Vol 3 Chapter 476: family portrait

Vol 3 Chapter 476: family portrait

 (I have a toothache, so the update is late, please forgive me.)

 The first day of the Lunar New Year.

This group of children had a great time. Under Xiao Jin’s guidance, everyone caught fish.

Li Duoyu also took Xiao Min to the beach and picked up a lot of shells.

When girls in this city arrive at the beach, they immediately take off their shiny leather shoes, barefoot, and hold up their skirts as they step on the waves on the beach.

 There is a smile all over the face.

Li Duoyu also taught her how to catch dawn crabs with fish. He directly found a few branches, smashed a few miscellaneous fish, and strung them on the branches.

 Then I inserted the branches on the beach with waves. Within ten minutes, I could see many golden crabs biting them.

 Xiao Min said excitedly: "There are so many beautiful crabs."

Li Duoyu immediately started grabbing, catching four or five dawn crabs in one hand.

 “Don’t these crabs bite?”

Little Pangdun smiled: "This crab is very stupid and doesn't bite. I used to catch it and play with it often."

 But when he imitated his uncle to catch crabs, his face instantly turned pale, and then he kept waving his right hand.

 “It hurts.”

Li Xiaorong frowned and said, "Hurry up and put it in the water. The more you shake it, the harder it will pinch it."

Looking at his pinched fingers that were red and bleeding slightly, Li Haoran wondered: "Uncle, you caught so many crabs at once, why didn't they pinch you?"

Li Duoyu joked: "As long as you grab it from top to bottom, these crabs won't pinch you."

Believing it to be true, Xiao Min said: "Well, Uncle Duoyu, let me try it instead."

Li Xiaorong quickly said: "Don't imitate me. Your uncle's hand is as thick as a chopping board. A crab pinching him won't hurt at all."

Li Duoyu smiled. Xiaorong was indeed right. The crab did bite him, but it didn't hurt much.

 After all, compared to being pinched by a swimming crab, this crab is just like scratching an itch.

 When he was a child, Li Duoyu also liked to catch this kind of crab, but not for eating, but for playing.

The locals call dawn crabs sand crabs. This kind of crab has a meatless shell and is hard. I heard that it is good for cooking porridge when there is paste, but Li Duoyu has never tried it. After all, the crabs are too small and the shells get stuck in the teeth. Very troublesome.

 Happy time is always short. When Xiao Min left, she asked Xiao Jin’s name.

“My name is Jin Tianshun, and today’s weather is going smoothly.”

　　Xiao Min grinned and said: "It's a very interesting name. My name is Pan Xiaomin."

Xiao Jin looked shy: "Hello."

 Xiao Jin did not have any illusions because of this contact. For him, a girl like Xiao Min was too far away from him.

 In fact, he is more interested in fishing than falling in love. He has always had a dream, that is, when he grows up and makes money, he will buy a fishing boat like Brother Yu and go to various places to catch different fish.

 What I want to catch the most is the big tuna that Brother Yu once caught, and the giant grouper.

 The morning of the second day of the lunar new year.

Sister-in-law has already cleaned the room. According to custom, she must return to her parents’ home on this day.

Li Duoyu slapped his head and then remembered that he bought a camera at the Friendship Store and quickly took it out and loaded the film.

“Brother and sister-in-law, the passenger ship hasn’t arrived yet, don’t worry, let’s all take a photo together.”

 Eldest brother Li Jinchuan was a little surprised: "Duoyu, you can also take pictures."

“Are you kidding? If your brother and I had studied hard back then, I might have become a photojournalist by now.”

Zhou Xiaoying said disgustedly: "You just brag, you are a person who failed the math test."

Little Fatty's eyes widened and he suddenly said excitedly: "It turns out that my uncle is just like me. It seems that you don't have to be able to study to have a future."

After Li Haoran said this, many pairs of eyes stared at him. Zhou Xiaoying sighed: "Haoran, if you still fail the next quiz, come to my office after class and I will make up for you alone. ”

  Li Haoran: (“▔□▔)

Everyone gathered at the old house, and Li Duoyu directed the standing positions: "Children, squat in front, Zhang Lin, Zhang Yun, you stand in the middle, father and mother, you stand in the middle of the second row."

But if Li Duoyu was taking the photo, he would be the only one missing from the family photo. There is no such thing as scheduled photography yet.

Just at this time, neighbor Lin Shanshan came over, and Li Duoyu quickly asked her to help take two pictures.

Lin Shanshan looked confused: "I don't know how to use a camera."

“This is very simple. If you put your eyes into this small box, you can see that there are dotted lines on all sides.

  Anyway, if you stand here and see that we are all in the dotted line, just press the shutter. "

Lin Shanshan was under a lot of pressure after getting the camera. It was also her first time taking pictures of others. If she didn't take a good picture, she didn't know if she would be disliked by others.

Li Duoyu said: "Get ready, we will shout eggplant together later. When we shout, you press the black button."

Li Haoran asked: "Uncle, why do you call me eggplant?"

Li Duoyu said: "I don't know. When I take pictures outside, people always ask me to call me eggplant."

Li Xiaorong said: "If a foreigner said it, it shouldn't be eggplant, it might be cheese. It seems that when you say this word, your mouth will open slightly and it looks like you are smiling."

 Zhou Xiaoying smiled and said: "I know this word. The noun is cheese and the verb means stop."

 Li Xiaorong was quite surprised: “When did you learn English?”

 “I learned it blindly.”

“Then we can practice with each other. Recently, our work unit is forcing us to learn English well.”

 “Okay, but my English is very poor.”

 “I’m not much better.”

After Lin Shanshan took a group photo of them, Li Duoyu took a separate photo of his parents.

The two of them don’t seem to have a single photo taken together until now.

They were sitting on a bench. Their expressions were quite stiff, especially that of Lao Li, who looked like stone sculptures.

Aniang was not much better. She looked very reserved and motionless. There was no smile on their faces, and they looked quite serious.

Seeing that none of them were willing to smile, Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Mom and dad, Xiaorong has good news for you. She has found a partner."

 After hearing this.

 The two of them instantly showed expressions of surprise and surprise, and at this moment, Li Duoyu pressed the shutter button instantly.

After Li Duoyu finished filming, Li Xiaorong came over and kicked his feet: "Don't talk nonsense, okay? My father and mother really believe it. You can transform yourself into one and give it to me."

 Li Duoyu chuckled and said, "Okay, maybe Defa will think about it, he is also a college student now."

Li Xiaorong glared at him: "When he graduates, I can be his teacher." After taking the group photo, Li Duoyu took separate photos of each family, and their brothers and sisters also stood together to follow My parents took a photo alone.

By the way, I took a few photos of Lin Shanshan’s family, mother and son, who were helping me.

 The film negatives in this era were limited. The Kodak film Li Duoyu bought only had about thirty sheets.

There are still about five pictures left, so Li Duoyu just left all the negatives for Xiao Tutu.

 After all the negatives have been taken.

The sound of a passenger ship entering the port was heard at the pier, and the eldest brother Li Jinchuan said: "Duoyu, if the film has been taken, I can help you take it to the city to develop the photos. I happen to know the owner of a photo studio."

"Can."

Li Duoyu still wanted to get the money, and his eldest brother Li Jinchuan became angry on the spot: "Duoyu, are you looking down on me? Although my salary is not high, I still have enough money to develop photos."

 The second day of the Lunar New Year.

Although the fishermen have not yet gone out to sea to fish, they have already started working, mainly drying nets and cleaning fishing boats.

It happened that the tides were high on the first and second day of the Lunar New Year, so fishermen with boats quickly drove their boats to Badshui Beach.

 Spend some money and hire a tractor to pull their fishing boat to the beach. The only purpose of doing this is to give the fishing boat a major maintenance.

 The main thing is to remove the parasitic barnacles and mussels on the bottom of the ship.

Li Duoyu is no exception. The paint on his fishing boat is relatively "good", but there is still nothing he can do against the rogue barnacles in the sea.

Barnacles can still grow on the bottom of a fishing boat if they are not cleaned regularly.

Once there are too many barnacles, they will increase the weight of the fishing boat, which will not only affect the draft, but also reduce the speed and increase fuel consumption.

And it is possible to summon its good brother, the mussel, to stick to the bottom of the boat together. It can be said to be one of the most annoying marine creatures for the boss of the boat.

Li Duoyu is no exception. Including fishing boats, he has a total of three fishing boats, and they all went to the beach for maintenance this day.

 Generally speaking, the bottom of his fishing boat was relatively clean due to the poisonous bottom, and there were not many barnacles.

 But the two wooden sampans were a bit miserable, and their usage rate was not as high as that of the fishing boats.

There are several layers of barnacles on the bottom of the boat, and each one is getting bigger. No wonder I feel I have no strength to sail the boat recently.

Fishermen often dismantle the diesel engine before doing any major maintenance on their fishing boats.

Then a dozen people worked together to flip the fishing boat almost 60 degrees, and then used wooden sticks to hold it up.

 In their place, fishing boats must not be turned upside down. For them, this is a very unlucky thing.

 Once someone discovers that your fishing boat has been capsized upside down, maybe no one will want to get on your fishing boat.

The best thing to use for shoveling barnacles is a flat-bottomed shovel, or the one you use at home to shovel charcoal.

But shoveling barnacles is a technical job. If the force is too light, it will not be shoveled down at all. If it is too heavy, it cannot be pushed. If you do not do it well, the hull may be damaged.

You have to use skill. As for the skill, Li Duoyu doesn't know how to explain it. Anyway, practice makes perfect. If you shovel more, you will naturally know how to shovel.

 The fishing boat of the third uncle and the uncle took advantage of the strong tide and docked the fishing boat quite far ahead.

Moreover, many large wooden piers with slopes were used to hold up the entire trawler.

The crew’s uncle, uncle, and Chen Liang were all there to help shovel the barnacles.

Li Duoyu walked over and took a look. The bottoms of the two trawlers were even more exaggerated than his two sampans. The largest barnacles were as big as a fist.

Uncle Zhuang set up a pot and threw the big barnacles into the big iron pot: "There are many fish, let's eat them together later. These barnacles on the bottom of the boat are huge."

"sure."

Li Duoyu glanced at the bottom of Uncle San's boat. It seemed that in this era, the bottom paint of domestic fishing boats was still ordinary ship paint, and toxic ship paint had not yet started to be applied.

 Actually, whether the bottom of a boat is poisonous or not can usually be identified by its color.

 Li Duoyu's fishing boat has a red bottom, which is most likely poisonous.

 Because the two chemicals that are most effective in preventing barnacle adsorption are cuprous oxide and mercury oxide.

 They are red. As long as these two substances are mixed into the ship paint, the color of the bottom of the ship will naturally become red.

 So the barnacles shoveled from Li Duoyu's fishing boat cannot be eaten.

 While shoveling the barnacles, the third uncle's face was not very good. He had been too busy recently and had no time to clean the bottom of the boat.

It was discovered that there were several holes in the bottom of the ship. These are more annoying things than barnacles and are very likely to cause shipwrecks and water leaks.

Most importantly, it was very troublesome to repair. The third uncle directly took an iron rod and smashed the shipworms. After cleaning them, he had to use wood and glue to repair them.

There are so many of them. If the new owner of the boat finds out, he will inevitably have to bargain. Fortunately, there are not many holes, otherwise he would not dare to sell it like this.

 After clearing away the barnacles.

Li Duoyu followed everyone and ate barnacles. The taste of this thing was different from that of "turtle feet".

 It is fresh with a hint of crab roe.

It is still very fragrant, but the fishy smell may not be tolerated by mainlanders.

Uncle Third Uncle and his two trawlers have found buyers, including the trawls on them. The two boats combined have been sold for about 30,000 yuan.

Once the barnacles are removed and the boat is given a final coat of paint, the buyer can come and drive the boat away.

 Because the steel fishing boat built for them by Captain Long Tail is about to be launched into the water for trial sea trials.

In this era, delivering a ship is not that simple, especially for such a large ship. The core personnel on the ship must go to Ludao Fisheries Technical School for training and study, which is the school where Li Duoyu teaches.

 It takes about one or two months of training to master complete sailing skills. Only after passing the exam can you sail a big ship.

After Li Duoyu cleaned the barnacles on the fishing boat and repainted it, Chen Wenchao also prepared the fine net for catching eel fry and planned to start catching eel fry.

But he estimated that he and Qingguang would definitely not be able to catch 200,000 eel fry in half a month.

 If he wanted to complete the task assigned by Brother Yu, he could only spend money to collect it, but he was not very clear about the pricing.

 Chen Wenchao asked: "Brother Yu, what's the right price for eel fry?"

Li Duoyu thought about it, eel fry are different from clove fish, they are not concentrated, and they are much harder to catch than clove fish.

Although there are some eel fry on Tandan Island, they are lost. The real places where there are many are at the mouth of the sea.

There will be a cost if the boat sails over. Li Duoyu originally wanted to buy it for two, but considering that the eel fry are really too light.

Three or four tails are only one gram, and a pound costs at least 1,500 tails. Li Duoyu has already asked, and the purchase price from Ersao and his wife is one cent per tail, which is about fifteen yuan per pound. It's still acceptable when I think about it.

 “One point for each tail.” (End of this chapter)