Chapter 86 Data Statistician

After the first batch of chickens was successfully pre-ordered, and the team leader approved the expansion of the chicken farm, Xu Jiajia and Lu Xun were assigned to help build chicken coops.

Zhou Jianguo has decided to start building earthen tile houses after the autumn harvest so that the chickens at the chicken farm can survive the winter; wooden sheds won't do.

So Ning Xuan can also be busy during the day, building chicken coops and preparing mud bricks with the elderly folks.

The mud bricks are dried in advance so that construction can begin immediately after the autumn harvest.

Besides Ning Xuan and a few elderly men and women working at the chicken farm, the team members would also come over after work to work on the mud bricks for about half an hour, which would speed things up a lot.

Because Ningxuan has advanced technology, the chicken farm has a very low mortality rate for both chicks and adult chickens. In the first batch of 100 chickens, only one chick did not survive due to injury.

This is also why Zhou Jianguo's confidence increased and he agreed to continue expanding the chicken farm.

With an additional 500 chicks, the chicken farm became noisier, and the work of disinfection, sanitation, and feeding all increased significantly.

Following the original plan, Zhou Jianguo selected two more elderly men from the previous voting list to watch over the chicken coop, making a total of four elderly men taking turns watching over the chicken coop during the day and night shifts.

Then two more cleaning ladies joined the team, and Ning Xuan and several other ladies took care of feeding and cleaning together.

By July, the first batch of hens were finally able to lay eggs.

Since the first eggs are small and difficult to breed, Ning Xuan suggested that the first batch of eggs be given as a bonus to the team members.

It was too hot to keep them for too long, so after a few days, they were distributed in batches of two per household. Although this seemed unfair to families with many members, they didn't have enough eggs for everyone, so the most convenient way was to distribute them according to household registration.

Fortunately, Zhou Jianguo, as the team leader, had enough authority. He once again used empty promises to quell the clamor of the team members who felt it was unfair.

"As you can see, the chicken farm has expanded again, and we'll definitely be able to distribute dividends by the end of the year. We'll also continue to produce eggs, and maybe each person will get one in the next batch."

See, I told you before that the chicken farm would continue hiring, and it's already happened. There will definitely be more opportunities like this in the future, so what's the point of arguing about one or two eggs? Go home, pick some chives, stir-fry them, and everyone in the family can at least have a bite!

Since the family members had not yet been divided and there were many in the household, some of the families who felt they were being taken advantage of were embarrassed by what the brigade leader said. Except for a few who were still unconvinced, they knew that making a fuss would be useless, so they quieted down.

On that day, the aroma of eggs wafted from every household in the brigade.

For families with many members, two eggs are indeed not enough. They take out a few more eggs from their own savings so that the whole family can enjoy them to their heart's content.

As the hens begin to lay eggs, the number of chickens increases, making the statistics work more complicated, requiring daily counting of the number of eggs laid.

Once the hens are old enough to hatch chicks, new chicks will appear every now and then, and batches of adult chickens will be sold. All of these need to be tracked.

When factories need to buy adult chickens, they don't all agree to buy them on the same day. Maybe today the food factory needs 20 chickens, tomorrow the hardware factory needs 20 chickens, and the day after tomorrow the machinery factory needs 30 chickens.

So Ning Xuan kept her promise and brought Xu Jiajia to work at the chicken farm.

Xu Jiajia has a high school diploma, is serious about her work, is fast at arithmetic and writing, and lives close to Ning Xuan, making it very convenient for her to communicate about the chicken farm.

Ning Xuan listed a whole host of reasons for recommending Xu Jiajia, and Zhou Jianguo had no objections and immediately agreed to let Xu Jiajia work as a data statistician at the chicken farm.

However, others were indignant when they heard that the chicken farm had positions but didn't advertise publicly and instead decided on the positions internally. They said that the recruitment must be open and transparent.

There was no other way, so Zhou Jianguo had to arrange another assessment. Since data statisticians are judged not by popularity but by ability, this time they would skip the bidding process and just take an exam, with the highest scorer winning.

To avoid accusations of Ning Xuan helping to cheat, the exam content was decided on the day of the exam by Ning Xuan and the scorekeeper. Neither of them were allowed to have contact with anyone else. Once the questions were prepared, the registered candidates were immediately scheduled to take the exam.

The exam was held in a borrowed elementary school classroom. The exam questions were first written on the blackboard, and the test takers copied them onto paper. Only after all the questions had been copied were the test takers allowed to answer them.

The exam questions mainly consist of four types: calculation problems, fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions, and application problems.

The word problems also revolve around issues related to chicken farms, such as how many chickens there were originally, how many more chicks were added, how many chicken sheds there are now, how many chickens each shed can hold, and whether the sheds are sufficient.

There are also questions about the daily increase in eggs, the number of eggs after how many days, and the calculation of the price for selling chickens.

There are quite a few questions, and some require setting up equations to calculate.

Despite the enthusiastic shouting, most of the educated youth stopped studying long after going to the countryside, and even the local villagers who had already graduated stopped reading books after graduation.

Therefore, many people react much slower when answering questions, and another batch is eliminated when it comes to more difficult application questions.

In the end, only six people, including Xu Jiajia, Gu Yunze, Liang Qingqing, and Zhao Yulian, achieved relatively ideal scores of 80 or above. However, Xu Jiajia had the highest score and successfully obtained the data statistician position with a perfect score.

Lu Xun and Zhou Zhipeng were already sales specialists at the chicken farm, so they did not register for this exam.

Zhou Jianguo, holding the list of exam results, announced directly: "Xu Jiajia got the highest score in this exam, a perfect score of 100. The position of data statistician at the chicken farm will go to Xu Zhiqing."

Those who didn't get a spot shouldn't be discouraged. As you can see, our chicken farm is constantly expanding, and we will definitely need to add more staff, so everyone will still have a chance.

The data statistician position requires strong skills in numbers and calculations, so those interested in this role should practice diligently to achieve a good score in the next recruitment exam.

When the results came out, everyone looked at the few who had been making a scene but failed the exam, their eyes mocking, as if to say:

"You were given a chance but you still couldn't use it. Originally, no one could see the difference, but now, it's a blatant slap in the face."

Seeing that Xu Jiajia had such good grades and could earn high work points without having to do farm work in the future, He Yuting and He Qiaofang were the most resentful.

He Yuting felt that since the scorekeeper was her father-in-law, he hadn't taken the initiative to help her get the position. She thought Xu Jiajia could get it done beforehand, so she could too.

Although she didn't get the highest score this time, she still got 76 points, which is enough for this job.

He Qiaofang was simply drawn to Xu Jiajia because she had once again stolen the limelight and attracted Gu Yunze's attention.

Gu Yunze scored 95 points on the exam, which was already a very high score, but unexpectedly Xu Jiajia scored 100 points, so he ranked second.

Gu Yunze now admired Xu Jiajia even more; the intelligent and beautiful woman was very attractive to him.

He Qiaofang's eyes were glued to Xu Jiajia as she looked at Gu Yunze; her jealousy was practically burning.

She decided she had to teach Xu Jiajia a lesson so she could stop seducing Yunze.

She saw He Yuting, whose eyes also held jealousy, and an idea popped into her head.