The next day.
The news that Chen Xian had started recruiting people in the village spread like wildfire.
Chen Xian specially prepared a test paper.
The exam was very simple.
It's nothing more than arithmetic skills and the amount of literacy.
Those villagers who had originally planned to take advantage of the situation looked somewhat embarrassed upon hearing these words.
"Oh, there really is an exam?"
"I thought it was just a casual remark to scare those people from Red Leaf Village."
Chen Xian stood on the high place and said seriously, "You all probably think I'm making a fuss over nothing. It's just feeding pigs, what's so difficult about that?"
"Yes, that's what I thought at first too."
"But now I'm not feeding one or two, or even three or four, but dozens or hundreds..."
"Alright, I'm going to give you a random math problem now, please listen carefully..."
"One adult local pig needs 5 catties of grass and 2 catties of wheat bran... There are 39 pigs in the pig farm now. How many catties of pig feed and wheat bran are needed in total?"
A disturbance began to break out in the crowd below...
Zhao Dayou scratched his head and started scratching the ground with a twig.
The villagers first used twigs to write down the amount of pig feed and wheat bran needed for one pig, and then began to calculate the amount needed for 10 pigs.
Finally, calculate the number of heads needed for 40, then subtract one head to get the answer.
This is a common practice.
The village headman also joined in the fun, "Hehe, this question is way too difficult..."
Some villagers started to riot, but the villagers of Qingxia Village were better off. Most of them had studied arithmetic under Mr. Zhou and had their own problem-solving methods.
The villagers of Hongye Village were completely bewildered, having no idea how to calculate it. Some even started adding the pigs one by one.
If you use your fingers, and if you don't have enough fingers, you can even use your slipper toes.
Even more absurdly, someone said, "Old man, help me take off my shoes, let me use your toes for a bit..."
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Even so, most people quickly get confused.
Uncle Su was also there, squatting on the ground calculating one by one, then scratching his head.
In the end, about 40 villagers tried it, including 30 from Qingxia Village and 10 from Hongye Village.
Then a very strange and unusual scene began to appear under the banyan tree.
One by one, the men and more than ten women began to squat on the ground to do calculations, writing the answers directly on the ground, each person about a step away.
Old Li was looking around in the crowd with his hands behind his back.
"Write your own thing, stop thinking about peeking at other people's work..."
Chen Dashui, Chen Ershui, and Su Laosan were all frowning and deep in thought in the crowd.
"Some people in the crowd were saying, 'Why bother participating in this?'"
It's obvious that Da Zhu's father is going to recruit all the Chen family members and his relatives. His pig farm has just been established, and he needs a dozen or twenty people, at most 30 or so, and then he may not need any more people.
We're just there to set off the rest of the team, to accompany them on their journey.
Let's do the math: 30-odd coins per person, how much would 30 people cost? That's a month's salary!
It's only been a little over a month!
Don't go. You'll just be there to make up the numbers.
"Look, Chen Dashui and Chen Ershui are here too. Haven't you figured out what's wrong with your eyebrows yet?"
Uncle Chen frowned as he listened in the crowd. He wanted to call out to Chen Dashui and Chen Ershui, but Chen Xian shook his head at him.
Not long after.
The women in the village were a little uneasy.
Several other men also looked worried, their expressions uncertain as they looked at the answer on the ground.
Tiger's mother and Tiger's father both signed up to participate.
They glanced at each other.
The question is very simple.
Can write numbers from 1 to 10 in uppercase.
Five points for each character, for a total of fifty points for the handwriting section.
Can do simple arithmetic problems.
It's similar to the problem of feeding the pigs earlier.
The maximum score is 50 points.
Sixty points is passing.
Chen Xian glanced around the crowd a few times, then said seriously:
"Tiger's mother, Tiger's father, Chunxiu's mother, Chunxiu, Su Laosan, Chen Dashui, Chen Ershui, Old Song, Li Laoshi... scattered around, and a few women and men from Hongye Village."
Those whose names were called, especially the people from Red Leaf Village, were incredulous.
They thought they might be just there to make up the numbers when they arrived, but they never expected to have this opportunity.
That's 35 coins a day.
They were so excited that they instinctively wanted to kowtow to Chen Xian.
Chen Xian waved his hand.
Uncle Chen looked worried and said to Chen Xian, "I stood down there and listened for a while. Quite a few people said that you treat the Chen family well."
Chen Xian shook his head, "I can definitely trust family members to handle things. And you should come too, Uncle."
He said seriously, "I will definitely use my own people. Why would I hire people whose background I don't know?"
Then he pointed to a timid and hesitant young man below.
"His name is Yang Xiaoshu, and from today onwards he is the general manager of the pig farm."
Let me explain briefly. Simply put, in this pig farm, besides me, he has the most power. He tells you what to do, and you all have to do it.
The villagers were somewhat surprised; he was just a teenager, not even 20 years old.
Yang Xiaoshu was too timid to speak, and the villagers pointed and whispered about him.
Chen Xian called out to him and pulled him up.
"Little Tree, what do you want to say?"
"Uncle Chen, I don't know, I don't know."
Chen Xian said earnestly, "You are the person in this village who knows the most about raising pigs. Think about it, who else in this village knows how to raise pigs besides you? From now on, you will have the greatest responsibility. I believe in you. I don't believe in anyone else but you."
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