Chapter 237 Sudden Death

The highly respected Academician Yin spoke up and said something nice, and Mr. and Mrs. Xie couldn't refuse, so they let Associate Professor Bai act as a tour guide and lead the group on the tour.

The laboratory area allocated to Dr. Yu by the School of Life Sciences of Jiaotong University is not small. Together with the office area, it occupies nearly half a floor. The decoration is outsourced to a professional biological laboratory construction team and there is no need to worry about it.

It was easy for her to join the school, but it was more troublesome to evaluate her professional title and apply for the doctoral admissions site. She could get it in March next spring according to the normal process.

So Yu Tong can rest assured to stay at home during her maternity leave, taking care of all the trivial matters during this period, and it will be just right for her to return to the laboratory after giving birth next year.

"That's roughly the situation here. If you don't mind, Dr. Yu, feel free to contact me if you have any questions."

After a brief tour of the laboratory building, Professor Bai added his contact information and left in a sincere and humble manner.

To be fair, the 32-year-old associate professor at Jiaotong University, who has three SCI first-zone papers and independently won the Youth Fund, is not a bad person in China. However, academic politics is more fierce than the workplace, and if he offends people, he will really have no way out.

At school, he could not afford to attend academic conferences, and the graduate students he supervised had no funds to do experiments, so the two sides stared at each other all day long. When he got home from work, he saw his wife, who had lost her figure and looked tired, holding the child and breastfeeding him, while she sat in front of the computer, studying how to calculate various loan interest rates if the housing prices fell further.

If this continues, this will most likely be a repetition year after year for the rest of my life.

"This guy looks easy to manage."

Walking on the campus, Xie Jingxing looked at the back of Associate Professor Bai's head with trembling hair, and gave a thoughtful comment.

Yu Tong did not comment: "Let's wait and see. I will be accepting some invitations to academic exchanges next. It's no problem to select a few more resumes."

"Does the research he conducted on the application of gene knockout technology fall into the category of selling mice?" Xie Jingxing asked again.

"You mean using gene knockout technology to breed mice for disease research?"

Yu Tong raised his eyebrows: "Mr. Xie was inspired to discover a business opportunity?"

"You are the boss of your laboratory, and I support you unconditionally." Xie Jingxing raised his hands in surrender.

Yu Tong smiled and hummed coquettishly. Modern science has developed to such a complex level that it is difficult to produce those legendary individual scientific heroes. It is more the result of the efforts of the entire scientific research team.

Based on this, the scientific research results she produced while studying abroad cannot be achieved by just spending money. She also needs to have strong control over the team. Even the child’s father cannot interfere.

With five CNS first-author papers and a top-notch laboratory, it is not good enough for Associate Professor Bai to take the initiative to become a small boss with his resume. He is more like a slave.

The Queen had her own vision, and Xie Jingxing did not dare to refute her. He decided to take some time to do some industry research before talking about it.

The gene editing research that Yu Tong was engaged in led to the emergence of a Nobel Prize-level gene editing tool two years ago, which greatly reduced the economic cost of the applied technology.

In the past two years, there has been a surge in related academic research, and she has benefited from this by being able to publish papers in top journals one after another. Many of her peers in China are also conducting research.

For example, laboratory mice bred through gene editing technology can cost as little as a hundred or eighty yuan each, or as much as several thousand yuan. Xie Jingxing vaguely remembered that before he was reborn, there had been successful cases of gene-edited pig heart transplants.

If the laboratory can generate economic income from the transformation of research results, it is better than relying entirely on donations and having no income.

In the past few years, the domestic venture capital industry was in a barren stage and only the medical industry was available for investment. Taihe has invested in several health and medical listed companies and has the corresponding resources.

However, the scientific research industry is very closed and this business consumes a lot of resources.

It is not necessary to do so. The key lies in whether the laboratory can find a way to generate its own blood.

"Hey, honey, what do you think about donating an independent research fund to Jiaotong University?"

Xie Jingxing's thoughts unconsciously turned to the Xiyou-Jiaotong University Entrepreneurship Fund. This first venture capital fund of domestic universities is not particularly valued, and the investment is all in the final achievement transformation projects.

University scientific research funds are more charitable in nature, making profits through market investments and feeding back into theoretical basic research.

Yu Tong was stunned: "What did you call me?"

"?"

"I said what did you just call me."

"…Wife."

Xie Jing Xing was speechless. Yu Tong happily stamped his face with her rosy lips: "Today is Chinese Valentine's Day, relax a little and don't always think about business."

"Okay, you have the final say, shall we go back to the palace?"

Xie Jingxing had originally planned to visit the Institute of Finance to follow up on the development progress of the quantitative trading model.

Yu Tong tilted his head: "What's wrong, are you really busy with business recently?"

"Didn't I tell you this morning that everything is as planned?" Xie Jingxing opened the car door and held the top of the car frame in a funny way.

"Emmm...Okay, don't worry about me and I won't ask you. Just tell me what happened. Although my wife may not be able to help, she can give you a hug." Yu Tong saw his embarrassment in the morning as he was struggling with the relationship between his two generals.

Touched, Xie Jingxing smiled warmly and kissed his wife who was becoming more and more cute.

Recently, the fingerprint touch technology developed by Goodix Technology and Meizu took two months to complete. The most important model of this year, Meizu MX4Pro, is about to enter the production line and start stockpiling, and will be launched on time in November.

Grapefruit Capital's USD 500 million Phase II venture capital fund is raising funds in an orderly manner and will enter the closed period by the end of the year at the latest. The secret fund established in Southeast Asia has successfully won projects such as Sea.

Li Yan is completely tied to Cheng Sen. The two are traveling around the Middle East to clear the latter's identity. It is estimated that everything will be completed by early next year and the fund will be completely formed.

The financing of Panda TV has come to an end. Zhou Hongyi got his shareholding and board seat as he wished, and Xiao Wang got his wish to bring out a typical positive energy anchor like Mai Xuan, and is planning for the next stage of fierce competition.

Xie Jingxing also got what he wanted. The Jiaotong University-Panda TV-Kuaishou cooperation "Education Power" project is progressing slowly, and it will take some time to wait for good news.

These projects are not out of control, they are just more complicated and energy-consuming to handle. The only remaining two things that are a bit of a bother are the Yunhe Logistics financing case and the stock market's bull market.

Since my wife thought that she wouldn't be able to go to the Institute of Finance to look at the secondary market business on Valentine's Day, I might as well go home and take a day off.

[Those designers say art is priceless? Funny, when they see wealthy collectors and big-name CEOs, they want to put a barcode on their foreheads.]

In the old house's audio-visual room, Gu Li's hypocritical lines could be heard from the speakers, while Yu Tong curled up on the sofa like a kitten, holding a bucket of popcorn and concentrating.

Xie Jingxing sat slumped and drowsy, opening his mouth from time to time to satisfy his wife's sense of accomplishment in feeding him.

The movie "Tiny Times" is both exaggerated and realistic. Yu Tong thinks that the food, clothing and daily expenses of several female characters are quite close to reality, but Xie Jingxing thinks that the male characters are so exaggerated that they are completely unbearable. "Phone, I have a call."

Fortunately, Song Anli came to the rescue. Xie Jingxing gestured with his mobile phone expression to hide his joy. Finally, he didn't have to suffer anymore!

"Boss Xie, Wang Xueqing is in hospital for emergency treatment."

Hearing the words coming from the other end of the phone, Xie Jingxing was slightly stunned: "Who rescued him?"

"Lao Wang, this is Wang Xueqing, the investment manager of the Grapefruit Active Strategy Securities Investment Team. This afternoon, when the stock market closed, he went to the terrace of the office building next door to play basketball. He suddenly fell into a coma and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor said it was sudden cardiac death."

Song Anli was relatively calm as she reported the situation in detail, but Xie Jingxing was a little uneasy. The stock market was about to take off, and the investment manager who controlled his 1 billion yuan of own funds died suddenly?
It’s ridiculous that Tiny Times has turned into a financial crime thriller!

He immediately asked his wife for permission to go out and rushed to the hospital.

"It may have something to do with Wang Xueqing's girlfriend. I remember you added his girlfriend on WeChat. Do you want to ask first?" Song Anli pulled him into the fire escape as soon as they met.

Xie Jing Xing was confused: "I don't know his girlfriend."

"We went to Maldives for the annual meeting. The girl he brought with him, Linlin, took the initiative to add you on WeChat. A colleague at the company just told me that they seemed to be very unhappy about their recent breakup. Wang Xueqing was drunk these days and secretly put alcohol into a thermos cup to drink during work."

Song Anli quickly explained: "The doctor suggested that he had no history of illness and was in good health. The sudden cardiac death was most likely caused by excessive drinking and strenuous exercise."

"Have his family been notified?"

As Xie Jingxing was speaking, Song Anli's phone vibrated. It was a call from her colleague who was standing guard at the door of the emergency room.

Tang Man and He Chuan were both on business trips out of town to look after projects. Zheng Zhe, the head of the quantitative trading department, had only been in the job for two months and was not in the same office, so the young colleague who played basketball with him contacted Song Anli directly.

Wang Xueqing’s hometown is in a small county in Jiangxi Province. His parents are on their way and will arrive in the evening.

Just now, it was Song Anli who signed the rescue notice on behalf of others. Now it was naturally Xie Jingxing's turn to sign it. He sent his two young colleagues to pay the fees and then walked around in circles.

Lao Wang always gave people the impression of being a middle-aged office worker who had no ambition to make progress and only cared about health by soaking wolfberries in a thermos cup. When the idea of ​​setting up a quantitative trading department was first raised, he even thought of firing this person.

It is unexpected that such a person could end up in the emergency room after exchanging wolfberry for wine and playing basketball fiercely.

"His girlfriend admitted that they broke up a few days ago due to emotional discord. I don't know what happened next. She is now traveling in Hainan to relax." Song Anli looked embarrassed after communicating with Wang Xueqing's girlfriend using his mobile phone.

Two young colleagues who came back with payment receipts just happened to hear it. The mature male colleague lowered his head and wanted to say something, while the female colleague with a bun pursed her lips and twisted her hands together.

"Just tell me what you know and I'll handle it." Xie Jingxing frowned.

Song Anli added: "If I don't tell you now, I will have to tell you when I report the case."

"We just heard that Mr. Wang mentioned several times during team-building dinners that he received a lot of bonuses last year, paid off his mortgage and was preparing to marry his girlfriend. Later he mentioned it again that after he and his girlfriend got married and lived together, they felt that the house they needed was too small and far from the company, so they sold the house and bought a large flat in a high-end community near Lujiazui to pay the down payment." The young male colleague whispered.

The female colleague with a bun hairstyle could not hide her resentment: "Boss Wang has not changed his clothes when he came to work these past few days. I feel like he was kicked out of the house by his girlfriend. They probably haven't obtained the marriage certificate yet. If they had, Boss Wang would have posted it on his WeChat Moments. He did post about buying a house, and it was written in both of their names."

Xie Jingxing was speechless for a moment. It seemed that Wang Xueqing worked very hard to get the highest milestone dividend at the end of the year.

"His girlfriend is a gold digger. She always asks him to buy all kinds of gifts. If he buys cheap gifts, she will find excuses to quarrel. He has no choice but to ask me to help him find a purchasing agent... I bought two Dior shirts from Hong Kong for more than 10,000 yuan. I even took them to a counter for appraisal and they said they were fake. I paid for them myself."

The female colleague with a bun haircut started talking and finished her words in one breath.

"Okay, you guys go back to the company first. Don't turn off your phones after get off work and be careful on the road." Song Anli emphasized.

Mr. Xie worked in the secondary market on Wall Street and was very tolerant of the working conditions of the securities trading department, but now that an accident has occurred, there is a problem.

It is difficult to explain why sudden death can occur due to excessive drinking during work. It is a typical story of small-town Phoenix men and gold diggers. Such stories happen every year in the financial circle.

"Should I notify the company's legal department to bring a lawyer over?" Song Anli clenched her fists, lowered her arms and trembled violently, with a cold look in her eyes.

Xie Jing Xing waved his hand without waiting for him to speak. The lights in the emergency room went out and the doctor stepped out, bowing numbly to apologize.

Late at night, an elderly couple with gray hair on their temples and dressed in simple white clothes appeared, supporting each other, and walked slowly and unsteadily through the quiet corridor.

"Leader, is this the ward? I am an old man with blurry eyes, please recognize the words carefully." The old woman said slowly, as if she had not yet come to her senses.

Song Anli, who was walking in front and leading the way, turned her head and grinned. Xie Jingxing took a deep breath and felt a blockage in his chest as if a stone was pressing on him, so that he couldn't open his mouth.

"Mr. Xie, let me do it." The cooperating lawyer of Red Circle Law Firm quietly blocked him half a step.

"No, I'll do it."

Xie Jing Xing asked the old couple to sit down, bent down and said slowly and calmly: "I'm very sorry, the doctor did his best."

The old woman's expression was still slow and her eyes were scattered and empty. The old man's mouth twitched and he held his wife's hand tightly.

The lawyer quickly took over the conversation and said what he had prepared in advance: "As soon as the incident happened, the company immediately sent Mr. Wang Xueqing to the hospital for treatment and invited well-known domestic experts and professors for consultation. We all made great efforts..."

"We all don't want to see what happened today, but since it has already happened, we still have to try our best to resolve it... I know it's cruel to say these words now, but considering that Mr. Wang Xueqing is your only son, you must have a guaranteed life in the future... The company will give the highest amount of compensation out of humanitarianism, and the insurance claim and subsequent funeral company under Mr. Wang Xueqing's name are also willing to come forward to resolve it..."

The lawyer's words echoed in the corridor. He talked a lot to the company's legal department, and kept talking. It was like delivering confusing information to a dead tree hole without getting any response.

"Wow, my son..."

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching cry sounded from behind him. Xie Jingxing stopped and looked back at the dead tree, then strode forward.

"Where is his girlfriend traveling?"

“In Hainan.”

"Can't the house be recovered through normal channels?"

"Based on the information we have so far, it is a voluntary gift and cannot be taken back."

"Call Cheng Sen."

(End of this chapter)