The two brand-new The East Is Red 15 Horsepower small four-wheel tractors cost 13,600 yuan in total.
After Li Long paid, Jade Mountain River and Talihaal excitedly drove the tractors out of the factory.
They were in third gear, no longer as nervous as before, and now had something of a bold, unstoppable air.
But Li Long led the way ahead, keeping them from driving too fast. They still had to go to the oil depot to fill up and buy fuel.
The fuel in the two tractors would, at most, get them out of Stone City.
They bought two large drums of fuel at the oil depot. With the staff's help, they loaded and secured the drums on the tractors, filled the fuel tanks, then headed back into town.
They needed supplies. Li Long took Jade Mountain River and Talihaal to Ke Youmu's for milk tea and bought twenty nang flatbreads as well-Ke Youmu had a nang oven beside his Milk Tea Shop and sold nang too.
His nang did not sell as quickly as those from the nang oven in Ma County. He still hadn't sold all the dozens he had baked that morning.
Li Long simply bought everything he had left. Jade Mountain River and the others would be cutting hay afterward. Although the tractors would carry the harvesters, preparing meals and baking nang would inevitably take time. Bringing some nang along would save them plenty of trouble.
Ke Youmu hadn't seen Li Long in a long time either and was delighted to see him. Jade Mountain River and Talihaal were curious about his fluent Henan Province dialect and found it quite novel. Ke Youmu explained how he had come to speak that way and even sang a passage of Henan Opera on the spot, earning their