1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

After all the jellyfish were sold, Li Duoyu planned to rest at home for a few days. He was so busy during this period that he had no time to spend time with his family.

Li Haoran, who was temporarily staying at his house, had become visibly plumper these days.

His classmates were almost envious of him, but Li Haoran kept switching between happiness and pain every day.

The happiness was.

He could watch TV with the air conditioner on.

The pain was.

Recently, my aunt was in a bad mood. Today, it seemed that it would turn from sunny to cloudy, and there might be heavy rain.

In places like theirs, it is easy to have heavy rain in the afternoon.

And my aunt gave him the feeling recently, just like the sky before the rainstorm, which was gloomy most of the time.

Li Haoran thought that my aunt was in a bad mood, which might be related to my uncle. Recently, my uncle was very busy and anxious every day.

He would only take a few bites of the meal, and before my aunt finished cooking the next dish, he would say that he was full and then go out.

As a result, after aunt finally cooked a table of food, there was still a lot of leftovers, and he gained another four or five pounds in this way.

But Li Haoran felt that another reason why aunt was unhappy was because she was too bored.

When my uncle was still smuggling, aunt would go to the dock to mend fishing nets to make some money, but since she had a child, aunt was either cleaning or taking care of the child during the summer vacation.

And Li Puyi was really too naughty and difficult to take care of. Every day when he woke up, he would clamor to go out and play.

Yesterday, he even used his hands to grab duck shit.

He also licked his fingers.

He was disgusted, so he was naturally punished by his aunt, and his two hands were stretched out and beaten with bamboo whips.

Auntie was very angry: "In the future, will you dare to catch ducks and duck poop?"

Little Tutu cried and said: "I will never dare to do it again, but I always wash my hands after catching duck poop."

"Where do you wash them?"

"In the water tank in the kitchen."

After hearing this, Li Haoran's mouth twitched, and Auntie was furious on the spot, took off his pants and gave him a severe beating.

During the days living in his uncle's house, Li Haoran understood that if Auntie was unhappy, he, the guest, would also suffer.

Because Auntie's way of venting when she was unhappy was very special, either reading books or learning English.

Li Haoran really admired this point, and it seemed that Auntie was the same, he had heard grandma talk about it.

My aunt's grades were not so good before, but she quarreled with Grandpa once, and the two did not talk for half a year.

And Auntie was also very stubborn, she locked herself in the room every day to study hard, and when she took the exam, she got the first place.

Sure enough, those who study well are all special. Unlike him, if he is unhappy, he only thinks about eating.

Another thing that makes Li Haoran collapse is that his aunt is really amazing. She can not only teach elementary school content, but also junior high school content.

Seeing that he has not previewed the junior high school textbook content during this period, he also learned from his aunt that he had nothing to do and previewed some of the first-grade content for him in advance.

This is not the most depressing thing. There is an English column called "Learn with Me" on TV, which is a must-see for his aunt.

It just happened to conflict with the time of the cartoon he wanted to watch, and he didn't dare to say, "I want to watch cartoons."

And when his aunt watched this English column, she would let him read along.

The air-conditioned room is very comfortable, but Li Haoran is really scared. Seeing his classmates having so much fun outside, he feels particularly uncomfortable.

Not long ago, the classmates in their class also organized roasted sweet potatoes and fishing. They also dug a lot of clams on the beach and then camped outside.

They have been enjoying the scooping pit recently. There are several large natural puddles in the reef area east of the village.

When the tide is high, they throw the fish pieces from the dock into the pit to attract fish, crabs and conchs into the pit.

When the tide is low, a group of them use buckets to scoop out the sea water.

Last time, they caught several big fish in the pit and sold them for a lot of money. It is said that everyone got two popsicles.

Speaking of popsicles, Li Haoran really wants to eat red bean paste popsicles and the new ice cream.

Thinking of this, Li Haoran couldn't help swallowing his saliva. It is said that the ice cream is soft, sweet, and has a milky taste. It tastes very good.

But it is too expensive, one costs fifty cents, and A Niang will definitely not buy it for him.

Sitting on the steps, Li Haoran looked at the iron gate in front of him. He used to want to come in every day.

But after coming in, he dreams of going out every night. Compared with TV and air conditioning, he still prefers to go out to play.

But he was really afraid of his aunt, and he didn't even have the courage to tell her that he wanted to go home.

At this moment, the iron gate was pushed open, and his uncle came back humming a song he didn't understand.

Li Haoran hurriedly greeted him.

Li Duoyu saw that Li Haoran was already alive and kicking, so he asked, "Is your leg better?"

Li Haoran quickly pulled up his pants. Although there were still a lot of whip marks on it, there were no wounds.

Li Duoyu pressed it gently and asked, "Does it still hurt now?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, but it still itches occasionally."

"Then you've recovered very well."

The little fat boy was lucky. This time he was treated in time, and he stayed in the air-conditioned room these days, and applied alum water every day, so he didn't get ulcers.

"Uncle, can I..."

Before Li Haoran finished speaking, little Tutu ran out of the room when he heard the noise, hanging directly on his father's calf like a koala, with a look of aggrievedness on his face:

".My mother doesn't even let me go out to play."

Li Duoyu touched Xiao Tutu's head, and then asked Li Haoran in a low voice:

"Has your aunt been in a good mood recently? Did she go for a walk with you?"

Li Haoran shook his head, and then whispered back: "It shouldn't be very good. Every time, uncle, you run away after eating, my aunt's face is the ugliest."

Li Duoyu touched his chin and frowned. He had been really busy recently and hardly stayed at home.

In fact, Li Duoyu also planned to compensate Zhou Xiaoying in another way, but Xiao Pangdun stayed at their house during this period, and she resisted every time, leaving him unable to do anything.

To be honest, after a woman has been taking care of her children at home for a long time, plus washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning the floor every day, it is inevitable that she will have a little temper.

This is understandable to Li Duoyu. After all, Zhou Xiaoying is different from those traditional women who work hard and never complain. She still has a bit of character.

Little Tutu kept tugging on Li Duoyu's pants and said angrily, "I haven't gone out to play in a week."

Li Duoyu, whose pants were almost pulled off, picked him up and said, "You really haven't even gone out yet." Little Tutu nodded while pecking at the rice.

Li Haoran also smiled and said: "Uncle, I can testify that during this period, little Tutu didn't go out to play. He was always playing with me."

"That's it."

Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "By the way, I haven't seen Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun for a long time. What are they doing?"

"They spent their summer vacation helping to sell things in their aunt's shop, and they didn't go out to play."

Li Duoyu thinks this is not okay. If rural children are not wild, their childhood will be incomplete.

Glancing at Zhou Xiaoying who was busy in the kitchen, Li Duoyu leaned over and said:

"Comrade Xiaoying, we haven't gone out for a long time. The tide seems to be ebbing now. Do you want to take the children to play at the beach?"

Zhou Xiaoying thought for a while: "You can take them to play. I have to cook at home, otherwise you will have nothing to eat when you come back."

Li Duoyu grinned and said: "It's none of your business, it's mainly about you. If you don't go, it would be meaningless. It's been a long time since we went to the beach for a walk."

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him. To be honest, she had such little expectations. Recently, she often listened to the song "Grandma's Penghu Bay".

"The evening breeze blows across Penghu Bay

White waves chase the beach,

There is no coconut grove adorning the setting sun

It’s just a sea of ​​blue.”

She really wanted to walk barefoot on the beach, so Zhou Xiaoying sighed: "Auntie is not here. If I don't cook, everyone will have nothing to eat. You should take them there."

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said: "How about this? Let's go directly to Xiaohai. I will cook tonight and cook whatever we catch. How about that?"

Zhou Xiaoying tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "But I still want to eat the cucumber jellyfish you made."

"If I had told you earlier, I would have no problem giving you a whole cucumber."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was stunned for a moment, but she just didn't understand what Li Duoyu was talking about.

At this time, Li Duoyu stepped forward and took off her apron, touched it, and commented: "There seems to be more meat, but it has also become bigger."

Zhou Xiaoying's face instantly became gloomy. She turned her head towards the stove and grabbed a cooking shovel.

"I've tolerated you for a long time. You know, you're just like a gangster, and you dare to call me fat."

Seeing that something was wrong, Li Duoyu ran away, muttering: "Teacher Zhou, please save some face for me. I am the village director and an outstanding entrepreneur after all."

"I prefer the fatter ones, which won't hurt when bumped."

Seeing her father and mother chasing her around, little Tutu actually clapped happily: "Mom, come on."

He also encouraged Erbai Wu: "You should also go after dad."

Two Hundred and Five also screamed happily twice, and then ran after them.

Li Duoyu was speechless: "You little bastard, who bought you the toy?"

Although she was running around in the yard, Zhou Xiaoying, who couldn't catch up with Li Duoyu, gasped until her chest heaved:

"Stop, do you hear me?"

"Only a fool stops. If you promise not to hit me, I will stop."

But even so, Li Duoyu obviously slowed down his running speed, and even shouted: "I'm exhausted in this hot day, and I can't run anymore."

Zhou Xiaoying saw that he had slowed down and rushed forward. She wanted to hit him with a shovel, but after thinking about it, she decided not to.

But she was really angry, so she still stretched out her right hand and twisted it towards his waist.

Li Duoyu was so painful that his whole face was deformed, and he kept shouting: "It hurts, it hurts."

Zhou Xiaoying had a look of disgust on her face. She had just touched the flesh, and before she even started to twist it, the guy was already crying out in pain.

She didn't intend to twist it, but she didn't expect this bastard to actually say: "Be gentle, I have lost weight recently and have no flesh. It will be very painful to twist it."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying felt that if she didn't twist, it would be disrespectful to him, so she turned ninety degrees to the left, and then rotated one hundred and eighty degrees.

After finishing twisting, Zhou Xiaoying hummed: "I'm going to change clothes, and you guys prepare a bucket and a rake."

After saying that, Zhou Xiaoying glanced at Li Haoran, and then asked: "Haoran, can you go out now?"

Li Duoyu looked at him and deliberately made an embarrassed expression: "Let me think about it."

At this moment, Li Haoran was about to cry. No one went out to play, so forget it.

But if everyone went out to play and he was the only one looking after the house, Li Haoran's nose was a little sour when he thought of this. He suddenly remembered that he refused to go to the zoo to see the pandas not long ago, and he felt very wronged.

Seeing Li Haoran lowering his head and drawing circles on the ground with his toes, Li Duoyu smiled and said:

"It should be okay, Haoran has recovered well, just don't touch the sea water."

After hearing this, Li Haoran raised his head suddenly, his chubby face was full of bright smiles, and he laughed so hard that his eyes were almost invisible.

Zhou Xiaoying said, "It will be more lively with more people. Let's call Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun. They seem to have been helping to look after the store during the summer vacation and haven't gone out to play."

"Okay, then I'll just call Xiao Chao and the others. He has been helping to take care of my daughter recently, so we can bring him out to play."

Before leaving, everyone prepared a lot of things to catch the sea. Li Duoyu took a small sea rake specially for raking clams, and a crowbar for prying barnacles and rock oysters.

Little Fatty carried a big bucket. Because his uncle said he couldn't touch the water, he went home and put on a pair of rain boots.

Little Tutu held a small fire shovel and shouted, "I want to go to the beach to dig sand."

Seeing that everyone was carrying so many things, Erbaiwu seemed to understand that everyone was going out to play, and kept circling around the little master.

Erbaiwu used to circle around the master, and every time the master came back, he was the first to pick him up.

But every time it went up to rub the master's feet, the little master came over and grabbed its tail and dragged it away angrily.

After one or two times, Erbaiwu understood that in this family, he could not compete with the young master for a position. Now he was always around the young master.

Li Duoyu simply called someone, but he didn't expect that the team that went to ask for Xiaohai would be particularly large.

In addition to them, Chen Wenchao's family came, and even Liu Xiaolan, who was just pregnant, came with him.

I don't know who spread the news, but the second brother who just returned home was directly caught by the second sister-in-law.

"If you have time, you have to spend more time with Haoran, okay?"

In addition to the second brother and the second sister-in-law, the eldest aunt, the third aunt and the others also came with them, and even a few cousins ​​came with them.

The most exaggerated thing is that Chen Jianghe didn't know where he heard the news from, and came with a bucket and a pair of tongs.

"Director Li, are you going to ask for Xiaohai? I'll go with you."

When the large team went out, they happened to meet Lin Shanshan and her children, and took them with them.

Li Duoyu simply counted the number of people. There were actually more than ten of them. It seemed that they would have to prepare a whole table tonight. (End of this chapter)