1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Hearing that this kid still wanted to eat watermelon, Li Yaoguo really wanted to give him a stick. He would go to junior high school soon and eat all day long.

But what Li Yaoguo is more worried about is that after he reaches junior high school, others will encourage him to do bad things if he just uses some food.

Now that his family is no longer poor, Li Yaoguo thought for a while and said, "If I see one on the road, I will bring one back to you."

Li Haoran was also very talkative, but he never thought that his father would actually buy it for him. He smiled and said: "Dad, remember."

The words haven't even been spoken yet.

Li Yaoguo's entire face darkened, and Little Fatty immediately shut up, feeling a little aggrieved at the same time.

What he wanted to say was, remember to buy a watermelon for his uncle's family. Li Haoran found that adults nowadays say that they are impatient all the time. In fact, they are the most impatient. They often start to change their expressions before others finish their words. .

Li Haoran happily moved into the guest room of his uncle's house. After the cold air conditioner blew over, he felt that his legs were not so painful, but they were still slightly itchy.

My uncle seemed to be very busy today. After turning on the TV for him, he hurriedly took two mouthfuls of food and left immediately without even confiscating the bowls and chopsticks.

On the TV, there was "Bao Gong" that he didn't like to watch, but he didn't have a choice. Some of them were good enough to watch, and others didn't have to watch it if they wanted to, even if his uncle wasn't at home.

The yard is usually closed, so he can only watch in a low voice.

Everything about my uncle's family is good, but he is a little afraid of his aunt. Although his aunt is approachable when she is not in class, Li Haoran is still afraid of her.

He didn't know why, but he felt that his aunt was not very happy today. She would always sigh twice when washing the dishes.

Although everyone said that Teacher Zhou was the happiest woman on the island, Li Haoran didn't think so.

Little Tutu has stopped watching TV since she was frightened the last time she watched "Calabash Baby".

He also led Two Hundred and Five to act arrogantly in the yard, specifically bullying the chickens, chickens, and ducks.

Li Haoran felt that he, the elder brother, needed to take care of it, so he said to Erbai Wu.

"Xiao Huang, go back to your kennel."

Although my uncle called the dog two hundred and five, he still insisted on his own name.

Erbai Wu was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what to do. He drooped his ears and returned to the kennel.

"Tutu, you can't catch any more ducks. Your fur is almost plucked out. If grandma comes back and sees you, she will definitely spank you."

Little Tutu bulged her mouth, but still listened to his words, which made Li Haoran particularly proud.

Little Tutu is so naughty that she even dares to talk back to her grandma and uncle, but she always listens to her words.

After Li Duoyu had a simple meal, he told Zhou Xiaoying about catching jellyfish. She just smiled and asked him to pay attention.

Li Duoyu also knows very well that recently, he has indeed spent less time at home.

But after the big machine of the company started running, he, as the boss, really had too many things to worry about.

Li Duoyu first went to the village committee, cleared his throat, and then broadcast:

[Dear fellow villagers, good evening, everyone, I am Li Duoyu]

During dinner, the village radio rang. When everyone heard Li Duoyu's voice, many stopped picking up food.

Now everyone knows very well that if the village radio is Lao Mao's voice, it must be some information of little use.

Broadcast the spiritual documents conveyed by some organizations, and ask them not to smuggle or sneak into the country, etc., to strengthen ideological construction.

But if Director Li broadcasts it himself, it is usually closely related to them, and it is very likely that he will bring them to make money together.

Sure enough, this broadcast also wanted to form a fleet and take everyone to catch jellyfish.

But when they heard the word jellyfish, everyone hesitated. Some fishermen said:

"Has our Director Li been drinking today? How does this jellyfish make money?"

"It doesn't matter whether it makes money or not, Duoyu has never caused us to lose money."

When the Zhao brothers were eating at home, when they heard that they were going to catch jellyfish, they picked up the rice, drank the kelp tube bone soup cooked by their parents, and immediately ran towards the dock.

After Zhao's mother saw it, she couldn't help but frown: "I know how to work around every day, how old I am, and I don't know how to find a partner first. Xiaochao is younger than him, and now she has her second child."

Father Zhao, who was smoking a cigarette, sighed: "You don't have to ask so much. The lives of these two children were saved by Li Duoyu, so just let them be."

Mother Zhao was a little angry: "It's not what Li Duoyu taught, saying that as long as you have money, women can choose whatever you want. Now these two bastards are a little ignorant of the sky and the earth, and ordinary women can't stand it."

But what she didn't expect was that the man in his family actually agreed with this statement:

"It seems to be the same for us back then. The ones in the brigade are better at working, so we don't just randomly pick the most beautiful women in the brigade."

Zhao's mother instantly said with a black face: "You mean, I was chosen as the remaining one?"

After hearing this, Father Zhao immediately turned around and realized that he had said the wrong thing: "I will also go to the dock to see what happened to the jellyfish."

After a while, many fishermen with boats gathered at the pier, as well as villagers watching the fun.

Li Duoyu bought two pairs of old trawl nets from Lao Chen, and was planning to change the trawl nets into large flat nets that could be intercepted.

This kind of net is also very common at the beach. Tang Ping, a clam farmer, often uses this kind of net.

However, he used it as a fixed net, mainly to intercept marine fish and crabs outside the isolated breeding area to prevent the clams he cultivated from being eaten by those marine fish and crabs.

This kind of net is quite common on beaches where clams are cultivated and on mudflats where razor clams are cultivated.

The net that Li Duoyu is making now is similar to his fixed net, but Li Duoyu does not intercept marine fish, he wants to intercept jellyfish.

At that time, just put this net horizontally in the sea, hang a buoy on it, and hang a big stone at the bottom.

The jellyfish floating along the ocean current will hit the net one by one, and they just need to take the net to scoop them up, which can greatly improve the efficiency of fishing.

And this fishing method was not invented by Li Duoyu, but he saw it in a short video in his previous life.

It's interesting to say that many of the things he watched out of boredom in his previous life are now useful.

After buying two trawl nets, Li Duoyu just briefly talked to these women who repaired the nets.

Unexpectedly, they knew how to do it. They took the big scissors and kept cutting the trawl nets, as if they were cutting clothes.

The leader also said: "Xiuhua, you sew this piece."

"Yuzhu, you sew the back piece."

In less than an hour and a half, the two trawl nets were processed into a large block net of three or four hundred meters long.

This efficiency made Li Duoyu a little stunned. It is true that there are top talents in every field, especially in the field of weaving and mending nets.

There are probably not many people in the whole county who are better than these women.

Li Duoyu also admires the second sister-in-law very much. She is really an all-rounder and deserves to be the winner of the red flag bearer that year.

As long as she is in the business of "practice makes perfect", she will perform very well.

Just knowing that her second brother went to help her with work again, her face was so bad, but when she knew that the fat boy lived in their house, she immediately smiled again:

"Duoyu, if Haoran lives in your house, let Xiaoying teach him more when she is free. His grades are so poor, I am worried that he can't keep up in junior high school. How can he enter the technical secondary school when the time comes?"

The woman who was mending the net beside her smiled and said, "If Haoran can get into the technical secondary school, it will definitely not be a problem for my Adong to get into university."

Zhu Xiuhua said angrily, "We Li family members are all good at studying, okay? Haoran is just naughty, not incapable of studying."

"I'm kidding you, can you not be so anxious? Besides, my Adong was originally in the top five in the school district, and it is really not difficult for him to get into university."

Li Duoyu smiled and said quickly, "When I'm done with this period of time, I will go directly to the city and buy a bunch of exercise books for Haoran, and try to get him into the technical secondary school."

Seeing Li Duoyu speak for her, Zhu Xiuhua was so happy. She really hated this woman named Mingyu.

She kept saying things like, this year's students are lucky, they caught up with the reform, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get into junior high school.

In the end, she just wanted to show off that her son did well in the exam, and Haoran didn't deserve to go to junior high school. Being always treated like this by her, Zhu Xiuhua really hoped that Li Haoran could fight for it and get into a technical secondary school to show everyone.

Li Duoyu smelled gunpowder, and seeing that the two women were going to confront each other again, he quickly ran away.

If the fat boy knew that he, as his uncle, was going to buy him an exercise book, he would probably run away overnight and would not dare to stay at his house at all.

Many people came to the dock, all smoking and chatting there, but the most discussed issue was how to make money from jellyfish.

"Li Duoyu is not really going to ask us to catch jellyfish, is he?"

"I've eaten the pickled jellyfish from Chenjia Village. When it's just made, it bites you and makes your mouth numb. I'm afraid of it after eating it once."

"The jellyfish from Chenjia Village is not good. I've eaten it outside and others make it better."

Seeing that everyone is pessimistic about jellyfish, Li Duoyu can understand it, although many places along the coast have the habit of eating jellyfish.

But for jellyfish, not only do you have to catch the right species, but you also have to know how to pickle it, otherwise the jellyfish you make is really not delicious.

Li Duoyu held a loud speaker and explained to everyone: "This time, I will take you to catch not the big jellyfish, but the red jellyfish."

Some fishermen were curious and asked: "Director Li, aren't all jellyfish transparent? Why are there red ones?"

Li Duoyu said: "Maybe that kind of jellyfish is rare here. You have to go to Xiaoxiang Island to find it. Let me tell you first. This time, if you catch a jellyfish, I will give you five cents.

If someone thinks it's not cost-effective, I can also charter your boat and cover the fuel cost, but you have to have at least two people working on the boat. I will give you 40 yuan a day."

Hearing that the fuel cost is all included and there is still 40 yuan a day, these fishermen's eyes widened.

Usually, if they fish, they can only make 10 yuan at most. This 40 yuan a day is really very tempting.

The women who were weaving nets were also very envious: "We work so hard here, and we can only earn two dollars a day at most."

"When will my man get a boat? I really don't want to mend the nets anymore."

"Mingyu, why didn't your man get selected when he rented a boat last time?"

"He is so lazy that he fishes for three days and dries the nets for two days. Teacher Zhou would never let someone like him rent a boat. If he wants to live a good life, he may have to wait until our Dongzi graduates from university."

Zhu Xiuhua on the side snorted:

"Your child hasn't even started high school yet, and you're already thinking about relying on him to support you. We parents don't work hard, and we're always thinking about holding our children back."

After hearing this, Zhang Mingyu's face flushed, and she said loudly: "Zhu Xiuhua, did you come here to quarrel with me today?"

Seeing the other side shouting loudly.

Zhu Xiuhua shouted even louder: "I'm here to quarrel, what's wrong? Isn't it because your child is better at doing questions, and you show off everywhere all day long? Don't let him fail to get into a technical secondary school, and then who will be embarrassed?"

"You, you, you"

Looking at Zhu Xiuhua's burly body, Zhang Mingyu was really a little scared, but she didn't want to give in.

Seven or eight fishermen who were mending the net all put down their fishing spears and quickly pulled the two of them.

"Mingyu, don't say a few words."

"Why are you quarreling?"

They really wanted to tell Zhang Mingyu that you and your husband together might not be able to beat Zhu Xiuhua.

If she really beats you, Li Duoyu may not stand on your side.

Why bother?

Seeing the two women quarreling, all the men at the dock watched the show, and they didn't know when this rule was passed down.

Men usually don't try to persuade women to quarrel, but these two were just making a lot of noise but doing little. They cursed each other and started to mend their nets again.

The dock instantly returned to calm, and a fisherman said, "Director Li, we have two fish, we choose to charter a boat and take the 40 yuan."

The Zhao brothers thought about it and said, "We believe in Brother Yu, five cents for one fish, five cents for one, we choose to pay by the piece."

"My family also charters a boat"

Seeing that most people have difficulty making choices, Li Duoyu simply said, "How about this, we won't be so formal at that time, and everyone thinks that if they lose money, it's okay to choose to charter a boat or by the piece."

After Li Duoyu said this, everyone laughed, and then most people chose the more stable charter plan.

At this time, Wang Jinshan, who had just been bitten by a jellyfish, also came: "Brother Yu, I want to join too, I will catch one too."

Li Duoyu frowned and said: "Why didn't you take a two-day break after being bitten?"

Wang Jinshan said bitterly: "After applying the alum you mentioned several times, it seems to be fine. I want to get revenge."

Li Duoyu then shouted with a small loudspeaker: "By the way, we are catching jellyfish this time. Wear waders and gloves if you have them. I have told you in advance that this thing will bite people."

"If you don't have them, go to the cooperative to buy them quickly. If you get bitten, don't ask me for medical expenses."

The news that Li Duoyu's fleet was going to catch jellyfish spread to Chenjia Village immediately.

In less than an hour, six boats came from their village, and his cousin's husband was among them.

"Duoyu, we will go with you to catch jellyfish. Our village is quite experienced in this."

"Sure, of course you are welcome."

At this time, nearly 40 fishing boats have been assembled, most of which are powered, and only a few are small boats with oars.

When Li Duoyu saw that these small rowing boats also wanted to go out to sea with them, he rejected them on the spot.

After all, Xiaoxiang Island is considered to be the open sea, and the waves there are relatively large. If this kind of rowing boat works here, it is easy to capsize.

The fishermen in the rowing boat smiled and said: "It's okay, we will follow you and guarantee that nothing will happen."

Li Duoyu said seriously: "It's really not possible. I will take you next time. You really can't joke in the open sea."

Wang Jinshan also said:

"You'd better not go. I just came back from there today. You can't even shake a small boat like yours there, let alone catch jellyfish."

Everyone also persuaded them.

"Director Li and Duoyu are right. You can't joke around at sea."

The few people who were rejected were quite disappointed. They knew very well that they had missed another opportunity to make money.

It was almost two o'clock in the morning, and everyone had prepared their fishing tools.

Most people put on rubber boots and rubber gloves. This time, my eldest cousin Li Shuguang also went out to sea.

Liu Yun's boat also followed, and Lao Lu's small tugboat also said it wanted to go together.

The fleet waited at the dock until almost two-thirty in the morning. At this time, the tide rose, but the largest iron-hulled tugboat in the village had not returned.

The longer the time dragged on, the fewer jellyfish there would be. Li Duoyu glanced at his watch and didn't plan to wait any longer.

"I will lead the way for you later. Shuguang and Lao Lu's boats will be in the middle, and Liu Yun's boat will be at the end. We will set off in this order. When the time comes, don't disrupt the formation and don't overtake me. Got it?"

Everyone laughed and said, "We are afraid that you will drive too fast. With your boat, none of our boats can catch up with you."

Li Duoyu counted and found a total of 37 boats. He shouted with a loud speaker, "Okay, let's go."

"Dongdongdong."

Diesel engines started to sound one after another, and several large ships turned on their lights.

A fleet of ships in a straight line set off from the dock of Dandan Island. From a distance, it looked like a sea dragon emitting light.

Many people in the village saw this scene, and some children smiled and said, "It's so beautiful."

Some old people couldn't help but sigh, "The days are really getting more and more promising." (End of this chapter)