Chapter 27: Melting Ice (Seeking Investment Pursuit)

After Li Yaoguo sat down, Zhou Xiaoying quickly brought him a pair of bowls and chopsticks.

Little Fatty put a fish ball into his bowl: "Abba, try it. My uncle made these fish balls. They are very delicious."

When Chen Huiying saw her second brother sitting down, she quickly opened the bottle of sorghum wine and poured them each a glass of wine.

"You haven't eaten together for a long time, why don't you have a drink first?"

Li Yaoguo raised the small wine glass in front of him and drank the sorghum wine in one gulp: "Let me toast you first."

Li Duoyu also drank a drink.

Lao Li snorted coldly: "One cup is not enough, I need three cups."

After hearing this, most of the sadness hanging on Chen Huiying's face dissipated. Since Lao Li is willing to pick a fight, there is hope for reconciliation between the father and son today.

Li Yaoguo drank three drinks in a row, and his face turned red to his neck. Maybe it was because he drank too much. Li Yaoguo, who usually didn't talk much, also talked more.

"I've already taken care of the fish and wood matter for you."

Li Duoyu's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Then thank you, second brother."

Li Yaoguo burped.

"This casuarina was originally used to prevent wind and solidify sand. The captain and the secretary were originally unwilling to approve it. When they refused to approve it, I took the newspaper where I took a photo with the leader and threw it on their table. Guess what?"

"Did you quarrel with them?"

Li Duoyu was a little surprised. The second brother didn't seem like the kind of person who would throw a table at someone above him.

Li Yaoguo snorted coldly:

"I threw the newspaper there and told them some of the latest policies. These grandsons relented on the spot. Casuarina trees originally cost five yuan each, but now in response to reform and innovation, the brigade only sells them to you for four yuan."

"This group photo is really useful."

"That's because you don't understand its value. It's no exaggeration to say that if you take this photo to have dinner with the president of the commune, he will have to clink glasses with you several times."

In Li Duoyu's previous life, he never understood why so many people always liked to take photos with their leaders, but now he finally understands.

Useless for ordinary people.

But in another circle, thieves work well!

Li Yaoguo, who had a few glasses of wine on an empty stomach and felt a little burned in his stomach, quickly ate a few fish balls and found that his son was right, the taste was really good.

"By the way, there are other reasons why the team sold you cheaply. You also know the recent situation. Everyone has gone to take away the goods, and the team has stopped shouting, so you have to cut down the tree yourself."

Li Duoyu had never thought that the people in the brigade would help him cut down the trees. Of course, it would be best if they helped him cut down the trees. If they didn't, it was to be expected.

"No problem, I'll cut down the tree myself. By the way, there's something I might have to ask my second brother for. When cutting down the tree, can the team lend us some handy tools?"

"It's a small matter, I can approve this directly for you."

Li Duoyu vaguely remembered.

The production brigade was only announced to be disbanded in 1984, and Dandan Island was almost disbanded before the country even announced it due to goods being shipped out.

After all, farmers, unlike urban residents, do not have food stamps such as food stamps and meat stamps.

In ordinary days, you have to grow whatever you want to eat. If you want to eat meat, you have to find a way to raise it yourself, and Dandan Island is not suitable for growing rice at all.

If you want to eat white rice, you have to take sweet potatoes and dried fish to the town to sell them, or exchange them with those who resell food stamps.

In fact, even if the fishery production team of Dandan Island caught a lot of fish, in the era of using tickets, everyone was not living a very good life.

In the past few years, everyone has not only money, but also various food stamps and meat stamps. Naturally, no one wants to stay in the team to work, and everyone has left the team to work alone.

It can be said like this.

Now the production brigade of Dandan Island is in a stage where it exists in name only. To put it in the most popular terms, they still have rights in their hands, but no one cares about them anymore.

Seeing that the two brothers were reconciled as before, Chen Huiying poured them another glass of wine: "Brothers, don't just talk about things, have a few drinks with your father."

After hearing this, the two brothers quickly toasted their father with a glass of wine, and then the three of them started a drinking fistfight.

"How are you, brothers? You are the leader of the Five."

"You lose, drink."

Lao Li, who drank several sips in a row, stared: "Who are you two brothers? I am your father."

Li Duoyu grinned and said:

"Then next time just shout, Hello daddy, Samsung photo."

"Forget it, it sounds awkward, it's better for you two."

"Hahaha"

While they were drinking wine, Xiao Pangdun was concentrating on cooking seafood. After eating two swimming crabs, he ate the pen holder and tore open the shell to reveal the white and tender meat.

Take a bite and sniff.

Fragrant, tender and sweet.

"Uncle, this thing is really delicious, but there is too little meat."

Li Duoyu touched his head: "There is too much meat. If you eat too much, you won't find it delicious."

Little Fatty thought for a long time: "It seems to be the case. I used to like eating sweet potatoes, but now I'm afraid of them when I see them."

Zhou Xiaoying was afraid of being overjoyed, so she only ate a little of everything. After eating a bowl of fish balls, she only ate a little of the rest of the seafood, and she didn't dare to overeat.

See how lively their house is.

When the neighbors, Uncle Hu and Mrs. Wang, saw it, they all looked envious.

Since this time, when Li Duoyu became a good man, the family seems to be happy every day, but it is clear that Lao Li in the past few days would rather work until seven or eight o'clock than come back.

Uncle Hu said with envy:

"Old Li, life is starting to get better."

His wife left early and usually cooks and eats alone, and the children at home are all selling Balang fish outside, so they spend less time together and more time apart.

The second brother Li Yaoguo, who seldom drank alcohol, could not beat them with a punch of wine.

Li Yaoguo's face turned red from being fed:

"No, let me take a rest first."

Lao Li, who was also blushing, cursed: "Forget about being a softie on weekdays, why can't I even drink?"

Listen to Lao Li calling him a softie.

Li Yaoguo's eyes turned red instantly.

"I have done something wrong in the past few years, but you can't keep talking about me like this. Who would have thought that my eldest brother would be so impatient and leave as soon as he says it?"

"You have been brothers for so many years. It's not like you don't know that Qingguo is impatient."

Hearing this, Li Yaoguo was silent for a long time.

"Dad, let me find an opportunity to apologize to my eldest brother."

I saw these two people finally talking about this matter.

Li Duoyu went to the kitchen, put the processed Xi Tzu tongue into the chicken soup and simmered it for half a minute, then took it out and put it in a basin.

He was the first to take a bite and found that the taste was no worse than the ones he made later. I don't know if it was because of the ingredients, but it was more delicious.

"This is delicious. Drink it while it's hot." After Li Duoyu brought out the soup, he took the lead in filling a bowl for Zhou Xiaoying this time.

"You can eat more of this."

Zhou Xiaoying originally thought it was just a bowl of ordinary sea clam soup, but when the soup slipped into her mouth, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva. She used to think that the pork ribs soup with stewed winter melon was the best.

But now compared with this bowl of soup, it was really far behind. As a primary school Chinese teacher, she didn't even know how to describe it.

All in all, it's very fresh and fragrant.

She took another bite of sea clam meat and found that it was much more delicious than other clams. It was tender, crispy and had a very delicate texture.

"Is the soup delicious?" Li Duoyu asked.

Zhou Xiaoying nodded her head like a chicken, and asked: "What is the name of your dish?"

Li Duoyu said in a disgusting manner:

"My dish is called braised sea clams in chicken soup. From now on, it will be my signature dish, Chef Li."

The others looked at each other in confusion, thinking that the couple was singing a double act there, but they also filled a bowl of soup and drank it.

The soup turned out to be delicious beyond their imagination. It was probably the best soup they had ever tasted in their lives.

After Lao Li finished drinking, he looked serious: "Duoyu, why don't you stop raising kelp and just go to the city to be a chef. Maybe you can even cook for the leaders."

"I think it's okay too." The second brother agreed.

Tonight, Lao Li's family was very happy and drank to their heart's content, except for one of them, who was lying on the bed tossing and turning.

Zhu Xiuhua, who hadn't had dinner, almost broke her teeth when she heard them laughing so happily, but the fourth child didn't feel very easy to offend recently, and she didn't dare to go out.

At this moment, a little head poked in, holding a bowl of fish balls:

"Mom, come and eat fish balls. I secretly left a bowl for you. They don't know."

Zhu Xiuhua, who was lying on the bed, hummed:

"I won't eat whatever good food your uncle can make."

"It's really delicious, Mom. If you don't eat it, I'm going to eat it."

Seeing that Li Haoran really wanted to eat it, Zhu Xiuhua quickly said:

"You are so fat and you still eat all day long. Bring it to me."

Little Fatty smiled happily and placed the fish balls beside the bed: "Mom, it's very hot. Be careful when you eat it."

Zhu Xiuhua, who ate several fish balls in a row and even drank the soup, asked:

"Haoran, besides eating fish balls and crabs, did you also drink some delicious soup?"

"You're talking about that chicken soup with sea mussels. Mom, I'm not lying to you. It's really, really delicious. I've never had such delicious chicken soup since I was a child."

"Is there any left?"

"No more, there are only a few sea clams in total, one bowl per person is gone."