First Place in the City for Liberal Arts

The eleven-day holiday quickly came to an end.

During that time, Zhou Yuanfei called Zhou Yining several more times, but Zhou Yining didn’t answer, and the matter eventually faded away.

Soon, Zhou Yining and her classmates ushered in their first midterm exam of senior year.

Since all the courses had been completed, the exam was actually designed according to the standards of the college entrance examination.

This time, Zhou Yining performed at her true level.

On the day the results were released, First High School was particularly lively, and many people surrounded the list of scores posted on the side of the teaching building, making it impossible to get close.

Zhou Yining knew her score, so she wasn’t in a hurry to look.

However, the girls in her class had already gone down to check their scores.

Yu Yang and her several besties went directly to the top 20 in the grade.

The girls almost immediately saw Zhou Yining’s name.

There was no way around it, Zhou Yining ranked first, and her score was too conspicuous.

“Oh my god, is Zhou-jie even human? Chinese 145, English 150, Math 150, Liberal Arts 289, total score 734. Is this a score that a human can get?”

Yu Yang was shocked.

“Yeah, how many points did she lose in total? This is too heaven-defying!”

“With this score, she’s probably the top in the city this time too.”

“Amazing.”

Many people in the crowd were talking about Zhou Yining.

After the previous few exams, everyone knew that Zhou Yining’s academic performance was very good, so no one doubted her score.

Yu Yang and her friends hadn’t found their own scores yet, so they sent someone back to inform Zhou Yining.

The girl ran back to the class breathlessly and shouted as soon as she entered the class,

“Zhou-jie, you got first place in the entire grade, with a total score of 734!”

Zhou Yining was relatively calm upon hearing this score. It was her normal level of performance.

She nodded and said, “About right, my normal level.”

The people in the class were not calm. Many people started to discuss it.

“What? 734 points? Is that a score that a human can get?”

“Yeah, so she only lost 16 points in total? My god, is this a god of learning descending to earth?

We don’t need to worship the God of Literature anymore. I think worshiping Zhou-jie directly is more effective.”

“Seriously, she really brought glory to our Class 19.”

“By the way, what’s the second-place score?”

The girl took a few breaths and then said, “Zhong Yumeng isn’t here this time. The second place in the grade is Zhang Ye.

He scored 702 this time, a whole 32 points less than Zhou-jie. Completely crushed.”

“Great, I can’t stand that Zhang Ye, always putting on a cool face. Now that’s good, just a defeated opponent of Zhou-jie.”

Zhou Yining wasn’t interested in these things. She was a little curious about how much Jiang Xizhi scored this time.

Zhou Yining got up and prepared to go downstairs. A boy in the class asked,

“Zhou-jie, don’t you already know your score? Where are you going?”

Zhou Yining smiled and said, “Going downstairs to take a look.”

With that, she went downstairs. After Zhou Yining went downstairs, she saw the score list surrounded by people.

Many people could only stand on the periphery and take photos of the score list, and then zoom in on their phones to see it.

After Zhou Yining came down, many students from Class 19 came over.

“Zhou-jie, awesome, you’re number one.”

“That’s right, our Zhou-jie only does the fiercest thing!”

Zhou Yining was amused by them. “Help me see where my friend is ranked?”

“Who is it?” someone asked.

“Jiang Xizhi from Class 1. If any of you see it, take a photo of her score for me,” Zhou Yining instructed.

“Okay, we’ll go look for it.” Several boys who liked to join in the fun immediately rushed into the crowd to find Jiang Xizhi’s score, and then found Jiang Xizhi in the top 100 in the grade.

The boy handed his phone to Zhou Yining. “Zhou-jie, I found it, take a look.”

Zhou Yining took the phone and glanced at it. Jiang Xizhi’s total score was 625, Liberal Arts 243, Chinese 124, English 146, Math 112.

This score was already very good, ranking in the top 40 in the grade.

Especially Jiang Xizhi’s math score, which had improved so much from failing before.

She immediately took a photo with her phone and sent the score to Jiang Xizhi.

Zhou Yining: [You did great this time, you got 112 points in math. (Dog applauding jpg)]

Jiang Xizhi quickly replied to Zhou Yining.

Jiang Xizhi: [Little Zhou teacher taught well, hehe, Zhou Zhou, you are awesome, 734 points, as expected of you.]

Zhou Yining: [That’s right. (Dog proud jpg)]

Just as Zhou Yining was chatting with Jiang Xizhi, Zhang Ye came over with a frown.

He looked at Zhou Yining for a long time before saying, “Your English score improved so quickly?”

Zhou Yining glanced at him. “My English was originally good. I handed in a blank paper for the previous exam and deliberately failed once, otherwise the first place in the grade would have been mine long ago.”

Zhang Ye was almost mad. “Zhou Yining, you don’t need to belittle me.”

“I don’t need to, the strength is here, still not convinced?” Zhou Yining said.

Zhang Ye snorted coldly, turned around, and angrily returned to the class.

In the afternoon, the city’s overall ranking came out. Zhou Yining, unsurprisingly, became the first in the city in liberal arts, and she exceeded the second place by a full 20 points, directly winning the city’s first place with an overwhelming advantage.

When class started in the afternoon, Chen Yitong walked in with a smile.

“For your first major unified exam in senior year, Zhou Yining from our class ranked first in liberal arts in Nanchuan City with an excellent score of 734.”

As soon as Chen Yitong’s voice fell, the class began to discuss it.

“Awesome, the first in the city.”

“Yeah, the first in liberal arts in the previous college entrance examination, I remember it was from a private high school. Zhou-jie is awesome, she really brought honor to the school.”

“The school leaders are probably overjoyed this time. A God of Literature fell from the sky.”

“That’s right.”

Chen Yitong knocked on the blackboard to quiet the students down. “The scores of other students in our class have also improved a lot.

Let’s continue to maintain it. The students in our ordinary class are no worse than the students in the top class.

Zhou is taking a lead for you all. Everyone should also get up and strive to do better each time.”

Zhou Yining listened to these things quietly. She wasn’t worried about the results.

The weather gradually turned cold. In December, Zhou Yining received compensation from Lin Shaohui, Han Fei, and Lan Wenguang.

Lin Shaohui, as the principal offender and over 18 years old, was sentenced to one year and two months and fined 30,000 yuan.

Han Fei and Lan Wenguang, because they were both under 18 years old, but over 16 years old, the punishment was reduced, and they were accessories.

They were only supervised for a period of time and fined 15,000 yuan each.

In other words, Zhou Yining received a total of 60,000 yuan.

Adding the 20,000 yuan she had left from the previous period and the 40,000 yuan she earned from submitting manuscripts during this time, Zhou Yining had 120,000 yuan in her hand.

It should be enough for her university expenses. Of course, living expenses and the like still require a lot of money, so she has to continue to earn money.

Because Zhou Yining and her classmates were in senior year, the original winter vacation was shortened.

They continued to have classes until the end of January, and they had a winter vacation when the New Year was approaching.

As soon as the winter vacation started, Zhou Yining and Jiang Xizhi returned to the villa. This time, the teachers of each subject left a lot of homework.

As soon as Zhou Yining and Jiang Xizhi had a vacation, they were writing homework for each subject.

Zhou Yining and Jiang Xizhi only rested until New Year’s Eve.

Liang Jing felt sorry for her daughter who was studying so hard. Her daughter’s grades had improved a lot.

She scored 642 points in the final unified exam, which was considered a very good score among the rich second generation.

They originally wanted their daughter to go to a slightly better university, and then come back to take over the family’s company after graduation.

However, her daughter was now studying so hard that she still wanted to do better even after scoring more than 600 points.

Not to mention Zhou Yining, who was also the first in liberal arts in Nanchuan City at the end of the term.

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, Liang Jing got up early. She went upstairs to knock on the door and said outside the door,

“Yining, Zhizhi, today is New Year’s Eve. You can’t study anymore. Your scores are already very good. Relax these few days of the New Year.”

“Okay, Mom.” Jiang Xizhi had just woken up and was nestled in Zhou Yining’s arms in a daze.

Zhou Yining had also just woken up. She took her phone and glanced at it. It was already 8:30.

“It’s 8:30, get up, Zhizhi,” Zhou Yining said softly.

Jiang Xizhi rubbed against her in her arms and obediently got up. “So sleepy.”

She had been studying with Zhou Yining during the vacation these days, which was even more tiring than when she was at school.

She was even more sleepy every day.

Zhou Yining hugged her in her arms amusingly and gently patted Jiang Xizhi’s lower back. “Okay, get up.”

“Mm.” Jiang Xizhi rubbed against her in her arms again before getting up.

After the two of them got up, they went downstairs to help. Today was New Year’s Eve, and Liang Jing had given the servants in the house a holiday, so they had to do the cooking themselves.

Jiang Shengde and Liang Jing were already busy in the kitchen, while Jiang Yueyi was helping to wash vegetables on the side.

After Zhou Yining and Jiang Xizhi came down, they also went to the kitchen.

“Mom, let’s come and help too,” Jiang Xizhi said.

“No need, three people are enough. You two go and paste the Spring Festival couplets in the living room. There’s a ladder over there, be careful,” Liang Jing said with a smile.

“Okay, let’s go, Zhizhi,” Zhou Yining responded, reached out and took Jiang Xizhi’s hand, and went to the living room.

Liang Jing watched the two people holding hands and shook her head with a smile.

The two of them were quite clingy, still holding hands at home.

After going to the living room, Zhou Yining took out the ladder from the storage room, and then the two of them changed into thick clothes and went to the entrance of the villa.

Zhou Yining moved the ladder and first put the horizontal scroll at the top.

She pointed at the horizontal scroll and asked, “Zhizhi, help me see if it’s straight?”

“A little more to the left, yes, it’s this side, okay, okay, paste it,” Jiang Xizhi said, handing over the tape.

After pasting the horizontal scroll, the two of them pasted the couplets on both sides, and finally pasted the character “Fu” in the middle of the gate neatly.

After that, the two of them went to the entrance of the courtyard and pasted the couplets and the character “Fu” on the gate of the courtyard.

When Zhou Yining was holding the ladder back, steaming wontons had already been cooked in the kitchen.

Liang Jing smiled and said, “Go wash your hands quickly, and then come over for breakfast.”

“Mm, we’re going now,” Jiang Xizhi pulled Zhou Yining to wash her hands, and then went to the restaurant to eat wontons.

Breakfast was wontons with fried dough sticks.

The fried dough sticks were fried by Jiang Shengde just now, and the wontons were wrapped by Liang Jing and Jiang Yueyi together.

Jiang Shengde smiled at the few people and said, “It’s been a long time since I fried it, I don’t know if it’s delicious. Xiao Zhou, try it quickly and give Uncle some advice.”

Zhou Yining very supportively took a fried dough stick and took a bite. “Mm, delicious!”

Although the fried dough sticks made at home were not as fluffy as those bought outside, at least there was nothing messy in the fried dough sticks at home.

The freshly fried fried dough sticks were very fragrant.

Jiang Shengde was amused by her sentence “delicious”. Liang Jing glared at him and also put her eyes on Zhou Yining.

“Yining, try the wontons? Do they suit your taste?”

Zhou Yining quickly took water and immediately ate a big bite of wontons very supportively.

“Mm-hmm, also very delicious. Did you put fungus in it? It’s crispy.”

“Yes, it’s good that you like it,” Liang Jing said with a smile.

Originally, she and Jiang Shengde were worried that Zhou Yining would be in a bad mood during the New Year.

After all, Zhou Yining had broken up with her family.

The New Year was originally a time for reunion, but Zhou Yining couldn’t even go home.

But now it seems that this child is very strong, and her emotions have not been affected.