Vol 3 Chapter 404: Old jealousy, spilled

Vol 3 Chapter 404: Old jealousy, spilled

Chapter 404: Old jealousy, overturned

 These days when the old man left, Shi Shi would occasionally sit on the pier in a daze.

 Sigh from time to time.

 Some fishermen who had seen the old man couldn't help but joke after seeing the stone.

“Shitou, why do I feel like you look a bit like that old man from Overseas Province?”

Shitou smiled and said, "Does it look similar? I forgot to ask. Maybe he is actually my long-lost grandpa."

 Lao Lu snorted: "It's impossible, your grandpa is that big-footed guy."

Old man Mi on the side frowned: "It's hard to say whether Grandpa Shitou is Bigfoot or not. I remember Bigfoot said when he was drunk that he and Xiumei were just living together."

 Lao Lu frowned: "Lao Mi, you can't say this nonsense. This month is the middle period. Be careful that Bigfoot will come to you at night."

"Oh, I will be afraid of him. When he first came to the island, he had nothing. He even borrowed several Yuan Datou from me. He didn't even repay the money before he disappeared. If he really dares to come to me, I asked him to pay back the money.”

 Lao Lu smiled and said, "It's still a cow."

Stone also smiled awkwardly.

 Actually, he has no feelings for either of his grandpas. After all, they have never gotten along with each other. His big-footed grandpa passed away long ago.

Looking at how his father gritted his teeth every time he talked about him, I guess that Shi Dajiao is not a good guy.

Looking at the sea in the distance, Shitou sighed. After grandpa saw grandma, he probably wouldn't risk fishing near the center line again.

After leaving, I don’t know how many years it will take to see him again.

 After the pond is completed.

Li Duoyu dug a lot of small trees from the mangrove and planted them around the pond, specifically for the green crab seedlings to avoid natural enemies.

 The fish damage in the pond has been cleared away, but Li Duoyu forgot that there is also the bird damage in the sky.

There are still quite a lot of various birds in this era, especially those "long-legged birds". Ever since Li Duoyu put the blue crab seedlings in the pond.

 I come here every day to check in and have lunch.

 Li Duoyu was so angry that he borrowed Zhao Erniu's air gun, shot down many of them, plucked their hair, and tied them to sticks.

 After seeing the feathers of the same species being plucked.

They didn’t dare to come over.

However, this kind of bird repellent device can only last for a month or two at most. Birds are relatively smart. Once they are sure that there is no danger, they will not be afraid of those feathers.

Since raising blue crabs, Li Duoyu finally understood why farmers hate these seabirds so much.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu often heard farmers complain that an entire pond of blue crabs and shrimps was almost being eaten up by seabirds.

 Because the long-legged birds in the previous life were all protective animals and could not be hunted, they could only be scared away.

It's okay if the pond is small, just spend money to buy a net that covers the entire pond.

With a large enclosure like this, there is no solution at all and we can only fight to the death with these "protected animals".

In Li Duoyu’s memory, one or two farmers really went bankrupt because of these protected animals.

However, the long-legged bird also has natural enemies on Dandan Island, and that is the group of energetic children on the island who have nothing to do.

Since the **** was built, it has become a new playground for children on the island. Children often run and play on the dike.

 There are also children who fish here.

Xiao Jin from the pork stall caught a lot of bream on the dam this month.

Li Duoyu spent a little money and asked the children in the village to help him catch the birds.

 “Dang Dang Dang.”

Several children beat gongs on the embankment and chased the "long-legged birds", and they only wanted to help chase away the birds for one day.

Then Li Duoyu gave them a dime.

Although the money is not much.

 But you can get a handful of teacups of melon seeds, but there are still a lot of children rushing to do this. The "long-legged birds" on the pond are often chased around by the children before they even land on the ground.

There were even children who picked up slingshots and shot at them. In less than half a month, the long-legged birds no longer dared to come to Weidi.

time flies.

 In less than half a month, brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng had completed the second pond.

evening,

 Li Duoyu and Zhang Mingsheng were sitting on the embankment, with several bottles of beer beside them.

There is also a bag of sun-dried peanuts from the next village, local dried Balang fish and shredded squid produced by the aquatic products processing factory.

 Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng asked:

“There are so many fish, I have built two ponds, and I have raised so many blue crabs, do you want to continue to do more?”

 Li Duoyu thought for a while.

He has no intention of telling his brother-in-law that it doesn’t matter whether he can raise blue crabs or not, whether he can raise shrimps or not, and whether he can make money in the short term.

 The most important thing is that these ponds belong to him from now on.

 “You’ve been busy for almost two months, are you tired?”

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng twisted his neck: "If I say I'm not tired, I'd be lying. I'm just a little tired, but at least I'm still running."

Looking at the pond in front of him, Zhang Mingsheng said calmly: "To be honest, when you said you wanted to encircle the pond at first, I was really not very optimistic about it. Unexpectedly, you actually encircled it. After enclosing it, you have achieved quite a lot." Feeling.”

Li Duoyu laughed and said:

“It was even worse when I started raising kelp. Except for my uncle, few people believed that I could make money.”

Zhang Mingsheng picked up the beer and poured a few sips into his mouth: "I think now, even if you say you want to raise sea cockroaches, there may be a bunch of people following you to raise them."

“Don’t tell me, maybe someone will actually keep sea cockroaches in the future.”

　　　"Holding grass, real or fake, such disgusting things are cultivated by people."

“Then you often catch sea centipedes and eat them. Aren’t sea centipedes even more disgusting?”

 “These two are different.”

 “No matter what’s different, it’s still disgusting, okay?”

Zhang Mingsheng said: "But what I find most disgusting is Lao Lu. Yesterday he actually ate this shipworm in cold sauce, which scared me silly."

Li Duoyu swallowed his saliva and said, "Damn it, Lao Lu, you bastard, you don't even ask me to eat this kind of good thing. If you dip it in some garlic sauce, it will be delicious."

 Zhang Mingsheng seemed to be looking at an alien: "I finally discovered that in terms of perversion, the ones on your island are relatively perverted. Why do you dare to put any seafood into your mouth?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Your Shanggang Village is a peninsula with a vast mainland behind it. Our Dandan Island is different. If we don't try to eat more, we will starve to death."

"Let me tell you, this shipworm grows in wood. It actually has a shell on the outside. If you think of it as a big razor clam, it looks really big, slippery and disgusting, but when you eat it, it tastes terrible. It’s similar to shellfish, very fresh and sweet. If it’s available next time, I’ll save some. I’ll try it once and I guarantee I’ll want it next time.”

No matter how Li Duoyu tried to persuade him, Zhang Mingsheng kept shaking his head.

“If it’s so delicious, you should keep it for yourself instead of leaving it for me.”

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "Brother-in-law, you really don't have to resist so much. In fact, you have already eaten it and praised it as very delicious."

 “When?”

“When you first arrived on the island, didn’t I make soup? You said the soup was very fresh and sweet.”

 Zhang Mingsheng suddenly remembered that he had indeed had a bowl of very fresh and sweet seafood soup.

 “Isn’t that sea anemone soup?”

 Li Duoyu chuckled.

 “If I say that, do you dare to eat it?”

When Zhang Mingsheng thought of the soft and slimy shipworm, his stomach suddenly turned and he couldn't help but ask:

“Duoyu, apart from this, what other weird things did you give me to eat?”

 “This thing really doesn’t exist anymore.”

“I don’t believe it. The jelly-like thing you gave me last week was made of something. It smelled a little fishy.”

“Well, the people over at Ludao really like to eat it. Isn’t it delicious? If you eat it in summer, it will be ice cold.”

 “Don’t interrupt me, what is that thing made of?”

Li Duoyu said seriously: "If you really want to know, I can take you to dig."

 When I hear the word "dig". Zhang Mingsheng understood in an instant that it was definitely not a serious thing to do first. It would either grow in the sand or grow in the soil.

 “Forget it, don’t tell me.”

Li Duoyu chuckled and said, "That's right, as long as the food is delicious, don't ask so many questions."

Zhang Mingsheng gritted his teeth and said: "If it weren't for me, I don't have a house now, I definitely wouldn't eat with you."

“Brother-in-law, don’t be like this. My sister also likes to eat these things. She really likes to eat that shipworm.”

Zhang Mingsheng was stunned. If she had eaten this thing in front of him when he was chasing Li Shuihua, the two of them would definitely not be able to get together.

Just at this time.

At the northeast corner of Dandan Island, a whistle sounded, and a tin boat was carrying some equipment away.

Zhang Mingsheng looked at the ship from a distance and couldn't help but ask:

“Duoyu, what are those people doing? They’ve been on the island for so long and they still haven’t contacted us.”

Li Duoyu looked at the iron boat in the distance and said calmly: "They are comrades from the Meteorological Bureau."

 Zhang Mingsheng frowned and asked curiously: "Weather Bureau, what are you doing on our island? Are they here to build a base station? I thought they were from the geological team and came to the island to survey."

“The geological team has been here a long time ago and said that there are no minerals on our island except stones.”

Li Duoyu looked at the iron boat in the distance and said with a smile: "Let me tell you some good news secretly. If our island is lucky, we might be able to get electricity before the Chinese New Year."

 Zhang Mingsheng opened his eyes wide: "Have you found the parts for that diesel engine?"

Li Duoyu shook his head and said: "There are so many households in our village, but that diesel generator from 20 to 30 years ago doesn't work at all."

 “Then how to generate electricity?”

“Hehehehe, have you ever heard of wind power generation?”

 Zhang Mingsheng frowned and asked, "How does the wind generate electricity?"

“Wind is actually the same principle as water power generation.”

Li Duoyu wanted to explain it, but found that he didn’t seem to understand it very well.

“I don’t understand it very well, so I won’t explain it to you. Anyway, in two months, we will know whether our village can have electricity.”

 While the two were chatting.

The voices of Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun came from the other side of the pond. They shouted: "Dad, uncle, grandma asked you to go back for dinner. She said she cooked delicious intestine soup tonight."

 Zhang Mingsheng replied:

 “Okay, go back and eat right away.”

Li Duoyu had just returned to his courtyard when he was pulled into the room by Zhou Xiaoying without thinking.

“It’s broad daylight, what are you doing in such a hurry? Come back at night.”

As soon as Li Duoyu finished speaking, he felt a sharp pain in his right arm, and Zhou Xiaoying used really hard force when twisting it this time.

 “What are you doing, **** me so hard.”

Zhou Xiaoying pointed to an unopened letter on the table, with an unhappy and fierce look on her face: "Read it yourself."

Li Duoyu muttered:

 “Isn’t it just a letter?”

 But when he saw the sender and address, Li Duoyu twitched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but cursed secretly: "Why is this woman sending me a letter? She is trying to harm me."

 Chen Ziyi can be said to be a hurdle that Zhou Xiaoying cannot overcome. Whether before or after their marriage, the two of them had many quarrels, all because of this woman.

“Take it apart and look at it. What’s written on it?”

Li Duoyu handed the letter directly to Zhou Xiaoying: "Just open it. I'm not familiar with her."

“Humph, if I’m not familiar with you, I can still know where you live, and I can also send you letters.”

Li Duoyu wanted to explain that he was someone who had appeared in so many newspapers and could be considered a celebrity.

It is not easy to write to him. The address should be directly filled in as Xiasha Village, Dandan Island, Director Li Duoyu (receiver).

 He soon received the letter.

Although Li Duoyu has little experience in love, he at least understands that when a woman is angry, no matter how educated the other person is.

 Don’t explain it.

 Don’t try to reason.

 Zhou Xiaoying pushed the letter back: "If it's your own letter, you open it yourself."

Li Duoyu opened the letter with anxiety. To be honest, he was really afraid that this woman would write messy things to him.

 Happily after taking it apart.

 Inside is a very formal letter.

ˆ “

 Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying



Time is like water. It has been eight years since we said goodbye in the early summer of 1978. We are very much looking forward to our reunion with our old classmates.

 Reminiscing about those extraordinary years together, at the suggestion of most classmates, we, Class 2, Class 75, plan to hold a class reunion on October 15th (lunar calendar) at Rongqiao Restaurant in Shangfeng Town.

 I am voluntarily participating in this gathering. I hope to make early arrangements and attend the appointment as scheduled. Since time is tight, I hope to respond as soon as possible.

—

Meeting contact person: Chen Ziyi.

“

 After seeing the content of the letter, Li Duoyu breathed a sigh of relief and handed the letter directly to Zhou Xiaoying, humming: "See for yourself, it's not written to me, it's written to the two of us."

 After reading the content of the letter, Zhou Xiaoying felt a little embarrassed: “I thought she wrote it to you alone.”

Li Duoyu snorted coldly: "You pinched me so much just now, should you compensate me now?"

Zhou Xiaoying snorted:

 “Were you very excited when you saw the sender just now?”

Li Duoyu turned his head and said, "I'm so excited, I'm almost scared to death, okay?"

 “You didn’t do anything wrong, why are you so scared?”

Li Duoyu looked at Zhou Xiaoying, grinned and said, "Comrade Xiaoying, have you overturned your old jealousy?"

“You’re kidding, I’d be jealous. When you asked me to write her a love letter, I wasn’t even jealous. It’s just such a letter, how could I be jealous?”

ˆ “

 Dear classmate Chen Ziyi.

 Since the moment I saw you on the playground, I couldn't close my eyes.

The moment you jump up to play volleyball, it’s like

“

“Stop, Comrade Xiaoying, I was wrong.”

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying reciting the love letter he wrote back then, Li Duoyu felt like there were countless ants crawling all over his body.

Seeing that she knocked over the old vinegar jar, Li Duoyu had no choice but to pick her up and throw her on the bed.

 When a woman starts to be unreasonable.

Then find a way to make her reason.

 “You are crazy, A Niang, Sister Shui Hua, and brother-in-law are still outside.”

 “I don’t care.”

Not long after, the two of them came out with red faces. Li Duoyu had just entered and came out very quickly. He had a look of resentment because he had failed.

What made Li curious about the fish was that his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng was bent over and vomiting in Shitiao, and his sister was patting his back.

“Sister, what’s wrong with my brother-in-law?”

 Chen Huiying, who was holding little Tutu on her side, had a grimace and sighed: "Mingsheng, I'm really sorry. I didn't know you were so afraid of this kind of thing."

Li Duoyu seemed to know something and asked, "Auntie, did Lao Lu give you that shipworm?"

Chen Huiying nodded: "I don't know, your brother-in-law didn't dare to eat this, and made him drink a lot of soup made with shipworms and ribs."

 (End of this chapter)