In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Driving in the city is fine, but the experience of driving in the countryside is a bit hard to describe. Fortunately, the suspension of this Crown car is good.

Since it hadn't rained for several days, the road was very dry. After a car drove past, the dust behind it could float for a very long time.

On the roadside, there are some simple thatched stalls selling local watermelons, with the words "1 cent per pound" written on the wooden boards.

After the car drove past, the watermelon sellers quickly took out a bamboo vegetable cover and covered the half-cut watermelon to prevent dust from falling on it.

Although the road was dusty, the melon farmers were not angry. Instead, they sighed. A middle-aged man wearing a vest and waving a palm-leaf fan could not help but recall the lively scene of the past.

In the past, this road was filled with farm vehicles and large trucks coming from far away to transport goods to the town. At worst, there would even be traffic jams.

Once there is a traffic jam, their business will become very good. A pot of tea sells for 20 cents, a pound of watermelon sells for 30 cents, and a bowl of seafood noodles sells for 2 yuan. The bosses don't even bargain.

Looking back, it was really a good era. Unfortunately, everything has changed and there is no going back.

On the wide road now, apart from the shuttle buses, there are only a few cars to be seen in a day, so when they saw the luxury car just now, they were inexplicably excited.

But in such a hot day, the car didn't even bother to stop and buy a watermelon to quench thirst.

After Li Duoyu drove them to the processing plant, Master Chen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had a very dark face.

As soon as the car stopped, he immediately ran to the nearby embankment and started vomiting, leaving Zhu Sulan stunned.

"What's going on? Master Chen is not the driver, why is he carsick?"

Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that people who have been drivers for many years would feel dizzy if they did not drive.

Li Duoyu continued, "Manager Zhu, you guys go and talk about things first. I'll wait for you here and send you back to Rongcheng later."

Zhu Sulan waved her hand quickly: "No need, thank you very much for sending us here. Besides, I don't know how long I will talk to Director Liu, I'm sorry to keep Director Li waiting."

"It's okay, I was just walking around."

Zhu Sulan looked bitter and became anxious: "Director Li, please don't wait for me. If Mr. Chen knew that you were the one who sent us back to Rongcheng, I would have to pack up and leave tomorrow. We are also very familiar with Director Liu, and he will send us back later."

Seeing Manager Zhu's embarrassment, Li Duoyu had no choice but to say, "If that's the case, I'll leave first."

"Have a good time, Director Li."

After seeing Li Duoyu get on the car, Zhu Sulan's face was full of smiles, and even her dimples, which were not usually seen, appeared when she smiled.

The driver, Chen Xianhe, whose eyes were red from vomiting, said with a puzzled look:

"I just don't understand why we have to sell the car to Director Li. This car is very popular now. Even if we sell it at the original price, there will be a lot of bosses scrambling to buy it."

Zhu Sulan glanced at him and gritted her teeth: "We are just working here. How can we know what the people above us think? If we talk too much, we will suffer a great loss."

Chen Xianhe nodded. He was a driver, so how could he not know this? However, he had been driving this car for many years, and he was somewhat reluctant to give it to someone else.

Zhu Sulan suddenly asked, "Uncle Chen, what do you think of Director Li?"

Chen Xianhe thought for a while and replied, "I don't really understand either. I can only say from the perspective of driving that he was very stable. There were many potholes on the road, and he avoided them all. When turning, he also took care of us and deliberately made a big circle. How should I put it? He felt more like an experienced driver than a young man."

Zhu Sulan suddenly came to her senses, as if she had discovered something she shouldn't know, and her brows furrowed.

But then I thought about it.

She is just a salaried person, she just needs to do her job well and not think too much.

"Uncle Chen, let's go back."

Chen Xianhe looked puzzled: "Aren't you still going to look for Director Liu?"

"Director Liu is in Rongcheng now, having a meeting with General Manager Chen. I was just worried that Director Li asked us to drive the car away, and it was just an excuse he made up."

"Then how do we go back?"

Zhu Sulan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Of course I'll take the bus. There's a bus at 2pm that goes directly to Rongcheng North Station."

When Chen Xianhe thought about taking a bus that smelled of seafood and all kinds of strange flavors, he felt nauseous again and ran to the shore to vomit.

Zhu Sulan was quite speechless: "You don't have the fate of a boss, how come you have the boss's disease?"

Master Chen was also helpless: "I am usually the driver. I have never been in a car before. If you want me to drive, I will definitely not feel dizzy."

……

When Li Duoyu drove back, he studied the Crown car for a while and found that it was really exaggerated.

Not only is there car air conditioning, but a car radio is also standard. This car does not seem to be the top-of-the-line version. If it were, there would be a car refrigerator in the back seat.

It can be said that even if this car is placed in later generations, it will still be quite powerful.

In less than half an hour, the Crown stopped at the shrimp farm, attracting a crowd of onlookers again.

After seeing Li Duoyu coming down from the cab, his uncle Chen Dongqing said with a click of his tongue:
"I don't have money for funding, but I do have money to buy a car. This car is not cheap, it must cost tens of thousands at least."

Li Duoyu suddenly felt a little contempt for him. It cost tens of thousands to buy the back of this car, but he didn't tell them the specific price.

"If someone insists on lending it to me, what can I do? They've already said that, I can't just refuse."

"You're talking nonsense. Why would someone lend you a car for free? Be careful, it might be a trap."

Li Duoyu chuckled and said, "Is it possible that because I'm so handsome, others are paying for me?"

Chen Dongqing said disdainfully: "Tsk, why don't you take a piss and see that black girls are prettier than you."

When the two men were bickering, the workers watching did not dare to interrupt. After all, the two had grown up insulting each other.

Moreover, Chen Dongqing is Director Li’s uncle, according to their local customs.

"Thunder God in the sky, uncle on the earth."

Chen Dongqing can say whatever he wants about Li Duoyu, but others don’t have the courage to do so.

At this time, the security guard Lao Xu felt itchy and asked, "Director Li, can you let me touch this car for a few times?"

Li Duoyu was curious: "You want to drive?"

"No, I'm not driving, I just want to touch it with my hands."

"That's no problem, feel free to touch me."

"Director Li, let's go and touch it too. As a result, more than ten people gathered around to watch this luxury car."

But Chen Dongqing frowned and said, "I think that Chen Yuansu is so nice to you all of a sudden, you have to be careful. For people of their level, if something happens, it will definitely be a big deal. We don't have much background, so we must not get involved."

"Of course I know this. I will not take the money for this car for nothing. I will slowly deduct it from the payment for the goods in the future."

Chen Dongqing said, "You really still want to buy this car. Hurry up and give me the funds for high-density breeding first."

Seeing that he was still asking for money, Li Duoyu quickly changed the subject: "By the way, I just happen to be going to Dazhu Village. If you have nothing to do, why don't you go with me to have some fun?"

It just so happened that Chen Dongqing was a little tired recently. He had been working intensively in the past two years and had not had a good rest.

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Before leaving, Li Duoyu took the design drawing of the bamboo product with him, and also took two bags of semi-dried shrimps from the factory's freezer. Both were made from previously mated broodstock, and were particularly large in size.

The only bad thing is that it is very difficult to completely dry this kind of prawns. At most, they can only be 70% to 80% dry, and need to be frozen for storage.

Therefore, in this era when refrigerators were not yet popular, the sales of this kind of dried shrimp would definitely not be very good, and it was only suitable for giving as gifts. Li Duoyu really liked to eat this kind of dried shrimp, which tasted sweet and had a "sea" flavor. When you were hungry, you could eat it as a snack.

Except for two packets of dried shrimp.

Li Duoyu also brought two shovels and some wooden boards and put them in the trunk of the car.

Chen Dongqing was a little curious: "What do you use these tools for?"

"You'll find out later."

This Crown car is absolutely eye-catching when driving on the road, and it gets a lot of attention. Fiat and 212 Jeep are simply incomparable to it.

Li Duoyu came to the familiar three-way intersection. After seeing the arrow sign of Dazhu Village, he drove the luxury car directly onto the mountain road.

After driving less than a kilometer, Li Duoyu got out of the car, took out the two shovels from the trunk, and woke up his uncle who was sleeping in the back seat.

"Are you up and working?"

Chen Dongqing half-closed his eyes: "What are you doing? This car is quite comfortable, and it has air conditioning. Let me sleep a little longer."

"Repair the road, what else can you do? Don't you see how deep the pit is? There's no way this car can drive through it."

To be honest, driving this kind of car is more for showing off, but it is not as convenient as farm vehicles and motorcycles.

The wheel dents in front of us were most likely caused by heavy-duty trucks like the one used by Brother Ou.

The chassis of those farm vehicles are very high, so they are not afraid of scratches at all, but his Crown is not like that, which is why he has to bring a shovel.

Chen Dongqing got out of the car reluctantly, picked up a shovel, and cursed: "I knew you had no good intentions. You said you wanted me to go out for some fresh air, but you actually wanted me to come and repair the road with you."

Li Duoyu rolled his eyes and said, "So many people want to ride this car but can't, why are you the only one complaining the most?"

Chen Dongqing spat twice on his hands and started to work. Two or three years ago, he was still a researcher wearing a white shirt.

After following Director Zhang's advice and being employed by Li Duoyu for two years, his hands were covered with calluses and he became more skilled at his work.

Damn, this bastard is such a jerk.

Also, this road is so bad that we have to get off the car and repair it after driving for a while. We have to dig and repair it all the way. In some places, we have to put wooden boards so that cars can pass.

Chen Dongqing was so angry that he cursed:
"What the hell, return this car immediately. It would be better to exchange it for a farm vehicle. At least you don't have to go through so much trouble."

"But they didn't give me a farm vehicle."

This is the price of showing off. The journey that was supposed to take less than an hour took them three hours before they finally drove into Dazhu Village.

Speaking of which, the last time Li Duoyu came here was two years ago. He felt that the village had not changed much. There were still rammed earth walls and black tiles everywhere.

Not long after they arrived at the village entrance, they were stopped by several cows, probably because they had never seen this kind of car.

A cow was protecting her calf and actually started to fight with their cart, as if she was protecting her calf.

Immediately afterwards, a bare-armed and barefoot cowherd boy rushed over with a small stick to drive the cattle away.

"Moo~moo~"

"Silly cow, move away quickly and don't block the road."

He immediately pulled the rope and whipped the cow's butt a few times, cursing, "If you really crash, even if I sell you, it won't be enough to pay for the damage."

As the car moved forward, almost everyone in the village was staring at the car in front of them. Many of the older generation were confused because they had never seen such a car before.

But there were also young people who had seen the world on TV and pointed at the car excitedly.

"What the hell, a crown car."

"Which big boss has come to our village?"

Some people in the village asked, "Water Monkey, is this car very expensive?"

The young man nicknamed Water Monkey said: "It's not just expensive, it's unreasonably expensive. Guess how much this car costs now?"

"Hurry up and tell us. Don't keep us in suspense. The most we know is our village director's farm vehicle. We don't know anything about other vehicles."

Water Monkey said: "This car, the latest model, would cost at least six or seven hundred thousand."

"what!"

Several elderly people thought they had misheard: "Is it 60,000, or more than 600,000 or 700,000?"

The water monkey said disdainfully: "Sixty thousand, you can't even afford a Fiat, and you still want to buy a Crown."

Several rural people were buzzing with worry. They worked very hard but only earned more than 20 yuan every month.

And now a car worth more than 600,000 yuan appeared in front of them. In fact, they felt that 10,000 yuan was already a lot.

More than six or seven hundred thousand!

It was a number they had never thought of. Someone couldn't help but sigh: "How do these people make so much money?"

“It’s still easier to make money out there.”

Some villagers looked at the mountains in front of them and said: "If we want to have a bright future, we still have to study hard and go out."

One parent looked at his child who was still rolling spider silk to catch dragonflies and scolded him on the spot: "You just play all day long. The summer vacation is almost over. Have you done your homework?"

When the child heard this, he immediately made a bitter face, but after picking up the long stick covered with spider silk.

"The teacher said the workbook for summer homework costs three dollars, and you didn't spend any money, so where would I get the summer homework?"

The parents froze in place.

"Go ask your teacher if there are any exercise books left. Let's go buy one now."

“It’s long gone.”

The child picked up the stick used to catch dragonflies and butterflies and ran quickly to the small river beside the village, ready to catch the big green dragonflies and damselflies.

Li Duoyu's car stopped in front of a small factory called "Wu Sheng Bamboo Mat Factory". He had just briefly talked to Brother Ou about it.

I didn't expect that he actually opened a bamboo mat factory. I don't know how it is doing now. Li Duoyu honked the horn.

The first person to respond was a large wolfhound tied with an iron chain, which started barking at their car.

At this time, someone came out of the factory. When he saw that it was a car coming, he picked up something and threw it at the wolfhound.

"If you keep yelling, I'll stew you."

The dog is quite intelligent. After feeling the pain, it no longer dares to bark when it sees this kind of car.

If it is really ignorant, it may be taken away by the dog dealer next time.

Ou Wusheng walked towards the car curiously, thinking that the other party was looking for directions, but he didn't expect that after the window was rolled down.

He was stunned for a few seconds.

"Duoyu, Dongqing, why are you here?"

Ou Wusheng looked at the car in front of him and asked in surprise: "Is this car yours?" (End of this chapter)