When Li Long left the Big Courtyard, he specifically reminded Gu Xiaoxia that it would be best not to let the mother and daughter know where it was. If she wanted to see them, she could just visit the Free Market. They had been settled in, and there was no need to get too close.
They were not relatives, after all.
Li Long's almost guarded attitude puzzled Gu Xiaoxia a little, but the impression he had built up before was quite dependable, so she agreed without thinking too much about it.
Li Long rode his bicycle home. Only Du Chunfang was in the yard.
"Ma, where's Dad?" Li Long asked Du Chunfang, who was chopping pig fodder, as he propped up his bicycle.
These days, Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang hauled in the nets every morning. Sometimes Du Chunfang helped, and sometimes she went to the vegetable garden or the fields out front to gather pig fodder.
The Production Team's fields here were large, and many of the weeds growing along the ridges were things pigs liked to eat. With a basket or a Urea Sack, she could gather a basketful in no time.
Although the Li Family had obtained plenty of feed, Du Chunfang felt it was still better to give the pigs some grass and such.
The Li Family's pigs grew fast, too. With ample feed, they had already reached seventy or eighty kilograms by September. In previous years, pigs only grew that big by the end of the year. This year, they might well reach over a hundred kilograms.
Li Long remembered that in his previous life, the team's villagers had raised pigs on nothing but grains such as corn, soybeans, and bran, along with leftover oilcake. Although they were considered lean-meat pigs, when they were slaughtered