Chapter 392: Moving Forward in Trial
An An and Le Le had a lively New Year in Lujia Village. After the Lantern Festival, the two flew back to Guangzhou.
Tao Peisheng was sending Ma Xiaojuan and her son back to Harbin, so he took the two children with him and helped buy tickets to Beijing, without Lu Xiaolan.
After the two children came back, Su Mo asked An An about her superpowers. The speed of cultivation was indeed faster than in the south, but it was not as good as they thought. It could only be said that there was some effect.
Fortunately, she has adapted to the pace of life here and no longer pursues the speed of cultivation. For her, superpowers are just the icing on the cake. She does not have too many obsessions. Everything should be done at the right pace.
For An An, the most important thing at the moment is to develop the skills to make a living here. Therefore, even though there were only a few days left before school started, An An took Le Le to report to Commander Xu.
During this period, the "child prodigy fever" had been fermenting. Newspapers and radio reported a child prodigy every few days, giving a comprehensive report to the first batch of young college students in the junior class, attracting the attention of the whole country. People were discussing child prodigies everywhere in the streets and alleys.
Among them, one was particularly eye-catching. He entered the junior class directly from elementary school at the age of 11, skipping the entire middle school stage, and amazed all Chinese people.
The two little ones jumped into the third grade a few days after school started, which naturally attracted the attention of those who were interested. The local newspaper in Yangcheng contacted the school and parents, wanting to make a corresponding report for them.
Especially after knowing that the child's mother was the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Guangdong Province, the reporters were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they wanted to write the report immediately, as if they had seen the rise of a new generation of child prodigies.
Su Mo accepted the interview invitations from the media, because she had to break the "child prodigy" label that others had attached to the two children.
During this period, there was too little information in the country, and many things were easily over-promoted. This "child prodigy fever" phenomenon is not a big leap forward in talent training, but an excessive pursuit of speed and forcing things to grow.
History has already given the answer. Many students in the previous batches of junior classes did not end up well. She did not want her children to be involved in this abnormal torrent and become victims.
Besides, the careers that the two children will be engaged in in the future are not suitable for them to be overexposed.
Su Mo told Commander Xu about this matter in advance. She clarified it in front, and Commander Xu put pressure on them from behind, trying to make the media no longer pay too much attention to the two children.
Things turned out just as Su Mo expected. When those reporters knew that the reason why the two children were able to skip grades was because Su Mo started teaching them the first and second grade courses two years ago, and learned from the teacher that after the two children entered the third grade, although their grades were excellent, they were not outstanding, some media gave up.
Others who were more curious about knowledge investigated more privately and found that things might not be as they seemed, but they received warnings from their superiors, so the matter was left unresolved.
Some of the smarter ones realized that they might touch the talents secretly cultivated by the country. Since it was the country's secret weapon, they would naturally not touch it.
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1978 was a year of inheritance, a year of trial, a year of change, and a year of frequent events.
A certain ungrateful monkey country next door started to stir up trouble in various ways, with a bad attitude and outrageous attitude. The relationship with our country became worse and worse.
In early March, Lu Changzheng led his team to the border to fulfill their duty of defending the country. In early April
, the movie "Hometown" was released in advance in China.
As soon as the movie was released, it caused a huge response. Some people saw a movie depicting prostitutes being released, and they were furious. They pulled slogans and posted big-character posters on the streets to criticize this "yellow movie."
Because of the strong public reaction, the relevant departments finally cut some shots and continued to show the film. It was impossible to stop the screening, because this was an attempt and a test by the relevant departments to tell everyone that this train might have to open up a new track.
Subsequently, the movies "Authentication" and "The Chase" were released one after another, which had a huge impact on the domestic films that had been showing model operas for eight years. The collision of various ideas made the Propaganda Department begin to seek new changes.
When these things happened, the Su family's business was getting better and better. At the end of April, the third store in Yangcheng was opened. It used the arcade where Su Yiyuan had lived before, and just renovated the store on the first floor.
Yangcheng has also recruited three educated youth who have returned to the city to work as salesmen. The treatment is the same as that in Haishi, a basic salary of 30 yuan plus a commission of 1%.
Su Mo is also preparing to go abroad as an exchange student.
In order to strengthen ties with countries around the world and improve the level of university education, the country has decided to send some international students and exchange students to various countries in the second half of the year to study and exchange.
As the first in the German major, Su Mo is naturally among the people selected by the country.
Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the country has had the idea of sending talents abroad to study, but the selection of candidates needs to be very cautious, so it was not until this year that it was finally decided after discussion. After
all, the country now has a very serious talent gap, and it is not easy to cultivate a talent.
Therefore, a lot of effort was put into selecting people. In addition to the "three-stage" examination, the background check was particularly strict.
People like Su Mo, whose husband is a military officer, whose children's parents are both in China, and whose professional performance is up to standard, are simply "chosen international students" because such people will never run away.
The school basically gave Su Mo a place, but Su Mo was a little hesitant in her heart.
Because of the intensified friction with neighboring countries, a war will break out next year. Lu was basically on the front line during the Long March and had little time to come back. If she left at this time, the two children would not have their parents around.
Although the two children are very independent and don't need her to control them, there is still a certain difference between having parents around and not having them around.
Seeing that Su Mo had not made a decision, the school teacher came to her house and asked if her family had any difficulties and could help solve them. Finally, with the support of her family, Su Mo chose to be an exchange student for a year.
The school where Su Mo went on exchange was in West Germany.
During this period, Germany had not yet been unified and was divided into East Germany and West Germany. East Germany was the Soviet-occupied area and implemented a socialist planned economy; West Germany was the American, British and French-occupied area and implemented a capitalist market economy.
Compared with East Germany, West Germany had a higher standard of living and more developed industry.
Su Mo began to focus on business German in her sophomore year. This time she was an exchange student mainly to learn Western corporate management concepts.