The large yard is divided into two parts, with "carving" written on the left and "assembly" on the right. The short and fat old man from the red light said: "After two competitions, there are still fifty participants left. Although the third competition is one, it is actually divided into two parts. First, everyone has to conduct a carving skill competition, sort out a ranking, and then conduct the assembly skills competition, and also a ranking. Finally, the rankings of the two events are combined to obtain a final overall competition ranking. The top 16 in this final ranking won the new manager of the four Lufangs of the Lu family. Everyone, work hard, all the teachers are now following me to enter the carving competition venue."

Fifty long wooden tables were arranged in the carved competition venue, with a lot of materials and knives on the table. The names of the contestants were pasted in the corners of the long wooden table. There were two small square wooden boxes at one end of the long wooden table, and a middle-aged man stood next to each long wooden table.

The short and fat old man, waiting for all the contestants to stand by his table, said loudly: "The content of the carving is spherical wooden beads. You must carefully look at the two small square wooden boxes at one end of the table. The size is written on the surface of the box, and there is a round hole in the middle of the box. Although the round holes of the two boxes have different sizes, the difference is very small. The wooden beads you carved must be placed on the two round holes. First, the round holes of the box with the word "big" written on it cannot let the wooden beads leak, and the round holes with the word "small" on it must leak the wooden beads carved. The number of wooden beads leaked to determine the ranking of the carvings. The time is half an hour, and now the incense is burning is timed."

The carving of this wooden bead looks simple, but Lu Chong found that the round holes on the box are very smooth and round, which means that if the wooden beads you are carving are not spherical, they cannot leak on the wooden box with the character "small". Once you change the carved wooden beads, they will easily leak on the wooden box with the character "big". Therefore, the carving of this wooden bead must be of extreme size and is very difficult.

Lu Chong tried to carve the wooden beads smoothly and roundly as much as possible. He put them on the big-character box and tried them without leaking them. He also tried them on the little box but they did not leak. The size was very close, so he quickly carved them according to the prototype of this wooden bead, and soon he carved hundreds of wooden beads of about the same size.

Lu Chong no longer carved the rest of the time, and specially modified the edges of these wooden beads. The first wooden bead was relatively slow. First, I put it on the big-character box and tried it without leaking it. Then I put it on the small-character box, but it still didn't leak it. After several consecutive modifications, the first wooden bead in the big-character box appeared.

The next step is much smoother. Although some people leaked into the big-character box because they were too small to be decorated, there were many modified wooden beads leaking into the small-character box. Lu Chong kept rotating his knives with his hands, and one wooden bead after another entered the small-character box. The middle-aged man standing aside and watching kept nodding, showing a very admirable expression on his face.

Half an hour later, everyone stopped their movements, and the monitoring personnel began to count the number of wooden beads in the small-character box, and then ranked the carving project. Lu Chong ranked third with the number of 122.

Before afternoon, fifty people came to the door of the assembly site. The short and fat old man from Red Light ordered people to take out a scroll. After opening the scroll, everyone saw a picture of a flying bird. There were more than a dozen different birds flying on the picture, including swallows and birds, geese and eagles, flying pigeons and egrets.

The short and fat old man from Hongguang said: "The assessment content of this assembly is the flying objects that our Lu family made in the past. Now many wooden flying objects have appeared in various state cities. We are one step behind others in this regard. We are also promoting development in this regard, so it is also the main production objects you will assemble in the future."

"The assessment time for this assembly is specified within one hour. Anything that has not been assembled in one hour will not be assembled. You should pay attention to watching the birds on this scroll. The assembled objects must be the same as those on the scroll. If the assembled within one hour, you can come out for test flights. The time for the objects to fly in the air is one stick of incense. Otherwise, there will be no assembly ranking. The first one will come out for test flights and meet the requirements will be the first place, and other rankings will be the same."

"The assembly site has five large rooms, and various carved wood chips and mechanism pieces are piled up in the room. Each of you can find materials for assembling objects in each room, but you must not make any signs or conversations with each other, otherwise there will be no assembly ranking. Well, now you can start the time and burn incense." After saying that, the old man turned around and issued an order to the monitoring staff next to him.

As expected, when I entered the assembly site, I saw five large rooms. Everyone entered different rooms separately and began to look for the materials they wanted to assemble. Lu Chong also followed some people into one of the rooms. The room seemed relatively empty, with only a mountain-like wooden material piled in the middle of the room. There were wood chips with various external structures of birds, and various large and small carved mechanical pieces with buckles. It was extremely difficult to select the required assembly materials from these very messy pairs of materials.

Lu Chong watched other people's choice of materials seriously. The first thing he considered was to try to avoid the objects that everyone was preparing to assemble, because you also chose flying objects that too many people were assembled, so the materials would not be easy to be fully equipped. So Lu Chong just randomly selected some mechanism pieces and did not rush to search for some materials in a fixed manner.

After observing the situation in five rooms in a row, Lu Chong had basically understood the objects that most people were preparing to assemble, and he also had some memories of the various carved wood chips and mechanism films in the five large rooms. He finally confirmed that the flying object to be assembled was a long-legged egret that few people assembled.

Everyone knows that the larger the size, the larger the weight, and the more mechanics are needed to ensure the flight time. However, this is an easy task for Lu Chong. Lu Chong has assembled flying objects that are much more complicated than this egret countless times, and even the mechanics inside the object are countless times more complicated.

Lu Chong quickly shuttled back and forth between the five large rooms, and spent a little time finally collecting all the materials to assemble the egret. Lu Chong came to a large room with a small number of people, searched for a remote corner, piled up all the assembled materials together, first assembled the appearance of the egret, leaving a vacant space at the bottom of the egret, skillfully assembled all the mechanical pieces in the egret's inner belly, and then sealed the bottom of the egret, so that a wooden flying egret was completed.

When Lu Chong came outside the assembly site, he saw a middle-aged man who was already conducting a test flight of a wooden swallow. The swallow was spinning lightly in the air, shaking and not falling down. After a stick of incense, the short and fat old man of red light determined that he was the first place in assembly.

When the short and fat old man with red light saw the long-legged egret that Lu Chong was preparing to test fly, the egret was flying smoothly in the air, without shaking at all after a stick of incense, the old man was shocked again by the young man who was surprised two years ago and immediately determined that Lu Chong was the second place in assembly.

After an hour, all the fifty people participating in the competition gathered outside the assembly site. After seeing the recording staff filling out the last record form, the short and fat old man said to everyone: "This time, the Lu Family Lufang manager competition is over. The final ranking of the competition will be announced tomorrow morning. Everyone can participate in the new manager's inauguration ceremony and the appointment of some deacons tomorrow, as well as establishing a clan family tree for the new manager."
Chapter completed!