While the others skinned the goats, stripped the bones, cleaned the offal, and set big pots boiling at Harimu's place, Li Long drove the tractor, accompanied by Talihaal and another young man.
The grassy slopes they would mow today belonged to Talihaal's family and the other young man's family. Both pastures had already been checked, and the wooden stakes and stones had been cleared away.
The two had come both to guide Li Long and to go over the ground again for another inspection.
Li Long thought that was fine. After all, while this harvester was no delicate treasure, just a big, crude, hulking machine, it was their only one for mechanized work. In fact, before Wei Tianxing went to Kuytun Farm Machinery Factory, Li Long had wondered whether Factory Director Du had merely said offhand that they would stop making them. How could they refuse to manufacture one if an actual order came in?
Yet Wei Tianxing really hadn't managed to buy one!
So he still had to use this machine carefully. He really couldn't let it hit any stones. If a blade snapped, that would be trouble.
Watching the two young men carefully inspect the ground on horseback up ahead, Li Long drove the tractor behind them, mowing to its chugging rhythm.
There would still be some time between mowing the grass and having it dry, so they weren't in a hurry. Li Long reckoned that only once they finished mowing the last pasture would the grass in the first pasture Harimu and the others had cut be thoroughly dry.
They had already saved plenty of time anyway. Waiting a while was fine.
After mowing two slopes that morning, they headed back. There was no rush with this work, unlike harvesting wheat, when they had to meet targets