Meng Yajun thought self-deprecatingly.
But he had no intention of blaming Meng Chuyue.
He just felt that they, the Meng Family, deserved their fate.
Today, a light rain was drizzling, which was not suitable for morning exercise. Meng Chuyue had breakfast and began the enrollment procedures for the remedial class students.
Since school had already started, this session of the remedial class couldn’t offer full-time teaching.
Meng Chuyue had therefore established a semi-flexible learning schedule for everyone.
Aside from the days when school was on break for full-time classes, students could come with their parents at any time for evening classes.
The overall study time was no longer calculated by days but by hours.
These were all advantageous for the students.
Thus, Meng Yajun believed Meng Chuyue’s words, "I don’t have time to continue running the remedial class."
Meng Yajun secretly felt sorry for those who couldn’t attend the remedial class, especially Meng Yuzhu.
Would that person, more eager than Meng Jingfen, collapse if she knew that he had fortunately received this spot and left her behind?
Would she cause a scene?
Even if she caused a scene, wouldn’t she just make a fool of herself?
Meng Yajun thought to himself, until Shen Ci carried out a big pile of supplementary textbooks and distributed them to him and the other students who had come to enroll.
The supplementary textbooks had been published before the start of the school.
However, because there was military training for the first-year students, the partners decided to start selling the books to the public after September 10.
After Shen Ci had distributed the books, Meng Chuyue explained, "These are the supplementary textbooks that we’ve compiled. Our remedial class will study in sync with these books, which means, even if you don’t come to our remedial class, if someone can help you understand these textbooks inside and out, your grades will steadily improve."
"For this session, we’ll give a set of supplementary textbooks to the students for free. If you want to buy more later, or help friends and family buy them, you’ll have to pay the full price."
Parents and students glanced at the price tag after hearing this...
Wow, each book was priced at eight yuan.
A set of five books, that’s forty yuan in total.
Oh, only the high school supplementary set has five books; the junior high school set has only three, and the elementary school set has two – all priced at eight yuan per book.
Parents with other children at home, upon hearing this, gritted their teeth and bought some.
Shen Ci said with a smile, "You’re making a wise decision by doing this. Because, this first edition is priced at eight yuan per book, but the second edition will go up to ten yuan per book."
This was also something they had not anticipated.
The eight-yuan price was his suggestion.
Relative to other supplementary textbooks, it was quite high.
He set such a high price because he felt that it was worth it for the effort Meng Chuyue had put in.
When the partners saw his insistence, they finally agreed to price it at eight yuan per book, with the option to discount it if it didn’t sell well.
Who knew that after the books were printed, people like Song Zhitin, Xu Qingfeng, and Principal Xie gave them to colleagues and friends to read, and everyone praised them, leading to massive purchases and widespread promotion.
Principal Xie even recommended that each student in the school should have a copy.
In short, aside from the thousand sets they purposely kept aside, the other one hundred thousand sets from the first edition all found buyers.
The second edition’s printing also started ahead of schedule.
The partners didn’t even need Shen Ci to say anything, they directly set the price at ten yuan per book for it.
They believed that even if it was priced at fifteen yuan, it would all sell.
But they were concerned that a higher price might not be affordable for some families.
After hearing this from Shen Ci, the parents bit the bullet and bought several more.
Meng Yajun thought for a moment, bought a set of fifth-grade supplementary books for his younger brother Meng Hui, and then left to use the public phone booth to call Meng Yinhua.
"Uncle, I’m at Chuyue’s place."
Meng Yinhua was startled, "Why are you there?"
Did the older brothers go make a scene again?
Meng Yajun knew he was misunderstanding and quickly explained, "No, someone who had reserved a spot for the remedial class moved away, and I got their spot. I’m in the process of enrolling now."
Meng Yinhua sighed with relief, "That’s good, that’s good. So, you’re calling because..."
Could it be that there are extra spots for Meng Yuzhu?
Is it that Meng Chuyue doesn’t acknowledge them outwardly, but actually still cares for them in her heart?