By the time Li Long drove back to Ma County, the sun had already set.
There were now more buses running from Wu City to Stone City and Ma County. Since Wuyi Highway passed straight through Ma County, even though tickets for direct buses to Ma County stopped selling at six in the evening, Li Jianguo and the others had bought tickets for a bus to Ke City. They could simply get off along the way, and they had only paid the fare to Ma County. It worked out nicely.
After dropping Gu Xiaoxia and the others off at the Big Courtyard, Li Long drove the Jeep to the Bus Station to wait. A little over half an hour later, Li Jianguo and the others arrived.
Apparently, the afternoon bus drivers drove pretty fast too. Mainly, there were few vehicles on the road, and passengers did not demand much in the way of comfort. Usually, the people sitting in the back got bounced around badly, but they generally just accepted their bad luck.
The eighties and nineties were probably the decades when drivers enjoyed the best treatment. After that, well, it was downhill.
Li Long brought Li Jianguo and the others back to the Big Courtyard. Sister Yang had already cooked dinner-and an enormous amount of it. She knew the whole family would be hungry when they returned, so she had prepared ahead of time.
"Sister-in-law Yang, you really are capable," Liang Yuemei said sincerely. "I don't think Xiao Long and Xiaoxia's family could manage without you two anymore."
"Oh, it's nothing. What have I done? Xiao Long's capable and makes good money, Xiaoxia's a government official, and they pay me so much. Doing this little bit of work is nothing..." At the praise, Sister Yang tugged at her apron,