Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 845: Chapter 10: A Good Woman Also Worries About "Marriage" (Part 2)

Some people have a choice, while pitifully some others have none. To prevent personal assessment from leaving someone with nowhere to go, this Rare Animal Research Room has become Yiyi’s lifeline.

Xiao Xian and Yiyi both tacitly believed that Aisha would definitely try to sabotage when Xiao Xian made a choice.

The final scores of exchange students consist of two parts: individual scores and team scores. Every student selected by each research lab will ultimately receive their final assessment scores from the respective research lab.

Considering that team scores are the result of three people’s collaboration and individual certainty is lower, every student will strive for the best results in their personal assessment.

Yiyi gave her a glance, didn’t retort, and tugged Xiao Xian’s hand: "Have you confirmed what you can do?"

Xiao Xian patted her hand reassuringly, "It’s fine, I just asked Vice Minister Michael, and further ahead there’s an herbal cultivation center. I can go there and help cultivate herbs." Xiao Xian knew that only when she also had a stable arrangement could Yiyi be confident enough to show her capabilities.

"Then I’m relieved," Yiyi mischievously picked up a moss-covered lizard and held it up in front of Aisha.

The ugly lizard made Aisha’s face turn pale with fright, and she got goosebumps all over.

Although she was quite adept with animals, she hated such cold-blooded creatures like snakes and lizards, they just made her feel nauseous.

"Take it away," Aisha screamed.

"You see, this kind of work is not for everyone," Dr. Raven, the head of the lab, was displeased upon witnessing Aisha’s uncouth behavior.

"This lizard is called a Blue-tongued Giant Lizard, a critically endangered species native to the central Australian desert. It requires a very specific living environment with a temperature that must not be too high, between thirty and forty degrees. The Blue-tongued Giant Lizard lays its eggs every spring, and they need fine sand and stone to incubate. It lays ten eggs at a time, with an eight percent survival rate. Its favorite food is a type of termite that also lives in the same desert..." Yiyi rattled off so much information that everyone present was stunned.

The lab’s head, upon hearing Yiyi, didn’t mind her awkward English, and repeatedly said: "GOOD, I WANT HER," with such blunt expression, making Yiyi giggle foolishly.

Listening to Yiyi’s comprehensive explanation, Xiao Xian realized this job truly belonged to Yiyi. Her understanding of lizards’ living habits was thorough—after all, she was the one and only Lizard Girl.

Yiyi was immediately retained as the lizard caretaker for the lab.

Xiao Xian, along with Vice Minister Michael, Ye Heng, and Aisha, were the last three to leave.

Michael breathed a sigh of relief. He had led people down dozens of research labs, ensuring every national exchange delegation had placements, except for the three Chinese exchange students. This and that were not possible; if the last three all found placements, it would save face for the Chinese delegation.

"Let’s move ahead, Vice Minister Michael. I heard that there’s a newly established research center on herbs set up by Cornell University up ahead, and the person in charge is Chinese," Ye Heng eagerly mentioned, exchanging a meaningful glance with Aisha.

The three of them entered the last research center. Upon entering, Xiao Xian frowned, whereas excitement flashed in Ye Heng’s eyes.

"Miss Aisha, what you are about to see, it’s best not to disclose," Vice Minister Michael gestured with a "do not disclose" action.

"Vice Minister Michael, what is this place?" Xiao Xian smelled a strong fragrance in the air.

"This is the only indoor poppy cultivation experimental base in the world," Vice Minister Michael led Xiao Xian and the others into a building similar to other labs, except this one had no large-scale precision instruments inside, just several built-in greenhouses.

Inside, there was no sunlight, only hundreds of fluorescent lamps.

The strong fragrance came from all sorts of blooming flowers in red, yellow, white, pink, and purple.

"Poppies, called the world’s most beautiful flowers!" Ye Heng couldn’t help but dance around, in front of him swayed a whole field of poppies, each blossom the size of a fist, with vibrant colors, exuberant fragrance, yet simultaneously emitting a seductive threat.

"Students, your faces don’t look good, don’t misunderstand, these poppies have legitimate uses such as biological anesthesia or as extracts for making perfumes," Vice Minister Michael explained as Xiao Xian looked unwell.

"The herbal cultivation you talked about refers to these poppy flowers?" Xiao Xian didn’t mind if there was any special meaning to poppy cultivation, just that the excessively bright flowers gave her the illusion of Pandora’s box.

"Yes, we need a cultivator who knows the characteristics of poppies," as Vice Minister Michael finished speaking, Ye Heng confidently said, "I believe I can do this research job. I have been engaged in the planting of various herbs at the Spiritual Fruit Garden at home for nearly ten years, compared to some newbies, I have rich experience, having grown tobacco, ginseng, snowdrops and other herbs."

Xiao Xian had nothing to say, Ye Heng’s intentions were clear enough, showing a desire to undermine her personal assessment scores. Deciding it’s best not to argue with a scoundrel: "Vice Minister Michael, besides this research job, are there any other options?"

Vice Minister Michael hesitated, glanced at Xiao Xian and Aisha, nodded, and said, "There is, but..."

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