1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 194 If you want a good relationship, you must have lubrication

 That night, with the help of Zhou Xiaoying, Li Duoyu obtained more than ten land contract agreements.

 Because these lands were allocated to farmers by the state, Li Duoyu could not buy them from them, but could only contract them.

Zhou Xiaoying was also very worried when she saw him completing so many contract agreements, "Are you going to start a new project again?"

 Li Duoyu nodded.

 And told Zhou Xiaoying directly about eel farming. Although she was a little worried about the investment being too large, she ultimately supported him.

“It’s okay, the investment failed, I’ll support you.”

Li Duoyu chuckled and said, "How to raise it."

Zhou Xiaoying took out the small treasury from behind the rice vat. It originally only had more than 200 yuan, but now more than a year later, it has accumulated 600 yuan.

 “That’s great, my resident rat, let me show you my savings.”

Li Duoyu took out the wooden box from the cabinet and placed a stack of large dumplings on the table, totaling more than three thousand yuan.

After seeing so much money, Zhou Xiaoying smacked her lips: "You didn't invest a lot, how come you still have so much money left."

 “Because your husband is great.”

 Li Duoyu took out a small diary from the box: "The money I earned is all in this small diary. Do you want to take a look at it?"

Zhou Xiaoying nodded. After opening the diary, her eyes widened. Every income and expenditure of Li Duoyu was densely written on it.

  September 1983

 Yuan Datou sold all of it to Agui for 2,200 yuan.

 October 1983

 Going to sea with my third uncle for six days, I earned 30 yuan.

 The credit union in town received a loan of 10,000 yuan.

  (Take 5000, save 5000)

  November 1983

 Catch big bass and earn 130 yuan.

  February 1984

 Selling fish on New Year’s Eve, earning 310 yuan.

  March 1984

  The first batch of kelp was sold for 2,241 yuan.

 In addition to income, each item of expenditure is also written in very detail.

 Buy Lao Ye’s fishing boat for 2,000 yuan.

Go to the county town to find my uncle, stay, eat, and buy imported cloth and a folding umbrella for a total of 35 yuan.

 Buy second-hand brown rope and float, 450 yuan.

  Caught a big perch and treated Wenchao and Dongqing to dinner, 8 yuan.

  100 Casuarina trees, 400 pieces.

 Chopping down trees, carrying goods, cooking in a big pot, 89 yuan.

 Kelp fields and fishing raft piling, 481 pieces.

Zhou Xiaoying was surprised: "When did you get into the habit of keeping accounts? You never counted money before."

Li Duoyu said seriously: "After all, I have a wife and children. How can I still be the same as before?"

 After saying that, he hugged Zhou Xiaoying with his right hand and became dishonest again.

 Zhou Xiaoying thought of the night when he was drunk, and patted his dog's paw hard: "It is indeed different from before, it is getting more and more oily."

“It’s not possible without oil. I heard people say that if you want to have a good relationship, you cannot lack lubrication.”

 Li Duoyu chuckled.

Zhou Xiaoying didn't react at first, but after she figured it out, she suddenly blushed and hurried back to the bedroom to coax Tutu to sleep.

 Li Duoyu’s accounting habit was forced out of him in the island country.

The cost of living in that **** place is very high. It’s really hard not to be careful with your budget. I can’t even bear to flush the toilet with water when I urinate.

 Li Duoyu took two stacks of unity.

 Bring a few packs of good cigarettes.

That night, my father and I went to Team 5 and Banyao of Xiasha Village and signed more than ten land contract contracts.    When signing a contract.

Most of the villagers are illiterate, such as Zhang Cuilan and the Zhao brothers who wanted to commit suicide by drinking pesticide.

 Liu Xiaolan’s mother, Liu Jinlan.

 But because Li Duoyu helped them recover part of the money they invested in abalone, although these villagers could not understand what was written in the contract, they still pressed their fingerprints readily.

Their trusting behavior made Li Duoyu suddenly feel guilty, because these lands will become very popular in the future.

 At the peak of shrimp and eel farming, the annual rent for each acre of land was several thousand yuan.

To prevent them from regretting in the future, Li Duoyu spent 2,000 yuan to pay the rent for five years in one go and rented the best freshwater breeding land on the island.

 Eel farming is generally divided into two methods: indoor and outdoor farming.

 The cost of indoor breeding is relatively high, and it requires building a factory building, and the ponds are also built with cement and bricks.

Temperature control facilities are also required, and the overall investment is too large. With Li Duoyu’s current financial resources, indoor breeding is not possible for the time being.

 The other type is outdoor breeding, and outdoor breeding is divided into cement ponds and earth ponds.

Li Duoyu plans to use the earth pond culture method. Although this method has a low yield, it is the most cost-effective and less troublesome to manage.

The only thing you have to worry about is extreme weather. Once there is a heavy rainstorm or typhoon, the possibility of the eels running out.

 It’s already the end of October.

The eel fry will arrive at Dandan Island in mid-December, so time is quite tight.

 The day after signing the contract.

Li Duoyu hired more than twenty people to level the land and clear away the weeds and trees.

 The next step was to start digging the pond.

 Due to the paucity of excavators in this era and the Ministry of War Preparedness, there were no large machinery factories at all.

There are not even a few excavators available in the entire county, and most of them are owned by public units and Bing Ge's homes, even if you have the ability to contact them.

But at this time, there was no ferry specifically designed to transport cars and excavators to Dandan Island.

 So if you want to dig a pond.

We can only rely on the hands of ordinary people to dig out the soil with **** after hoe.

 Once it involves manpower.

 The cost went up instantly.

Due to the physical work, each person needs at least two and a half yuan per day. For more than 20 people, the daily wages are more than fifty yuan.

And here, the boss has to provide lunch. Even if they use the cheapest salted rice and fish soup, the cost of a meal for more than 20 people will be nearly ten yuan.

 It’s only been a few days.

Li Duoyu felt like he was bankrupt. Now he might be the poorest person on the island. He could not afford even 100 yuan for what others call a ten thousand-yuan household.

 But the money-burning journey of eel farming has just begun.

 Next, he has to build an indoor breeding plant and build grading tanks for the precise breeding of eel fry.

 In addition to these, a special water tank must be built, all of which must be completed within this month.

Now he finally understands why those bosses don’t have much money in their pockets even though they do a lot of business.

 Because if you want to make the market bigger, you have to keep investing money, and the bigger the market is, the less cash you have on hand.

 After burning all the cash.

Li Duoyu could only go to the credit union in town and withdraw 5,000 yuan. If he burned all the 5,000 yuan and deducted the 20,000 yuan from the loan, he would be a real pauper.

Now, he is just waiting for the oysters to be sold to make money, to regain his health, and to develop his fishing business as soon as possible.

It just so happens that the weather has been good these days and the tide is strong, which is very suitable for fishing in the open sea. In addition, Shitou and Zhang Jinsha have urged us several times.

 We agreed to go fishing together tomorrow.

What Li Duoyu didn’t expect was that the two people originally wanted an immersive fishing package worth thirty yuan, but for some unknown reason, they changed it to a pure experience package worth fifteen yuan.

Li Duoyu did not feel that he was losing money, but was even happier. If you don’t cherish the opportunity to make money, don’t cherish it.

Tomorrow, Li Duoyu plans to go straight to the fishing spot with the most groupers, so that they can experience what it means to connect a pole and what it means to catch a big fish.

Due to the intensive revision of the previous chapter, part of the plot has been moved to this chapter. Please understand that friends who read the previous chapter at midnight last night can look back once or twice, or choose not to read it. It will not have much impact.

 (End of this chapter)