Chapter 275 Release of List
"Shengnan!" Zhuge Jinyi came over to greet her with a smile, interrupting Sanya's thoughts.

San Ya nodded, "You came quite early."

Zhuge Jinyi smiled embarrassedly, "I came here with my mother. She also wants to take the exam."

San Ya raised her eyebrows when she heard this and noticed Empress Dowager Chen standing not far away.

She bowed to him like a student, and Empress Dowager Chen nodded and smiled.

"Aunt is really amazing. She is a role model for us." San Ya sighed from the bottom of her heart.

After hearing what she said, Zhuge Jinyi no longer thought that his mother was making trouble. He puffed out his chest with pride and said, "That's right. After all, how could someone who can give birth to such an outstanding son like me be just an ordinary person?"

Sanya: ...

She smiled back, not wanting to discuss the topic of whether or not he was excellent.

I am the second to last in the monthly exams every month. Do you know how to write the word "excellent"?

The gymnasium was filled with tables and chairs. After being searched, everyone entered in an orderly manner and found their examination seats according to the numbers on their admission tickets and sat down.

When taking the exam, you should not only fill in your admission ticket number on the test paper, but also your ID card number to prevent someone from taking the exam for you.

As the gong sounded, Honglian and Lumei walked in behind Yu Chaosheng, holding two wooden boxes.

Just as Chaosheng sat down on the podium, people from the police station and Chaoxinyuan began to come forward to collect the test papers and distribute them.

Zhuge Jinyi got the test paper and was completely stunned when he saw the questions.

[Question: There is a county called Qing County. The land cannot grow crops, and the people are hungry and poorly clothed. If you were the county magistrate, how would you improve the livelihood of Qing County? ]

[Q: Most of the people in Chi County live in the mountains and their lives are difficult. How can we improve their quality of life? ]

【ask:……】

Zhuge Jinyi: ???
How could he know how to improve the quality of life of the people? He couldn't even improve his own quality of life, and his mother only gave him ten taels of silver as pocket money every month. How miserable!
The gong was struck again, and the candidates picked up their pens and began to answer the questions, each of them looking very serious.

Yu Chaosheng sat on a high platform, seemingly supervising an exam, but actually he was farming in the space.

It was time to harvest a new batch of medicinal herbs, but Pan Yingying was still sleeping, so he had to do it himself.

The exam lasted a total of two hours. As soon as the gong was struck to signal the end of the exam, people from the police station and Chaoxinyuan collected the test papers in an orderly manner and locked them in a box.

This on-site exam is over and the results will be released the day after tomorrow.

That evening, all the teachers gathered in the largest reception room in the City Lord's Mansion and began to work overtime to mark the test papers.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng were also grading the papers. They read the papers very quickly. They were both people who read novels all year round, so reading ten lines at a glance was a piece of cake for them.

This modification took an entire night to complete. In order to prevent these teachers from sudden death, Pan Yingying took a bowl of well water from her space and poured it into the large tea barrel, otherwise those older teachers might not be able to survive.

It was not until the next morning that all the papers were corrected and the top 50 were announced.

Pan Yingying specifically selected the first 200 people to come out.

The first 50 will be sent directly to Linzhou to be county chiefs, and the last 150 will be sent to various counties on the grassland to serve as assistants to gain experience. In the future, as the territory expands, they will not be short of money due to lack of resources.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the third day, Shitou and Bisheng took the red list to post it on the large bulletin board outside the City Lord's Mansion, which was already crowded with people waiting for the announcement of the results.

Empress Dowager Chen was holding a handkerchief and standing at the front, protected by Madam Liu and her group.

As soon as the red list was posted, the people she brought with her began to quickly search for her name, Zhuge Jinyi's name, and Zijun's name on the list. From time to time, the crowd would burst into excited exclamations or sighs of regret.

Queen Mother Chen started from the end and read forward, but she never saw her own name and Zhuge Jinyi's name.

He pulled the handkerchief tighter and tighter in his hand until it was crumpled into a ball.

"Madam! You won! No. 25!" Nanny Liu exclaimed, startling Empress Dowager Chen.

Following the direction where Nanny Liu pointed, Empress Dowager Chen finally saw her own name.

She widened her eyes in disbelief, and then screamed uncontrollably, "I passed! I really passed!"

Seeing the eyes cast towards her from all around, she quickly covered her mouth and signaled to Madam Liu with her eyes to continue looking for Zhuge Jinyi and Zijun's names.

Unfortunately, the group read the red list almost word by word, but did not see the two people's names.

Empress Dowager Chen thought it was normal that Zhuge Jinyi failed the exam, after all, his academic performance was not good on a normal day. But she was really confused when Zijun failed the exam too.

But this did not affect her good mood. Empress Dowager Chen raised her chin and said, "Today, my wife is happy, and the monthly salary will be doubled!"

When Matron Liu and her group heard this, they immediately broke into smiles and poured out congratulations.

There are so many delicious foods and fun things in Taoyuan City that the monthly salary is not enough to spend. Recently, several maids have been discussing whether they should do some embroidery work privately in clothing stores, or bring back some White Tiger peripherals from clothing stores to do.

Empress Dowager Chen was even happier, "Come on! I'll take you to a restaurant today!"

Zhuge Jinyi looked at Empress Dowager Chen with envy, who was in high spirits in front of him. When they came out, he quickly shrank his neck and hid aside.

He was not on the list, and he felt ashamed to face his mother.

"Jinyi, are you here to see the list too?" A familiar voice sounded behind him. Zhuge Jinyi turned around and saw it was San Ya and her second sister.

"Shengnan." Zhuge Jinyi opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, tears as big as beans rolled down his cheeks. "I haven't seen it... wuwuwu..."

When he started crying, those around him who had never experienced it also started crying.

San Ya: …She shouldn’t have asked.

"You got first place again... wuwuwu..." Zhuge Jinyi wiped his tears and bowed to her to congratulate her, "Congratulations... wuwuwu..."

San Ya: ...Thank you so much for still thinking about me at this time.

She said "hmm" calmly, without any particularly excited emotion on her face, but Arya beside her shouted loudly, "Excuse me, everyone, what is the name of the first place?"

Someone in the front shouted at the top of his voice, "Xiao Shengnan!"

Arya let out a scream and hugged Sanya, jumping up and down, "You passed the exam! Sanmei! You passed the exam! Ahhhh!"

Seeing Erya so happy, Sanya couldn't help but smile.

This faint smile fell into Zhuge Jinyi's eyes, and the dark-faced boy's ears gradually turned red.

"Come on, let's go to a restaurant! Student from Jinyi! You come too, let's celebrate for Shengnan!" Erya's face turned red with excitement. After she said that, she realized that Student from Jinyi had just failed the exam, and she openly invited him to go celebrate with her third sister for getting first place in the exam. Isn't this like stabbing him in the back?

She was about to say something to make amends, but Zhuge Jinyi smiled innocently and said, "Okay."

Erya: ...Could it be that this Jinyi student has been shocked and stupid after failing the entrance exam?

There was not much money saved at home, so the three of them went to a small restaurant nearby. In order to make up for her careless words just now, Erya took the initiative to ask Zhuge Jinyi to order the dishes first.