The following day...
Apart from their teacher Xue Feihan, Luo Feiyan, who accepted Gu Chaoyan directly to the dical Departnt as well as another female teacher nad Huang Xuan was present.
Judging from the scale, the contest was considered as one of the events that received much attention.
Liu Hanxiang, who was standing in the crowd, had her fists tightly clenched. Sweat filled her hand. She was going to spare no efforts to get whatever that was important to her.
The Dean glanced at the students of the dical Departnt and said calmly, “The Queen is sick these days, so Qin Yinghan is stuck in the court and unable to make it here. So we are going to be the judges for today’s contest, anyone against that?”
“No!” They all answered simultaneously.
The teachers from the dical Departnt of Saint College, apart from the Dean who was no longer working in the court, were all important and key won, doctors and imperial doctors from the court. No one would be against their presence or suspect their judgent.
The Dean nodded calmly, then he continued. “Since we are going to find a candidate to make the dicine, the contest will be much simpler, naly distinguishing the herbs and slling the herbs.”
“As the na suggests, the step of distinguishing dicine ans that you have to tell what the herbs are and what they can do.”
“In the backyard of the dical Departnt, there is a large field of dical herbs where all kinds of dical herbs are growing. Now in the box there are ten notes with different dical herbs’ nas written on them. Each one of you is going to get one note and then find the correspondent herb. The first one that finds the right herb wins the contest and gets the qualification of making the dicine.” The Dean said calmly.
The words had just been spoken, when everyone rushed out to get a note. They were all trying to get the easiest one first.
Gu Chaoyan was not in a hurry. She was at the end of the queue and got a note for herself together with Li Yuanxiang.
The note was well folded and the content was unseen. So Gu Chaoyan did not think that she needed to rush up for the note. After all, it was dumb luck when the note was folded – if the herb happened to be growing nearby, then it would be her luck to get it so fast.
Gu Chaoyan did not expect to get the qualification. After all, she did not truly have the interest of being the candidate – she could simply make the dicine in her own space.
She would be very willing to spare the first place for the interested and capable, if there was anyone. With this plan in mind, Gu Chaoyan was not in a hurry to finish the job.
The ten dicinal herbs on the note were as follows: rattletop, kuh-seng, the bulb of fritillary, edible tulip, short-tube lycoris, cogongrass, rough gentian, root of Chinese wild ginger, white berry, and Decne.
Instead of walking into the field hastily as the others, she stood at the entrance and made an observation of the whole field, trying to find out if she could spot the general location of the dical herbs, then she could make a plan and follow the routine.
She glanced about and saw at least four and four dical herbs, which were all located very far away from her. However, if the plan was well made, then she could shorten her distance.
Gu Chaoyan was about to leave when she saw Li Yuanxiang observing the field as she did, but it seed that she had not finished the observation, and was still in the middle of watching attentively.
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