In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 18
As Lao Li said before, the few farmers who lost money raising kelp on Dandan Island did not belong to Xiasha Village.

It was in Chenjia Village next door, that is, the home of his mother Chen Huiying. It was not far from Xiasha Village, only five miles away, and it took half an hour to walk there.

When I was a child, I heard my mother talk about it.

The fishermen in Chenjia Village are the aborigines of Dandan Island, while the people in Xiasha Village are mostly exiled from the famine of the last century.

Unexpectedly, after hundreds of years of development, Xiasha Village has become the master of this island due to its population surge and turning away from customers.

In the time of new China, the wharf, ferry, and supply and marketing cooperatives were all located in Xiasha Village.

This made the people in Chenjia Village depressed for a long time, but there was nothing they could do about it. At that time, population was the most important productive force. Who told them to be so productive. '

Walked for half an hour.

Li Duoyu and Lao Li went to Chenjia Village. In the 80s, the economy of Chenjia Village was very poor. Most of them were stone houses, and two-story houses were rare.

There is also a small pier in the village, but there are not many big boats, mostly small sampans with oars.

In his previous life, even when he came back from the island country, Chen Family Village did not become rich. It was only when the domestic tourism industry developed greatly that a few young designers from overseas provinces came here to set up a homestay, and then it got better.

Lao Li came to a fisherman's house with a courtyard and was about to knock on the door.

As a result, a big black dog tied with a rope rushed out from the door and kept barking at them.

Old Li was taken aback.

When Li Duoyu saw the big black dog in front of him, instead of being frightened, he swallowed his saliva.

The fiercer the dog, the more fragrant the meat.

The big black dog was furiously stared at by Li Duoyu. After barking a few times, his ears drooped and he slipped back to his kennel.

After hearing the dog bark.

A middle-aged man named Chen Atai walked out of the house, and when he saw that it was Lao Li, his face instantly fell.

"Find me, Una Daishi?"

The one who persuaded him to grow kelp was not Lao Li, but his wife's younger brother. In less than two years, he lost more than 2000 yuan and owed a whole lot of debt.

Originally, he was relatively rich in Chenjia Village, but now he is like a tortoise every day, afraid to leave the house for fear of being asked for debts.

Lao Li said through the wooden door: "A Tai, are the ropes and floats you used to grow kelp last year still there?"

"It's still there, why do you ask these?"

The two father and son looked at each other and smiled.

I know that today's incident is likely to be a joke.

Lao Li hurriedly said: "I want to buy those things that grow kelp."

"Do you really want to buy it?"

Hearing that Lao Li wanted to buy kelp rope and floats, Artai's face improved a lot, and he quickly opened the wooden door.

During the years of raising kelp, the only losses he had left were these kelp ropes and floats, but the fishery market was not good in the past few years, and everyone was selling goods, so these kelp ropes could not be sold at all.

Now hearing that someone wants to buy it is like catching a life-saving straw.

"Come, sit in the house and make tea."

After Artest led Li Duoyu and his son in, he immediately brought out the tea set and made tea.

And in the following conversation.

Li Duoyu learned that Lao Li and Chen Atai belonged to the same fishing team when they caught large yellow croakers in the 60s, and they had worked together for a long time.

It is also because of his introduction.

It was Lao Li who met Chen Huiying.

When the conversation was about the same, Artest took them to the abandoned stone house next door to see the kelp ropes and floats for raising kelp.

The floats are all that kind of soft white foam, but each one is very big. The floats alone piled up an entire room, and there is another room dedicated to holding kelp ropes.

Li Duoyu walked over and saw that they were all white and brown ropes that could be used for kelp cultivation. They were neatly stacked, as many as half a house.

The white palm rope is twisted with sisal as raw material. At this time, the white palm rope is an important material, which is needed by departments such as national defense, fishery, oil field, forestry, and mines.

This also made the price not cheap. If he bought it at the price sold by the supply and marketing agency, Li Duoyu would probably have to scrape a layer of skin. After buying the brown rope, there would not be much money left.

And based on his previous life experience, there is absolutely no problem with these floats and white palm ropes for a 20-acre kelp cultivation.

However, before buying second-hand brown ropes, Li Duoyu still had another worry, which was whether the brown ropes soaked in seawater would deteriorate and become brittle after being useless for such a long time.

If you use deteriorating brown rope to raise kelp, once it encounters strong winds and waves, all the kelp will definitely be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

Li Duoyu squatted down and inspected these brown ropes carefully, and found that they were well preserved, and their toughness and stretchability were not bad. It seemed that they had been specially taken care of.

After buying it, it will not be a problem to support it for another two or three years.

And Lao Li also picked up a rope and pulled it hard.

Seeing that the father and son wanted to find fault with the kelp rope, Chen Atai hurriedly said:
"The quality is definitely not a problem. I have always maintained it."

Li Duoyu also felt that the quality was really no problem, and the next step was to talk about the price.

"Uncle Tai, if you add up these things, can you sell them for three hundred?"

"It can't be a little more. When I bought these devices before, it cost more than 1000."

Li Duoyu sighed with emotion:
"You also know that the fishing industry is not easy to do now, and kelp is also difficult to grow. I also have to take a lot of risks to buy these second-hand ropes."

Chen Atai thought about it for a while, and no one wanted it after a year, and it would probably break if he kept it.

"Forget it, three hundred is three hundred, just pay back the money owed to others first, and save yourself from being blocked at the door all day."

"By the way, I also have a brother who raises kelp with me. He also has a lot of kelp ropes and floats in his hand. Would you like to buy them together?"

"Okay, take us over there to have a look."

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Chen Atai, Li Duoyu came to another kelp farmer. Although his kelp ropes and floats were not as many as Uncle Tai's, they were at least 10 mu in size.

Li Duoyu spent 150 and took it directly.

In the end, Li Duoyu bought kelp ropes and floats capable of cultivating 450 acres of kelp at a price of 30.

After the deal was completed, Li Duoyu immediately spent 10 yuan to call a tractor in Chenjia Village to pull all the kelp ropes and floats home.

And that night.

A nephew of Chen Atai came to the door: "Uncle, have you sold those kelp ropes and floats?"

"You don't want to buy it too."

"Uncle, I'm not going to buy that thing. I'm here to tell you that there is a man named Li Duoyu in the next village who wants to raise kelp. You can sell him the kelp rope."

"He just came here and it's been sold to him."

"Uncle, how much did you sell it for?"

"Rope and float, a total of three hundred."

The young man patted his forehead:

"Uncle, why are you so anxious to sell him? Didn't you even read the newspaper? That Li Duoyu told the leader that it would be impossible not to grow kelp. If your ropes and floats are brand new, they cost at least [-] yuan. Although we are second-hand, we can sell him for [-] yuan at least."

"Why didn't you say it earlier."

"How did I know they were going to attack so quickly."

Chen Atai looked at the direction where Lao Li and Li Duoyu left, and his teeth were about to be shattered: "Damn, this family is really not a good thing."

(End of this chapter)