Chapter 22 (2/2)

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“Tang Xiu, if you want to make money then you can talk to me, eh. I know a lot of ways to make money. Now, the most suitable for you is to become a top scorer in this year’s provincial College Entrance Test. As long as you can be a top scorer on the College Entrance Test for our Shuangqing province, those kinds of bonus, endorsements, and advertisements will definitely roll in. Ordinary people could never make that much money in their entire lives.” When Tang Xiu was happily talking with Yuan Chuling, an ill-timed voice abruptly stuck in and interrupted their conversation.

Tang Xiu looked up and found that the one who was interrupting was Su Xiangfei. His brows wrinkled, and subconsciously, he had the urge to beat him.

But Su Xiangfei’s words nevertheless had him palpitate, sparking his interest. It caused him to repress the anger inside as he then asked Yuan Chuling, “Fatty, does the top scorer of the College Entrance Test for the Shuangqing Province really make a lot of money just like he said?”

“Eldest Brother, becoming the top scorer in the provincial’s College Entrance Test is definitely worth the money, the point is that we couldn’t even become a top scorer in the provincial College Entrance Test. It has been 13 years and not even one student from our Star City First High School is able to become the top scorer in the provincial’s College Entrance Test. And if you can be the highest scorer for the provincial College Entrance Test, I think our school will even reward you 1,000,000 in cash.” Under Tang Xiu’s eyes that were full of inquiries, with a face full of an agonized expression, Yuan Chuling nodded his head.

“Hahaha, I will die laughing. He actually really wants to take the top scorer for the College Entrance Test?”

“Hey, it seems the rumors really are true, Tang Xiu’s mind really has a problem.”

“He said before that he must be number one on the test, and now he said he will become the top scorer for the provincial College Entrance Test. Maybe a few days later, he will proclaim that he will rush out of the universe.”

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Upon seeing Tang Xiu’s serious and earnest expression, Su Xiangfei, lead the other students in Class 10, as they couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Yuan Chuling’s face flushed red in shame at the side, while Cheng Yannan, who was sitting in front of Tang Xiu, also slightly knitted her delicate eyebrows.

Only Tang Xiu who still had a light expression and sat undisturbed in the same place, didn’t even move his ass. He only swept his eyes over the loudly laughing classmates surrounding him at the side with a calm and tranquil expression. There wasn’t even rippling waves in his deep eyes, as if the one who was being ridiculed was not himself.

“Tang Xiu, the English and Math exams’ papers have already been issued in advance. How many points did you get from these 2 preliminary subject tests? I suppose it would be unlikely that all completely got a salted duck’s egg, right?”[1] Having been out of breath due to laughing for quite a while, Su Xiangfei then asked.

“What? The exams’ papers had been sent down? How could it be that I didn’t know about it eh?” Tang Xiu looked around with a blank expression, and then found that the Monthly Tests’ papers were really being put on everyone’s desk.

Tang Xiu, at this time, was only thinking about one thing, and since he was too single-mindedly and drowned in the thought about making money, he didn’t even notice that the English and Math exam papers had been issued in advance.

“Fatty, have you seen my Monthly Test’s exam papers?” Tang Xiu turned toward his desk, and also looked at the floor, but he didn’t find his Monthly Test’s exam papers. He couldn’t help but ask to Yuan Chuling at his side.

“Eldest Brother, I haven’t seen your Monthly Test’s exam papers. I thought you had received it.” Yuan Chuling replied quietly just like the sound of mosquitoes.

From the beginning, after the exam papers had been sent down, Yuan Chuling’s attention was fully glued to the eye-catching-bright red result on his results, and he didn’t pay attention to whether Tang Xiu got his Monthly Test’s exam papers or not.

However, to Yuan Chuling’s understanding about Tang Xiu, he didn’t think that Tang Xiu was playing with him, but he knew that Tang Xiu might really have yet to get his Monthly Test’s exam papers. So, Yuan Chuling was also confused and puzzled.

“Hahaha, I really could die because of laughing. You solemnly vowed to take the first grade before the test, and now you even afraid to show the Monthly Test’s exam papers to everyone. It can truly be called as a misfortune to me. Could it be that the English test with the Math turned out to be as I have predicted and feared, that all the tests got the ‘salted duck’s eggs’?” Upon seeing Tang Xiu’s and Yuan Chuling’s appearances that looked like they were pretending, Su Xiangfei couldn’t help but laugh again.

“For each preliminary exam you only used less than half an hour to hand your exam paper and then leave. Other than making noises to get the attention from almost nearly the entire school, that our class has presented such a genius, I really don’t know what to call it otherwise.”

“Seizing the limelight to the extreme only to make a fool of yourself, and now you’re also playing dumb. Tang Xiu, you haven’t disgraced yourself enough in Class 5 and actually came to our Class 10 to disgrace yourself again, your face is really very thick.”

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Under Su Xiangfei’s lead, the other students of Class 10 let out an extreme ridicule to the highest degree of their abilities as they gathered around Tang Xiu, denouncing and sneering at him one sentence after another, missing only the cursing that pointed at Tang Xiu’s nose.

“Tang Xiu, you come out.” When Yuan Chuling was unable to bear it any longer and was about to come forward bravely, a crisp and sweet voice suddenly rang from the classroom’s door.

Hearing this familiar and full of majesty voice, the noises in the classroom abruptly ended, and everyone went back to their seats quickly, taking out pen and paper, pretending to calculate something.

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[1] Salted duck eggs here refer to BIG ZERO points… 0 0, while salted, well it’s a taste… hahaha

Udeze notes:

Well… how should I say it… how many chaps of Returning From the Immortal World you guys want? Please don’t answer it… hahaha… well, I can promise at least 3 chaps a week since I’m also working on Great Dao Commander and The Lame Daoist Priest. However, for some occasions, such as holidays or other special occasions when time allows me to translate more, I’ll translate more. You can see my track record from GDC and TLDP, that I never stockpile chapters, but I have always been making up for all the chapters I owe due to my absence cuz of a monster called REAL LIFE…

*[advantage]: by having their erection in contact with her

*[ cent bills]: China has cents in bills called jiao

*[Guoshu]: Guo here means country and shu means technique

*[ 190 centimeters]: Over 6ft tall

*[Lake Cui]: Cui Hu, also means Green Lake

*[hundred dyuan bills]: 100yuan is their biggest bill

*[Daoist Fierce Tiger]: The author of this novel

*[Noodles]: made of wheat

*[Rice Noodles]: made of rice

*[Zhang Tian Tian]: Tian means sweet

*[Bajiquan]: Also known as Eight Extremities Fist, but Bajiquan sounds nicer to me

*[Long Taos]: side characters in Chinese operas who perform acrobatics and fight scenes

*[12.47 to 13.07]: don’t ask me about the tree sap