1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

 At dinner.

Little Pangdun’s bowl of rice was half filled with clove fish. While eating, he praised: “Uncle, this little fish is so delicious.”

Little Tutu, whose teeth have not yet fully grown, also likes to eat this fish. He caught several small clove fish with his hands and put them into his mouth to bite.

“Is this fish delicious?” Li Duoyu asked with a smile.

“It’s delicious, very delicious, much better than those dried salted fish.” Little Fatty kept nodding his head: “It would be great if we could eat this kind of fish every day.”

Second brother Li Yaoguo picked up the clove fish and said, "I never thought that fish that I didn't like before could become so delicious with the right method."

 Only Chen Huiying said a little angrily, "With so much oil, what can you do that doesn't taste good? Although our lives are better now, we can't be extravagant and wasteful."

If it were him in his previous life, he would have been annoyed by his mother-in-law nagging him all the time.

Li Duoyu has also lived as a parent. No matter how rich her child is, she can't help but worry about him.

Every time he thinks of the lonely days when he lived alone in his previous life, Li Duoyu even wished that his mother could nag him more.

“Mom, I am making a test dish. If you all like it, I plan to make it into canned clove fish.”

The second brother asked curiously: "Made into cans?"

Li Duoyu said: "The purpose of adding oil is to keep it fresh. The clove fish made in this way can be stored in cans for at least half a year."

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng temporarily agreed: "This is a good idea. This clove fish tastes very good. If it can be made into a can, I would also like to buy it."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? If I had, I wouldn't have nagged you." Upon hearing that Li Duoyu was making canned food, Chen Huiying immediately smiled.

At this time, the little fat man who had already finished a bowl of rice ran to add more rice.

Shuihua couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, where did you learn these weird things?"

"Of course I learned it from outside. During the time when you were getting married and no one cared about me, I traveled all over the country..."

 “Just brag, how old are you now, and you have traveled all over the country?”

“Sister, despite my young age, I have a sixty- or seventy-year-old soul in my young skin.”

“What a nonsense, I’ve only behaved better in the past two years. I didn’t know how much of a **** I was before, and my reputation has reached Shanggang Village.”

 Li Duoyu scratched his head: "Is it that exaggerated?"

"What do you think?"

At this time, Lao Li, who was drinking at the side, suddenly said: "If you are sixty or seventy years old, aren't you older than me?"

 “That’s not true. How dare I be bigger than you?”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh, and Zhou Xiaoying's face was also full of smiles. In the past two years, Duoyu has really changed a lot.

 …

 Candlelight dances at night.

 After Zhou Xiaoying coaxed little Tutu to sleep, she went to fetch water for a bath and sat on the desk.

 Li Duoyu patted the bed board. "It's late at night, what do you want to do if you don't sleep?"

Zhou Xiaoying gave him a disgusted look, picked up a book from the table, took out an English tape from a plastic case, put it into the Walkman Li Duoyu gave her, and began to study English seriously.

Ever since Li Duoyu told her that she had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong Island, Zhou Xiaoying has been learning English day and night.

Li Duoyu was also a **** and told her how to find someone to practice speaking English. As a result, during this period of time, he was exhausted outside during the day and became his wife's tool at night.

 “Is my pronunciation standard?”

 “How do I know whether the standard is standard or not? I haven’t learned English.”

However, Li Duoyu has really listened to English. The pronunciation of these tapes is not standard, and the pronunciation of most English teachers in this era is not standard.

But it doesn’t matter. Language is used for communication. As long as the other person can understand it, there is no need to practice until you are exactly like them.

 He has been in the island country for so many years. The people in the island country have worse English, but they can still communicate well.

Tonight, his wife tortured him for another three hours and suddenly asked: "I heard that you spent a lot of money to buy clove fish this time."

Li Duoyu did not lie to her. He told the truth: "I did collect a lot of clove fish, which cost about 60,000 yuan."

 After hearing this number, Zhou Xiaoying was startled and became worried.

“Did you advance the money first? Did you sign an agreement?”

 “Well, it’s the money I advanced first.”

“You have advanced so much money, and if the other party suddenly regrets it, what will you do?”

Li Duoyu was confused by the issue of his wife. Although he was quite confident that Director Liu would definitely not regret it.

 But what Xiaoying said was not impossible. He and Director Liu only made a verbal agreement. If an accident happened, he would probably have to eat this batch of goods himself.

 But in this era of barbaric growth, if Li Duoyu had asked for advance payment and signed an agreement with Factory Director Liu from the beginning.

Then it is very likely that this deal will not be negotiated. At present, everyone does business in a small circle, relying more on personal connections and credibility.

It is probably not that easy to standardize things at this stage, but Zhou Xiaoying’s reminder is correct. You must be more cautious next time.

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying's worried look, Li Duoyu smiled and said: "If something goes wrong, that would be even better. I can directly make canned cloves. By then, I might make more money."

Zhou Xiaoying did not refute, because she herself felt that canned cloves might make a lot of money.

“Can you teach me how to cook clove fish? Little Tutu seems to like eating it very much. I’ll cook it for him next time.”

 Li Duoyu patted the bed board again: "If you go to bed, I will tell you what to do."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned: "You go to bed first, I will study for a while, and then I will go to bed later."

"If you don't sleep, I'm going to sleep."

 “Go to bed quickly.”

Li Duoyu was so angry that he wanted to go over and carry her directly to the bed, but when he thought about the delivery tomorrow and having to wake up very early, he decided to forget it.

 Otherwise, if you keep rubbing your waist when helping to move things tomorrow, you will be laughed at.

Li Duoyu turned around, glanced at Xiao Tutu, and found that the little **** kicked the quilt again. He gently covered him with the quilt. Looking at his chubby little face, he couldn't help but reveal a knowing look. Smile.

 Almost, more than half an hour later.

Zhou Xiaoying came to the bedside and found that Li Duoyu had fallen into a deep sleep. The father and son had the same sleeping posture.

They both kicked off the quilts and slept with their quilts spread wide open. Each of them took away half of the bed. The 1.8-meter-long bed didn't even give her a place to sleep.

 Zhou Xiaoying gently picked up little Tutu and placed her at the very back of the bed, and then she slept in the middle position.

 The next day, when Li Duoyu woke up, it was still dark, it was only around four in the morning, and there were still a few dazzling stars hanging in the night sky.

 Li Duoyu got dressed lightly and came to the courtyard.

 I found that my brother-in-law, uncle, third uncle, and Chen Wenchao had all arrived at their home and had breakfast.

They are here to help, transporting four hundred baskets of cloves from the eel factory to the aquatic products processing factory at Qingkou Wharf.

What Li Duoyu didn’t expect was that Liu Yun, the man who stole his oysters last year, also came to help.

Sometimes, interpersonal relationships are so magical. I heard from my eldest aunt that this kid suddenly became behaving after being locked up for three months.

During the time when he was fishing for cloves, he stayed directly at his uncle’s house. After learning that Li Duoyu wanted to transport cloves, he also volunteered to help.

After seeing Li Duoyu, Liu Yun scratched his head and grinned: "Good morning, Brother Yu." Li Duoyu smiled and handed him a pack of cigarettes: "Thank you for your hard work."

  “Should.”

Breakfast was relatively simple. Auntie cooked some porridge. The side dishes were the clove fish that Li Duoyu made yesterday, fried pickles and a duck egg for each person.

The uncle had half the bowl filled with black bean and clove fish: "Duoyu, I will teach you how to make clove fish when you have time."

"sure, no problem."

“Before, the most we used was fried eggs. I never thought we could make them so delicious.”

Chen Huiying said with emotion: "He used a whole catty of oil to make these clove fish. In the past, we were reluctant to use oil when cooking. How dare we make it like him."

The uncle suddenly said with emotion: "It's only been a few years, the changes have been really big, it's better to open it again."

Li Shuguang on the side complained: "I don’t know who it is, but I have been missing the days of eating in a big pot and being a fishery captain all day long."

The uncle gave him a disgusted look, looked at his watch and said, "Eat quickly, the tide started to ebb at half past six today, so we have to hurry up and move."

 After hearing this, everyone speeded up their breakfast and headed to the eel factory.

Two tractors were already waiting there, and more than ten people moved more than two hundred baskets of cloves to the dock for more than an hour.

Since there are only four boats, a maximum of two hundred baskets can be transported at a time, and the remaining two hundred baskets can only wait for the next high tide to be hauled again.

Through this transportation of cloves, Li Duoyu understood why so many companies like to set up warehouses near the docks, because it can really save a lot of transportation costs.

 After the new wharf in Beilanling is built, Li Duoyu also plans to build a micro-processing factory and warehouse there.

More than two hundred baskets of cloves were really a lot, filling half of the pier.

The fishermen who woke up early in the morning saw Li Duoyu carrying cloves. Since everyone had made money from catching cloves, they all took the initiative to help carry them.

 Lao Lu brought his son-in-law to the door: "You should ask me to help with this kind of thing."

Li Duoyu threw a cigarette to him and said with a smile: "You have to be conscious of this kind of thing yourself. It would be pointless for me to call you."

 Lao Lu smiled and said, "I'll definitely do it next time."

After more than two hundred baskets of cloves were loaded onto the ship, the tide just went out. Seeing that they were about to leave, Lao Lu couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, are you going to collect the cloves next?"

 Li Duoyu thought for a moment.

 “I’ll tell you when I get back, there’s a high probability that it will still be charged.”

 After watching the four large ships loaded with cargo leaving the port, Lao Lu couldn't help but ask:

 “Lao Mi, tell me how much money Duoyu can make from this trip.”

 Looking at the fishing boats in the distance, Old Man Mi also looked envious.

“If you guessed it correctly, Li Duoyu can earn at least one yuan from this pound of clove fish.”

Lao Lu sighed with emotion: "Then if he collected 20,000 catties, wouldn't he be able to earn 20,000 yuan? This would be a great profit."

Mr. Mi lit a cigarette and said, "Not everyone can earn this money. If it were me, I wouldn't have the guts to accept such a big order."

 Lao Lu gave him a disgusted look.

“Even if you had the guts, people wouldn’t give you such a big list.”

“Lao Lu, why are you talking more and more rudely? If I hadn’t given all the money I earned to my children, I might be a big businessman now.”

“I think you’d better stop doing business and come with us and fish honestly.”

 After hearing this, Old Man Mi was silent for a while. Recently he saw that they were making so much money fishing for cloves, and he was indeed very moved.

But he really can't go fishing at sea anymore. In the past two years, his health has not been very good. His stomach has a dull pain. When he does physical work, he feels a little dizzy. In the past two months, he has lost weight. A total of seven or eight pounds.

 Half an hour later.

　　The fleet loaded with cloves arrived at Qingkou Pier and immediately attracted onlookers.

Lao Zhang, who once gave Li Duoyu ginseng as a gift, hurried over to say hello after seeing Li Duoyu: "Boss Li, you are finally here."

"Our factory director said that if you don't come again, he will go to the island to find you personally."

After Zhang Jicai got on the boat and took a look at the cloves in the basket, he sighed with emotion: "The fishermen of you Dandan Island are still amazing. Director Liu also asked me to help collect this kind of fish at the beginning. Unfortunately, the quality was so poor that many fishermen gave it to them. If the wrong one is arrested, it’s you.”

Li Duoyu asked: "Old Zhang, Director Liu should be here today."

“You are here, our factory manager Liu has been waiting for you early in the morning. I’ll go to the office and call him.”

 “Then I’ll trouble you.”

“We are all old acquaintances, so there is no need to be so polite to me.”

What Li Duoyu didn't know was that he only had a few words with Factory Manager Liu and was very familiar with Director Li Duoyu of Dandan Island, and he was re-employed.

Zhang Jicai felt that the ginseng plant given last year was really worth it. He was about to go to the office to call the leader.

  “Liu”

A middle-aged man wearing a black formal suit and a pair of black leather shoes who looked like a leader rushed to the dock immediately after seeing the boat.

Lao Zhang just wanted to say hello to the factory director without thinking about his boss. When he saw Li Duoyu, he immediately stepped forward and shook hands cordially.

“Director Li, you are finally here.”

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "I dare not not come. If I don't come, it will be a big loss."

Liu Zhengyuan said: "If you didn't come, I would have a bigger headache than you."

“Director Liu, why don’t we check the quality of these cloves first? If so, let’s unload them first to save occupying the dock.”

“Okay, we are all old acquaintances, so we won’t go through all the twists and turns. Let me see how the clove fish goes.”

Liu Zhengyuan was actually quite unsure. After leaving this matter to Li Duoyu, he stopped looking for other fishermen to catch cloves.

If Li Duoyu messes up, he will also have to lose the foreign trade list, and he will definitely be scolded by his superiors.

When Liu Zhengyuan saw the cloves in the basket, the smile on his lips never stopped. He thought that no matter how powerful Li Duoyu was, he would definitely confuse the small whitebait with the cloves.

What he didn't expect was that all the small fish in the basket were cloves, and he couldn't even find a single small whitebait.

 What surprised him the most was that the quality of this batch of clove fish was really good. Each one was complete and very fresh.

 He ​​himself works in a food processing factory, so he naturally understands quality control. Liu Zhengyuan couldn't help but pat his thigh.

 “I should have approached you for cooperation earlier.”

“Director Li, are these the only clove fish? Are there any more?”

Li Duoyu nodded and said, "Of course, half of it has not been shipped yet."

Liu Zhengyuan thought for a while and said seriously: "I heard that cloves will be out of season soon. Director Li, can you please do me a favor and help me get as many cloves as possible before the season goes out."

 “Of course there’s no problem.”

 But the next second, Li Duoyu said a little embarrassed:

“Director Liu, I have already paid a lot in advance to purchase this clove. If I want to continue to collect large amounts, my small company may not be able to move forward.”

 Liu Zhengyuan patted his forehead:

"Oh, I'm really sorry. I forgot about such an important thing. Director Li, don't worry about the money. I will ask the factory's finance staff to transfer money to your company right away." (End of Chapter)