In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 218 Xiaoying Knits a Sweater

Li Duoyu drove the sampan back to Dandan Island, and found that the pier was full of oyster prying sounds.

The oysters that were originally piled up on the pier were almost pried away by them in less than seven hours.

The one who pried the most was still the second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua. The mountain of oysters piled up in front of her was the tallest and largest.

Li Duoyu guessed that the second sister-in-law could earn ten yuan in wages during the two days of prying oysters.

As soon as Li Qingguang returned to the pier, a group of children who followed him surrounded him.

"Brother Guang."

"How are the grilled oysters selling today?"

Qing Guang snorted, "They must all be sold out, so I don't even need to think about it."

"That should make a lot of money."

After Li Qingguang glanced at his cousin who was not far away, he said triumphantly: "It must, I have gone to many fish brothers today, how could I not make money."

When they heard that they had made a lot of money, these children were also very excited.

"Brother Guang, you earn so much money, can you please treat us to some crystal candy and some melon seeds?"

The corners of Li Qingguang's mouth twitched. If he had known earlier, he would not have swollen his face to pretend to be fat, but as the king of children in this area, he still needs to be dignified.

"No problem. I'll buy some sugar and melon seeds later. Let's go to the old place and cook seafood for dinner."

"Thank you Brother Guang."

"Then Junhao and I will go beg for Xiaohai first."

"I'll bring some sweet potatoes home."

"My hen just laid a few eggs."

After Li Duoyu parked the sampan, he found that in a corner of the pier, Dad was putting the pried oysters in a fine net, then soaking them in a large bucket filled with seawater, and cleaning them up and down.

This step of washing oysters is actually very critical.

Almost all the oysters grown on site are alive. If they are washed with fresh water, the oysters will absorb the fresh water and expand.

In the previous life, in order to increase the weight and size of oysters, many merchants would take advantage of the characteristics of oysters, catch those oysters that were not so fat, and put them in the mouth of the sea for soaking.

Due to the difference in salinity, oysters will absorb water like crazy, making the oysters look big and fat. Such oysters that have been soaked in fresh water will die easily and will shrink severely after being cooked or grilled.

In oyster rings, this kind of oyster soaked in fresh water is generally called "water oyster".

If the oysters are boiled, the shrinkage is very serious. There is no need to doubt it. 100% of the oysters have been soaked in fresh water.

For those who dry oysters, soaking the cleaned oysters in fresh water is not only not conducive to drying, but also deteriorates faster.

In bad weather, if there is no oyster baking equipment, a whole batch of oysters may be spoiled.

Next, Li Duoyu and Lao Li cleaned the batch of oysters and took them to the bamboo factory to dry them.

When Li Duoyu got there, he was also shocked by the sight in front of him. At a glance, the ground was full of dustpans with oyster meat, because Lao Li originally had oysters for health.

The number of dustpans at home has always been quite a lot, but there are at least a hundred dustpans in front of me, and it feels like half of the village's dustpans are here.

There are many seabirds gathered on the bamboo factory building, and Chen Wenchao is holding a long bamboo pole, and keeps driving away the seabirds who want to eat the buffet.

After seeing Li Duoyu coming, he smiled and said, "Brother Yu, you are back."

Li Duoyu nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work these past two days."

"It's a small thing, these birds are a bit annoying. If Shuguang can lend me the gun, they will definitely be destroyed."

Li Duoyu checked the oyster meat on the dustpan. These were pried yesterday. After a day of drying, the skin has become hard and yellow.

Drying oysters is actually not easy.

Especially in the early stage, it takes about two hours to turn over the noodles to prevent the oyster meat from sticking to the dustpan and breaking the skin of the oyster meat.

A few dozen catties is fine, but once there are too many oysters, it is a big project to turn them over once. Seeing that the oysters on this side have been almost dried, Li Duoyu turned over the oysters.

Dad and Chen Wenchao arranged the newly pried oysters neatly on the dustpan.

In the past, people rarely used this traditional method of air-drying oysters, but instead used oven drying.

As an islander, Li Duoyu certainly thinks that traditional air-dried oysters are more delicious, but as an oyster breeder, he naturally prefers oven-dried oysters.

Li Duoyu glanced at the Moso Bamboo Factory, and felt that a simple oven facility for burning fire could be built.

At that time, not only can it be used to bake oysters, but it may also be used to bake fishing rods and kelp. After all, not every time the oysters are dried, the weather will be so good, so be prepared.

After nearly three hours.As the egg yolk fell below the sea level, the three put the oysters into the bamboo factory, but Chen Wenchao did not go home, but took care of the oysters.

Birds will eat during the day, and mice will also come to eat at night.

before dark.

Li Duoyu returned to the pier, took a small calculator, and settled the wages for prying oysters for the past two days.

"Zhu Xiuhua."

"1300 catties on the first day and 1250 catties on the second day, adding up to ten yuan and two."

The second sister-in-law, who got the money, was very pleased with herself and said with a smile on her face: "Duoyu, are there any oysters tomorrow?"

"There's no tomorrow. If we want to pry oysters, it may take a while."

Li Duoyu continued to read:

"Liu Xiaolan."

"700 catties on the first day and 850 catties on the second day, a total of six yuan and two."

"Thank you, Brother Fish."

"Zhang Yanhua...five yuan."

When Li Duoyu handed out the money, the fisher girls weaving nets all showed envious expressions.

Most of them make up their net income for a whole day, which is about [-] or [-] cents, and they can't even afford a catty of pork.

Moreover, Li Duoyu was generous in giving out money and would not make any deductions. A woman who was weaving a net couldn't help but said to the owner of the fishing gear shop:

"Old Chen, can't you learn from our village director and be more forthright?"

Chen Lifa rolled his eyes and snorted: "If the money was easy to make, you would still be sitting here mending the net. Don't be so good at taking advantage of it. Prying oysters is much more tiring than you mending the net."

After Li Duoyu returned home.

Grandma has already cooked dinner.

There are braised pork, pickled vegetable pork rib soup, fried seafood noodles, as well as boiled Wangchao, red snails, fried water spinach, a large pot of winter melon and mussel soup, and shelled boiled oysters.

Seeing that the dishes tonight were so rich, especially after seeing the pickled vegetables and pork ribs soup, Li Duoyu swallowed his saliva and asked his mother who was still cooking in the kitchen.

"Mother, what festival is it today, and why do you cook so much food?"

"It's not a holiday, but I see you and Yaoguo are very tired these days, so I'll cook you more delicious food and let's eat it together as a family."

After Chen Huiying finished speaking, she shouted loudly: "It's time to eat, everyone has come out to eat."

After hearing this.

Li Haoran, who was immersed in his homework, ran out of the house on the spot as if he had heard the pardon order.

"Grandma, I'm here."

After A Niang called for a meeting, Zhou Xiaoying in the room did not move. Li Duoyu felt a little strange and went back to the bedroom to take a look.

It was discovered that Zhou Xiaoying had fallen asleep sitting on the bed, holding two long and thin needles in her hand.

Xiao Tutu was chasing those round balls of yarn on the bed, and there was a copy of "Shanghai Knitting Patterns 500" next to her.

Depending on the situation, he should knit a sweater until he fell asleep. Li Duoyu thought he was knitting it for Xiao Tutu, but he didn't expect that the sweater was quite big and the style was very new. At first glance, it was for him to wear.

There was a warm current in Li Duoyu's heart, and he couldn't help but kiss her.

Li Duoyu found that since Zhou Xiaoying started class, the two spent less time together during the day except for some interaction at night.

Zhou Xiaoying suddenly woke up when she noticed a foreign body sensation on her lips. She instinctively held the stick and needle with both hands. When she saw it was Li Duoyu, she frowned: "What are you doing?"

"No reason."

Zhou Xiaoying stared and said, "It's nothing, where did you put your hands?"

Li Duoyu was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I just want to check for you to see if it's blocked again. Who are you knitting a sweater for?"

Zhou Xiaoying hurriedly put away the sweater: "It's not for you anyway."

"I've seen it all." Li Duoyu flipped through a few pages of books, pointed to one of them and said, "I think this one looks better."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "But I'm knitting another one. If I want to knit this one, I have to take out all the stitches again."

"I like the other one too."

(End of this chapter)