Worried that his daughter didn't understand the situation, he told Qiao Yu about Ming's family situation. Finally, he said distressedly, "I've thought about it, and there's no place in the tribe that's suitable for Ming."
"Okay, I understand. I will have a good talk with him." Qiao Yu said.
Everyone was busy at this time. In the residential area, apart from her and Shan, and those who stayed at home due to health reasons, Ming was probably the only one who was most suitable for talking about things.
Qiao Yu stood up and walked next door.
Before she reached the door of the burning house, she saw Ming standing in front of the door, looking into the distance with a confused look on his face.
"Ming." she called out.
Ming turned around and was a little surprised to see Qiao Yu.
But he still nodded and replied, "Yu." His attitude was neither cold nor indifferent.
Qiao Yu walked up to him and said straight to the point: "I want to talk to you."
Ming nodded, turned around and went back into the house, with Qiao Yu following closely behind.
The two sat down facing each other at the round table.
Qiao Yu was still a little unaccustomed to discussing things like this. The eight-person table wasn't big, and the two of them were sitting too close together, facing each other. There was no tea between them to ease the awkwardness, and it wasn't as comfortable as sitting on the sofa facing each other.
But given the conditions, there's nothing we can do about it.
"I left the tribe in such a hurry that I left without having time to explain many things, and I didn't take care of you. Are you used to living in the tribe during this period?" Qiao Yu asked.
Ming had followed his wife's advice last night and had been planning to use a roundabout way to save the country and seek a position in the Fire Guard Hall. Now that Qiao Yu had come to him and asked with concern if he was used to it, he suddenly thought that perhaps he could bring it up with Qiao Yu.
He said, "I'm used to it. After all, the accommodation and food here are no worse than those in the Shanyin Tribe. I'm also not used to it. Although I wasn't the leader in the Shanyin Tribe before, I still managed some things. Although I'm an elder here, there's not much specific work for me to do."
He looked at Qiao Yu: "The other elders all have their own things to do. I wonder if Yu can arrange something for me?"
Qiao Yu nodded and said, "Actually, I was planning to arrange things for you when you came to the tribe. But it was delayed for a month once you left."
Ming's eyes lit up: "What's the matter?"
"I want to establish an assessment system for the team leaders." As she said this, she told Ming about the assessment system she had discussed with Shan.
Although Ming had never been a leader, he had served his father, who was a leader, for many years and was familiar with how to manage the tribe. Hearing Qiao Yu's words, he clapped his hands in approval, "That's a great idea."
Hui and Heiye's houses were both downstairs. Unwilling to accept their dismissal, they constantly sought to find fault within the tribe to discredit Qiao Yu's abilities. So, they knew about the team leader's bullying the team members the moment it first started, and they even came to tell Ming about it. Behind closed doors, the two of them mocked everyone in the Dragon Tribe, from the top leaders to the mid-level team leaders.
So Ming knew that this kind of thing happened in the tribe.
He had preferred to be suppressed by thunder rather than see the Shanyin tribe split, leading the people to unite without seeking the position of leader, simply because he was a compassionate and soft-hearted person. Consequently, he disliked small-time leaders like Zuo. Seeing that Qiao Yu had implemented this assessment system upon returning to the tribe and learning about this, he highly praised Qiao Yu and the plan.
"What do you want me to do for you?" he asked.
"Just supervise the implementation of this assessment plan." Qiao Yu said.
Qiao Yu's words were always strange. Although Ming didn't quite understand what she said, he understood her meaning.
He thought for a moment and shook his head. "While your 'assessment plan' is excellent, it's too complicated. I'm afraid it won't work."
Qiao Yu smiled and said, "That requires you to learn to read. Once you know how to read, write these things down with a pen. When you need to look at them, everything will be clear and understandable. You don't need to remember them in your head."
Although the assessment plan was only finalized today, it has always been Qiao Yu's plan to let Ming learn to read and then help with some clerical work.
Ming was very curious when he heard the word "literacy" again.
Not only did the original Shanyin tribe, but even the Taiyang tribe did not have writing.
During the meeting yesterday, although Ming recognized the necessity and importance of literacy emphasized by Qiao Yu, he still disagreed.
But now he thought about the connection between assessment and literacy, and suddenly he agreed.
He asked with interest, "Did you learn these characters from that big tribe in the north?"
"No." Qiao Yu said shamelessly again, "I created it myself."
She didn't want to discuss the issue any further and said to Ming Dao, "You have free time, just in time to learn how to read. So, I can take some time every day to teach you. If you learn well, we can open another class."
"Okay." Ming said excitedly.
The ground they lived in was rammed earth. Qiao Yu went out, picked up a stone, and came back, squatting by the wall. He said to Ming, "They haven't decided on their last names yet, so let's not worry about that for now. I'll teach you to learn their names."
As she spoke, she wrote Ming's own name first, then began writing the name of the first team leader, Shu, all the way to the sixth team leader, then to the breeding team, the pottery team, and so on. After writing all the team leaders' names, she said, "First, learn to recognize the characters. Look at them whenever you have time. You should learn to recognize any character I write. Once you know them, I will teach you how to write them."
She then wrote out the words "upper," "middle," and "lower," and explained their meanings to Ming: "The assessment is divided into these three levels. When the assessment comes, we'll give each team member three types of leaves, corresponding to upper, middle, and lower. They can vote for the leaf that corresponds to how they think the team leader is doing. After counting the votes, the one with the most votes will be the one to be written under the team leader's name."
"Once you all learn to read, I'll make a calendar. I'll have an assessment on the last day of every month."
Ming had been trained as a leader since he was young, and he had learned a lot of things, all of which required thinking, but he had never learned anything about hands-on work.
So compared to some people who have strong limbs but simple minds and are only willing to go out hunting but not use their brains, he is more interested in the words that Qiao Yu wrote on the ground.
He stared intently at the words on the ground and nodded, "Okay. I will definitely study hard."
Seeing his keen interest, Qiao Yu was very happy and said, "Read all the words I wrote once. I'll see if you read them correctly."
Ming wasn't stupid. Qiao Yu wrote the names of the first team leader and himself, starting with his own name and continuing down the list. Although he didn't recognize the characters at the top, he knew the order in which Qiao Yu wrote them. Each name was separated, and some names with two characters were placed close together, making it clear which corresponded to the team leader's name he knew. The last three characters were Shangzhongxia.
So he read it all the way through without any mistakes.
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