Xu Suizhu was worried that the students were under pressure. Before taking the stage, he smiled and calmed their nerves: "Don't be nervous. No matter whether you win an award or not, the school will make money. All you have to do is to show your best performance during practice, and nothing else."
Don’t worry about anything.”
As long as you participate in the competition, the application conditions for the "Experimental Foreign Language Demonstration School" are met. The basic goals are achieved, and in addition, the net profit exceeds the budget.
The two students laughed shyly, raised their arms and said, "We will work hard!"
"Okay, come on!"
Unlike other tutors or parents who came with them, Xu Suizhu squeezed into the front row seats, as if their players would perform better if they were closer to the stage.
In fact, she said, if she really makes eye contact with her students while sitting in the front row, it will make the students feel nervous.
So she randomly picked a seat in the back row and listened quietly to the keynote speeches brought by each contestant on stage for the preliminary round.
Because we knew the topic in advance, everyone was quite well prepared.
Of course, some people still get so nervous that their voices tremble when they get on stage, which affects their overall performance at best, or stutters and makes them unable to continue their speeches at worst. But most of them are fairly calm.
Xu Suizhu's two students were among a bunch of outstanding students sent from foreign language experimental schools from various places. They could not be called the best, but they were not too bad. They passed the preliminary round steadily. That was enough!
Because a group was eliminated the next day, the rematch was only scheduled for half a day in the morning.
The theme of the semi-finals is still prepared, but it is no longer a pure speech mode, but the judges ask questions and the contestants answer. The question-and-answer method often leads to surprises. For example, the judges’ questions are quite tricky and require a comprehensive overview.
Fortunately, Xu Suizhu had provided similar guidance to the two students in advance. Although the judges did not "dazzle" their eyes, they still passed the qualifying line for the semi-finals.
After the semi-finals, it took at least an hour for the finalists to be announced. Xu Suizhu asked Xiao Wu to send the two students back to the hotel to rest while she waited for the results on site.
When I was bored waiting, Feng Zhenzhen came.
"I'm sorry, Sister Suisui, I just came to see you today." Feng Zhenzhen explained embarrassingly.
She was sent by her immediate boss to a meeting in a neighboring city two days ago. She just got home this morning. After unloading her luggage, she immediately came over to watch the game. "Why is it over?"
She stood on tiptoe and glanced at the stage.
"The preliminary round is over, we are waiting for the results." Xu Suizhu said with a smile, "You are so busy, there is no need to come here."
"How can that be done! Xiaojuan regards you as her biological eldest sister, and she is also my biological sister!"
Xu Suizhu was happy: "You two have the sweetest mouths."
"hey-hey……"
While we were chatting happily, suddenly there was a noise coming from the backstage. It sounded like someone was quarreling, and the noise became more and more fierce. It seemed that the judges, the organizer, etc. were also involved.
Xu Suizhu vaguely saw Xu Feifei's face through the crowd of onlookers, and was immediately happy: Hey! Qingqing accepted the cosmetics given by others, but failed to let the other party pass the customs smoothly. The lie was exposed? A large-scale
The scene of a car rollover!
"Eh? Isn't that Xu Feifei?" Feng Zhenzhen also recognized the other person.
"You know him?"
"We know each other! My neighbor when I was a kid was probably two years older than me. Later, our family moved out of the alley, and we only bumped into each other on the street a few times. We rarely see each other anymore. But she has a lot of eyesight.
She's like a flour sifter, we don't like to play with her..."
As Feng Zhenzhen talked, she pulled Xu Suizhu over to listen to the gossip for a while.
"Emma! Why is Xu Feifei still so virtuous? She loved to lie when she was a child. Her two sisters have very different personalities. Her elder sister is honest, but she loves to take advantage of others. Not only us outsiders, but also her elder sister often goes to bed.
It’s her fault, it’s her fault... I just didn’t expect that after so many years, her habit of taking advantage of others has not changed yet! Tsk, tsk, tsk! This time I’ve hit a brick wall!”
I saw Xu Feifei being kicked and scratched by two classmates and sisters. Not only was there blood marks on her face, but her hair was pulled out like a crazy woman.
Xu Feifei was unable to defeat four people by herself, so she had to protect her face and shout: "Stop fighting! Wang Jing! Let your sister let go of me! Isn't it just a set of cosmetics? I'll give it back to you!"
"Is this about a set of cosmetics?" Her classmate was trembling with anger. "If you can't do it, just say you can't do it. How can I force you to help? But you said it will be done, but in fact
Where are you going? My sister was screened out in the semi-finals! It’s useless for us two sisters to treat you to dinner yesterday and give you a gift today..."
"You insisted on inviting me to the meal, and you insisted on giving me the gift!" Xu Feifei frowned and said harshly, "Besides, I also said that your sister's strength must be at least passable. If it's too bad, how can you ask others to help you?
?”
"You can pull her down! With my sister's level, it's okay to push her up a little bit to enter the semi-finals. But I asked the judges and they didn't know anything about my sister. When I heard that, I became anxious and asked the person you mentioned again.
The person in charge, people don’t admit it. You still say you’ve done it, but where is it? Ha! Just take care of your own pocket!”
"Sister! Why are you arguing with her? Send her to the police station and say you caught a fraudster!"
"No! I'm not! I didn't!" Xu Feifei became anxious and cried with her face swollen from being slapped, "Wang Jing! We are classmates. I admit that I was greedy and did you a small favor.
I just want to get benefits, but I have no bad intentions! I am also trying my best to help you..."
The three people here accused each other, exposed the old people, and caused chaos in the nest.
The melon-eaters who were watching in that compartment listened with gusto at first, but as they listened, they felt something wrong, and they all questioned the organizer:
"It sounds like it didn't work through the back door. This one didn't work, but there were two or three more? Why is this competition so chaotic? It even claims to be fair, open and transparent! It's not transparent at all! Who knows about these two?
What have we discussed during the hour? How dare you show off your score on the spot!"
"That's right! Some people are well prepared. Who knows if the questions were leaked behind the scenes? If I had known the judges' questions in advance, I would have been able to answer them fluently."
"Demand for a rematch!"
After hearing about it, the contestant who was defeated in the semi-finals took the opportunity to shout.
Naturally, those who were promoted were not willing to come back again.
The scene was as chaotic as a wet market.
The organizer had a terrible headache. Thinking that all this was caused by the three women, he quickly asked the security guards to drive these three people out of the arena.
Regardless of whether there will be a rematch in the semi-finals, Wang Jing's sister was kicked out of the semi-finals list because of her tendency to go through the back door.
Now the two sisters Wang Jing and Xu Feifei regarded Xu Feifei as a venting bag.
Naturally, Xu Feifei was not willing to be suppressed and beaten, so she screamed, and without caring about her face, she pulled Wang Jing's hair with all her might. Wang Jing's sister hurriedly stepped forward to help her sister, and the three of them twisted into a ball.
When the police patrolling nearby received the news and rushed over, Xu Feifei was riding on Wang Jing, and Wang Jing's sister pressed Xu Feifei underneath her. The three of them were fighting together like a stack of arhats, without any image at all.