Chapter 169 (1/2)
Located within the Green Leaf World, the Education Palace did not distinguish night and day, those inside also had difficulty sensing the flow of time and didn’t know that outside, in the real world, it was already the next day
The tierly hawk their wares
Using the stone pillars as a perily lively, with the fragrance of osst all the foods present
The populace that had come to view the Grand Examination surrounded the outer peri the latest news that would constantly come out fro scenes first-hand, but this didn’t affect their mood, the atmosphere was still buoyant, it had to be said that this was also attributable to the work of the storytellers present
On the streets outside of Li Palace, every hundred or so metres apart there would be a tea store, before each store there would inevitably be an ordinary table with a storyteller dressed in either a cheongsa in all directions, coupled with their arave accounts of as currently happening within the Education Palace
It was unknown as to ithin Li Palace these storytellers, and the store owners backing them, were acquainted with; what had just happened in the Grand Examination would, at the next moment, beco, with the details actually being more or less accurate
In the Southwestern corner, there was a comparatively quiet teahouse, its decoration was rather refined, yet today, this teahouse couldn’t escape fro a storyteller to sit in the e sum to acquire the latest news from Li Palace
All that could be seen was that sharp looking : “It is said that the River Qu’s serene clarity can reflect a person The exa upon the river itself, others beco that youth from Orthodox Academy as the last”
They continued: “For a ti to see how that youth would cross the river, yet who could have expected; they only heard a single cry froe of the horizon and the White Crane came hither”
Talking up to this segain heavily s the patrons out of their attentive stupor before slowly continuing the narrative: “At that time, there were close to a hundred examinees upon both shores that had been shocked to the point of having their eyes and mouths wide open; just as with how your esteemed selves have been startled by this simple old man, the examinees had been startled by that White Crane”
The storyteller continued: “Why? That’s because at the next moment, that youth from Orthodox Acade upon the crane’s back without soupwards with the clouds, and headed towards the opposing shore; an actual case of riding a crane down South of the river; tis scene, such peculiarity!”
The teahouse erupted in a chaotic wave of chatter
That storyteller smiled and said: “Your esteemed selves need not debate this It should be known that for the exa in the Grand Examination, whether be within their respective sects or acadee beasts before, yet ere they so shocked?”
They continued: “This is because no one had thought that you can use this method to cross the river; yet, what made them all the more shocked was that the White Crane wasn’t just any White Crane, but was the White Crane from our Capital’s Divine General of the Eastern Decree’s estate”
Sounds of discussion within the teahouse became all the more rambunctious A lot of the people from the Capital knew that the Divine General’s estate has a White Crane, but sightings of it had been rare for the past few years, soossiped of intensely; they couldn’t stop the very curious as to why that White Crane would be willing to carry that youth over
“If your esteemed selves still remember, then you should know that the White Crane had followed young Miss Xu to Holy Maiden Peak in the South Why would it suddenly appear at the distant Capital? Could it be that Miss Xu really has accepted that youth to be her fiancé? Then what type of reaction should those distinguished disciples of Li Shan Sword Sect have?”
Having narrated up to this point, the storyteller lightly coughed twice, then raised their cup and took a few sips of war of this action Though a few of therily complained that this was yesterday’s story and questioned how could it still be used today to extort ratuity money
The storyteller saw the amount of copper coins within the tea tray and was very pleased Clearing their throat, they once again began resu their account of the Grand Examination
All the patrons listened attentively, with no one noticing that a e conical hat, upon finishi+ng the remnants of their tea, left the teahouse
Thatit difficult to clearly see their visage, upon leaving the teahouse, they entered the streets andbut a ht
After a period of tied person appeared at an inn that was around four miles away from Li Palace, they took out two dark red medicinal pills from their chest area and then sed thehed for a while, before finally subduing their injury, then walked over to the bed and laid on top of it, the conical hat shi+fted to one side and within their black hair, two buuely be seen
After noon, all the teahouses and stores became especially busy, but the accounts of the storytellers were no longer all that captivating, that’s because the results to the Academic Exam had been officially announced Every teahouse and store’s one to Li Palace and copied down the results, having returned, they now began to give details to the patrons
Placing last in the acade Tao, the populace didn’t have any sort of recognition of this name and thus, there naturally wasn’tremarks and attacks on those who ran the acade
Xuan Yuan Po’s results were very close to the botto Huan Yu sixth The four scholars of Scholartree Manor had extreed to place within the top 10
Of course, what the populace was s – Gou Han shi+ and Chen Chang Sheng both placed at first and second respectively, beside their na
Looking at the final results to the Acade their tongues in astonish’s na praises nonstop
Visitors that had come from outside of the Capital were very confused with this, wondering to theh they were ranked at the top, was it worthy of such praise?
Some people from the Capital explained: the academic results for the Grand Exas, only papers that were exceptional would be specially noted as to being “outstanding”, with “exceptional” usually referring to getting all the answers correct
Both, Gou Han shi+ and Chen Chang Sheng’s na”, this made it clear that both their papers could be considered perfect It had to be known that this was an extremely rare event – there had already been a lot of years where so similar has not occurred in the Grand Examination
It was only with this explanation that those visitors froions ca puzzling the results in the acade correctly, how had they distinguished the better?
Why was Gou Han shi+ ranked first while Chen Chang Sheng was only ranked second?