"No way, when did Ye Kingdom reach this level of craftsmanship? Can their engineering projects be applied to the unique problems of the Jichun Craftsmen's Guild?"
"Facts speak louder than words. Instead of questioning the topic here, it's better to quickly choose another topic you're good at answering."
Mo Ming, who is usually quiet and reserved, was unusually quiet this time, because their noise disturbed him; otherwise, he would not have bothered to exchange a single word with others.
"you--"
"Never mind, he's right. Let's hurry up and answer a few more questions."
While they were struggling to answer the "problem" type of questions, Zheng Quchi was like a question-answering machine, never raising his head, his hands moving like a perpetual motion machine, constantly doing one question after another, without even taking a breath.
What does this level of answering speed even mean?
Compared to the final month of reviewing for the college entrance exam and doing tons of practice questions until you're exhausted and dizzy, this is nothing.
Later, she worked through the night to finish design drafts, worked overtime to expedite projects, and worked herself to the bone in construction. Her perseverance and focus were forged through the intense work.
No matter how fierce the wind and rain or how thunder and lightning are around her, it doesn't affect her ability to get things done.
"A reminder that there is less than half an hour left. Please pay attention to the time limit for answering the questions."
Thump!
The reminder made them suddenly tense.
I can't help but want to go back and review my previous answers to see if I made any mistakes or went off-topic.
But going through these dozen or twenty questions again in detail would take a lot of time. Would it be better to answer one more question? But what if I answer it wrong? Wouldn't that be a waste of time?
Everyone makes different choices.
Some people will choose to be conservative and go back to check their answers, while others will choose to take the risk and continue answering the questions.
As they were making their final sprint, Zheng Quchi shook his aching wrist, stopped writing, and organized his answer sheet. His usually expressionless face, which had been focused on answering the questions, finally revealed a slight smile of relaxation.
The final round lasted for nearly four hours. She neither ate, drank, rested, nor spoke. She spent almost 30 minutes looking at the questions and devoted the rest of the time to answering them. She sat upright like a bell and remained as steadfast as a rock.
But for the remaining fifteen minutes, she stopped everything, neither answering nor looking at the questions, but simply relaxed her stiff muscles and tidied her desk.
"Hey, why did that Ye Kingdom craftsman named A Qing stop?"
Some of the master craftsmen noticed that Zheng Quchi put down her pen and was straightening the messy stack of answer sheets beside her. Although they were some distance away, they could still see clearly that the originally blank paper had been filled with content, and judging from the thickness of the stacked papers, it was quite a lot.
They naturally couldn't see the specific content.
"Could she have given up? She's even skipping the random answers and filling in the blanks."
“It’s difficult to get all the answers right on this type of question, but you can still get points if you answer some key points. She has already written so much, why didn’t she try harder in the remaining time instead of just giving up?” The master craftsman was also somewhat disappointed in her at this moment.
While everyone else was busy wrapping things up, her leisurely waiting attitude was incomprehensible.
Most of the master craftsmen and nominees are increasingly convinced that her nomination this time is either a case of stealing credit from someone else or a case of putting on a show.
Finally, as the incense sticks burned to the last ash, Abbot Miku rang the bell and chime: "Time's up, stop writing."
As the final bell rang in the final round, they seemed to be frozen in time, all their movements coming to a standstill.
It's finally over.
The prolonged period of intense concentration left them feeling as if they had been through water and fire, covered in sweat, pale-faced, and exhausted as they carefully put away their answers.
The warrior monks stepped forward and instructed them to write down their answers on the answer sheets as required, categorize them into four types, and place them into boxes labeled "Craftsmanship, Skill, Technique, and Excellence." They then sealed the boxes and submitted them to Gongshu Jiruo and the master craftsmen for review.
Gongshu Jiruo said, "You have all worked hard. Please have some food and water and rest for a while."
The nine finalists sat together at the table. Although they were already exhausted and hungry, they were so nervous that they lost their appetites until Gongshu announced the final winner.
Zheng Quchi also had little appetite at this moment. He hadn't eaten for a long time and was so hungry that he drank some water just like the others.
Abbot Miku said, “Next, the answers of each finalist will be scored by Master Gongshu and fourteen master craftsmen. The answers in the wooden box will be divided into four categories: craftsmanship, skill, technique, and excellence. The master craftsmen will judge whether they are right or wrong, and then they will be handed over to Master Gongshu for review. If there are no errors, they will be approved. If there are differences or major disputes, all fifteen will review them together.”
The nine craftsmen found their answers mixed up with those of the others, so they sorted them into four categories: "craftsmanship, skill, technique, and excellence," and finally they ended up in the hands of the master craftsman.
The "Jichun Craftsmen" did this for two reasons: first, to prevent any suspicion of cheating or bribery, and second, to facilitate unified scoring, screening candidates one by one from easy to difficult, until finally reviewing the most challenging questions together.
Generally speaking, for questions of the "ultimate" category, based on past experience, the question types are complex, the answers vary, and there is no completely unified standard answer. Therefore, there can be a lot of controversy among master craftsmen.
We began unpacking the first type of "work" box.
As each answer to the "craft" question was reviewed, the fourteen master craftsmen would revise and score it for correctness. The results would then be circulated to Gongshu Jiruo to confirm that there were no errors and to record the score.
The fourteen master craftsmen each corrected one question, and the process was quite fast. In no time, all the questions in the "craft" category were corrected.
Next are the "skill" type questions, which have several times more answers than the "work" type questions.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
