The next morning, Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng went to the examination hall as planned.

When they arrived, there were already quite a few people waiting outside the school. Some were shivering, holding books in their hands, and their heads were covered in frost, indicating that they had been standing outside for a long time.

These candidates were of varying ages, and some were accompanied by relatives, making it difficult to tell whether it was a son or a father taking the exam.

Even though the preliminary exam filtered out a large number of unqualified applicants, there were still many candidates.

Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng arrived and were soon able to line up to enter the school.

The two agreed that neither of them would talk about the exam until the English exam was over on the third day.

Because Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng had already determined the location of the examination room on the day they received their admission tickets, they weren't in a hurry when they entered the examination room.

Bai Jiaojiao was seated in the first position, while Shen Heng was behind her. It seemed that the three middle examinees were in other towns, so they were seated next to each other.

During the first exam, Chinese, since both she and Shen Heng were taking science subjects and only needed to write an essay, Bai Jiaojiao had already prepared. After checking for spelling mistakes, she had some time left and couldn't help but notice that the proctor was always lingering around her.

But she didn't think much of it, assuming it was because she was closer to the podium.

During the second math exam, she was so engrossed in her work that she had no time to pay attention to external factors.

On the second day, although the teachers for Politics and Physics and Chemistry were different, Bai Jiaojiao clearly felt that the proctors were focusing on her area.

If it's because she had the best score in the preliminary exam and the teacher paid close attention to her, it's unlikely that the proctor would stare at her the whole time while she was on the podium.

Bai Jiaojiao had only looked up at Zhong and stretched her neck when she unintentionally met the invigilator's serious yet inquisitive face.

That inquiry was definitely not out of affection for high-achieving students, but rather out of skepticism.

Bai Jiaojiao sensed something was wrong, but she endured it until the physics and chemistry exams were over before saying to Shen Heng, "That proctor has been staring at me these past two days. It's really strange. Is he afraid I'll cheat?"

Shen Heng paused in his eating with his chopsticks: "The teacher behind me always hangs around me. When I was taking math and physics exams, he stood next to me for a while, watching me do the questions."

Bai Jiaojiao frowned and said, "The teacher on the podium in front of me has been looking at me for a long time."

"Do they know we're a married couple and are afraid we'll cheat in the same exam room?" When registering for the college entrance exam, you also need to submit your household registration booklet.

"The people who arranged the exam rooms didn't consider these things, so how could they attract the attention of the invigilators? Besides, if they focus all their attention on the two of us, what about the other students?" Bai Jiaojiao shook her head. Even if they suspected someone of cheating, how could they do this?

"Then I'll go ask them tomorrow what they're trying to do."

"Forget it, we have nothing to fear if we're upright. Maybe I'm just being too sensitive."

Bai Jiaojiao wanted to put it aside, and Shen Heng didn't say much.

Perhaps because English was an additional test, there were hardly any people coming on the third day.

I guess he felt he did so poorly on the exams the other day that he didn't need this exam to make things better.

Unlike the previous two sessions, the proctors didn't keep a close eye on Bai Jiaojiao.

When the bell rang at 11:00 a.m. to collect the papers, one student immediately buried his face in his arms and started crying.

Perhaps it's a sense of relief; these past two and a half days have been incredibly stressful.

After Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng finished collecting their papers and left the examination room, the invigilator handed the papers to the teacher who came to collect them and quickly called the two of them back.

"Bai Jiaojiao, wait a moment."

The proctor was a middle-aged man dressed in a neat gray-blue Zhongshan suit, wearing thin-rimmed metal glasses with thick lenses, and his demeanor suggested he was well-read.

"Teacher, is there anything I can help you with?"

When Xiang Anqi collected the papers, he casually glanced at Bai Jiaojiao's paper. Her handwriting was neat and tidy. He glanced at the first fill-in-the-blank question and found that almost all of them were correct.

Currently, due to the teaching level, everyone's English proficiency is not very solid. Xiang Anqi also understands what Bai Jiaojiao's admission ticket number 001 means.

Moreover, before he came to this examination room, someone told him to pay more attention to Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng, number 5, so Xiang Anqi was very curious about Bai Jiaojiao.

"Where are you planning to apply to for your college this time?"

“My husband and I both plan to go to Yenching University,” Bai Jiaojiao replied.

Xiang Anqi looked up and glanced at Shen Heng.

Just as the whistleblower said, this person looks like the kind of reckless man from the village. It's truly unbelievable that he could get fifth place in the county's preliminary exam.

"Yantai University? I am a teacher at Yantai University! I just saw your exam paper and you seemed to have answered it very well. Are you confident about your English score this time? When you apply to universities, will you consider our School of Foreign Languages? The country is in great need of diplomatic talent right now, and I think your foundation is very good!"

The country has long suffered from a shortage of talent.

Bai Jiaojiao never expected that she, the top scorer in the county's preliminary exam, would be so popular, nor did she expect that a foreign language teacher from Peking University would come to their small county to proctor the exam.

He then said, "I will think about it carefully, teacher. Thank you for your high regard, but the foreign language department at Yenching University is not something I can just go to whenever I want."

"Okay, okay... but I have high hopes for you." Xiang Anqi hesitated for a moment, glancing at Shen Heng and then at Bai Jiaojiao.

"Teacher, is there anything else you'd like to say? Is it related to me and my spouse?"

Seeing that Xiang Anqi seemed hesitant to speak, Bai Jiaojiao asked directly.

She had originally planned to finish the exam peacefully, but seeing that the teacher was quite kind to her and seemed to be intentionally giving her some pointers, she asked a question.

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