Sunny Book House!
"Oh, is the future top scorer here? I've heard that you were expelled from school. Why? What are you doing here? Do you want to become self - taught?" Peter Fat, the owner of Sunny Book House, said to Ethan with a sarcastic smile.
"Peter Fat, your mouth needs a slap, you know?"
"Why? Am I not allowed to say it? I knew you were no good! I almost got fooled by you." Peter Fat said.
"Now that you've been expelled from school, you can never become the top scorer. So, come and do odd jobs for me. Although you won't earn a great deal of money, at least you can have enough to eat and drink, and you can occasionally go to the Internet cafe to watch a little movie or something." Peter Fat said to Ethan.
He knew that this boy was good - looking and had been privately rated as the school hunk in No.3 Middle School. When he was buying books, female classmates had talked about him more than once.
"Maybe if you stand here in the bookstore, the business will get even better." Peter Fat said half - jokingly and half - seriously.
"Foul language! Do I need to sell my looks to earn money?"
"Besides your looks, do you have anything else to sell?"
"..."
Ethan didn't want to pay any more attention to him.
After a while.
"How much are these... books?" Ethan was holding some books about the guzheng (a traditional Chinese musical instrument).
Classical musical instruments!
"You're always fooling around! Seeing that there's no hope for you to go to college, are you going to be a street singer? Singing on the streets is so tiring. It's not as profitable as selling your looks!"
"Get out! How do you know there's no hope for me to go to college? Let me tell you! I'm bound to be the top scorer in the five northern provinces!" Ethan said.
"You keep on dreaming! But whenever you come to your senses, you can come and work here as a salesman!" Peter Fat said with a disdainful look.
Then he took another glance at those books.
"Five books, five yuan each, twenty - five yuan in total! Take them and go!"
Ethan took out twenty - five yuan, rolled it up and threw it at Peter Fat's beady eyes, then picked up the books and left.
In the Azure City Education Bureau, there was a huge conference hall!
The results of the sixteen counties in Azure City were all out!
"The first place is still from your Sunny County! Comrade Gavin! You're so lucky!" Colleagues from other county education bureaus congratulated Gavin.
"Isn't this what we expected? In the past three years, as long as Sophia was around, which county of yours has ever won the first place?" Gavin said proudly to the heads of several neighboring county education bureaus.
"Hey! You're so smug!"
"But this time, there was a surprise! Although the first place is still from your Sunny County, it's definitely not Sophia! It's someone else!" William Zhou, the head of the Azure City Education Bureau, said to Gavin.
"The person who has occupied the first place in Azure City for three years, Sophia, has been replaced?" A colleague asked in astonishment.
"And... the one who replaced her is also from Sunny County?"
"Yes! This boy's grades! He's simply a prodigy!" William Zhou sighed.
"A prodigy?" When others heard this word, they couldn't help but be shocked.
After so many years in education, they had seen all kinds of geniuses! But Director Zhou had never used the word "prodigy" to describe a student's academic performance.
"To what extent is he a prodigy?" Someone beside couldn't help but ask.
"If he is well - cultivated, he might be able to become the top scorer in our Azure Province. Even, if he can perform like this during the college entrance examination, it's not impossible for him to become the top scorer in the entire five northern provinces!" William Zhou said boldly.
"What? The top scorer in the five northern provinces? There are three million students in the five northern provinces!"
"The top scorer in the five northern provinces? The first among three million students?" Just thinking about it made people excited.
But... was it possible?
"You don't believe it? Heh, to tell you the truth, at first, I didn't dare to think about this either. But, until I saw his grades... I believed it! This boy has absolute strength!"
"What? Absolute strength?" After hearing what the boss said, the heads of several counties were also stunned.
Gavin was also confused.
When did such a prodigious person appear in his jurisdiction? He even made the boss have the ambition of "I'm the best in the world!"
"You've said so much, and we're very curious. What kind of test paper is it that makes you think this student has the ability to be the first among three million students?"
"Heh... I knew you wouldn't believe it! Let you have a look!"
"Xiao Liu, bring that stack of test papers to these comrades and let them have a good look. Hahaha..." The head's face was full of excitement.
The top scorer in the five northern provinces!
Not to mention the top scorer in the five northern provinces, even if he got the top scorer in Azure Province, as the number one person in charge of education in Azure City, he would also have a great merit! A remarkable political achievement!
Moreover, this boy also had the strength to strive for the top scorer in the five northern provinces.
Since the joint examination of the five northern provinces, Azure Province has never got the top scorer in the five northern provinces. The best result once was that the provincial top scorer got the sixth place in the five provinces.
It has never entered the top five.
There was no way. In terms of overall education, Azure Province lags far behind Elysium Province, which has the largest population, and Rutland Province, the hometown of sages. The examinees in these provinces have terrifyingly high grades.
They are almost invincible.
Previously, he had never dared to have such wild ideas.
But now, the appearance of this examinee has given him great confidence.
Just having heard William Zhou's praise, these people were also looking forward to seeing what kind of strength this student, who was praised as being able to become the top scorer in the five northern provinces, really had.
Soon, the test papers were brought over.
It was a math test paper.
All these people looked at the test paper, and Gavin was no exception.
At the first sight, they were stunned!
Dumbfounded!
Shocked!
"This... is this... written by hand?" When the heads of several education bureaus saw this test paper, their first impression was that they were stunned.
Unreal!
Too illusory!
Too... incredible!
It was so neat that people doubted whether someone had directly put these test papers under the printer and printed them out with a special font.
"How could it be so beautiful?" Someone sighed.
"Not to mention anything else, just this handwriting... beautiful!" A leader couldn't help but pat his thigh and praise.
"Elegant and flowing, with the shadow of Wang Xizhi, but also with strict composition rules, as if it has grasped the essence of Ouyang Xun. Although it was written with a signature pen, and there are only a few words, one can see the extraordinary skill of the writer! It can be seen at a glance that the person has spent a great deal of time on calligraphy!" A leader who had a certain knowledge of calligraphy couldn't help but sigh.
"Among our students, there is such an amazing student? The younger generation is formidable! The younger generation is formidable!" After seeing the test paper, the head of another county education bureau couldn't help but exclaim.