Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1055 - 550: Call Someone_2

Chapter 1055: Chapter 550: Call Someone_2

"This won’t do, won’t do!" Teacher Shu insisted firmly. "We really can’t be reckless..."

"Um, Professor Shu..." Heizi started timidly by his side. "Our... our engineering project is a major one for our township; it’s the foundation of our future development and very important."

After a couple of sentences, his words became more fluent, "To lay a solid foundation, Brother Fei and I drove here early in the morning to ask for help. We’re willing to pay more as long as the job is done well. Besides, we have some special requirements. Our township suffered a disaster, and our harvest later this year won’t be good. That’s why Brother Fei thought of digging the river channel as a major project to give the locals a chance to earn some money. We hope that the design plan for the construction will rely on manual labor as much as possible..."

This guy was actually still a bit confused. Only on his way here did he find out that this trip to the Provincial City was to ask for design planning. So, he assumed that the design planning would spell out exactly how to do the construction—he had seen the kind of blueprints used by Ma Yongming for construction, where every aspect of how to build here and how to fix there was clearly depicted. He thought this would be the same...

As soon as he began speaking, the students who found his timid manner of speaking a bit amusing, and his nouveau riche attitude, couldn’t help but look down on him a little.

However, when they heard about the disaster, all the students from different places immediately felt a pang of sympathy—the floods this year were widespread. Even those who were not affected couldn’t help but feel compassion upon seeing those scenes of flooding.

And upon hearing that they also sought to give the locals a chance to earn money, the mockery and disdain in the students’ hearts had already flown away. By the time they heard the last amateurish comment, these students, all older than him and Yan Fei, were beginning to show some respect—young people are just like this, passionate and easily moved.

Professor Shu nodded in agreement upon hearing this, "You’re doing the right thing, absolutely the right thing. It’s better to teach someone to fish than to give them a fish. Providing work for those affected by the disaster is better than directly handing out relief money. Since you have this idea, then as for this money, I’m even more..."

Wang Jiuming hurriedly interjected, "Teacher Shu, they want to do something for their fellow villagers, you should support them even more. Besides, as a teacher, we students need your support. Let’s just settle this matter now, what do you say? When can you leave? I’ll arrange a vehicle directly from here, which is also convenient, what do you think?"

Professor Shu still wanted to talk, but Yan Fei said, "Professor Shu, while you help with the design planning, I’ll have to prepare for the other construction work. I think the sooner the better on our end. Oh, and I’m not sure what you’ll need to prepare in advance to assist us, but could you maybe have a senior give us some guidance? I’ll call back to have them start preparing?"

Seeing that the two of them weren’t giving him a chance to speak, Professor Shu felt helpless and dropped the topic for now. After all, this wasn’t a matter of a simple transaction, and future interactions would definitely last more than a day or two—creating the blueprints wasn’t something that could be resolved with a half-hour measurement. Even after the blueprints were designed, if there were any discrepancies during actual construction or if Yan Fei had new requirements necessitating changes to the plans, further communication would be needed.

He glanced at the students around him and said, "As you all heard, we’ll probably have to stay there for at least a week. Whoever can’t make it, speak up now. If you can go, get ready now. We need to be prepared to leave at any moment. Is anyone not going?"

The students looked at each other and almost in unison said, "I’m free, no problem going!"

Professor Shu waved his hand, "Alright then, pack these things up for me, and go get ready. Once you’re done, come and report to me."

He then called out to Wang Jiuming and Yan Fei, signaling Heizi too, "Let’s go inside, have a cup of tea and talk in detail."

Actually, there wasn’t much to talk about in detail; real planning would have to take place on-site to see the actual conditions. The rest was about when to depart. Professor Shu’s side was ready to leave as soon as the students packed up, whereas Yan Fei hadn’t expected things to go so smoothly on this trip and immediately called back to arrange accommodations for Professor Shu and his team.

Wang Jiuming was also busy, ready to pick up the phone to help arrange a vehicle, but he was stopped by Professor Shu, "You don’t need to arrange the vehicle. There’s a staff member at the school with a vehicle that we always use, a familiar face, and it’s not expensive. Let’s have him take us!"

The price was indeed not expensive, because Yan Fei felt that the vehicle Professor Shu mentioned, even if it were a little pricey, people would probably rather buy a donkey to travel than to ride in that windswept jalopy.

Thus, on the Provincial Road from the Provincial City to Sancha River, a Mercedes Benz S600 led the way, followed by what appeared to be a retired Mini-van that had been a taxi for many years.

Of course, Professor Shu had to be invited to sit at the front, with Heizi driving and Yan Fei accompanying. So among the students, aside from two girls who could fit in the Mercedes, the others were all in the awe-inspiring Mini-van—which was quite astonishing, as onlookers probably wanted to keep their distance for fear it would fall apart.

To be honest, Yan Fei would have preferred a more expensive car, as they couldn’t drive the mini-van too fast and had to wait for them from time to time.

By the time they had covered half of the distance, even Professor Shu started to feel embarrassed, "How about this, let’s go ahead and let them follow at their own pace!"

Yan Fei and Heizi had been thinking the same thing, but had been too embarrassed to say it. Even after Professor Shu suggested it, they still pretended to be concerned, "Should we drop you off first then come back to pick them up?"

Professor Shu chuckled, "It’s not like they can’t find the way; don’t worry about them. Let’s just get there first and talk then."

Yan Fei still pretended, "That works. Let’s drive slowly and stop for some food on the way, they might catch up!"

Professor Shu laughed heartily.

He had been a teacher all his life and had taught countless students. He could tell that these two young men were not the scheming type. Especially the young man driving the car, when he waited for the car behind, his impatience was obvious to anyone.

However, despite their impatience, they managed to keep their composure. To Professor Shu, this was already an admirable quality in young people.

They stopped to eat something on the road, and by the time the car arrived at the cattle farm, it was already around ten at night.

At the intersection, Yan Fei instructed Zhou Dalian to keep an eye out for the car behind.

As a result, when the students arrived, it was one o’clock in the morning.

Even so, bright and early the next morning, the students, led by Professor Shu, followed him to the bamboo forest.

As soon as they arrived, Professor Shu kept nodding, "Great place, great place! If only the water was better, it would really be good land with good water!"

Heizi explained while nodding and bowing, "It used to be polluted water. After that factory encountered some strange events and closed down, our Sancha River became clean..."

He had boldly spoken to Professor Shu in the Provincial City the day before, and now after traveling together, they had gotten even more familiar. In his words, the more cultured and high-level people are, the easier they are to get along with.

Why? Because they don’t look down on others, that’s what quality is about.

Lucky for him, this rascal had been in contact with two old professors, both of high esteem—Heizi couldn’t even imagine just how ’high-level’ these old folks he had met actually were.

Professor Shu just casually chatted for a bit and then gestured, "Let’s get to work..."

He set the students to start surveying the landscape!