In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Soon the three tractors on the island arrived at the new dock, along with eight handcarts.

The cart is a very important tool for transporting goods on the island, and its efficiency is not low at all.

If the quantity is not very large, people would prefer to order a cart, after all, it is much cheaper than a tractor.

If you make a trip within the village, it would cost about two or three cents.

However, the distance from the new pier to the eel factory is a bit far, and it would cost at least 50 cents to pull it off.

In the eel factory, Li Duoyu patiently taught his second brother and Chen Wenchao. Sometimes it is better to actually do something than to say it a dozen times.

After Li Duoyu operated it once, his second brother Li Yaoguo and Chen Wenchao understood it immediately.

In fact, alum is not very good for the human body, but some of the knowledge is a bit too beyond the scope for people today, so Li Duoyu did not plan to explain it in detail to his second brother and Chen Wenchao.

That is, when adding alum, it must not exceed the standard. There is a bad substance in alum. If it is used in excess, it is very likely to cause excessive aluminum residues.

Eating this kind of food that exceeds the standard for a long time is extremely scary. It is said that this thing is related to Alzheimer's disease and intellectual impairment in children.

Li Duoyu is not actually very clear about this aspect. He only knows that when eating alum jellyfish, it is necessary to soak it in clean water for more than two hours. It would be best if you add some old vinegar, which is said to neutralize the aluminum residue.

It seemed that for a long time, Chinese people have grown up through bumps and bruises, which reminded him of the incident of spoiled sea eels at the Haixin Eel Factory some time ago.

There was also big-headed baby milk powder from a long time ago, as well as black-hearted cotton and so on.

As Li Duoyu's batch of jellyfish is mainly for export, he has to keep a good control on the scale. Otherwise, if it is detected to exceed the standard, he might end up like the Haixin Eel Factory.

On the big iron-hulled ship, Zhuang Haiyang, who had difficulty walking, was quite interested in collecting jellyfish brains at first, but as the number of jellyfish brains increased.

Preserving jellyfish brains has become a problem because jellyfish brains are the gonads of jellyfish and they spoil very quickly. Even if they are blanched, they will easily rot if they are not dried or frozen immediately in such hot weather.

The jellyfish brains he made yesterday went bad overnight because he had no place to freeze them. The sour smell mixed with ammonia was so bad that even dogs would shake their heads when they smelled it.

Today, Zhuang Haiyang was too lazy to pick up jellyfish brains, so he just took some for cooking, and threw the rest into the sea to feed the fish.

As for the jellyfish blood, it is not easy to scrape it with a fish knife. It will be more efficient to use a bamboo knife.

As Ke Duoyu said, try not to scrape it, because the jellyfish skin is of better quality if it is sold together with the bloodfish skin.

If you scrape off the jellyfish blood, it's like removing the most important fish bladder when selling rice fish. If you meet a picky buyer, he will definitely argue with you.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

The number of jellyfish in the waters near Little Elephant Island has obviously decreased, with only a few jellyfish left, and the jellyfish at the back are obviously much smaller.

These days, all the people in the fleet were tanned black. In order to catch more jellyfish, almost no one went back.

Instead, they built simple huts on Little Elephant Island, and fresh water and food were delivered by the large iron-hulled ship in the village.

At noon, they did not dare to go out to work in the sea and just rested on the island.

Li Duoyu was afraid that they would get heatstroke, so he bought them some iced beer and iced watermelon.

Of course it's not free.

It’s still the same price as in the store, except that it excludes shipping and refrigeration costs.

Zhao Dahai held up a beer bottle and said to Wang Jinshan, "You used to be like a pretty boy, but now I'll just call you a black guy."

Wang Jinshan bit off the beer cap with his teeth and drank it. "It's better to be darker. If people living by the sea are not dark, you can tell they don't work."

An old fisherman said: "Jinshan is right. The darker we get, the more money we make."

But some people also said: "Brother Duoyu is not a shady person, how can he make so much money?"

Old Lu couldn't help but snort: "He may not be evil, but he has a black heart."

Everyone couldn't help but laugh. These days, Lao Lu's jellyfish were badly damaged by Li Duoyu, and he was complaining all day long.

Zhao Dahai looked at the sea in front of him and said, "This jellyfish trip should be over. How much money did everyone make on this trip?"

Wang Jinshan smiled and said, "Not bad, averaging about seventy per day."

Zhao Xiaoliu, a new fisherman, has been very active recently: "I'm about the same, just about 100."

The fishing boat that Zhao Xiaoliu rented was bigger than the one they had. Four people could stand on the boat, and it could carry much more than their wooden boat, so naturally they could make more money.

Zhao Dahai glanced at Zhao Xiaoliu and said, "Don't forget, you still have to pay for the boat rental."

"We are so lucky. We just rented a boat and met Director Li who was helping us make money. This trip has already paid off for half a year of renting the boat."

Zhao Dahai had a gloomy face. He always thought that Zhao Xiaoliu was not a threat, but recently he discovered something.

That is, because Zhao Xiaoliu is younger, he is more popular than their brothers, so the young girls on the island who are of marriageable age naturally give priority to Zhao Xiaoliu.

However, Zhao Dahai has already contacted the piling team and reported to the village committee. He plans to build a 100-acre kelp field this year.

When you upgrade from a fisherman to a breeder, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year, buy a refrigerator and a big color TV, and your wife will come to you at the wave of your hand.

The five days of catching jellyfish were really tiring, probably the most tiring time in their fishing history.

Even when harvesting kelp, it had never been so tiring. But when they thought about the fact that they had earned three or four hundred yuan in less than five days, everyone's faces were filled with joy.

After all, there are really few money-making opportunities like this. Some fishermen plan to give Li Duoyu a banner as soon as they return.

Li Duoyu also observed the Little Elephant Island, which had no fresh water resources.

The only vegetation on the island is bushes. Generally, there are no big trees on small islands. One reason is the typhoon.

Another reason is that there are not enough fresh water resources, so only some bushes can grow.

I heard from the old people in the village that during the war, this island was the front line and many soldiers were stationed there.

It is often snatched away.

The older generation also said that if this island had been lost back then, their Dandan Island would most likely have become a bombardment area.

So every time Elephant Island was recaptured, nearby fishermen would find ways to send food to the island.

At this moment, a fisherman who had gone to the beach to relieve himself suddenly rushed back and shouted, "Director Li, we found a big treasure on the beach, go over and see what it is."

Li Duoyu was also a little curious: "What treasure?"

"It's long and looks like it's made of iron. It's covered with barnacles and half buried in the sand. I can't tell what it is."

After hearing this description, Li Duoyu felt something was wrong: "Isn't it a bit like a water pipe?"

The man nodded.

Li Duoyu frowned and followed over to take a look. Although it was covered with thick barnacles, he could see the shape of the thing clearly.

Li Duoyu instantly ran faster than anyone else, cursing, "You crazy! Let me see this thing."

Seeing Li Duoyu running so fast, everyone couldn't help but ask, "Duoyu, why are you running?"

Li Duoyu was panting, and when he saw that some of them dared to touch it, he cursed on the spot: "Damn it, baby, if I'm not mistaken, this thing should be a torpedo." Upon hearing the word "torpedo", Zhao Xiaoliu, who had just touched it, was so scared that he fell to the ground, his face turned pale.

"Wow".

Everyone ran away, some even ran farther than Li Duoyu, gasping for air.

Old Lu was also startled: "Duoyu, is this really a torpedo? Aren't those things round? This doesn't look like one."

Li Duoyu shook his head helplessly. Television was not widely used these days and fishermen had no magazines to read, so it was normal that they did not recognize this kind of torpedo.

"The thing you're talking about is a mine that's placed on the sea surface to make ships hit it. Torpedoes are different from this thing. They are specifically used to hit ships."

Although Li Duoyu couldn't be 100% sure that the thing was a torpedo, he took a quick look at it and found that there was no rust on it and there were English letters on it, so he estimated that it was most likely left behind by America.

After all, the honeymoon period between the two sides was only a few years, and before that they were helping the overseas islands fight us.

I don’t know how many shady tricks he used behind the scenes.

Li Duoyu didn't know why it appeared here on the beach. It might have been blown up by the typhoon, or someone might have been careless and dragged it here.

It just so happened that the tide was low today, so they were discovered.

Fishermen along the coast have a bad habit of dragging back whatever they catch in the sea, thinking they have caught some treasure, even if it is a cannonball.

Li Duoyu felt a little scared when he thought about it, his heart was pounding. If there had been an explosion, the dozen people who were watching, including him, might have been turned into pieces.

I was finally reborn, but I don't want to die like this.

This reminded Li Duoyu of a tragedy that happened in a fishing village in Jinjiang in his previous life. A fisherman, out of boredom, fished out a torpedo and placed it on the beach.

There just happened to be a scavenger from the mainland who didn't understand the danger of the thing, or perhaps thought that the big lump of iron could be sold for a lot of money, so he started knocking around.

It is possible that the fuse was triggered, causing the explosion on the spot. It is said that a deep pit of more than ten meters was created.

The glass of a nearby factory building and more than 20 houses were all shattered, and the scavenger was directly blown to death.

This tragedy caused quite a stir at the time, and border guards from all over the country also gave these fishermen profound ideological education.

Since then, fishermen along the coast no longer dared to drag those rusty iron lumps casually.

As for those that have just been painted, drag them home because there is a good chance that you can get a bonus.

After learning that the thing was a torpedo, the fishermen were still a little frightened and couldn't help but want to kick the fisherman who first discovered the treasure.

"Chen Youshu, you're a psychopath. If it weren't for Director Li, we would have almost been killed by you."

Chen Youshu is from Chenjia Village next door. He has become familiar with everyone during this period of time and he sees everyone scolding him.

He was also very aggrieved:

"I don't understand either. What can I do? You don't know that it was Zhao Xiaoliu who knocked just now."

Zhao Xiaoliu curled his lips and said, "Who knows this thing is a torpedo? Erniu touched it first, okay?"

Zhao Erniu: "It's none of my business."

The old fisherman, Lao Lu, frowned and said, "There are so many fish. What should we do now?"

To be honest, he had caught all the jellyfish and really wanted to go back. He didn't want to get involved in this matter again.

Li Duoyu frowned and looked at the torpedo in the distance. If he didn't find it, he would definitely not care.

But now that it has been discovered, it is necessary to take care of it. Otherwise, who can guarantee that there will be some foolish person who will hit the torpedo next time, or drag it back for recycling as scrap metal? That would be a serious problem.

Seeing that the tide had begun to rise, Li Duoyu inserted a bamboo pole nearby and drew an arrow to simply determine the direction of the torpedo.

Finally, I randomly picked two reliable people and asked them to watch over the place and try not to let nearby fishermen come to this beach.

"Shitou, Dahai, you two stay here and watch. Don't get too close, and don't let anyone get close. I'll go to the boat and notify the shore station and have them ask the border guards to come and handle it."

When Li Duoyu contacted the shore station, many nearby fishermen learned the news through the channel, and some even came over by boat to join in the fun, leaving Li Duoyu speechless.

I was really afraid that they would drive the ship directly into the torpedo.

This time, the efficiency of the border defense was relatively high. It took about four hours to reach Little Elephant Island.

There were more than a dozen border guards with guns, and one who looked like an expert.

But they arrived a little late. The tide was high and they could not see the torpedo at all.

After waiting for about another four hours, the tide receded to the same point again.

As soon as the expert saw this thing, he immediately confirmed on the spot that this big lump of iron was a torpedo.

After hearing this, everyone's faces turned pale and they started cursing Chen Youshu again on the spot.

Next, the procedure was followed. The border guards first took out their cameras and took a lot of pictures, and then drove everyone present to the back mountain.

All the fishing boats that came to watch at sea were driven away, and the fishermen were taught a lesson and warned.

Koh Chang was once a bombardment area. Do not come to this island unless it is an emergency.

Although they were all driven to the other side of the island, there were still many young fishermen who were quite curious.

They covered their ears and hid behind a big rock in the distance, peeking.

Zhao Xiaoliu said: "It's been more than half an hour, why hasn't it exploded yet?"

Zhao Dahai patted his head and said, "Little brat, just watch carefully, can you stop talking so much?"

The soldiers used sandbags to create a safe area not far away, and then the expert placed a lot of explosives around the torpedo.

As the fuse was lit, the expert ran away and then turned over and hid in the safe spot.

When everyone saw this, their heartbeats quickened and they all covered their ears, so nervous that they could hear their own heartbeats.

About two minutes later.

With a loud bang.

Although they were far away, they could still see the huge flame and clearly felt the shock wave, which even caused the pebbles nearby to shake.

After the explosion, everyone could see a deep pit more than ten meters wide on the beach. From a distance, you could see some smoke coming out of the sand.

Li Duoyu had seen many bomb explosion scenes in short videos in his previous life, but it was the first time in his life that he watched an explosion at such a close distance, and it was really completely different.

At the moment of the explosion, I felt like all the hairs on my body stood up, especially when the shock wave arrived, my body instinctively felt afraid.

This reminded Li Duoyu that our country was also bombed by similar things in "Slav" in the past.

I gritted my teeth and really wanted to earn more foreign exchange and buy some useful things. (End of this chapter)