After selling his fish on Stone City Old Street, Li Long turned toward the Department Store, planning to see what good things they had inside.
After making a circuit, Li Long stopped in the clothing and hats section.
A new batch of sun hats had arrived, and they looked quite pretty. Li Long picked one out for Gu Xiaoxia, then one each for Li Juan and Li Qiang.
For everyone else, himself included, Li Long simply bought five straw hats. Summer was here, and it would soon be time to harvest wheat and flax. These were better value for money.
He also went to the food section and bought six packets of soft Egg Cake, then carried them out and tied them to his bicycle's handlebars.
The Stone City Department Store had a bicycle shed with someone specifically assigned to watch the bicycles. Li Long had his gun slung over his back, and after coming out, he tied it to the bicycle's crossbar.
He hadn't run into anyone foolish enough to cause trouble while selling fish today, which left him a little disappointed. There had been some shifty-looking people, but with the Joint Defense Officers around, they had only wandered through Old Street. He hadn't spotted any particularly outrageous behavior.
The sweeping crackdown on crime in his previous life hadn't actually had much impact in Northern Xinjiang. Li Long had discussed it with others in his previous life, and one major reason was that most cities here were newly established, so social classes such as the privileged second generation hadn't formed.
Of course, the most important reason was that most people here at present had come from all over the country and had similar backgrounds. It also happened to be the reform and opening-up period, and everyone was busy with