In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Although Li Duoyu doesn't like his parents to eat these pickled foods, although they are unhealthy, they taste really delicious.

At dinner, Li Duoyu ate quite a bit, for which Old Li gave him the cold shoulder.

After dinner, A Niang wanted to wash the dishes, but Zhou Xiaoying snatched them away: "I'll wash them."

Li Duoyu crossed his legs.

Little Tutu sat on his ankles, using his legs as a seesaw, and shouted, "Daddy, seesaw faster."

"Any faster and your father's leg will be broken."

Li Duoyu pricked little Tutu a few times with his beard stubble, which made him burst into laughter.

"It's so itchy."

As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed Li Duoyu's beard and pulled it hard, causing Li Duoyu's eyes to roll back in pain.

"You are a rebel, you dare to pull out your father's beard. It's better to have a daughter."

Chen Huiying glared at him:
"What nonsense are you talking about."

She held the three red certificates in her hands. The more she looked at them, the more she liked them. She placed them on the TV cabinet and said, "If the TV cabinet was made of glass, dust wouldn't accumulate."

"I'll tell you later if you take more."

Old Li, who was smoking in the courtyard, couldn't help but snort: "You don't know how to be low-key. Do you think getting a certificate is just like eating or drinking water? You can take it whenever you want."

Li Duoyu would never tell Lao Li that his shrimp farming project was about to succeed and that the awards he would receive would only become bigger and higher in level.

At this moment, Chen Huiying suddenly remembered something, picked up the sacred basket, and went directly to the third brother's shop to buy some things for worship.

He also took his three award certificates with him and said to the fourth child, "Come with me to the Tianhou Temple."

Before Li Duoyu could speak, little Tutu said, "Grandma, I want to go to the Tianhou Temple, too."

Chen Huiying smiled and said, "You play with Grandpa first, we will be back soon."

Little Tutu kept his eyes on the basket and swallowed his saliva and said, "Did you buy crystal candy for this worship?"

Zhou Xiaoying, who was still washing dishes, got angry when she heard this: "He doesn't even eat, so why would he want to eat crystal candy? Mom, please don't give him candy, otherwise it will only become more and more difficult to take care of him in the future."

Li Duoyu was indeed a little tired.

I wanted to say, why not go tomorrow, but I saw A Niang’s serious and pious expression.

"Okay, come right away."

In fact, even now, this woman with rather conservative ideas still feels that it was the Goddess Mazu who enlightened her.

And this year, he happened to be the big boss. Naturally, he had to tell Mazu the Goddess first after receiving such an award.

Chen Huiying is not the only one on the island who thinks this way. Many people think this way.

This year was particularly exaggerated. Not only people from Dandan Island came to worship at the Tianhou Temple on the island, but believers from other places also often came to worship at the Tianhou Temple on their island.

Because there are rumors that the golden statue of Mazu in the Tianhou Temple on Dandan Island is more powerful, and plus, Li Duoyu, the big boss, is so "lucky" this year.

He himself is the best signboard.

The new year isn't even halfway through and already thirty or forty people have signed up to be the next year's head of household.

Li Duoyu can even foresee that next year when the Holy Grail is thrown to decide the boss, the scene will be very grand and it will take a whole day just to throw the Holy Grail.

Li Duoyu walked along the stone steps to the Tianhou Temple, but when he entered the temple, he found that the light was a little dim and several candles were not lit.

It seemed like A Niang had known about this situation for a long time. She took out a few candles that she had just bought from A Jie's shop from the altar basket, lit them and put them back in.

Li Duoyu also moved the shortened kerosene lamp wick slightly upwards, and the entire temple lit up instantly.

When they were praying, Chen Huiying was mumbling something, and Li Duoyu heard it clearly this time. It was probably thanking Mazu for blessing her and letting her win so many awards.
After A Niang finished her worship, Li Duoyu looked around the Tianhou Temple and couldn't help asking, "Is the temple keeper away recently?"

Ah Niang replied: "I also heard from others that he has not been in good health recently. His knees hurt so much that he couldn't walk, so he left here and now lives with his children."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. If he guessed correctly, the temple keeper should have gout. Now no one knew what was going on. As people's lives became better, their illnesses also increased.

What about gout and stroke?
There is also Lao Mi’s gastrointestinal disease.

Li Duoyu thought that it was possible that material conditions had improved all of a sudden, but everyone's body's ability to adapt had not yet improved, and the abundance of fish and meat led to so many people getting sick.

A Niang continued, "Originally your father was going to come to guard the temple, but these days, he has been patrolling your eel factory and has not come."

After hearing what A Niang said, Li Duoyu walked out and took a look. His eel factory was the brightest in the entire Xiasha Village. There were even several flashlight beams moving nearby. If he guessed correctly, they should be the patrolling people.

Ever since Li Duoyu became the head of the family and took charge of Mazu's patrol, he seldom came to Tianhou Temple to help.

"Mother, why don't you go back first? I'm the boss, and it would be unreasonable if there's no one guarding the Queen's Palace."

Chen Huiying frowned slightly. She also wanted to help the fourth brother guard the temple, but since ancient times, there has been no precedent of women guarding the temple.

"Then I'll go back and get you a blanket. It's windy on the mountain and it's still a bit cold at night. You need to cover yourself with a blanket, okay?"

"Got it, mother."

The Tianhou Temple on the island is not closed even at night. Even at night, Mazu Goddess will bless the fishermen's safety.

I heard that the door was closed in the past, but I don’t know who said later that if the door was closed, how would the Goddess Mazu return home when she went out?

From then on, even on windy days, there would always be a gap inside the temple.

Of course, typhoon days are excluded.

Guarding the temple is not simply sleeping in the temple. There are many things to do, the most basic of which is cleaning. Li Duoyu picked up the bamboo broom and simply swept the Tianhou Palace.

At this time, Zhou Xiaoying came up to help bring the quilt. Seeing him cleaning the spider silk with a feather blanket, she said, "I haven't seen you clean the house many times, but you cleaned it very well here."

Seeing Xiaoying bringing a blanket to him, Li Duoyu smiled and said, "Hehe, this is not difficult. As long as Comrade Xiaoying is willing to let go, I can take care of the housework in the future."

Seeing that Li Duoyu didn't seem to be joking, Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him and said, "You are so good at making money now. If people knew that you were cleaning at home, I wouldn't even have to go out. I might get scolded to death by those aunts and uncles."

Li Duoyu smiled. It was amazing to think that in this era, it was women who really were the ones hindering women’s “awakening”.

In addition to bringing him a blanket, Zhou Xiaoying also brought him a small radio and two plates of mosquito coils: "If you don't close the door, there will be a lot of mosquitoes at night."

Seeing his wife being so considerate, Li Duoyu wanted to kiss her twice on the spot, but considering that this is the Tianhou Temple, he couldn't do anything rash.

Zhou Xiaoying went back after delivering the quilt.

Li Duoyu stood at the stone pillar, looking at the sea, and found that there were suddenly several fishing boats with lights on on the sea.

It was too far away to see clearly, but I could vaguely see that there was a square object towing behind the small fishing boat.

It should be a tool used to catch small tubes.

Li Duoyu calculated the time. There were indeed small squids at this time, but not many. It would take about half a month before the peak season for small squid fishing would begin.

For the fishermen on Dandan Island, as soon as the season for small squid arrives, everyone will stay up late to catch small squid.

This suddenly reminded Li Duoyu of something, that is, the fishing boats produced by Changwei Shipyard should have been completed, and he had to quickly bring the boats back and then rent them to the villagers.

Li Duoyu turned on the radio and tuned to the overseas province's channel. The relationship between the two sides has been pretty good in the past two years, and he hasn't heard any united front speeches.

Recently, we often hear that veterans from overseas provinces have launched a "free return home movement", which the other side cannot suppress even if they want to.

Speaking of this, Li Duoyu really knows these things. The veterans from overseas provinces back then could think of any way to get home.

He once met a veteran from an overseas province in the island country. After arriving in the island country, he destroyed all the passport information related to the overseas province. He mixed with them, and then ran to turn himself in, saying that he was a Chinese who had illegally immigrated, and was finally deported back to his country.

Li Duoyu listened for a while.

Unexpectedly, I heard the Japanese version of Miss Deng's "Let Time Pass By" again.

This song was still very popular even after Li Duoyu arrived in the island country, and those illegal immigrants also particularly liked to listen to her songs.

But Li Duoyu still likes her song "Walking on the Road of Life" the most. He relied on this song to get through the countless nights when he was working illegally in the island country.

It's about nine o'clock in the evening.

Except for the eel factory, the lights in most houses on the island have been turned off.

Li Duoyu lit a stick of incense, bowed to Mazu, and then went straight to sleep in the Tianhou Palace.

Li Duoyu thought it would be difficult to sleep, but he didn't expect that young people have good sleep quality and he fell asleep right away.

The next day, people came to pray very early. A little boy looked at Li Duoyu who was still sleeping in bed, pointed at him and said, "Grandma, there is a lazy pig here. The sun is shining on his butt, but he is still sleeping here."

The old man leaned over to take a look and found that it was Li Duoyu. He quickly patted the child on the head and said, "Don't talk nonsense. That's our village director."

The little boy blinked his eyes and said, "Village Director, the one who built the most beautiful house in our village, whose son has a robot toy?"

"Yes, that's him."

"But the village director's house is big, why do you have to sleep in the temple?"

"You little kid don't understand. He is the big boss and he has to come to guard the temple occasionally. Keep your voice down. Do you understand? Don't wake Director Li up."

The little boy said excitedly: "It's fun to guard the temple, right? I want to guard the temple, and I want to be the boss."

"What are you dreaming about? Your father and your grandfather couldn't even be the boss, and you still want to be the boss."

The old man frowned, and seeing that the child was getting more and more excited, he quickly finished his worship, recited a few words for blessings, then twisted his ear and left the Tianhou Temple.

"Hurry up and leave. Don't play here. If you wake Director Li up, I'll teach you a lesson."

Maybe it’s because he has been working non-stop recently, Li Duoyu has been waking up lately. When he gets up, it’s already past eight o’clock.

There are already quite a lot of incense sticks on the incense burner, it seems that some villagers have already come to worship.

Li Duoyu simply washed his face, bowed to Mazu, and left the Tianhou Temple.

But when he was halfway there, he met Zhang Jinsha from the village committee and was stopped on the spot.

"Duoyu, please go to the village committee immediately. The staff from the power bureau are looking for you."

"Ah, isn't Secretary Chen here? He can handle it."

Zhang Jinsha said with a bitter face: "Those people don't seem to care much about Secretary Chen, they just come to find you."

Li Duoyu frowned slightly: "Okay, I'll go home and eat a few bites of food, and then I'll be there soon."

"Okay, I'll go back and entertain the guests."

After Li Duoyu returned home, he ate two mouthfuls of porridge and went to the village committee.

Chen Huiying frowned and said, "What's the hurry? You can't even eat breakfast properly."

After Li Duoyu arrived at the village committee, he found that there were indeed three guests in his office.

Li Duoyu was quite familiar with two of them, they were the technical personnel who had been stationed in Beilan Territory.

Later, Li Duoyu heard that the level of these two technicians was quite high. They were not at the county or city level, but at the provincial level. After all, this power generation experiment was a national project.

Normally, Li Duoyu called them Engineer Chen and Engineer Cai. After spending some time together, they became quite familiar with each other.

Li Duoyu also often asked people to send them some vegetables and some seafood that were hard to get.

In addition to the two of them, there was another "strange face" who came today. If I remember correctly, this person was in the group photo after the equipment was transported to Dandan Island. He seemed to be standing in the first row, but Li Duoyu forgot his last name.

But when this person saw Li Duoyu, he smiled and greeted him: "Director Li, long time no see."

Li Duoyu was a little embarrassed as he couldn't call the other person's name, but he still shook hands with the other person enthusiastically.

"Long time no see, come, sit down, I'll make you some tea."

Li Duoyu recently discovered a depressing thing, that is, when he goes out, many people know him, but he doesn’t know them.

Perhaps, this is the advantage of newspapers. After all, in the era when television was not yet popular, newspapers were the most powerful media.

The two technicians couldn't help but laugh secretly, and one of them came to the rescue and said, "Director Li, our Section Chief Zhang is here to inform you that the wind power generation test has been completed and the village can now be electrified."

Chen Jianghe, who was originally full of resentment, stopped complaining instantly after hearing the news. His self-esteem was really hurt just now.

When he saw someone coming to look for Li Duoyu, he wanted to entertain these people warmly, but when the leader knew that he was not Li Duoyu, he ignored him.

What else can I say? The handover of the wind power generation pilot project will only be coordinated with Li Duoyu.

Chen Jianghe burst into tears on the spot. He said, "I just wanted to make tea for you, not to steal his credit."

But when he thought about how County Mayor Zhang had wanted to inspect the wind power plant before but was directly rejected, he felt a little better.

After hearing this, Li Duoyu also blinked his eyes and said in surprise: "Chief Zhang, the electricity is really going to be turned on."

Zhang Xuecai nodded: "Yes, that's right. Now the entire wind power generation has been tested. The Beilanling you recommended is really good and very suitable for wind power generation."

Li Duoyu quickly poured tea for the other party: "You have worked so hard during this period."

"As it should be, this is our job. I heard from Engineer Chen and Engineer Cai that Director Li has taken very good care of them during this period."

"It's not really about taking care of us. It's just that in the vegetable garden, sometimes we grow too many vegetables. And we are a fishing island, so the last thing we lack is seafood."

The thinner engineer Chen said, "Director Li, we may have to conduct a power test today. The village has not had electricity for a long time. You may have to notify the villagers. We will test for two days to see if the voltage and line are OK."

"Okay, I'll take care of it right away."

"Then please inform us that we will deliver electricity to the village at 2 pm."

"By the way, your eel factory has its own power supply. It's best to shut it down for at least half an hour before reconnecting the power."

"clear."

Li Duoyu hummed a happy tune all the way to the eel factory, went straight to the broadcasting room, and tapped the microphone.

“Dear villagers, I am Li Duoyu. Please pay attention, what is coming next is very important.

Our village will receive electricity in the afternoon.

Let me say it again, the electricity in our village will be back at 2:00 p.m., so please go back home and check if any electrical appliances are left on or if any wiring is aging.

Our village has been without electricity for too long, so please be careful and turn off any electrical appliances you have."

"I'll inform you again."

After hearing the news, the villagers were so happy that it was like a festival.

At Dandan Island Primary School, a student was so excited that he stood up after hearing the news.

"That's great. I can go to my uncle's house and watch TV again."

As a result, a piece of chalk hit him directly, and Teacher Shanshan said angrily: "Li Haoran, you stand at the door as punishment." (End of this chapter)