Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat-Chapter 92 - 089 Blocked
Chapter 92: Chapter 089: Blocked
Chapter 92 -089: Blocked
It was 9:20 when the call finally got through.
Huang Kai dialed Jiang Yan’s examination number first. As the slow, mechanical female voice began to speak, he hastily grabbed a piece of paper from the side and took a pen in hand, ready to jot down the scores.
However…
Chinese: 0
Math: 0
English: 0
Science Comprehensive: 0
Total score: 0.
After jotting down the scores, Huang Kai was stunned. Even Jiang Yan was staring wide-eyed with his mouth agape, completely dumbfounded.
Song Jiawen was the first to snap back to reality, turning to Jiang Yan with a horrified expression, “Didn’t you fill out the answer sheet?”
How could that be possible?
Something clicked in Huang Kai’s mind, and he blurted out “fuck” repeatedly. While redialing the number, he explained to the pair, “It’s not necessarily zero. It could be blocked. Usually, the top fifty in the province are blocked. Fuck! Top fifty in the province?”
The cold, mechanical female voice rang out again, and this time it was still zero.
There was no escaping it now, it had to be blocked.
In this moment, Huang Kai finally admitted to himself that he had poor judgment, having completely misread someone.
He thought Jiang Yan was a poor student, but it turned out the guy was a top student.
“Oh yeah, little junior sister, what about yours?”
Song Jiawen wrote down her own examination number and passed it over, Huang Kai now dialed the number with much more proficiency than before. After a series of operations, the familiar mechanical voice began:
Chinese: 0
Math: 0
English: 0
Science Comprehensive: 0
Total score: 0.
Now Huang Kai was completely dumbfounded. Had he somehow entered the wrong place this early in the morning?
How could checking the results result in all of them being blocked?
If one person is a top student, could there be two?
Meanwhile, Jiang Yan sighed with relief. Top fifty in the province…
It looked like getting into Beijing University was a sure thing now.
….
At this moment at Xie Yanhai’s house in Jianghai Town.
Earlier, Xie Yanhai had taken note of Song Jiawen’s examination number to avoid any issues when checking the scores.
So today, as soon as the time came, he quickly picked up the receiver to dial, but just like Jiang Yan initially experienced, he couldn’t get through for the first twenty minutes.
When the twenty minutes had passed and it turned out Song Jiawen’s scores were blocked, he was so happy that he started pacing around the house.
Shi Peirong and Li Yun were also thrilled, both grinning from ear to ear.
It wasn’t long before Xie Yanhai received consecutive phone calls from the principal of Jianghai Middle School and Director Zhai from the Municipal No. 1 Middle School. Hearing that the scores had been blocked, neither seemed surprised and instead reassured Xie Yanhai not to worry, that the results would be out in two days.
After hanging up, Director Zhai asked a few homeroom teachers, “Apart from Song Jiawen, who else got their scores blocked?”
“Zhu Zhen, Zhu Jin, and also Jiang Yan.”
“Jiang Yan’s scores are blocked too?”
Director Zhai was taken aback, recalling how Jiang Yan’s enrollment was auxiliary at first, and yet, in the end, he delivered a huge surprise.
Apart from the four of them in class one, the class leader from class six also made it into the top fifty.
“Good, good, good, this is excellent!”
Principal Tan was in his office as well. He made a call to the Education Bureau to inform Deputy Director Zhu that the No. 1 Middle School had five students in the provincial top fifty.
“You actually have five? Not bad, not bad. Do you know how many the Experimental Middle School has? They only have two this year.”
Vice Director Zhu was very happy. He had always favored Jianghai Middle School, not only because his daughter Zhu Jin was studying there, but mainly because he agreed with the school’s educational philosophy and did not like the way Experimental Middle School indiscriminately gathered top students.
Two days later, the scores for Song Jiawen and the others were released.
Zhu Jin scored 696, Jiang Yan 702, and Zhu Zhen 703.
But Song Jiawen, 746!
Just four points shy of a perfect score.
When the scores were released, not only did Principal Tan of Jianghai Middle School and his colleagues excitedly hang banners, but even the Education Bureau was stirred up.
A provincial top scorer, this was the first time for Yunzhou to produce one.
Soon, calls from the province came in, followed by calls from the admissions office of Beijing University to Jianghai Middle School…
When the principal of Experimental Middle School heard the news, he almost burst a blood vessel in anger. This time, not only had Jianghai Middle School produced five of the top fifty in the province, they had also produced the provincial top scorer!
The turnaround battle they had fought was truly splendid!
…..
The phone at Xie Yanhai’s house hadn’t stopped ringing for the past few days, with calls from Jianghai Middle School, Jianghai Middle School, and various universities.
The call from the admissions office of Beijing University to Xie Yanhai always gave him an unreal sense of trance.
“Did Beijing University call me, right?”
He asked this question countless times a day. Li Yun was so tired of hearing it, she thought it was fortunate that it wasn’t her who had been accepted to Beijing University, or else she might have fainted from excitement.
“Right, they asked what major Jiajia filled in. You should call that gallery later to ask them, don’t forget.”
Li Yun reminded him.
“Ask what? She filled in Physics, as if I don’t know that.”
Li Yun glared at him, “If you know, why didn’t you tell them?”
“I didn’t?” Xie Yanhai looked completely bewildered.
Li Yun was speechless; it turned out the phone call went completely over his head.
…
At the Song Laosan’s household in Jianglin Village.
Song Xiaoli’s scores had come out a few days earlier: 518, pretty much consistent with her usual performance. It wasn’t good enough for a top university, but a regular undergraduate course was no problem.
For this, Song Xiaoli was very satisfied.
There weren’t many children in the village who could make it to college, let alone to high school. Besides Song Jiawen, there were only three high school students in total, including her.
Her score was over 500, but the other two didn’t even make that mark.
With this, Song Xiaoli was self-satisfied.
But before she could enjoy her satisfaction for two days, she heard that Song Jiawen’s scores had been withheld because she had made it into the top fifty in the province.
And before she could recover from the shock, she heard that Song Jiawen became the provincial top scorer.
She wanted to keep this information to herself, but it was impossible when not just she was the only college entrance exam taker in the village. Jianghai Middle School even hung up a long banner at the school gate to celebrate Song Jiawen achieving the provincial top score.
Soon, the entire village knew about the second daughter of the Song Laosan family becoming the provincial top scorer.
Because it was so rare, everybody came over to inquire, and they even asked Song Xiaoli how much she scored and if it was far behind her cousin?
Since Song Jiawen was the top scorer, surely you should at least be in third place or second place…
The village was like this, never short of people who enjoyed a bustling scene and delivered snide remarks.
Song Xiaoli knew that those people were just speaking off the cuff and didn’t intend anything by it; they didn’t even care about her exact score.
But she was still infuriated.
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On the contrary, her mother was more open-minded than she was, “Angry? What’s there to be angry about? Jiawen has always been better in her studies than you, skipping grades even. It would be sheer folly for you to compare yourself to her. But your third uncle and his wife, heh… I don’t know what they were thinking, letting go of such a brilliant daughter so easily.”
There were no secrets in the countryside, the gossip about Director Chen’s son had spread previously, and afterward, almost the entire Jianglin Village knew that Song Laosan’s couple had given their second daughter to their uncle to raise.
Now, there weren’t a few who shared Song Si Ayi’s thoughts, and some even went to ask Song Laosan, “Your second daughter has become the top scorer, aren’t you planning on taking her back? Laosan, this is the top scorer we are talking about. Forget Jianghai Town or Yunfeng County, it’s been years since Yunzhou has had one, doesn’t that move you?”
