Vol 3 Chapter 449: Launch island-wide donations
In the three weeks of fishing for cloves, the two Zhao brothers earned more than 2,000 yuan.
Zhao Dahai, who owns a boat, has earned about 1,500 yuan by himself. In these three weeks, he has earned more than he has earned in a whole year.
Zhao Dahai, who had made money, was thinking about building an additional floor to his house. After all, it would be a bit embarrassing to build a new house in such a good location as the dock with only one floor.
While he was building the house, there were always people who were asking him: Dahai, did he have no money to build the house?
Of course the most important thing is to find some relief. He is no longer poor, but those women still look down on him, so he should build the house well and see if they still dare to say no to him.
This time, Zhao Dahai was very relieved that the officers’ party was with teachers instead of village girls like them.
Zhao Erniu and Wang Jinshan cooperated to catch cloves. Although they did not make as much as Dahai, they still made a lot, almost more than 800 yuan.
After experiencing such a life of collecting money, the two brothers are now very uncomfortable. Now they can only earn a few yuan a day fishing and catching blue crabs.
And recently many people in the village have been busy with kelp farming, and their brothers really regret it now.
If the two brothers had not quarreled, they might have been able to create a 30-acre kelp field by pooling their money together.
As long as the kelp is harvested, it may be worth ten thousand yuan. Seeing so many people raising kelp this year, the Zhao brothers are envious.
But it's too late to say anything now. The two brothers plan to catch more blue crabs before the New Year. Then, they will follow Li Duoyu's example and raise the blue crabs first, and then sell them out a few days before New Year's Eve.
During the Chinese New Year period, blue crabs can be sold for at least two yuan.
But the two brothers had been fishing in ground traps for several days in a row, but the fishing situation for blue crabs was not very satisfactory. They caught less than fifteen crabs in three days.
Zhao Dahai, whose face was covered with mud, complained: "It's all your fault. You caught the green crabs too hard. Now we don't have any blue crabs to catch."
Zhao Erniu did not deny that he had indeed caught them too hard, and he had almost caught all the green crab seedlings in the tidal flat.
After he could no longer catch him, he even went to the mangrove forest in another village to continue catching him.
However, the money was really good. In two months, he got two thousand yuan, otherwise he would not have the money to build that house.
If he had to choose again, he would definitely continue to catch him.
At this moment, the two brothers heard Chen Wenchao calling them and ran out of the mangrove.
“Xiao Chao, what do you want from us?”
The two brothers knew very well that Xiaochao would not take the initiative to look for them. Once he came to find them, it would definitely be the order of Brother Yu, and he would definitely come to live again.
Chen Wenchao said: "Haidai, Erniu, are you free these two days?"
“I am free, very free.”
“Okay, the blue crabs raised by Brother Yu are about to be fished. You are more experienced, so come together to help catch them.”
“Sure, no problem.”
After hearing this, Zhao Dahai was a little disappointed. He thought it was another big money-making project. He didn't expect it to just help catch blue crabs.
This purely physical job doesn’t make much money, but even if you don’t make any money, you still have to smile and help.
Perhaps Li Duoyu thinks their brothers are good and throws out fragrant steamed buns for them to eat.
In fact, even now, the two brothers have no idea about blue crab farming. It was not until they arrived at the crab pond that the two brothers slowly understood one thing.
It’s not that they can’t catch blue crabs, it’s that they are all in these ponds.
Looking at the cages of dense blue crabs, the two brothers were stunned for a long time. Zhao Erniu now began to regret it.
The two brothers have been dealing with blue crabs for so many years and have caught them for more than ten years. Maybe they really don’t have as many blue crabs as Li Duoyu raised in one pond.
If this is the case, then it doesn’t mean that Li Duoyu negated the efforts of the two brothers for more than ten years in less than half a year.
Looking at the plump blue crabs, Zhao Dahai thought for a long time and suddenly asked: "Xiao Chao, I want to ask you something, are these blue crabs easy to raise?"
The two brothers will definitely not be able to keep up with kelp farming, but if they work **** blue crab farming, they still have a chance.
Next year they will build a smaller pond, catch green crab seedlings themselves, and then learn from Li Duoyu to raise blue crabs using cheap snails and shellfish.
Chen Wenchao frowned for a while:
“I suggest you don’t touch this thing. Anyway, I feel that this thing may be more difficult to raise than eels. There are really too many uncertain factors.”
“Is it really difficult to raise?”
Chen Wenchao nodded and said: "Brother Yu, he has told us in private that he can guarantee that at least half of the eels will survive, but he can't guarantee this at all."
"Understood."
Zhao Dahai asked with a smile: "Then ask Brother Yu if we two brothers can come and learn blue crab farming. We two brothers will be apprentices and we will not be paid."
“Well, I can ask Brother Yu for you.”
“Thanks, Xiaochao.”
Due to the sudden cold weather, Zhou Xiaoying's hands and feet have been very cold these days. In the past, she didn't like to be hugged.
Now every night, I often stretch my feet between Li Duoyu's thighs. The moment of contact, it feels so sour and refreshing.
The reason is that several classes in the school have classes outdoors. When the temperature drops and the sea breeze blows, everyone is shivering from the cold.
Li Duoyu also visited the school. The classrooms were obviously not enough, and some students had to attend classes outdoors just like they did before.
Several students’ faces were red with cold, and a few children even came to class carrying woven bamboo fire cages.
After seeing this, Li Duoyu spent a little money to build a temporary classroom for them that could protect them from the wind.
At the same time, an island-wide donation was organized, and the place was chosen to be next to Thean Hou Temple.
After all, if you do good deeds, you should always let Empress Mazu look at you twice, and maybe she will take more care of you.
The most important thing is that the people here are very pious to the gods. In other places, they probably wouldn’t be able to mobilize everyone’s enthusiasm for donating money, but it is different here in Tianhou Palace.
In the past, the villagers of Dandan Island could not afford to eat meat even on ordinary days, but on Mazu's birthday, no matter how poor they were, they still wanted some meat dishes.
A lot of people came to donate money this time. It can be said that almost all the prominent people from the two villages came.
There were even more people watching, and five to six hundred people gathered at the Tianhou Temple that day.
Principal Zhu took the lead in describing the current difficulties faced by Dandan Island Primary School and the urgent need for classrooms.
After the principal finished speaking, Miao Zhu shouted with a "big loudspeaker":
“Today, we are all holding a donation ceremony in front of the Mazu Temple. Anyone who wants to donate please register in front.”
Li Duoyu was the first to donate money. After he finished donating the money, Miao Zhu shouted on the spot: "Thank you to our village director Li Duoyu for donating 3,000 yuan. Mother Mazu bless your family to be safe, reunited, and everything goes well." "
Li Duoyu also clasped his fists at the temple blessing and said: "Thank you, thank you for the blessing."
Following Li Duoyu was his uncle Li Niantian. After he donated the money, Miao Zhu shouted: "Thank you to our former captain of the fishing team Li Niantian for donating 1,000 yuan. Mazu Goddess bless your family and your family."
“Thank you to Li Zhengfa from Team 7 of Xiasha Village for donating 1,000 yuan”
“Thank you Li Shuguang for donating 500 yuan, and may you have more children and more wealth.”
As soon as Miao Zhu finished speaking, Li Shuguang couldn't help but said: "Uncle, I already have two children, so I don't need to add another one."
After hearing this, the older Miao Zhu immediately changed his tune and said, "Then I wish your children good health and 100 points in all subjects."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but smile: "As for the two children in his family, if they want to get a hundred points in the exam, it would be faster to go directly to Teacher Zhou to steal the answers." Li Shuguang was also helpless. The two are notorious academic scumbags, even worse than Li Haoran.
Next.
Lao Lu also donated 500 yuan, and what surprised everyone the most was that Wang Jinshan actually donated 1,500 yuan.
“Jinshan, don’t you have no money? How can you donate so much?”
Wang Jinshan scratched his head: "I recently made some money fishing for cloves. My father was greedy for so much. I feel very sorry for everyone. It just happened that the school was building classrooms. If you donate some money, I hope you can feel at ease. I also hope everyone Can you forgive us?"
After Wang Jinshan finished speaking, everyone looked at him with admiration, and some even applauded.
“Jinshan, you have more responsibilities than your father.”
“This kid from Jinshan can do it.”
Wang Dapao in the crowd was silent and lowered his head. He felt very sorry for this child. He felt that all the mistakes he had made with Jun Jun were all retributive on him.
At this time, the second daughter beside Wang Dapao gritted her teeth and said: "You don't know how to help your relatives even if you make money. You have to turn your arms outward. You are really heartless."
Wang Dapao glared at her.
“It would be ten times better for you to throw money into the water than to give it to you.”
What Wang Dapao didn’t expect was that his second daughter actually responded: “Dad, if you didn’t give Wang Jinshan the hundred acres of kelp, how much money would he have made?”
“You don’t want that, Jinshan will get it yourself.”
“We just put it over there and didn’t say we didn’t want it, so now it’s all turned into a mountain of gold.”
Wang Dapao closed his eyes and didn't want to talk to his daughters at all. He felt that if he continued talking, he would be angry enough to have a heart attack.
This donation is for the whole island. Seeing how much money Xiasha Village donated, Chenjia Village was embarrassed to be an iron rooster. Besides, it was originally because the school classrooms in their village collapsed, which led to the early merger of schools.
If this donation does not make up the money, it is estimated that the students in Chenjiacun will really be unable to hold their heads up on Dandan Island in the future.
Chen Atai was the first to stand up and donate 1,500 yuan to a household in Chenjiacun.
Miao Zhu shouted: "Thank you Chen Atai from Chenjia Village for your donation of one thousand and fifty. Mazu will bless you with a bumper harvest of kelp and make a lot of money this year."
Chenjia Village is indeed not as rich as Xiasha Village, but many people also made money from the clove fishing this time.
“I will also donate five hundred.”
The people in their village were indeed relatively poor. At the end of the donation, a man nicknamed "Chicken Feather" raised his hand and said, "Ten yuan, can you donate it?"
After hearing this, the villagers present laughed, but Li Duoyu shouted loudly: "Of course you can donate, any amount of money is fine, the most important thing is your heart."
Li Duoyu quite admires this kind of person. He knows that he doesn’t have much money, but he is still willing to donate money with shame.
This kind of person is much better than those who are so bitter that they refuse to donate even a dime.
"If you can donate ten yuan, then we will donate it, and I will donate ten yuan." The villagers who originally just came to watch the fun ran back to get money.
Seeing how actively everyone donated money, Principal Zhu smiled so much that wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes. He kept bowing to everyone: "Thank you all so much. On behalf of all the teachers and students in the school, I thank you for your enthusiasm and kindness."
Li Duoyu launched an island-wide donation, and in the end, 500 families participated in the donation.
At last count, the total donation amounted to about 22,000 yuan.
But just as the donation was about to end, Chen Yuanyou, the current boss of Rongcheng Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company, also came to the scene.
This time, she did not wear a skirt, but a smart black business suit, and the smell of perfume on her body was also lighter.
But her aura was much stronger than before. When she came, the villagers involuntarily gave way.
After briefly asking about how much Li Duoyu had donated, she walked to the front and asked, "Can we outsiders donate?"
Miao Zhu replied: "Of course you can donate."
“Then our Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company will donate 2,900 yuan.”
Miao Zhu smiled and said: "Thank you Xinyuanchan Company for donating two thousand ninety-nine yuan, and also thank this beauty for her kindness. I wish you a prosperous business and find your right husband as soon as possible."
Chen Yuanyu blushed slightly.
Li Duoyu came over to say hello: "Boss Chen, you are so generous. The price is nearly 3,000 yuan."
“How can I compare with Director Li?”
The two of them laughed and felt that there were too many people here and it was not a place to discuss business, so they went directly to the eel factory.
When Chen Yuanyu came to the eel factory, he did not sit down to drink tea. Instead, he looked at the pond not far away and asked: "That's where you raise blue crabs, right?"
“Yeah.” Li Duoyu nodded.
“Then let’s go over and see if the crabs you raise are as good as the blue crabs you sent over.”
“Boss Chen, that’s for sure. Even if the random inspection is fine, if I encounter bad blue crabs, I will give them to you for free.”
Chen Yuanyu smiled and said: "Director Li, this is what you said. If the quality of the blue crabs is not good, then I will give you a big blow. Don't feel bad when the time comes."
When the two came to the crab pond, the Zhao brothers and Chen Wenchao were pulling the ground cages for fishing blue crabs onto the bamboo rafts.
Li Duoyu shouted: "Xiao Chao, bring over two cages and show Boss Chen the blue crabs we raise."
“Okay, Brother Yu.”
Chen Wenchao rowed a bamboo raft and came to Li Duoyu and Chen Yuanyu: "I just pulled up two ground cages, and there are a lot of blue crabs in them."
The Zhao brothers in the center of the pond were a little afraid to look at Chen Yuan Yuan when they saw her.
They naturally knew who this beautiful woman was, last year, when she came to Dandan Island for the first time.
The two brothers had spoken highly of her, but now that they knew her identity, they no longer dared to think anything wrong about her.
Zhao Erniu couldn't help but sigh: "She's so **** beautiful and has a good figure. The way she's dressed today, she really looks like that actress from Hong Kong. We used to have a poster of her at home."
“When you said that, I suddenly remembered whether it was the one that was posted in front of my bed before.”
“Is it Li Lizhen?”
Zhao Erniu nodded and said, "Yes, it's her."
Zhao Dahai looked at Li Duoyu with envy and whispered:
“Er Niu, what kind of **** is Duoyu’s luck? His wife is pretty enough, but the female boss he works with is even more beautiful. Do you think it’s possible for them to have an affair?”
At this point, Zhao Dahai couldn't help but gesture.
Zhao Erniu shook his head directly and said:
"I don't think it's possible. For a woman like her, the people who chase her might be able to form a reinforced company. Brother Yu is indeed very powerful, but in big cities, it's 100% not enough."
Zhao Dahai thought for a while: "That's right. After all, there is a big gap between us and the people in the city. Few girls in the city would like us who are full of seafood smell." (End of Chapter)