Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 920: Chapter 46: Absolute Confidence (Part 2)

The grass on the ground was rapidly reproducing as well.

What surprised Xu Lan Ya was that the Spirit field where she planted the ginseng spiritual seeds remained silent, with no signs of ginseng sprouts breaking through the soil.

"How can this be," by noon the next day, Xu Lan Ya could no longer hold back. She turned the entire Spirit field over, digging out those ginseng seeds.

The seeds still showed no signs of sprouting.

"Could it be that Wang Shuai is biased and gave me a batch of seeds that can’t germinate," Xu Lan Ya grumbled, secretly running to the side of Xiao Xian’s Spirit field. There, she saw a stretch of lush green sprouts, with quite a number having already emerged, roughly about half of them.

"A fifty percent germination rate, without rhinestone, having a fifty percent germination rate must be true. Wang Shuai must have tampered with it. All his talk of fairness, competition, are mere facades. I was foolishly wasting rhinestone." Xu Lan Ya walked around her Spirit field again and again. In the end, she spat on the ground, "Since they resorted to tricks first, they can’t blame me for breaking the competition rules."

She then left the Spiritual Fruit Garden. No one noticed her departure on her way out, considering Xu Lan Ya’s current skill, very few on the North Campus could keep tabs on her.

By the third day, before noon, Yiyi and Xuerou showed up at the Spiritual Fruit Garden. Upon seeing the lush green in Xiao Xian’s ginseng field, they both cheered.

At noon, Wang Shuai and Yezi arrived as scheduled.

Wang Shuai first looked over Xiao Xian’s ginseng field, without making any comments. Then he led everyone to Xu Lan Ya’s Spirit field.

"How can this be, so many have sprouted?" Yiyi counted Xu Lan Ya’s field, almost the entire field was full of ginseng sprouts, "nearly a hundred percent germination rate, this is too absurd, wasn’t it said that ginseng sprouts have a low germination rate, less than fifty percent. Xu Lan Ya, you must have cheated," Yiyi had confidence in Xiao Xian’s planting skills, even Xiao Xian could only sprout about half the seeds, others couldn’t possibly achieve a hundred percent germination rate.

"The competition results are already clear, Wang Shuai, aren’t you going to announce the results?" Xu Lan Ya was smug.

Xiao Xian remained silent, just waiting for Wang Shuai to announce the results.

"Regrettably, this round of competition..." Wang Shuai shook his head, "Neither of you passed the test."

"What? Wang Shuai, you’re clearly biased towards her, my germination rate is twice hers, this verdict is completely unfair, I demand to report this to the school authority," Xu Lan Ya was unwilling to let it go.

"Xu Lan Ya, the fact that you left school without permission to swap seeds the day before yesterday, Little Pig saw it all clearly," Yezi exposed Little Pig. Xu Lan Ya resented him, glaring at Yezi, who still refused to help her.

"But what about Xiao Xian, she didn’t leave the school, and besides, even if Xu Lan Ya broke the rules, Xiao Xian didn’t, her seeds sprouted half," Yiyi vouched for Xiao Xian, but Xiao Xian signaled her not to say more, "Senior Brother Wang, what’s wrong with the ginseng in my Spirit field?"

"The reason I conducted this test wasn’t truly to determine who among you is more capable, but merely to assess your personal morals. You should know, for the school, recommending one more person for selection isn’t impossible, but the issue is that the school’s recommended person must have absolute integrity. The ginseng seeds I gave you couldn’t possibly involve any germination rate. These seeds came from a batch from the American Mengshan Company, and the genes inside these seeds have been altered. They cannot undergo normal germination and reproduction, what’s known as ’sterilization seeds.’ Therefore, whoever among you used this batch of seeds couldn’t possibly successfully grow ginseng sprouts. Yet, your Spirit field still shows a fifty percent germination rate. This only indicates that you’re no more skillful than Xu Lan Ya, you swapped out fifty percent of the seeds. For a morality test, fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps has no significance. With such an explanation, do you still have any objections?" Wang Shuai lamented, not expecting that in the face of fame and fortune, neither could withstand the temptation.

"I have an objection, who said my ginseng sprout rate is fifty percent?" Xiao Xian looked around, since Xu Lan Ya was already ruled out, she hoped Xiao Xian would be ousted too. She sneered, "If you’ve got the guts to do it, you should admit it. We’ve all been tricked by Wang Shuai. I bet after both of us are excluded, he’ll recommend that Lizard Girl. The two of them will roost together. Zhu Xiaoxian, can you imagine being kicked out just before reaching success? Maybe, this was all pre-arranged between him and Lizard Girl. You’ve been schemed against."

"Stop trying to sow discord," Xiao Xian held onto Yiyi.

"Senior Brother Wang, you made two mistakes, one my ginseng’s germination rate, two I didn’t swap seeds." Xiao Xian took out a packet of ginseng seeds, inside still half of the ginseng seeds, exactly the packet Wang Shuai had given her.

Wang Shuai remembered well the number of seeds he personally distributed, each packet containing a hundred seeds, and in Xiao Xian’s packet, there were no more, no less, exactly fifty seeds.

"Considering the remaining Spiritual Energy in the Spirit field and the reasonable planting intervals, I only used fifty seeds, as you mentioned, based on germination rate, not seed count. I believe I have the absolute capability to win with fifty seeds, and the facts prove, I did it. These ginseng seeds have a hundred percent germination rate," Xiao Xian confidently announced the number of ginseng sprouts in her Spirit field.

"Impossible, fifty seeds planted and all fifty survived, and with genetically modified ginseng seeds, who do you think you are," Xu Lan Ya scoffed.

"Just because I’m Zhu Xiaoxian, because you haven’t participated in international exchange student activities, while in just three months, I served as the assistant to Dr. Kevin, who has made the most outstanding research contributions in current genetic biology," Xiao Xian picked up a leftover ginseng seed, her eyes radiating undeniable self-confidence. (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to Qidian () to cast a recommendation ticket, monthly ticket, your support is my greatest motivation.)