Even relatives had different degrees of closeness; Second Older Brother couldn't be allowed to act recklessly
September 22 was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and also a Sunday.
Early that morning, Li Long drove his wife and children to Team 4.
After they arrived at the Li Family Courtyard, his eldest brother, Li Jianguo, gave him a job: take a few people to Little Haizi to catch crabs.
His second brother's family and his sister and brother-in-law's family were all coming over that day, so Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei had started preparing the food and drinks early.
It was already harvest season, but they didn't need to worry about the cooperative. There were people specifically responsible for that.
The corn and oil sunflowers from their own fields had all been brought to the Threshing Ground. More than half the oil sunflowers had been processed, leaving only a few days' work.
The corn, however, still needed quite a bit of work. There were no particularly advanced threshers available yet, so it was mostly done by hand.
Li Long hadn't put much effort into that area either, mainly because the market was small. In a few years, once the fully functional Kangmaiyin came out, it would harvest wheat, corn, and oil sunflowers alike, saving all that trouble.
That gave Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei a rare few days of leisure, and Gu Xiaoxia volunteered to stay and help.
Li Qiang was home too and volunteered to go crab fishing with Li Long and the others. Li Long took everyone in one vehicle-there weren't really many of them: Li Long, the two children, Li Qiang, Li Junhai, and Chen Qianjin.
On the way, he asked Li Qiang about what had happened afterward with the stamps. Li Qiang said there hadn't been much more to it.
As far as he knew, at least ten students at school had been in similar