Team Leader Xu Chengjun put a lid on the matter and told Xu Haijun to give Ning Dawei half a bundle of the Achnatherum splendens he had cut.
Xu Haijun felt deeply wronged, but Xu Chengjun carried too much authority within the clan for him to refuse.
An apology was out of the question. Xu Haijun also made his position clear: he could give up the Jiji Grass, but not because he had taken any-it was because the team leader had ordered it. As for apologizing, that was absolutely impossible. Even if he had to leave the team, he would not apologize.
Things had become very tense, but the others on the team treated it as gossip, something to laugh about.
After all, the Xu and Ning families were fairly large clans within the team, each with several households sharing the surname. In the mixed communities of Northern Xinjiang's production teams, that counted as a large clan.
Among the other surnames, there were at most two or three related households. So they treated it as a joke anyway, since it was nothing serious.
Even an old village founder like Li Jianguo, who had seen plenty, thought it was just youngsters getting angry with each other. It was nothing. They might make up in a few days, since they saw each other all the time.
Li Long paid it little mind either, then asked Li Jianguo how the Big Broom work was going.
"I told them to bring over whatever they finished every day. It's been five days now, and I've taken in over seven hundred. I sent a few dozen back for failing inspection."
Averaged over five days, that was not many, but the first two days had gone into drying the Achnatherum splendens and preparing handles. That meant they