Chapter 553 (2/2)

“Teacher Bai?”

“Teacher Bai!”

Many Peking University students knew him as Teacher Bai Yi, a teacher of the j.a.panese Department in Peking University. He specialized in the study of j.a.panese culture and was a.s.signed as one of the persons-in-charge of the receiving party for the j.a.panese university delegation. He was also one of the people who spearheaded this project for the cooperation and exchange between the Chinese and j.a.panese universities. As Bai Yi’s wife was j.a.panese and also a well-known teacher in Tokyo University, Bai Yi had enjoyed good relations with Tokyo University. In the language of the Chinese people, this meant that he was the son-in-law of Tokyo University. The rare exchange and cooperation between Peking University and Tokyo University could only have been possible with him as the matchmaker.

Bai Yi shouted, “Get back, all of you! Do you all even know what situation this is! What day is it today? Such an important exchange and cooperation event is being held! Why are you all causing trouble over here!”

A Peking University freshman stubbornly said, “It was they who started to insult us first!”

Bai Yi stared at him. “Which faculty are you from? Which cla.s.s?”

When the freshman heard this, he turned timid and stopped talking!

Seeing that many of them no longer said much, Bai Yi pointed at the girl holding the basketball. “If you are playing basketball, go to the basketball courts. Why were you playing over here for! The ball nearly got under the bus! What if the bus overturned because of that? Are you going to be responsible? Go back, all of you! This is ridiculous!”

Another two people got out of the first bus. A man and a woman who had journalist tags hanging from around their necks came forward, and without a word, started snapping pictures of the Peking University students who were blocking the front of the bus. They even exchanged a few whispers in j.a.panese, talking about something similar sounding to what those j.a.panese students had said before about standards!

Bai Yi was taken aback when he saw this. He looked at the Peking University students with a cold stare but was more worried about what had just happened. He quickly went to the two and spoke in Chinese, “Reporter Honda, I think it was unnecessary to take those pictures, right?

The reporter named Honda also replied in fluent Chinese, probably because they were the kind of reporters who were foreign correspondents. He said, “We were just taking some photos in case we needed them. Don’t worry about it.”

Bai Yi was indeed getting a little worried. “You mustn’t use that. This was just a one-off case, our Peking University students still have very high standards of behavior.”

The two reporters merely acknowledged him but continued taking photos.

A year 2 student got angry and raged at them, “What the f**k are you taking our pictures for!”

Bai Yi was getting even more annoyed than him. “You’d better shut up!”

“Teacher Bai!” said that Peking University student pointing his fingers at the j.a.panese. “Those people keep saying that we have low standards and continue to insult us, so why can’t we say a few words ourselves?”

“Right!”

“Why!”

“They are even photographing us! What is the meaning of that!”

More and more people had gathered as many other Peking University students, who had received news of what was happening here, made their way over. Peking University’s personnel were very united. Without even finding out what the situation was about, they followed along with the others who were here before them to surround the buses!

Bai Yi angrily said, “You all threw the basketball into the path of the bus first! Does this even make any sense now?!”

A female Peking University student cleared her throat and said, “What makes you think that was on purpose? It was just an accidental slip of hand and we also came forward to apologize immediately. We even apologized more than once! So why did they have to insult us? Not only that, they even insulted Peking University? They’ve basically insulted everyone from here! If they just insulted me alone, I could bear it! But they shouldn’t have insulted our whole school!”

People from Peking University were very proud of their alma mater and this was a very difficult thing to explain in words!

Those Peking University students who had just arrived on the scene finally understood the situation when they heard that. One by one, they became agitated and started trading insults as well!

“These bunch of j.a.panese!”

“Coming to our school and insulting us?”

“I would rather welcome a fart than welcome them! Let them go back to where they came from!”

“Coming to Peking University to insult Peking University? Just who are the ones with the low standards here!”

“Get lost! Go back to your country! It’s not like we begged you to come anyway!”

With the history of hatred between the two countries, many people already did not harbor any good feelings in the first place for the j.a.panese. Furthermore, these were all youths who were hot-blooded, and angry youths in their twenties who were forced to take part in some welcoming ceremony for the j.a.panese guests. When these guests arrived, they still showed disrespect for their school and insulted them, so naturally tempers flared and many of these those who were there informed their friends to come over to the scene!

“h.e.l.lo? w.a.n.g’er, come quickly!”

“The foreigners are looking for trouble in our territory!”

“Come over quickly! Something’s happened over here! At the garden on the west side of the artificial lake!”

Phone call after phone call. Soon the lakeside was surrounded by over a thousand students. As this area was not far from the student dormitories, everyone made their way here very quickly and a crowd had formed!

Finally, a middle-aged j.a.panese person stepped out of the first bus. He looked to be the person-in-charge of the delegation and had an expression of displeasure. He looked at Bai Yi and obviously had a lot of questions for him, but who could have expected such a situation to have happened.

Bai Yi was about to explode from his anger as well. He had pushed hard for the exchange program to happen this time. But something so unhappy had occurred even before the exchange could officially kick off. Although this wasn’t likely to affect the cooperation and exchange of both sides, it had still stained all the effort they had put in so far. Bai Yi explained to the j.a.panese side quickly and offered them his apologies, “It is our negligence that this is happening and have caused you, our guests, to be frightened unnecessarily. I will handle this promptly!”

The middle-aged j.a.panese man nodded before getting back onto the bus unhappily.

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