1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

 After Li Duoyu arrived home.

After a brief trimming, I touched little Tutu's head, mounted the 28-inch pole, and headed towards the tidal flat.

 As soon as we got there, there was a tractor loaded with sand and gravel. Sending black smoke towards the embankment.

Since the bodies of these tractors do not have a self-unloading function, whether loading or unloading, they can only rely on manpower, which is also the reason for the low efficiency.

In seven days, the embankment only stretched out 150 meters, but it was more than two meters wide, enough for a tractor to pass.

There were many people watching near the embankment, and everyone felt that the investment was too high. The money was simply calculated by the meter.

 The cost per meter of advance of the dam.

 At least ten yuan is required.

Such a large investment caused half of the people on Dandan Island to start a fight again.

Some farmers who have made money with Li Duoyu also want to join in the business. Unfortunately, the investment is too large, even greater than the investment in the eel pond. Even if they wanted to, they would not have the money to do so.

However, some people are still not optimistic about Li Duoyu's **** farming. They think Li Duoyu is too aggressive. If he invests so much at once, if he loses money, he may return to before liberation.

Some people think that Li Duoyu was lucky in the past, and maybe the embankment culture will overturn this time.

Li Duoyu's cousin Liu Meifeng had planned to borrow money again some time ago, but after seeing that Li Duoyu was embarking on such a big project, she stopped talking about borrowing money.

 August, the summer is hot.

 The sea breeze is hot.

The people who worked on the dam were all naked from the waist up, with a soaked towel wrapped around their necks, and their upper bodies were all tanned.

As soon as the tractor came over, the villagers at the end of the embankment climbed directly onto the back of the truck. They first turned over the stones with their bare hands and let them roll into the tidal flat.

 Then, the sand and soil are shoveled out of the car. Most of the materials for the entire embankment are still stones.

 Otherwise, no matter how much sand and soil is washed away by the waves, it will be in vain.

 Fortunately, the most indispensable thing on Dandan Island is stones, and in order to prevent these stones from moving due to force.

Zhang Mingsheng dug a large wooden pile on both sides of the dam at regular intervals for fixation. But this was not enough. He didn't know where he borrowed a large stone mill. This thing has the same effect as a road roller and can be used to compact the dam. Dams can effectively prevent dam collapse.

After meeting Li Duoyu, Zhang Mingsheng, who was responsible for the entire embankment project, smiled and said: "Duoyu, when did you come back?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

 “I just arrived not long ago.”

Zhang Mingsheng said: "What, this dam is okay."

 Li Duoyu stepped on the dam: "It's more powerful than I thought."

 At the beginning, he thought it was not very possible, but he didn’t expect that he would feel a sense of accomplishment the more he did it. He even consulted the old people who built the pier and summed up a lot of experience.

 “Boom~~”

At this moment, Li Duoyu heard a loud noise, and immediately after, all the birds near the tidal flat were frightened and flew up.

 “What kind of sound is this?”

Zhang Mingsheng laughed and said: "This is the sound of exploding rocks. It is too slow to use stone wedges to open the rocks, so I found some connections and bought some explosives, which can blast faster."

 Li Duoyu frowned and said, "Is it safe?"

Zhang Mingsheng said: "Safety, the person in charge of the explosion is Captain Zhang. We all strictly abide by the explosion regulations."

In this era, explosives can be bought and sold by the private sector, and there are quite a few related organizations. If you have connections, you can buy them for a little money. Even Captain Zhang of the militia company has a lot of them.

 “I’ll go take a look.”

Li Duoyu rode a large 28 pole and walked towards the quarry.

When Li Duoyu rushed to the quarrying point, he found that they had dug a big hole into the mountain.

 Due to the strong sea wind, once the explosive exploded, the entire nearby area was filled with dust generated by the explosion.

There are more people on this side than on the other side of the embankment, more than twenty in total.

 Chen Wenchao, Company Commander Zhang, and Xiao Jun are all here. They all have gray faces, and their hair is covered with lime.

These people had no protection at all. Many of them still had cigarettes in their mouths and were choking on the dust and coughing.

 “Brother Yu, you are back.”

 Chen Wenchao said hello.

But after Li Duoyu looked at them, he called Chen Wenchao aside and asked: "Is the dust in this quarry always so heavy?"

Chen Wenchao replied: "There were not many at the beginning, but after using explosives to blow up the rocks, there were more."

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "The dust is too big. Buy some masks for everyone to wear."

 Chen Wenchao chuckled and said: "It's okay, many of them smoke, and they can't wear masks at all."

 These days, no one knows about protection or how harmful the dust produced by ores is to the lungs.

Li Duoyu said with a serious expression: "You still have to buy a mask. If someone doesn't wear a mask, you can just replace him."

The smile on Chen Wenchao's face disappeared instantly and he became serious on the spot, because Brother Yu rarely said such strong words.

 Li Duoyu went on to explain:

“You rarely go out to the island, and you don’t know that many of the workers in the quarries and coal mines outside died of pneumoconiosis due to inhaling too much dust.

After suffering from this disease, it cannot be cured. You can only watch yourself slowly die. Our **** work will take a long time, and there is so much dust every day, so we must take protection. "

Chen Wenchao didn't know what the pneumoconiosis was, but he knew that Brother Yu was angry for their own good.

“Brother Yu, I will go to the town immediately to buy a mask.”

 After Chen Wenchao left.

Shi Shi, who came to help, sat aside and drank a lot of water, and said: "Damn it, this weather is so **** hot."

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

“If you don’t fish, why did you come to me?”

Shitou scratched his head and said, "They all say that I am as skinny as a monkey. I need to work more to be manly."

Li Duoyu glanced at Lin Shanshan, who was helping with the cooking not far away, and said with a smile: "You drunkard doesn't care about drinking."

Shi Shi, who was illiterate, said blankly: "What do you mean?"

“That is to say, your boy does not really come to work for me, but has other purposes.”

After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he pointed to Shanshan not far away and shouted: "Shanshan, why don't you come to help me?"

Lin Shanshan came over.

“Xiaoying is not here, your mother still has to take Tutu with her, and Xiuhua went to Nanri Town again, so I came over to help with the cooking.”

 “Thank you for your hard work.”

Lin Shanshan smiled and said: "It's just a small matter. You and Sister Xiaoying have helped me so much, and I haven't even thanked you properly."

When Lin Shanshan came over, Shi Shi's face turned red inexplicably, and she turned away to drink water.

 After she left, he dared to turn around.

Li Duoyu shook his head: "You are too cowardly. You don't even dare to look at her. How can you chase her?"

Shitou frowned: "Brother Yu, please, don't talk nonsense. I just want to help you. It has nothing to do with Shanshan."

Li Duoyu whispered: "Actually, Shanshan doesn't like the strong ones, but the thin ones with more temperament."

Shitou widened his eyes and said, "Really?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "I never asked Shanshan, how do I know?"

At this moment, Shitou suddenly felt a chill in this extremely hot summer. If the person in front of him was not Li Duoyu, he really wanted to fight with him with bayonets.

Li Duoyu then said: "By the way, Shitou, I want to ask you something. Is your grandma's house No. 23 of Team 3?"

 Shitou thought for a moment and replied: "Yes, we are in the third team. My grandma is No. 23 and my family is No. 24."

“Then your grandma’s name is Ma Xiumei.”

Shitou frowned and said, "No, my grandma's name is Xiumei, but her surname is Shi, not Ma."

Li Duoyu touched his chin in confusion. It shouldn't be. The address and the name matched, but the surname didn't match.

Since there are so many people named Xiumei on the island, Li Duoyu asked in detail: "Have your family ever moved? Have you always lived here?"

“I don’t know about this. Anyway, it hasn’t changed since I was born as a child.”

At this time, Captain Zhang who came to help said: "I know this, Shitou, your grandma is not actually surnamed Shi, but Ma. When we first got the household registration book, the person in charge of writing the materials in the brigade took your grandma My surname was written incorrectly and it was never changed.”

"So this is ah."

Li Duoyu finally found the rightful owner, and continued to ask the stone: "By the way, where is your grandpa?"

  Shitou scratched his head: "My grandpa passed away a long time ago. I was raised by my grandma since I was a child."

"That's good."

Shitou was stunned: "What are you talking about? My grandpa is gone, what's the good of it." "Can you take me to your grandma? I have something to ask her."

Stone frowned. He felt very strange. He didn't even know that his grandma's surname was Ma. How did Brother Yu know that?

“Brother Yu, why are you asking this? Are you checking my household registration? The three generations of my family have been good people and have never committed any crime.”

Li Duoyu smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, it's a good thing. There will be wealth and wealth sprinkled on your family."

Shitou shook his head and said, "How is that possible?"

“Let’s go, take me to your grandma first, then you will know what’s going on.”

 “Can you tell me first.”

“I can’t tell you this directly. After I discuss it with your grandma, I’ll see if she is willing to tell you.”

 “What’s going on? It’s so mysterious.”

When heading to Shitou's house, Li Duoyu took out the pieces of letter paper written by the old man. After he sent a letter last time and couldn't find the person, the other party also knew the etiquette and sent the letter back again.

 Led by stone.

Li Duoyu came to their home. It was actually similar to their home, with a small courtyard. The only difference was that their home seemed to be facing the direction of the Overseas Province.

An old lady wearing old-era clothes with cloth buttons and her hair **** was mending a fishing net in the shade.

After seeing Li Duoyu, the old lady was a little surprised: "Village director, why did you come to our house?"

“That’s it, Shitou’s grandma, I have something to ask you.”

 The old lady put down the net shuttle.

 “Village director, you say.”

“Then I’ll just ask you a few questions, is your hometown near Jinling?”

 The old lady was very surprised when she heard this, because her first husband belonged to another organization.

Over the years, she has hardly mentioned to the people on the island that she is from Jinling and about her first husband, because she is worried that the organization will think she wants to defect.

 How did the village director know?

The old lady frowned and said to the stone: "You go out first. I have something to discuss with the village director."

 Stone was very surprised.

 “Can’t I listen?”

The old lady said sternly: "If you can listen, I will tell you to leave. When you leave, close the door."

 Shi Shitou looked reluctant, but he still closed the door when he left.

This is nothing short of incredible wealth. Looking at grandma’s expression, it’s simply terrifying.

Maybe it’s possible that grandma has a special identity.

Female spy?

 The old woman with two guns?

After seeing the stone go out, the old lady said: "Village director, I am indeed from over there. My real name is Ma Xiumei."

After confirming that it was him, Li Duoyu picked up the "love letter" written by the old man and handed it to her hand.

The old lady frowned: "What is this? I don't know the words. Can you read it to me and see what is written on it?"

"ah."

 The content of this letter is quite sensational and disgusting. Li Duoyu got goosebumps at the thought of reading a love letter to the person involved.

But even though the water pump was taken away, he still had to recite it. Li Duoyu suddenly felt that it was really a loss to accept the old man’s water pump.

 Li Duoyu cleared his throat:

To Xiumei:

In the countless days and nights when I missed you, I was filled with guilt and my heart was cut by a knife. At the beginning, I shouldn't have acted out of emotion.

 When I learned that I couldn’t win the battle and couldn’t go back, I felt like a zombie. Many people were drinking to numb themselves.

  How much I miss you,

 And our children.

 Old lady, please listen to a few words.

 My eyes are already moist,

Just a few words brought her back to the difficult years 40 years ago. At that time, not long after the two of them got married, her husband was deceived and went to an overseas province.

“Village director, where did you get this letter from?”

Li Duoyu replied: "I met him at sea last year, and he has been looking for you, so I got this letter."

 The old lady turned around, took out a handkerchief, gently wiped her tears, and asked, "How is he now?"

 Li Duoyu pursed his lips. For a moment, I didn’t know how to answer. As far as the current situation is concerned, no matter how bad the situation in the overseas provinces is, it is still better than the situation on Dandan Island.

 “I’ll give it to you, keep reading.”

  The old man's true situation was explained in the letter, including that he had remarried and had several children and grandchildren.

After hearing this, Ma Xiumei had no intention of blaming her. After all, in that era of war and chaos, it was difficult for a person to live alone.

“Fortunately, he didn’t wait for me all the time, otherwise I would have been too embarrassed to see him.”

 After finishing the letter, Li Duoyu handed the letter to the old lady, and then asked:

“Old lady, I have something to ask you. Who is the father of Shitou?”

　　Even now, the old lady doesn’t want to hide it.

"It's me and Wei Guo. Shi Laosan and I just live together. We don't have any children."

Li Duoyu smiled: "In that case, Shitou and his grandfather have met."

 The old lady looked shocked: "Have they met?"

Li Duoyu said truthfully: "Shitou didn't often go fishing in the sea some time ago, so I should have seen him."

Outside the door, Shi Shi, who had been leaning against the door to eavesdrop, his whole head was "buzzing", and for a moment, it was a little hard to accept.

 It turns out that the grandpa he often worshiped was not his grandpa, but the old man who helped him save cigarettes overseas and liked to go bare-chested. He was his grandpa.

Shi Shitou still remembers it very clearly. Li Shuguang also said that the two of them looked a bit similar, so they stood together and took a photo with their cameras.

 Stone never would have thought that the old man was his grandfather.

Logically speaking, Shitou should be very happy to have a grandfather from an overseas province, but at this moment, he found it difficult to accept it.

 Shitou chatted with the old man and knew that the old man had a family in the overseas province, and his family was quite happy.

The kind that cannot run away is also a prerequisite for an old man to become a fisherman, otherwise it would be impossible for those veterans to become fishermen.

 After Li Duoyu handed the letter to Ma Xiumei, he completed the agreement with the old man.

　　When he opened the door, he saw the frowning Shi Shi: "You must have heard it."

 “Yeah, I heard it.”

"In a while, Shuguang will continue to go fishing in the open sea. Would you like to go with him? Maybe I can recognize your grandpa."

Shitou thought for a while: "It's a bit embarrassing. I have chatted with him before. If I tell him that I am his grandson, will he think that I deliberately lied to him?"

At this time, Ma Xiumei took out an ancient silver longevity lock from the room. It was engraved with the four big characters "long life and a hundred years of life" on it, and the three small characters "gao changping" on the other side.

“Shitou, if you give this thing to him, he will definitely know who you are.”

Shitou accepted the longevity lock and said, "Can this Gao Changping be my father's original name?"

 The old lady nodded.

Shitou grinned and said, "What a nice name. Why did I later give my dad the name Shi Dachui?"

The old lady sighed with emotion: "At that time, it was difficult to raise children. Your father's original name was too big, so he gave him a stronger name."

Shi Shitou smiled bitterly and said, "My name seems to be very hard too."

 “Is hard still bad?”

 After handling this matter, Li Duoyu walked towards the village committee.

 As the village director, I often report to the village committee.

I didn’t think so.

As soon as he arrived at the office, Lao Liao came to him and said: "Director Li, two days ago, Secretary Chen from the town came to see you. He said that if you come back, you can go see him when you have time. ”

 “Did you say something?”

Lao Liao recalled it for a moment and replied: "He came here that day, and it seems that he came with the leader of a machinery factory in Rongcheng. He seemed to have mentioned something about promoting a network machine, and I don't know what it was."

 Network machine?

 After hearing this, Li Duoyu’s eyes instantly widened, and he finally waited for this thing.

The net hoist is a very important thing for fishermen. It can be said that this device will greatly improve the fishermen’s fishing experience.

 For those small and medium-sized fishing boats that set nets for fishing, a net hoist is a necessary equipment if conditions permit.

I just don’t know whether the network machines are expensive at this time. (End of chapter)