Chapter 167: Leave the rest to the teacher

Do you still think you can salvage the situation?

Facing Sun Lin's teasing, Li Yang's face turned red. Obviously, he heard a strong sense of insult in Sun Lin's words, and this insult was not only directed at him, but also at all the students in the finance class present. Therefore, before he could say anything, the other students in the finance class below him erupted.

'Sun Lin, you ungrateful little man, don't think you've won just like that!' someone shouted below.

Sun Lin was delighted to hear this. He looked down and asked in return, 'Do you get to decide if I've won or not? Or are you going to come up here and help this Zhang Wei rescue me?'

'I'll come up here if I want to. Who's afraid of you?'

One of the students below was about to go up and debate with Sun Lin when he was so provoked, but he was pulled back by the student next to him. The meaning of this action was very clear: he was no match for Sun Lin. His classmate's intention was to tell him not to go up and add to Sun Lin's arrogance.

Sun Lin was even happier when he saw this situation, and his words became even more unrestrained: 'That's right, just keep to yourself and don't show off your lack of ability. You should always remember that there are always people better than you, and the consequences of being overconfident are just embarrassing!'

Sun Lin's words were a reminder and a provocation, but for the students in the finance class at the moment, it didn't matter if it was a reminder or a provocation, because even the vice-class president had lost, so what else was there to say? They couldn't all rush up and beat him up, could they? That wouldn't be a good idea.

Just imagine this elite class selected from across the country. Theoretically, the students cannot win an argument with outsiders. In the end, they get angry and want to hit someone. Not only would they lose face, they would also be letting down the finance class and even the country. These students are certainly passionate and enthusiastic, but they are far from being so headstrong that they lose their heads. They can still control their emotions and would not do something so emotional.

But...just admit defeat like this, I really don't feel good about it!

But who else? Who else can argue with Sun Lin and restore the last bit of dignity for our finance class?

This was the cry in the hearts of every student in the finance class and even the Renmin University School of Finance at this time, and Li Yang on the lectern clenched his fists even harder, as if he wanted to sink his fingernails into his flesh. He hated Sun Lin's arrogance, but in comparison he hated his own incompetence even more.

Damn it! Why is this happening? Where the hell did this guy come from? How come he's such a good debater?

Clearly, this guy's theoretical knowledge is a mess. The examples he cites are all hearsay, and not only are they not rigorous at all, they're even very one-sided. But why can't I argue with him? I'm the one with the most financial knowledge in the class and the best at arguing!

Could it be that just because he's from the West, the birthplace of finance, that this knowledge is already common sense to him? Just like how the stuff in the Art of War is common knowledge to Chinese people?

Now even I have lost, won't he be even more arrogant and look down on us classmates in the finance class?

At this thought, Li Yang suddenly felt a surge of despair, and at that moment, ** across from him made an even more provocative move, as he stubbed out his cigarette butt in the chalk box on the lecture hall table.

This action stunned all the students, but these stunned expressions only made ** feel more useful. He deliberately said, 'I'm sorry that you don't have an ashtray here, so I'll just have to use this one. But I don't think it's very useful for you to have a chalk box here, is it?'

This remark of **'s undoubtedly ignited the powder keg, causing all the students to suddenly become enraged: 'You piece of foreign trash, looking for trouble here, aren't you? You won't know who's boss until you get a taste of my temper! I'll beat the crap out of you and stuff you full of shit!'

Accompanied by this abuse from left to right, everyone in the audience became irritable, and they all stood up and waved their arms, as if they were protesting and marching. Some students with hot tempers even rolled up their sleeves and rushed up to hit him.

** saw the situation was not good and hurriedly said, 'What do you want? If you can't convince me, you want to fight? Mainlanders are really very barbaric and have no quality. Even people in this institution of higher learning are like this, so ordinary people must be even more unbearable. You are university students after all, the elite among Mainlanders. This is still a finance class, and this is how you elites behave? I think you finance class might as well disband as soon as possible!'

'I'll tell you what, you motherfucker! Civilised reasoning is for people who can be reasoned with, but for shameless scum like you, there's no reasoning to be done!'

Listening to these angry declarations, it was clear that this persuasion from ** had no effect whatsoever, except to make these students even angrier.

Seeing the situation in the classroom, Ye Ning hurriedly said to Zhou Ming, 'Teacher, you can't let them fight. If they do, not only will the futures of those students be gone, but the reputation of our finance class will also be ruined forever. You have to think of something!'

Zhou Ming was a little surprised by Ye Ning's performance, because indeed it was what she said: these students could not hit others. If a group fight like this happened at school, they would definitely be given demerits and punished. Even if these students were elites selected by the country, it would be the same, not to mention that the foreigner was still a foreigner, no matter what colour his skin was. This had an even greater significance.

Foreign-related incidents are difficult to handle in the first place. During this special period, the country may even impose heavier punishments, regardless of whether it was ** and his group who started the incident. In that case, the students who started the fight will be expelled from the finance class at the very least, and they may even be detained or have a stain on their records, which will ruin their lives.

Zhou Ming had not failed to consider this, but he had not expected Ye Ning to think of it at this critical moment, when all the students in the finance class had gone up. It seemed that the elites selected from the finance class really had two aces up their sleeves.

In fact, Ye Ning was not the only one who thought of this. Others in the finance class also thought of it. In the crowd over there, someone grabbed the person next to them and said, 'Hey, classmate, we need to stay calm. If we just go up there and beat him to death, it won't solve any problems. On the contrary, you will be expelled from school for assault!'

But his exhortation was useless. The student he was exhorting only angrily replied to him, 'Huang Ping! I don't care what the consequences will be. I'm going to beat him to death today. This kind of son of a bitch who forgets his ancestors should pay the price for his arrogance! If you still want to be a classmate in our finance class, just follow me up there. If you're afraid, you can stay here, but don't get in our way!'

Not only was this ordinary classmate named Huang Ping, even the class president Chen Shu's attempts to stop him were useless. This shows the extent of the anger these classmates felt.

Looking at the situation in the class, Zhou Ming said to Ye Ning, 'Don't worry, since I'm the homeroom teacher of the finance class, I definitely won't let this happen, and I will protect all of our classmates.'

'You can't hit me, I'm an American, if you hit me, you'll all have to pay the consequences!'

**Finally shouted out this sentence, the following students were extremely disdainful: 'Fuck you! We don't care where you're from, we just know that you're our enemy now. Even if we get in trouble, we'll get you first!'

The angry students surrounded the podium shouting things like this. Li Yang also thought of something to make the students stop, and class president Chen Shu was also persuading the students, but no one listened to them at all.

This made them all panic, and they started to pull each other. But it was useless. Of course they weren't worried about Li Yang, they were worried about their classmates. They didn't want their classmates to make such a big mistake out of impulse, especially not with a scumbag like Li Yang. But who could stop these angry students now?

When the two class presidents were at their wits' end, they heard a shout: 'Classmates, please calm down!'

With this shout, the students who had gathered around subconsciously stopped in their tracks, because they were all familiar with this voice, which belonged to their new class teacher, Zhou Ming.

They turned around and saw Zhou Ming walking out of the crowd. All the students, whether they knew Zhou Ming from the finance class or from the Renmin University of China School of Finance, spontaneously made way for him. Ye Ning followed behind Zhou Ming. In fact, she didn't know why she did it. She just felt that Mr. Zhou Ming's words just now and his appearance now were particularly charming, and she admired him very much and wanted to follow him.

'Classmates, I think some of you know me, and some of you may not know me yet, but it doesn't matter. I just want to tell you this:

'Zhou Ming said, pointing at the guy, and continued, 'This guy really is a son of a bitch, but he was right about one thing: you'll be in trouble if you hit him.'

As soon as Zhou Ming finished speaking, someone in the audience said, 'But, teacher, he just...'

His words were interrupted by Zhou Ming: 'I saw what just happened. Since this guy is here to debate, wouldn't it be better if we defeat him and then ask him to leave?'

These words hit home with everyone. Indeed, it would be fine to defeat him and ask him to leave, but who could defeat him? Even the vice monitor, who was the best in the finance class, lost...

While everyone was thinking this, Zhou Ming had already run up to the podium. When Li Yang saw Zhou Ming come up, his emotions could no longer be restrained: 'Teacher, I'm sorry, I've disgraced the finance class.'

Zhou Ming patted Li Yang on the shoulder and said, 'It's okay, you've done your best as much as possible, it's not your fault. But you also know that your abilities are limited, and you still need to study more, right?'

'I understand, teacher. I will definitely study hard in the future!' Li Yang firmly promised Zhou Ming, but then he hesitated again, "But teacher, what should I do now?'

Zhou Ming gave him a reassuring smile: "Leave the rest to me.'

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