Of course, part of the reason they were not delivering the fish today was that Li Long did not feel like working.
The original plan had been to set out tomorrow. Although everything was ready today, it would be a tiring trip, and Li Long felt it was better to stick to the plan.
Li Long and Li Jianguo packed a tonne of fish into sacks together. There was not much left, perhaps a little over a hundred kilograms by the look of it, and Li Long suggested leaving that unpacked.
They also put a hundred rabbits in one pile and the remainder in another.
"I'm taking a hundred and six this time. The extra six are for them," Li Long said. "As a favor."
"Fine." Li Jianguo understood his own abilities well in this regard. He could manage small-time trading, but he certainly could not match Li Long at this sort of business.
He just needed to raise his pigs and farm his fields properly.
They stacked the rabbits one by one inside the cart bed, then weighed them down with the sacks of fish. As usual, the cart shafts rested on a stool, one of the pieces of furniture made when Li Jianguo got married. Some of its pale-yellow wood-grain paint had peeled away, exposing the pine grain underneath, but the stool was still sturdy, without the slightest wobble.
Looking at the stool, Li Long thought that when spring came, he would have to haul back some timber to make furniture for his new home too.
No, he could not wait until spring. When the snow melted, the road from the production team to the mountains would be nothing but mud. At present, the stretch from the team to the township was still a dirt road, without even