1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

After a day and night cruise, everyone was a little tired after arriving at Hong Kong Island. After having a simple meal, they rested in the hotel.

The sorority dinner will not be held until tomorrow night, and during this time, everyone’s activities will be limited to the vicinity of the hotel where they are staying.

If you want to go to a distant place or visit relatives and friends, you still need to report to the organization.

 After arriving at the hotel, Zhou Xiaoying was still studying English nervously with her Walkman, which was always floating on the sea. This small and cramped room made Li Duoyu quite uncomfortable.

Let's just go downstairs and take a stroll. The sanitation in Hong Kong in this era is really not that good. There is sewage flowing everywhere. When you look up, you can see all kinds of signboards.

The ones with red characters on a white background are the most common, all in traditional Chinese characters, and the taller ones are all neon lights. However, it is daytime and the lights are not turned on.

 What is Heji Health Care?

Jinfang Nightclub,

 Polar typewriter,

 Good Luck Electrical Appliance Store.

Li Duoyu just walked a few steps and passed a dark alley where there were several chairs and two or three young girls dressed sexyly, leaning against the wall and smoking.

Wearing makeup that looks cheap at first glance, their eyes do not look tired and helpless, but rather playful.

Seeing Li Duoyu, who was dressed formally, a young girl boldly said: "Would you like to come in and eat? It's very cheap. You can have as many as you want."

Li Duoyu pursed his lips and smiled without intending to laugh at them. He stopped looking at them and left the alley.

Unexpectedly, the woman said, "Don't be shy. If it's your first time, I won't charge you."

Li Duoyu did not look back. From the accents of these street women, he had already recognized that these women were "Beigu chickens".

This is what Hong Kong people call prostitutes from the Mainland. Judging from their accents, they must have just arrived.

Places like North Point, where Hokkien and Mandarin are spoken, are often a temporary stop for these women. After they can speak Cantonese, they will go to Mong Kok to find higher-end customers.

 In this era, there are so many women like this that you will encounter several almost every few lanes.

 What’s interesting is that there are various small advertisements posted everywhere at the entrance of alleys like this.

 “A secret recipe handed down from our ancestors, specially designed to treat syphilitic diseases.”

 “Indian sacred oil, the treasure of the Buddhist country, is indescribably wonderful.”

Every time I see this Indian magic oil, Li Duoyu can't help but laugh. This thing is a domestic brand and it comes from here.

It is said that they were a pair of brothers who were originally engaged in pesticides. By some strange coincidence, they read a picture album that was passed down from Asan, and good children were not allowed to read it.

 Suddenly, I was inspired and decided not to make insecticides or athlete's foot sprays, but chose to enter a track without competition.

Li Duoyu continued walking for another hundred meters and came to a relatively normal area. The streets here were very narrow, there were many stalls, and there were tarpaulins sticking out everywhere.

　　We don’t all communicate in the same language. There are Shanghainese, Hokkien, and Cantonese. Several languages ​​are spoken on the same street.

After Li Duoyu walked a few steps, he couldn't help sniffing, and suddenly smelled a stinky smell, but he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Following the smell, I discovered that at a fruit stall not far away, someone was actually selling durians, and they were selling them in large baskets.

Li Duoyu stepped forward and communicated with the other party in non-standard Hokkien dialect: "Uncle, how much does a pound of durian cost?"

This uncle looked at Li Duoyu and then said: "This durian is imported from Indonesia and costs seven yuan per pound."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. He didn't know for a moment whether the price was expensive or cheap in Hong Kong Island, so he didn't bother to bargain.

Instead, he carefully selected a six-petal durian. Seeing that the bottom durian was chosen by this young man, the uncle felt a little distressed.

“You picked well, don’t you think it’s often durian?” Abo weighed it with a small scale, and then said: “Thirty-two yuan.”

 After hearing the price, Li Duoyu was unhappy and directly counter-offered: "Twenty-five."

 “It’s impossible to sell it so cheaply.”

Li Duoyu rolled his eyes and said, "You gave me an extra pound. I eat it often and I don't know the price. This one is only three and a half pounds at most."

After hearing this, Uncle was stunned for a moment. He thought that this person could speak the local dialect so poorly and the clothes he wore were okay. He was most likely from Kowloon, maybe in finance, etc. Counting him for a pound, he was discovered immediately without thinking.

 Abo quickly said:

 “Faction, faction, I misjudged it, it was twenty-five yuan.”

Li Duoyu did not continue to pester him and directly gave the other party 25 Hong Kong dollars.

These days, one Hong Kong dollar can be exchanged for about 60 or 70 cents in RMB. Calculated, this durian will cost about 15 yuan in the mainland.

It is true that most people cannot afford it, which is why there is no such fruit in the mainland until now. This thing goes bad very quickly. Once it is not sold, it will really be a waste.

Li Duoyu was shopping while carrying a durian, and when everyone saw him carrying the durian, the expressions on their faces became much more enthusiastic.

After communicating with the store owner, Li Duoyu learned that many people came to North Point after the store was reopened.

Many people thought that Li Duoyu also came here illegally, so they asked, "How did you get here?"

Li Duoyu smiled, but did not tell the truth to the other party. After all, the organization still had requirements: "I came by boat."

The boss smoked a cigarette and said with emotion: "It's better now. I've been here since 1979. I swam here from Shekou with my brothers. There were three brothers together, but in the end I was the only one who swam up."

Hearing this, Li Duoyu was silent for a moment. He had heard about the relocation of the great escape port, and indeed many people died.

　　During the great escape, I heard that there were specialized corpse collectors, and they would be given a subsidy of fifteen yuan for helping bury the body of a stowaway.

As for North Point, Li Duoyu doesn't have much impression of this place. He only remembers one thing very clearly, that is, during the turmoil in Hong Kong, more than 30 people from North Point dared to fight against 400 people.

　　　You are indeed brave enough.

The people here have experienced hardships in the past, but some of their spirit has actually been passed down to future generations.

Li Duoyu briefly communicated with the fellow villagers and found that although their living conditions here are not good, they are still relatively happy.

 Because they can earn a lot of money. In their hometown, they can only survive on fifty or sixty yuan a month, but here, making several thousand a month is definitely not a problem.

If you follow the right person, you can earn tens of thousands a month. When an uncle chatted with him, he said very proudly: "My son drives a taxi in Mong Kok."

Li Duoyu asked about it and found out that he could earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month by driving a taxi.

 After many people came here and became prosperous, they often sent money to their hometowns. They paid for almost all TVs, three-way machines, and refrigerators.

 When one person comes to Hong Kong, the whole family can live a good life. When a family comes to Hong Kong, the whole village benefits.

There was an old man sitting on the roadside mending shoes. He didn't expect that he was from Digua County next door. When he learned that Li Duoyu was from Dandan Island, he immediately started chatting enthusiastically.

“You are better off on Dandan Island. We in Digua County had to eat sweet potatoes almost every day at that time. When we came to Hong Kong Island, we just didn’t want to eat sweet potatoes anymore.

Unexpectedly, after arriving here, I discovered that the sweet potato leaves we use to feed the pigs are quite expensive here. "

After hearing this, Li Duoyu couldn't help but laugh out loud. It seemed that this was really the case. In a place like Hong Kong Island where land is precious, food is not cheap.

“I have been here for more than ten years. How is things going in my hometown now?”

Li Duoyu replied: "It's much better than before. Our island has made a lot of money raising kelp in the past two years. Some people also raise eels and export them to the island country."

The old man asked:

 “Then do you still want to eat sweet potatoes?”

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "I still eat it because some children like it. Now everyone eats white rice and can afford meat. There are a lot of seafood."

 The old man looked surprised: "Is it such a big change? In the past, we couldn't even eat meat even once during the New Year."

Li Duoyu smiled: "In the future, you can go back to your hometown and see for yourself. The changes are quite big."

Before leaving, Li Duoyu glanced at the old man and felt that he still wanted to go back, but the cost of going back was too high.

 After Li Duoyu walked a few steps, he came to the destination of his trip, a small seafood market.

 When I just came here by car.

Li Duoyu saw it in the car. As a farmer, you don’t have to go anywhere on Hong Kong Island, but this seafood market is a must.

 Li Duoyu smelled the familiar smell of seafood before he even got close. There are more than 20 stalls in this seafood market.

Most of them sell seafood, and some sell dry goods. Li Duoyu found that the entire seafood market is not big, but there are really many kinds of seafood.

With a quick glance, I saw thirty or forty kinds of sea fish, as well as various shellfish. It felt like all the fish species in the near sea were on the stall.

Li Duoyu even saw a hundred-pound yellowfin tuna placed there. You can indeed catch yellowfin tuna from Hong Kong Island and near Nansha.

The most popular ones are all kinds of groupers. Maybe because of the proximity to the South China Sea, there are a lot of groupers here.

 What are the rat spots, tiger spots, eastern star spots, western star spots, cedar spots, melon seed spots, dragon stripes, etc., as well as the beautiful Su Mei and Qing Yi, as well as various pig tooth fish.

In addition to these, there are also various kinds of lobsters, the most common one is the small green dragon, and there are also various large color TV lobsters.

 The price of seafood here is not cheap, overall it is more than ten times that of Dandan Island.

In Rongcheng, the price of a pound of tiger spots is only about 50 cents, but here it can be sold for at least 4 yuan.

 But Li Duoyu was not interested in fresh food, so he went directly to a seafood and dried goods store.

 There are all dry goods inside. The ones placed at the top and packed in large glass bottles are all large isinglass. The next ones are all dried abalone.

Sold outside are various kinds of dried oysters, dried squid, etc., as well as various kinds of fishing rods, scallops, dried shrimps, sea cucumbers, etc.

If there is room for cooperation with Hong Kong Island in the future, it is possible that we can work together.

The boss wearing black-rimmed glasses saw that he kept looking at it and seemed to have no intention of buying it: "Whatever you want to buy, I will weigh it for you."

Li Duoyu smiled:

“Boss, it’s like this. I have a lot of isinglass, high-grade dried oysters and abalone on hand. Do you want it?”

 In fact, Li Duoyu didn't have much on hand, and he was just talking. If he could really talk about it, it wouldn't be too late for him to do it.

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that when the boss heard this, his face suddenly changed and he became frightened. Then he looked around and cursed in a low voice: "Where did the stupid green guy come from?"

"In the market here, you can't just sell goods if you want to. You have to get the approval of the boss. Don't talk to me like this again. It will hurt me later."

Seeing the nervous look on the boss's face, Li Duoyu was a little surprised. It seemed that what was shown in the TV series was not a lie. As expected, wherever there is seafood, there is such a fisherman.

Li Duoyu turned to ask: "Boss, please, do you have the boss's business card? Give me one. I will contact him when the time comes."

The boss waved his hand: "I'm not familiar with you, so don't come to my store. You can go find someone else."

Li Duoyu was not angry. Today he came to the seafood market to have a look and feel what was going on.

 North Point is like this, and the entire Hong Kong Island should be similar. If you want to export dried seafood here.

 It should be difficult to go through formal channels. It is best to get to know one or two fishing tycoons, only then can it be possible to open up the market.

Li Duoyu left for a while, then came back and stuffed a pack of the best Marlboros into the boss's pocket.

With a dark face, the boss took out a business card from the drawer and whispered: "The business card of our boss here, you can contact him."

 “Thank you.”

 After getting the business card, Li Duoyu was stunned for a while when he saw the name on it. Don't run away. It turns out that his biggest partner has always been by his side.

When Li Duoyu left the seafood market, two young men secretly followed him behind the hotel where he was staying.

 The two horse boys looked at each other, their eyes widening.

 “Well, this is not the president’s hotel.”

“It seems that the people staying here today are all bosses and leaders from our province. The president also told us to maintain good order.”

One of the taller horses slapped the other shorter one on the head: "Damn monkey, you almost killed me, you just wanted to hit someone."

Ma Zai, who was beaten, looked aggrieved: "How did I know that this young man is actually a mainland monkey?"

After hearing this, Gao Mazai hit him on the head again: "Why do you mean he is a mainland monkey? We are also from the mainland, okay? We have only eaten food from outside for a few days, and we have forgotten where we are from."

 After Li Duoyu returned to the room, he opened the curtains slightly and happened to see this scene and couldn't help but smile.

 But after this incident, Li Duoyu finally understood that if he wanted to do something in Hong Kong Island, he didn't need to go out to establish connections himself, he could just tell President Ou and others directly. (End of chapter)