Chapter 55 Competition
The next morning, Su Tao got up early and changed his usual fancy clothes into a more formal outfit, a white long-sleeved shirt and black trousers. He looked like an old cadre, except for a pair of black-framed glasses.
Su Tao followed He Chuan to the small square at the entrance of the village and waited for the team leader to announce the task.
After the captain gave a motivational speech to encourage enthusiasm, he announced the mission, and the familiar sound of the loudspeaker echoed over the square.
"Wang Fuxi weeding..."
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"Su Taotao, from today on, you will be serving as the village office's accountant permanently, responsible for accounting and statistics such as work points and procurement. Does anyone have any opinions?"
The news caused an uproar in the square. Su Taotao had been appointed accountant. The villagers considered this a highly skilled job, not something that could be done by ordinary people. The previous accountant had been transferred to the town, leaving the position vacant. The villagers had expected the person to be chosen from among the educated youth, but they hadn't expected Su Taotao to be the one.
In their opinion, Su Tao is incompetent and can't do anything. Apart from cooking delicious food and being beautiful, there is nothing else he can do.
"Is Su Taotao okay?"
"That's right, please don't miscalculate our work points, okay?"
He Xinyi was also indignant below. Why did all the good things fall on Su Taotao? She finally got a good job, and the team leader gave it to her without hesitation. When she heard someone object, He Xinyi couldn't help but jump out.
"Yeah, why should we choose her? There must be fair competition. I want to compete with Su Taotao." He Xinyi must seize this opportunity. She never wants to go back to doing farm work in the wind and sun. As long as she gets this position, she can sit in the office comfortably.
"That's right, competition~ competition, whoever wins gets to be the winner." When the crowd saw someone step forward, they quickly cheered harder.
The team leader looked at the village chief with an embarrassed look on his face. He just asked as a routine question, but he didn't expect that someone would really jump out to oppose it. Now he was in a dilemma. He had never seen Su Tao do arithmetic, and didn't know what Su Tao's level was, so he made a rash decision.
The village chief looked at the situation below, pondered for a moment, and then said loudly: "Okay, then let's have a competition. Give the questions on the spot, and two people will do them at the same time. Whoever solves the problem first and gets it right wins."
The village chief had seen Su Tao's level and thought that she had a good chance of winning, but he didn't know what the other educated youth He was like. If she was really much better than Su Tao, then there was nothing he could do.
The village chief found some questions and asked the villagers on the scene to randomly select some. He asked someone to bring two tables from somewhere. There were abacus, pen and a piece of white paper on the tables. The white paper was specially put there by the village chief for fear that Su Tao had no paper to calculate, so he could only help her up to this point.
He Xinyi looked at Su Tao with a smug look on her face, as if victory was already within her grasp. It wasn't surprising she felt that way. Her former classmates had only average grades, never quite matching hers. From the moment the village agreed to the competition, she felt she had already won. Unfortunately, she didn't know that Su Taotao had changed his ways and was no longer the same idiot he'd been introduced to.
Su Tao looked at He Xinyi's face that looked like she was asking for a beating, and cursed in his heart: "Psycho! If I don't show my power, you think I'm Hallo Kety? Since you shamelessly come to my door to get beaten, then I won't be polite!"
Su Tao and He Xinyi took their seats, and the village chief gave the order, "Begin."
After the questions were distributed, Su Tao and He Xinyi both started to calculate.
He Xinyi held the questions in one hand and quickly moved the abacus with the other hand, looking particularly confident and skilled.
On the other side, Su Tao looked at the question for a long time without moving, and she did not use the abacus, paper and pen beside her.
The village chief looked a little anxious, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Was the question too difficult? It shouldn't be like that. It's about the same as last night's.
"Ahem~Ahem~Su Zhiqing, you can start now. You don't need to look at the questions for so long. There are pen and paper in front of you!" The village chief couldn't help but remind him, and specifically pointed out that he had given him pen and paper, so he should calculate quickly.
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