Chapter 585: The Hardest Question in History
Everyone craned their necks to look. They were all extremely curious.
When they saw the name of the herbs on the paper in Gu Qiqi’s hand, everyone clicked their tongues. “Millettia Root…”
Millettia Root wasn’t a particularly rare medicinal herb.
But the problem was that the Millettia Root grew in the extreme south and the extreme north.
The Imperial Capital wasn’t an extremely cold and hot place. Why would there be Millettia Root here?
Everyone couldn’t help but look at Gu Qiqi with sympathy. Then, they remembered how Fengyang Chu didn’t like Gu Qiqi and kept nitpicking her during the last exam.
A guess surfaced in everyone’s hearts. Director Chu Feng was deliberately making things difficult for Gu Qiqi so that she couldn’t get into the school, right?
Hahaha, that’s great!
One less competitor was one less competitor.
In particular, Gu Qiqi was a strong opponent who had scored 100 for the first two subjects!
Among the crowd, Han Bingyues sounded extremely pleased when she laughed coldly.
Gu Qiqi, the heavens want you dead! Your luck has come to an end! Let’s see how you’re going to find Millettia Root in this small and dilapidated forest.
She looked down at the paper in her hand. The herb on it were simply too easy: nutmeg.
Wasn’t it just nutmeg? As long as it was a well-off family in the Imperial Capital, they would have such a medicinal herb as a spice. Who wouldn’t know it?!
She could find it even with her eyes closed. It was simply giving her free marks!
Han Bingyue looked up and looked at Gu Qiqi smugly, hoping to see a lost or dejected expression on Gu Qiqi’s face.
However, to her surprise, Gu Qiqi’s expression was very calm. There was no trace of panic.
Han Bingyue was indignant. She took a step forward and deliberately provoked Gu Qiqi. “Bookworm, you’re definitely going to lose…”
Gu Qiqi treated her as air and ignored her completely. She turned around and applied to the invigilator. “Can I leave for five minutes to get a tool?”
“This…” The invigilator initially wanted to say no, but when he saw that Gu Qiqi’s question was simply impossible to complete, he couldn’t help but feel compassion. “Go on, come back quickly.”
“No, on what basis should she be allowed to get a tool when the exam has started?!”
“We all brought our own tools. Who asked her not to bring her tools!”
“Teacher, we can’t let her go. What if she didn’t take the tools but cheated by buying herbs!”
The group of people led by Han Bingyue objected firmly and stopped her.
They were really afraid that Gu Qiqi would turn the tables around.
The invigilator’s face sank. “If you have the ability, I’ll let you leave for five minutes too. I’ll let you find Gu Qiqi’s herb. How about that?”
Everyone shut up obediently.
What a joke. Five minutes? It wasn’t even enough to rush back to the dormitory, right? It was even more impossible to walk out of the school gate and cheat to buy herbs.
They weren’t stupid. They wouldn’t change their herb with Gu Qiqi.
They were going to find their own dandelions, purslane, and wolfberry leaves… How relaxing was that?
After getting permission, Gu Qiqi walked quickly to the nearest teaching building. There was a convenience store on the first floor. There was what she wanted inside.
Behind her, the invigilator saw that everyone was taking the time to enter the dense forest and raised his voice. “One hour at most. You have to come out in an hour. Otherwise, the results will be invalid!”
After everyone had left, he secretly dug out his phone with a perverted look and made a call. “CEO Chu, don’t worry. I’ve taken care of Gu Qiqi and just gave her 5 minutes leave. I even withstood the pressure from the students to give her permission! However… I have to ask you to be mentally prepared. She might really score zero today. Because… because the topic that Director Feng gave her was Millettia Root… It’s impossible for our Imperial Capital to have wild Millettia Root…”
On the other end of the call, Chu Junmo said something that made the invigilator so frightened that his phone was about to fall to the ground. “What? You plan to come over now?! Sigh, sigh, CEO Chu. It’s useless for you to come over. What? You have to bring Millettia Root over! No, no, no. Director Feng will kill me… This is against the rules… Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem. Why don’t you come secretly so that no one will notice…”
Halfway through his words, his phone was suddenly snatched away.