Chapter 165 God said let there be Light
Now I know. Immediately went to call Li Ding and Zhebie, give our people all equipped with guns and ammunition, with all the men in the tribe, together by boat to the waterfall Mountain.
The whole island of Bukuk was now completely in our hands, and we took the boat to the spot where the three of them had camped, where the beach was narrow and deep enough to bring the boat directly to shore.
At the top of the sinkhole, Li Ding and Zhe Bei are left waiting with some people. The rest of us go down through the tunnel in the sinkhole.
When I reached the gap in the passage, I was surprised to find that stone steps had been piled up below, although they were not smooth enough. But it completely filled the gap.
"Blimey, did those guys get away?" Cui Bin exclaimed.
I felt a little uneasy, but on reflection there had been nothing unusual on the island all this time. Perhaps the great tribes who escaped from the sinkhole first went to the sea to find their own people, and when they found no one left, they made their own rafts and fled back to the great tribe.
"They must have run away." "The army is gone, and these people don't have the guts to stay on the island," I said.
"Better to be careful. I must search the house first." Cui bin is cautious. Led a bunch of people down, went straight to the house.
Walking down the stone steps, I found that the environment at the bottom of the sinkhole has been greatly changed. The heavy dust has been cleaned almost before, and the ground has revealed its original appearance. Even the pond has become clean, but there is no vitality. Thanks to some heavy rain.
"These people are really impressive. Even with a height of ten or twenty meters, they can build a road out of stones." "Old Cheng exclaimed.
I say: "this is a good thing, convenient we later in and out."
Cheng nodded approvingly and laughed.
I was amazed by the perseverance with which they made the stairs. As for this achievement, it is not unreasonable. They could build a wall of polished stone, a stone staircase, and there were no technical problems for them.
After Cui Bin came out of the house, he led the men into a crevice in the stone. Cheng and I led the others into the house. He took some people to the generator house to move things, and I took some people to clean the power lines everywhere.
We carried the things to the outside of the sinkhole, and Li Ding and others carried them to the boat by the sea, and then transported back to the cave in the river in batches.
Because there were so many things, we had to disassemble some big equipment before we could move it. We worked very hard for two days.
After finishing our work, we went back to the cave of the river. Under the direction of Lao Cheng, we reformed the cave, blocked the river and built a small dam.
The cave naturally became a generator room. Lao Cheng picked a few people he thought were smart, worked with him, and asked them to call him teacher.
I was sent out with Cui Bin, who was in charge of installing the line from the cave to the plateau. To protect the wires, they are threaded through bamboo tubes that are tied to tree trunks along the way.
I was in charge of wiring the tribe. I didn't know much about it. I was learning as I went along.
After we finished both, it took another ten days for the old cheng site to be officially completed.
That day, after dinner, Lao Cheng sent two of his students to open the gate in the cave. All of us gathered in the square, waiting for the electric lights to come on.
The assembly hall and the square are equipped with large light bulbs and are the most visually stunning places.
About half an hour later, the lights suddenly lit up, bright dazzling, just when we all want to cheer up, the lights went out again, but immediately lit up again. This happened several times before it settled down.
Looking at the light bulb, everyone was afraid to come out of the air for fear that it would go out again.
Old Cheng stood under the light bulb, murmuring. Suddenly he turned round and raised his hands: "Stable, it will not go out. From now on our tribe will have electricity."
Everyone cheered, especially the indigenous people, who had no idea that there was electricity in the world, something that could bring light at night.
"God said let there be light, and there was light." "Shouted Old Cheng excitedly.
The light fell on him in a halo. Especially after he shouted this sentence, the aborigines who had never seen electric lights ran to him and knelt down and kowtowed to him.
I felt my position threatened. I am not a power craver, but I am a leader. I don't think anyone can accept the sudden appearance of someone with more authority and popularity than I do.
Wu Wa came to me and asked in a low voice, "Chief, is Uncle Cheng really a god?"
"There are no gods and no ghosts in this world." I explained, "We have lights all over the place."
Wu Wa oohed, but her eyes were full of awe for old Cheng. The treehouse tribe, they've seen electric lights. But in the face of this scene, or show a strong emotional.
Cheng enjoyed the adoration enough to let the men rise.
"Come with me and I'll show you how to use this magic thing."
Cheng walked in front of the crowd like a sage leading a lost lamb, or Like Jesus on his way to preach.
Lucy came over to me, pulled my arm and said, "Lu Fei, Uncle Cheng has now become the spiritual leader of our tribe."
Afraid of feeling a little sad, I sent someone to turn off the big light bulb in the square and returned home with the two women.
But I soon came to realize that Cheng was a good man, but with a strong sense of vanity. I gave him enough respect within the tribe. I don't think he and I are going to go against each other. Since we do not have irreconcilable contradictions, there is no need to be jealous and jealous.
This thought opened my heart. He said to Lucie, "Don't think too much about it. Uncle Cheng has made a lot of contributions to the tribe, and he deserves it."
Lucy said, "I am worried that Uncle Cheng will swell. You know, people can change. A bad person can become a good person, a good person can become a bad person."
"Uncle Cheng probably doesn't want to be a tribal leader." "With his personality, I don't think he would do that," Zhang said.
"Stop thinking and go to sleep."
After I dismissed the women, I ran out for a walk and saw Cheng back in the square, sitting in the middle of the crowd, preaching loudly.
After standing for a while, I went home.
It was supposed to go to Zhang Yutong's room to sleep, but I went to Lucy's room.
I sit to the bed, she embrace me from the back: "husband, you successive two night come to me this here, not afraid of rain tong angry?"
I took her hand away, lay down and said, "I don't think religion can grow in our tribe."
Lucy gave a gasp of surprise, then said, "Oh, I see. So what are you going to do?"
"You go and fetch Iori Harto." I patted her on the arm.
"What?"
"Just go and get it. I want to talk to you three about something important." If the tribe cannot be religious, it must be secular.
Without asking any more questions, Lucie got dressed and went out. I went to zhang Yutong called up, and so she took the original cane according to weave and Li Ding over, I let them sit down at the table.
Tell them that nothing is more important than education. I want the three of them to teach in the Council room, starting tomorrow, and the tribesmen to study in the Council room for an hour every day after supper. The children were taught normally.
"Are we going to teach them Chinese?" The original cane according to weave said: "I malicious people a lot of Chinese."
"Words can teach something simple, arithmetic and so on." "But the most important thing is to establish a stable social order and rules in our tribe," I said. "We need to have moral values."
"That's right." Li Ding pounded the table: "Those aborigines have a very messy relationship. I even saw several people behave in a disorderly manner, without any sense of shame. Wuwa and his tribe are better."
I nodded and told the three women to teach the natives the Confucian way.