Over the past two days, the Li Family, and by extension the Tao Family, had become the talk of the team. First, the Li Family had bought the Stable, then hauled in several large cartloads of manure after the land allocation. When the Team-Based Production Distribution was held, they had paid in full for the team's best horse, Number Seventy-Six Red Horse. They had also spent forty-eight yuan buying the cart from the Qin Family, who had drawn it in the lottery.
With both a horse and a cart, just thinking how efficiently they would be able to work from now on made people envious!
Even the Tao Family had bought a donkey. Although they had not bought a cart, Tao Jianshe had already announced that they would use their own timber to have Qu the Carpenter build one now. In a couple of days, they would buy wheels at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative's hardware, electrical goods, and chemicals store, and that would be everything.
Everyone knew the Tao Family had benefited from their connection to the Li Family, but it was too late to say anything now.
Among the other households in the team, or rather the village, most who drew a major asset and wanted to keep it either owed the money or borrowed it. Others, like Li Jianguo in his previous life, reluctantly gave it up or settled for something less.
But this Team-Based Production Distribution also revealed a few quiet households that were actually quite well-off. Besides the Li Family, Wang the Miser's household had paid out of pocket for what they drew, and two other households had bought the team's horses and carts. Among them was the Bai family, who had lived here originally.
With those people as a backdrop, the Li Family no