Mr. Stepto, you may be seated. ”

Huo Yaowen waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down and chat.

Stepto sat down and said apologetically, "I'm sorry Mr. Evan, it's rude to come suddenly. ”

"Littor has already told me about it, but I didn't expect you to come so soon, Mr. Stepto. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled slightly and asked, "Do you want coffee or tea?"

"Let's have a cup of coffee. ”

"Secretary He, help me make two cups of coffee. ”

"It's the general manager. ”

He turned around and walked out of the office.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Huo Yaowen sat up straight and said with a smile: "To be honest, I don't dare to believe it, just because of one of my science fictions, since I can let Mr. Stepto, you come to Hong Kong in person." ”

In the telegram sent by Li Hair yesterday, the identity of this Stepto, professor of medical obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal College of Physicians in London, doctor of genetics, and expert in biological research, was introduced.

That's right, in addition to being an expert in genetics and biology, Stepto is also a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

Stepto smiled and said, "Mr. Evan, I think science is based on fantasy first, and then practice to get the most scientific results. ”

At this time, Brother He walked in with two cups of coffee.

"Thank you. Stepto smiled and took the coffee cup.

Huo Yaowen took a sip of the coffee cup, nodded and said: "I agree with your words, every great achievement in science and technology is based on bold fantasies. ”

In fact, there is another sentence that Huo Yaowen did not say that the progress of human science comes from human desires.

Stepto asked, "Mr. Evan is right, so I came to Hong Kong this time to ask you, in your fantasy, what is this IVF like?"

How?

Huo Yaowen frowned, although the IVF technology has been very mature decades later, and there are hospitals with corresponding technologies in almost all big cities, he has never touched or searched for it, and only has a general understanding that eggs and sperm are cultivated in vitro, and the embryos are produced and then transferred to the woman's uterus.

It's so simple, but it's going to be very difficult to do.

However, he didn't study medicine anyway, and the other party came over to ask him about his fantasy about this IVF technology, so Huo Yaowen told him what he had heard and watched.

After hearing this, Stepto's brows tightened, pondered for a long time, and asked: "In other words, Mr. Evan, your fantasy is not to cultivate a baby in a test tube, but simply let the eggs and sperm produce embryos in the test tube, and then transfer them into the woman's body, so that she can develop and become pregnant normally?"

"Pretty much. Huo Yaowen wasn't sure, but said ambiguously: "The reason why I wrote about IVF in the book is because in my fantasy, the embryo was born in IVF. Of course, all this is just my personal fantasy, and I can't take it seriously. ”

"Embryo culture in vitro ......"

Stepto touched his chin and muttered to himself, "Test tube instead of fallopian tube?"

His mind was spinning rapidly at this moment, trying to explain Huo Yaowen's fantasy in a scientific way.

Huo Yaowen saw that the other party kept bowing his head and didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something, so he didn't bother, just drank coffee silently, and looked at the manuscript mailed by Sanmao by the way.

Since Sanmao quit his job as a teacher at Hong Kong University last year and went to Spain, he still hasn't been able to get out of the original history, and he still met Jose, and the two went to settle in the Sahara Desert together.

In the first half of the year, the two ran around for a living, until Sanmao remembered what Huo Yaowen said at the beginning of this year, so she started the idea of writing, and wrote the stories she saw, heard, and encountered in the Sahara Desert.

The name of the book is very simple, it is called "The Story of the Sahara Desert" as in the previous life, Huo Yaowen has finished reading one of the "Marriage Notes" at this time, which is a little different from the memory, in the article, Sanmao mentioned herself and Gu Long, she said that she hoped to invite the two to the Sahara Desert to participate in her simple and simple wedding with only a white veil.

also said in a joking tone that the ancient dragon was timid, and he was afraid that he would not dare to come to the Sahara Desert to live for a few days.

Seeing this, Huo Yaowen grinned, because he thought of the gathering of several people before Sanmao left Hong Kong last year, and Gu Long did say that he would not go to that kind of uninhabited and desert place if he was killed.

Do you want to invite Sanmao to get married?

Huo Yaowen thought about it, although Sanmao was far away in the Sahara Desert, he still decided to write an invitation to her, but I am afraid that the letter cannot be mailed, because it will be very slow and slow, and people can only send a telegram to it.

"Mr. Evan!"

Stepto suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong?" Huo Yaowen suddenly came back to his senses.

Stepto didn't seem to notice Huo Yaowen's previous actions, and pondered: "Mr. Evan, in addition to being a doctor of biology and genetics, I am also an obstetrician, and I know very well that most women who are unable to have children suffer from infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes, so I think the idea of in vitro embryo cultivation you put forward is feasible." ”

"Yes, I thought it was just a fantasy, can it really be realized?" Huo Yaowen pretended to be surprised.

"That's where the trial comes in!"

Stepto shook his head, he just thought that the theory could succeed, but whether it could be realized or not would still require scientific experimentation.

The two chatted for a while, until the phone rang in the office, and the conversation between the two sides ended.

"Mr. Evan, I'm going back to England tonight, and thank you very much for your explanation. ”

"Everywhere, it's all just my imagination. ”

Seeing off Stepto, Huo Yaowen turned around and went back to the office and re-dialed the phone.

"Hey, Brandt!"

"You were just busy?"

"Well, something, it's not busy now. What's the matter? You called to say that the license plate matter was done?" Huo Yaowen picked up his coffee and took a sip.

Brandt on the other end of the line said, "There's good news and bad news, and you want to hear that?"

"Bad news. ”

"Well, I thought you'd pick the good news first! The bad news was that at the beginning of the meeting, the Governor decided that the third license must be broadcast at the specified time. ”

Really!

Huo Yaowen had a clear attitude, he didn't have much idea about changing the hard requirements of the license plate before, and asked indifferently: "What about the good news?"

"The good news is that the broadcast time has changed, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ”

"That's not good news!"

24 hours a day, not counting the four hours that were off the air at night, is equivalent to almost half of the 20 hours of TV broadcasting, and almost half of the time is broadcast educational programs.

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(End of chapter)