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"Over the next week, Mr. Hua may experience a low-grade fever and peeling skin. These are normal drug reactions, so you don't need to worry!"

"There are precautions posted on the glass wall outside the ward. You can take a look at it when you have time."

Zhang Heping gave a few words of advice and then took his leave. As soon as he left, Old Hua, who had just received his injection, sat up as if nothing had happened.

“Heping, I saw Lao Zhou and your eldest sister outside. Are the people from the foreign affairs department here?” Hua Lao said, trying to get out of bed, but was stopped by the doctor next to him.

The middle-aged male doctor, holding several adhesive strips, said somewhat helplessly, "Dr. Hua, please lie down first. We need to connect you to an electrocardiogram monitor."

Zhang Heping walked to the door and said to Old Zhou in a suit outside, "Old Hua just took his medicine and needs to rest more these two days. Be careful when you talk to him."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping made way for the door and walked towards the demonstration room where dozens of medical staff and interns were sitting nearby, ready to see if they had any questions.

Old Zhou in a suit walked into the ward. Zhang Zhaodi, the eldest sister, followed Zhang Heping for two steps and wanted to go over to him to say a few words, but Zhang Heping stopped her, "Sister, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it later when we get home. I have something else to do here."

Afterwards, Zhang Heping entered the demonstration room and explained the doubts to the medical staff and interns who were watching the use of Shouyuan 120 medicine through the monitoring screen.

By the time Zhang Heping finished his work and came out, it was almost time for dinner.

Zhang Heping glanced at the sleeping Elder Hua, called Elder Hua aside, and whispered away from the others, "There is still one dose of Lifespan 120 potion here in Hong Kong."

“I originally wanted to give it to your mother, but Mr. Hua didn’t agree. You should try to persuade him recently. How can he take the medicine while his wife can’t?”

"Advisor Zhang!" Upon hearing that his mother could use the Lifespan 120 potion, Boss Hua was so excited that he reached out and grasped Zhang Heping's right hand. "Thank you so much! In the future, if you ever need our help, just give us a call and we'll be there anytime."

"Given our relationship, saying thank you would be too formal," Zhang Heping said with a smile. "Besides, the fact that Elder Hua and the others dared to try the Lifespan 120 potion is also a form of recognition for me."

"If Elder Hua still insists on not giving your mother the Lifespan 120 potion, there's no need to take it too seriously. Waiting another year won't hurt. Next year's potion production will increase significantly."

After thanking him again, Hua released Zhang Heping's opponent and watched him leave with his two sisters and a group of foreign affairs personnel.

After everyone left Heping Hospital, Zhang Heping asked Zhang Zhaodi and others why they had come.

Old Zhou, in a suit, glanced at the Zhang sisters walking behind him, as well as the members of the Hong Kong Special Mission who had nothing to do with the matter, then turned back to Zhang Heping and said, "Advisor Zhang, we're here to discuss the memorandum of understanding with you regarding the Magnesium country."

Team leader Lao Zhou did not receive a response from Zhang Heping. After seeing Zhang Heping glance at his watch on his left wrist and recall Hua Lao's suggestion, he gave up the idea of ​​discussing it here. "If Consultant Zhang has something to do, you might as well go and do your thing first. We'll wait until you're done, and then we'll find a quiet place to talk slowly."

Zhang Heping nodded and said, "I still have to go to the lab. If you're not in a hurry, take a rest for a night and we'll talk tomorrow."

"Okay! You go ahead and do your work!" Team leader Lao Zhou agreed readily.

However, after Zhang Heping left with his bodyguards, he found Zhang Zhaodi and asked her to talk to Zhang Heping tonight to see how he would react.

Zhang Zhaodi had no objection, so she took her second sister Zhang Pandidi and followed Zhang Heping to the Heping Big Health Medical Research Institute.

Zhang Heping came to the top floor of the Medical Research Institute just to confirm the progress of the space experiment. When he didn't find any mistakes made by others, he left.

After finishing the job, Zhang Heping took his two sisters to the Heping Group headquarters. While waiting for Chen Shuting in the rest area on the top floor, Zhang Heping asked Zhang Zhaodi and the others why they had come.

"They are planning to arrange for a spokesperson to make a public apology through the media!" Zhang Zhaodi didn't beat around the bush and directly stated the main reason for their trip.

"Then there's nothing to say!" Zhang Heping picked up a pack of biscuits, tore it open, and started eating it by himself.

Zhang Zhaodi frowned and continued, "Mr. Zhou and the others came here to persuade you to take a step back and agree to this form of apology."

"Hmph..." Zhang Heping snorted coldly and said nothing more.

The second sister Zhang Pandi next to her picked up a glass of juice and took a sip, then asked about the functions of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office where her eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi worked. It was obvious that she did not agree with the idea of ​​taking a step back.

There is no reason not to personally apologize when you do something wrong.

The three of them didn't have to wait long before Chen Shuting finished arranging the work, and then they all took a car to the top of Victoria Peak together.

Suddenly returning to Hong Kong Island, the three brothers Zhang Bei, Zhang Long and Zhang Hu, who had nothing to do recently, proposed to their father during dinner the idea of ​​starting a drone company.

Zhang Heping did not object, but only suggested that they set up the company in Hong Kong Island and the factory in Shenzhen.

The reason they were allowed to do this was, firstly, to avoid taxes, and secondly, to facilitate future listing in Hong Kong.

Zhang Hu asked uncertainly, "Dad, can we sell the head-mounted display device combined with the drone?"

Zhang Heping dismissed his sixth son's question without a second thought. "Just make some civilian drones and sell them. Don't release military functions, or they might be hacked by foreigners."

Zhang Hu said "oh". Although he was a little disappointed, he could understand that it was not appropriate to expose military equipment now.

Zhang Zhaodi, the eldest sister sitting on the other side, asked Chen Shuting a lot about the trade policies in Hong Kong and Macao, in preparation for formulating future economic and trade policies for Hong Kong and Macao.

That night, no one mentioned that Old Bull didn't apologize.

The next morning, Zhang Heping did not make an appointment to meet with Lao Zhou and the others, but asked his eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi to go to the hotel and bring a message.

"If Old Bu doesn't come, there's no point in discussing anything." After hearing what Zhang Zhaodi said, the team leader Old Zhou stopped straightening his shirt.

Although Hua Lao had warned him in advance yesterday and anticipated Zhang Heping's response, Lao Zhou still looked at Zhang Zhaodi with some resentment, "Isn't there any room for maneuver at all?"

"Have you told Advisor Zhang that this free trade agreement is very important to us? If we..."

"Mr. Zhou!" Zhang Zhaodi interrupted the other person's nonsense and said calmly, "Consultant Zhang is currently on the top floor of the Medical Research Institute next door. He said that if you disagree with his response, you can go and talk to him in person."

Team leader Lao Zhou thought about it and finally decided to talk to Zhang Heping about the matter in person. Regardless of success or failure, at least he could describe his experience in more detail when reporting to the capital.

However, when Lao Zhou and his entourage arrived at the top floor of the Medical Research Institute and found many foreigners standing in the corridor taking notes with pens and paper, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Heping's international status was extremely high.

A brown-haired old man in a white coat stared at the large screen in the lobby of the space capsule remote control department and asked loudly:

"Mr. Zhang, since you've discovered that there's a regenerative factor in rabbit ears, why don't you research this regenerative technology on Earth? Instead, why spend so much money experimenting in space?"

"It's a gene, not a factor." Zhang Heping turned his back to the crowd and explained while operating the robotic arm displayed on the large screen:

"Assuming that the regeneration genes in mammals were once turned on, but were deactivated during subsequent evolution, what caused the regeneration genes in various mammals to be turned off?" "Based on this research, I discovered that a large amount of retinoic acid is produced when rabbit ears regenerate."

"Retinoic acid is metabolized from common vitamin A..."

Lao Zhou and his group listened for a while and understood every word, but after Zhang Heping put them together, they were completely confused.

For example, the switch that regulates regeneration genes is a DNA sequence called an enhancer.

For example, when a rabbit's ear is injured, the enhancer is quickly activated, thereby increasing the expression activity of gene 1a2, promoting the massive production of retinoic acid, and initiating regenerative ability.

Just after we finished talking about regenerative ability, someone asked about induced pluripotent stem cells, artificial organ cultivation, and whether longevity potions can improve human organs, etc.

Team leader Lao Zhou, who was originally unsure whether he could convince Zhang Heping, immediately lost the desire to persuade him when he heard a group of foreigners speaking awkward Mandarin and asking Zhang Heping for advice on various bio-genetic technologies that sounded very advanced.

Thinking back to the Lifespan 120 potion that Elder Hua used yesterday, team leader Lao Zhou suddenly realized where Zhang Heping's stubbornness came from!

It’s not about how strong the domestic military force is!

But it is the longevity potion that Zhang Heping is researching and has achieved good results!
After finishing his morning space experiment, Zhang Heping noticed that although his elder sister Zhang Zhaodi and Lao Zhou were waiting outside, they hadn't asked him about the understanding agreement. So he took them to Heping Hospital to check on Hua Lao's health.

Although Heping Hospital is open to the public for medical services, there are bodyguards and security guards stationed upstairs and downstairs, as well as various security equipment to prevent outsiders from bringing in dangerous items.

Especially in the cosmetology department, there are not only bodyguards and wolfhounds armed with electric shock guns stationed in the open, but also bodyguards carrying heavy firepower in the dark to guard the longevity potions stored here.

Hong Kong police?

It doesn't exist here!

Ever since the Eagle Americans asked the Hong Kong police to release the Japanese, Magnesium and South Korean thugs who attacked Kowloon Tong many years ago, the Zhang family no longer trusts the Hong Kong police. At most, they invite them to patrol and inspect together at the sea, land and air checkpoints.

Because of the incident of letting the rioters go, and the strength of the Peace Group, the Hong Kong police always feel inferior to the bodyguards of the Umbrella Security Company.

Perhaps, one of the reasons is that the bodyguards’ salaries are too high.

Team leader Lao Zhou turned his gaze away from the bodyguards around him and looked at Zhang Heping again. Zhang Heping was sitting by Hua Lao’s bedside, seemingly taking Hua Lao’s pulse.

Old Zhou walked to the ward door, stood next to Hua's eldest son, and asked about Hua's condition. He learned that Hua was currently experiencing a low-grade fever, which was a normal drug reaction to the Longevity 120 medication. He couldn't help but feel a little envious, wondering when he would be able to use this medication.

After taking Hua Lao's pulse, Zhang Heping examined the freshly drawn blood from his fingertip under the microscope. Once he confirmed that there were no abnormalities, he said, "Everything is normal for now. We'll follow the procedure and inquire about his condition after Elder Hua wakes up."

After giving instructions to the two doctors, Zhang Heping then comforted Mr. Hua's wife, reassuring the family.

After leaving Heping Hospital, Zhang Heping called home and then took Lao Zhou and his group to the restaurant on the third floor of the Heping Hotel.

"Consultant Zhang, I'll offer tea instead of wine to toast your achievements in medicine!" Team leader Lao Zhou picked up a teacup and held it out to Zhang Heping on the left.

Zhang Heping picked up the teacup and said with a smile, "I try not to drink liquor so that my hands don't shake during surgery. If Mr. Zhou doesn't drink with everyone today, it would seem that I'm not being hospitable enough."

Mr. Zhou looked at the others and smiled, "I could have a drink, but I just took a call and I have to meet some Magnesium people this afternoon, so it's not convenient for me to drink."

Zhang Heping didn't ask why they were meeting the Magnesian. Instead, he focused on the unopened box of Moutai liquor and said, "If you can't drink it at noon today, then store the liquor in your room and drink it with dinner or a midnight snack."

While the two were talking, they each took back their teacups and took a sip.

Mr. Zhou took a bite of his food, glanced at the bodyguard eating at the next table, and asked, "I heard that the security in Hong Kong Island is not good, and there are many irregular gangs?"

Zhang Heping nodded slightly and said, "There are indeed quite a lot of clubs. When you go out later, you can go to the hotel front desk and ask them to send a few cars for you. This will save you a lot of trouble."

Mr. Zhou laughed and said, "If something happens in Hong Kong Island, I wonder if reporting Consultant Zhang's name will help?"

"I haven't tried it, haha!" Zhang Heping responded without thinking much about the other party's intention.

Zhang Heping is the richest man in Hong Kong Island. With the influence of the Heping Group, the Zhang family can naturally be called the number one family in Hong Kong Island. In recent years, no one has dared to provoke the Zhang family in Hong Kong Island.

Of course, if he happened to be in Hong Kong Island when Japan and Mexico planned to assassinate Zhang Heping, Japan and Mexico might have provoked Zhang Heping in Hong Kong Island!

Zhang Heping chatted with the team leader Lao Zhou about this and that, and occasionally mentioned his elder sister Zhang Zhaodi.

Until the end of lunch, team leader Lao Zhou did not mention to Zhang Heping that Lao Bu refused to apologize in person.

After dinner, Zhang Heping went directly to the laboratory with his bodyguards, while Lao Zhou's communication team took a car and went to the Hong Kong Government Building as invited.

Introduced by the Governor's blonde secretary, Lao Zhou, Zhang Zhaodi and their entourage met the representatives of the Magnesium consortium and family who had arrived earlier.

"We can meet your apology demands!" The director of the Dekeshasi Group stared at the mainlander across the conference table. After the translator finished speaking, he continued:
"However, we have one condition: Mr. Zhang must meet with us to discuss future cooperation."

After hearing the translator's words, the team leader Lao Zhou couldn't help but frown.

The capital wanted Advisor Zhang to take another step back, but Advisor Zhang refused.

Looking at the attitudes of these Chinese people at this time, Lao Zhou once again realized that Consultant Zhang's confidence made it difficult for foreigners to cope!
Old Zhou glanced at Zhang Zhaodi, who was writing something with her head down, then looked at the row of Chinese people across from him and said, "I can't guarantee that Mr. Zhang will see you!"

"However, I think you should first ask him to apologize in person and demonstrate your sincerity before any further cooperation."

After listening to the translation, the director of the Dekeshasi Consortium said, "We don't need your guarantee. Just tell Mr. Zhang our conditions."

Old Zhou frowned. He didn't expect that after running all the way here, he would be used as a mouthpiece by the Magnesian guy.

At this moment, Zhang Zhaodi closed the pen cap and said calmly, "Don't tell him, he won't see you!"

"How do you know?" The director of the Dekeshasi Group had just asked this question when a middle-aged blond man behind him stepped forward and whispered Zhang Zhaodi's identity.

"So it's Mr. Zhang's sister!" The director of the Dekeshasi Consortium said happily, "Please tell Mr. Zhang that as long as he is willing to cooperate with us, we will ensure that he will never be harmed again!"

"Hmph!" Zhang Zhaodi sneered.

Only at that moment did she truly understand why her third brother, Zhang Heping, looked down on these Americans so much… (End of Chapter)