Chapter 553 (1/2)

Chapter 553 A big conflict!

Some distance away.

There were some students noisily playing basketball. As there was no basketball court where they were at, the few Peking University freshmen were just casually pa.s.sing the ball around. A girl’s voice could also be heard laughing cheerfully as they played.

“Pa.s.s it to me.”

“Haha.”

“Watch out for the lake, don’t throw it over there.”

The birds were chirping and students were enjoying themselves, playing around.

This kind of a setting made Zhang Ye feel very relaxed. He did not use the memory search capsule for this as he managed to memorize most of the script after reading it a few times. The script basically did not carry any substantive information and was just a simple report of results to showcase the Chinese mathematics world’s strengths while also touching on the j.a.panese university delegation’s arrival and cooperation. It also talked of what they could work on together in the field of mathematics. There weren’t too many words and it was easy to memorize too.

Suddenly, behind him, something happened.

“Hey!”

“The ball is getting away!”

“Watch out, there’s a car!”

A few people shouted, not too loudly!

Then, the sound of a vehicle braking could be heard. Even though it was not too screeching, the sound still came from out of the nowhere and shocked Zhang Ye. He turned around to where the sounds had come from and saw three tourist buses stopped in the middle of the road. A basketball slowly rolled across the road in front of the bus ahead before bouncing several times down the staircase and ending up in the garden where a willow tree stood.

A female student of Peking University quickly went over to pick it up.

The other male student said, “Oh, sorry, I’m sorry!”

Meanwhile another university freshman looked at the bus driver apologetically and said, “We’re sorry, the ball slipped out of my hands. It’s my fault.”

Around them, some students who were just pa.s.sing by also stopped in their tracks and looked over to them before quickly turning back to carry on to where they were heading.

But at this moment, a window on the left side of the second bus opened up and a young person, probably a student, put his head out and said, “%^&*(@.”

He obviously did not speak Chinese, saying what sounded like j.a.panese.

Another student on the bus looked out and appeared to utter a few words as well.

The Peking University freshman looked up. “j.a.panese?”

Inside the bus, the j.a.panese students all looked at him. “%^&*(@.”

The second and third buses were also full with j.a.panese students. All of them suddenly seemed to be exchanging words in j.a.panese, not only pointing at the person who was playing with the basketball earlier but also the surrounding Peking University students and even teachers, seemingly talking about them. Seeing how these j.a.panese students looked at them without much respect, they knew for sure that whatever they were talking about right now was definitely not good.

Suddenly, a year 3 female senior who was with her boyfriend at the garden area stared hard at them and stood up, shouting, “Those people are saying that students from Peking University have such low standards!”

When a year 2 male student heard this, he swore and said, “d.a.m.n! Did they really say that?”

The female senior said, “Of course! I majored in j.a.panese! They’re all students from Tokyo University!”

We have low standards?

We, students of Peking University, had low standards?

With this, all of the Peking University students who were present at the scene could not take it any longer!

“How can they say such things!”

“Who are you all referring to as having low standards!”

“Isn’t this just a simple matter of the basketball causing a small delay! Those students have already apologized, so what does that have to do with standards? Even stereotyping all of us at Peking University?”

The surrounding Peking University personnel were now blocking the 3 buses.

The female freshman who went to pick the ball up was furious now. You could have insulted just me, but how dare you insult all of us at Peking University? That’s unacceptable! “Is this the delegation from the j.a.panese university? Why does our school bother holding a welcome party for people like them? What kind of standards do they have! To talk in such a manner! How dare they insult us when they’re in our Peking University’s campus? Saying that we have low standards? What about yourselves! Look at the standards you have by saying such things about us!”

There was a translator who had come along with the Tokyo University entourage and also students who knew how to speak Chinese in the group. They translated to their fellow schoolmates in the buses and some Peking University students probably went too far with their words as well, thus leaving the Tokyo University group unhappy with what was said as well. A war of words began!

The two sides were arguing noisily!

The first bus ahead impatiently honked its horn continuously. Di, di, di, di, di, di,di, di! In this bus, there weren’t too many young people on it. Most of the pa.s.sengers...o...b..ard were people in their thirties or forties, quite obviously the important heads of this j.a.panese university delegation. For example, a princ.i.p.al, a head of department, a member of the j.a.panese education world, or a j.a.panese journalist.

Finally, the doors on the first bus opened and a middle-aged man got off. He had a dark expression as he waved his hands like he was swatting flies and said hostilely, “Get out of the way! What are you all doing!?”