1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 165 Listen to Duoyu tell stories

 After Li Duoyu finished handling the matter.

The villagers took the initiative to install the door of the village committee and cleaned up the dirty things that had been spilled before.

Although they lost a lot of money by investing in abalone breeding, these villagers were so excited that they had smiles on their faces when they learned that they could still get some blood back.

An old woman hurriedly ran back to the halfway house, knocked on the wooden door next door and shouted: "Cuilan, I have good news for you."

 A middle-aged woman with red eyes and pale face opened the door.

“The village director said that we have not lost all the money we invested in abalone, and we may get some back.”

Zhang Cuilan looked shocked. She couldn't believe it, "You really didn't lie to me. Our money can still be refunded."

The aunt nodded and said:

“The village director said this. It is definitely possible to refund, but I don’t know how much. In short, if you want to open up more, you can make more money. If the people are gone, it will be completely gone.”

I heard that I still have money to refund.

Zhang Cuilan suddenly thought about it, turned around and went back to the house, taking the wooden bucket and small rake.

 “What are you doing here?”

Zhang Cuilan said seriously: "The tide will recede soon. I will go to the small sea to get some clams to sell."

 “You haven’t eaten for several days, how can you still have the strength?”

 “Forget it, I’ll go with you too.”

 After Li Duoyu returned home.

Little Fatty is also back from school and is feeding the chickens and ducks with chopped fish.

After seeing Li Duoyu, he stopped feeding him and ran over excitedly.

“Uncle, when did you come back?”

“I just came back not long ago.” Li Duoyu touched his head and looked at the expectant look on his face, knowing what he wanted.

 Go back to the house and get a bottle of colorful candies, and then hand them to him: "It feels like you have fewer teeth. Eat less, you know?"

 “I got it, uncle.”

“By the way, uncle, what’s the name of this candy? Why does it look so like a sea urchin?”

 “This is called Jinpingtang.”

Although this candy is called the national candy of the island country, to be honest, Li Duoyu thinks this thing is just ordinary. It is similar to domestic crystal candy and is made of food coloring and white sugar.

But after wearing the coat of imported goods, Li Duoyu could even predict how delicious Xiao Pangdun would eat.

Little Fatty secretly had Jinping Candy in his pocket. When get out of class was over, he deliberately took it out to eat in front of everyone and showed off:

 “This is the sugar from the island country.”

 At this time.

Zhou Xiaoying was in the kitchen, helping her mother cook. Li Duoyu took a sniff and smelled a sour smell.

It seems that grandma cooked him pickled vegetables and pork ribs soup again. Since the last time she cooked this soup, Li Duoyu has eaten three bowls of rice.

Aniang knew that he liked this soup very much, so every time he wanted to celebrate, he would cook this pickle and pork ribs soup.

 Except for pork rib soup.

Aniang also made rice out of wooden barrels.

 At this time, pressure cookers were not yet popular, so if you wanted to eat rice, it was really troublesome and you had to do it in two steps.

You have to boil the rice in a big iron pot first, then use a big slotted spoon to take out the rice, and then put it on a small stove to simmer slowly.

This time Aniang used a wooden bucket for steaming rice, which had many gaps under it.

 To prevent the rice from leaking out.

 Generally, a layer of white gauze will be spread. After the rice is taken out, it is slowly steamed in a wooden barrel to steam out the water vapor in the rice.

This time when grandma was steaming rice, she added hairtail marinated in salt and ginger.

 Steam for about half an hour. When the juice of the hairtail has penetrated into the rice, a unique hairtail rice will be ready.

This kind of hairtail rice is very famous on Dandan Island. People who love it love it very much, but those who are not used to it can't even take a bite.

According to Lao Li, this hairtail rice was invented by men who went to sea in the 1950s and 1960s, because the whole boat was full of big guys.

No one knows how to cook at all. To save trouble, they just cut the hairtail into sections, add some salt and cook it with the washed white rice.

 Sometimes, it is cooked as hairtail porridge, and sometimes it is cooked as hairtail rice.

 When there is no fresh hairtail, pickled hairtail will be used, which has a slight ammonia taste and is more exciting.

 I saw Zhou Xiaoying helping to cut vegetables.

Li Duoyu said: "Tutu is crying. I can't coax her. You should go back and coax her."

Zhou Xiaoying quickly took off her apron, and when she came to the bedroom, she found that Xiao Tutu hadn't woken up at all. When she returned to the kitchen, she found that Li Duoyu was already helping to cut vegetables.

Zhou Xiaoying was angry and funny. She wanted to say something, but she held back her words.

 This man from my own family.

 Why do you like cooking so much? Li Duoyu ate exquisite cuisine in the island country for a month, and even tasted high-end sashimi and tuna chin meat.

 But what I like most is the taste of my hometown.

 The salty and fragrant pickle and pork ribs soup is very delicious, as well as the unique, soft and glutinous hairtail rice, as well as his own stir-fried shrimp rice dumplings.

 Accidentally, I ate three bowls of rice.

 After eating and drinking.

Li Duoyu sat on the stone bar to eat.

Looking at the sunset over the sea, I could occasionally see a few motorized sailboats not far away that were sailing in the wind in order to save diesel.

 As night falls.

 After dinner, relatives learned that he was back and came to their homes one after another. Some even brought their own small stools, wanting to hear about his going abroad.

A bunch of men were there, touching the fishing rod he brought back. Li Qingguang, the youngest of his generation, was so excited that he could not speak coherently after touching the fishing rod.

“Brother, if you want to go fishing, you must take me with you.”

 Li Shuguang patted his head.

“Your brother is here. Why is he so kind every time he calls me Duoyu? He only calls me by my name.”

Li Qingguang said disgustedly: "You have been bullying me since you were a child, and you asked me to call you brother. There is no way. It's good that I didn't call you the nickname Naked Butt."

 “You are rebelling, aren’t you?”

 Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

 After the news of Li Duoyu's return spread, Chen Wenchao also brought Liu Xiaolan over that night.

 A group of people sat there and listened to Li Duoyu talk about his experiences abroad.

Li Duoyu didn’t plan to talk about it originally, but seeing their expectant looks, he decided to talk a little bit.

I heard that the trains there can cover more than a thousand kilometers in a day, the buildings there are hundreds of meters high, and the streets are full of cars.

When they heard that the starting price of taking a taxi in the island country actually cost Li Yaoguo three months' salary, everyone was shocked and speechless.

 Finally, Li Duoyu said that a tuna sold for a high price of 180,000 yuan, and everyone was completely stunned.

  Immediately afterwards, his eyes were full of yearning.

Second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua said with excitement: "If you go to an island country to wash dishes, you can earn at least two to three thousand a month."

Li Duoyu nodded and said:

“It’s estimated to be more than five thousand or six thousand.”

The second sister-in-law took a breath and said: "If I were you, I would definitely find a way to escape and never come back. Five or six thousand a month, ten thousand yuan in two months."

Li Qingguang said: "If it were me, I wouldn't come back. If I work for seven or eight years, I will definitely be the richest on the island when I come back."

After hearing what his mother said, Li Haoran was speechless and said, "Mom, if I give you a chance, you won't really want to abandon me and my father."

The second sister-in-law glared at him.

"What does abandonment mean? I am here to earn you a wife."

 “I’m still so young, so what do I need from a wife?”

“If you don’t study hard, you will definitely not be able to find a wife in the future. Let me make some money first and build you a big house.”

Li Haoran muttered

“It’s not like you have to study to find a good wife. My brother-in-law doesn’t like studying, but my aunt is so beautiful and considerate of her family.”

After hearing this, the relatives laughed one after another: "Okay, this kid's mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter."

The third uncle also said: "Haoran, if you really don't know how to read, you can hang out with your uncle after you graduate from junior high school. Maybe you can make more money."

Zhu Xiuhua looked at these noisy relatives with a bit of annoyance. Two months ago, she would definitely have turned her back on them.

But this time she lost all her family's money by investing in abalone farming. She glanced at Li Yaoguo, who was smiling happily.

 Having no choice but to swallow the words that came to my mouth.

 Li Duoyu took a look at these relatives.

 In the previous life, almost ten years later, one-third of the people here had either smuggled themselves to the beautiful country or to the island country.

 The peak of smuggling in Shangfeng Town is not yet there, it will almost be in the 1990s.

 Once the first batch of stowaways have established a foothold, they will find ways to bring their families and relatives over.

 Li Duoyu remembers that in the 1990s, he would often meet fellow islanders on the streets of Tokyo at night.

 This night.

Everyone stayed up very late listening to Li Duoyu's talk. When they saw Li Duoyu yawning, Chen Huiying looked distressed and quickly called everyone home.

 That night, when Li Duoyu went to bed, Zhou Xiaoying specially reminded him to go to town quickly and buy a new bed.

 (End of this chapter)