Every year at this ti, teachers look forward to their students’ exam results even more than the students themselves.
This ti, City No.1 High School’s final exam results were released a day earlier than those of F High, and City No.1 High perford well, breaking the highest score record of the past five years.
At this point, the teachers at F High are under a lot of psychological pressure, relying on Xie Ying’an and Ji Yanchen’s grades in recent years to avoid consistently losing to City No.1 High.
With Ji Yanchen just gone this year, and Xie Ying’an not yet gone, are they about to start reliving the fear of being overshadowed annually by City No.1 High’s scores?
No teacher wants this to happen, and Old Wu feels the sa, but the fact that soone from City No.1 High could break their five-year record shows that this student is not to be underestimated.
Old Wu has seen Xie Ying’an’s normal approach to studying; he could only say that Ying’an is more clever than diligent, managing to break F High’s top score in these years but always hovering around that peak without further breakthroughs.
While reviewing test papers, Old Wu sighed deeply, feeling that this ti, F High was likely to reclaim the title of second place.
Li Qingran is indeed diligent, but unfortunately, her intellectual acuity falls a bit short of Xie Ying’an’s.
If Li Qingran had Xie Ying’an’s intelligence, how could Xie Ying’an still be ranked first in the grade?
Seeing the normally confident class directors looking so dejected in the office, everyone began to feel dispirited.
Everyone wants to be first, no one wants to be second.
But still, soone has to settle for second place.
Sun Ningzhi was also helping calculate the students’ total scores, and after tallying a few, she turned her head and asked Old Wu, "Brother Wu, have you calculated Xie Ying’an’s score yet?"
This question imdiately perked up the ears of the teachers present.
At this mont, Xie Ying’an’s total score beca their only hope to surpass City No.1 High.
"Not yet, I want to keep so suspense," Old Wu pinched the bridge of his nose in pain, unscrewed his water bottle to take a sip, and continued, "We started with calculating Li Qingran’s score first."
"Li Qingran’s performance should still maintain her second place in the grade, right?!" Sun Ningzhi also brought out Li Qing Mo’s results for calculation.
Li Qingran’s diligence in studies was well-known among the teachers; just the feat of writing neat characters without looking at books, which even a professor from B University praised, added a lot of prestige to F High.
Take the recent incident, for example, why the head teacher was so partial to Li Qingran - it was all because Li Qingran brought honor to the school.
"Li Qingran’s results, huh..." Old Wu stared at the computer screen, reviewed the automatically sumd total score once, put aside the water he had just sipped, and in excitent, failed to screw the bottle cap on properly several tis.
Sun Ningzhi also sensed Old Wu’s unusual behavior and looked over curiously, "Did Li Qingran perform poorly? That can’t be right, she’s so diligent—"
It had to be a poor performance from Li Qingran to excite Old Wu to such a degree.
Old Wu didn’t say a word, threw the water bottle with its finally fastened cap to one side, and no longer trusting the computer’s auto-sum function, picked up a calculator and started to quickly type in numbers.
Now the teachers were all starting to get curious.
Teacher Liu, who had had a fierce argunt with Old Wu not long ago, snorted coldly upon seeing this; in her eyes, Old Wu’s reaction surely ant that Li Qingran had not done well.
Teacher Liu glanced at the equally curious Class 4 horoom teacher next to her and said sarcastically, "Of course, she must have done poorly again. What’s there to be surprised about? It’s not the first ti."
The Class 4 horoom teacher couldn’t be bothered with her, turning back to her computer screen and continuing to tally the students’ total scores.
Sun Ningzhi had already leaned close to Old Wu’s computer screen. She stared at it for a while, sowhat incredulous, but still read out each word: "Li Qingran’s total score—7, 0, 2!"
"Wow!"
The office suddenly buzzed with astonishnt.
"What, what? Little Sun, what did you say Qingran scored?" The Class 8 horoom teacher, who was furthest from Old Wu, asked.
"702???" The Class 4 horoom teacher adjusted the glasses sliding down her nose and looked towards the Class 7 horoom teacher beside her, asking, "That high? What’s the highest score at City No.1 High School this year?"
"The record-breaking highest score at City No.1 High School this year, for the first ti in five years, is 698," the Class 7 horoom teacher answered her question.
As the totals were being calculated, all the horoom teachers from Class 1 to Class 8 gathered together, and now all the teachers were excited.
"Where’s my phone? Where’s my phone?" The Class 8 horoom teacher excitedly searched around, "I’m going to share this great news with our pals from Class 9 and Class 10, they specifically reminded to tell them first about this exam’s highest score."
"Isn’t your phone right there by your mouse?" Teacher Liu rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath, "What’s there to be excited about?"
The teachers were all imrsed in the joy of not being overshadowed by City No.1 High School this year, and even if soone did hear Teacher Liu’s muttering, nobody cared.
Sun Ningzhi kept urging a nearly beaming Old Wu, "Brother Wu, hurry up and check, is Xie Ying’an’s score higher than student Li Qingran’s?"
With that, the already excited teachers beca even more agitated, each one putting down their work to gather around.
Old Wu wasn’t sure about Xie Ying’an’s score, and was also worried that too much expectation would lead to disappointnt if his score turned out to be lower than Li Qingran’s.
So before tallying Xie Ying’an’s score, he managed expectations: "Don’t hold too much hope for student Xie Ying’an, I’ve seen their performance this term. Student Li Qingran’s effort deserves her score, Xie Ying’an still lacks a bit when it cos to diligence..."
Despite saying this, Old Wu still had expectations for Xie Ying’an’s score, because even if Xie Ying’an was not that diligent recently, his natural talent was undeniable.
Xie Ying’an’s results didn’t disappoint everyone—it was the exact sa score as Qingran, 702.
Both were tied for first place in the grade and had broken the record for the highest score in Grade Two at their school.
The teachers each sent envious looks towards a beaming Old Wu, whose crow’s feet could trap flies, while offering him praises that carried a hint of jealousy.
Still with his jovial deanor, Old Wu humbly said, "Can’t help it, kids are just promising."
After the excitent subsided, the horoom teachers returned to their seats to finish their unfinished tasks, knowing they hadn’t been bested by City No.1 High School this ti, everyone was in high spirits.
Not long after sitting down, the Class 7 horoom teacher exclaid in surprise, "Yo-ho."
Seeing a few teachers look over, the Class 7 horoom teacher chuckled and pointed to his computer screen, explaining, "I didn’t expect that even Song Shize from my class has climbed quite a few ranks this ti, finally not ranked in the last ten."
The teachers glanced at each other, all sighing: The Class 7 horoom teacher is really too easily satisfied.
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