After returning to Yingzhong, the classes regrouped on the playground.
The school needs to inventory the goods, reconcile accounts, and rank the students' grades.
Class 36 is the easiest to calculate.
All 500 fans, including the four samples Jiang Nian initially made, were sold at 49.9 each. The total sales amount matched the bill.
It was much more complicated to calculate for the other classes, but fortunately the school had asked each class to keep accounts beforehand, so it didn't take much time to tally them up.
Finally, the total sales and rankings of each class were displayed on the big screen.
Everyone was tense and expectant, craning their necks to look at the big screen.
[First place, Class 36, total sales amount: yuan]
[Second place, Special Class, Total Sales Amount: Yuan]
[Third place, Class 12, total sales of 5800 yuan]
[Fourth place, Class 7, total sales of 4782 yuan]
...
Their class is indeed number one!
When the students in Class 36 saw this ranking, they couldn't contain their excitement and almost jumped up.
Their class used to always be at the bottom and ridiculed, whether it was in exams or participating in activities.
And now, they've actually become number one.
Moreover, this was done against the elite class, which has always been arrogant and disdainful of being compared with ordinary classes.
In fact, their sales were more than 10,000 higher than those of the premium class!
What made them even prouder was that the outstanding class's achievement stemmed from selling fifty notebooks personally signed by Ji Yuwei. At 200 yuan each, fifty notebooks would amount to 10,000 yuan. This was the bulk of their sales revenue.
In other words, if it weren't for Ji Yuwei's arrival, the top-performing class wouldn't have sold for so much money.
But their class was different; even though the movie star Ji came, they didn't raise the price of their lacquer fans.
Moreover, even if Ji Yingdi didn't come, they could easily sell two or three hundred of Jiang Nian's intangible cultural heritage lacquer fans in an afternoon, making them the undisputed number one.
Of course they are proud.
I am proud of Jiang Nian, and also proud of the results of everyone's joint efforts.
The other classes are convinced that Class 36 ranks first.
Although I don't know how they managed to invite Actor Ji, he was just honestly selling fans without raising prices or trying to take advantage of loopholes like setting up special classes.
Moreover, the presence of the movie star brought such a large influx of people, allowing fans to see that they could buy whatever they needed on the plaza, which also boosted sales for other classes.
There have long been discontents with the elite class.
"No way, why can the top-performing class get second place?" someone from Class 12, which came in second, shouted.
"Class 36 sells lacquer fans for 49.9 yuan each. At least that money is paid for the fans. Before Actor Ji arrived, they had already sold over four thousand yuan worth of them. I have no objection to them being number one."
"The top-performing class only sold a little over a thousand copies before, but later they sold over ten thousand copies of notebooks signed by celebrities for two hundred yuan each. But was the money really for the notebooks or the celebrity autographs? Even a blank sheet of paper could sell for that much."
"Is this a competition of creative sales techniques or personal connections, using connections to command a premium?"
The top-performing class, for the first time in such a grade-wide activity, did not get first place, but only second place.
They were already unhappy, and of course, they weren't going to back down now.
"What's wrong with comparing connections? Aren't connections a reflection of ability? I think you're just jealous."
Jiang Ranran stepped forward at this moment, her tone gentle yet teasing: "My fellow students, aren't you taking rankings too seriously?"
“We were just thinking that since it was a charity sale, we should naturally try to make more money to help the children in the mountains. I don’t know what we did wrong, and we didn’t break any rules.”
The rules don't specify that you can't give a premium to a product.
"You..." The man was speechless.
Jiang Ranran felt smug.
Regardless, although she didn't surpass Jiang Nian, she still led the class to second place, and the top-performing class should be grateful to her.
Han Xu, Chi Lin, and Tang Qiuya have all left; she's now the undisputed goddess of the top-performing class.
The next second, the head of student affairs' voice came over the loudspeaker: "Dear students, due to an unexpected situation,..."
"I hereby declare that the results of this charity sale by the top-performing class are invalid. All classes after the top-performing class will move up one place in the rankings."
Upon hearing this, everyone on the playground gasped.
Even Class 12, who was originally questioning the top-performing class, widened their eyes.
What's going on?
The top-performing class was absolutely ecstatic.
What?!
Did they mishear?
The school is saying their class's charity sale results are invalid?? On what grounds?!
Jiang Ranran's smile froze on her lips.
Looking incredulously at the head of student affairs walking down from the stage, he asked, "Teacher, what's going on? Why is the school canceling our class's grades?"
The head of student affairs frowned and gave her a cold look: "Why? Don't you, Jiang Ranran, know the answer?"
What?
The grades were invalidated because of her?
Jiang Ranran didn't care about anything else and immediately explained confidently, "Teacher, the school said that there is freedom to promote goods, and there is no rule that goods cannot be sold at a premium."
"Besides, even disregarding the sales figures of the notebooks we made, we still had 4,500 in sales, which should have placed us fourth. Why are our results being invalidated?"
The entire top-performing class was indignant and waiting for an explanation from the school.
The head of the teaching department was surprised that Jiang Ranran had the nerve to ask him such a question.
He said coldly, "We received a report that when the funds for the building block competition were being allocated to each class at the beginning, the building blocks you stacked on behalf of your class were replaced by someone else."
"We have determined that the building blocks you used contained iron blocks, making them more than three times heavier than the blocks used in other classes. Because of their weight, they were able to stand so steadily and wouldn't fall over."
"In this kind of school activity, your class actually cheated to get the most funding, which is utterly despicable. Your grades are invalidated as a punishment for your class. Are you still not satisfied?"
What?
Were the building blocks in their classroom replaced?
The students in the top class had no idea what was going on, but Jiang Ranran turned pale as soon as she heard it.
She never expected that her class's grades would be invalidated because of this, and she never expected that her tricks would be discovered.
How could someone have found out?!
She did it so secretly!
“No…no,” Jiang Ranran’s face was as white as a ghost, her lips trembling, “I didn’t change any building blocks, I didn’t know anything about this.”
"Teacher, someone must have replaced our building blocks later to frame our class... Who reported me? It must have been that person!"
Just then, Jiang Nian stepped forward.
He gave her a look as worthless as trash, then glanced at Jiang Ranran, who was already making wild accusations, and spoke in an icy tone.
"I was the one who reported you."
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