Chapter 457 Little Genius
The market was organized by higher authorities, and it was bustling every Saturday, with the sounds of bargaining filling the air, and smiles on the faces of everyone coming and going.
As time went on, people realized that there was indeed no problem, and more and more people started setting up stalls under the shed.
Previously, everyone traded secretly in private. Now, there are an average of four days a month when people can trade freely. Sensing the loosening of regulations, people carrying baskets and secretly trading have appeared on the streets on weekdays.
Song Lubai thought it was a good idea, but the people from the supply and marketing cooperative and the department store had objections.
Just like the eggs sold in the supply and marketing cooperative are mostly collected from villagers' homes, and the price is set by the supply and marketing cooperative itself, but now that there are free trade markets, everyone is more willing to send their eggs to the market to sell, because although they are slightly cheaper than those sold by the supply and marketing cooperative, they can earn more money by selling them themselves.
Currently, the supply and marketing cooperatives have reduced their supply of goods, and customers still feel that the cooperatives sell at high prices.
After listening to Song Hai and the managers of the two department stores, Song Lubai could only say, "There are always more solutions than problems. Think carefully about how to solve these problems. If the market becomes more open in the future, you will face even more problems."
The three of them: "...!"
They came wanting the bureau to shut down the free market, or to stipulate what items couldn't be sold, so that their difficulties could be resolved, instead of listening to her and telling them to figure it out themselves.
The other two managers left, but Song Hai stayed.
Song Lubai asked with a smile, "Director Song, is there any other question?"
Song Hai was speechless. In all the years he had dealt with Song Lubai, he had really never taken advantage of her.
Song Hai said, "Is there really no other way?"
The turnover of the supply and marketing cooperative has decreased significantly recently.
Song Lubai said, "Yes, there are ways to deal with the small issues, but in general, your dissatisfaction will likely increase in the future, but the impact should not be too great in the first few years."
Similar to the issue of eggs, we can set up farms. Supply and marketing cooperatives can still purchase goods at cheap prices. Such minor issues cannot shake the status of supply and marketing cooperatives for the time being, because there are still necessities for the people such as tobacco, alcohol and grain that are controlled by the state. At present, it seems that the status of supply and marketing cooperatives is still unshakable as long as the market is not further opened up.
But who knows what will happen next?
The two talked for another ten minutes or so. After Song Lubai finished speaking, Song Hai looked a little melancholy and said, "So, does this mean the supply and marketing cooperative is going to fail?"
Song Lubai shook her head, "It's hard to say. We don't know what changes the policies might make, but you'll probably be able to live a stable life until you retire."
Song Hai left, and Song Lubai went to Yu Lin's office to relay the three people's opinions.
"Director, what they said is actually true. Although the market has opened a small gap, the total amount of goods has not actually changed. If this continues, problems will definitely arise..."
After listening, Yu Lin nodded and said, "Let's bring it up at the meeting. If the finance department doesn't approve the funding, no factory can be set up."
She can always sort things out at work, but her daughter has recently run into some problems.
The two sisters are usually quite easy to manage, but recently the school teachers have reported that Wei Yihua often looks around during class and doesn't pay attention.
"Your Wei Yihua is indeed very smart, but he lacks concentration. His recent homework has been very perfunctory, and his handwriting is very messy..."
Song Lubai left the teacher's office, went home to cook dinner, and waited for the two sisters to come home from school.
The two sisters have been walking home from school for several years now, and she no longer needs to pick them up every day.
Wei Yang returned home earlier than the two sisters. As soon as he got home, Song Lubai relayed what the teacher had said.
Song Lubai said, "Yihua is definitely not like me. I was extremely diligent when I was studying."
He glanced at her, a half-smile on his face, and said, "You mean you're like me?"
She snorted, "Anyway, it doesn't look like me."
The couple were joking around when the two sisters went home.
"Mom and Dad, we're back. What did you cook?"
Wei Yang called Wei Yihua over and said, "Your teacher called your parents today."
Wei Yihua's eyes darted around, and she glanced guiltily at Song Lubai. She asked cautiously, "Mom, what did the teacher say?"
Song Lubai said, "The teacher praised you for being smart. Smart people don't need to study hard to know everything. Even if you look around in class, you can still answer the questions correctly. The teacher said she has never seen such a smart child as you, and she can't teach you."
Wei Yihua's eyes lit up. "Really? The teacher really praised me like that?"
Song Lubai: "..."
This child is so smart that he can't tell good from bad.
Wei Yang tapped Wei Yihua on the forehead, "Why don't you pay attention in class? You don't do your homework properly either, what are you thinking about?"
Wei Yihua covered her forehead and pouted in dissatisfaction, saying, "The knowledge the teacher teaches is really simple. I feel like I'm wasting my time in class every day. It's not interesting at all."
Song Lubai said, "You're quite capable, but I've never seen you get a perfect score on every test."
Wei Yihua raised her chin and said, "I may be careless, but that doesn't mean I don't know how. I can understand my uncle's junior and senior high school textbooks just by looking at them. They're all very simple."
Song Lubai thought she was bragging, "When did you ever look at your uncle's textbooks?"
Wei Yiping corroborated this by saying, "Mom, my sister watches us for a while every day when we're doing our homework."
The couple was caught off guard.
Wei Yang looked at Wei Yihua seriously and asked, "Really, you know it all?"
Wei Yihua then became modest, saying, "As long as I've seen it and understand it, I will know how to do it."
To verify Wei Yihua's words, the couple brought home the exam papers from the two college entrance examinations after the resumption of the college entrance examination and asked Wei Yihua to do them.
Then the two of them discovered that their daughter was most interested in physics and mathematics. She scored the highest in these two subjects on several tests, even higher than Zhang Heping, who had actually attended high school.
Song Lubai was deeply shocked as she watched her daughter solve the last bonus problem in math.
"You said you knew all the answers, so how come there are still questions you can't answer?"
Wei Yihua scratched his head with his pen and said, "I did what I had learned. I haven't had time to look at what I didn't do. If I had learned it, I think I would definitely be able to do it."
The child spoke with such confidence that the couple's gazes towards her changed.
Song Lubai looked at Wei Yiping, "Do you usually study with your sister?"
Wei Yiping shook her head shyly, "I don't like studying as much as my sister. Once I finish my homework, I don't want to study anymore."
Song Lubai rubbed her head.
Wei Yihua looked at her parents with pleading eyes and asked pitifully, "Dad, Mom, the teacher's lessons were so easy, I really don't want to listen."
The couple exchanged a glance, and Song Lubai asked, "Do you want to skip a grade? Go straight to the second year of junior high?"
Wei Yihua thought for a moment and said, "We can give it a try, but the junior high school curriculum is quite simple."
Song Lubai said, "Don't always think it's very simple. If you read the book yourself, there's still a lot of content you haven't learned yet. If you pass the exam, you can go to the second year of junior high school."
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