After learning that another purchasing station had opened in the County Seat, Li Long grew curious.
He did not actually think there was anything wrong with someone else opening one. Ma County was small, but only compared with Stone City and Urumqi. With an area of over ten thousand square kilometers, the county was already enormous for an individual businessman like him. He could not handle all its resources alone.
Never mind one of him-even ten of him could not handle it all.
Early the next morning, Li Long got up and lit the stove while Gu Xiaoxia looked after Mingming and Haohao. After washing his hands, he went to the kitchen for an enamel mug, filled it halfway with water, then went out back to milk the goat.
By this time of year, ordinary households had stopped using their stoves to save coal. But things were different at Li Long's place. Mingming and Haohao slept restlessly at night, and he did not want them catching a chill, so he planned to keep the stove going until early April, when the weather had warmed up completely.
The two little Lambs were curious about their new surroundings and had already begun frolicking in the yard. Li Long spotted some little goat droppings in the vegetable beds, and the newly sprouted chives and celery tips showed signs of nibbling. He knew the two little fellows had begun exploring things to eat besides goat's milk.
That was a good thing.
When Li Long reached the dairy goat, she merely bleated and remained lying there chewing her cud.
Li Long got her to stand, stepped on her tether, then crouched down, preparing to wash her with the water in the enamel mug.
People were not that particular about such things back then. Perhaps the