The morning after returning from the Liang Family's home, Li Long went to the team.
There really wasn't much going on in the team in winter. Apart from the occasional person catching fish in Little Haizi, or someone with nothing to do going to snare rabbits on Red Willow Flats to the east, everyone mostly stayed tucked away at home.
After all, with so much snow, there wasn't much they could do.
Passing Reed Lake, Li Long noticed that not even the reeds were left now.
Anything that could be sold had been cut down and taken away. The people of the Fourth Team were determined when it came to earning money and improving their lives.
He drove the tractor back to his own yard, opened the house, and went inside. It was quite warm.
There was a fire in the stove, burning strongly.
By then, Li Jianguo had come over. Entering the house and seeing Li Long standing beside the stove, he said:
"Dad said to build a fire every day, so your sister-in-law comes over and does it. One fire a day means that whenever you come back to stay, at least the house won't be damp."
Although they had taken every precaution when building the house, there was no getting around the local conditions. If nobody lived here all winter, when they opened it up at Start of Spring, there would most likely be fluffy alkali deposits growing on the floor.
Li Long told Li Jianguo:
"I'm planning to talk to Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng. Including Daqiang's tractor, that'll give us five tractors between us. I think Brother Yundong and Liang Dacheng should agree. That's enough for now. It's hard to pick out anyone else we can trust."
"Right. Besides, we wouldn't have the money for