Mr. Hunter didn't really laugh at her, he was just joking. After laughing, he talked about the competition rewards: the first place received a bonus of 3,000, the second place received a thousand, and the third place received a bonus of 500.
Compared with the salary level of less than NZ$500 a month, the championship bonus is quite attractive.
"The champion will be eligible to represent Cooktown in the city-wide competition in Christchurch. If you can win the city-wide competition, that would be great. Not only will you get a bonus, but you will also have an award certificate signed by the Lord of Christchurch!"
Xu Yin is not interested in the certificate. She is more concerned about the bonus now.
Mr. Hunter twitched his lips: "The champion of the city-wide competition was rewarded five thousand last year. I don't know how much it will be this year, but I think it won't be less than five thousand. On the contrary, in the Canterbury Regional Competition, last year's reward was A pair of hand-operated wool shears made of solid gold.”
Pure gold wool shears? That's really good!
Xu Yin suddenly had a goal. If the long-term goal is to own a farm and ranch, then in the short term, it is pure golden sheep shearing.
To qualify for the Canterbury Division, you must first become the town champion and then the city champion.
So, over the next few days, she began preparing for the competition.
I heard from Mr. Hunter that in recent years, few players have used traditional wool shears to participate in competitions. Almost all players use electric clippers. However, the organizer stipulates that no change of clippers is allowed midway, otherwise it will be regarded as cheating.
Think about it, if the contestants prepare a bunch of electric clippers in advance and replace them when they need to be refueled, or when the clippers get hot, it will not be so friendly to players from poor families. After all, electric clippers are not cheap to purchase and maintain.
"Then I don't need electric clippers but manual wool shears, can I sign up?" Xu Yin asked.
Mr. Hunter said: "There is no limit to this. The reason why everyone uses electric ones is because manual cutting is too slow."
I added in my mind: Who is like you? You can pick up manual scissors and cut them non-stop. Not to mention your hand speed, it is like a perpetual motion machine.
Since she could compete using traditional wool shears, Xu Yin signed up.
After signing up, start the scene simulation every day and practice shearing hand speed. It must not only be fast, but also fast and clean.
I cut every day, and I don’t stop cutting for six hours a day.
Because I heard from Hunter that the regional competition has the longest time limit. In order to select the truly powerful sheep shearing champion, the contestants have to shear for five or six hours without stopping.
It can be seen that it is not that easy to obtain pure gold wool shears.
The problem is that there are so many sheep in Hunter Ranch for her to practice. All the sheep look like they have been shaved, and they are all bare. Even if they are willing to cut Xu Yin, they will cut them for her even if they have no hair. Xu Yin has no wool. If you cut it, why should you cut it if there is no hair?
After all, the Hunter family's ranch is a bit small.
Xu Yin sighed in her heart.
If only there were other sheep farms nearby for her to practice on.
Unfortunately, the nearest neighbor is not only two kilometers away, but also mainly raises dairy goats.
You can't just shave the hair off someone else's dairy goat just to practice, right?
Not to mention that the rancher wouldn't allow it, and she wasn't that crazy.
Mrs. Hunter noticed her eager desire to practice her skills and said with a smile: "If you are willing, you can work part-time at my uncle's ranch. His family raises 600 sheep, and they probably haven't finished shearing yet."
Xu Yin immediately thanked him.
Mrs. Hunter laughed and said, "I want to thank you too. You finished three days of work in one day, much faster than expected. The sheep didn't make any noise and were much easier to manage than before. Don't worry, until the competition day Come back again."
When Xu Yin went there, she not only helped Mrs. Hunter's uncle, Mr. Ivey, shear the remaining 400-plus sheep, but also helped Mr. Ivey's mother-in-law shear seven to eight hundred sheep.
The part-time job was originally settled on a daily basis, but Xu Yin's efficiency was so high that she could finish the tasks in one day that would take others three or four days to complete, which looked quite easy.
Before the competition day came, Xu Yin was going back to Cooktown. When Mr. Aiwei settled her salary, he doubled her salary.
Xu Yin took this small extra money and her hand speed as fast as a ghost to go back to Cooktown to participate in the sheep shearing competition.
After a month of practice, she can now shear twenty sheep an hour, averaging one sheep every three minutes. The speed is very stable.
I'm afraid no one would believe this result.
Old George has worked as a shearer for twenty years. At his fastest, he sheared fifteen sheep an hour.
That was his best record, and that year he finished fourth in Cooktown with this result.
Although he didn't win the prize, he was still two less than the first place winner.
I still used electric clippers. In the early years when I used traditional scissors to compete, it was considered fast if I could cut five or six pieces.
So I can’t imagine how Sean manages to shear a sheep’s wool in an average of three minutes? Wouldn't it be tiring to cut it to the back?
Xu Yin felt that the speed could be faster.
She once read a news article in some small modern world, saying that there was a sheep shearing champion in Australia who could shear a sheep in less than thirty seconds.
And she needed three minutes.
However, that person used an electric hair trimmer, which was much more advanced than the current electric hair trimmer. It could be used for five or six hours without getting hot. It was properly maintained and did not require oil lubrication during use.
Therefore, she wanted to continue to improve her speed. What she needed to improve was no longer hand speed, but tools.
After the competition was over, she thought about whether she could improve the existing electric clippers.
Now, she takes to the ring with traditional hand shears that have sheared more than a thousand sheep.
Not to mention the contestants were stunned, the judges almost laughed.
Got a traditional wool shear to compete in? Isn't this meant to be funny?
However, after a few days, the left side of their face hurts and the right side of their face hurts.
With a stable record of shearing twenty sheep per hour, Xu Yin was invincible in Canterbury.
She won three championships in a row, taking first place in Cooktown, Christchurch and Canterbury along the way.
Cooktown awarded her NZD 3,000, while Christchurch's winner's prize this year was raised to NZD 8,000. She received a total of NZD 11,000 plus a pair of pure gold wool shears.
She was envious and ashamed of those shearers who couldn't fuck her with electric clippers.
It almost caused internal strife among the competition organizers.
Some judges were unwilling to accept that the high prize money and pure gold wool shears were taken away by a Chinese international student, and demanded that Xu Yin's registration qualification be cancelled;
However, some judges were more fair and believed that the schedule did not stipulate that foreign students were not allowed to participate in the sheep shearing competition.
In fact, there are international students from all districts participating in the competition, but in previous years, no international students stood out and won prizes in the sheep shearing competition, so everyone didn't take it seriously.
This year a dark horse suddenly appeared and won one championship after another based on its strength. Is it necessary to temporarily change the rules of the competition? Will this competition still have credibility in the future?
After many heated discussions, in the end, this year's competition championship was still awarded to Xu Yin.
But starting next year, the schedule may change. This is just in case Xu Yin comes to compete again next year.
She is so young. If she comes to participate in the sheep shearing competition every year, what else will she do to others?
(End of chapter)
