1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 343 Blackout on the Island

 Li Duoyu unpacked the Walkman and checked it. It was indeed brand new. There was also a pair of headphones in the box.

This thing is an absolute rarity in this era, and many people have never seen headphones.

“Uncle Ma, do you have batteries and tapes here? Let me try to see if they are broken.”

Ma Youcai lowered his reading glasses and glanced sideways at him: "If it's really bad, I dare to sell you. You don't know. Those who work in our industry are most afraid of offending others."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "If we inspect the goods on site, none of us will suffer, and we will save ourselves the hassle."

Ma Youcai thought it made sense: "That's right. Wait for me and I'll get you two batteries."

 Not long after.

 Li Duoyu put the two Three Circle batteries given to him by Uncle Ma into his Walkman, put down a blank tape and started listening.

Li Duoyu originally thought it was a song, but before he listened to it for a while, something was wrong with his expression, as if there were ten thousand grass and mud horses galloping in his heart.

Seeing Li Duoyu's exaggerated expression, Ma Youcai worriedly said: "It's not really bad, let me take a look."

Li Duoyu quickly handed the thing to Uncle Ma, but Uncle Ma only listened to it for a few seconds and immediately took off his headphones.

"Don't look at me like this. It's not what you think. This tape is not mine."

 Li Duoyu sighed.

"Uncle Ma, I can understand you. I also like to read short stories, but yours is too exciting. Where was it recorded?"

Ma Youcai slapped his thigh directly: "It's really not me. It should have been recorded by my **** son using my three-way camera."

"I see."

“What do you know? I’ve already told you. It’s really not me. I want to know that there is something wrong with this tape. How can I still show it to you?”

After seeing that there was no problem with the machine, Li Duoyu readily paid for the Walkman and the 20 meters of fabric.

“Uncle Ma, I’m leaving first.”

Ma Youcai wanted to explain, but Li Duoyu ran away after paying the money, and then he realized: "Duoyu, please return the battery and tape to me."

“Uncle Ma, just give this to me. Our good brothers who go fishing at sea will definitely like it very much.”

Ma Youcai was angry and helpless: "Don't talk nonsense to others, do you know?"

“That’s for sure, we have had a revolutionary friendship.”

Ma Youcai held the 19-card Great Unity in his hand, but felt that the money was "incomparably heavy" and that his wise life was ruined in one moment.

At that moment, a carefree young man came to the store: "Dad, where is the tape I put in your store?"

Ma Youcai closed the shop door and picked up the hardest ruler in the fabric shop.

 “Dad, why are you closing the door?”

Ma Youcai looked murderous: "You piece of shit, I have to beat you to death today."

Li Duoyu really didn’t expect that when he came to buy a Walkman, he actually picked up a treasure.

 When their big ship is finished in the future, this thing can be put on the ship as a "treasure" to stabilize the ship.

 It takes a long time for a big ship to go out to sea. If you hold it in for a long time, young people will inevitably become angry. When the time comes, this tape will definitely be a hot commodity.

 Li Duoyu got on the last bus and headed to Qingkou Pier.

 Chen Wenchao had been waiting for him at the dock for a long time. He was holding a cage woven with bamboo strips in his hand, which contained five or six young hens. He should have bought it for Xiaolan to eat during her confinement period.

 Beside him, there were several fishmongers talking and laughing with him.

 Seeing these people, Li Duoyu felt really guilty. After all, he was the one who proposed the aquatic product processing plant next to him. It might be these people who told him the news about Old Man Mi.

 Everyone who knows him knows that the fishing boat belongs to him, so they would not deliberately block him here.

Li Duoyu hesitated for a while and then walked over.

Seeing Li Duoyu, Chen Wenchao said hello, and Lao Zhang, who was smoking, saw him and said with a smile:

“Duoyu, where have you been? I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

"I really didn't expect that this aquatic product processing plant was proposed by you. You must be so awesome. You didn't even tell us about such an awesome thing. If we hadn't worked in the factory, we would have heard the factory director talk about it. "I guess you really were kept in the dark."

Li Duoyu looked stunned and pointed at the nearby processing factory: "Have you all entered the factory?"

Lao Zhang smiled bitterly and said: "If we don't enter the factory, we will be drinking from the northwest. Now we are all salesmen in the processing factory."

Li Duoyu said with a smile: "It's good to join the factory. Once we have a staff, I might have to change my name and call you Manager Zhang."

 Lao Zhang sighed: “I don’t have that much freedom when I enter the factory. I have already had five meetings in less than two weeks since I started working.”

Li Duoyu smiled: "Just get used to it."

After chatting with fish traders like Lao Zhang for a while, Li Duoyu sailed back to Dandan Island.

 In the past, I took a passenger ship.

It will take at least half an hour to get back to the island. You can get on the fishing boat by yourself and it will only take fifteen minutes at most. If you use "Da Fei", ten minutes is probably enough.

When Li Duoyu returned to the fishing port of Dandan Island, it was almost eight o'clock. However, as soon as he parked the boat, he saw a funny scene.

Stone held a loudspeaker and shouted:

“Dear folks, brothers and sisters, tonight’s TV series finale, please turn off the refrigerator and don’t use the washing machine after eight o’clock.

There are a lot of lights on in the house, please turn off one or two.”

  Shitou and Li Qingguang each held a pack of cigarettes in their hands and visited households with large electrical appliances.

“Lao Lu, you have the most electrical appliances in your home. Remember to turn them off. It’ll be fine in an hour and a half.”

“Brother Yu, you are back. Do you want to watch TV together tonight? The finale is here.”

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "You guys work hard just to watch TV."

Shitou scratched his head: "We don't want to, but at night these days, the voltage in the village doesn't work. Everyone has missed several episodes. The finale is tonight."

Li Qingguang asked:

“Brother, your TV has been broken for several months. Has it been repaired? The color TV still looks comfortable.”

Li Duoyu said: "The repairman said that there is no spare parts and it cannot be repaired for the time being."

“Brother, I noticed that you don’t seem to like watching TV very much. I haven’t seen you watching it with us.”

 “I prefer reading comic books and novels.”

“That one is not as good as TV. All the women in the TV series are very beautiful. I really like the one with Huang Rong.”

Li Duoyu would not tell the two of them that he had read at least five versions of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

 When he was young, his favorites were Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong, and he thought they were very powerful.

 But as I get older, I like Ouyang Feng more and more, feeling that he is the most real person among them.

After Li Duoyu returned home after buying a lot of things, he thought he would be talked over by Zhou Xiaoying, but he didn't expect that she was in the bedroom, playing with little Tutu.

 Before she noticed, Li Duoyu hurriedly hid the cloth and walkman he had just bought under the cabinet, planning to give her a little surprise on her birthday.

 After hearing the noise outside.

Zhou Xiaoying took out a stick and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was Li Duoyu: "I thought there was a mouse in the house, but you came home and didn't even bark."

 “Want to give you a surprise.”

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "You haven't had dinner yet. The rice and vegetables are all heated in the pot for you."

Li Duoyu hugged Zhou Xiaoying on the spot and kissed her directly: "My wife is still kind to me."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned, broke away, and wiped the saliva on her face.

　　“Isn’t it disgusting? You made it all over my face.”

“What’s so disgusting? When we first got married, you were sticking your tongue out.”

Zhou Xiaoying blushed suddenly and was so angry that she wanted to step on him. She said angrily: "Hurry up and eat your food. After you finish eating, I will wash the dishes." "It's just two bowls, I'll just wash them." "

“If I always ask you to wash dishes and let the neighbors see it, my reputation outside will only get worse and worse. People have already started to criticize me. I won’t take care of my children and I won’t do any housework.”

“Who doesn’t have eyes? My wife is so beautiful and virtuous. There is no one in the entire Rongcheng City who dares to talk about her.”

Zhou Xiaoying felt embarrassed after hearing this. She went back to the bedroom to continue accompanying Xiao Tutu, but as soon as she arrived in the bedroom, she screamed loudly:

 “There are many fish, come here quickly!”

Li Duoyu thought something had happened and rushed over in fright. When he got to the bedroom, he realized that it was little Tutu who had stood up on his own.

 Zhou Xiaoying said excitedly: "Our son can stand up on his own."

 He was still holding the inflatable tiger toy in his hand. Little Tutu stood up alone and took the first step carefully.

 My center of gravity was unstable and I almost fell down, but fortunately, I was able to support myself on the ground with both hands.

Zhou Xiaoying was so frightened that she immediately went to help him, but Li Duoyu quickly held her back.

"Do not worry."

Little Tutu held back her strength, stood up again, and took another small step. This time she didn't fall.

Little Tutu, who could walk, seemed to have discovered a new world. He walked slowly towards the two of them, with a smile on his face, looking very happy, and he also let out a sharp laugh, like Celebrating that I can walk again.

 Li Duoyu felt an indescribable feeling when he saw this scene.

Li Duoyu opened his arms and smiled like an old father: "Tutu, come to daddy."

As soon as Li Duoyu finished speaking, Xiao Tutu glanced at him, then turned around and walked towards his mother.

 In the first few steps, I could only walk slowly, but later I actually started running quickly, and before falling, I hugged his mother's thigh.

 Zhou Xiaoying happily picked him up and kissed him several times on the cheek: "Our family Tutu can also walk."

Li Duoyu said: "Xiaoying, let him down and let him take another two steps to see."

"Why are you so anxious? It will be difficult to take care of the child after he can leave. Hurry up and put away the things in our house that are within his reach."

But little Tutu, who had just learned to walk, couldn't hold her at all and kept struggling to get to the ground.

 But at this moment.

The lights at home flickered on and off, which startled little Tutu and buried her head directly in Xiaoying's arms.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but smile bitterly after looking at the electric light. Now those who watch the TV series are probably going to be furious again.

Sure enough, within two seconds, the light went out and did not come back on.

At this time, Li Duoyu could hear a large group of people watching TV in the direction of his cousin's house, constantly cursing.

 “Who is so wicked?”

 “It’s all over, why are you still making trouble? Just be a human being.”

 Shitou yelled and cursed: "Lao Lu, did you secretly open the refrigerator and washing machine again?"

Lao Lu scolded back: "Damn it, Shitou, please stop talking nonsense, my house has been closed a long time ago."

“Then who turned on the big electrical appliances again? You are the only ones in our village who have big electrical appliances.”

 “You ask me, who should I ask?”

Everyone has experienced this situation of insufficient power many times. Usually, calls will continue to come in after a while.

 But this time, the electricity never came, and a group of drama fans watched the black and white TV in front of them.

 “What’s going on?”

 “It’s not like the battery is really out.”

At this moment, someone in the village shouted: "The village department informed us that the diesel generator at the end of the village has broken down and is being repaired. Please light the lights first."

When they heard the news, those people who were watching in front of the black and white TV started crying and scolding their mothers.

 “Ganniang.”

 “It will be bad sooner or later, but it will be bad now.”

“Can we fix it? It’s coming to an end soon, why don’t we let people see it?”

 The diesel generator in the village broke down. As the village director, Li Duoyu must go to the machine room to take a look.

Wang Xianghong has always been in charge of the village's diesel generators. He is Wang Dapao's cousin and the only one in the village with the surname Wang who is not disliked by the villagers.

Although he also collects the electricity bills in the village, most of the money he receives from the electricity bills is used to buy diesel. He doesn’t make much in a month, so he can only make ends meet.

Li Duoyu came to the generator room and found that many people were already there. There was a kerosene lamp on inside the machine room, and outside the machine room, a strong smell of burning plastic could be smelled.

 In the machine room, there is a quite large diesel generator, which is quite old. It is said that it was given by Lao Maozi a long time ago.

 A middle-aged man with oily face was lying on the ground, checking the generator.

 Li Duoyu asked him: "Comrade Xiang Hong, is the generator broken seriously this time?"

Wang Xianghong, who was lying on the ground, replied: "Some parts are burned out. You have to give me a note. I will go to the machinery factory in the city to see if there are the same parts. If not, I will have to buy them from other places."

“Okay, come find me tomorrow and I’ll give you the funds.”

Looking at the diesel generator that suddenly broke down in front of him, Li Duoyu felt helpless. He just mentioned the project to the town leaders today, but unexpectedly the generator in the village broke down.

Since there has been no call, many people who were halfway through the TV series also ran to the computer room.

 When they learned that the diesel generator was broken, they came up with the idea of ​​generating electricity from the reservoir. A young man said:

“If the generator breaks down, let’s use the reservoir generator directly.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he was scolded by the old man in the village: "Reservoir power generation will only be used in emergencies, and cannot be used casually."

“Then we won’t be able to see the finale at night.”

At this time, Shitou looked at Li Duoyu with a smile on his face: "Brother Yu, can you borrow the diesel generator from your eel factory?"

“Yeah, I almost forgot, our village director’s eel factory has two generators.”

Li Duoyu glanced at the group of people. He didn't expect that everyone was so addicted to watching dramas. Even his eldest cousin, third aunt, and eldest aunt were watching.

“My diesel generators are fixed. If you want to see them, move the TV to my factory to watch them.”

"okay."

Afraid that Shitou would run away as soon as the TV series was over, everyone headed to Li Duoyu’s eel factory holding the TV and receiving antenna.

 But everyone has just assembled it.

As soon as the TV was turned on, the three words "Finale" appeared directly on the screen, which made them so angry that their blood pressure soared.

 “It belongs to your uncle.”

 “Still not caught up.”

After the power outage in Xiasha Village, the children in the village had a lot of fun, as if the power outage was a very interesting thing.

Some children made a fire and made torches. Many children ran around with torches, shouting that they wanted to explore.

"Haoran, don't play too late, don't go to dangerous places, do you know?" Second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua shouted.

"knew."

Li Duoyu, who was standing in the courtyard, glanced at the shimmering Xiasha Village, as if he had returned to his childhood.

At that time, the lights in the village were not on, and every household lit kerosene lamps. At that time, his favorite thing to do every night was to bake sweet potatoes.

Because sweet potatoes are really delicious when roasted, every time after roasting the sweet potatoes, he would bring them to Zhou Xiaoying to covet her, but he would not let her eat them.

 (End of this chapter)