Interstellar Number One Farmer: I Only Want To Farm!-Chapter 321 - 102: Helpless Su Xiaocai (Part 3)

The experiment he was conducting was to cultivate plants that could strangle Insect Men. These plants specifically targeted smaller Insect Men, and some progress had been made, but he was now at a bottleneck and felt the direction was wrong.

Yet he couldn’t figure out what was wrong. He had asked many professors, and they all thought there was nothing wrong with his research.

However, the results of the experiment were unsatisfactory.

After listening to Professor Li, he frowned. His team had been carefully selected by him, and there shouldn’t be any issues internally. Moreover, his assistant was responsible for communication throughout the process, and the assistant wouldn’t make such a mistake.

Reluctant to press Professor Li further, he had to ask the assistant responsible for contacting Su Xiaocai how she communicated with her.

"It was normal communication. I sent over your files from the professor. She said she could answer, but she never replied," the assistant said aggrievedly. "I suspect she was playing with us, deliberately rejecting. She said she could answer but didn’t. Maybe we inspired her over here, leading her to start our experiment as well."

The young professor felt something was wrong. A researcher working in the office overheard and couldn’t help but chime in, "That’s not right. Did you ask her why she didn’t reply? Were they stuck or deliberately not responding? You didn’t even ask and just assumed they had malicious intentions. You’re quite paranoid. The lab values rigor. Did they accept the money? Were they paid to do nothing, or did you not pay at all?"

The assistant pouted, "She’s just a student, not a professor. We can’t guarantee credibility."

"So she said she could answer, and you didn’t pay, expecting them to give an answer to be paid afterward?" Regardless of whether they could provide a correct answer, a bit of inspiration might be the key to the experiment’s success.

The assistant was arrogant because Su Xiaocai was a student.

The young professor couldn’t believe it, "If I could consult her, of course, it was because her thesis matched our current experiment closely. She succeeded, so she must have a trick. You’re so aloof, thinking you’re better than her. If you’re so good, why am I asking her instead of you?"

The researcher was gleeful, "Exactly, making various excuses all day to hold back funds and budgets, and now this. Just a disgrace in front of an external student."

If the professor didn’t fire her now, the researcher swore he’d leave immediately.

It’s too hard working under a fool.

The young professor is usually mild and indecisive, not good at handling social relations, only liking to bury himself in experiments.

For someone like him, either he doesn’t get angry at all, or once he does, he gets stubbornly furious.

After knowing the assistant’s actions, he was very angry and told her on the spot. She was fired.

"Professor, isn’t it just a small problem? You said you had a lead the day before yesterday, and I believed you could solve it, so I delayed a bit. I’ll contact Su Xiaocai again, please don’t fire me."

"I said, leave. No need for you to contact her anymore." The young professor was furious, jumping with anger, not knowing how to describe the assistant foisted on him by the academy. She knew very well how costly a day’s delay was, yet she still smeared others, wanting to get the solution without paying.

A person capable of writing the Mang Blood paper couldn’t be foolish enough to be manipulated by such a small amount of money.

You should know she is still the boss of the most potential game company.

It took a lot to leverage Professor Li’s connections, and now because of her stupid action, even that goodwill was wasted.

"Professor, please, it wasn’t intentional. My family is poor, I can’t lose this job. I haven’t even graduated from graduate school yet."

"You’re still thinking about graduating? You lost your qualifications. Go find someone else; I’m not playing along."

No matter how much the assistant cried and begged afterward,

The professor was determined to fire her.

The researcher snickered, going to share the good news with others, and casually telling the professor, "Professor, it’s definitely not going to work with Professor Li. Want to ask someone else?"

An internal issue, Professor Li certainly won’t be pleased; they didn’t take it seriously themselves, can’t blame Su Xiaocai.

"Do you have connections?"

"No, but I heard that Su Xiaocai’s seeds will be auctioned at the technology and business joint event hosted by the Ji Family. Maybe she will attend in person."

The young professor’s eyes lit up, "Did any professor from our school receive an invitation?"

"Yes."

"I’ll find someone and you will accompany me then."

"Sure, professor." The researcher beamed. The timing for moving up was just right; the assistant was pulled down, making a suitable suggestion, opportunities are for the prepared.

...

Su Xiaocai asked Ji Li daily if Xue Huiyi had annulled the engagement.

Ji Li: "I’ll let you know if there’s any news."

"Could you take me to watch the drama unfold live?"

Ji Li laughed at her, "When my mom loses a daughter-in-law, are you going to step in?"

"Does your mom mind having another daughter? I have no other skills, but I’m really good at playing adopt-a-mom. My dad has already certified; he says I’m a comforting little jacket."

"Uncle Su doesn’t say that."

"He usually says one thing and means another."

Ji Li: "After the business banquet, there will be a small gathering at home. If you have enough cheek, you can come. The Xue Family will be there too. If Xue Huiyi doesn’t bring it up, I will."

Su Xiaocai thought for two seconds, "I’ll go."

When gossip is about to unfold, what is face?

"I’ll just be a quiet bystander, and adopt a mom if possible. If Xue Huiyi still refuses to back out of the engagement, I can assist."

Ji Li: "You..." Wanted to advise her not to cause trouble, but finally said, "Take it easy."

He was also curious to see how much embarrassment the troublemaker Su Xiaocai could cause Xue Huiyi.

After all, Ji Li couldn’t possibly ruin his father’s banquet, he was just scaring Xue Huiyi before.

Presumably, Xue Huiyi knew this too, hence the delay.

The delay couldn’t last long; nobody knew what Xue Huiyi was up to.

In reality, Xue Huiyi was also looking for a chance to break off the engagement; she didn’t want Ji Li to make the final move.

As for why she hadn’t withdrawn,

There’s no other reason, she couldn’t return many things to the Ji Family.

Previously, Ji Li’s mother gave her an antique bracelet, exquisitely made, claimed to be a family heirloom, as a token for the union.

But since it was made of gold, Xue Huiyi tossed it around carelessly. When she found it again, it had been bent into an odd shape by someone, making it hard to restore.

Once the engagement was off, other things could be left unreturned, but the token had to be returned.

Xue Feiting was such a stickler that if the engagement was annulled, everything she had received, he wouldn’t allow her to keep.

But she was used to spending freely with no savings.

Previously, she often spent money on buying headlines to boost her fame, and also spent money to undermine others, always acting lavishly when dining out.

If it weren’t for her sweet-talking skills in front of her mom, she wouldn’t have as much money to spend.

The last time she gave cash to Yi Suilu, she sold a few clothes that Ji Li’s mother gave her to scrape together the amount.

Clothes are one thing, after all, she wore them, and Ji’s mother wasn’t that petty.

The bracelet was the real concern.

Xue Huiyi tried several craft stores, but no one could recreate the same style. Finally, she found an intermediary and found an artisan with a similar traditional crafting technique.

To make an identical, aged version, it would cost five hundred thousand and take some time.

She had no choice but to sell a few clothes to scrape up the sum.

The bracelet problem solved, the money problem was not.

It’s only when you need money that you realize how scarce it is. Urgently needing money, Xue Huiyi suddenly got the idea to start a company.

The total number of players in the Extraordinary Island plan was quite considerable.

This number might not seem impressive compared to many classic Ten Stars System games.

But looking at the number of people fighting for accounts every day, over ten billion, it reveals its enormous potential.

Xue Huiyi believed there was a huge potential market; if the money from these people could be realized in her hands, she could achieve many of her ideas and grand ambitions.

Anyway, she also needed to gain experience. As long as she wasn’t the legal person, it wouldn’t be bad to own her business early.