【166】Early growth
Anyone who has received nine years of compulsory education has heard Edison's famous saying: "Genius is 99% sweat plus 1% talent."
Of course, many people have also heard of it, and have talked to many people about the so-called second half of the sentence: "But that 1% talent is the most important."
Putting aside the translation and Edison's original meaning, I won't talk about the original meaning of "working is useless, but I don't have a good English language, so I'll analyze it in the original text). It's not a problem to spread the sentence "Genius is 99% sweat plus 1% talent" but instead, I go everywhere to popularize science "There is the second half of this sentence, you were deceived by the teacher" - at least those who deliberately advocated "You are deceived by the teacher, talent is more important" at the beginning, which has ulterior motives.
There is no doubt that people have different qualifications, but for most people, it is difficult for them to reach the ceiling given by their talents for you throughout their lives, and you cannot touch them.
However, the difference in human qualifications does not exist only on the "upper limit". In many cases, it is easier to reflect in learning efficiency and progress. Even if the upper limit is not reached, there are still "bottlenecks".
After her rebirth, Fang Chang'an had more thoughts and abilities to observe the people around him. The person who made him feel the most in this regard was Zhang Lu. She studied very hard and could be called the top one in the class. However, since she entered Class 4, until the second year of junior high school, she had only been ranked 34 in the whole class.
Then, the third-level class was transferred to junior high school, and four key classes were merged into two, and Zhang Lu was undoubtedly assigned to the ordinary class.
Another person who made Fang Chang'an feel this way was Wang Ke.
During the first grade of junior high school, Wang Ke's seriousness in learning basically showed an upward curve. Shen Mo transferred to school and entered the second grade of junior high school. After nearly a month, under the intentional or unintentional guidance of Fang Chang'an, she gradually developed her own learning habits.
In the first semester of the second semester of junior high school, Wang Ke entered the top ten in the class for the first time, ninth and seventh in the final exam; in the fourth mid-term exam, the eleventh grade, the final exam class ranking was still fourth, and the grade ranking was first ranked among the top ten.
If she can maintain this score and perform normally in the middle school entrance examination, she has a high probability of entering the county No. 1 Middle School, but she is still in the position away from the city No. 1 Middle School.
Fang Luguo once mentioned this incident, saying that Fang Chang'an and his class may be the most brilliant in the high school entrance examinations in the past year. On the one hand, he may be admitted to No. 1 Middle School. On the other hand, the top students in the grade are all very outstanding and feel that they have the opportunity to win quotas for No. 1 Middle School in 20 counties.
If Wang Ke can maintain the top ten in the grade, it will be a sure thing for the county No. 1 Middle School to win.
But for her, this is far from enough.
The third grade of junior high school is divided into nine classes, the key classes are Class 8 and Class 9. Fang Chang'an is Class 9. The head teacher is Cheng Mengfei, and the head teacher is Cheng Mengfei. She has relationships and grades, but she is only missing her qualifications. It may be difficult to promote if she has grades but not qualifications. It doesn’t matter if she has relationships or not. She successfully won a key class quota and named Fang Chang'an to her own class, with the reason: "This is the student I taught!"
Wang Ke was undoubtedly assigned to the key class. With a half probability, she was taken to Class 8. Fortunately, Fang Chang'an prepared for the future and asked Cheng Mengfei for help in advance. The head teacher of Class 8 asked her to exchange Liu Bei for her. Cheng Mengfei was reluctant to leave and bargained several times, and finally exchanged Wang Sha for Wang.
Wang Ke did not disappoint Cheng Mengfei's "favor". After entering the third year of junior high school, he made a big leap compared to the second year of junior high school, directly breaking the inherent pattern of top students in the grade. He was third in the class and fifth in the grade, and continued to include food and accommodation in the midterm exam.
But until the end of this semester, her best score was like this. She even went back to the ninth grade during a monthly exam, and she returned to the final exam.
Even if Wang Ke is optimistic, he doesn’t think that No. 2 Middle School will not be able to get into a No. 1 Middle School in a few years, and this year it will be able to get four or five exams at once. This is simply unrealistic. A principal can be so happy that he can’t stop.
As she entered the second semester of the third year of junior high school, she became obviously a little impatient, especially as she watched the date of the high school entrance examination approaching and she stopped moving forward, she became more and more distressed and anxious.
Spring is blooming, and the weather is getting warmer day by day. Before the May Day holiday, Fang Chang'an and others finished the test and the sports exam. After the holiday, they officially entered the final sprint stage of preparing for the high school entrance examination. Whether at home or in school, the attitudes of the teachers and teachers corresponding to the candidates became more and more kind in a significant way, and they spoke softly.
Two years, it’s not too long or too short. A lot of things happened outside. As before, there are houses that are familiar with Chang'an and a little unfamiliar.
On January 18, 2005, the Chinese scientific expedition team successfully reached the highest point of the Antarctic inland ice sheet. On the same day, Seoul, South Korea, was renamed Seoul; on January 30, the document on "Three Rural Affairs" was issued; on March 14, the "Anti-Secession Law" was passed; on March 18, the last living "******" *** died; on June 7, the pilot meeting for rural tax reform ended; on August 15, China's first lunar globe was released; on August 18, the famous comedian Gao Xiumin passed away; on October 12, the 10th National Games were held in Nanjing...
And at the beginning of 2006, on New Year's Day on January 1, China ushered in a major historic event: the agricultural tax that had been implemented for 6,600 years in the ancient land of China was officially abolished!
Whether in his past and present life, Fang Chang'an was deeply impressed by this incident. At this time of his previous life, he did not understand the significance of this incident. However, after entering university, influenced by external and online remarks, Fang Chang'an chatted with his mother during a holiday and talked about some current events, including some arguments such as "how things happen to foreign countries and how things happen to China."
I was calm and silent for a while, and finally said: "Agricultural tax was not abolished a few years ago... From ancient times to the present, how can farmers not pay taxes for farming?"
This incident impressed Fang Changan very deeply, but when he did not expect that after he was reborn, the family had stopped farming due to his influence. His parents were still excited about this.
In two years, the house Chang'an family has also undergone major changes. The most intuitive change is not income, it is internal, and external manifestation is that the whole family has adapted to life in the town.
After the five acres of land in my family were harvested by the shoe store, most of the land was handed over to my uncle Fang Luyong's family to plant, leaving only the pear orchard in the south of the village and a small piece of land connected, so naturally they were only responsible for these agricultural taxes.
As word of mouth fermented and fame opened, Qingyun Shoe Store's business became better and better. Before the news of abolishing agricultural tax, the monthly income of the shoe store even exceeded 5,000 yuan, and that little agricultural tax was not worth mentioning at all.
But Fang Lujun and Congrong were still happy about this. They mentioned it several times when chatting with others, regardless of whether they were farming or not. Even when they were talking about it, they were very happy and said, looking very happy.
Fang Lujun no longer works in the factory, but he is fine at home on weekdays. With money, relatives and friends in the village are admiring him. Fang Lujun had no ambition at first, and it is inevitable that he is content to listen to a few words of flattery. Fortunately, he knows that his family has made money and he doesn't have much effort, so he is not as "in-home" as before. He talks less and seems to be much calmer.
However, Fang Changan knew very well that this did not mean that my father would really change, and he might even suppress greater "illness" and be motion sickness calmly. Therefore, Fang Lujun was responsible for the matters between the Wenzhou factory, but the frequency of this matter was very low.
The family changes will sooner or later, with the effect of Li Xiaoyi's father losing money and robbery. In order to prevent his father from doing nothing, Fang Chang'an then discussed it with Chen Chengyan, and Shen Chengyan invited Fang Lujun to be responsible for the bun shop in the town.
Chen Chengyan himself focused on opening a "high-quality" bun shop.
Fang Lujun had many problems, but he did not make much calculations in dealing with people and things. To some extent, he could be called "very low emotional intelligence". At first, he got along with Chen Chengyan because he felt that he had received too many favors from others. He had to express his feelings when he returned home, and he could not avoid it. He invited Chen Chengyan to have a meal at home.
At first, the scene was very awkward, until after drinking, Fang Lujun's problem of drinking too much and talking too much came back, and he almost pulled Chen Chengyan to beg for a favor. As a result, he became familiar with it. After more than a year, the two of them, "Brother Jun" and "Chengyan" were already quite familiar.
Chen Chengyan was originally honest and honest with others. After getting along, he also had a certain understanding of Fang Lujun and Congyan's character. He believed in others without doubt and was really busy. He was preparing to open a store in the city, and he really handed over the bun shop in the town to Fang Lujun for management. He also wanted to give another 10% of the dividends. Fang Lujun and Congyan originally felt that they had too much affection for him, and felt that they had made money every month in the past two years, so they were not willing to ask for it.
In fact, most people are ordinary people when they get along with each other. You respect me and I respect you. The two families have a good impression of each other, and after this incident, they have a better impression of each other.
However, everything has two sides, and this incident also brought a very bad impact to Fang Chang'an. For example, the small treasury he had been hiding for two or three years was exposed.
Fortunately, Fang Lujun and Congrong had adapted to his maturity different from their peers. After Fang Chang'an explained, the two of them did not make up old accounts for this. They were just puzzled by the fact that Fang Chang'an used the monthly dividends to buy stocks. Fang Chang'an had to endorse Chen Chengyan again and talked about how much stocks have earned in the past two years. Although Fang Lujun and Congrong still didn't understand it, they did not interfere. The money from the bun shop was still left to Fang Chang'an to dominate: the main thing is to buy stocks.
Fang Lujun laughed at himself several times for this: "His grandma, Labor and Capital has just quit her job for less than two years, and now she has started working for her son again!"
After this incident, the family affairs could be said to be basically formal, so Fang Chang'an focused on preparing for the exam without distraction.
With sufficient nutrition and persistence in exercise, Fang Chang'an is less than fifteen years old this year. He is over 1.73 meters tall. He looks white and thin, but he has fleshy clothes and smooth lines. He looks like a tall and handsome boy.
Wang Ke is only a few days younger than him, and the girl develops earlier. Before Fang Chang'an rose sharply this year, her height was once the same as Fang Chang'an, and now she is 1.65 meters tall. She has become a girl with willow eyebrows and almond eyes, bright and beautiful, and her body has begun to develop.
Chapter completed!