Gu Xiaoyu helped her sister welcome visitors in the front courtyard. Although she was busy, although people often looked her over and occasionally sat down to ask about her private affairs, she found it rather interesting.
As she saw it, although these people from the Fourth Team might not know much about social etiquette and some of their questions touched on private matters, they generally showed her due respect and goodwill, asking out of concern for her.
It was completely different from the gossip-laden inquiries she had encountered before, so she spoke frankly about herself.
Gu Xiaoyu could sense two intertwined feelings in everyone's attitude toward her. Because she came from Yanjing, they respected her; because she was Gu Boyuan's daughter and Gu Xiaoxia's younger sister, those around her age were curious about her and felt quite close to her.
Some of the older people she met were genuinely concerned about her, too.
So Gu Xiaoyu was quite satisfied with the situation.
Li Long knew little about any of this. More than once that day, people had brought up subcontracting their land to the cooperative. He did not know whether they had arranged it beforehand or felt that three years of farming reclaimed wasteland had been enough to recoup their investment, and now that payments were due, they wanted to offload it.
Adding all those miscellaneous plots together, the cooperative might be able to take in some of the land already reclaimed around its current fields, bringing its total area to two thousand mu.
That was good news for the cooperative. After all, large, contiguous tracts were hard to come by, and they made everything from management to cultivation and cotton picking much easier.
But without exception, Li Long referred the matter to Xie Yundong, telling them to find time