The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 650 - 639: Shift Change

Chapter 650: Chapter 639: Shift Change

Honey Heart Hall is not far from the prefectural school, and there are two restaurants nearby, mainly catering to students from the prefectural school and surrounding academies.

Therefore, when classes end, these restaurants and Honey Heart Hall become particularly busy.

Bai Shan and the others can only come out after classes; they are not allowed to leave the prefectural school during lunchtime.

Carrying his book basket, he walked briskly out of the prefectural school, found his family’s carriage in its familiar spot and trotted over, handing the book basket to Daji and asking, "Have Manbao and the others arrived?"

Daji said, "Miss Man and young master from the hall have gone to Honey Heart Hall."

Bai Shan was somewhat unhappy, "Why didn’t they wait for me?"

"The young master said that it gets crowded after school, so they went ahead to queue up and wait for you, to avoid the risk of waiting too long and not being able to buy any frozen desserts.

The sun was still quite intense at this time, making it scorchingly hot. Students from the prefectural school and the neighboring academies all loved buying snacks from Honey Heart Hall.

Though frozen desserts were expensive and in limited supply, so getting one’s hands on them was not easy, requiring one to wait in a long line.

While those students couldn’t leave, they all had servants.

When Manbao and the others got in line, there were already seven or eight servants waiting.

When Bai Shanbao arrived, only three people had left from the front of the line.

As soon as Manbao saw him, she got excited and asked, "Which one do you want to eat? I’ve already asked, and today there are three types of cheese frozen desserts, one with red beans, one with mung beans, and another with almonds."

Bai Shan, who had run quickly and was a bit flushed, caught his breath and said, "I want the one with mung beans."

Bai Erlang said, "I want to try the one with almonds."

Manbao nodded, indicating that she understood.

It took a while before it was their turn. Manbao ordered all three varieties, and then everyone found a place to sit down inside with their bowls.

Manbao asked Bai Shan, "Have the results been posted?"

Bai Shan nodded and, lifting his chin slightly, said, "Yes, I ranked sixtieth."

Bai Erlang and Manbao both exclaimed in astonishment and hurriedly asked, "Which place is that?"

Bai Shan coughed lightly, paused, then said with slightly reddened ears, "It’s the sixtieth place."

Manbao & Bai Erlang: ...

Bai Erlang wanted to laugh, and Manbao struggled to encourage him, "That’s not too bad."

Bai Shan snorted, "Just you wait, next time I might even make it into the top three."

Bai Erlang didn’t believe it, but after thinking about it, Manbao seriously said, "You definitely can do it, and you must do it too."

Bai Shan looked at her curiously, "You believe in me that much?"

Manbao said, "I am as smart as you. If you can make it into the top three, it means I can too. I also want to know how capable I am."

Bai Shan retorted, "I’m smarter than you."

Bai Erlang couldn’t bear the two of them, "You two are really full of yourselves. The prefectural school has three first-tier classes, and the students there are much older than you. How could they possibly let you into the top three?"

After hearing this, Manbao thought it made sense, and she said to Bai Shan, "Since they are so much older than us, it’s only to be expected that we might do worse than them. But if we do better than them..."

The two exchanged a glance and laughed together.

Bai Erlang blinked, actually feeling that what Manbao said made sense.

A scholar who was also enjoying a frozen treat at a nearby table couldn’t help but turn his head to look at their table. After seeing Bai Shan, he slowly turned his head back and shook it slightly at his two classmates.

After the three had their fill of Honey Heart Hall’s frozen desserts, they got up, satisfied, "The teacher will check our memorization tonight; let’s take our books and go study by the river. It’s cooler there now."

Bai Shan asked, "Are there any mosquitoes?"

"No," Bai Erlang said with certainty, "I’ve been there before, and the mosquitoes come out later."

Manbao hummed, "That’s because the mosquitoes were all biting me. This time I got some medicinal powder from the pharmacy to carry with me. We’ll see whether they bite me or you."

After they had walked away, the person sitting at the table behind them spoke up, "Song Zheng, was that the new classmate who just joined your class?"

Song Zheng nodded, "The teacher mentioned it today. He should be moving to our first-tier three class tomorrow."

"He’s pretty arrogant. Just ranking sixtieth and he’s laughing about making it into the top three."

Song Zheng laughed, "Three months ago, in the entrance examination, he was ranked one hundred fiftieth."

The person opposite him paused, surprised, "He improved that much?"

Another scholar on the side also said, "I’ve seen his entrance exam paper. Actually, disregarding his arrogance, his paper was good enough for top hundred placement."

"He doesn’t look very old though."

Song Zheng smiled lightly, "I heard he’s only twelve."

The stunned scholar: ...

After a while, the two let out a sigh, "This is truly youthful arrogance."

Song Zheng nodded, "It’s because he’s young that he can be forgiven. Mr. Zhai made a special bet with him and called him up to the first tier, clearly thinking he has potential."

"That’s it then, he’ll probably take your place in Mr. Zhai’s opinion."

Song Zheng just shook his head laughing, "To the teacher, we’re all the same."

Yeah, right!

Bai Shan and Manbao had just left Honey Heart Hall when a carriage stopped in front of them. Mr. Zhai, with his beard graying, poked his head out to look at Bai Shan, "Bai Shan, you ran too fast. I went to your study hall before school ended, and by the time the bell rang, you had already run off."

And no matter how much he was called, he didn’t stop; Mr. Zhai was also tired.

"I wanted to tell you that tomorrow you should come a quarter of an hour early. I will take you to see the educational inspector to go over the paperwork, and then you can move directly to our first-tier three class," he said.

Bai Shan asked, "Have you spoken to the educational official?"

Mr. Zhai laughed, "The educational inspector has agreed."

So what does it matter whether the educational official agrees or not?

Bai Shan cocked an eyebrow, indicating he understood.

Without even waiting for the next year, Bai Shan jumped directly from the third-tier one class to the first-tier three class, surprising everyone in the prefectural school.

This was not unprecedented, but it was rare for someone to move up so many levels in such a short period, and whenever it happened, those people were inevitably of exceptional talent.

In the prefectural school, although connections and power were acknowledged, scholarship was valued even more.

Only scholarship could cause the educational inspector to allow a student to break the rules and jump so many levels.

Yet the most shocked were the third-tier one classmates, especially those who had targeted and insisted on isolating Bai Shan.

Wei Chen was a boarding student, but he still sneaked out of the prefectural school, running to stay at Bai Shan’s home, and he just happened to block the three friends who were on their way to study by the river.

So the threesome became a foursome.

Crossing the main street, then walking down a small alley, and turning a corner, they found a secluded spot by the river, where few people came.

The three who were supposed to study laid their books on their stomachs and just sat down on a grassy spot by the river, asking Wei Chen, "How did you sneak out of the prefectural school?"

Manbao was quite puzzled by this, "Isn’t it said that your prefectural school is getting stricter and stricter, and unless you have a boarding student’s wooden plaques, you can’t leave, right?"

"That’s simple," he replied, "find a boarding student, report that he lost his wooden plaque. He gets a new one and gives me the old one. As long as they don’t check too carefully when entering and leaving, it’s easy to blend through. Otherwise, we could always climb over the wall."

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