บท 371: Special Agent 366 has turned into a commoner (12) at the third update

By this time, it was already April.

All the scholars who had participated in the palace examination had been summoned into the Imperial Palace, waiting for the Emperor to decree their final rankings.

Except for a very few individuals, these scholars were all extremely nervous.

Besides their nervousness, the entire Imperial City, along with the bureaucrats, had opened a betting pool.

"Grand Tutor, I heard you have placed a bet too?" a dignitary asked upon seeing the Grand Tutor, "Who did you bet on for the top position of the first grade?"

The Grand Tutor showed no embarrassment, "The fourth young master from the Ye Residence, Ye Shaohua."

The Grand Tutor was the most learned person in the entire court.

As an examiner for the metropolitan and palace examinations, his words suggested that this fourth young master must truly be extraordinarily talented.

The officials around him harbored their own thoughts.