1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

It's quiet at night.

Crickets crickets.

Little Tutu played all day and fell asleep early.

After everyone finished dinner, Zhou Xiaoying went to the kitchen to wash dishes, and Li Duoyu hurried over.

"You go take a shower, and I'll do it instead."

Seeing him taking such initiative, Zhou Xiaoying felt that he had another agenda. She smelled the smell of sweat on his body and said disgustedly: "You stink so much, go take a shower quickly."

"Okay, I'll go wash it right away."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned, showing courtesy for nothing, she must be trying to cause trouble.

When taking a bath, Li Duoyu regretted building this bathroom. He still missed the famous scene of watching Teacher Zhou wipe his body through the mosquito net.

Now that I can't even see Mao, I feel like I shot myself in the foot.

Li Duoyu ate a lot of rock oysters today, and secretly brewed a bag of deer antler powder to drink. He had forgotten who gave it to him.

It could be Manager An, or it could be one of the leaders. After mixing it directly with warm water, he drank it gurglingly.

Some people say that if you eat these two things together, the effect will be great. Anyway, Li Duoyu ate them all, and there was no other reaction except a hot feeling in his lower abdomen.

To be honest, it’s better to have a bottle of Red Bull from my previous life, or buy a couple of glasses of wine.

After the two of them lay on the bed, Li Duoyu held his head with one hand and looked at Zhou Xiaoying head on, showing no intention of sleeping.

After being married for so many years, Zhou Xiaoying naturally knew what he wanted to do.

"It will disturb the baby."

Li Duoyu said disappointedly: "No, Teacher Zhou, you know this sentence now, don't you? You were afraid that Haoran would hear it before, and now you are afraid that the baby will hear it. You can't do this to me."

Li Duoyu hugged him directly from behind, then clamped him with his feet, and put his hands directly into his clothes.

"Let go, let's do it tomorrow."

Seeing that Teacher Zhou was not willing to cooperate at all, Li Duoyu had a bitter look on his face and couldn't help asking: "Is there something wrong with your health?"

"You're the one with the problem."

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Thirty is like a wolf, and forty is like a tiger."

Before Li Duoyu could finish speaking, Zhou Xiaoying pinched him: "I'm not even thirty yet."

"Comrade Xiaoying, your husband's eel pond is almost full. If you don't put water in it, the eels will run out of the pond and be picked up by others."

Zhou Xiaoying turned around suddenly and said with a smile: "Tell me carefully, who picked up the eel."

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying's angry look, Li Duoyu quickly said: "You are the only one who picked it up. If you don't believe me, touch it yourself."

"Ah~~"

Zhou Xiaoying was very speechless. Why was this man so unruly at night? She was so angry that she wanted to punch him on the spot.

Li Duoyu took her into his arms and wrapped the two of them in quilts: "Tutu will be disturbed in bed, and that's not easy."

After saying that, the two people wrapped in quilts rolled under the bed.

Zhou Xiaoying was shocked.

"You are going to die. The floor is very dirty. Just spread the quilt on the ground."

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "If it's dirty, just wash it. If you don't spread it, I'm afraid your knees will hurt."

Zhou Xiaoying blushed on the spot.

"Shut up, don't make any sound for a while, do you hear me?"

"Copy that, I promise not to make a sound." After Li Duoyu said that, he began to take off his clothes impatiently.

But Teacher Zhou's cooperation made him quite speechless.

It's definitely not going to work like this. If she doesn't cooperate, it will definitely seriously affect family harmony.

Li Duoyu then thought about it, it shouldn't be right, the relationship between the two of them was quite good.

Moreover, Teacher Zhou should be at the age where he is working hard and should not be so cold. Then there must be something wrong.

At this time, he suddenly remembered what Old Tang said in his previous life. Women are more emotional. Sometimes, when you are exhausted, she will pretend to hum a few times to give you a sense of accomplishment.

In fact, coaxing her with a few words is more effective than exhausting herself half to death. As soon as the other party's mood rises, she will move.

Li Duoyu didn't know how to coax her, praising her for her beauty, but was it even necessary to praise her?

What can you praise her for?

Compared with his own, her achievements were vastly different, and he might even be looked down upon by her.

Li Duoyu thought for a long time and felt that he had been too busy recently and alienated her, which caused her to have trouble.

Li Duoyu really couldn't figure it out, but he directly applied the universal formula. He reported his recent situation to the hostess, including how much money he really earned from jellyfish.

Sure enough, after hearing about the money-related thing, Zhou Xiaoying felt very happy and became very interested.

"How do you plan to use this much money?"

She was in the mood, but Li Duoyu's small tent secretly leaked air. As expected, people are easily distracted when their attention is diverted.

Fortunately, this body is still young, and in the previous life, it would have probably ended.

Li Duoyu explained the use of the next money, including how much money will be paid every month, the cost of breeding feed, etc.

Li Duoyu said: "Didn't I say last time that I still wanted to buy a store? I'll leave you fifty or sixty thousand, and you can choose some good stores."

Zhou Xiaoying thought for a while, shook her head and said: "Forget it, you are spending too much here. It will not be too late to buy again when you have enough money later."

Li Duoyu said: "Don't be like my second brother who always worries about money. I will take care of the money. Remember the cloves over there in Dinghai Bay."

Zhou Xiaoying asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that we won't be allowed to fish over there this year?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "If we don't let him fish it, he won't be able to sell it. The mayor of Xiaocheng Town, Dinghaiwan, has approached me and wants to cooperate with me."

"Why didn't you say anything just now?"

Li Duoyu scratched his head and said, "I just remembered that I don't have to do anything this time, I just need to be a middleman."

Zhou Xiaoying thought for a while, then got up directly, took out a small notebook from the drawer, and said:

"Since we rented a house, we have received a total of one thousand and eighty yuan in rent. Just like what you said, the price of the store has really increased, and it has increased a lot."

"When we bought it, it was only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. Now it's 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. The monthly rent for the store now costs at least 150,000 yuan."

"The introducer who just happened to be connecting with us has several storefronts in his hands, but the location may not be as good as the one we bought last year."

Zhou Xiaoying just said this

Li Duoyu said straightforwardly: "It doesn't matter the location. As long as there are vacant stores, we will buy them all."

Stores in this era, even the worst ones, will be in prime locations within a few years.

Zhou Xiaoying nodded: "I think so too. By the way, I have something that I might want to discuss with you."

Li Duoyu felt that what Teacher Zhou said before was probably not the reason. This was the real issue now.

Li Duoyu squeezed Zhou Xiaoying, why are women made of water? They fit so well!

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "Let me finish my words first. But after I say it, don't be angry."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. What else happened now? He would still be angry after hearing this.

"That's it. Xiao Weidong's parents have been making trouble. Shanshan may have to leave Dandan Island, so I lent her two hundred yuan."

"Oh, what then?"

Li Duoyu looked indifferent. To him, this was just something that would happen sooner or later.

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "Why are you not surprised at all? Shanshan is leaving, and I even lent her money."

"What's so surprising? She's not my wife. Even if she leaves with someone else, it's none of my business."

"Besides, if it's only two hundred yuan, you don't need to report it to me. If it doesn't cost more than a thousand yuan in the future, you can make your own decision."

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help but laugh, and then she whispered as if she had made a mistake: "If I told you, I would leave too." After hearing this, Li Duoyu really cheered up. Dandan Island Primary School is already short of teachers.

Lin Shanshan and Zhou Xiaoying are the two most outstanding teachers. If they both leave, Principal Zhu will have a huge headache.

No, that's not the point.

Li Duoyu looked at the grinning Zhou Xiaoying: "You don't want to go to Rongcheng with Shanshan, do you?"

Zhou Xiaoying shook her head and said: "No."

"Then why are you saying you want to leave?"

Zhou Xiaoying quickly explained: "It's like this, haven't I been studying English on my own recently? I've hit a bottleneck recently and can't make any progress at all, so I'm thinking of enrolling in an English correspondence class."

"Correspondence class."

Zhou Xiaoying said blankly: "Do you know about correspondence courses?"

Li Duoyu smiled. Of course he knew about correspondence education, which seemed to be a particularly popular way of further study in the 1980s and 1990s.

"But if you sign up for this, do you still have time to teach?"

Zhou Xiaoying nodded and said: "I have consulted. Correspondence courses like ours are mainly held on weekends, winter vacation, and summer vacation. They are only for those who are working and will not affect their work."

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said, "Okay, then you can go. As for little Tutu, I'll ask my mother-in-law to help bring more."

Zhou Xiaoying didn't expect Li Duoyu to be so straightforward, and thought he would definitely not agree.

Li Duoyu glanced at his watch: "Teacher Zhou, I've been chatting with you for more than an hour. My time is very expensive, so please pay some fees first."

Zhou Xiaoying hummed: "How much, I am considered a housekeeper now, I can afford it."

"You think too highly of yourself. Your husband's appearance fee is only 5,000 an hour."

Zhou Xiaoying glanced at him sideways: "A foreign professional English translation expert is less expensive than you for one hour."

After coming into contact with English contracts, Zhou Xiaoying discovered that the original contracts were so expensive, and he also heard that asking a professional to translate a contract would cost almost 5,000 yuan.

This time she took a correspondence course, focusing on this direction. Maybe she could really help her husband in the future.

"I'm a top talent just like them, okay? Last year, Haixin Eel Factory asked me for a job and they had to pay 30,000 yuan."

"Okay, okay, you're awesome."

"It's necessary. How can a man say he can't do it?"

Li Duoyu couldn't bear it anymore.

"Take off your watch first. It hurts me every time. Last time, it even gave me a scratch on my back."

Li Duoyu quickly took off his watch, and the monkey became anxious.

"Take your hands away and don't press my hair."

Playing here and there is called passion.

But in a nursery base in the county town, there was a young man who felt like he was going crazy.

At night, the temperature outside is still about 30 degrees, but inside the nursery base, it is only less than 20 degrees.

The water in the nursery pond was only ten degrees cold. It was indeed cool in here, but his heart was bleeding.

After taking over the nursery base and making it a semi-independent fishery research institute, he discovered that it was a big pit.

The chiller outside has to run for 20 hours, otherwise the kelp soaked in the nursery pond will rot due to the high temperature.

Looking at the fast-running electric meter, Zhao Jialu asked his assistant: "Is the electricity bill paid by the institute or by us this month?"

"Director Zhao, the institute paid last month, but starting from this month, we have to pay it ourselves."

"But there is no money in our account at all, how can we pay it?"

The assistant scratched his head, thinking that this seemed not something he should consider, so he did not answer.

Seeing that he was silent, Zhao Jialu had no idea. Since he came here, he found that the researchers here.

Each one is wooden.

None of them are very talkative. It is estimated that the most talkative one is still my uncle Chen Dongqing, but he has been at Li Duoyu's shrimp farm recently and rarely comes here.

Li Duoyu said it lightly about taking over the nursery base, but it is really difficult to do it.

There are really too many things to learn. Now there are four major seedlings in the nursery base.

Kelp seedlings, clam seedlings, razor clam seedlings and oyster seedlings, among which kelp seedlings, clam seedlings and razor clam seedlings are all produced by the seedling base.

The oyster seedling breeding base is on Dandan Island.

But the kelp seedlings alone are enough to make him feel exhausted. He used to think that raising kelp was a very simple thing.

It was not until he came to the seedling base that he understood why it was called kelp summer seedlings. There is a name for this thing.

"Kelp low-temperature seedling cultivation."

It is very easy to understand. The seawater temperature in the south in summer is too high, which is not suitable for the growth of kelp seedlings, so cold water should be used indoors to let the kelp grow comfortably.

When the seawater temperature drops to a level suitable for the growth of seedlings, they will be moved to the sea for cultivation.

"Damn it, it's better than human treatment." Zhao Jialu couldn't help cursing. This is a money-losing product. If his seedling base is independent, the electricity bill will not be supported by the "organization".

If the kelp seedlings are not sold at a higher price, it is estimated that the electricity bill cannot be recovered.

No wonder Li Duoyu looks down on this place and would rather cultivate shrimp seedlings than touch the kelp seedlings.

Although Chen Dongqing and Li Duoyu have been secretly helping him in this matter, he is still under great pressure.

Because this seedling base is very critical. To put it bluntly, if he doesn't do it well.

This year, all kelp farmers and clam farmers will definitely come to the seedling base to make trouble.

So whether it is kelp seedlings or clam seedlings, he cannot make any mistakes. He must ensure that these farmers can get the seedlings smoothly this year.

And the number of kelp seedlings this year is even more exaggerated. Last year, the number of kelp seedlings registered was about 4,000 acres.

This year it has soared to 10,000 acres, and the clam farming area, all added up, is also 4,000 acres.

And Chen Dongqing said that it is almost time to start breeding kelp seedlings now, and then take care of them until mid-November.

Until the weather gets cold.

It is considered over after the seedlings are delivered.

Then, when the time comes, we must immediately start cultivating clams and razor clams, and in the spring of the following year, we must deliver the clams again.

Zhao Jialu is really going crazy.

In the past, after get off work, he could go home immediately, and even after dinner, he could go to the dance hall to jump around and find a pretty girl to play with.

Now, every day when he wakes up, he works and then learns a lot of knowledge related to seedling cultivation.

The seedling base is different from those related departments. Some department leaders do not need professional skills and knowledge at all, and they only need to hold meetings every day.

But the seedling base is different. The people in it are all technicians. If I don’t learn something, I probably can’t even hold a meeting.

When he was young, he was still a fashionable young man, but when he looked in the mirror recently, he found that he was dark and ugly. It might be because of the seaside. His hair is always greasy without wax.

In the past, I thought Li Duoyu’s hands were really scary, and now my hands are not much better.

During this period, due to frequent soaking in water and moving things, he has had blisters many times.

Zhao Jialu looked at his watch that had just been damaged by the sea water and couldn't help but sigh.

If he regretted anything, he certainly regretted it a little, but although this period was very hard, he had a sense of accomplishment that he had never had before. This was something he had never had before. He gritted his teeth and still had the confidence to build a good nursery base.

It's just a little far from home.

I miss my home, my wife and my children. (End of this chapter)