Two or three kilograms of raw beef yielded one kilogram of cooked beef. As Li Long drove the tractor toward the County Seat, he had twenty or thirty kilograms of cooked beef and offal aboard. If he really had to eat it all himself, he couldn't finish it before it spoiled.
Clearly, the extra had been prepared for Gu Xiaoxia.
His family hadn't said so, but that was what they had done. After all, Li Long had brought the meat home. Although he had said he had left a beef leg in the County Seat, he had now established a separate household. Never mind keeping a leg-even keeping half the cow would have been only right.
That was how things stood. They were still family, and none of them would fall short when it came to affection and consideration.
The tractor also carried two buckets of diesel when he left. The large drum was in Li Jianguo's yard, and Li Long pumped out two small buckets every time he came back. He planned to buy another large drum at the Agricultural Machinery Station next time he returned and ran into Daqiang and the others, then keep it at the Big Courtyard for convenience. A 180-liter drum was difficult for one person to load or unload.
Over dinner that evening, Li Jianguo had also said that the watermelon seedlings had emerged and were growing well. In a few more days, once they had three to five leaves, they could thin them as Li Long had suggested. Quite a few villagers were waiting to laugh at their failure. Li Jianguo was determined to make a success of this cash crop.
As for the winter wheat, corn, oil sunflowers, and other crops, Li Long wasn't worried at all. His eldest brother and sister-in-law