"Your dad went home today. You know that, right?" Li Long asked as he sat on the bed in Gu Xiaoxia's dorm room, watching her bustle about.
"Yes. When my dad and the others came back by truck at noon, they stopped here at the school. I'd just eaten lunch and got to see him."
"By truck?" Li Long was a little surprised. "They came back by truck?"
"Yes!" Gu Xiaoxia nodded, then asked him in puzzlement, "Weren't you the one who arranged it? All eleven of them came back together on a truck with their bedding. My dad said you arranged it... It wasn't you? Who else could it have been? None of them know anyone at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative..."
Li Long understood at once. He smiled and said:
"It must have been Section Chief Li at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He arranged this taibazi-weaving job... We get along pretty well. You could say we became friends after getting off on the wrong foot."
"He's quite a nice man." Gu Xiaoxia nodded. "He must have arranged the truck because he's on good terms with you."
Li Long nodded, then said:
"Now that the taibazi-weaving job is finished, I don't plan to go into the mountains again for a while. We'll see later. I'll rest back at the production team for a bit first. If you want to go into the mountains, we can go then."
"What about that cabin in the mountains? Someone won't move in, will they?"
"No. There aren't many people in the mountains to begin with," Li Long said. "People generally don't damage things up there, except for drifters who go there to dig medicinal herbs, and there aren't many of those. Oh, right..."
He brought in the basket of eggs and began