The family dinner broke up before dark.
Li Anguo had drunk too much, though he had not completely lost consciousness.
Chen Xingbang had simply thrown up right there in the room. He certainly could not drink any more.
Li Long stood there looking a little apologetic as he glanced at his sister Li Xia, who was supporting Chen Xingbang.
"I never expected Brother-in-law to be quite so..."
"Never mind him. Drinking too much is his own business," Li Xia told Li Long. "Come on, help me support him. We're sleeping in the East Room in your courtyard tonight."
The East Room in Li Long's courtyard was the room where Chen Lirong had previously slept with Xueping and Xueqin.
Before the twelfth lunar month, it had still been full of frozen fish. Could anyone sleep there?
"We cleared it out this morning. Your sister's family will stay there, and your second brother's family will stay at Old Ma's Place. Take your brother-in-law over to your place. I'll push the bicycle and take your second brother to the stable," Li Jianguo said. "Get some rest afterward. You drank quite a lot today too."
He certainly had. There were six five-hundred-gram liquor bottles on the floor, and when Li Long had returned, they had only drunk a little over one.
That meant they had drunk another four bottles and more together after Li Long came back.
Li Long alone had drunk more than two bottles-over two jin, more than a kilogram of liquor.
Calculating it that way, Li Long felt his capacity for liquor was pretty good. After all, before coming back, he had already had some at Old Ma's Place and several other homes. Although it had only been two or three cups at each, those little amounts added up.
But he