Chapter 474 - 23: Energy Storage Battery (Part 3)
Even if the long rainy season cannot fill the reservoir, the accumulated water is enough to support the pastoral tribes through the dry season without much trouble.
Among the many tribes, currently the pastoral tribe is enjoying the best treatment.
If he can’t even endure this hardship, then Chen Zhou will have to find someone else to do the job, as there are plenty of people eager for the work.
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The support for daily life is already considerable, and Chen Zhou is quite satisfied with the pastoral tribes’ main responsibilities.
Risking their lives to find sheep is enough to prove the pastoral tribes are serious and responsible.
When the new shepherd hut was built, he only instructed one thing—
Chinese language.
Due to their isolation from people and busy work schedule, the pastoral tribes speak terribly poor Chinese and barely recognize a few Chinese characters.
Chen Zhou couldn’t have Sunday give private lessons to the pastoral tribes, so he could only provide them with a pinyin chart and several annotated versions of common Chinese characters and words, asking them to study diligently at home in the evenings.
Moving into a newly built house naturally made the pastoral tribes feel flattered and grateful.
However, gratitude is one thing; whether they listen to Chen Zhou’s advice and study seriously is another.
Chen Zhou considers himself to have done his utmost, accomplishing many things other leaders couldn’t, and has practically solved many of the pastoral tribes’ life difficulties.
If, after all this effort, the pastoral tribes can’t squeeze out precious time to study Chinese, it can only prove that they’re hopelessly unable to improve.
Such people, even if temporarily holding the promising position of "Director of Animal Husbandry," certainly won’t last long, and will eventually be replaced by more ambitious tribes.
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After the completion of the pastoral tribes’ new house, the second project completed by the tribes was the new home for Saturday and Sunday.
During the last inspection of the hut, Chen Zhou found the interior space for the two was far too cramped.
When originally constructing huts on either side of the farmland, he never considered what facilities were needed, only using the huts like prison cells; the large glass window next to the wooden bed serves as evidence.
Now both Saturday and Sunday have become his trusted aides, yet they still live in such cramped little houses, not even as spacious as those of the tribes.
Seeing the paintings that had nowhere to be placed and had to be stacked and hung on the walls, along with the wooden boxes and racks for storage everywhere, Chen Zhou felt quite uneasy.
Therefore, he specially designed a large house for Saturday and Sunday, right next to "Gallows Square."
If a real town can be built on the island in the future, Saturday and Sunday will benefit from a prime location, owning a luxurious property in the "Central Business District."
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Besides the areas for storing cow and sheep milk, the pastoral tribes’ new house has only a kitchen and a small living room, with no other functional areas, and the layout is quite compact, prioritizing practicality, thus the construction speed was very fast.
Saturday and Sunday’s new home is different.
As the "little leaders," positioned just below one person among seven others on the island, they must have residences that match their status.
From April 4 to April 17, they were busy until the outside framework of their new house was completely built, with doors and windows still to be installed, and the interior remained empty with no furniture at all.
There was simply no time for decoration, because the dry season had already arrived, and Chen Zhou was eager to return to the factory site and resume work.
At noon on April 17, led by Chen Zhou, the tribes gathered in front of Saturday and Sunday’s new house to hold a self-deceiving completion ceremony.
After a simple lunch, everyone packed up various tools, pushed carts, and formed a not-so-large convoy, heading straight to the factory site.