1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 254 It was just a drill

Having been busy all day, by the time Li Duoyu finished most of the things, the sky was already dark, with only a faint blue left in the west.

 “Everyone, please go home first and come back tomorrow.”

The second sister-in-law, who was still squeezing out the blood from the fish eggs, said, "It's still a little bit worse. Your brother and I will go back after finishing it."

 Chen Wenchao, who was sweating even though it was winter, also said with a smile: "Brother Yu, I'm not in a hurry. I'll steam these fish before leaving."

Li Duoyu frowned slightly: "Then I'll leave first."

Having only eaten some seafood for lunch, his stomach was already growling with hunger. If he didn't go back, his eyes might turn black.

 Before going home.

Li Duoyu came to the sampan boat at the dock and picked up the bag of seafood temporarily kept in the fish cage.

 What makes Li Duoyu dumbfounded is that due to his own negligence, he put swimming crabs and agouti in the same cage.

The original four big swimming crabs were all dismembered by the agoutifish. Each one was missing arms and legs and had to be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

Li Duoyu glanced at the agoutifish that was as bulging as a ball, and said to himself: "Even if I give you a decapitated meal, I will set you free later."

Li Duoyu, who was carrying the agouti, had just returned home when he smelled a burnt smell and a sour smell coming from the kitchen.

You don’t need to guess. Today, Aniang cooked salted rice and pickled vegetable and pork ribs soup that he likes very much.

Seeing Li Duoyu return home, Chen Huiying said slightly angrily: "You guys all came back so late, and all the salted rice turned into pot stickers. Are your brother and sister-in-law back?"

 “The two of them may have to be a little late today.”

Aniang couldn't help but sigh: "You, all of you only care about money now, and you don't even eat well. I don't even know how to cook for you."

"You can cook whatever you want. We are not picky eaters. Mom, please shovel a piece of pot sticker for me first."

The little fat man who was watching TV with the door closed, after hearing this, immediately said, "Grandma, give us some pot stickers too."

After hearing the sound, Li Duoyu opened the hall door and went in. He found three little ones hiding in the hall, secretly watching "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" with the sound turned up very quietly.

In this era, if you have a TV at home and don’t want to be disturbed, you can only watch it secretly with the door closed. Otherwise, if you turn it on loudly, it will definitely attract a lot of people.

Neighbors will naturally be embarrassed to knock on the door when they see you closing the door.

However, after "Blood Doubt" ended, Yangma introduced a new film "Huo Yuanjia". This is a martial arts film that is loved by both men, women and children.

After Li Haoran saw his uncle, he said hello: "Uncle, you are back."

The other two children were just the two younger sons of cousin Li Shuguang. After seeing Li Duoyu, they were a little nervous because they made faces at him when they moved the color TV away from their house.

 The two of them hesitated and said: "Uncle Duoyu."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Is the TV good to watch?"

 The three little ones nodded like chickens pecking at rice: "It looks good, it looks very good."

Seeing that their eyes were shining, Li Duoyu couldn't help but said: "Have you done your homework? I heard from your aunt that your grades have declined recently."

 Li Haoran grinned and said: "I have not regressed. I am very stable and have been around 60 points."

 The other two children said proudly: "We haven't changed much, we have always failed."

Li Duoyu was speechless for a moment, but he was also a scumbag himself and was really not qualified to criticize them.

 “After reading, remember to do your homework.”

After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he went to the kitchen, filled a bowl of steaming pickled vegetable and pork ribs soup and drank it. After the salty soup entered his stomach, he felt instantly relieved.

 Then, Li Duoyu ate three more bowls of salty rice, and then he felt a little full.

When he returned to the room, he found Zhou Xiaoying sitting in the bedroom with a sad face, lifting up her clothes and squeezing in, but it seemed like she couldn't squeeze out.

She is very distressed now. In the past, when there was too much milk, it would cause congestion and pain, but now there is less milk, and there is no congestion or bloating, but it is not enough for Xiao Tutu to drink.

　　Now little Tutu drinks at least two bottles of milk a day, but Zhou Xiaoying cannot express that much.

Li Duoyu glanced at the half-full bottle of milk and immediately understood why his wife was so sad.

“Xiaoying, I caught a big agouti today and made soup for you to drink. I will make sure you become a cow.”

“You are the cow. My mother-in-law has given me a lot of food these days, but it has no effect.”

“Have you rarely let little Tutu **** recently, and have you always fed her with a bottle?”

 Zhou Xiaoying nodded.

“I’ve been very busy recently, and Tutu keeps biting me, so I do use more bottles. However, does it have anything to do with the fact that I don’t have milk?”

 “Of course there is.”

Li Duoyu said casually: "It requires constant stimulation to produce milk. The more you use this bottle, the less and less it will naturally produce."

“There is also this saying, why don’t I know it? No, I use my own hands, isn’t it really exciting?”

 “Can I be the same as others?”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and looked at Li Duoyu. Men from other families usually didn't know anything about this kind of problem, but she found that her husband seemed to know a lot.

If we hadn’t grown up together, we would have known each other well. Those who didn’t know would have thought that he had been married before and had taken care of other women.

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying staring at him, Li Duoyu quickly laughed and said, "I also heard what others said. If you want me to stimulate you, maybe the milk will come."

Looking at Li Duoyu's evil smile, Zhou Xiaoying glared and said, "Why don't you look serious? The child is still young and doesn't understand. When he grows up, you can't say nonsense in front of him."

“It’s still a long time, so why worry? I’ll make you some agouti soup first. After you drink it later, maybe the milk will come.”

After finishing speaking, Li Duoyu came to the kitchen, gave the anchovy a last-minute care with the back of his knife, and then skinned it neatly.

When fishermen eat this kind of fish, they usually don’t pull out the thorns because it’s too troublesome. The thorns on this fish are different from those on hedgehogs. They are triangular and look a bit like caltrops, which are extremely difficult to pull out.

 If you have to remove the thorns, you will usually cook them until the fish skin becomes soft.

However, it is very painful to pull it out, because there are more than 300 large and small thorns in the entire body of the agouti.

One or two is fine, but a few more will really last forever.

 When he was working illegally in an island country, what Li Duoyu was most afraid of was meeting customers who ordered the anchovies. Every time someone ordered this kind of anchovy, Li Duoyu couldn't help but greet his family in his heart.

 After peeling off the skin.

Li Duoyu cut the fish skin into several pieces, added some ginger, and stewed it together with the fish meat in an aluminum pot.

While the fish was being stewed, Li Duoyu smelled the fishy smell of the sea, took off his clothes, and took a bath by the way.

Taking a bath in winter is not as comfortable as in summer. The well water is a bit scary because of the ice. I usually use a washbasin at home to wash.

Every time I come back from fishing, I often wash out a basin of dirty water with a fishy smell.

 After Li Duoyu finished taking a bath, the fish soup in the aluminum pot turned into a milky white soup, and the fish skin became soft and elastic. At first glance, it was full of collagen. I tried the taste of Li Duoyu and found it to be very fresh, with no fishy smell at all. Its umami taste is not inferior to its highly poisonous relative.

 “Xiaoying, come here to eat fish and soup.”

Zhou Xiaoying, who really couldn't express the milk, gave up milking and sat on the table to drink fish soup.

Just after taking a sip, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Why is this soup so delicious?"

Li Duoyu smiled: "It's not that the soup tastes good, it's that your husband is good at cooking. If someone else cooks it, he won't be able to taste it at all."

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "You are so skilled, why don't you just stop farming and become a chef in a hotel?"

Hearing the word chef, Li Duoyu frowned: "If a talented person like me becomes a chef, it will be of little use."

“I don’t know who it is, but I used to clamor all day long to go to the island country to be a chef, and also wanted to leave me alone on the island as a widow.”

Li Duoyu said awkwardly: "The past was before, and the present is now. How can they be the same?"

 “What’s different?”

When the two of them were talking to each other, little Tutu started crying, and Zhou Xiaoying just put down the spoon.

Li Duoyu then said, "Eat slowly and don't get stung. I'll just coax you."

After Li Duoyu came to the bedroom, he found that little Tutu had already stood up holding on to the bed board. Although he could not walk yet, he could stand for a long time and thought about "escape" every day.

Little Tutu felt aggrieved because no one played with him. When he saw Li Duoyu, he called out "Dad".

 Every time he heard him call "Dad", Li Duoyu was particularly happy: "Good son, Daddy is here."

 Because little Tutu was the first to call daddy, Zhou Xiaoying was angry and lost for a while.

Li Duoyu, as a "experienced person", knows very well that if a father spends enough time with his children and often teaches his son to call him daddy.

The probability of the child calling "Dad" is much higher than calling "Mom", and the reason is very simple.

 Because it is easier for babies to pronounce daddy than mommy.

Li Duoyu shook the rattle and made faces. Make him laugh.

 Xiao Tutu’s favorite is the “inflatable tiger”. Press the airbag and the plastic tiger will jump.

Every time he saw a tiger jumping, little Tutu would let out a sweet laugh and crawl after it.

 Because the dolphin soup was so delicious, Zhou Xiaoying accidentally finished both the fish soup and the fish skin.

After eating, she pinched the fat on her waist and frowned. She had eaten a lot of chicken, duck and fish these days to produce milk, and she felt like she had gained several pounds.

 Next, she scooped some boiling water into the tub, turned off the light, took off her top in the bedroom, and wiped herself.

Through the mosquito net, Zhou Xiaoying could clearly feel that Li Duoyu's eyes were always staring at her.

 “How can I take a shower if you keep looking at me like this?”

Li Duoyu was originally a little tired today, but after seeing this behind the scenes, he set up a small tent by himself.

“We are an old married couple now, so what’s the point of being embarrassed? You were always watching me when I was taking a shower.”

Zhou Xiaoying blushed and said, "No way, you have to turn on the light when you take a bath by yourself."

“Who is like you, who wipes himself and turns off the light?”

Li Duoyu in the mosquito net took a few more glances at Zhou Xiaoying, then turned around, patted the little ancestor gently, and hummed a lullaby.

  “In the blue sky and the Milky Way

 There is a small white boat

 There is an osmanthus tree on the boat."

 But the little ancestor’s eyes were wide open, and he kept looking like he wanted to play with him, and he laughed happily from time to time.

Li Duoyu felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he shouldn't have made him so excited. Now it would be difficult to coax him to sleep.

It took more than half an hour, and Li Duoyu's lips were almost dry before he coaxed the little ancestor to fall asleep.

 Xiaoying had already finished taking a shower and was sitting at the desk.

 Li Duoyu patted the bed.

 “It’s so late and I’m still not sleeping.”

“This is not a literacy class organized by your village committee. I have to prepare a little lesson, otherwise I won’t know how to teach it when I get to the podium.”

"They, just teach them casually, just teach them to read some words, then why do you do it seriously?"

“That’s not possible. They are all neighbors and relatives, and they all come to class. We can’t just deal with it casually.”

 “You come here first, I’ve put the child to sleep.”

Zhou Xiaoying glanced at him with disgust. He kept urging her, and she really couldn't prepare for lessons, so she put down her pen. As soon as she sat on the bed, she was pulled into the bed by Li Duoyu.

 “Have you taken a shower?”

 “It’s already been washed.”

 Not a while.

 Zhou Xiaoying got out of the bed, smoothed her hair that was scattered in front of her face, and asked, "Are you too tired recently?"

Although Xiaoying spoke very tactfully, Li Duoyu couldn't tell and said shamelessly:

"It was just an exercise, let me brew it, and I will definitely give you a five-star rating."

 “No, it’s too late. I have to go to class tomorrow. I want to go to bed.”

 “It’s only what time, why are you in a hurry.”

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "Then when I was preparing the lesson just now, you were too late."

The anxious Li Duoyu pushed Zhou Xiaoying back, who was turning around, and was about to start the next violent storm.

But at this moment, Zhang Jinsha, who was also a member of the village committee, ran over, knocked on their door, and shouted: "There are many fish, are you here?"

Li Duoyu was just about to get into the topic when he was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door. He was a little angry and didn't want to respond at all.

But Zhou Xiaoying shouted: "Youzai, he just fell asleep, let me wake him up."

Zhang Jinsha outside the door continued: "Sister-in-law, please call him. Someone at the end of the village is fighting with someone from the next village. If we don't go, something big will happen."

 (End of this chapter)