Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 292 - 284: Underground City Project 4

Liu Juan nodded seriously, "It’s definitely not enough with just the people we have now. I’ll recruit more aunties and grannies to help, but how should we settle the payment?"

"Hmm, let’s settle it according to work points. I’ll first set up the supermarket in Taoyuan Village, and everyone who works will be paid according to work points. The specific rates will be set by the finance department, and the vice team will handle the reviews."

"No problem."

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked up at Cheng Hao, knowing that her second brother was the most reliable.

The 132th Regiment is gradually maturing, and many things don’t require her personal intervention anymore... how nice.

After the meeting, Cheng Xiaoxiao returned to the newly renovated home.

When Cheng Jia saw Cheng Xiaoxiao return, his eyes lit up.

"Big Sister, Big Sister, I heard from Liangsen that you gave Uncle Genzi some blueprints again, for the production department to make something unusual. What is it?"

"Brother Jia, your big sister hasn’t eaten yet, don’t be so naughty," Mr. Cheng scolded his mischievous son.

Seeing his eldest daughter so busy and hardworking, he felt a mix of frustration and expectation when she couldn’t find peace at home. Brother Jia was getting more and more mischievous.

"Okay, Big Sister should eat first, then tell me after dinner," said Cheng Jia, not giving up and quickly helping his second sister bring the food.

By now the sky was completely dark, and they had already eaten dinner; this portion was specially set aside for Cheng Xiaoxiao.

"Our Brother Jia is so curious, does he want to become an inventor when he grows up?"

Cheng Xiaoxiao sat on a bamboo stool, picked up her chopsticks to start eating, still jokingly teasing her little brother.

Most likely, he was egged on by his bunch of little brothers to ask her questions.

"Even the teacher said that when I grow up, I can achieve scholarly honors, and later become an official to protect my big sister, dad, and second sister."

"The teacher told you to study hard and review your homework at home. So why aren’t you listening and instead asking what others are making? With your lack of diligence, you want to become an official? At such a young age, you shouldn’t brag!"

Cheng Xiaoyuan chimed in from the side.

"Not true, Second Sister, don’t say that. I’ve finished all my lessons, and I can recite everything the teacher taught us by heart.

It’s only because there are a few weak students that the teacher isn’t teaching new content. It’s not my lack of effort; you are just wrongfully accusing a good person."

"Alright, alright, you’re a good child; Second Sister was wrong."

The little brother was becoming harder to fool. You say one thing, and he retorts with ten more. Now, only the big sister’s words were respected by him.

"Is our Brother Jia that amazing? How about Big Sister quizzes you?"

Hearing that Big Sister was going to test him, Cheng Jia was both excited and nervous. The questions Big Sister asked weren’t easy to answer.

He cautiously asked, "If I answer correctly, will Big Sister have any rewards for me?"

"Rewards, eh, can be there or not, it all depends on whether you have the ability to earn them!"

Cheng Jia plucked up his courage, "Alright!"

"Then let’s start with a warm-up, recite the multiplication table."

Seeing that Big Sister was still eating, Cheng Jia obediently began reciting, "One times one is one, one times two is two, one times three is three..."

Cheng Xiaoxiao finished eating, and her little brother had finished the multiplication table recitation, all correct.

He seemed genuinely dedicated.

Out of nowhere, Cheng Xiaoxiao began to speak.

"Three people eat three buns in three-quarters of an hour. Calculating this way, how long would it take nine people to eat nine buns?"

"Three-quarters of an hour."

A worm doubles in size every day, reaching 20 inches in 20 days. How many days does it take to reach 10 inches?

"19 days."

"There are some apples in a basket, counting by fives shows one extra, counting by sevens also shows one extra. At least how many apples are in the basket?"

This time, Cheng Jia silently calculated for a while before giving the answer.

"36 apples."

Xiao Ming and Xiao Fang are racing up a ladder. Xiao Ming is on the second step when Xiao Fang is on the fourth. When Xiao Ming reaches the fifth step, where is Xiao Fang?

"This..."

Cheng Jia’s bright eyes twirled around as he silently recalculated the answer in his mind, then cautiously tried, "Is it the thirteenth step?"

"There are 60 birds on three trees. If four fly from the first tree to the second, and then seven fly from the second tree to the third, how many were originally on the first tree, the second tree, and the third tree?"

Cheng Xiaoyuan directly got dumbfounded by listening. She could still put her mind to the previous questions, as she also memorized the multiplication table, albeit not as fluently as her little brother. And some simple logical thinking questions were taught by the sisters.

But the questions Big Sister gave the little brother were too hard. She hadn’t figured out the answer yet when Brother Jia already did, but this question was too difficult; it muddled her whole mind up, not to mention answering it.

By this time, Cheng Jia also furrowed his little brows, continually analyzing the question but finding it wrong, still wrong?

"Big Sister, isn’t this question too hard?"

Cheng Xiaoyuan couldn’t help but speak up for her little brother.

"Rewards aren’t that easy to get. It’s okay if you can’t answer it now. Sleep on it, and maybe by tomorrow morning, you’ll have figured it out."

The little brother is full of energy all day long. Without some challenging questions, he wouldn’t have a sense of accomplishment. Besides, these are grade two or three elementary level questions, normal for today’s kids, whereas ancient children focused too much on governance and literature teaching.

This kind of teaching primarily transmitted talent to rulers, greatly limiting the development of individual managerial skills and not favoring cultivating special talents.

Now, educational concepts focus more on shaping a comprehensive knowledge system for individuals.

That’s why ancient people have left a saying that has been passed down to this day: a learned man has no use.

If someone truly has the talent for studying, then achieving scholarly honors and becoming an official is okay. But not everyone has that capability and opportunity. Some study their whole lives, their hair turning gray while still remaining a child student. For families not well-off, it’s more of a burden. Carrying this burden for life without success; how sad, truly wasting one’s life.

Reading and acquiring knowledge isn’t bad, but more important is teaching according to one’s aptitude. A country’s development requires all kinds of talents. If everyone only reads, where would technical talents come from?

So, talents in all fields are worth cultivating.

No one else can manage, but in her own team, she will definitely teach according to modern educational concepts, especially life skills: the saying that gentlemen stay away from the kitchen doesn’t exist here for her.

Everyone needs to eat, drink, excrete, and sleep. Who is cleaner than whom? Can’t figure out what ancient people’s minds were filled with, always thinking about useless things, raising people to be life idiots.

Thoughts wandered far. Don’t think about this mess... Rest well tonight, as tomorrow morning she must set off.

Oh, right, her reward hasn’t been claimed yet, been busy these days and didn’t have time to check.