1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Without even waiting for the next day, Li Duoyu organized a fishing boat that night and started collecting kelp overnight.

 At night, the sea area near Dandan Island is filled with the sound of "rumbling" diesel engines. From a distance, there is bright light on the sea.

 At the dock.

There are many kelp harvesting villagers gathered. They all wear bulky black glue shoes and cotton gloves, but this is the only equipment they have.

In this era, ordinary fishermen would not buy waterproof clothing. These things are not cheap now. Only those crew members who work on large ships all year round will be willing to spend money to buy them.

Many villagers take a hemp rope and tie a piece of colorful plastic sheet directly to their waist. Although it doesn't look very good, it can also have a waterproof effect.

After all, if you don’t use protection when pulling kelp, not only will you get wet from the sea water, but the mucus on the kelp will also make people very uncomfortable.

Lao Jin from the pork stall has been dressed like this all year round. When chopping meat, he is not afraid of blood splashing on his clothes.

Some women who are more ingenious will cut the plastic cloth directly into an apron shape, which makes it easier to wear.

 After being cut into an apron shape, many male compatriots were unwilling to wear it in the era when machismo was prevalent.

 Some young people felt that they did not look good when wrapped in plastic sheets, so they did not wrap them up. A few other young people came wearing shorts and vests.

 After seeing this kind of dress, some old fishermen shook their heads repeatedly and said kindly: "Put on more clothes quickly. There will be a lot of mosquitoes at sea later."

 “It’s okay, we are not afraid of mosquitoes.”

The old fisherman sighed: "Okay, it's up to you. If you get bitten by mosquitoes later, don't blame me for not warning you."

A few young people smiled and didn't take it seriously, but when they arrived at the kelp field and started harvesting kelp, they immediately started complaining and scratching and scratching here and there.

Within an hour, the young men’s calves and arms had been bitten by mosquitoes numerous times.

 “Ganniang.”

“We’ve already reached the sea. Why are there so many mosquitoes? Why did they fly here?”

A group of old fishermen laughed there: "Why don't you be tough? Don't talk about this place. Even if you go to Xijia Reef, there are so many mosquitoes."

 The old fisherman sighed with emotion, looking at the group of young people in front of him, as if he saw himself when he was young.

The sea will tame everyone who does not fear her. If people have not experienced danger, they will especially want to conquer the sea.

 But once you have experienced danger, you will feel that the sea is super scary.

However, mosquitoes on the beach will punish everyone who likes to wear shorts and short sleeves, especially fishermen and young people.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but laugh when he saw those young people covered in bruises from bites. He suddenly remembered the many young people who came to Dandan Island to travel in his previous life.

Like these old fishermen, he once persuaded them to wear long pants and long sleeves as much as possible, but many young people disagreed and thought there were no mosquitoes on the beach.

  He also came up with a theory that mosquito larvae cannot survive in a seawater environment.

As a result, I was bitten and fled Dandan Island. In addition to mosquitoes, there is a more terrifying gadget on the island, and that is midges.

And this thing is even more perverted. When it bites you, you don’t feel it at all. Its toxicity is no weaker than that of sea mosquitoes.

Actually, what the young man said is correct. Mosquito larvae cannot survive in the sea, but there are many reef groups on the seashore.

 Once the rainy season arrives, the reefs become mosquito incubators.

Now, the rainy season has just ended. During this period, the seashore is full of female mosquitoes waiting to give birth, and each one is particularly fierce.

A few young people only lasted less than two hours. They took advantage of the sampan boat to transport the sea back to the dock and hurried home to change into long pants and long sleeves.

The villagers who had collected kelp in the past two years cooperated very well and put the main rope of kelp on the sampan boat.

One person reached into the sea to untie the slip knot on the main rope of kelp, and the other person pulled hard and dragged the rope full of kelp onto the boat.

 The ropes holding the kelp are about the thickness of a thumb, and are brown ropes that absorb water. Each rope is 3 meters long and is very heavy when immersed in water.

The steps seem simple.

 But when everyone was collecting kelp, things happened frequently. Some people who didn't cooperate well would blame each other.

There are several companies where the slip knots of the kelp ropes are not tied properly. Harvesting kelp from farmers like this is a disaster. Not only is harvesting slow, but it is also extremely troublesome.

 “Grass, can’t be untied.”

A villager who collected kelp impatiently took out a fish knife and complained to the kelp farmer: "I can't untie it, Lao Zheng, what's going on with your kelp field? Why are everyone stuck in knots?"

“Didn’t Director Li say that a slipknot must be tied here?”

The farmer named Zheng Chunfa nodded quickly and apologized: "I'm sorry, I was busy at the beginning, so I tied the knot."

The villagers who helped collect the kelp continued to complain: "Next time, if you continue to tie your kelp like this, don't ask us to help. It's time-consuming and labor-intensive."

 “I know, I definitely won’t do it next time.”

 At Li Duoyu's 300-acre kelp field, there are at least a dozen boats collecting kelp.

Second brother Li Yaoguo had to take care of the eel breeding factory, so he did not come to collect kelp together this year. This time, Zhang Mingsheng and Zhu Xiuhua were on the same boat.

 After learning that the price of kelp harvesting has increased this year, the second sister-in-law’s face was full of smiles and she worked even harder than last year.

Others had to pull a kelp rope with two people, but she could do it alone. Seeing that Zhang Mingsheng was not that fast, Zhu Xiuhua felt disgusted:

“Mingsheng, hurry up, your efficiency is too low and you can’t keep up with the speed of collecting kelp.”

"If you are so slow, I won't share the wages earned from collecting kelp with you. I will get a little more."

Zhang Mingsheng's face was dark the whole time, but now he wanted to slap himself twice. Why did he want to be in the same boat with Zhu Xiuhua? He was almost exhausted, and she kept pulling kelp on the boat.

Zhang Mingsheng doesn’t really care about money. After all, he works for Duoyu. What he cares more about is whether he can survive these days.

 I heard Li Duoyu say before that Zhu Xiuhua can stand up to two people, but now it seems that it is probably more than that.

From other sampan boats, they had already collected a whole boat of kelp before even half of it was received. Zhu Xiuhua was the one who did two-thirds of the work. He was the one who was despised.

The most exaggerated thing is that she didn't seem tired at all. She had just finished collecting a boatload of kelp and started urging him.

“Mingsheng, don’t rest, hurry up and leave. Let’s go back to the dock and unload the kelp before coming back. We will try to get seven or eight ships tonight.”

After hearing this, Zhang Mingsheng felt a little hopeless. He just wanted to sit down and smoke a cigarette. He could make money, but he couldn't risk his life like this.

Li Duoyu, who was also collecting kelp, saw that the sampan boat of the second sister-in-law and her brother-in-law had been filled with a whole boat of kelp and started to return to Dandan Island. Suddenly, she felt a little sorry for her brother-in-law.

  But there is nothing we can do. He has already asked several people, but no one is willing to collect kelp with his second sister-in-law. In addition, time is tight, so he has to give in to his brother-in-law.

Li Duoyu had been defecating for more than an hour, and his whole body was covered in sweat, and his clothes were soaked through.

However, he has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. In his previous life, there were tens of thousands of acres of kelp cultivated in the sea near Dandan Island.

Every time it’s kelp harvesting season, everyone works hard day and night, harvesting kelp for a whole month.

The difference from now is that it was relatively easy for them to collect kelp in the past. Not only did they have sampans dedicated to collecting kelp, but they also had nets and cranes, which saved them a lot of trouble.

  Workers who collect kelp only need to drag the kelp into a large net bag. When they arrive at the dock, a crane will lift the kelp from the sampan boat into a large truck and pull it directly to the processing plant for processing.

 But now, it is not that advanced at all, and many things need to be solved by manpower. When Li Duoyu's sampan returned to the dock.

They could only rely on manpower to carry the kelp from the ship to the dock. When their ship arrived, the dock was full of people.

 Most of them are women from the village.

This night, all the men in the village were working at sea, and the women were not idle either. They were helping at the dock.

After Li Duoyu's sampan docked, someone on the shore immediately shouted: "This boat of kelp belongs to Li Duoyu's family, come and move it quickly."

After hearing the sound, Li Shuihua, Zhou Xiaoying, and Li Duoyu's relatives all gathered around and quickly pulled the kelp from the sampan boat to the shore and put it in a large basket.

Seeing that Zhou Xiaoying also came to help, Li Duoyu said angrily: "Teacher Zhou, you don't need to take care of the child."

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "I don't just know how to take care of children, I also know how to work well. Ever since I was a child, I have been doing almost all the work at home."

After Zhou Xiaoying said this, Li Duoyu remembered that this was really the case. Zhou Xiaoying was not the kind who only taught and raised children.

She seems to have done all these things, including weaving fishing nets, fishing in the sea, and knocking oysters, and she did a pretty good job.

Seeing her lifting more than a hundred kilograms of kelp, Li Duoyu said worriedly: "Slow down, you haven't worked for a long time, don't let your waist slip."

　　"If you dodge, I won't even dodge."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that a few days ago, he might have been too tired and had to work overtime, and he almost broke his waist.

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying carrying such a heavy piece of kelp, Li Duoyu couldn't help but worry, and said to Li Shuihua: "Sister, tell Xiaoying, don't carry it so heavy."

Li Shuihua looked disgusted: "You two, please stop showing off your affection. I can almost smell the sour smell."

Zhou Xiaoying really has a problem recently, that is, people always say behind her back that she is the village chief's wife, and that her life is really good, and she doesn't have to work because she has a man who is so good at making money.

 Some people even said that she no longer had to teach and could enjoy the happiness directly at home. These words made her somewhat uncomfortable.

In fact, she can do a lot of things, but she was pregnant the year before last and her mother-in-law didn't let her work. Then she had to teach and take care of the children. In addition, she had to learn a foreign language some time ago. Indeed, she couldn't help with many things.

 But now that the child has grown up, it is easier to take care of him, and he no longer needs to breastfeed. She is so tired from watching Duoyu every day, and she also wants to help him share some of the pressure.

But after carrying two baskets of kelp for more than 200 meters, Zhou Xiaoying felt a little regretful. It had been so long since she had picked up anything. Now that she was carrying such a heavy load at once, her shoulders really hurt.

a whole night.

Fishing boats kept coming in and out of the pier, and boatloads of kelp were transported to the village. Now, any open space in the village is used to dry kelp.

Everyone worked like this until dawn. By eight o'clock in the morning, Dandan Island Pier was already crowded with fishing boats.

They are all fishing boats from nearby villages and towns that came to help. It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 80 small sampans, and there are also many larger tugboats. Even the canals in the river were called in.

This boat was called for by my uncle Chen Dongqing with help. This kind of sand-carrying boat is also very suitable for transporting kelp.

One ship can reach more than twenty sampans, but it cannot stop at the old pier. It has to be unloaded at the new pier.

Li Duoyu, who had been collecting kelp all night without sleeping, registered the fishing boats that came to help and divided them into groups directly.

"Zhu Fugui, you go to the seventh fleet. When the time comes, follow the command of the seventh captain."

“Zhang Aru, go to the third fleet.”

"Zhang Lili, your ship is relatively large. You will be the bow of the eighth fleet and be responsible for pulling the fleet's sampans back to the dock."

Li Duoyu gave each fishing boat that came to help collect kelp a red envelope on the spot after assigning teams.

Li Duoyu has discussed with these fish farmers that each fishing boat that comes to help will be given an extra five yuan red envelope.

 Plus two packs of cigarettes.

In this day and age, five yuan is not too little, but if something is urgent and you want others to work hard, you must not have less.

After receiving the red envelopes, these people all smiled happily.

“Xiasha Village is quite interesting.”

“Last year when we went to help Shangqi Village collect it, they were really stingy. They didn’t even give us red envelopes and even deducted our wages.”

“If they still keep it this year, they won’t go to their village to collect kelp.”

A villager who often worked for Li Duoyu couldn't help but shake his head when he saw how happy they were in collecting money.

These people are so simple!

Li Duoyu’s money is not that easy to get. Sure enough, after giving red envelopes to these fishermen, he started shouting with a loudspeaker:

"First of all, thank you very much for coming to help, but please pay attention, our batch of kelp is for export. When collecting the kelp, if you see any mud, please help shake it off in the water. , and pull it up again.”

“Also, if there is a lot of seaweed on it, please pick it off.”

After hearing this, many fishermen who came to help were wide-eyed. They suddenly felt that the red envelope in their hands was a bit hot and really wanted to return it to him.

 These two sentences are easy to say, but if you actually do it, the workload will increase a lot.

 Having taken it all, I feel a little embarrassed to return it. I can only say that I have learned a lesson from the pain. If I return it to this standard next year, I will have to pay more.

 After dividing the teams.

　Including Xiasha Village’s own fishing boats, more than a hundred small sampans are collectively operating on the sea, and the scene is quite spectacular.

 The dock is already severely overloaded, and many ships carrying kelp have begun to queue up.

 After seeing this summary, Li Duoyu could only let half of the fleet unload at Beilan Ling Wharf. (End of chapter)