1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 72 Go to the train station to pick someone up

(The second half of this chapter has a more realistic train station background. If you don’t like it, you can skip this chapter. It will have no impact on the plot.)

 Since having a boat.

Li Duoyu thinks about going to the sea every day, either in the kelp field or trying his best to catch fish.

 The Xijia Reef, where big bass can be caught, was besieged by fishermen’s various fishing nets and long lines for two weeks.

 Da Yuliu’s house was directly confiscated.

The fishermen caught a total of four large perch weighing over a hundred pounds, and Lao Zhang from Qingkou Wharf started lowering the price from the second one.

 By the time of Article 4.

The purchase price of big bass slides per kilogram was only 40 cents. When they saw that the big bass slides could not be sold at a high price, the fishermen dispersed from Xijia Reef.

 In a blink of an eye, they were again focused on Li Duoyu’s fishing net.

 In less than a month, almost all the used trawl nets in Lianjiang County were bought up by the fishermen of Dandan Island.

 cousin Li Shuguang bought the most, buying three pairs of old trawl nets, and his second cousin also bought two pairs.

 At the tidal flats and Bad Water Bay, wherever piles can be driven, they are all fixed nets.

 Some fishermen have also developed a new method of spreading some miscellaneous fish bait in the net to attract marine fish to eat in the net.

 As a result, the fisherman caught several hundred kilograms of seafood that day. From then on, everyone followed suit and put miscellaneous fish bait in their trawl nets.

 During this period of time, the pier of Dandan Island was very busy, and there was so much seafood that even the fishmongers could not collect it.

 A situation of “oversupply” has occurred.

 Then, seafood prices plummeted.

 The hairtail, which is the most caught, is priced at only five cents per pound.

There are so many trash fish that no one collects them, so they can only be pulled by tractors to make fish sauce.

 The impact of this kind of overfishing is also very obvious. In less than two months, the fishery resources near their village have significantly decreased.

Those fishermen who did not buy trawl nets and were still fishing with sticky nets began to complain about those who lowered their nets when they found that their catches had decreased.

 In the end, there was no choice but to go fishing in the waters of Chenjia Village next door. As a result, the conflict between the fishermen in the two villages escalated again.

 Often separated by tens of meters on the sea, we would greet each other's parents and be busy visiting each other's graves.

The "initiator" Li Duoyu has not been fishing much recently, but is concentrating on his kelp.

 The colder the weather, the better the kelp grows.

 After three months of growth, those small kelp seedlings are now more than one meter long, and the ones with the best growth at the end are already two meters long.

As long as you wait until next spring, the kelp will usher in another growth spurt, and by then, it will grow to four to five meters long.

 Since there have been more rainy weather in winter recently and less light exposure, kelp must adjust the water layer.

 The aquaculture water layer should be raised from the original 3 to 4 meters deep to about 1 to 2 meters, so that the kelp can get as much sunlight as possible, otherwise green rot will easily occur.

 Adjusting the water layer is a hard job. Each auxiliary rope must be pulled up and re-knotted, which is a very heavy workload.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao worked in the kelp field for seven days before they finished regulating the water layer in the 30 acres of kelp field.

After the adjustment was completed, my uncle Chen Dongqing rushed over from the county town and saw that Li Duoyu had already adjusted the water layer.

 Faced with this situation, Chen Dongqing was somewhat used to it, and then began to urge the team leader Wang Dapao to quickly adjust the water layer.

By the way, I inspected Wang Dapao’s 100-acre kelp field. While inspecting, he shook his head and sighed. The floating ball and the main rope were all covered with barnacles and they were not cleaned.

 As a result, many kelp seedlings fell off. In addition, the quality of the original wooden piles was not good. Some of the kelp that had been pulled out of the piles was floating on the sea surface. It was difficult to clean up the white rot disease.

 The management is a mess.

When Wang Dapao saw Chen Dongqing, he called him to the brigade to drink tea. When he learned that he was here to urge him to adjust the kelp water layer, his face changed instantly.

Wang Dapao began to regret raising kelp, because raising kelp was too troublesome, but he thought that he had already invested so much money, and it would be uneconomical to give up halfway.

So he hired the villagers who wanted to pay a high price to help him adjust the water layer of the kelp.

 At this time. Zhou Xiaoying’s belly is more than eight months old and is as round as a ball. She can no longer walk to school and can only take leave at home.

Today, she is just like a protected animal in the zoo, being kept under house arrest in the "courtyard" by her mother-in-law. Recently, his mother-in-law rarely works in the oyster fields and has become Zhou Xiaoying's full-time breeder.

 Eat three meals a day.

From time to time, he would kill a chicken for her and stew some fish soup to replenish her health.

 The second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua was so greedy that she wished she could get pregnant again.

Due to Zhou Xiaoying's difficult childbirth in her previous life, Li Duoyu did not dare to run around during this period, and stayed at home with his wife whenever he had time.

Until one day, his father asked him to help with something, and Li Duoyu left Dandan Island and headed to the train station in Rongcheng.

 Winter vacation is here.

The girl who was studying in other provinces was coming back. Lao Li used to pick her up, but later because the train station was crowded and she often couldn't find anyone, it was Li Duoyu who picked her up.

On the same day, Li Duoyu took a passenger boat on the island and went to Qingkou Pier, and then took a bus to Rongcheng North Bus Station.

 Speaking of which, it has been so long since Li Duoyu returned to this world that he has never entered the city once.

 When the bus came to Rongcheng.

Li Duoyu found that the city in front of him was completely different from that of later generations. The roads at this time were very wide, and most of the people on the road were two-car trolleybuses.

 There are very few private cars, and the most common ones on the road are the 28-bar cars. They often walk side by side, talking and laughing.

 In this era, cities are often very fragmented. No matter how harmonious the city looks, its train station will be chaotic.

It can be said that for a long time after the reform and opening up, the city’s railway stations were almost the places with the worst security.

It is common to steal money, jewelry, and wallets. Sometimes people can lose them at the train station. In addition, the trafficking of women is prevalent in this era.

Lao Li was worried about Li Xiaorong going home alone and insisted that someone must pick her up every year.

After the bus arrives at the North Bus Station, it is less than 300 meters to Rongcheng Railway Station.

Looking at the train station square in front of him, Li Duoyu couldn't help but feel a headache. It was more like a big market than a train station.

Stalls are everywhere, and there are a large number of mobile vendors walking through the square, selling watches, nylon umbrellas, sunglasses, clothes, cigarettes and other smuggled goods.

The passengers carrying large and small bags squatted on the ground and ate steamed buns, waiting to buy train tickets.

 While some scalpers held a bunch of tickets in their hands, these people kept persuading:

“Where are you going? Today’s tickets are all here. If you don’t buy them, you’ll have to spend the night here tonight. If your things are stolen, it won’t be worth it.”

Not long after Li Duoyu arrived at the train station, he found himself being followed by a little kid.

At the train station, most pickpockets are children in their early teens. They are very nimble and small in size. Once they succeed, they immediately get into the crowd and it is difficult to catch them.

 Seeing the child staring at him.

Li Duoyu turned his pocket out and showed it to him, saying that he didn't have a dime, and advised him to give up quickly.

What he didn't expect was that after he showed that he had no money, the child actually started smoking and even came up and taunted him: "Damn, he's actually poorer than me."

 Li Duo was so angry that her liver hurt.

 But these little brats are often organized, and if there is a conflict with them, they may be beaten by a dozen or so brats.

These little brats are certainly disgusting, but Li Duoyu is most afraid of seeing those children with limb disabilities begging at the train station.

Not far from him, there were two children begging. One had half of his ear missing, and even if the other was squatting there, it was obvious that he could no longer walk on his feet.

 The two children lowered their heads and their eyes had completely lost their light.

Not far away from him, there was a woman who looked like she was following him.

 Seeing this scene, Li Duoyu sighed helplessly. Even if he was a reborn person, he could only choose to turn a blind eye when faced with this situation.

 This is the best of times, but it is also the worst of times, and what Li Duoyu hates most in his life is human traffickers.

There are two more chapters today, please read them!

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