I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 47 Despicable Tactics

This skills competition consists of four events. Since many team members from each branch have signed up for two competitions, according to the competition rules, the first day will be for manual banknote counting and flipping of subpoenas, and the second day will be for Chinese character input and counterfeit banknote identification. The award ceremony will be held at 4 pm.

Team members who have competition events will participate in the competition, and those who do not have any events will move around freely.

So on the first day, many people took the opportunity to go shopping at South Street and Zhongnan Shopping Center in the city, and some even went to the street office to watch a movie.

In this competition, each team was responsible for its own food and lodging. In the evening, more than a dozen people from the Nanxin Branch had dinner together in the hotel.

The atmosphere is not good.

Because of the two events held today, the Nanxin branch was almost completely wiped out. Aside from a team member from the Chaoyang Road Savings Office who won second place for manual banknote counting, a team member from the headquarters business hall who won third place for subpoena flipping, and Chen Meimei from the credit department who won the Excellence Award for manual banknote counting, the rest of the participating team members were "white-skinned."

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Nanxin branch employees for not being proficient in their business. The main reason is that Xia He asked those who came this time to focus on training new employees. Several veterans were not sent to participate in the competition, so naturally the results were poor.

But Xia He still encouraged everyone: "It's okay, there are two more competitions tomorrow, Chinese character input and counterfeit money identification. We will definitely achieve better results!"

"That's right, don't be discouraged, especially in the Chinese character input competition, we will definitely win the first place!" Liu Meili also encouraged everyone.

"Sister Liu, is that possible? There is a 'six-fingered keyboard demon' in Chinese character input. How could we possibly get first place?" someone immediately asked back.

"Because we have a secret weapon!" Liu Meili smiled mysteriously and looked towards Zhang Rong.

Zhang Rong didn't seem to react and just kept eating.

"Secret weapon? What secret weapon?" Xia He looked at Liu Meili in surprise, not knowing what she was up to. Even Su Ming and Wu Shengli were looking at her.

"Leaders, don't ask any questions. You will know tomorrow!"

Seeing that Liu Meili didn't say anything, no one continued to ask.

After dinner, some went out for a walk, and some returned to their rooms to rest. At this time, Chen Meimei quietly asked Zhang Rong: "Do you know any secret weapons?"

Zhang Rong smiled mysteriously: "It's me!"

"You?" Chen Meimei was surprised.

"Yes! I plan to use Sogou Input Method."

"Ah? Is it possible?" Chen Meimei asked again.

"I asked the market, and they said it's possible," Zhang Rong replied.

"I have also used Sogou input method. Its word and sentence formation functions are very powerful. If you add typing speed to it, Zhang Rong, you might really be able to beat Li Lifen this time." Chen Meimei was very happy.

She is very happy whenever any employee of the unit wins an award.

"It's hard to say," Zhang Rong said modestly with a smug expression. "Okay, enough talking. I'm going to find an internet cafe to practice some more."

"Go ahead, come on!"

At nine o'clock the next morning, the competition was held as scheduled in the branch headquarters building. There were only eight computers for Chinese character input, and there were many contestants, so they were divided into eight groups. Each group wrote an article of about 8 words, and was scored according to a certain percentage based on the time taken and the error rate. The higher the score, the better.

After the draw, Nanxin Branch is in Group 7 and is expected to compete in the afternoon. The branch headquarters group where Li Lifen is located is also in Group 7!

The competition started, and more than ten minutes later the first group of competition ended. The contestants came out of the room, and the results were quickly posted at the door of the room.

The fastest was a typist from the Zhongping County branch, who took 6 minutes and 52 seconds, with an average typing speed of 152 words per minute. He made 6 mistakes and finally scored 86 points.

"This group is no good, they're all wiped out." Liu Meili said, "The first place winner's speed is okay, but they made a lot of typos, and they're far behind Li Lifen."

Zhang Rong knew that Li Lifen's best performance in the competition was an average of 164 words per minute, without a single typo! As the groups entered the competition venue one after another, the results were announced one after another. When the third group's results were posted on the wall, the onlookers were immediately shocked.

"Wow, Wang Xiaohong from the Wuyang District branch only took 5 minutes and 40 seconds! Doesn't that average about 171 words per minute? That's even faster than Li Lifen's best time!"

“And there’s not a single typo!”

“It’s simply against the will of heaven!”

Everyone was discussing this. At this moment, Zhang Rong appeared from nowhere and whispered to Liu Meili, "This Wang Xiaohong is also using Sogou Input Method!"

"How do you know?" Liu Meili asked hurriedly.

"I just went to the Wuyang District branch and overheard it secretly." Zhang Rong said.

"Wow, Sogou is really powerful! Li Lifen is probably going to lose this time! Zhang Rong, are you confident that you can beat Wang Xiaohong?" Liu Meili asked again in a low voice.

"I still have confidence. My fastest average speed can reach 180 words!"

"That's fine, that's fine."

Liu Meili felt relieved. If it was true as Zhang Rong said, Nanxin Branch could finally win a first prize in an individual event.

But things turned out to be beyond her expectations.

Before the end of the competition in the morning, Wu Shengli was suddenly notified by the organizing committee to hold an emergency meeting. He came back ten minutes later.

"Director Wu, what did you talk about in the meeting?" Liu Meili asked curiously.

"The organizing committee just announced that Wang Xiaohong's results this morning are invalidated," Wu Shengli replied.

"Why?" Everyone was surprised.

"She used something called Sogou Input Method, which has a memory function. The organizing committee said that the unit's computers involve customer secrets, so they can no longer be used." Wu Shengli replied.

"What's the reason?!" Liu Meili seemed very angry.

Wu Shengli was a little puzzled. "Meili, why are you so angry? This matter has nothing to do with us, right?"

"Director Wu, you don't know that the secret weapon I mentioned last night was Zhang Rong using the Sogou input method to compete!"

"What?!" Wu Shengli looked at Zhang Rong, who was standing aside with the same grim expression, and immediately understood.

"That woman Liu Lifen must be behind this! She's afraid someone else will take her first place, so she's resorting to such despicable tactics! No, I'm going to go and reason with them!"

Liu Meili could no longer hold back and walked towards the organizing committee office in a rage.

When I entered the competition organizing committee office, I saw people arguing inside. It turned out that the female team leader of the Wuyang branch heard that her team member's results were cancelled, and she rushed over to argue. Liu Meili's joining made the room even more lively.

Chairman Yang of the Municipal Branch Labor Union is the deputy director of the organizing committee of this skills competition. The president of the bank is the director in name only, so he is in charge of the entire competition.

A grown man naturally couldn't stand the bombardment of two old women and was a little overwhelmed. At this time, a curly-haired woman interrupted, "What's the point of arguing? The organizing committee has already made a decision!"

"Li Lifen?!"

Only then did Liu Meili notice that the woman had entered the room at some point.

(End of this chapter)