1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 3 Future Plans

 In the 1980s, there were no mobile phones or computers, entertainment venues were all outside, and there was a strong sense of humanity between people.

 After dinner.

 Many people gathered in the square in front of the Xiasha Village Temple.

 There is an old man playing four-color cards there.

Many children were jumping rubber bands, spinning tops and reading little books there, but what they liked most was watching the group of young people with toad glasses, afros and shoulder-length hair twisting and dancing in disco.

After washing the dishes, Zhou Xiaoying rubbed her sore waist. Seeing that Li Duoyu was still at home, she asked:

 “Didn’t you go to sea with Agui tonight?”

 “No, I won’t take away the goods from now on.” Li Duoyu replied.

Zhou Xiaoying was slightly startled. Is this the same Li Duoyu who just wants to make a lot of money and looks down on them who are earning dead wages?

Maybe you had a quarrel with Agui.

Although Zhou Xiaoying was worried, she didn't want to ask more about the man's affairs. She boiled a pot of hot water, poured it into a large wooden basin, and took a bath in the room.

 At this time, there was no bathroom yet.

She was wearing a small vest and was wiping her body through her clothes. Her skin was really white, unlike the fishermen on the island.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Xiaoying is not really from Dandan Island. Her parents were the first batch of educated youth who went to the mountains and countryside. Later, a shipwreck took her parents away.

Since Lao Li was close to Zhou Xiaoying's family, he adopted her.

Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying grew up together, and even slept in the same bed when they were young.

Due to the special social environment at that time and Zhou Xiaoying's beauty, Lao Li was worried that the unlearned Li Duoyu would not be able to find a wife, so he became selfish early on and talked to Xiaoying privately several times.

Without hesitation, Lao Li arranged for the marriage between the two of them. I remember that at the time of the wedding, half of the men on Dandan Island strongly opposed it.

  What's the use, people don't look down on you.

 Speaking of which, Zhou Xiaoying is still two years older than him. Perhaps because of the familiarity, he really didn't love this woman much in his previous life. Others said that his wife was very beautiful, but he didn't think it himself.

Now I look at it seriously, I really want to slap myself twice. This appearance is not inferior to that of Hong Kong and Taiwan movie stars.

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying lift up her clothes, Li Duoyu breathed a little quickly, but it was normal to think about it. He is now in his early twenties, which is the age when dragons and tigers are vigorous.

Zhou Xiaoying also realized that Li Duoyu had been staring at her, and her face turned red. She was afraid that he could not control it, so she stood up and pushed him out, closing the wooden door of the bedroom with her backhand.

Li Duoyu reluctantly walked out of the room and used the water pipe outside the door to cool himself down.

 The seaside heat in September has not yet receded.

 The sea breeze blows, smelling fishy and salty.

Li Duoyu sat on the stone strip in the courtyard and turned on the three-way radio. As a result, this imported product changed several channels to the enemy station, and the song "Seeing the Smoke Again" by Miss Deng was played.

 See smoke rising again

 Twilight covers the earth

Want to ask about the bursts of smoke

 At this time, the rebellious overseas provinces knew that force was not enough, so they began to use magic attacks, intending to corrupt our comrades from the spiritual world.

Miss Deng's melodious voice echoed in my ears, but when I listened to it again, I no longer felt the same yearning as before, but more of the vicissitudes of life.

 At night, the starry sky over the island is particularly shining, and the Milky Way visible to the naked eye hangs in the sky.

Through the glass of the stone house, Li Duoyu discovered that Zhou Xiaoying was holding a pen and sitting at the small wooden table writing non-stop, probably preparing lessons.

Last semester, two male teachers could not withstand the temptation and resigned to follow everyone else’s work, leading to a shortage of teachers.

 For a time, the school could not find a teacher to take over the class, so the principal had to let her take on the job first, serving as a class teacher and teaching Chinese and mathematics.

This made Li Duoyu very unhappy. Teachers' salary was based on hair per head, and the workload doubled, but the salary did not change much.

 What worries Li Duoyu the most is that his wife is now pregnant and will have trouble standing up for so many classes a day.

Not long after Li Duoyu sat down, the second sister-in-law next door immediately started thinking about her second brother.

“With your little salary, you can’t even afford a watch. Duoyu has a three-purpose machine. What do you have?”

“Marrying you is really bad luck for eight lifetimes.”

Little Pangdun, who was doing his homework, felt it was too noisy, so he came out to get some air, and sat on the stone bars in the courtyard with Li Duoyu, listening to the melodious sounds from across the strait.

 After listening for a while, the little fat man held his chin and couldn't help but sigh:

“Uncle, why do my parents always quarrel?”

 “The fortune teller has long said that their horoscopes are not compatible.”

 “Uncle, is Teresa Teng beautiful?”

 “Not as pretty as your aunt.”

"Uncle, you are lying. My father said that Teresa Teng is the most beautiful woman in the world." "It depends on your father, whether you dare to say it in front of your mother."

“Uncle, you seem to be a different person today.”

Li Duoyu looked at the little fat man in front of him in surprise. Could this kid be able to tell that he was reborn?

“Little brat, why are there so many problems? Believe it or not, I’ll buy a bunch of exercise books for you to do.”

 “Uncle, just be a human being.”

Seeing that Li Haoran was scared away by him, Li Duoyu smiled happily. Sure enough, this trick also worked well in the 1980s, but in this era, exercise books seemed to be a luxury. I wonder if there is still a little boy named Edison who was the king of inventions. story.

Li Duoyu looked at the dark sea in the distance and suddenly became quiet. Since God gave him a chance to start over, he must let his wife and children live a good life.

At present, he still has more than 100 Yuan Datou on hand. If he sells them all, it will be almost 2,500 yuan.

In this day and age, this is already a lot of money, but in a place like Shangfeng Town where "smuggling" is prevalent, this amount of money is a bit unappreciable.

 Agui, who took him on the goods with him, had at least three times his assets.

 But in this era, except for "stealing goods" and speculation, it is extremely difficult to make money through serious channels.

 The price of seafood is even more unimaginably low.

 In the past life, it was impossible to make tens of millions from a large yellow croaker net, but it is impossible to happen in this era.

 In the early 1980s, large yellow croaker was still one of the four major fishes. Although the production volume was not as high as in the 1960s and 1970s, there was still a lot of it.

Many people believe that the extinction of the large yellow croaker was caused by the fishing operation. In fact, as early as 1963, the country issued the "Order on Prohibiting the Fishing Operation."

What really has a fatal impact on the large yellow croaker is the motorization of fishing boats, fish finders, and the ever-changing various modern fishing gear, such as trawl nets, seine nets, spread nets, and gill nets.

 Of course there is the most important point.

This fish is too silly and easy to catch.

At that time, every time the fishing boats from Dandan Island went out to catch large yellow croakers, they would often catch tens of thousands of catties.

There were too many fish to fit in the cabin of the boat, and the fishermen couldn’t eat them all or sell them.

Especially in the summer, when there is a lack of freshness preservation methods, the spoiled shrimps are made into shrimp oil. If they cannot be sold, they can only be fed to pigs or made into salted fish.

I heard that on the day Li Duoyu was born, the fishing boats on Dandan Island caught the largest number of large yellow croakers in history, and the entire dock was packed.

 And the uneducated Lao Li was too lazy to name him, so he decided on the name Duoyu for him that day.

Li Duoyu remembers that when he was a child, he seemed to eat large yellow croaker all year round. When the season was right, he would eat fresh fish, and when the season was wrong, he would eat salted fish.

 Because he really ate too much, he had no appetite for the large yellow croaker for a long time.

 Fortunately, fishermen have been “taking away goods” recently.

 There are relatively few fishermen going out to sea to fish.

 The price of large yellow croaker has increased a bit.

 From 4 cents per catty to 6 cents per catty.

This is still the price that is sold to everyone. The purchase price of the fishmonger at the dock is even lower. If the fish situation is good and everyone returns home with a full load...

However, after 1983, there is no news about the large yellow croaker. It is estimated that it will be difficult to catch a large boat like before.

 The reason why seafood cannot be sold at high prices these days is also very simple: the lack of the most basic means of preservation and transportation.

 In the 1980s, not to mention Shangfeng Town, there was only one state-owned cold storage in the entire Rongcheng City. The number of ice blocks was limited. If there was any, it was first supplied to the state-owned fishing company.

It was not the turn of small fishermen like them at all. Some seafood was spoiled before getting off the boat. In order to prevent spoilage, fishermen began to salt it directly. This also resulted in the seafood eaten by many inland people being not fresh at all. All salty.

Li Duoyu thought seriously. Since he couldn’t make a lot of money from fishing, he would just do what he was best at, mariculture.

There happens to be a kind of sea vegetable that can be cultivated, and it will make the fishermen who cultivate this kind of sea vegetable very rich in the future.

 That’s right, it’s kelp.

 Li Duoyu’s brother-in-law is a researcher at the Lianjiang Institute of Fishery Science and Technology.

 If I remember correctly, at this time, they were in the exploratory stage of kelp cross-summer seedling cultivation.

 As a reborn person, Li Duoyu not only cooks well in a single dish, but also has a complete set of kelp farming technology.

 It seems it’s time to visit this brother-in-law who has the highest academic level among his relatives.

Please collect it and read it. This is really important for newcomers and new readers.

 (End of this chapter)