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:

"Didn't you go to sea with Agui tonight?"

"No, I won't sell the goods anymore." 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 her 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. She was afraid that he would not be able to control it, so 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 of 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.

See smoke rising again

Twilight covers 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, how come there are so many questions? Believe it or not, I bought a bunch of exercises 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 worked well in the 1980s.

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 a hundred Yuan Datou on hand. If he sells them all, it will be almost 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 yellow croaker was the motorization of fishing boats, fish finders, and various modern fishing gears that are changing with each passing day, such as trawl nets, purse seine nets, spread nets, and drift nets.

Of course, the most important point.

This fish is too stupid and too easy to catch.

In those days, Dandan Island's fishing boats would catch yellow croakers every time they went out to sea, often catching tens of thousands of catties at a time.

There were so many fish that the cabins couldn't hold them all, and the fishermen couldn't eat them all, and couldn't sell them.

Especially in summer, there was a lack of preservation methods, so the spoiled ones were made into shrimp oil, and those that couldn't be sold could only be fed to pigs or made into salted fish.

It is said that on the day Li Duoyu was born, Dandan Island's fishing boats caught the largest number of 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 that day.

Li Duoyu remembered that when he was a child, it seemed that he ate yellow croakers all year round. When the season was right, he ate fresh fish, and when it was not, he ate salted fish.

Because he really ate too much, he had no appetite for yellow croakers for a long time.

Fortunately, the fishermen have gone to "sell goods" recently.

There are fewer fishermen going out to sea to fish.

The price of yellow croakers has doubled a bit.

From 40 cents per catty to 60 cents per catty.

This is the price sold to everyone. The purchase price of fishmongers at the dock is even lower. If the fishing conditions are good and everyone returns 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. The amount of ice cubes was limited, and 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 salt and pickle 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 could not make a lot of money, he would do what he was best at, marine farming.

There happened to be a kind of sea vegetable that could be cultivated, and it would make the fishermen who cultivated this sea vegetable rich in the future.

That's right, it was kelp.

Li Duoyu's uncle is a researcher at Lianjiang Fisheries Science and Technology Institute.

If I remember correctly, at this time, they were in the exploration stage of kelp summer seedling cultivation.

As a reborn, Li Duoyu not only cooks well, but also has a complete set of kelp cultivation technology.

It seems that it is time to visit this uncle who has the highest education among the relatives.

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