1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 44 Buying a second-hand boat

The second day after returning to Dandan Island.

People from the credit union in town came.

 Just go through the process.

 After confirming whether Li Duoyu had the 30 acres of kelp farming raft, they took a group photo together.

 The inspection is over.

 And the third day.

Li Duoyu got a small current savings passbook and was directly promoted to the very powerful "Ten Thousand Yuan Household".

 As for Li Duoyu’s loan.

The three men of the Li family all remained silent and suppressed the news. Even his mother, Chen Huiying, did not let her know.

 Zhou Xiaoying is still pregnant.

Li Duoyu also didn’t want her to bear the pressure of a loan, otherwise the pressure would be too great and it would be bad for the child in her belly.

His father can't even eat in the past two days.

Li Duoyu felt a little regretful and asked his father to take out a loan with him.

 If his father didn’t know about the loan.

 The pressure will not be so great.

Now apart from knocking oysters every day, I spend the rest of the time helping him inquire about the ship.

 Financing is now available.

In addition to the 10,000 yuan from the loan, Li Duoyu still had about 800 yuan left.

 He intends to do so during this time.

 Get out the fishing rafts on the sea, that is, the kind of floating house fixed on the sea. Although this thing is rare on Dandan Island.

But there is a fishing village without land in their county, Xiaqi Village. The entire village is built on the sea, connected by bamboo rafts, fishing rafts and fishing boats, and everyone eats, drinks and eats on it.

 In ancient times.

 These fishermen are called Danmin.

 Due to discrimination from land residents and the government, children of the Dan family cannot study in schools on land.

 When they grow up, they are not allowed to intermarry with people on the land, they are not even allowed to wear shoes, they are not allowed to build houses on the land, and they can only float on the water all year round.

 In the Republic of China era.

The status of the Dan people has improved, and they can build some thatched houses and small wooden houses on the shore.

 Can be due to being discriminated against all year round.

Most of the people still prefer to float on the water, and they have also built a lot of fishing rafts. They can keep the caught sea fish in the nets in the fishing rafts temporarily.

 Li Duoyu wants to build fishing rafts and small floating houses just to facilitate the management of kelp.

  Thirty acres of kelp is not much,

 Speaking less is not a lot.

 Once managed, it is still very tiring.

 Suppose there is a house fixed on the sea.

 When you are tired from work, hungry, or there is a sudden heavy rain, you still have a place to hide and cook.

The wooden piles to fix the small house on the sea were driven down by Li Duoyu in advance during the last pile driving. Now he is still short of some materials, which is moso bamboo that is not available on Dandan Island.

 Speaking of which, moso bamboo is really a treasure for coastal farmers.

 Can be used to drive kelp piles,

  Can be used to make fishing rafts,

  You can build a bamboo house,

 It can also be used on the tidal flats to dry seaweed and kelp.

 But there are a lot of them on the mountains in the mainland.

Li Duoyu even knows very well that in Gushan, near Lianjiang County, there are large areas of moso bamboo on the mountain, and the price of a moso bamboo is not even five cents.

  But I prefer this thing,

 It cannot be grown near the sea.

If fishermen on the seaside want to buy moso bamboo, they have to go to the mountains to purchase it.

 But moso bamboo is cheap.

 But transportation costs are extremely high.

Not only do you need to hire a truck to pull the moso bamboo from the mountains to the dock, you also have to hire a fishing boat to pull the moso bamboo from the dock back to the island.

 In this day and age, the total transportation costs are probably ten times the value of the moso bamboo itself.

Just when Li Duoyu was planning to go to Gushan to buy moso bamboo sometime, his father's happy voice came to his ears.

“Duoyu, I found a good boat for you.”

Li Duoyu found his father, panting while talking, with beads of sweat on his forehead. Judging from the situation, he must have run back.

 Li Duoyu saw this. I quickly poured him a bowl of tea and asked him to calm down for a while.

 After Lao Li finished drinking the tea, he said excitedly:

"Hurry up and follow me. Lao Ye and his family want to sell their boat. If we get there too late, someone might **** it away first."

 “Lao Ye?”

“That Ye Shuanglin at the dock?”

His father nodded: "Yes, that's him."

“Didn’t he just buy the boat last year? Why should he sell it this year?”

“You follow me first, and I’ll talk to you on the way.”

 “Okay, we’ll leave right away.”

Li Duoyu immediately rode his bicycle, and his father didn't care too much. He sat directly on the back seat of the bicycle and told Li Duoyu why the old man was in such a hurry to sell the boat.

The reason is that Lao Ye had a relative who fled to an overseas province. In the past two years, due to smuggling, he happened to contact this relative through a large smuggling ship.

 His relative said that there was a way to get the whole family out, so Lao Ye's family was anxious to sell off their property.

 Hear this.

Li Duoyu immediately knew what was going on, and did not expect that the tide of smuggling would have started from now on.

 After the two people arrived at the pier.

Lao Ye, who was smoking a cigarette, was sitting on a fishing boat. After seeing the Li family and his son, he jumped onto the dock and greeted them warmly.

 “Lao Li, how are you thinking about it?”

“My fourth child wants to buy it, so it’s useless to ask me. In the end, it’s up to him to decide.”

Li Duoyu arrived at the dock.

 I looked at the boat on the spot. It was a fairly new boat. Although it had some bumps and bumps, it was well maintained and it didn’t look like it had been overhauled. It was equipped with a 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine.

Such a brand new one costs at least 3,000 yuan at the shipyard.

 Li Duoyu shouted: "Can you try the diesel engine?"

 Lao Ye replied: "No problem, just try."

Li Duoyu took the crank handle, inserted it into the diesel engine head, and then slobbered on his hand.

 Friction friction.

 Hold the pressure reducing valve with one hand and the rocker with the other hand, and start shaking it quickly.

 When you first start shaking.

　　It was still a bit difficult, but once the inertia gained, it became very easy. It took about twenty turns.

 Choking billows of black smoke came out of the nose of the plane.

Immediately afterwards, the diesel engine made a "dah-dah-dah" sound. Li Duoyu observed it for a while and found that there was no sign of oil leakage or other signs in the diesel engine.

Then he said with satisfaction: "This boat is fine, no problem."

 Then he jumped onto the pier.

He pulled Lao Li aside and asked, "How much does Lao Ye plan to sell it for?"

 “Lao Ye said that he bought this boat for more than 3,000 yuan, and now he wants to sell it for 2,500 yuan.”

Li Duoyu frowned slightly.

 Two thousand five thousand is definitely expensive.

But he knew that Lao Ye's family was anxious to raise money. When he smuggled to the island country, he borrowed a lot of money from neighbors and loan sharks.

Li Duoyu came to Lao Ye and said on the spot: "Uncle Ye, this boat is good, but it has been used for a year. If it can be sold for two thousand, I will pay directly."

When Lao Ye heard the price, his brows knitted together: "How about I suffer a loss, two thousand two hundred and five hundred, do you think it's okay?"

Li Duoyu shook his head firmly.

 “I don’t have that much money, either two thousand, or I will wait for someone else’s ship.”

He is not in a hurry about the boat. If it is not possible to go to the sea to bring seedlings, he can rent a boat directly from the villagers.

 But Lao Ye was different, he was anxious to leave.

 Seeing Li Duoyu's tough look, Lao Ye sighed and said, "Forget it, two thousand is just two thousand."

Let’s talk about the price.

Li Duoyu immediately went home and took out two brand-new stacks of Tuan Tuan, handing over the money with one hand and the boat with the other.

 Touch this small fishing boat.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but sigh: "From today on, I am also a man who owns a boat."

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