In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 28 Cutting Trees
The next day, after everyone woke up.

Li Yaoguo took Lao Li and Li Duoyu to see the casuarina plantation designated by the production team.

These casuarinas are almost 20 years old, and each tree is more than 20 centimeters thick.

Casuarina grows slowly, has a straight trunk, and is resistant to water and humidity. There is also a local saying "a thousand-year-old pine in water", which is especially suitable for piling on the seabed.

After the family cut casuarina.

In order to get the kelp farming raft ready before November, I plan to cut down these casuarinas in the next few days.

Carrying a bucket of red paint, he marked the suitable casuarinas, and then just cut down the marked trees.

In later generations, you can buy ready-made stakes like this instead of making them yourself.

Now the entire Lianjiang County is just in the initial exploration stage of marine aquaculture, and no one specializes in selling wooden stakes.

Therefore, the wooden pile can only be built by yourself.

It is not easy to make a wooden stake. You have to cut down the tree first, then cut the tree into small stakes about 1.5 meters in length, and finally sharpen one end of the stake before it is complete.

And if Li Duoyu wants to grow 30 acres of kelp, if he wants to ensure that the piles will not be pulled, he must drive at least 200 wooden piles to the bottom of the sea.

In this age when the degree of mechanization is very low, it is definitely a big project to drive more than 200 wooden piles, and many people are required to help.

However, most of the things like hiring people depended on Lao Li. Li Duoyu just broke up with Agui's group of wine and meat friends, so he would never come to help him.

Even if they didn't break up, they were used to making quick money, drinking, eating meat and playing cards all day, and they probably wouldn't be able to help him cut down trees.

The second brother knows people here, and they are all pen holders in the production team, so they can't do this kind of rough work.

And when Li Duoyu made the marking number.

Lao Li has already been active in the village. He has always smoked hand-rolled cigarettes. This time he spent a lot of money and bought seven or eight packs of Daqianmen from the supply and marketing cooperative.

He who can't spit out ivory on weekdays, when he saw his neighbor today, he smiled and went to say hello:
"Old Hu, are you free these two days? If so, come and help me."

"Wang Po, is your old Chen here?"

After running around the neighbors, I went to the fishing boat on the other side of the pier:

"Brother, I haven't fished in the past two days. Many fishes need to cut down some trees for piling. If you have time, come and help."

Lao Li had been active all morning, almost ran all over the neighbors and relatives, and finally identified eight people who came to help.

They are Uncle Hu next door, Wang Po's husband Chen Sanyuan, four from the uncle's family, two from the third uncle's family, and two from the fourth uncle's family.

Plus the words of the three of them.

There are thirteen people in total.

That afternoon, a group of people marched to the production brigade to pick up tools and set off for the pine forest.

In this year, relatives are very important.

Once there is a big event, relatives will help together, and if there are many relatives, it will not be easy for people to be bullied.

Lao Li is the second child, with a total of seven brothers and sisters. Li Duoyu's cousins, cousins, and cousins ​​add up to more than fifty.

To put it an exaggeration, if you really want to add up all the relatives, you can form a company.

It is also because of the thriving population.

Old Li's family is considered to have a lot of weight in Dandan Island, which is one of the reasons why the second brother can be the accountant and deputy secretary of the brigade.

Instead, ask relatives and neighbors to help with the work.

Usually no money is given.

If you really give it, they may not accept it, and they may even turn against you.

However, there is an unwritten rule in Dandan Island, that is, when relatives and neighbors are invited to work, they must cook salted rice and egg drop soup for everyone to eat.

But in this year, eating salted rice is considered a luxury. To make a pot of salted rice, not only must there be three layers of meat, but also mushrooms, dried balang fish and dried clams.

A pot of rice will cost a lot of money.

The men all went to cut trees and make salty rice, which naturally fell into the hands of Chen Huiying and Zhou Xiaoying. Chen Huiying was the chef, and Zhou Xiaoying was on the sidelines.

When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law work together, nagging is unavoidable. Zhou Xiaoying was severely educated by Chen Huiying about sneaking into the sea yesterday.

Finally, Chen Huiying looked at her growing belly, and said seriously: "You guys, don't you have that recently."

Hearing her mother talking about such a private matter, Zhou Xiaoying, who was helping to cut the mustard greens, shook her head quickly: "No."

"It's fine if you don't."

While frying salty rice, Chen Huiying said, "Recently, I found that you and Duoyu didn't get up so early, so I thought you didn't sleep at night."

Zhou Xiaoying blushed when she was told, and laughed a few times in embarrassment.

They really don't have that, it's just that Duoyu hasn't been honest in any part of her body recently, and she often wakes her up in the middle of the night, making her sleep well.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help muttering, "I'm really going to annoy him to death."

"Xiaoying, what did you just say?"

"No no no, I mean, the baby in my belly keeps kicking me, it's annoying."

Chen Huiying looked surprised:
"If you are so active, it must be a boy."

And see so many relatives at once.

Li Duoyu was so happy.

After all, there are quite a few people here, and he never saw them again after he came back from the island country.

My uncle drank too much fake wine and got liver cancer.

He left earlier than his father.

And the cousins ​​of the uncle's family also inherited his main business, all of them are sailors, and the youngest one specializes in ocean-going fishing boats, returning home once or twice a year.

The family of the third uncle and the third aunt were fighting smuggling during that time.

He spit out more than half of the money he earned, and then smuggled to the beautiful country with the local smugglers. After that, he seldom contacted his relatives.

The fourth uncle, in the 90s, started farming eels and sold them to islanders. The children all bought houses in Rongcheng, and later they started real estate speculators, and they all did well.

There are more than a dozen old smoking guns, all with cigarettes in their mouths.

To cut this kind of tree, they generally use two-handed saws, one person stands on one side, and then holds the handle of the saw with both hands, and starts to pull continuously.

Two-person hand sawing is very efficient.

And if the two cooperate, it is not so easy to get tired. In less than one afternoon, more than ten people planted more than 30 casuarinas.

The tractors of the production team transported them to the only sawmill on the island, where the masters were asked to help them saw the trunks into small stakes about 1.5 meters high.

This was supposed to cost money.

But under the operation of the second brother, the master of the sawmill not only helped to saw for free, but also helped to sharpen it.

Worked until about six o'clock in the evening.

Everyone just finished work, and they all went to Li Duoyu's house for dinner. Since the kitchen was too small, almost everyone was holding their bowls and eating salty rice standing in the courtyard.

More than a dozen people worked all afternoon.

Everyone was hungry with their chests on their backs. After seeing the delicious salty rice, some went to work. Each of them ate at least three bowls and drank one or two bowls of egg drop soup.

After Li Duoyu ate two bowls of rice, he went to find the most delicious thing in the whole pot of salty rice, which was the half-burnt rice crust.

As a result, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he found that a mouse had already arrived first, holding a large piece of crispy rice in his hand, and was eating it with relish.

After seeing Li Duoyu.

The little fat pier tore off a piece on the spot: "Uncle, do you want to eat crispy rice together?"

After Li Duoyu took over.

He gnawed it directly, and there was a crisp crackling sound, and the burnt and fragrant deliciousness swirled on the taste buds.

Different from Li Haoran, for Li Duoyu, crispy rice brings him more good memories.

(End of this chapter)