Chapter 393

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

People change as they accumulate life experience; even the most stubborn person will change. Of course, they might become even more stubborn, more selfish, more short-sighted, but they might also awaken after setbacks and transform into a completely new person.

Wang Changgen is the former, while Wang Dashan is the latter.

This is the difference brought about by life experiences.

Genetic inheritance is unavoidable; it will, to a greater or lesser extent, influence a person's fate.

Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, a mouse's son will dig holes — this proverb has a certain logic to it.

But the reason humans are human is that humans possess the capacity for awakening, the ability to swim against the current and temper their own spirit and will.

When this spirit and will can grow stronger than one's own emotions, and overcome the most primal reactions, then one has a very good chance of changing one's fate.

Wang Dashan has poor learning ability; this point cannot be denied.

But as long as he studies seriously, studies with his heart, he will always make progress.

Although his learning efficiency is not as high as those with exceptional talent, with day-by-day, month-by-month accumulation, and applying it to reality, there will always be results.

So he learned management experience from Du Xiaojuan, and after combining it with actual conditions and applying it to his own company, his Shanhai Real Estate began to operate more efficiently.

In the blink of an eye it was June; Shanhai Real Estate's performance was thriving, and Wang Dashan hired quite a few more salespeople.

This time he learned to delegate authority; he selected a few trustworthy and capable employees from the company to serve as managers, divided the sales team into groups, and then had each sales group compete with one another.

The two brothers no longer managed the performance of the bottom-level salespeople, but only the performance of the group leaders, delegating authority to the group leaders to lead the employees below them.

After this reform, the company's performance rose another level; the effect was remarkable.

Everything was developing in a good direction.

Following this rhythm of development, by the Winter Solstice the two brothers earning three hundred thousand should be no problem.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the college entrance exam had entered the countdown; Wang Xiaohua was burying his head in review at school.

Outside, the incessant clamor of cicadas came from the greenery's mango trees, as if tearing at this stifling summer.

The classroom had only ceiling fans, no air conditioning.

In a classroom of dozens of people, even with the fans on it was useless; the air was very stuffy.

But this did not affect the Special Elite Class students' single-minded study in the slightest.

No one complained about the environment, and no one showed any irritability.

Everyone was quiet and still.

At this time, only three days remained until the college entrance exam; the teachers no longer lectured.

The homeroom teacher even encouraged the students to go out to the playground for a walk after school in the afternoon, not to stay cooped up in the classroom studying all day, not to make themselves too nervous — just treat it as an ordinary exam.

But the students in the class, especially the boarding students, without exception, after school in the afternoon, would get food from the canteen and bring it back to the classroom, eating on one side and continuing to study on the other.

Although everyone's faces appeared quite calm, to say there was not a trace of nervousness in their hearts would definitely be impossible.

The Special Elite Class students, compared to students in other classes, were even more able to deeply recognize the importance of the college entrance exam.

In other classes, some students at this time were still acting nonchalant, not taking the college entrance exam seriously at all, because they themselves knew they couldn't possibly test into any good scores; they hadn't even considered their future lives — they only thought about having fun during summer vacation; if they didn't test in, at worst they'd go to a junior college, or not even go to junior college and just go work directly.

The Special Elite Class classmates basically all could keenly realize that if they tested poorly, their lives might never again have a chance to climb out from the very bottom.

Especially the classmates from rural mountainous areas; they didn't have that much money, didn't have the conditions to repeat a year; they urgently needed to graduate from university and find a good job to improve their family's conditions.

So, they basically only had this one chance at the college entrance exam.

They staked everything on this one college entrance exam, hearing nothing outside the window and reading only the sages' books; they didn't even have spare mental energy to think about future matters — which university to apply for, which major to study — they still hadn't looked into any of it, and their families had never given any advice either; they could only wait until after the college entrance exam ended, then use the brief less-than-a-month's time to understand these major matters that would determine what industry their future lives would engage in.

Wang Xiaohua was originally one of them.

But fortunately, he received the homeroom teacher's favor.

Just two weeks ago, the homeroom teacher had called him alone to the office and spoke to him about the volunteer application.

"Xiaohua, the volunteer application is just as important as the college entrance exam, even more important than the college entrance exam. Many times in life, it's not effort that decides; choice is greater than effort, understand? I see you've learned pretty much everything you should learn now; if you have time, you can start understanding the volunteer application matters. No need to delve deep, but you must have a general understanding now. After the college entrance exam, once scores come out, you have to fill out the volunteer application; actually, the time left for you to think is not much. I don't want you to test into a good university but fill in a lousy major."

Wang Xiaohua nodded; from the bottom of his heart he thanked his homeroom teacher:

"Teacher, I'll go back and properly look into it."

The homeroom teacher then said:

"First you must ask your own heart what industry you want to engage in in the future; second is to look at which industries have relatively better prospects."

Wang Xiaohua nodded again:

"Mm-hmm, thank you, Teacher."

Actually, in his heart he was somewhat at a loss.

He didn't know what industry he wanted to engage in.

Before, his family was poor; he desperately studied just to escape his original family, but as for what industry to engage in in the future, he actually hadn't thought deeply about it. He only knew that he must first study well to be able to get out.

Now with the college entrance exam approaching, it really was time to properly think about this matter.

Before, he really liked mathematics; for a period he even thought about engaging in mathematics research, especially during the time he attended competition training, this wish became even stronger.

But once the National Mathematics Competition results came out, he completely gave up on this idea.

Mathematics is a subject that heavily emphasizes talent; in this small county town he could be the chicken head, but looking at the whole country, he didn't even have the qualifications to be a phoenix tail.

He couldn't even win against others in high school competitions, couldn't get a national first prize; then as knowledge points deepened further, he estimated he would find it harder and harder to learn, more and more difficult.

Before, for a period he liked researching Gauss; Gauss figured out the compass-and-straightedge construction of a regular heptadecagon in one night; following Gauss's given answer, he researched for several days before fully working it out, and this was with the answer to follow — if there were no answer, how long would it take to work out?

This is the gap between having mathematical talent and not having mathematical talent.

Wang Xiaohua understood that what he had was actually not "mathematical talent," but "arithmetic talent"; arithmetic talent applied to the college entrance exam easily produces scores — just do a sea of problems, summarize the wrong questions, practice makes perfect, and getting close to a perfect score on the exam is no problem.

But this aptitude only applies to exams, not to doing research.

Since he lacks the aptitude for mathematical research, what line of work should he pursue?