In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Hearing that the leader wanted to relax, Li Duoyu quickly said: "I have brought the boat over, and my fishing rods are also on the boat."

"That would be even better. The leader has been studying it for a year and wants to ride on your boat."

Li Yunpeng also envied Li Duoyu. Not long after they arrived at Ludao, the leader asked him if he was here.

In his eyes, the leaders were so kind to Li Duoyu that even he couldn't understand.

He is just an ordinary village party secretary who is relatively lucky. He raises some kelp and exports some eels.

The foreign exchange he earned last year only accounted for about one thousandth of Rongcheng's foreign exchange, and his contribution was not particularly large.

Because of this matter, he asked Director Huang specifically, but the answer he got made him a little confused.

"Some people are just comfortable to get along with."

Later, he also tried to contact Li Duoyu and found that he was indeed quite comfortable getting along with him.

But he really didn't understand why this happened, he just felt that being with him could really make him feel at ease.

"Then Director Li, you have a good rest. I will go back and report to the leader. We tentatively plan to set off at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

In Li Duoyu's mind, the tide situation on the 20th day of the lunar calendar instantly appeared.

"Okay, if the tide is good tomorrow, we can still catch fish."

Under the leadership of Section Chief Li, he checked in quickly. Li Duoyu was assigned a twin room because there were two of them.

Zhang Sanming, who had been following them the whole time, kept listening with open ears. The leader in Section Chief Li's mouth must at least be Director Huang.

But his intuition told him that it might not be that simple. After all, this overseas fellowship was led by a big leader.

He also wanted to go fishing with them, but for a while, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Zhou Xiaoying can be regarded as someone who has stayed at the Jinling Hotel. She is no longer surprised by the TVs and various settings in front of her.

Although the appearance is not as good as the Jinling Hotel, the facilities inside are not bad at all.

The service was just a bit over the top, which reminded Li Duoyu of his previous life, when his son took him to eat a kind of hot pot.

The waiters inside want to stuff food into your mouth. The waiters here don't seem to be serving guests, but more like serving leaders.

But the enthusiasm lasted less than three hours, and they didn't know where they learned that after Li Duoyu was just a village director, the original enthusiastic smile disappeared and turned into a professional fake smile.

This is understandable to Li Duoyu. After all, these waiters are in contact with big leaders, and several of them have even taken photos with the country's top leaders.

Although he smiled on the surface, he must have looked down on people like Li Duoyu who didn't even have an administrative level.

Li Duoyu originally wanted to take Xiaoying to Ludao for a walk in the evening. It is very close to Ludao University and there are many ancient buildings near the hotel.

The night market near the pier also has many snacks, including sand tea noodles, fried oysters, and boiled noodles with frozen red fish and bamboo shoots.

"Would you like to go for a walk?"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Xiaoying was under a lot of pressure in the past two days. Almost every time she had time, she squeezed out time, put on headphones, and concentrated on learning English.

She even picked up the room service catalog and saw that there were words she didn't know in the Chinese-English comparison, so she looked up the dictionary on the spot.

Seeing that she was studying so seriously, Li Duoyu didn't bother her. After all, in this era, if you can learn English well, it is really very popular.

If I do foreign trade in the future, I can save a female translator and just take Xiaoying out.

Spent a whole day on the boat.

Li Duoyu was also a little tired. After eating something simple, he went to bed early. He had to go fishing with his leader to relax tomorrow.

As long as there is no mobile phone around, Li Duoyu is the kind of person who will fall asleep immediately when he touches the bed, waiting for him to open his eyes again.

It was already around five o'clock in the morning. At this time, he was not sleepy at all. Maybe he studied too late last night.

Or perhaps because she was unfamiliar with the new environment, Zhou Xiaoying slept with the lamp on, and Li Duoyu did not wake her up.

I gently brushed my teeth and washed my face, then tore up a piece of paper and wrote on it: I went fishing with my boss. I can have breakfast and lunch in the restaurant with my room card.

Because he woke up too early, the Ludao Hotel had not prepared breakfast. After Li Duoyu got dressed, he walked directly towards the first pier of Ludao.

Although Ludao is relatively south, it is quite cold in the first month of the year, especially when the sea breeze blows. If you wear too few clothes, you will still feel a bit cold and wet.

People these days get up very early. It's only after five o'clock, and there are already many pedestrians on the road.

What surprised Li Duoyu the most was that not far ahead, there were many street lights on and crowds of people.

Ghost city.

When he was teaching on Ludao, he heard Teacher Fang tell him several times that there was a night market on the street near the pier that only opened around four in the morning.

As for this kind of night market, in the early years of the late Qing Dynasty, the poor bannermen did not dare to sell off their ancestral belongings during the day, so they took advantage of the midnight to trade privately.

As soon as daybreak, they all dispersed, so it was called a "ghost market."

Most of the items sold in this kind of place are cultural relics, antiques and the like.

But if you want to buy good things here, you need to have certain skills, because some of the things sold here are genuine and fake.

You may buy a fake for a lot of money, or you may buy a big treasure for a small amount of money.

Li Duoyu walked over and took a look, and found that most of the stall owners here had their heads lowered, neither selling nor calling you. The main thing was fate.

There are all kinds of things for sale on the ground, including second-hand clothes, snuff bottles, gourds, rusty copper coins, and many kinds of porcelain and bronze.

In this era, many people are still willing to visit ghost markets, and it seems to be the best era to hunt for cultural relics.

It is said that if you go to Fuyou Road in Shanghai or Panjiayuan in the imperial capital at this time, you can pick up money with a little bit of eyesight.

It's a pity that Li Duoyu is completely ignorant in this aspect, otherwise he could really find some treasures.

After Li Duoyu took a few glances, he planned to leave this place. He thought he had no chance to meet these stall owners.

But I never thought that there are good things in the ghost market. Some people are actually selling cassettes from Hong Kong Island and overseas provinces.

The cover is quite explicit. Li Duoyu considers himself not a gentleman, so when he saw this thing, his eyes suddenly widened.

When he was in the island country, he didn't miss it, and it was a little solace in his dark life.

"How much is it?"

"Twenty dollars a piece."

Li Duoyu glared and said, "It's so expensive. Do you think I don't know how much it costs? It's ten yuan a piece. I'll buy five pieces."

The stall owner frowned and thought for a moment: "Though I'm going to suffer a bit, don't tell others that I bought it for ten yuan. I have a colorful little book here, do you want it?"

Li Duoyu said disgustedly: "I already have a cassette, why do I read such a villain book?"

Li Duoyu hid the five newly purchased cassettes in his arms. Action movies of this era were still relatively conservative. Most of them focused on plot, and the action scenes were not long. Many times, only the upper body is moving, but for Chinese people who have never been exposed to such things, this thing is definitely an "opium"-level existence.

And now is the time when the video halls are popular. The late-night slots are often overcrowded, and the majority of the people are very keen on taking night classes.

Now that the cassette is available, Li Duoyu still lacks a player, preferably one that can record video, so that he can record the content played on the TV.

After leaving the ghost market, Li Duoyu came to the pier, where there were several bright halogen lamps.

Although it is still dark, there are already many fishing boats docked at the first pier.

The first month of the year happens to be the season when hairtails are most plentiful, and baskets of hairtails are pulled to the pier.

These hairtail fish were caught by trawl nets, and their appearance is relatively poor. Many of them have bulging eyes and broken bellies.

Most of the hairtails with such poor quality are taken away by Ludao Aquatic Products Processing Factory at a relatively cheap price. Most of these hairtails are made into canned hairtails, and the rest are made into salted hairtails and sold to those not close to the sea. Cities and villages.

Those with good quality will be selected by fishmongers and taken to the morning market to sell.

In addition to this kind of trawler, the largest number of small fishing boats at the pier are all kinds of small fishing boats, most of which are sampans.

These small fishing boats catch small seafood, which are the favorites of Hong Kong people.

The fishermen here on Ludao often say: If you want to eat seafood, you should eat what is caught with sticky nets, not what is dragged up by big nets.

There is a certain truth to what they say. Most of the seafood caught in the trawl is not particularly fresh.

Coastal cities like Ludao are much more picky about seafood than inland cities like Rongcheng.

They are even more picky than Dandan Island. As soon as these small fishing boats dock, many fishmongers will surround them.

Some of these fishmongers are shops at the fish market, and some are suppliers to some hotels.

Since Ludao was designated as a special economic zone, Ludao has been favored by investors from Hong Kong Island. They have opened many seafood restaurants.

While investing, many eating habits have also been brought to Ludao, precisely because of these seafood restaurants.

The prices of seafood in Ludao are increasing year by year.

The reason why Li Duoyu came to the dock so early was not to compete with these fishmongers for seafood, but to buy live shrimps and lugworms.

When you go fishing with your leader, you must prepare the bait first, otherwise it will be embarrassing if you don't catch any fish later.

Li Duoyu considers himself not a good fisherman, but as a farmer, he knows very well what sea fish like to eat.

Fishing with live shrimp can at least ensure that you will not kill turtles, while fishing with lugworms can ensure that you catch more fish species.

Li Duoyu first went to his fishing boat, got a bucket, and properly placed the five "cassettes" he just bought.

His fishing boat is parked here at the pier, which is quite expensive. He has to pay a parking fee of five yuan every day.

Li Duoyu carried the bucket and imitated the fishmonger in chatting with the fishermen.

"Uncle, are there any live shrimps?"

A fisherman replied: "My boat has no water tank, and it is all dead. If you want to buy live fish, you have to find those with water tanks."

"Okay, thank you Abe."

The last time he came, Li Duoyu discovered that the sampans here on Ludao had living water tanks.

Maybe this has something to do with Ludao's original seaside environment. The fishermen here prefer to eat fresh seafood.

Li Duoyu also likes it very much. As a fisherman and a cook, he knows better, no matter how good the freezing technology is.

In terms of umami, there is a big gap between frozen seafood and live seafood.

Li Duoyu asked several fishing boats in succession.

"Abo, are there any alive shrimps?"

I finally asked him and met a fisherman who specialized in selling live shrimp.

The fisherman looked Li Duoyu up and down and said, "I told you in advance that live shrimps are more expensive and are usually sold to hotels."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "How much does it cost?"

"Nine-section shrimps cost eight yuan per catty alive, and green shell shrimps cost five yuan per catty."

The price is a bit expensive, but it's still okay, but Li Duoyu couldn't help but bargain: "One pound is cheaper than one yuan. I'll take two pounds of each of these two kinds."

The boss of the ship said: "I'll give you a discount of five cents per catty at most."

"It's only one yuan. It's cheaper for the first cooperation. From now on, I will take care of your business."

The boss of the ship said disgustedly: "You look like you are from out of town. Where can we cooperate next time? Forget it, I will sell it to you for one yuan per catty."

Li Duoyu bought four kilograms of live shrimp at one time, but he was different from other fishmongers, who would definitely buy the biggest shrimp.

Li Duoyu, on the other hand, chose the smallest shrimp to buy. Seeing that he only picked small shrimps, the boat boss felt that he was not at such a disadvantage for a moment, but he still couldn't help but remind him: "Why did you buy so many small shrimps? Big ones are better."

Li Duoyu said: "I use it for fishing. This kind of small shrimp is more suitable."

After hearing this, the boat boss was stunned on the spot, and several nearby fishmongers were also stunned. How could there be such a fool.

A pound of live shrimp costs sixty-seven yuan, and how much does a pound of fish cost? Even the most expensive large yellow croaker is not as expensive as live shrimp. This is just a waste of money.

The boss of the boat couldn't help but said: "Young man, you will lose money fishing like this, or you should think about it again."

"It's okay, I'll just fish for fun."

After Li Duoyu paid the money readily, he asked by the way: "Uncle, where can I buy sea centipedes at our dock?"

"We don't have it here at the pier. You can buy it when you go to the Eighth Market later."

"Okay, thanks."

Watching Li Duoyu leave, the boat boss and several nearby fishmongers were a little confused and couldn't figure it out at all.

It wasn't until Li Duoyu jumped on the fishing boat that these people finally figured it out. It seemed that it was for rich people.

After arriving at the fishing boat, Li Duoyu poured the live shrimps into the live fish bin on the boat, and then went to the nearby No. 8 Market to buy some fresh sea centipedes.

By the time he finished these things, it was already dawn.

Li Duoyu, who was a little hungry, did not go back to the Ludao Hotel for breakfast. Instead, he ate a bowl of noodle paste and a fried dough stick near the pier.

These days, everyone is yearning for the exquisite breakfasts in hotels, but Li Duoyu prefers street food, which feels more smoky.

As the first ray of sunlight hit the pier in the morning, Li Duoyu, who felt warm all over his body after eating a bowl of noodle paste, walked back towards the Ludao Hotel. (End of chapter)