Chapter 1503: Empty-Handed After All 2

"Heh! Must I say it?"

The representative from Dingsheng remained as calm and composed as ever, not the least bit anxious.

"Of course, your group has money and can afford not to care about anything, but the villagers care. It isn't easy for them to earn a little money; you shouldn't be so high and mighty and out of touch with reality..."

What Huo Zhenteng was best at was swaying people's hearts.

In just a few words, he had elevated the villagers' favorable impression of him to yet another level!

The Dingsheng representative smiled: "Fine, actually this isn't considered a secret, it's just that we wanted to save some face for Chairman Huo. Since Chairman Huo doesn't need it, then forget it."

He glanced at the watch on his wrist and said: "Our head chef will be here very soon. There was a bit of traffic on the road just now, everyone please wait two minutes."

"I'm here!" Li Dashao walked in.

"Dashao, you finally thought it through?" Huo Zhenteng thought Li Dashao had changed his mind and was beaming with joy.

He was not usually a person who wore his emotions on his face, but today he was just too happy.

Yet, his happiness didn't last three seconds before he was slapped in the face.

The Dingsheng representative said with a grin: "Mr. Huo, you seem to have misunderstood. Mr. Li is the head chef I invited."

"What? He actually agreed to work for you?" Huo Zhenteng was greatly shocked, and his expression changed.

Li Dashao was a man of great ability, but his temper was even greater.

He had a persistent love for culinary arts, to the point of being a perfectionist. Although his level of education was not high, he would not bow for five pecks of rice.

If he didn't think highly of someone, he wouldn't work for them no matter how much money they offered.

What Li Dashao usually couldn't stand most was a layman leading an expert; he had demonstrated this vividly at the food festival!

For Dingsheng to enter the food industry, they were complete and utter laymen.

That he would agree to work for Dingsheng was something Huo Zhenteng had never dreamed of.

"That's right, you're very surprised, aren't you?"

The Dingsheng representative said: "I heard that Chairman Huo tried every trick in the book to invite our head chef to come out of retirement, but couldn't move him. You didn't expect him to be invited by us, did you?"

"Originally, I wanted to save some face for Chairman Huo, but you didn't want it, so don't blame me."

Huo Zhenteng's face burned with pain.

Words like these were even more uncomfortable than being slapped in the face.

The final voting result was not surprising at all; everyone chose Dingsheng.

Huo Zhenteng failed, unconvinced despite the defeat!

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the high school entrance examination was approaching.

Everyone was studying very nervously for the high school entrance exam, except for Sheng Zihan.

He still played as he should, and even found time to go find Teacher Luo, the head teacher of the Experimental Class at First High School.

Teacher Luo had brought up the batch of students that included Zichen and became famous in one battle; Class Twelve had also become an Experimental Class, even more popular than the Experimental Class led by Teacher Tian.

The number of students who wanted to get into his class was countless, and those who wanted to pull strings were breaking their heads to do so!

The social butterfly Sheng Zihan called Teacher Luo "mentor" the moment he saw him.

Of course, he didn't forget to introduce himself. After finishing his self-introduction, he displayed his flattery skills without leaving a trace and chatted very congenially with Teacher Luo.

Zihan's goal was very clear: if he got into First High School, he wanted to be in Teacher Luo's class.

Teacher Luo's reply was also very clear: as long as you pass the exam to get in, you will be in my class. Zichen's younger brother, a child of the Sheng Family, gets the green light from me.

"Thank you, Teacher. So it's a deal?" Zihan high-fived Teacher Luo.

Getting into First High School was not difficult at all for Zihan.

As long as he could get into Teacher Luo's class, his three years of high school life would be spent in a relaxed and happy way.

Because Teacher Luo was different from those old pedants; his teaching philosophy required completing studies in a relaxed and happy manner, and he didn't have such strict restrictions on boys and girls in the class playing and talking together!

But Teacher Luo was now a famous head teacher in Jiangzhou, and getting into his class was not easy, so it was better to take precautions and pave his own way in advance to be at ease.

If he ended up in Teacher Tian's class, he would be finished!

Teacher Tian led an Experimental Class; her teaching methods hadn't changed, but she was even stricter with students.

The students in her class always looked bitter and deep in hatred, and Zihan didn't want to become one of them.

The exam arrived.

The atmosphere at home was not as tense as it had been during Zichen and Litian's high school entrance exams.

Perhaps they were used to it; the first time was tense, but after that, it wasn't.

Shi Ran didn't count; Shi Ran attended high school in A Country, and when she went to university, she was recommended for admission, so she never experienced the high school entrance exam or the College Entrance Examination.

Shi Youxuan only asked one question: "Do the high school entrance exams require parents to accompany them?"

Both children said in unison: "No need."

"No need."

So no one accompanied them.

When the children came back after the exam, Shi Youxuan only asked one question: how did they do?

Both of them said it was alright.

The scores came down, and it wasn't just "alright," but quite good; both of them met the standard for the First High School Experimental Class!

Shi Youxuan didn't ask which class they wanted to enter.

There was no need to ask; the answer was plain to see. If one could choose, who would be willing to pass up Teacher Luo's class and go to Teacher Tian's class?

Of course, maybe some people would choose Teacher Tian, but it certainly wouldn't be her two children.

But things in this world are often hard to predict. After the admission notices came down, the classes were assigned quickly. Zihan looked at the list, blinked his eyes in disbelief, closed them, opened them, and looked at the list carefully again.

Heavens, are you playing with me?

He suspected he had seen it wrong.

He closed his eyes and opened them again five or six times; he was right, the result was still the same, both he and Zirui had been assigned to Teacher Tian's class!

"This is too much, way too much. No, I'm going to go argue with the Principal."

Zihan closed his laptop and was about to leave, but was pulled back by Zirui: "Where are you going?"

"I clearly agreed with Teacher Luo that both you and I would be in his class. On what grounds did the school assign both of us to Teacher Tian's class?"

"I'm going to go reason with the Principal and ask Teacher Luo what's going on! Even if I don't go to First High School, I'm not going to Teacher Tian's class!" Zihan's personality was usually very good, but he was very angry now, and his emotions were particularly agitated.

Zirui advised: "Teacher Tian isn't some flood or wild beast; could she possibly eat you?"

"For so many years, many of the students in her class have turned out successful, countless of them. In terms of teaching experience, she is much more experienced than Teacher Luo. I think it's quite good."

"You're acting strange!" Zihan discovered a clue.

He looked serious and pointed at Zirui, asking: "Tell me honestly, was it you who caused this?"

If it were someone else, they definitely wouldn't have noticed, but the two of them were twins; although their personalities were vastly different, they were of one mind.

Zirui admitted it: "That's right, it was me who spoke to Teacher Tian. I told Teacher Tian that we both wanted to go to her class, so just give up. Teacher Luo did try to fight for it, but he couldn't win against Teacher Tian."

"Sheng Zirui, I'll fight you!" Zihan rushed up and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks.

Zirui didn't fight back at first, thinking it was just like their usual brotherly horseplay, and that letting him hit a few times would let him vent his anger.

However, something was wrong.