1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 110 Two Colored Water (Third update)

 After listening to Chen Wenchao’s speech.

Li Duoyu thinks that in his family’s situation, it’s okay to stay at Liu Xiaolan’s house for a day or two. After all, they are still neighbors, but it will definitely not work if he stays for too long.

 Liu Xiaolan's mother originally had a strong opinion of him, and her brothers were not easy-going people.

　　The sale of my sister failed last time.

These brothers are all holding back their anger towards Chen Wenchao and have no place to vent their anger. Now that their house has collapsed, they are living in their house.

Just thinking about it, Li Duoyu felt that there was a strong smell of gunpowder, and there would certainly be a lot of cynicism.

 Li Duoyu asked: "What are you going to do next?"

 “Build a new house first?” Chen Wenchao replied.

“How much money do you have there? Do you have money to build a house?”

Chen Wenchao said: "Including what my grandma has here, there are almost five hundred of them."

Hearing this figure, Li Duoyu understood it instantly. He spent almost all the money he earned in the past six months and saved it all.

 In this era, being able to have a deposit of five hundred yuan is already more than most people.

There are many people on Dandan Island who do not have fishing boats. A family working as part-time workers may not be able to earn 500 yuan a year, let alone save 500 yuan.

Even an established primary school teacher like Zhou Xiaoying can only get more than 400 points a year.

Li Duoyu feels that Chen Wenchao loses because he has no relatives.

 In this era, relatives are really important. Just like Li Duoyu raising kelp, if there were not so many relatives to help him, he would not be able to raise it so smoothly.

However, it is not easy to build a house on the island.

Although Dandan Island is full of stones, you can’t just use them if you want.

You must first seek approval from the brigade.

 After passing, the brigade will designate you to a location.

 At this time, you can chisel the stone.

In this era, there were no cutting machines, and the stone strips were carved out by stonemasons with hammers and chisels.

 Very time-consuming and labor-intensive.

It can be said that half of the money spent on stone houses for fishermen on the seaside is entirely spent on stone materials.

The biggest craftsmanship is also on the stone. Whether a stone house is good or not depends entirely on the skill of the stone-cutting master.

 If you meet a good master, the stone hewn out will be straight and very comfortable to look at.

  If you encounter a half-empty bucket of water, or a stonemason who fishes for fish, the stones hewn out will really drive you to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Li Duoyu has some problems, and it becomes more serious after returning from an island country. Once he sees stones protruding from other people's stone houses, his condition becomes more serious.

I wanted to take an angle grinder and grind it flat.

Since the opening up, many fishermen on Dandan Island have made money and want to buy bigger houses. However, there are only two masons on the island and they are simply too busy. If they want to build a house, they have to make an appointment in advance.

 One is that Lao Cao from Xiasha Village is very skilled. He built most of the stone houses in Xiasha Village.

However, if you want to see Lao Cao now, you have to make an appointment at least two months in advance.

 The other one is Chen Daqing from Chenjiacun. The wages are expensive, the skills are poor, and the character is not very good. If you ask him to work, you have to be served with good tobacco and wine.

Li Duoyu thinks that if Chen Wenchao wants to build a house, he will probably go to Lao Cao.

In other words, if Chen Wenchao wants to build a new house now, it will take four months at the earliest to complete it.

"How about this? I'll lend you three hundred first. You can finalize the matter of building the house first, and then go to Lao Cao to make an appointment for the stones."

"If you plan to build a house, it won't be too embarrassing if you live at Xiaolan's house, and his mother will feel more at ease."

 In his previous life, Li Duoyu also borrowed money from others, but he was able to get back every sum.

 The main reason is that he has a principle of "borrowing three things but not borrowing two things, and helping the urgent but not the poor".

  To put it simply.

 It means that the other party really has no choice but to lend you money, or there is a high probability that he will pay you back.

 As for the kind of people who become poor because of laziness or become poor because of gambling, no matter how good the relationship is, they will never be borrowed. As for Chen Wenchao, Li Duoyu thinks that his character is definitely not a problem. He is definitely the kind of person who pays back money immediately.

“No, two hundred is enough.” Chen Wenchao said quickly: “It’s not that fast to build a house. If I work hard to make some money during this period, it should be enough.”

 Li Duoyu made a rough calculation.

To build a decent stone house in this era, in addition to stones, you have to go to the town to buy tiles and beams. Plus the workers' wages, it costs about one thousand yuan.

His little money is definitely not enough.

Li Duoyu sighed: "Let's go, I'll take you to make some money first."

“Why don’t we help these bamboos first?”

 Li Duoyu smiled: "What are you doing with it? Of course you have to find professionals to do professional things. We can't make a living out of this."

Chen Wenchao frowned and said, "If we hire a piling team, wouldn't it cost a lot of money?"

Li Duoyu explained to Chen Wenchao seriously: "You can't forget it. If you want to do everything by yourself, you will only get poorer and poorer.

With our skills, it might take ten days to drive these bamboo piles, and the effect would be very poor. However, if you hire a professional team to do this kind of thing, it can be done for you in two days.

If we had used these ten days to do what we are good at, we would have made back the money we spent on hiring the piling master. "

Chen Wenchao thought about it carefully. Although he didn't understand it very well, he felt that what Brother Yu said made sense.

But once he heard Brother Yu asking him to make money, Chen Wenchao's face instantly looked much better.

“Brother Yu, where can we make money now?”

 “Go to a place with two-colored water.”

 “What is two-color water?”

“First follow me to get the sticky net. When you get there, you will know what two-color water is.”

Li Duoyu went back and picked up several bags of sticky nets, as well as long lines.

 And when they got to the dock.

 In the morning, those who went out to sea to fish after the typhoon days almost all returned with a full load.

After seeing Li Duoyu, cousin Li Shuguang said: "Duoyu, you came out to fish at this hour. It's too late. You can't surpass me."

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

 “Hey, what’s the rush?”

Li Shuguang couldn't help but frown when he saw how confident he looked, feeling that this kid was definitely going to cause trouble again.

So he shamelessly followed behind him.

 “Damn, why are you following me?”

The cousin smiled and said: "Nothing, I just want to see where you go to catch fish so that I can learn from you."

 But this time, Li Duoyu did not go to the outer sea, but went to the inland sea of ​​Rongcheng.

 After driving for an hour.

 Finally arrived at the fishing spot Li Duoyu wanted.

This place is the estuary, where the river and the sea meet.

Standing on the boat, Chen Wenchao looked at the scene in front of him. It was exactly as Brother Yu said. There were really two colors of water on the sea.

 One side is turbid and yellowish,

 The other side is the normal sea water color.

 Although he grew up on an island, he has never seen such a magical scene since he was a child.

 After seeing this, cousin Li Shuguang felt that he had lost again. He thought a lot on the way here, but he never expected that Li Duoyu would come to such a place to fish.

Seeing that Li Duoyu had already started to lower the net, he said, "Why are you moving so fast?"

Li Duoyu joked: "I've taken over this area. If you want to set down the net, stay away from me."

Li Shuguang smiled helplessly, quickly found a good position, and quickly lowered the net to catch fish.

Third update, late but here!

 (End of this chapter)