Cheng Mingyue reached out and held the two of them, with a faint smile on her face.
"I'm not angry, why are you? Besides, the competition hasn't even started yet. The winner won't be determined by who has the loudest voice."
"Mingyue, it's already this late, why are you still laughing?" Mu Jin's face turned pale with anxiety, and she glared at Cheng Mingyue angrily.
Fu Zheng suddenly secretly grabbed Cheng Mingyue's arm and whispered in her ear: "Mingyue, don't worry. If you lose in the end, I will go and beg my dad to make sure he won't let you drop out of school."
Seeing Fu Zheng's serious look, Cheng Mingyue was deeply moved.
She thought of the time when Zhou Xinyu asked Fu Zheng to beg her father at the beginning of the school year, but Fu Zheng refused without a second thought and said that Zhou Xinyu wanted to harm her father.
Now that he can do this for her, how can Cheng Mingyue not be moved?
Cheng Mingyue patted Fu Zheng's shoulder gently, and the corners of her mouth curled up a little more.
"Zheng Zheng, thank you, but I can definitely win this competition. I'm absolutely sure. Do you believe me?"
Fu Zheng met Cheng Mingyue's calm and bright eyes, and her heart instantly calmed down. After a moment of hesitation, she managed to utter a few words: "Of course I believe you!"
At this moment, someone on the playground saw Cheng Mingyue and shouted: "Cheng Mingyue is here!"
In a moment, countless pairs of eyes looked towards them.
"It's really her! She's so stubborn. If it were me, I would have run away long ago."
"What's the point in running away? Senior Yang is clearly trying to kick her out of school. Even if she doesn't participate in the competition, she will definitely be expelled in the end."
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A new round of discussions started one after another, making Cheng Mingyue and others frown.
"Look, Senior Yang is here too!"
A shout attracted all attention, and everyone looked in the direction of her finger.
Cheng Mingyue, Fu Zheng and the others also turned to look over.
The moment Cheng Mingyue saw Yang Lei, she exclaimed in her heart, "It's only been a few days, how come he looks so haggard?"
Thinking of what Fu Zheng had found out before, he couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle.
The two parties had already gathered, and soon several school leaders came over accompanied by several elderly people.
Cheng Mingyue looked up and saw that one of them was Professor Gu. She didn't want to greet him in front of so many people, so she quickly collected her thoughts and stood there like a wooden stake, without saying a word.
"Okay, everyone, be quiet now!" Principal Wang shouted loudly while standing on a makeshift platform with a microphone in hand.
After everyone quieted down, Principal Wang continued, "I believe everyone already knows the whole story of this incident, so I won't elaborate on it here.
There's only one rule: the loser of this competition must unconditionally withdraw from school. This was also agreed upon back then. Yang, Cheng, do you two have any objections to this?"
Cheng Mingyue and Yang Lei both shook their heads.
"Alright then. To avoid any disputes, the school has drafted two agreements. If you're satisfied with them, please sign them."
As soon as Principal Wang finished speaking, someone handed two agreements to Cheng Mingyue and Yang Lei respectively.
Cheng Mingyue glanced at the ten lines and saw that there was no problem, so she picked up the pen and signed her name.
Yang Lei read every word very carefully. After reading his own copy, he picked up Cheng Mingyue's copy and read it again. Seeing that the two agreements were exactly the same, he signed his name.
Cheng Mingyue just glanced at Yang Lei and said nothing.
Fu Zheng, who was standing next to her, looked disdainful: "This is too cunning. He even looked at your agreement. He is really judging others by his own standards."
Mu Jin also echoed in a low voice.
Cheng Mingyue was so cautious about him but she had no other opinion.
In later generations, whether it was a contract or an agreement, one had to read every word carefully. If one was not careful, one would be easily trapped. She had a deep understanding of this.
One of her classmates was coaxed into signing a contract by her boyfriend when she was in a relationship. At that time, the two were very much in love, but she signed it without even reading it.
Later, I found out that she had signed a debt transfer contract, and ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. If it weren't for the apocalypse, someone might have died.
This matter was widely circulated in their school, and she knew it very well.
But not everyone can understand Yang Lei, just like Principal Wang who is standing on the stage at this moment, his face is so gloomy that ink can be squeezed out of it.
But he was still very well-mannered, and his expression changed for a few seconds before returning to normal.
"Let me introduce you to the judges of this competition. This is Professor Gu, the president of the Huaxia Chinese Medicine Association. This is Dean Zhang, the president of Jing City People's Hospital. This is Dean Chen, the president of the Second Military Region Hospital."
After Principal Wang introduced the three judges, thunderous applause broke out from the audience.
After a while, Principal Wang raised his hand and pressed it down: "Okay, be quiet. Next, I will introduce the details of this competition to everyone.
Since Cheng and Yang are both students of our Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the first task will be to identify herbs."
Then Cheng Mingyue and Yang Lei were invited to the stage, and someone immediately handed them two answer boards. Then the red silk was peeled off, revealing the neatly arranged herbs underneath.
As a whistle sounded, Cheng Mingyue and Yang Lei started moving, coming forward to identify the herbs, and then writing down the names of the herbs one by one on the answer board.
At first, Yang Lei looked confident of winning, but after a while, his brows furrowed and his recognition speed gradually slowed down.
In contrast, Cheng Mingyue remained calm from beginning to end. Not only was she calm, she was also incredibly fast. She only glanced at almost all the herbs before writing down their names.
Everyone saw her like this, and they all frowned and started talking in low voices.
"What is Cheng Mingyue doing? Even though I'm not from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I know how to identify herbs. Unlike her, she just glanced at them and wrote down their names. Isn't this just nonsense?!"
"She's not giving up on herself, is she?! Look at Senior Yang, he picks up every herb and examines it carefully, sometimes even pulling off a little to taste it carefully. This is the correct way to identify herbs.
Even if you haven't eaten pork, you should have seen pigs running. The book says that the dragon tastes hundreds of herbs, so it must be like this. Is there any need to continue the competition with her acting so foolishly? "
Not only the students in the medical school had such doubts, even several judges frowned slightly, and strongly disagreed with Cheng Mingyue's way of identifying herbs.
Some people even regretted agreeing to let Wang Zhen come here to be a judge today.
Isn't this just a waste of time?!
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