Chapter 247
The woman’s eyes instantly sharpened, her breath was cold and her voice sank, “You’re questioning me?”
At her words, both Lance’s and Bessie’s nerves went on high alert.
“It’s not questioning, it’s asking you to show your ability and let us look at it.” Ying nodded, “This is a new type of poison that the Bevan family purchased from the Third Poisoner, and there is no antidote for it yet.”
“But I believe that you, senior, as the world’s number one poison master, will definitely be able to solve it.”
The middle-aged man listened in confusion and couldn’t help but lower his voice: “Miss, when did you ask that psycho to buy his new poison?”
Rita stomped on him, “Shut your mouth.”
The woman looked at the snack in the bottle and sneered, “Since the Bevin family is so insincere, forget about this cooperation.”
She didn’t want the Ning Shenhua either, and turned around and headed out.
But there was a hand that, with a swift movement, instantly clasped her shoulder.
Rita was going to stop it, but was shocked at the sight.
It was common knowledge that poisoners were covered in poison, even those ranked twentieth.
If one touched them without their consent, they would be immediately poisoned.
This was the number one Poison Master.
Touching her, instant death was not even a matter of concern.
Unless, of course, this was a fake!
Rita’s pupils shrank and she snapped, “Someone, take it down!”
At this order, all those hiding in the shadows came out and quickly surrounded the woman.
But before they could move forward, the woman’s body suddenly jerked.
Her head lolled and she fell towards the ground.
“What the hell?” Rita stepped forward with a cold face, “Still playing dead?”
“Don’t go over there.” Ying raised her hand, stopping her, “It’s poisoned.”
“What?”
Lita was slightly stunned for a moment, and after looking over again, her expression changed dramatically.
She only saw the woman’s body on the ground gradually sink into it, that is, in half a minute’s time, turning into a white bone.
Even that bone, black veins began to appear.
In just a few seconds, the poison had eroded all of the woman’s internal organs and skin, breaking down all the cells in a horrific way.
Even if it wasn’t the number one poisoner, this level of poison was enough to be ranked in the top ten in the world.
Not only do poison masters have a ranking, even poisons have one.
The top ten poisons in the world were all in one place under strict guard, and were not allowed to be released.
The world’s number one poison is comparable to those ancient viruses left behind billions of years ago beneath the ice of Antarctica.
It can exterminate the world in a minute.
Ying fished out another bottle from his pocket, raised his hand and poured the powder inside.
Lita was still wary: “What is this?”
“I bought it from a psycho to cure a hundred poisons.” Ying finished pouring, “It should be touchable, but you won’t be able to detect anything.”
Rita’s eyes changed and changed again, “Whatever, take it back first, no matter what, there must be a poisonous herbalist out there.”
With that, she took out her phone, “Let me make a post inside the forum.”
Like Cesar Laurent, Rita, who was the eldest lady of the Bevan family, was mostly aware of it.
Her account level, was s-rank.
After all, there were only a few ss-rank accounts in the entire forum.
She finished her post angrily, “I was so naive.”
Ying Ziji gave her a look and nodded slightly, “At your age, it’s normal to be naive.”
“Can you stop hitting people?” Lita gritted her teeth, “I have to go back to O Chau first, we’ll talk again when I can.”
Ying didn’t say anything, she left the ruined villa after wiping her hands off.
**
The following day.
Imperial Capital.
Mu family.
Mu Weifeng sat on a stone bench in the garden, holding a brush in his right hand, dipping it into the ink before he began to write.
His handwriting is very beautiful, the brush moves like a dragon, into the wood, and the atmosphere is fully revealed.
Mu Weifeng wrote smoothly in front of him, but when he reached the last word, his hand shook.
Then, a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out, spilling onto the rice paper in drips.
It was shocking to the eyes.
Mu Weifeng’s expression was still calm, he rubbed the rice paper and threw it into the trash, and also picked up the ringing mobile phone on the side.
“Grandpa Sheng.” He had just opened his mouth to say a title when he coughed violently.
As soon as he coughed, another mouthful of blood spilled out.
Even through the phone, Sheng Qingtang on the other end heard the problem, and his face changed: “You’re getting sicker?”
“Not bad.” Mu Weifeng wiped the blood from his lips and smiled bitterly, “At least it won’t kill me now.”
“You you you!” Sheng Qingtang was desperate, “Why didn’t you even talk to me?”
He had actually had the idea of taking on a disciple, namely Mu Weifeng.
At that time, he was still the president of the Chinese Calligraphy Artists a*sociation and was living in the imperial capital.
He had met Mu Weifeng at a calligraphy exhibition.
Among the younger generation, apart from Ying Zigui, Mu Weifeng’s calligraphy was the only one he had seen.
However, Mu Weifeng refused to accept his apprenticeship to Qingqiu because he was too unwell, but they still had a good relationship.
He spoke to Mu Weifeng every week and made a trip to the imperial capital every month, neither of which could see anything wrong with Mu Weifeng.
Sheng Qingtang also thought that Mu Weifeng’s illness had long since recovered.
However, he did not expect it to get worse every year.
Mu Weifeng was only twenty years old this year, yet he had such a body.
“I know my own body.” Mu Weifeng didn’t say anything, he even smiled. “Grandpa Sheng, I was just writing for you, intending to send it to you, and it was accidentally ruined.”
“What time is it, you still think of writing?” Sheng Qingtang was even more furious, “Just like my bald son who won’t let people worry, just wait, I know a divine doctor, she will definitely be able to help you cure it.”
Mu Weifeng was stunned for a moment, and before he could say anything, over there, Sheng Qingtang had already hung up the phone.
He let out a sigh and shook his head.
He had seen many doctors and had been to the Meng family.
But he couldn’t invite a direct member of the Meng family, so he had never recovered from this illness.
His desire for power wasn’t that great, and he wasn’t thinking of inheriting the Mu family, he just hoped that as the heir, he would be able to invite a full member of the Dream Family to help him with his illness.
After all, he had a sister to look after.
It was a pity that divine doctors were not that easy to find.
After taking a pill, Mu Weifeng proceeded to write.
**
On the other side.
Ying Ziji was brushing up on the questions Professor Zuo Li had sent her when she received a call from Sheng Qingtang.
“Little divine Doctor, I have an unpleasant request.” Sheng Qingtang got straight to the point, “I have a disciple who isn’t really a disciple, he has a very serious illness, carried from his mother’s womb, and it’s getting worse over the years, can you please take a look at him?”
Without waiting for Ying Zidian’s answer, he was busy saying again, “It all depends on you, I won’t force myself.”
Ying Zidian’s hand gave a slight pause: “Other doctors can’t check it out?”
“Yes.” Sheng Qingtang sighed, very fretful and still hard, “You said his family isn’t small, how come they can’t cure him of this disease?”
Ying pondered a little, “Can he come to Shanghai City?”
“Yes, yes.” Sheng Qingtang was surprised, “I’ll call him and ask him to come, little divine doctor, I can send you anything you want.”
“We’ll see when the time comes.” Ying Ziji’s hand kept on tapping the questions, indifferently, “I heal people and I also look at karma.”
“By the way, Little Divine Doctor, there’s an international calligraphy and painting exhibition, and I’ve sent the pair of characters you wrote for me to be exhibited.” Sheng Qingtang added, “It’s definitely not a bad idea to take first place.”
Hearing this, Ying Ziyang became slightly interested: “Is there money or good food?”
Sheng Qingtang was dumbfounded for a long time before he said, “That doesn’t seem to be the case, but Little Divine Doctor, your fame will definitely grow tremendously!”
He was then hung up coldly and mercilessly.
“……”
**
The fact that the isc was going to be held was gradually spreading on the internet in addition to high schools.
There are quite a few competitions at the international level, especially in sports.
But it was the first time that an academic competition of such a large scale had been held.
In China, there are a total of six places for the direct international competition.
One for Qingzhi High School, two for the secondary school affiliated to the Imperial University and the remaining three for the other three high schools.
These six candidates were announced on the official website of Science China directly after they were confirmed.
Many people who were following isc went to see it, and after reading it, returned to Weibo to discuss it with great excitement.
[These six people were able to go straight to the international tournament and should be representing China at that time?
[I searched one of them, it’s really impressive, he’s only 17 and he’s already won a lot of awards, heroes come out of youth.
[No, no, no, not all of them are good. I remember the other five. One of them has won three gold medals, IMO, IOI and ICHO, one has already got a guaranteed place at the second ranked university in the world, and the other three have won a lot of awards.
But who is Ying Zidian? Has he won any academic awards? Why can she be put together with their names? Isn’t that holding the country back?
Chapter 248
Even a layman would be able to see from the isc’s presentation how difficult this international scientific competition is.
Not to mention that the other five, all of them, are established in their academic fields.
Either they have won gold medals in international competitions or they have been guaranteed early admission to the top universities in the world.
In comparison, Ying, who doesn’t even have a CV, is really not good enough.
The isc is hot, but because it hasn’t officially started yet, it’s not too hot and it’s not on the hot list.
Only those who have seen the list on the official science website know about it, so there are not particularly many netizens discussing it.
#The hashtag #isc, China’s direct international selection, was read at 306,000 and discussed by 348 people.
It’s far worse than the 50th on the hot search list, and not as high as the number of reads for #HowTopCatsCanYawn.
But some netizens also recognised the name Ying Zidian.
[Ying Zidian ah, I know, good at drawing and calligraphy, I heard she’s good at piano too, but I didn’t watch any recitals live.
Just heard something about her being Vera Hall in the flesh, but I went searching online afterwards and couldn’t find any relevant videos, it’s true none of them, and I suspected my search engine was faulty.
emmm, no matter what it should be a …… art student, right?]
The news is that in other high schools, the selection process is done within the school, but in Qingzhi, there are no internal auditions, the selection is made directly.
Besides, we all know that Qingzhi has a talent cla*s, right? She’s not in that cla*s, she’s not even in the experimental science cla*s.
So it’s really unclear why Qingzhi’s place would fall on her head.
[Isn’t this …… Qingzhi one of the three top high schools? How come the selection was so sloppy?
[Fine, wait until next year, I’d like to see what this art student can come up with at the international finals.]
Before the list was announced, the names of six people had already been submitted to the organising committee and there was no way to change them.
The netizens were just saying what they had to say, and they dispersed afterwards.
After all, there are other more interesting gossips, and an art student is not worth their attention.
Statistics have shown that the undergraduate rate on Weibo is only 4%, and there are still a lot of keyboard warriors.
These netizens think so, but neither the secondary school affiliated to the Imperial University nor the Yilan Public School in the far o-continent think so.
Qingzhi High School, which is one of the top three high schools in China.
In particular, there is a cla*s of excellence in which the students are so perverted that they are famous all over the internet.
The most important thing is that this year, Qingzhi High School sent its first student to Norton University.
Would such a top high school really be rash about something like this that even hinges on national honour?
Yet again, they really failed to understand why Qingzhi had chosen Ying Zigui.
Especially when the high school affiliated to the Imperial University called up Ying Zidian’s results from Qingzhi’s side for the past three years, they were plunged into silence.
“She transferred to Qingzhi from County No. 1 Middle School over in Qing Shui County in her second year of high school.” Pointing to the first line, Teacher Mo said, “And she didn’t take the entrance exam test either, so she went straight into the Talent Cla*s.”
“You see, these are her results in the Talented cla*s, and it is necessary to say that in the Talented cla*s, she did not do the papers of the Talented cla*s, but the ordinary papers.”
Although separated by more than a thousand kilometres, there have been many exchanges between the Secondary School affiliated to the Imperial University and Qingzhi Secondary School.
Last year, a team formed by the two schools took first place in the overall team score at the International Mathematics Competition.
Out of the six members of the team, three got gold medals and three got silver medals.
This is an achievement that not even Eland Public School can match.
“Two monthly exams, a midterm and a final exam, none of which scored above four hundred.” Teacher Mo took out another piece of paper, “Later she left the Talented Cla*s and transferred to the Ordinary Cla*s, but look again, these are her exam results after she transferred to the Ordinary Cla*s.”
This one result was clearly the mid-term exam of the second semester of the second year of senior high school, and it was also the one that the head teacher had previously pulled out and shown to Ying Yuexuan.
“There’s no need to look, even if it’s not cheating, it’s something else.” Another teacher put down the two sheets of paper, “How can anyone be able to raise their grades so fast in just two or three months?”
Said both, laughing, “A perfect score on a paper from an outstanding cla*s? That’s ridiculous.”
“It’s strange, but I firmly believe it’s not cheating.” Teacher Mo pushed his gla*ses, “We all know how strict Qingzhi is, so maybe there’s something really special about the candidates they’ve submitted this time.”
“Whether they have real talent or not, we’ll know if we try.” Another teacher was light, “The Imperial University side has invited a few professors over to inform her and a few other candidates to make a trip to the Imperial City.”
Teacher Mo nodded, “It’s already been given to Qingzhi’s side.”
He went through Ying’s grades again, pondered for a while, left the office and went to contact the Imperial Capital University side again.
**
The person in charge of the interface between Qingzhi High School and the secondary school affiliated to the Imperial University was the Director of Academic Affairs.
As soon as he got the news, he called Ying Zidian: “Student Ying, the first round of training has started, over at Teito, and although I don’t think you need to train at all, it was requested by the organising committee.”
“But you see you really don’t want to go, I can also make a special request.”
Ying pondered for a moment, “For the final, it’s a group participation?”
“Right.” The head teacher said, “Like other academic competitions, it’s a team of six people and there’s a competition for the total team score.”
“Well, I’ll go.” Ying Zigui didn’t refuse, “I promised the headmaster that isc I’ll attend the whole thing.”
“That’s fine.” The head teacher added, “The school will send a teacher with you, I’ll make the arrangements now, and if you need anything, the school fully supports you.”
After she hung up the phone, she sent Sheng Qingtang a message
[You asked that apprentice of yours not to come to Shanghai, it’s just as well, I’m flying to Datu tomorrow, you can transfer my WeChat business card to him.
She was one of Sheng Qingtang’s star tags, so it was he who replied quickly.
[Little miracle doctor, why are you suddenly going to Datu? Aren’t you going to study?]
[Earn money, fight for the school and care for the headmaster who has no hair.]
[……]
Sheng Qingtang had a bit of a toothache.
He could see that Ying Ziji had never been very interested in her own affairs, but she would help anyone who asked her for help to the end.
Of course, that was only if she treated you as someone on her side.
Sheng Qingtang breathed a long sigh of relief and his fingers trembled before he dialed Mu Weifeng again: “Hello? Vifeng, you’re saved!”
“The divine doctor I told you about earlier, she just happens to be going to the imperial capital, so you don’t have to come to this side of Shanghai, I’ll transfer her business card to you here.”
Mu Weifeng was slightly surprised, “Grandpa Sheng, didn’t you say she was very busy?”
“Yes, very busy.” Sheng Qingtang thought for a moment, “She said she was going over to the imperial capital to train for some kind of competition, so she stopped by to show you.”
“I’ll go pick her up then.” Mu Weifeng looked at his schedule, “I don’t have anything to do for the next two days.”
“That’s fine.” Sheng Qingtang was happy, “She’s very nice and easy-going, she also likes to eat snacks, so you should buy more snacks and bring them with you.”
“Okay, thanks Grandpa Sheng.” Mu Weifeng took note of them all, and then got the business card that Sheng Qingtang pushed for him on WeChat.
The avatar was a very cute teacup pig with a pouting pink nose.
It was hard to tell its age.
After Mu Weifeng clicked add friend, the other party pa*sed it after a few minutes.
He sent over a message.
[Hello, Doctor Ying, this is Mu Weifeng, what time will you arrive in the capital tomorrow? I’ll pick you up at the airport.
Five seconds later, the other party replied.
[No need, my lungs are bad, don’t come out too much.
Seeing these words, Mu Weifeng’s eyes shook.
He had bad lungs, but even Sheng Qingtang hadn’t said that.
For the first time, Mu Weifeng felt unbelievable now.
**
The next day.
5pm.
Imperial Capital Airport.
Mu Shenzhou followed Mrs. Mu at the VIP entrance and was waiting for someone.
For this time’s examination for the Mu family heir, Madam Mu had specially invited some professionals from abroad to give Mu Shenzhou a tutorial.
“Shenzhou, the first test is not difficult.” Madam Mu said, “And what you have to do is to make sure that you perform well so that your grandfather doesn’t have to be you.”
Mu Shenzhou nodded, “I know.”
He had been preparing for the heir test for a long time and was bound to win.
The biggest threat to him was also Mu Weifeng.
But yesterday, he heard from the Mu family’s servants that Mu Weifeng’s health had gone wrong again, and he had vomited blood.
Mu Shenzhou looked at the time and then looked at the entrance of the pa*sage, and his sight caught a very familiar figure.