Farmers in Northern Xinjiang increasingly trusted science in farming, so every township, town, and farm had farm supply stores.
Most of their owners came to the county seat to buy stock, either directly from the County Agricultural Supplies Company or from Li Long's purchasing station, buying everything they needed before hauling it back.
At the start of spring, the purchasing station's yard was extremely busy, with large-scale farmers buying supplies for themselves and shopkeepers buying wholesale to resell.
There were plenty of regulars, so people chatted while they waited.
They also picked up news here to share with their own customers back home, which made them well-informed people of sorts.
Most knew Li Long's background, so anyone chatting here had to start with, "The farmers in the Fourth Team really hit the jackpot this year," before moving on to anything else.
There was no other reason: as the beneficiaries of the county's only ten-thousand-mu rural renovation project, the Fourth Team's villagers were bound to be the envy of everyone else.
During last year's farmland renovation, the County Television Station had reported on it repeatedly, and the prefectural station had come to conduct interviews too. It had featured many times in both county and prefectural news, and since news reports back then ran for a whole week, naturally plenty of people remembered it.
Most were envious, a few were jealous, and a tiny number came asking about connections, hoping to get a project like that themselves.
Naturally, the resellers at the purchasing station were the best informed. From the extra remarks Dad, Li Qingxia, occasionally let slip, they had worked out that Li Long had made the project happen, and they all spread the word.
Making Li Long famous was not their main aim; mostly, they wanted to show off their