Chapter 25

When Li Long and Tao Daqiang appeared in the production team leading the horse cart one after another, quite a few children rushed towards the horse cart, while some rushed back to their own homes.

"Li Qiang, Li Qiang, your uncle is back!" Li Qiang was reminded by others again.

Li Qiang looked up at the horse cart in the distance, sniffed his nose, put away the old ox that was still spinning fast on the ice, and rushed towards the horse cart: "Uncle, uncle!"

Seeing Li Qiang rush to the front, Li Long grabbed a handful of candy from the satchel and handed it to him:

"Here, distribute it to your friends."

Li Qiang held the candy and barked as he ran back.

"Li Qiang, Li Qiang! Your uncle said he wants to distribute it to us!"

"That's right, give me one, just one! I'll give you a cigarette box to play with tomorrow!"

A group of children rushed out following Li Qiang, and Li Qiang enjoyed this moment.

Li Long smiled and took out another handful of candy from the satchel and handed it to Tao Daqiang:

"Daqiang, here, you take it."

Tao Daqiang hesitated, didn't refuse, he actually hadn't eaten candy for a long time either.

This time the horse cart arrived at the Tao family first.

What made Li Long and Tao Daqiang a bit surprised was that this time not only was Tao Jian She there, but Tao Daqiang's eldest brother, Tao Dayong, who had already separated the family, and his wife Ma Chunhong were also there.

"Yo, Li Long is here, Daqiang is back? This is..."

"Half of the wood on this cart is your family's." Li Long understood what was going on as soon as he saw it, and didn't talk nonsense, pointed to the cart and said:

"Since you are all here, let's unload the cart together."

Seeing so much wood on the cart, the faces of the Tao family were all blooming with joy. Yesterday it was just a few pieces of wood, and not big. This time half a cart, not little!

Several people worked together, half a cart of large and small wood was unloaded, the horse cart suddenly became light, Li Long used a rope to simply tie up the remaining ones, and prepared to go home.

Tao Jian She had already seen the frozen sheep under the cart, and there were things in another bag, but Li Long didn't speak and prepared to return, so he was a bit anxious, coughed lightly, and gave his eldest son Dayong a look.

Tao Dayong had no choice but to take the initiative to speak:

"That... Little Long, I see there are sheep and such on the cart, is there also a share for our Dayong's family?"

"Yeah, there's a leg of mutton." Li Long said while tying, "After I go home and unload the sheep's leg, let Daqiang come over to take it!"

"Only one leg?" Tao Jian She couldn't help but speak, "I see those two sheep..."

"Dad! That sheep was traded by Brother Long, and it has nothing to do with me!" Tao Daqiang was so ashamed. Why was his own family like this?

"Shut up! Went out to work, seeing has a share, you contributed, then you have to fight for your share!" Tao Jian She glared at Tao Daqiang, then looked at Li Long, seeing what explanation he would give.

"Uncle Jianshe, you wouldn't think that this sheep was really picked up by me, right?" Li Long turned his head and looked at Tao Jian She with a smile that wasn't a smile. "I gave Daqiang a leg of mutton because he contributed. Actually, I could also not give it, because I gave your family half of the wood, this is what Daqiang contributed and should get."

After finishing, he didn't explain much, led the horse cart and left the Tao family's courtyard.

Tao Jian She was retorted by Li Long and didn't react for a long time.

Tao Daqiang stomped his feet in anger and chased after him.

By the time Tao Jian She reacted, his youngest son was gone.

"Mixed kid, pissed me off!" Tao Jian She scolded, turned his head and entered the room.

Don't know if he was talking about Li Long, or talking about Tao Daqiang.

Tao Daqiang caught up with the horse cart and said sheepishly to Li Long:

"Brother Long, my dad..."

"It's fine Daqiang, your dad is your dad, you are you. Besides, your dad fighting for your interests isn't wrong, it's just that he's a bit greedy." Li Long actually wasn't angry, in this day and age, no family is rich. The saying "poverty breeds treacherous schemes, wealth grows conscience" is actually quite applicable sometimes.

Seeing that Li Long was really not angry, Tao Daqiang breathed a sigh of relief.

When driving the horse cart back to the Li family, Li Long found that there were still quite a few people at the door.

Li Jianguo was already waiting at the door, seeing Li Long and them coming over, hurriedly welcomed them, sized them up, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked:

"Didn't freeze, right?" "No, and even ate a good meal." Li Long whispered back.

"Haha, that's good." Li Jianguo smelled the mutton smell, knew that his younger brother should have had a good day, and smiled.

The horse cart was driven into the courtyard, soon the wood was unloaded, and many people saw the two sheep under the wood, and quite a bit of coal.

"You even got coal?" Li Jianguo was also a bit surprised.

"Ran into an acquaintance, he has a lot of coal at home, I traded things for it." With so many people present, Li Long said vaguely, "Anyway, it's not much."

"Yeah." Li Jianguo knew what was going on.

Someone watching the excitement couldn't hold back and asked:

"Little Long, is this sheep still picked up?"

"Pretty much." Li Long joked, "I've had good luck these two days."

"So easy to pick up? Then I'll go pick one up too, how did you enter the mountains?" Someone asked again.

"See there?" Li Long pointed to the mountain pass that could be seen here, "Just enter from there and it'll be fine."

!.

Looking at the mountain and running the horse to death. Without someone leading, if not knowing the road, even if seeing the mountain pass, one wouldn't know how to enter.

Even if finding the mountain pass, there are so many layers of mountains inside, every time walking one layer, it's very normal to get lost and take the wrong road.

After unloading the things cleanly, Li Long whispered to Li Jianguo:

"Brother, when unloading the sheep, give Daqiang a leg."

"Just one leg?" Li Jianguo was a bit puzzled.

"Just one leg is fine. In the future, he can come to our house to get meat to eat, now if he takes too much, he can't eat it either." Li Long whispered.

"Alright, I know, are you returning the horse cart?"

"Yeah, I'll go return the horse cart."

Li Long left Tao Daqiang at home, and went to return the horse cart himself. After returning the horse cart, he went to the team leader's house again.

"Little Long, is the cart driven back?" Xu Chengjun asked with a smile.

Li Long saw Xu Mingwa was there, took out a handful of fruit candy from his pocket and handed it to him:

"Mingwa, eat candy."

"Look at how you spoil the baby." Xu Chengjun said with a smile.

"Should be." Li Long said.

"Little Long, I'll tell you something, I think you might still want to borrow the horse cart, but just in this while, the horse cart in the team has already been borrowed out." Xu Chengjun's opening made Li Long a bit surprised.

But thinking about it, it's normal. His harvest these two days definitely made people jealous. This road isn't that hard to walk, so definitely someone else also wants to walk it.

"Is that so, then forget it." Li Long suddenly smiled, and then asked another thing:

"Team leader, I want to ask if you have any bicycle tickets, sewing machine tickets here?"

Borrowing the production team's horse cart all the time isn't a thing. When spring arrives, driving the horse cart will be a bit slow. If he can get a bicycle, then the speed of making money will be fast.

Of course, the money in his hand is still too little now, making money now is the kingly way.

"This ticket, I can ask around." Xu Chengjun didn't say he had it, nor did he say he didn't.

Li Long understood in seconds.

(End of chapter)