"Sis, you've got it so easy over the holidays!" Li Qiang said enviously as he looked at Li Juan.
As a high school student, Li Qiang had winter vacation homework, but Li Juan did not-or at least, not holiday homework in the traditional sense.
The children were grown now, and it was no longer appropriate for Li Juan and Li Qiang to share a room. So Li Jianguo spoke to Li Long and had Li Long's spare room cleaned out and a stove set up for Li Juan to stay there.
Li Long also brought this up with Li Jianguo, suggesting that they build a new house next year if they had time.
Li Jianguo neither agreed nor refused. As far as he was concerned, it made no difference whether they built a house.
After all, Li Juan had already gotten into university and left home. In another two years, Li Qiang would probably do the same. Why bother with a house then?
If both children got into university, they would have state-supplied grain rations afterward and would most likely never return to live here. Why go to all that trouble?
On this point, Li Jianguo simply could not understand Li Long's thinking.
If they could leave already, why keep their household registrations in the team? Did that little bit of land matter so much?
With the business Li Long was doing, surely he could make more than farming with hardly any effort?
Of course, now that the Cooperative was operating this way, he no longer thought like that. After all, someone was responsible for every aspect of its work. He did not have to take part in anything himself, yet he could still receive tens of thousands at the end of the year.
He was beginning to understand Li