1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 270 Learn from Comrade Li Duoyu

Lao Zeng took the yellow beads in his hand and said to the group of children: "You guys don't know the goods, these are dragon beads."

 The child replied: "Nonsense, the dragon ball comes from the dragon's mouth, how could it be inside the snail?"

“Don’t you understand this? Lord Dragon gave this to General Luo for temporary safekeeping. If you want, I’ll sell it to you for one dollar.”

 A group of children shook their heads.

“We don’t want it. We can buy as many beads as we want for one dollar.”

Lao Zeng specializes in handling trash fish in Xiasha Village, mainly drying various dried seafood, including dried snail slices.

Seeing that the group of children didn't want it, Lao Zeng put the yellow bead in his pocket and continued to knock the snail with the hammer.

Li Duoyu smiled and greeted him: "Old Zeng, the beads just now are very beautiful, let me take a look."

When the village director called him, Lao Zeng quickly took out the beads and said, "It's quite beautiful. I've been harvesting conchs for so many years, and I've only found three or four."

Li Duoyu took the yellow bead and observed it. The bead was not very round, a bit like a drop of water, but the color was quite right, and it even had flame patterns.

Seeing Li Duoyu looking at Huang Zhu, Lao Zeng quickly said: "Village director, if you like it, I will sell it to you cheaper for five yuan."

Li Duoyu's mouth twitched. When he sold the child, he heard clearly that it was only for one yuan.

　　Why did it become five yuan when I got to him? Did you think I wasn't here just now?

Li Duoyu directly returned the beads without saying a word, and turned around and left.

“Three yuan, this thing is really rare, it can’t be lower.”

Li Duoyu turned around and said seriously: "It's only fifty cents. I don't want even one cent more."

 “Fifty cents, that’s really not possible.”

“Then you can keep it for yourself. It’s of no use to me anyway, so I might as well buy a pearl.”

Seeing that Li Duoyu was really about to leave, Lao Zeng sighed: "Okay, just fifty cents. You are so rich, why are you so stingy?"

"Who told you to kill me like this? I was planning to charge you one yuan just now, but I didn't expect you to charge five yuan."

 Lao Zeng Ji Thief smiled: "I didn't learn it from you business people."

 “Okay, I bought it.”

Li Duoyu took out a golden five-cent coin and exchanged it for the yellow bead in Lao Zeng's hand.

 After buying the beads, Li Duoyu walked a few steps and couldn't help but touch his chest and found that his heart was beating very fast.

Just now I was really afraid that Lao Zeng would not sell it to him. Fortunately, in this era, information is relatively limited and no one knows the value of this kind of beads.

There is no local name for "Meile beads" yet. Just like what Lao Zeng said, the old fishermen would call these beads "Dragon beads".

Some people have obvious flame patterns on them, and some people call them "flame beads".

 But in this era, everyone prefers pearls, and few people pay attention to this kind of beads.

If calculated based on the price that would be speculated in later generations, Melo beads of this quality would cost at least two to three hundred yuan.

I don’t know if Lao Zeng will scold him to death when Melezhu becomes popular in the future.

But Lao Zeng is now over 50 years old, and he probably won’t be able to wait until the day Melozu becomes popular.

Li Duoyu looked at the bead in his hand. Although it was not very round, it was very suitable for making a necklace.

Li Duoyu took the bead and went directly to the bespectacled silversmith at the end of the village.

  He is the only remaining craftsman in the village. It may be that he was not persecuted during that special period because he often gave people longevity locks.

 The bracelet that the old lady gave to their brother must have been bought from him.

But there are few people in the village, and they cannot survive by relying on craftsmanship alone. Master Fu also has a small boat, and he usually goes to the sea to fish.

When Li Duoyu came to look for him at the end of the village, he was sorting out the sticky net. Judging from the situation, he should be going to sea.

"I guessed that you were about to come to me. Your son is almost one year old. Do you want to give him a longevity lock?"

“My parents have already prepared that lock.”

Li Duoyu took out the Melo bead he just bought and said to the silversmith, "Can you make this bead into a necklace?"

The master silversmith took the beads and looked at them: "Okay, no problem. But if you plan on perforating this necklace, you'd better make it into a bead hat."

Li Duoyu, who didn’t know anything about jewelry, asked, “What’s the difference between the two?”

“The ones with direct piercings will look a little less beautiful, while the ones with bead caps will look better, but the labor will be more expensive.”

"how much is it?"

“You have to choose a material first, whether it’s silver or gold.”

Li Duoyu was slightly startled: "Hey, you actually have gold here."

The master silversmith smiled and said: "In our industry, we still have some inventory, otherwise we won't be able to continue."

“How much does it cost to make a gold bead hat?”

The silversmith thought for a while, and then slapped him.

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Five yuan?"

The master silversmith said with a dark face: "What are you thinking about? Fifty, not a penny less."

 “It’s so expensive, what about the silver one?”

"In silver, it's much cheaper. The materials are half a yuan. If you add the labor, you get fifteen yuan."

Li Duoyu was troubled. In this era, social security was not very good. If Zhou Xiaoying wears a gold necklace when going out, doesn't it mean that it clearly says: I have money, come and rob me!

"Silver, when will it be ready?" The master silversmith struggled for a while, and then put down the sticky net in his arms: "Originally, I planned to go fishing in the past two days, but the village director asked me If you want a necklace, I won’t go to sea. I’ll come and get it the day after tomorrow.”

Li Duoyu gave sixteen pieces to the silversmith.

 “Why is there one more piece?”

 “I want to give it to my wife, please help me make it look good.”

 Speaking of it, I feel a little ashamed. After so many years of marriage, Li Duoyu has never given her a piece of jewelry.

“No problem, I can carve more lines on the bead hat, so that it looks more upscale.”

 “Then I’ll trouble the master.”

 When Li Duoyu came out of the silversmith's house, he heard the loudspeaker in the village shouting.

“Village Director, if you have something important to do, please come to the village committee. There are important people waiting for you here.”

 After hearing the news.

Li Duoyu frowned slightly and hurried directly towards the village committee. As a result, he saw several familiar figures at the door.

“Secretary Chen, Mayor Gao, why don’t you go in and sit down?”

Gao Tianyun, the second-in-command of Shangfeng Town, hummed: "Secretary Chen and Director Zhang, I and I made a special trip to greet you at the door."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly: "Mayor, this is not a joke. You are my leaders."

“You also know that we are your leaders, but when it was published in the newspaper, why didn’t you think of calling us together?”

Looking at Mayor Gao's resentful look, Chen Shulin couldn't help but laugh and said: "Old Gao, stop making trouble, you are still so childish at your age."

"Haha." Gao Tianyun continued: "Just kidding, just kidding, but it's such a big deal for your two villages to reconcile, at least you should inform us so that we can have fun too."

 “I was negligent in this matter.”

Li Duoyu turned his head and couldn't help but complain in his heart: The council of Chenjia Village has already made me miserable, and if you get involved again, it will probably be more troublesome.

Li Duoyu said quickly: "I'm sorry to keep you leaders waiting for so long. Let's go in first and I'll make you tea to apologize."

After arriving at the village committee, Secretary Chen glanced at Wang Xianjun’s office: “Party Secretary Wang, he’s not back yet.”

“Not yet, probably still in the hospital.”

Secretary Chen frowned: "Secretary Wang, it's not okay to keep going like this. If he doesn't come back after the New Year, Mayor Gao and I will go to the hospital to visit him."

Li Duoyu naturally understood what Secretary Chen meant, that is, if Wang Dapao was still unable to work after the Chinese New Year, the department would probably need to be replaced.

 In the village committee meeting room, after a group of leaders took their seats, Li Duoyu and other village cadres sat directly opposite them.

 After everyone has arrived.

Chen Shulin got straight to the point and said: "We are here this time for two things. The first thing is to commend the village cadres of Xiasha Village for their joint efforts in the reconciliation of the two villages.

 As for the second thing, some people here may already know it, but I still want to tell you formally.

 Two months later, on March 15th, the Nagasaki delegation from the island country will come to our Dandan Island to inspect the basic situation of kelp farming and eel farming. "

 After hearing this, village cadres Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping became excited.

“If they really come to our Dandan Island, then we have to be well prepared.”

Secretary Chen nodded and continued: "In order to better welcome the inspection team, the organization allocated a sum of money and decided to improve the sanitary conditions of Dandan Island, convert all the huts into public toilets, and build garbage stations."

Hearing this, Li Duoyu burst into tears on the spot: "But Secretary Chen, our village committee really has no money."

Seeing Li Duoyu crying about poverty, Mayor Gao couldn't hold it back: "Don't pretend, you kid. You applied for this funding. Once it's approved, I don't believe you don't know."

 “Hehe.” Li Duoyu giggled twice.

The village cadres in Xiasha Village all looked at Li Duoyu, always feeling that Li Duoyu had done another big thing without them knowing.

Zhang Jinsha couldn't help but ask: "Mayor Gao, how much money has the organization allocated?"

 “Five thousand.”

 After hearing this amount, the village cadres of Xiasha Village looked at each other with their eyes widened.

“This money was all applied for by our village director?”

Gao Tianyun said angrily: "You think giving so much money is a good thing. The more you give, the greater the responsibility. If you fail to do a good job in hygiene, not only will you be unlucky, but we will also be jointly and severally responsible."

Secretary Chen continued: "Mayor Gao is right. This task is relatively difficult. The organization hopes that you will improve the sanitation environment of Dandan Island before the end of the year."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu twitched the corner of his mouth: "Secretary Chen, no way, it should be done before the year?"

 Chen Shulin nodded.

 “That’s what it said.”

Li Duoyu calculated the time and found that it was less than thirty days before the Chinese New Year. Now he had to build four toilets, two garbage stations, clean the smelly ditches, kill flies, get rid of fleas, and repair the pier. It was quite a rush.

 “So, are there any difficulties?”

Li Duoyu frowned for a while and said, "We are pressed for time. We only have one bricklayer in the village. Can you ask the town committee to send two house builders to help?"

Gao Tianyun couldn't help but sigh: "You kid, you really don't want to suffer at all."

Chen Shulin couldn't help but laugh and said: "Lao Gao, taking advantage of others and making things convenient for your own people is a good cadre. In fact, both of us should learn from Comrade Li Duoyu."

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 (End of this chapter)