Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1060 - 552

Chapter 1060: 552

He was still troubled, but Professor Shu suddenly sat up straight, "Do you think I can do it?"

Yan Fei was taken aback, "Teacher Shu, I’m serious, not joking. I really can’t find anyone capable of being responsible for such a big construction site!"

The most prestigious construction team in Sancha River now was Wang Jiuming’s. He was only capable of building houses and small factory buildings. For a really big project, you didn’t have to think twice to know he’d be overwhelmed. Despite having become Boss Ma and studying endlessly every day, this stuff can’t be mastered through theory alone; experience is essential.

Other than him, Yan Fei only knew one Boss Wang from Provincial City, the one who built his house there. But Yan Fei wasn’t looking for a boss; he wanted someone who could coordinate and arrange the workers to do their jobs. As for the workers, he intended to use people from Sancha River as much as possible – why let outsiders benefit from our resources? Letting his own villagers earn money would raise no objections!

So Yan Fei had no choice but to turn to Professor Shu, hoping he could introduce a cultured person with practical experience to be the general director of this project.

Don’t think this is unnecessary. It’s just like cooking at home. Do you prepare all the dishes before you start cooking, or do you prepare one dish while another is cooking, utilizing the time in between? The difference in time and effort is significant!

And the order of cooking dishes matters too. If you leave the hardest-to-cook dish until last, won’t the dishes you cooked first be cold by mealtime?

The yet-to-be-built River Heart Island, once construction begins, will have multiple activities taking place at the same time. There will be factory construction, cowshed building, land leveling, grass planting, river channel excavation, sand digging, and brick firing – a myriad of tasks!

If there’s someone who can oversee the bigger picture, who doesn’t have to do anything but give orders, informing all workers of what they should do and when to finish a task so as not to delay the overall construction progress – wouldn’t that let Yan Fei see his River Heart Island completed ahead of schedule?

But Yan Fei really just came to test the waters with Professor Shu, hoping the professor could introduce an experienced student. He was far from expecting Professor Shu to come out with such a statement.

Seeing Yan Fei’s somewhat bewildered expression, Professor Shu was taken aback, "The students I lead are primarily focused on internships. They wish to follow me to learn specialized knowledge, so I have to be responsible, right? If they only theorize behind closed doors at the school, they’ll be good-for-nothings once they graduate. So, it doesn’t matter where I, as a teacher, am. I only have a few students; those willing to come, come, those who prefer to stay on at the school to further their studies can do so. I think your place is really nice. Why not treat it like a vacation spot as well?"

Yan Fei was genuinely delighted.

In just a short two days, he’d already seen Professor Shu’s true expertise. Let aside anything else, just the idea of building a kiln to make bricks had him thoroughly impressed.

Yan Fei even felt that if Professor Shu weren’t training students, he could probably take a piece of paper right now and draw up a detailed plan for River Heart Island.

Really, he always thought so.

Whatever the students racked their brains to come up with, when it reached him, sometimes he would just lie on the recliner, without lifting his head, and point out the flaws in their plans. Then, based on the local conditions, he’d suggest better methods.

It would be one thing if it happened once or twice, but it was like this every time. Yan Fei would have doubted it otherwise – it must be that the professor had wandered around and sketched a rough blueprint in his head on his very first day here. After lying around drinking tea for a day, that blueprint was probably detailed enough to go straight to construction.

It wasn’t strange for Yan Fei to have such thoughts. It was as if a dinosaur were before him; what he saw with his eyes was the dinosaur, but his brain automatically dissected it into chunks of meat, clearly knowing how to stew each piece and what spices to use.

The principle is actually very simple. As the saying from the Textbook of the Oil Seller goes, "I have no other talents; I am just adept with my hands!"

Seeing Yan Fei’s surprised face, Professor Shu smiled, "Actually, these students already have more than enough theoretical knowledge. What remains is for them to validate this knowledge through practice. Just like you, what was your educational background before you started raising cattle?"

Yan Fei instantly felt awkward – a barely three-points-passing primary school graduate. But Professor Shu hadn’t been here long, and nobody had brought up the glorious history of Yan Sanfen, so surely he didn’t know.

"So, how is your theoretical knowledge now?" Professor Shu asked with a smile, "Actually, it’s all the same. The difference is that they learned theory first and then practice, while you learned theoretical knowledge through practice. Both approaches have their pros and cons. In the beginning, you had insufficient theoretical knowledge and must have experienced confusion. Just like them when they first get into practice. It sounds easy to link theory with practice, but it’s not so simple in reality."

Professor Shu was wrong on this point. Student Yan Sanfen never experienced any confusion. At the start, he was simply messing around, relying on the backing of the dinosaur world, which allowed his cattle-raising venture to go quite smoothly.

Of course, the effort he put in was plain to see, and the countless nights he spent in the Agricultural University library weren’t wasted. However, the existence of the dinosaur world ensured that his efforts had ample reward.