Chapter 353 Qingbao’s Prize

Currently, all the scores for the joint exam, except for Chinese, have been released.

Hearing this, Jiang Nian glanced at Li Hua and retorted,

“What’s your score?”

In reality, Jiang Nian was perfectly clear about Li Hua’s total score.

Before Li Hua could answer, he preemptively blurted out,

“Math 145, English 82, integrated science 281, total 508. Right, bro? I even remembered it for you.”

Li Hua’s breathing became a little heavy. “What’s your score?”

“514.” Jiang Nian’s lips gradually twisted into a smirk as he threw out the number that would give Li Hua a heart attack. “Hua, you’d better pray my essay went off-topic.”

Upon hearing this, Li Hua suddenly realized that both sides had exhausted their ammunition. Jiang Nian was still ahead by 6 points, with only the Chinese subject remaining.

Their Chinese language skills were comparable, making it an evenly matched contest.

This meant that the ‘Li Hua Line’ for this joint exam might settle at 610, while Jiang Nian was challenging the ‘Li Hua Line’.

In Class Three, only those who scored above 600 points shed their’stray dog’ status. Consistently surpassing the ‘Li Hua Line’ was considered being a top student.

“Will it be off-topic?” Li Hua asked, making a final struggle.

“Heh heh.” Jiang Nian showed a mysterious smile. “The next class is Chinese. We’ll know after Old Liu finishes explaining the test paper.”

The second class in the afternoon was Chinese.

Old Liu started directly with the essay, and after explaining how to approach the topic, some in the class were happy, others sad, and a chorus of wails erupted.

Off-topic, maximum 38 points.

On-topic, 42 points or more.

Jiang Nian flicked his answer sheet and whistled.

“Not off-topic.”

“Then I’m finished, no—” Li Hua’s jaw almost dropped to the floor. “Did you take some kind of pill for integrated science? How did you get 250?”

“Tsk, just a tiny Breakthrough, that’s all.” Jiang Nian said, “Sometimes, luck is also part of strength.”

“red stone! red stone!!!” Li Hua bit his sleeve, a little overwhelmed. “How come there are so many abnormal people in our group?”

Leaving aside Fairy Zhang Ningzhi, joining the class was like a Heavenly Demon from the Lower Realm achieving Ascension. With one Ascension, the October joint exam directly defeated the old dog Li Hua.

Adding Emperor Fangfang, who was already infinitely close to the Li Hua Line.

Now Jiang Nian had also directly surpassed the Li Hua Line. Even though the Chinese scores hadn’t been released yet, the outcome was already decided.

During the second break.

“What’s Ningzhi’s total score?” Jiang Nian leaned over and glanced at her answer sheet. “Adding it up, it’s… 514?”

Her math performance was slightly lower at 126, English was a stable 138, and integrated science was also 250. For the first time, their scores were identical.

“Oh, why are you looking randomly?” Zhang Ningzhi quickly covered her score, feeling a bit embarrassed, after all, their scores were the same.

It was a coincidence that felt a little too ambiguous.

It was as if a couple living together for a long time would have their habits and facial features tend to be consistent. Could it be the same for deskmates?

“Copycat?” Jiang Nian asked in surprise.

“Oh, you’re so annoying!” Zhang Ningzhi exploded, her pink bubble instantly disappearing. “Don’t talk to me today!”

Jiang Nian hadn’t expected her to flare up like a cat, and he immediately raised both hands in surrender.

“Alright.”

Zhang Ningzhi hummed and then lay down to catch up on sleep, glaring at Jiang Nian before she drifted off.

“Hmph!”

Jiang Nian didn’t react much. He was about to do a couple of problems when Nie Qiqi popped out from the aisle.

“Class monitor, hehe~”

Before he could ‘hehe’ twice, Cai Xiaoqing immediately dragged him away.

After the third class, biology, ended.

Qing Bao called Jiang Nian out to discuss the selection for the ‘Inspirational Star’ award.

Jiang Nian’s biology scores had grown at a visible rate over the past two months, and Qing Bao had also reaped the benefits from Jiang Nian.

“The Inspirational Star award isn’t just for students. Teachers also have a similar award, which is basically about how much their students improve.”

Qing Bao stood in the corridor, holding a test paper in one hand. With her other hand, she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and said faintly,

“I just got selected. Take a look at the prizes and see if there’s anything you want.”

Oh, a perk.

Jiang Nian secretly sighed, thinking Qing Bao was truly considerate. He figured since they were so familiar, there was no need to be reserved, so he readily agreed.

The two went downstairs to the office.

The integrated science office was empty. At Qing Bao’s workstation, Jiang Nian saw the prizes the school gave to ‘Inspirational Teachers’.

A classic, a box of navel oranges.

This large box of ten-pound, bright yellow navel oranges made Jiang Nian lose his composure. He turned and stared blankly at Qing Bao.

“Teacher, these things aren’t sour, are they?”

“I don’t know, you’ll know if you eat one.” Qing Bao sat down at her workstation. “You can take the whole box, I don’t eat them.”

“I don’t even know if it’s harvest time yet, I won’t.” Jiang Nian looked at the other prizes. “This towel is quite unique, isn’t it?”

Qing Bao explained, “Safeguard soap, Yunnan Baiyao toothpaste, and this towel—you choose one of the three. I chose the towel.”

The towel was entirely blue, probably chosen specifically by Qing Bao.

“A bag of rice, cooking oil?” Jiang Nian was stunned. How do you choose this? “No, isn’t the school too practical?”

“Actually, you could also choose a live chicken.” Qing Bao said something quite shocking. “I couldn’t find anyone to deal with it, so I didn’t choose it.”

“Then what else can I pick? I’ll take a towel.” Jiang Nian chose the blue towel and tucked two navel oranges into his pocket.

He stopped as he was about to leave.

He looked at Qing Bao, hesitated for a moment, then asked,

“Teacher, do you have a shopping card?”

Qing Bao was momentarily stunned. “Yes, why?”

“I’d like to exchange.” Jiang Nian pulled out his phone. “I suddenly remembered I have a use for it. I’ll just transfer the money to you.”

Qing Bao glanced at him. “If you want me to lose my job, then transfer it.”

Jiang Nian, carrying a box of towels, went straight to the cafeteria to eat. A small break with a self-study, reasonable and logical.

Meanwhile, in the classroom.

The class was having a self-study session. Xie Zhihao got a copy of Class Three’s October joint exam results from his deskmate.

The names on it were densely packed, and he only recognized a few people.

This included a few good-looking girls in the class, his group members, and Jiang Nian.

English 140, well, about the same as himself.

Since he didn’t know many people, he only looked at the score sheet for a few minutes before giving up.

For him, studying didn’t require too much effort.

Xie Zhihao felt that if people from the Olympiad class saw him working very hard to get high scores, it wouldn’t sufficiently showcase his ‘intelligent’ persona.

Unfortunately, after school, everyone around him had left.

His gaze searched among the remaining people in the classroom, first avoiding Jiang Nian’s area—that kid looked untrustworthy.

It wouldn’t be very meaningful for him to go over and break the ice.

He picked and chose until his gaze finally settled on a certain Ting who was buried in her work. Nothing else, diligent and studious girls were the most honest.

You’re the one!

Classmate!

Jiang Nian returned from eating at the cafeteria, walking against the flow of people upstairs.

When he entered the classroom, he saw that only Zhang Ningzhi remained in their seating area. So he took out the navel oranges and shared them with Ningzhi.

“Huh? Where did you get the navel oranges?” Zhang Ningzhi’s eyes widened, forgetting her afternoon refusal and the agreement not to speak to him.

However, Jiang Nian wasn’t so mean as to deliberately remind her.

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“I ‘robbed’ them from the biology teacher. She said they couldn’t be given to people who are always getting angry. So, Ningzhi, are you someone who gets angry easily?”

What answered him was a pink fist.

“No, I love to freeze hands.”

“Is that so? Then I’ll help you warm them up.” Jiang Nian made a move to grab her hand, but Zhang Ningzhi quickly dodged.

*Slap*, she hit his arm again.

“Hey, what are you doing!”

Not far away, Xie Zhihao heard the playful noise coming from Jiang Nian’s side. He instantly froze, forgetting what he was about to say.

Zhou Yuting: “.”

She looked up, somewhat helplessly, at Xie Zhihao.

This person had suddenly walked over, said hello, and then started babbling a lot, leaving her completely confused.

On the other side.

“Let’s make a deal, you peel the orange.” Jiang Nian said.

“I won’t.” Zhang Ningzhi was still a bit angry. “Why can’t you peel the orange?”

“My hands are dirty.”

Hearing this, Zhang Ningzhi obediently got up to wash her hands.

Jiang Nian took the opportunity to glance at Zhou Yuting, who was being pestered by Xie Zhihao. He didn’t react much and took a moment to do a problem.

Soon, Zhang Ningzhi returned.

While writing, Jiang Nian enjoyed watching the beautiful girl peel the orange. Her fair hands were smooth and delicate, turning a faint pink when she exerted force.

Just as they finished sharing an orange, Yao Beibei returned from outside.

She stared intently at the last orange, then looked at Jiang Nian and Zhang Ningzhi, who were secretly eating, and asked in a high-pitched voice,

“Can Beibei have a bite too?”

“Huang Beibei, you eat everything.” Jiang Nian was speechless. “Why don’t you ask whose orange this is?”

“I won’t ask, it’s Ningzhi’s now.” Yao Beibei hummed and directly took Zhang Ningzhi and the orange away.

“Bye-bye, we’re going to eat.”

Jiang Nian wrote one problem at his seat, then also got up and left the classroom.

In the classroom.

Zhou Yuting was exceptionally depressed. Having messed up her exam, she didn’t even have the confidence to sit in the Olympiad class.

She never forgot that she had been promoted to fill a spot for the second time.

Even though she wouldn’t be demoted now, she still wanted to improve her grades; otherwise, she wouldn’t feel at ease staying there.

Yet, Xie Zhihao, who had been demoted from Class Zero, kept bothering her.

Xie Zhihao always liked to mention Class Zero in his conversations, constantly bringing up ‘our former teachers, blah blah blah,’ which made Zhou Yuting even more uncomfortable.

If a person is starving to death, do you tell them your family’s chef’s ancestors cooked for Emperor Taizu of Ming?

Xie Zhihao’s showing off might work on other girls.

But Zhou Yuting also had friends in Class Zero, and she just found him a little ridiculous.

“If you need anything, I know a few friends.” Xie Zhihao continued to talk, his smile perfectly maintained.

“Thank you.” Zhou Yuting forced a smile.

Suddenly, Jiang Nian, who had left and returned, appeared at the back door of the classroom.

Zhou Yuting and Xie Zhihao both noticed him and simultaneously turned their heads towards the back door.

Jiang Nian stood at the door, saying nothing. He crooked a finger at Zhou Yuting, then turned and walked to the railing to wait.

With a *whoosh*, Zhou Yuting stood up.

Under Xie Zhihao’s bewildered gaze, she slowly walked towards the back door. Then, the two stood side by side at the railing, talking.

He was stunned; the person had just been taken away like that.

No, is this right?

What surprised him even more was that Jiang Nian, that guy, had just been playing around with his female deskmate in the classroom, completely undisguised.

So, what was their relationship?

In the corridor.

“Thank you.” Zhou Yuting looked at Jiang Nian with complex emotions. “I didn’t expect you to help me out. I thought—”

“Help you out?” Jiang Nian was confused, waving his hand. “I just wanted to ask you something. Don’t you have a relative who’s a doctor at the Second Hospital?”

Zhou Yuting: “.”

She was silent for a moment, then asked,

“Are you sick?”

“Are you hoping for it every day?” Jiang Nian retorted.

“No.” Zhou Yuting’s emotions were somewhat complex; all her spirit was gone. “What is it? Just say it directly.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian clearly expressed his needs.

That is, to take Song Xiyun for a comprehensive check-up, but he didn’t want Xu Qianqian to know, and even less did he want Old Xu to know.

So, he chose the Second Hospital.

And this required the doctor’s cooperation, stating that the check-up was free. It was just a lucky welfare, as long as it could trick Song Xiyun into accepting it.

Going through connections was the quickest way for this kind of thing, a win-win situation.

If it needed to be kept secret, Zhou Yuting and he weren’t on good terms, so no one would believe it if she told. It was just a small amount of money, directly saving trouble.

After all, asking someone for help, you couldn’t go empty-handed. But there were few people in Zhennan who openly accepted gifts, and if a stranger sent one, they wouldn’t accept it either.

Zhou Yuting listened, then couldn’t help but be stunned.

“Huh?”

“First, ask if it can be done. Here are a few shopping cards for the city center.” Jiang Nian handed them to her. “Keep one for yourself.”

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