The Prime Minister’s Darling-Chapter 416 - 209: Gathering Money! (First Update)

Chapter 416: Chapter 209: Gathering Money! (First Update)

The Guozijian had received the news yesterday and was going to release the rankings today, so they gave the students from all six classes a day off.

Students in the compulsory education continue with their regular classes as it is not related to the entrance examination.

In the past, it used to be Xiao Liulang taking a day off, and if Xiao Liulang was not off, the little monk would still take a day off. This time, only the little monk had to go to school, he did so with a look of resentment.

“Who says students in compulsory education have nothing to do with the entrance examination? Don’t I have to go see how the boy at home did?” The little monk is carrying his school bag, his small hand behind his back, body tilting forward slightly, walking in the deliberately slow manner of his next-door neighbour, Old Zhao.

His little face was scrunched up, sighing, distressing people.

The worry of Old Zhao about his mischievous son is perfectly portrayed in this picture.

Xiao Liulang was not in a hurry to check his results, but the whole neighbourhood gardened like bees around the honey, flocking to check the results. They had placed bets on it; they need to see if they had won or not.

Fen Lin and Lin Chengye also went, they got up in the middle of the night and have been squatting at the entrance of the Imperial College ever since.

There were many other passionate candidates who kept them company.

At the crack of dawn, the big doors of the Imperial College opened, and two guards came out to post the scholar list on the Announcement Board.

Since the release of Provincial Exam results coincides with the bloom of the apricot blossoms, the scholar list is also known as the Apricot List.

Fen Lin and Lin Chengye were the first ones to dash over, right in front of the Apricot List.

They started looking from the first-place ranker, the overall champion.

“You’re kidding!”

Both were simultaneously stunned.

The first place was Xiao Liulang.

Not just Xiao Liulang, but the Prince of An County also.

This year’s Apricot List yielded two overall champions!

That was what made them gawk, others do not understand Xiao Liulang’s strength, but after being tutored by Xiao Liulang for so long, how could they not understand?

Moreover, the Prince of An County is also indeed impressive, besides adding his family background, which is way beyond Xiao Liulang’s reach, for them, it is not surprising that the Prince of An County took the first place.

What is surprising is that they tied for the top position.

Something like this has never happened in the entire history of Zhan Country.

There is a reason for this.

In the Provincial Exam, only the examination paper graded as ‘Grade A in all aspects has the qualification to be the champion, and generally, the chief examiner will not allow two ‘Grade A in all aspects’ examination papers, which means that there can be only one champion.

This Provincial Exam was a bit of an accident.

Thanks to the cheating transcriber, the Prince of An County’s exam paper was postponed, and Xiao Liulang’s exam paper was marked first.

After the examiners finished grading all the exam papers in three rounds and selected the top 200 scores, they handed them over to the two chief and deputy chief examiners.

These papers were not separated by rounds, but combined into one set based on paper numbers.

The papers that received ‘Grade A’ from all examiners were called ‘Grade A in all aspects paper’.

‘Grade A in all aspects paper’ ended up in the hands of the two chief and deputy chief examiners. Once they both graded it ‘Grade A’, it would be considered a ‘Grade A in all aspects paper’.

The two chief and deputy chief examiners were stunned by the student’s skill when they reviewed paper number sixty-nine.

This time’s deputy chief examiner is a student of the Imperial Tutor, naturally favourable to the Prince of An County, and they had some understanding of the Prince of An County’s style of answering questions before this.

To be honest, when they saw this transcribed exam paper, both of them felt that it was not quite like the Prince of An County’s literary style.

But this exam paper is done extremely well and ingeniously, it is far beyond imagination, the type of excellence that is indescribable.

Besides the Prince of An County, who could produce such a powerful paper?

Therefore, even if they felt strange, the two of them were sure that this was the Prince of An County’s exam paper, and unanimously gave it two ‘Grade A’s.

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Therefore, Xiao Liulang’s exam paper was assigned ‘Grade A in all aspects’.

By the last day, when the two of them were grading the real exam papers of the Prince of An County, a strong sense of familiarity rushed over them. Despite being unwilling to admit it, this seemed to be the Prince of An County’s literary style!

Well, if this is the Prince of An County, then who is that?

Under the public’s gaze, the two couldn’t change the previous ‘Grade A in all aspects’ paper, it is easy to add words like Chengfeng, but it is impossible to erase them.

The two had no choice but to keep their heads down and continue grading the Prince of An County’s paper with two ‘Grade A’s.

It used to be that when this kind of situation arose, the Apricot List and the two students’ papers would be sent to the palace for the emperor and the cabinet to decide.

The exam papers still only have a paper number and no name.

However, everyone knows that one of them must be the Prince of An County’s paper.

After the emperor read the exam papers, he didn’t make an immediate decision. Instead, he called the Imperial Tutor over and let him choose.

The Imperial Tutor scoffed in his heart, what’s there to choose? In these times, can any riff-raff be compared to his own direct grandson?