After explaining the situation to Meng Hai, Li Long was about to leave, but Meng Hai tried to take him to see an elderly villager and load up the Snow Lotuses.
"I'll be back tomorrow. I'll come find you after I finish my business, and we can talk about the Snow Lotuses then."
"All right, all right. Hurry home, then. Once the sun sets, it'll get cold." Meng Hai waved Li Long into the Jeep and watched it drive away before tucking his hands into his sleeves and heading back.
Ha, stopping him really was the right move. More work had come along!
He was already thinking about whom to recruit. Meng Hai actually knew that weaving Taibazi probably wouldn't last long. Although the Team Office and schools still used them, the country was developing so fast and producing so many tractors that making pushcarts would surely be easy, too.
Once the Taibazi work disappeared, they would need another way to earn money.
He Changqing and Meng Hai had been pondering this themselves, while also hoping to strengthen their ties with Li Long.
He was a capable man. He would surely have a solution.
And sure enough!
Whether there was much work or little, as long as there was some and he still remembered Qingshui River Village, that was enough.
Li Long returned to the Big Courtyard at just the right time. Gu Xiaoxia had only just come home, and Sister Yang had just finished cooking.
"Ah, in a couple more days, things won't be this easy." Gu Xiaoxia sighed. "While Xiao Fang isn't in school, she can help watch Mingming and Haohao when Sister Yang cooks. In a few days, Xiao Fang will start school, and when I'm at work..."
"Don't worry. I'll be home," Li Long said. "I'll