Chapter 3 Future Plans
In the 1980s, there were no mobile phones or computers, entertainment venues were all outside, and there was a strong sense of human connection between people.
After dinner.
Many people gathered in the square in front of the Xiasha Village Temple.
There is an old man playing four-color cards there.
Many children danced with rubber bands, played tops and read little books there, but what they liked most was watching the group of young people wearing toad glasses, Afros and shawl hair twisting and dancing in disco.
After washing the dishes, Zhou Xiaoying rubbed her sore waist. Seeing that Li Duoyu was still at home, she asked, "Aren't you going to sea with Agui tonight?"
"No, I won't take away the goods from now on." Li Duoyu replied.
Zhou Xiaoying was slightly stunned. Is this the same Li Duoyu who just wants to make a lot of money and looks down on them who are paid dead wages? Could it be that he had a quarrel with Agui?
Although Zhou Xiaoying was worried, she didn't want to ask more questions about the man. She boiled a pot of hot water, poured it into a large wooden basin, and took a bath in the room.
At this time, there were no bathrooms.
She was wearing a small vest and was wiping her body through her clothes. Her skin was really white, unlike the fishermen on the island.
Strictly speaking, Zhou Xiaoying is not really from Dandan Island. Her parents were the first batch of educated youth who went to the mountains and countryside. Later, a shipwreck took her parents away.
Since Lao Li was close to Zhou Xiaoying's family, he adopted her.
Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying grew up together, and even slept in the same bed when they were young.
Due to the special social environment at that time and Zhou Xiaoying's beauty, Lao Li was worried that the unlearned Li Duoyu would not be able to find a wife, so he became selfish early on and talked to Xiaoying privately several times.
Lao Li arranged for the marriage between the two of them without much hesitation. I remember that at the time of the wedding, half of the men on Dandan Island strongly opposed it.
But what's the use, people don't like you.
Speaking of which, Zhou Xiaoying is still two years older than him. Perhaps because of their familiarity, he really didn't love this woman much in his previous life. Others said that his wife was very beautiful, but he didn't think so.
Now when I look at it carefully, I really want to slap myself twice. This appearance is not inferior to that of Hong Kong and Taiwan movie stars.
Seeing Zhou Xiaoying lift up her clothes, Li Duoyu breathed a little quickly, but it was normal to think about it. He is now in his early twenties, which is the age when dragons and tigers are vigorous.
Zhou Xiaoying also realized that Li Duoyu had been staring at her, and her face turned red. For fear that he could not control it, she stood up and pushed him out, closing the wooden door of the bedroom with her backhand.
Li Duoyu reluctantly walked out of the room and used the water pipe outside the door to cool himself down.
The seaside heat in September has not yet receded.
The sea breeze blows, smelling fishy and salty.
Li Duoyu sat on the stone strip in the courtyard and turned on the three-way radio. As a result, this imported product changed several channels to the enemy channel, and the song "Seeing the Smoke Again" played by Miss Deng was the same.
I saw smoke rising from the kitchen again and dusk covering the earth
I want to ask about the bursts of smoke. At this time, the rebellious overseas provinces knew that they could not fight hard, so they began to use magic attacks, intending to corrupt our comrades from the spiritual world.
Miss Deng's melancholy voice echoed in my ears, but when I listened to it again, I no longer had the same yearning as before, but more of the vicissitudes of life.
At night, the island's starry sky shines particularly brightly, and the Milky Way visible to the naked eye hangs in the sky.
Through the glass of the stone house, Li Duoyu discovered that Zhou Xiaoying was holding a pen, sitting at the small wooden table and writing non-stop, probably preparing lessons.
Last semester, two male teachers could not withstand the temptation and resigned to follow everyone else's "traffic", leading to a shortage of teachers.
For a while, the school couldn't find a teacher to take over the class, so the principal had to let her take on the job first, serving as a class teacher and teaching Chinese and mathematics.
This made Li Duoyu very unhappy. Teachers' salary was based on hair per head, and the workload doubled, but the salary did not change much.
What worries Li Duoyu the most is that his wife is now pregnant. Will it be too much for her to stand for so many classes a day?
Not long after Li Duoyu sat down, the second sister-in-law next door immediately started thinking about her second brother.
"With your little salary, you can't even afford a watch. Duoyu has a three-purpose machine. What do you have?"
"Marrying you is really bad luck for eight lifetimes."
Little Fatty, who was doing his homework, felt it was too noisy, so he came out to get some air, and sat on the stone bars in the courtyard with Li Duoyu, listening to the melodious sounds from across the strait.
After listening for a while, Little Fatty held his chin and couldn't help but sigh:
"Uncle, why do my parents always quarrel?"
"The fortune teller has long said that their horoscopes are not compatible."
"Uncle, is Teresa Teng beautiful?"
"Not as pretty as your aunt."
"Uncle, you are lying. My father said Teresa Teng is the most beautiful woman in the world."
"It depends on your father whether he dares to say it in front of your mother."
"Uncle, you seem to be a different person today."
Li Duoyu looked at the little chubby boy in front of him in surprise. Could this kid be able to tell that he was reborn?
"Little brat, why are there so many problems? Believe it or not, I'll buy a bunch of exercise books for you to do."
"Uncle, just be a human being."
Seeing that Li Haoran was scared away by him, Li Duoyu smiled happily. Sure enough, this trick also worked well in the 1980s, but in this era exercise books seemed to be a luxury. I wonder if there are still children who have Edison who is the king of inventions. story.
Li Duoyu looked at the dark sea in the distance and suddenly became quiet. Since God gave him a chance to start over, he must let his wife and children live a good life.
Now, he still has more than 100 Yuan Datou coins on hand. If they are all sold, it will be about 2,500 yuan.
In this era, it is already a lot of money, but in a place like Shangfeng Town where "trading goods" is popular, this amount of money is not presentable.
Agui, who took him to trad goods, has assets at least three times his.
But in this era, apart from "trading goods" and speculation, it is almost impossible to make money through legitimate channels.
The price of seafood is even lower than unimaginable.
In the past, it was impossible to make tens of millions of yuan from a net of yellow croaker.
In the early 1980s, yellow croaker was still one of the four major fishes. Although the output was not as high as in the 1960s and 1970s, there were still a lot of them.
Many people believe that yellow croaker became extinct because of the knocking net operation. In fact, the country issued the "Order on Prohibition of Knocking Net Operation" as early as 1963.
What really had a fatal impact on the yellow croaker was the motorization of fishing boats, fish finders, and all kinds of modern fishing gear that are changing with each passing day, such as trawls, purse seines, nets, drift nets, and of course the most important point.
This fish is too stupid and too easy to catch.
In those days, the fishing boats of Dandan Island often caught tens of thousands of kilograms of yellow croaker every time they went out to sea.
There were so many fish that the cabins could not hold them all, and the fishermen could not eat them all, and they could not sell them.
Especially in summer, there was a lack of preservation methods. The spoiled ones were made into shrimp oil, and those that could not be sold could only be pulled to feed pigs or made into salted fish.
It is said that on the day Li Duoyu was born, the fishing boats of Dandan Island caught the most yellow croakers in history, filling up the entire dock.
And the uneducated old Li was too lazy to name him, so he decided on the name Duoyu on the same day.
Li Duoyu remembered that when he was a child, he seemed to eat yellow croaker all year round. When the season was right, he ate fresh fish, and when it was not, he ate salted fish.
Because he ate too much, he had no appetite for yellow croaker for a long time.
Fortunately, fishermen have gone to "sell goods" recently.
There are fewer fishermen going out to sea to fish.
The price of yellow croaker has doubled.
From 40 cents per pound to 60 cents per pound.
This is the price sold to everyone. The purchase price of fishmongers at the dock is even lower. If the fishing conditions are good, everyone will return with a full load...
However, it has been 1983 and there is no news of yellow croaker. It is estimated that it is difficult to catch a large boat at a time like before.
The reason why seafood cannot be sold at a high price these days is also very simple, that is, the lack of the most basic means of preservation and transportation.
In the 1980s, let alone Shangfeng Town, there was only one state-owned cold storage in the entire Rongcheng, and the amount of ice cubes was limited. If there was any, it was first supplied to state-owned fishery companies.
It was not their turn at all. Some seafood had already spoiled before leaving the boat. In order to prevent spoilage, fishermen began to sprinkle salt and pickle it directly, which also caused many inland people to eat seafood that was not fresh at all, but all salty.
Li Duoyu thought seriously, since fishing can't make a lot of money, then do what he is best at, marine farming.
There just happens to be a kind of seaweed that can be farmed, and it will make fishermen who farm this seaweed rich in the future.
Yes, it is kelp.
And Li Duoyu's uncle is a researcher at the Lianjiang Fisheries Science and Technology Institute.
If I remember correctly, at this point in time, they are in the exploration stage of kelp summer seedling farming.
As a reborn, Li Duoyu not only cooks well, but also has a complete set of kelp farming technology.
It seems that it is time to visit this uncle who has the highest education among the relatives.
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