Over the past two years, everyone on the team had come to know how good Li Long was at making things happen.
In fact, almost everyone had benefited. Without his knack for making things happen, the Fourth Team could not have had more funds than the other teams, nor could its villagers have been better off.
Even going out in their spare time to snare and chase rabbits or break holes in the ice to catch fish had started with Li Long.
Nobody got up early without something to gain. If Li Long had not made money catching fish, and had not bought rabbits and fish from them, the team members would not have ranged so far in winter. They would mostly have stayed at home or within their own settlement.
After all, with the cold weather and deep snow, wouldn't going far burn up energy?
It was only because Li Long had been around these past two years that everyone had found the motivation to break holes in the ice for fish and set rabbit snares.
There was money to be made!
Although Li Long was no longer buying fish or rabbits this year, everyone had already formed the habit. Going out and bringing back some rabbits and fish was pure income. Surely that beat losing money at cards?
To be honest, precisely because the Fourth Team's villagers had earned more than people on the other teams over the past two years, gamblers had already set their sights on the place.
Those people were no good at honest work, but ask them to come up with shady ways to make money, and each had more ideas than the last.
When Li Long expanded Old Ma's Place and plowed up the saline-alkali land, plenty of people had initially watched with