoyudi learned during this time with the help of some kind-hearted people. She's learning quickly."

"No need to thank me, I am a doctor, it's my duty!"

Lin Jie politely replied and suddenly remembered something and said to Xiaoyudi's parents and Xiaoxiao, "You know about the famous physicist in the United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, right?"

Seeing Xiaoyudi's parents and Xiaoxiao nodding, Lin Jie continued, "Due to his illness, Hawking also couldn't speak and relied on a machine synthesized voice to communicate!"

"Now Little Raindrop's condition is much better than his."

"Didn't you record a lot of Little Raindrop's voices and videos before? I think with today's technological means, it should be possible to perfectly recreate what Little Raindrop wants to say, using her voice in some way!"

Upon saying this, Lin Jie turned his gaze to Xiaoxiao and said, "Xiaoxiao, with your influence and appeal, you should be able to find tech companies willing to sponsor and collaborate, right?"

Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, then smiled happily and said, "Expert Lin, you always come up with surprising solutions. I will work hard to push this forward and solve Little Raindrop's problem of not being able to speak."

Doing this for Little Raindrop marked the successful end of Lin Jie's promotional work.

Seizing the moment when many people's attention was focused on Xiaoxiao, he quietly left and returned to his office to start a one-on-one routine teaching conversation with Song Licheng, who was waiting there.

Tomorrow, Lin Jie was scheduled to perform a surgery on a congenital heart defect in an infant, so he needed a good night's rest and had moved some of the afternoon one-on-one talks to the morning session.

After talking to three people, Lin Jie, taking a short break and drinking some water, heard the sound of the door opening and closing, followed by the steps of high heels.

"Xiaoxiao?"

Unexpectedly, it was her. Lin Jie stood up and politely said, "Congratulations on your concert being a huge success. I heard that your concert tickets in Binhai sold out within ten minutes of going on sale."

"Thank you!"

Xiaoxiao smiled faintly and said, "Actually, it wasn't that big of a hit."

"It's just some little tricks by the organizers. They only released a little more than half of the tickets at the start, and with some other tactics, they created a situation of limited ticket availability."

"The real situation I got was that all the tickets were only sold out in three days."

As she spoke of this, she showed a somewhat troubled expression and said, "It's said that the tickets later secretly released all ended up in the hands of scalpers, or rather, the organizers themselves are the biggest scalpers!"

Lin Jie wasn't interested in these behind-the-scenes tricks and perfunctorily said, "I hear the concert market is quite sluggish now. Selling out tens of thousands of tickets in three days is enough to prove how incredibly popular you are."

Xiaoxiao took out a stack of tickets from her small handbag and placed them on Lin Jie's desk, smiling as she said, "Here are some tickets. When the time comes, if you have time, please come and support the show with your friends."

"Thanks, I won't be shy about it."

Thinking about the request from An Kemeng that An Kexin relayed last night, Lin Jie happily said, "To be honest, many people around me love listening to your music. They were really disappointed that they couldn't get tickets to the concert due to work and time constraints."

"It's my honor to be liked by your friends!"

Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Expert Lin, there's something I need your opinion on. If you're not willing, just consider it as if I never brought it up!"

"Oh, what is it?" Lin Jie asked indifferently.

Xiaoxiao, somewhat embarrassed, said, "Although I've never admitted it, many people online and around me think that my voice was cured by you."

"One of my friends, nicknamed 'Duck Voice.' Just from the nickname, you can tell how distinctive his voice is."

She said with a helpless expression, "He's always self-conscious about his voice. After learning about my situation, every time he sees me, he pesters me to introduce him to the expert who cured my voice!"

"Expert Lin, what do you think of this issue?"

"Duck Voice" is usually developed later in life.

It's mostly due to neglecting care during the voice change period, overusing the vocal cords, causing them to become congested, swollen, inflamed, and consequently making the vocal cords coarse and loose, leading to hoarseness and a loss of good voice, which is an irreparable regret.

Lin Jie naturally had no interest in taking on such trivial matters.

Xiaoxiao gently continued, "Expert Lin, my friend said if you can improve his voice, he's willing to pay a treatment fee of three million."

"Tell your friend to come see me at the hospital on Sunday!" Lin Jie replied decisively.

Owing nearly two million for jewelry from Jinxiu Zhonghua left Lin Jie unable to maintain his stance; he directly bowed to the pressure of five buckets of rice!

Go to the Fu Family to ask for the two million sponsorship fee? Lin Jie really couldn't bring himself to do that.

Moreover, earning three million from an hour-long operation was very enticing to Lin Jie, who hadn't seen a large sum of money in a long time.

After sending Xiaoxiao away, Yan Beichen, waiting behind the door, followed Lin Jie into the office!

"Wow, concert tickets!"

Seeing the stack of tickets on the desk, Yan Beichen's eyes lit up, and he immediately snatched them up in his hands.

"They're even VIP tickets for the inner area! One, two, three... twenty, a whole twenty!"

Yan Beichen clutched one ticket tightly, looking at Lin Jie pitifully and said, "Teacher, you have so many, could you give me one, please?"

"I really, really like Xiaoxiao's songs."

Lin Jie grunted and said, "That depends on your performance lately! Tell the others, I'll take out five or six tickets to reward those who have performed well during this period!"

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