As night fell, a black curtain enveloped the entire sky, and stars began to hang on this dark canvas.
In Su Bai’s wooden house, many fruit oil lamps were lit, making the interior notably brighter.
Yu Ying sat obediently nearby, sewing linen while occasionally pouring warm water for the Shaman.
Yan Hua had just finished dinner and left the cabin, looking thoroughly satisfied. She knew she would surely sleep well tonight.
Su Bai chewed on his pencil tip, contemplating the next steps of his plan.
*Tap tap tap…* He tapped the pencil on the table, creating clear sounds, and muttered to himself, “We’ll need to consider drainage during the rainy season…”
A few days ago, Su Bai had inquired about the rainy season, which typically lasted for one to two months.
Most importantly, it would rain every single day without stopping, which posed a significant problem.
Su Bai sketched on his sheet of Wolf Tail Grass Paper, The layout of the system was already forming clearly in his mind.
It would be like a residential district, with houses placed in designated areas rather than built randomly, and clearly planned main roads.
“Every main road needs a drainage system. Otherwise, there will be flooding.” Su Bai said as he squinted his eyes.
He drew drainage pipes along each main road and marked so areas in black, representing cent.
“The main roads need to be paved with cent first. Otherwise, they’ll be muddy when it rains and difficult to traverse through” Su Bai muttered to himself.
When the rainy season arrives, it would rain every day, and mud roads would not be able to handle the heavy rainfall well.
Once it rained, the dirt roads would beco impassable with mud. Forget about walking, people would not even be able to leave their hos.
“In that case, we would need to speed up house construction. Seven houses before the rainy season is just too few…” Su Bai frowned.
With cent houses, they would not have to worry about dampness or leaks during the rainy season, and living conditions would be far more comfortable.
However, at their current pace, they could only build seven houses, which was far from enough.
Su Bai pursed his lips thoughtfully and continued muttering, “Seems like we’ll need to get the Tribe mbers to start building houses too. The current pace is just too slow.”
He suddenly thought about the nearly two thousand people from the Black Snake Tribe. [Why not put them all to work? Besides, they would be the ones living in these cent houses in the future. With their help, we should be able to build twenty more simple houses in about twenty days.]
Su Bai nodded with satisfaction at this thought and began writing recruitnt details on the sheet of paper.
Half an hour later, he finished writing the recruitnt conditions and contentedly put them away.
“Yu Ying, co here. I have sothing to ask you.” Su Bai called out.
Yu Ying imdiately put down her linen and stood up, asking, “Shaman, what would you like to know?”
“What season cos after the rainy season?” Su Bai wanted to understand this world’s seasons.
“After the rainy season cos the great snow season. There will be lots of snow and it will be super cold…” Yu Ying shivered just thinking about it.
The fox eared girl rembered how during the great snow season, she had to hide indoors every day, and even when wrapped in hay and Animal Hide, she still felt freezing cold.
Winter was the season she hated the most, with food being scarce and every day being miserable.
“So winter cos right after the rainy season?” Su Bai was surprised, wondering if all seasons in this primitive era simply followed this strange cycle.
“No, there will be about twenty more days without rain. Father calls it… calls it…” Yu Ying could not quite rember.
“The transition period, right?” Su Bai suggested.
Yu Ying nodded repeatedly, saying, “Yes, yes, that’s it – the transition period. Like right now, the rainy season starts in about twenty days.”
“Looks like we’ll have ti to prepare winter food supplies after the rainy season.” Su Bai nodded thoughtfully.
“The snow season is very cold, and we often don’t have enough to eat…” Yu Ying pouted, clearly not looking forward to winter.
“Don’t worry, you won’t go hungry or cold this winter.” Su Bai said with certainty.
“Winter?” Yu Ying asked, wondering.
“Just another term for snow season.” Su Bai nonchalantly explained as he suddenly felt the heavy weight of responsibility on his shoulders. [Ah, there is still so much to do… Beyond developing the entire Tribe, I have to feed over two thousand people. This will truly be a difficult task…]
Thinking of this reminded him of the wheat seeds. [If only we had a Shaman Technique to accelerate plant growth. If we had such a technique, we would be able to harvest multiple tis before such difficult seasons arrive.]
“Shaman, tomorrow is when our Tribe exchanges dried at with the Spotted Deer Tribe. We should exchange for more this ti,” Yu Ying said.
Su Bai raised his thick eyebrows and asked, “Oh? Why should we exchange for more this ti?”
“The rainy season will start in twenty-sothing days, and then we won’t be able to exchange food with the Spotted Deer Tribe. Shouldn’t we stock up in advance?” Yu Ying’s voice grew increasingly quiet.
This was her first ti discussing such matters with Su Bai. Previously, she only handled cooking, sewing linen, and heating water. She never participates in such discussions.
“En, well said. We definitely need to exchange for more food this ti, as we’re feeding far more people now.” Su Bai thoughtfully replied.
Yu Ying breathed a sigh of relief, happy that she had not said anything wrong. “Shaman, will we be exchanging ceramics this ti?”
“Yes, we can get more dried at that way. We don’t have enough linen right now, so we’ll have to use ceramics for the exchange.” Su Bai said.
Recently, because the Tribe mbers had moved from another location to the Tribal Ancestral Land, they had missed four days of linen production. This reduced their stock by several dozen rolls. Currently, they only had fifty rolls of linen, down from ninety. In other words, they would definitely have to use ceramics as an alternative.
“Shaman, since the Tribe is growing, should we recruit more people to help make linen?” Yu Ying continued asking.
Su Bai was curious about what was with this fox eared girl tonight. She was quite different from usual.
He nodded and asked, “Yu Ying, when did you start thinking about these things?”
The fox eared girl had never participated in such discussions before when she was around. It was not that he thought she should not, he was just very curious about this sudden change in ehr.
Yu Ying imdiately blushed, lowering her head slightly and saying softly, “Shaman, did I say sothing wrong?”
Su Bai shook his head and smiled, “You haven’t said anything wrong. Your suggestions are quite good.”
Although he had already planned for the things she had suggested, he was surprised she had thought about these.
“That’s good, I was worried I had said sothing wrong.” Yu Ying sighed in relief.
“Have you t anyone recently? You seem different,” Su Bai asked, curious.
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