Chapter 356 - To Expel Fang Qiu! (2/2)

The secretary nodded before he turned to leave.

“Wait a minute,” Li Xiucai suddenly stopped his secretary as a thought occurred to him. “We should also announce the assessment procedures for the Young Physician of Huaxia Competition since the assessment will be held the day after tomorrow. This is a competition organized by the Central Television, and Chen Yinsheng had already finished making preparations for this earlier.”

“Sure,” his secretary said with a nod.

“We should get Fang Qiu expelled from the university before the Young Physician of Huaxia Competition. I don’t need such a rebellious student in this school,” Li Xiucai couldn’t help but grow annoyed at the thought of Fang Qiu. “He should behave himself if he wants to continue being a student at this university. Instead, he had created such a huge commotion and even landed me into trouble. I’ll make sure he won’t be able to continue studying here!”

His secretary turned to leave after he took note of his words.

One day passed, and Fang Qiu spent the entire day in the hospital treating patients. He only knocked off in the afternoon.

He skipped three classes—six hours’ worth of class.

According to the notice that Li Xiucai had asked the university staff to post on the official website, Fang Qiu would be expelled from the University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine if he missed another four hours’ worth of class, which was the equivalent of two classes.

In the teacher-in-charge office located within the faculty building.

Liu Feifei was verifying her students’ information and uploading her students’ information on the official website when she noticed that the time stamp on the notice posted on the official website had been updated.

“Hmm?”

“Why was there a second notice?”

She clicked on the notice.

“Ten hours’ worth of class?”

Liu Feifei thought that she had read wrongly when she noticed the subtle change of the notice’s wording. She rubbed at her eyes before she took a second look. Then, she realized that it indeed stated ten hours’ worth of class!

She was shocked after she realized what it meant.

“That was six hours’ worth of class he missed today,” she thought.

She hastily set aside her work and dialed Fang Qiu’s number.

“Senior?” Fang Qiu said after he accepted her call.

“Uh, Fang Qiu… I’m really sorry about this, but I seemed to have made a mistake when I sent you the text message earlier. The new rule imposed by the university was not ten classes but ten hours’ worth of class. You have already missed six hours’ worth of class today, so you have to attend classes tomorrow no matter what, do you understand?” Liu Feifei said solemnly.

“I’ve read the notice as well,” Fang Qiu said with a smile. “You did not make a mistake in your understanding nor your communication of the notice. When I saw the notice posted on the official website earlier, it indeed stated ten classes, but now, it has been amended to ten hours’ worth of class.”

“I see,” Liu Feifei said as realization dawned. She frowned before she added, “That is extremely underhanded of the new interim vice principal. How could he use this against you in such an underhanded manner? As the saying goes, a visible spear is easily withstood, but an unseen arrow is hard to guard against. What do you plan to do next?”

“I’ll wait,” Fang Qiu said.

“That’s true. This will blow away once Mr. Chen resumes his position as the vice principal,” Liu Feifei said as she nodded. “However, you should try to be a well-behaved student even when he’s away. After all, this is a place of learning and you are a student enrolled in this university.”

“Thank you. I know what I should do,” Fang Qiu said as he thanked her.

Then, he ended the call.

He made his way back to his dormitory after he wrapped up his work at the hospital.

Fang Qiu ignored the notice posted on the official website, and instead, he carefully read through the preliminary assessment rules and regulations of the Young Physician of Huaxia Competition.

The day after tomorrow.

It was a Wednesday and also the day of the theoretical assessment.

One hundred candidates would be able to qualify for the next round if they passed the theoretical assessment.

Friday was when the medicine identification assessment would be held.

Thirty candidates would be able to progress to the next round from the hundred candidates who made the first cut.

Sunday was when the symptom identification assessment would be held.

Ten candidates from the thirty candidates would be able to progress to the next round.

Fang Qiu didn’t find the process too difficult since the assessments were spread across different days.

He couldn’t hold back a chuckle after he read through the regulations of the assessment.

He didn’t laugh because the process was easy, but because he spotted a trap that had been laid out for him.

According to the notice posted today, he would immediately be expelled if he missed two classes tomorrow.

Then, he would no longer be eligible to participate in the Young Physician of Huaxia Competition.

This was clearly a trap that had been neatly laid out for him.

However, the new interim vice principal seemed a little too naive.

Why would Fang Qiu fall into such an obvious trap?

“If I’m not wrong, my paper will be published on the official website of ‘Medicine and Humans’ tomorrow,” Fang Qiu thought to himself.

“Based on the time difference, my tenth hour of class will be tomorrow at 11 AM, which means it would be 4 AM over there. No one would be working at that hour, so I’ll have to wait until the office opens in the United Kingdom at 8 AM, which would be 3 PM here!”

He couldn’t help but frown at the thought.

Time seemed to be running short for him.

He thought for a moment before he shook his head and turned in for bed.

The next morning, Fang Qiu rose at 3 AM and headed into the thick of the forest beside Central Lake to cultivate for two hours when no one was watching.

Then, he returned to the field next to Central Lake at 5 AM and continued practicing Qi.

Meanwhile, Chen Tianyang woke up at 5 AM on the dot and snuck over to the Yaowang Mountain, moving as furtively as a thief, and immediately snapped and uploaded a photograph of Fang Qiu practicing Qigong when he spotted Fang Qiu practicing by the Central Lake.