The excitement stirred up by the call from the leader's secretary did not finally subside until the Purchasing Station opened on the eleventh day of the first lunar month.
With the Purchasing Station officially reopening, Gu Boyuan reluctantly left the village on the tenth. He reached the courtyard that afternoon and called Liang Shuangcheng and Sun Jiaqiang over to clear the snow together.
Between Lunar New Year's Eve and the tenth day of the first month, the County Seat had seen two more snowfalls. Fortunately, neither had been heavy. The three of them took less than an hour to more or less clear the front and back courtyards. With the Snow-Clearing Machine, the open areas were easy to plow. The main trouble was getting the snow out of the courtyard and dumping it outside after pushing it into the corners.
Snowmelt was only twenty-odd days away. They could not leave the snow in the courtyard, or water would run everywhere when it melted, creating a real nuisance.
Li Long was doing the same thing at home. This was one drawback of a big courtyard. Normally, they could sweep the snow against the walls, or even use it to build a snowman or a snow wall for Mingming and Haohao.
But with Snowmelt approaching, all the snow had to be cleared out. At the very least, whatever remained had to be piled onto the vegetable beds or flower beds, where it could melt straight into the soil.
On the eleventh, when the Purchasing Station opened, Li Long went over to help after breakfast and got quite a shock at the scene!
At least twenty or thirty people crowded outside the big iron gate. Most had come by bicycle, though some were on foot. Like Tie Lanhua before, they might have lived