Chapter 871, First Meeting

Translator: Silavin

 

Su Bai took out the teaching materials he’d organized all day yesterday and handed them over. “Xiao Yu, these are new teaching materials. You need to study them first.”

 

Yu Ying was actually the most exhausted one. Every time new teaching materials came out, she had to be the first to master them. Not only did she need to master the teaching material contents, she also had to be extremely familiar with them. Only then could she serve as a teacher.

 

“Understood, Shaman. What are this teaching session’s contents?” Yu Ying asked curiously.

 

Yu Ying had already studied numbers, simple Chinese Characters, and some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

 

Naturally, that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division were all single digits. They would not give everyone especially difficult problems at the start.

 

Simple Chinese Characters were also those commonly used characters, eating-related terms and so forth.

 

“This time the new content is Chinese word groups. After learning these, you’ll understand much more.” Su Bai opened up the characters.

 

He pointed at one of the word groups and began explaining: “For example, this one. This word group together is ‘dinner'(晚餐). Haven’t you learned two characters at once?”

 

Su Bai actually felt somewhat conflicted, because he felt the characters for ‘dinner’ was really a bit too difficult. The strokes above were also extremely numerous.

 

However, he later thought of a relatively simple method, simplifying the character for ‘dinner’.

 

He would wait until everyone finished learning the word ‘food’(食) and ‘night’ (晚), before truly teaching everyone the full character for ‘dinner’.

 

“So ‘dinner'(晚餐) is these two characters. They really do look complex.” Yu Ying kept frowning her willow-leaf eyebrows.

 

Yu Ying almost pressed her eyes up close, beginning to silently recite these characters’ strokes in her heart.

 

When she saw a character and felt it was difficult to write, it was because she felt the strokes were especially numerous. Clearly these two dinner characters had somewhat many strokes, even though the dinner character had been simplified.

 

“Actually, if you learn the stroke order well, it’s not difficult. Look, the first stroke of (晚). ‘ goes like this…” Su Bai began teaching stroke by stroke on paper.

 

He had extreme patience with Yu Ying. His tone when speaking with her was also extremely warm.

 

Time unknowingly passed. It had already reached dusk. A streak of orange-yellow sunset light reflected through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the living room.

 

The orange-yellow sunset kept falling on the white paper, falling on Yu Ying’s pink hair, falling on Su Bai’s straight nose bridge… This scene looked quite like something from a drawing, making people feel extremely pleasant.

 

“Shaman, the time is already quite late. I need to prepare dinner.” Yu Ying turned her head to look at the weather outside.

 

She suddenly felt somewhat guilty, because preparing dinner at this hour meant dinner would be eaten very late.

 

“No need to rush. I’m not hungry yet. Take your time.” Su Bai saw through her thoughts.

 

Although she had been with him for a year now, sometimes she’d still be a bit apprehensive.

 

Naturally, this apprehension wasn’t towards him, but rather feeling somewhat guilty if she felt she hadn’t done things well.

 

“Yes.” Yu Ying’s guilty heart received some comfort. Turning her head, she ran into the kitchen.

 

Su Bai watched Yu Ying’s departing back as she twisted her rear, smiling lightly. “I hope she relaxes herself sooner.”

 

He naturally did not hope she would act too restrained. That would make life feel too constricted.

 

“Next is improving the Tribe.” Su Bai furrowed his brow as he came to the floor-to-ceiling window.

 

He stood before the window for quite a while, then had a maid go deliver messages. He planned to hold the Flame Dragon Tribe’s first meeting.

 

“Step step step…”

 

Half an hour later, some of the Tribe’s high-ranking personnel had all gathered at the Restful Night Building.

 

They all looked somewhat bewildered, not knowing what this was about.

 

“Shaman, is this discussion about responding to the rainy season’s imminent arrival?” Yan Jiao asked first.

 

He sat around the table with others: Cang Shi, Qing Yan, Ye Jiu, Sha Hong and others—all attending the meeting.

 

Moreover, everyone sitting around a table like this was the first time. This feeling made him feel very strange.

 

Clearly when coming to the Restful Night Building previously, they’d all been standing. Sitting like now still felt a bit unaccustomed.

 

“Shaman, rest assured. Before the rainy season arrives, we’ll definitely prepare well.” Cang Shi also immediately said. He was equally puzzled, very curious about this discussion format.

 

“Calling you over this time isn’t only to discuss the rainy season. There are some more important matters to discuss.” Su Bai said seriously.

 

“Yes.” Everyone responded in unison for some unknown reason.

 

They rarely saw Shaman with such an expression. Generally Shaman was extremely approachable, but this time his expression was very different.

 

Deep black eyes revealed an unusual feeling. He was still a Shaman after all. Even at a young age, he still made people feel pressured.

 

“Tell me, where do our Tribe’s current food sources come from?” Su Bai asked first.

 

Although he was usually extremely approachable, when seriousness was needed, he still needed to be serious, such as right now.

 

“Previously it all relied on the Hunting Team going hunting. Now the food sources all rely on the Central Market.” Yan Jiao answered.

 

“Besides that, we rely on crops produced from our farmlands. This is also one of our main food sources.” Cang Shi also supplemented.

 

“Then do you think the current methods are better or worse than your previous hunts?” Su Bai continued asking.

 

“Naturally better. This way we don’t need to toil in the Hunting Ground.” Cang Shi immediately said.

 

He was the Hunting Team’s Boss. He had even deeper feelings about this point. Things were indeed much better than before.

 

“Moreover, we also don’t need to keep eating meat constantly. Being able to eat wheat is the happiest thing.” Yan Jiao said happily.

 

After trying the taste of wheat, he could no longer put down this type of food.

 

Although previously being able to eat meat was an extremely luxurious matter, after having wheat, he discovered that constantly eating meat truly was not what happiness meant.

 

Yan Jiao sometimes couldn’t help thinking if people from other Tribes knew his thoughts, would they cast hate-filled gazes at him?

 

Other Tribes had no way to eat their fill, let alone discuss being afraid of eating too much meat.

 

“Then what do you think about expanding wheat cultivation?”

 

Su Bai picked up a cup of tea and continued asking. “Also expanding the size of the Central Market. What do you think?”

 

The Tribe would expand more and more in future, and the population would also grow increasingly large. Although current food just matched everyone’s consumption, sooner or later it would be completely consumed. Preventive measures had to be taken in advance.