The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 208

Chapter 208: 130 Prodigy (First Update) _{fɾēewebnσveℓ.com}

Strictly speaking, the blame couldn’t be laid on the two. The examination papers of Guozijian’s preliminary school change every year, and only one year had featured a foreign language examination, which was ten years ago.

The paper became unmarketable over time, so the bookstore stopped making copies. As a result, when Xiao Liulang went to the bookstore to buy examination papers from the past years, he didn’t get this particular one.

Xiao Jingkong is an exceptionally bright child. If he can’t pass the examination, the fault certainly lies with the adults.

The examiners certainly intended to humble these gifted children this time. Since these children, naturally brighter than ordinary people, could easily become proud and arrogant, they wanted to teach them a lesson during the examination, to cut them down to size.

As expected, when the examiners began grading the papers, the last three major questions caused a collective failure.

No one answered all correctly. The best attempt was a complete Zhao Country seven-word quatrain, but three characters were incorrect while the rest of the candidates wrote just a few words.

The examiners were overjoyed. It seemed this year’s youngsters would have to humbly attend their classes.

However, when they got to the last paper, their laughter suddenly stopped.

Who the hell is this? What on earth has he written?

“Is this nonsense written by the child?” one examiner asked.

Another examiner vaguely felt something was amiss: “I think I’ve seen this kind of writing somewhere before.”

The two called over the most reputable teacher for language studies from Guozijian. After looking at it, he could not confirm what it was: “I…I need to get my teacher to take a look.”

The teacher took Xiao Jingkong’s examination paper to a courtyard in Capital City, where he found an old man who had dedicated all his life to researching Sanskrit.

Finally, the old Sanskrit researcher came to a conclusion: the candidate wrote in Sanskrit.

Legend has it that Sanskrit is a language created by Brahma, the guardian deity of Buddhism, so it is also referred to as Brahmi.

“So what has he written?” an examiner asked.

The teacher replied: “He has written a Buddhist scripture.”

Everyone: “…”

Is this even allowed?

They spent a day setting the paper, but took three days to translate Xiao Jingkong’s Buddhist scriptures.

For the first time, the lifelong examination markers were confused by a student.

Examiner one: “We can’t give points.”