"I'll wire over the money for Mom and Dad's trip," Li Long said at the table that evening. "When I go into town in the next couple of days, I'll send a telegram and ask how things are going."
"All right. You can earn money, so I won't argue with you," Li Jianguo said, feeling somewhat guilty. "A lot of these things should have been my responsibility..."
"Exactly," Liang Yuemei said as she patched a hole in Li Qiang's clothes. "Xiao Long, a lot of this should have been up to your big brother and me..."
"What are you talking about?" Li Long waved a hand. "Then shouldn't Mom and Dad have been the ones raising me? But you two raised me all these years, didn't you? Besides, if you weren't farming my land for me, wouldn't it be sitting idle? We're family. There's no need for that kind of talk. Aren't we all just doing what we're good at now? I'm no good at farming. I just like hunting and catching fish, and I happened to catch a good time for it..."
That put an end to the subject.
Li Long would never think his big brother had taken advantage of him. If it hadn't been for Li Jianguo, he would probably still have been back in their hometown, going hungry one day and eating his fill the next. Forget having enough to eat and eating meat every day-there was no telling how many meals of white flour he would get in a month!
In his previous life, it had already been the early nineties when Li Long returned to his hometown. Even then, some families in the village had so little land that they couldn't count on eating white-flour steamed buns every day, and quite a few girls