It was still early, so Congcong rushed back to the organizing committee, wanting to find out from the committee members whether the Xia family had made any requests for cheating.
He trusted everyone on the organizing committee, and he was pretty sure they wouldn't accept unreasonable demands, but he wasn't sure if anyone would bring them up.
But after asking around, it turned out that quite a few people wanted to bribe them, but no one mentioned the Xia family.
"Does the Xia family have any requests?" Zhou Zhiming asked directly.
"The Xia family? They have requirements!" An old man nodded.
"Are there really any requirements?"
"Speaking of the Xia family's contract, the requirements are really strange!" The old man chuckled.
What are the requirements?
"The head of the Xia family insists on impartiality and demands that we conduct the evaluation anonymously, forbidding us from seeing any background information," the old man said. "And if we dare to do anything unfair, he..."
"Just what?"
"Anyway, it doesn't sound very good."
"It's alright, just tell me what you said."
"He demanded that we return the money he had wasted on his investment, and he even threatened to sue us until we were infamous!"
"Did he really say that? He didn't mention anyone's name?"
“It’s not that there’s none at all…” the old man thought for a moment, “It seemed to be something about testing whether someone who hasn’t had enough instant noodles has any real skills… Anyway, I didn’t understand.”
"I understand. Everyone, please go home when you're done with your work?" With that, Zhou Zhiming was the first to leave the organizing committee office.
Back home, he couldn't figure it out, so he called Secretary Huang and made an appointment to meet with Xia Changlong early the next morning.
He needed to know what Xia Changlong was really up to before the deadline for the competition.
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