The banquet is over, on the way back. Qiao Ai sat in the car, still thinking about the words of Mrs. Ye and Ye Feifei just now, her eyebrows were twisted together, and she couldn't figure it out.

Zhou Chengyan held her little hand in his big hand, and his voice was extremely gentle,

"Ai Ai, what's wrong? Got something on your mind? Qiao Ai raised her eyes and looked at Zhou Chengyan, hesitated for two or three seconds, and told him everything she had just done about Mrs. Ye and Ye Feifei.

"To be honest, I felt so close and so far away from the truth just now. My mind is in a mess right now, and I don't know how to express it. The brain seems to be in a state of chaos. It can be seen that this matter is bothering her.

In fact, it was Zhou Chengyan who received information about the relationship between Mrs. Ye and Miss Gu that made him go to the banquet with him, just to see if there were any unexpected gains.

Judging from what he heard, he already had some bottom in his heart. However, before anything was decided, he didn't want to affect Joey's mood, so he tried to distract her,

"I've said it all, don't think about these things now, just leave them to me. Trust me, sooner or later, I'll find out the mystery of your mother's origins. Today is to take you out to relax, this garden of the Ye family is really good, I don't know if you have harvested anything? Zhou Chengyan's hard work, Qiao Ai naturally didn't want to live up to it, nodded, and then tried to recall the bits and pieces in the garden of the Ye family's villa, and then shook his head again.

"That's because I'm tired today, so I'll get home and get a good night's sleep, and I'll get up tomorrow to see if there's anything new." Zhou Chengyan gently patted Qiao Ai's little hand, Qiao Ai nodded, and then gently leaned his head on Zhou Chengyan's solid shoulder.

Probably today's information put too much pressure on Qiao Ai, and after going back, he took a shower, Zhou Chengyan comforted him again, and went to bed early.

For the rest of the day, Joe was so engrossed in preparing for the second round of the design competition that she quickly put the events of the banquet behind her.

In the beginning, Joe went through all the things she had felt in her head, but none of them satisfied her.

Until one time, she saw a blue and white porcelain vase at home, and suddenly thought of the dragonfly waving its wings on the pot of lotus flowers she saw in the garden of the Ye family's villa.

Inspiration exploded in that instant. Qiao Ai splashed ink with a pen and did it in one go. The lifelike dragonfly with cloisonné is not a perfect example of the combination of classical and natural!

Looking at her own design, Qiao Ai finally breathed a sigh of relief, a work must first impress herself before she can impress others, isn't it?

Even Zhou Chengyan, a layman, was amazed when he saw her design draft.

"I think it's more than enough to take this piece to international competitions." Although he knew that Zhou Chengyan was encouraging himself, Qiao Ai was still very useful when he heard this.

And it was precisely because of Zhou Chengyan's idea that he took himself to the Ye family for a banquet that he found the inspiration, so he gave him a lot of benefits.

On the day of the competition, Qiao Ai took the prepared design draft directly to the competition site and handed it in, and then went home to wait for the results to be released in the afternoon.

Although she was satisfied with the design work this time, she was still a little uneasy, so Qiao Ai still communicated with Lu Shenxing through her mobile phone when she returned home.

Qiao Ai: Five out of twenty, I'm still very nervous, the great god (the expression of the bodhisattva's blessing) Lu Shenxing: The great god is going to be compared to you, you are still nervous (expression of contempt) Qiao Ai: I know that you are kind enough to comfort me (smiling expression) Lu Shenxing: This year, to tell the truth, no one believes it (helpless expression) Qiao Ai: Nervous Lu Shenxing: Believe in the great god and get eternal life...... The two chatted until they went to the game site in the afternoon, Lu Shenxing's comfort worked, and Qiao Ai was not so nervous, just silently waiting for the results to be announced.

Since the number of winners was only five, this time the works of the five winners were not just announced, but also the works of the five winners were exhibited together with their personal information.

People who came to see the results rushed to check it out, and few of them were smiling, and most of them were depressed.

Lu Shenxing calmly walked to the front of the list with Qiao Ai, but unexpectedly found that Qiao Ai's name was not on the list of winners.

Qiao Ai had just been persuaded by Lu Shenxing to have confidence, and this time, it seemed to fall from the clouds, and her mood was lost a lot.

"Great God, you actually looked away this time. It seems that there are still people outside the world, and there are heavens outside the sky. Qiao Ai tried to hide her disappointment, and forced a smile to joke with Lu Shenxing that was not funny.

Lu Shenxing looked at the five works posted with a serious face, gently rubbed his chin with one hand, and said word by word: "Such a serious design competition, there will be an ulterior insider. Although his voice was not high, there were not many people who came to see the results today, so every word he said reached everyone's ears clearly.

"What? Got an ulterior insider? Immediately someone chimed in, and his voice was full of righteous indignation.

"Yes, if you know, tell me that this is an international competition, what is the inside story?" More and more people are coming in.

As soon as they heard the inside story, of course, everyone who fell off the list thought that they had been treated unfairly, so everyone was the same enemy at this time, and waited for Lu Shenxing to go down.

"What the insider? Quite simply, the results of this contest are unfair and unjust. What does this mean? It shows that someone is operating in the dark and wants to confuse the pearls. Lu Shenxing deliberately said his voice louder so that people could hear it more clearly and arouse people's greater anger.

Sure enough, people were all gearing up and filled with righteous indignation.

"Black-box operation? They are so bold that they dare to cheat on this. ”

"That's not going to work. Everyone is here to participate in the competition, if a competition can't even be fair and just, then what's the point of holding it? ”

"We'll have to let the organizers give us an explanation for this—"

"yes, isn't this deceiving us and fooling our vast number of contestants?" …… The more people talked, the more angry they became, and everyone pointed the finger at the organizers.

The organizer stood up as an assistant manager, and when he saw his eyes rolling around, he looked at Lu Shenxing with an expression that he wanted to kill him.

Seeing more and more people gathered at their office site, each pointing at them to say something, the assistant manager slapped the table angrily and shouted at Lu Shenxing: "Who are you?" Nonsense there! If you open your mouth and say that there is an insider, where is there so much insider? If you lose the election, you will be psychologically unbalanced, and you want to make trouble here, right? "Nuancai Literature Network