In the following days, Li Hongjun's war buddies arrived one after another; even Chen Jing and his wife made their way over. They were welcomed just like Sun Dawei had been—treated to a meal at home before heading to the work site due to lack of space at the house, taking their belongings with them to live in the straw huts that Sun Dawei had constructed.
Including Chen Jing and his wife, sixteen people arrived in total. They thoughtfully allowed Chen Jing and his wife—who were the only couple—to occupy one of the straw huts by themselves, while the remaining fourteen men squeezed into the other three huts.
Meanwhile, the energetic land reclamation project at Shen Yunfang's farm had begun.
