After the meal, Li Long still insisted on arranging accommodation for everyone first. Then he took the truck driver and a truckload of seedlings to the Fourth Team.
When the truck reached his eldest brother's yard at the Fourth Team, Li Long was surprised. Why were there so many people in the yard?
Looking at those rather similar faces, Li Long immediately understood. Their relatives from back home had arrived.
It made sense. Although planting had not yet begun in Northern Xinjiang, spring was already in full bloom back home, and all sorts of expenses were coming up.
Rather than wait at home with nothing to do, they might as well come to Northern Xinjiang early. That meant one less mouth to feed back home, leaving more grain to spare.
By coming early, they could also find out what arrangements there were here. If things did not work out, it would not be too late to go somewhere else.
That was probably what they were thinking.
When they saw Li Long's GAZ vehicle and the truck behind it, Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, and the others all stood up. The relatives gathered beside them to watch.
Li Jianguo owning a GAZ vehicle had already surprised them and made them envious. Now another one had arrived, with a truck in tow. Incredible!
Li Long got out, and Li Jianguo asked,
"Back from Ili? Did everything go smoothly?"
"Very smoothly." Li Long smiled. "I brought a truckload of goji seedlings. They tolerate saline-alkali soil, just like white thorn. We have some newly reclaimed saline-alkali land, don't we? I thought we could plant them straight away and occupy the land first, see how it goes."
"That's quite a few seedlings, isn't it? How do we plant them?" Li Jianguo asked.
"Exactly. We've never planted