Science Family

"Since kindergarten is so much fun, Nofi, you shouldn't be angry with me, right?" While waiting at a traffic light, Shen Qi, in the driver's seat, turned around and said to his beloved daughter.

Shen Qi felt guilty before, after all, he had lied to his daughter, and the amusement park he promised had turned into a kindergarten.

Shen Qi is relieved now, because Nofi is very happy in kindergarten.

"Hmm?" Nofi looked puzzled. She thought about it and it seemed to make sense, but something still felt off.

After all, she was just over two years old, and Shen Nuo Fei could only make judgments about objective and direct matters that she believed to be correct.

"My dad tricked me into going to kindergarten, but kindergarten seems quite interesting. Is my dad right or wrong? Is he a liar or a good dad? Is a white lie still a lie?" Shen Nuo Fei struggled to make a precise analysis of these kinds of deep logical questions.

Perhaps only when Shen Nuo Fei is promoted to the middle class of kindergarten will she truly understand the nature of this society.

The next morning, Shen Nuo Fei asked to go to kindergarten.

Nofi's remarkable transformation stemmed from the kindergarten's excellent educational system and harmonious, joyful atmosphere, which naturally pleased Shen Qi wife.

After finishing his routine work at the center, Shen Qi went to Yanjing University People's Hospital to learn about the progress of the Phase I clinical trial of C01C-2.

Yanjing University People's Hospital is a leading clinical trial base for diabetes in China. Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical has commissioned Yanjing University People's Hospital to conduct Phase I to III clinical trials on C01C-2. Most of the volunteers participating in the Phase I Clinical Trial are healthy individuals, but a subset of patients may also be selected.

Phase I clinical trials primarily investigate human tolerance to the new drug and propose preliminary, safe, and effective dosing regimens to guide the next phase of clinical trials.

Shen Zhishan, Chairman of Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical, led key business personnel to the capital. The new drug C01C-2 is of great importance to the company.

"Is the company still able to survive?" Shen Qi asked his father.

"We're losing over two million a month, but we can still hold on for a few more years." Shen Zhishan seemed nonchalant, but he was actually quite worried. "I'll only stay in the capital for a few days before returning to Nangang. The key personnel following up on the C01C-2 clinical trial will remain in the capital. I don't understand the technical aspects either; you can give them the technical instructions directly. To be honest, they're just following the business side; nobody in the entire company understands the real pharmaceutical R&D technology. You know, this company used to make generic drugs."

Shen Qi suggested, "Dad, you need to hire a group of R&D personnel. What if C01C-2 needs further improvement? Experience has shown that no original innovative drug can go from Phase I clinical trials to market without undergoing at least one improvement."

Old Shen asked, "Aren't you a researcher? Don't you have a leading domestic and internationally renowned drug research and development center at Peking University?"

"Who told you that? Our center's Chemistry group, including myself as the leader, only has three people. We're still quite far behind leading domestic and internationally renowned drug research institutions. The creation of C01C-2 also had an element of luck. Under normal circumstances, a three-person research team can't develop a new drug. As for the C01C-2 project, the patent development rights have been transferred to Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical. It's more appropriate for Ou Beiqi Pharmaceutical to handle everything from now on."

"I understand your situation, given your special status, but where am I supposed to recruit R&D personnel? My small pharmaceutical company, which started by making generic drugs, can attract those true drug R&D elites? Why don't you arrange something for me?"

"Let's discuss it again, let's discuss it again."

"Alright, alright, it's inappropriate for us, father and son, to start talking business as soon as we meet. It reeks of decadent money. Let's go to your house; I want to see my eldest granddaughter."

"Nofi has gone to kindergarten. Sister Cuiping will pick her up at 5 o'clock."

"Starting kindergarten at two years old?"

"Dad, how old was I when I started kindergarten?"

"Three years old."

"The student surpasses the teacher, so let's go home first."

Shen Qi drove his father back to the academician's villa. Old Shen sat in the living room, legs crossed, drinking tea, and asked, "As a scientist at your level, you don't need to work nine-to-five anymore, right? I saw you were out all day, and you came home around 3 PM. You didn't have to go to Yenching University to oversee work?"

"I'm just a junior director in charge of technical research, not the principal. I don't have that many miscellaneous tasks to oversee," Shen Qi said, then asked, "Dad, do you need to work regular office hours?"

Old Shen said matter-of-factly, "I'm the boss. I can go wherever I want and do whatever I want."

Shen Qi laughed and said, "My subordinates also call me boss, so we're the same."

Around 5 PM, Ou Ye got off work and went home.

Shen Qi has already sent a message to Ou Ye, saying that our dad is in the capital on a business trip and will stay at our house for a few days.

"Dad, since you're here, stay a few more days," Ou Ye said, welcoming her father-in-law and making him tea.

"I really want to stay a few more days, but I'm swamped with work. Sigh, I'm almost 60, running around every day, when will I ever retire?" Old Shen looked at Ou Ye, then at Shen Qi, and said with deep feeling, "Back in our day, we had the one-child policy, we could only have one child. If we could have had more, Shen Qi's Mom and I would definitely have had more. The Boss would have become a scientist, the second an entrepreneur, and the third, fourth, fifth..."

"Come on, are you talking about having Calabash Brothers?" Shen Qi interrupted his father's Calabash Brothers fantasy. His father was subtly bringing up that matter again, about no one taking over the Shen Family business.

"I haven't seen Nofi for a year, and I still haven't brought my eldest granddaughter back?" Old Shen looked towards the gate, then did some quick calculations. "By the time I'm eighty, Nofi should have graduated from university, right? By the way, what direction do you two plan to take in raising Nofi?"

Shen Qi realized that his father's repeated attempts to persuade him to inherit the family fortune had failed, so Old Shen placed his hopes on his two-year-old granddaughter, Nuofei.

Shen Qi said, "The name Nofi was given by Ou Ye. No represents Nobel, and Fi represents Fields."

"Oh, the scientist's direction." Old Shen Family, a look of disbelief on his face. "My family has been farmers for generations. In my generation, there were seven siblings, and we were really poor, especially during the three years of famine. You young people can't even imagine how poor we were. Let me put it this way: if I had eaten one more bite of cornbread when I was a child, my younger siblings would have starved to death. We were so poor that I had no choice but to join the army, since there was food in the army."

"I never imagined that our Shen Family would produce such a Great Scientist in Shen Qi's generation. And in Nofi's generation, she is a second-generation researcher from the Science Family. If Nofi grows up to pursue a career in scientific research, her children and descendants will be the third, fourth, and so on... To be honest, I have always admired scientists, and I strongly support the descendants of the Shen Family to forge ahead on the path of science, passing it down from generation to generation." Old Shen reminisced about the past and felt a sense of liberation, like a serf finally becoming the master of his own destiny.

Old Shen launched into a long, rambling speech, while Shen Qi and Ou Ye listened silently.

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