Although Guo Tiebing had assured Li Long that all those people had been arrested, Li Long still told the employees at the Purchasing Station and the Canned Food Factory to step up their nighttime patrols, just in case.
As for the reason, Li Long simply said that winter had arrived and more people were idling around, so they still needed to guard against petty theft.
The Big Courtyard was not much of a concern. It was diagonally across from the police station, after all, and few people had the nerve to come stirring up trouble there.
There was no trouble in the village either. In those days, there was not so much corrupting information coming in from outside. People still stuck together rather than living as isolated individuals. Villages retained some awareness of protecting themselves, and people were fairly willing to help one another. If someone dared go making trouble in another village without a leg to stand on, everyone really would turn on them.
In mid-December, Harimu drove to the Purchasing Station. He had actually been back for quite some time, but he now managed a fairly large number of cattle and sheep, so it had taken a while to get everything sorted out.
After driving into the Purchasing Station's back courtyard, Harimu opened the trunk and carried out stacks of wolf pelts, showing off his haul to Li Long with some pride.
"These were all shot by my herders at the start of winter. Those crossbows you gave me were a huge help.
"When we were getting ready to move pastures, those wolf packs probably had trouble catching wild mountain goats, so they kept coming around the edge of our pasture, trying to steal a few sheep to eat. Our herders shot them one by one.
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