In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Qin Huaiyun was stunned: "Duoyu, you are not kidding your cousin, we just met, there is no account."

Li Duoyu narrowed his eyes and said, "It's not my account, but the Zhou family's account. When Xiaoying and I went to Hong Kong Island, her uncle Zhou Shidong had already given us all the remittance slips."

"I've been too busy lately and haven't had time to look for you guys. I didn't expect you to come over and reconcile the accounts so proactively."

The flesh on Qin Huaiyun's face twitched: "Who are you trying to fool? If you two go to Hong Kong Island, how can you bear to come back?"

The villagers snorted coldly, "Who are you looking down on? Who do you think our Director Li is? He didn't sneak over there. He went there on a mission for the organization."

"I still have the newspaper that reported the incident at home. If you don't believe me, I can find it and show it to you."

Seeing that these villagers were laughing at her, Qin Huaiyun's intuition told her that if she continued to waste time here, something bad would probably happen.

Because she has already realized that although Li Duoyu is young, he is not simple at all and is definitely a local tyrant.

After all, after he came, all the villagers followed his lead, and the militiamen, even the village party secretary, seemed to listen to him very much.

Qin Huaiyun shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, since Xiaoying doesn't welcome a cousin like me, then we will go back."

I see that my mother is really leaving.

Ma Xiaotiao, who was missing a front tooth, became anxious instead and whispered, "Mom, don't worry. Brother Duoyu looks like a rich man. Why don't we borrow some money from him to pay off the debt I owe first."

Ma Erhong also said: "That's right, Xiaohui and I were originally planning to get married, but her family said that if we don't get the money, we can forget about getting married."

Qin Huaiyun's head really hurts.

Why did I raise this idiot? Now it’s not a question of whether I can borrow money, but whether the other party will let me go.

Come to think of it, it was really all her fault. She let them live such a good life. They had food to eat and clothes to wear. Everything in life was solved with the help of money. Even the jobs were found by her with money.

To the extent that whenever something happens, they always think about getting money from relatives, and now they are always wondering when the remittances will arrive.

"Duoyu, Xiaoying, it's getting late. Let's go. We will definitely treat you well next time you come to Zhouzhuang."

Seeing that Qin Huaiyun wanted to leave, Li Duoyu sighed and said, "Cousin, don't worry. I forgot to tell you that there is no ferry to the opposite pier now. You can't leave the island even if you want to."

Qin Huaiyun's heart skipped a beat. It was just as she thought, easy to get on the island but difficult to leave.

"Duoyu, you are such a jokester. When I came here, I had already asked the captain of the ship. The ship will return to Qingkou Wharf later."

Li Duoyu slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that the captain just got a heat stroke and plans to have a good rest on the island."

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that the captain of the boat was actually among the crowd of onlookers. After Li Duoyu said this, he quickly held his head.

"It hurts, it hurts, my head hurts so much, I won't be able to sail later."

After seeing such poor acting skills, Qin Huaiyun couldn't help but twitch his mouth. It seemed that it would be difficult to leave today.

"Duoyu, we have something urgent to do and need to get back to Jinling. There are so many fishing boats on the island. Why don't you help us contact one and take us to the opposite dock."

"That might be a little difficult. In the evening, there are very few fishing boats leaving the harbor. If something happens on the way to the dock, no one will be able to take responsibility."

"Since we can't leave the island, we might as well stay here."

Qin Huaiyun saw that the situation was not right, so he shouted on the spot: "I'll pay ten dollars, who can take us off the island?"

After hearing the price, some people were really tempted. Normally, they would drive a boat to take people to the dock and charge only two or three dollars at most.

Ten dollars is really a lot.

Seeing that no one responded, Qin Huaiyun gritted his teeth and raised the price: "Thirty yuan, take us to the dock."

"Fifty."

In the end, Qin Huaiyun called out a hundred yuan, but everyone present wanted it very much, but no one dared to take the order.

Because as long as he accepts this order, people on the entire island will probably look down on him, and it will also be tantamount to completely breaking off relations with Li Duoyu, and he will never be able to gain a foothold on Dandan Island in the future.

Qin Huaiyun had a gloomy face, feeling that these villagers were all crazy and didn't want even a hundred yuan.

"Cousin, it's useless even if you offer a thousand dollars. This is the rule here."

The corner of Qin Huaiyun's mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but look towards the dock. There were obviously many fishing boats preparing to leave the port.

Li Duoyu put his arm around the young man with missing front teeth and said, "You must be Ma Erhong, right? I heard that you work in the joint defense of Jinling?"

Ma Xiaotiao shook his head and said, "It's not me, it's my brother who works in the joint defense, but he has been removed from the team now."

"The joint defense is a real lucrative unit. It's such a shame to be removed from the list."

Li Duoyu was very clear about the joint defense organization. Due to the serious shortage of police force in that era, the "joint defense" came into being.

At the beginning, everyone liked to be a worker and disliked this position very much, so it was all done by some thugs in society.

But within a year or two, everyone realized that this was definitely a lucrative job. Not only could one chat up beautiful women openly, but one could also check rooms at will.

Li Duoyu had heard from his brothers in the joint defense team before that the joint defense team had great powers. Not only could they impose fines and interrogate people, they also had the right to detain people by force.

It is just like the "Xie" plus "Cheng" in later generations. It has great power and as long as you are brave enough, it is a money-making business.

Li Duoyu had wanted to join this organization a long time ago, and what he wanted to do most at that time was to kick open the door of the hotel when the couple was at the most exciting moment, and then start checking the rooms.

Unfortunately, I was not tactful at that time and gave the wrong amount of red envelope to my second brother. Not only did he accept the red envelope, but he also scolded him with disgust: "That's all, you're giving it to a beggar."

Since he failed to play as a zone defender, Li Duoyu still hates these bastards who act recklessly.

Li Duoyu then shook Ma Erhong's hand, looking very familiar:
"Erhong, can you help me find someone? The night we checked into Jinling, we were almost taken away by those people with armbands. I still want to know who those bastards who were checking our rooms were. Did they deliberately target us?"

Ma Erhong's forehead was covered with beads of sweat. If Li Duoyu knew that he was the one who asked his brothers to check on the ward, he might really sink him into the sea.

He occasionally read the newspaper and heard that dealing with corpses at the seaside was very simple. All they had to do was tie some stones to the corpse and sink it directly into the sea.

Soon the fish will eat them until only some bones are left, the kind that you can't even find.

Ma Erhong scratched his head and said, "It should be a surprise inspection. We in Jinling are quite strict. There is still a curfew."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "It seems that we are lucky. We were given special care as soon as we arrived in Jinling. Anyway, I am not in a hurry. I know Director Chen over there. Sooner or later, I will know who came to check my room on purpose."

The sweat on Ma Erhong's forehead was getting more and more. The reason why the ward rounds failed that night was because Li Duoyu brought up Director Chen.

As a result, when the brothers from the joint defense team went back to check, they found that there was indeed a Deputy Director Chen in the bureau. Because of this incident, he was almost beaten up by the brothers from the joint defense team.

"How about this"

Li Duoyu turned to Zhang Erhu and said, "Captain Zhang, I have some accounts to check with these relatives. The amount is quite large. Could you please be a witness?"

Zhang Erhu understood immediately after hearing this: "Director Li, you are too polite. It's not a big deal. This is our job." Xiaojun and Weiguo, who followed Zhang Erhu, said: "We are very happy to help Director Li."

Li Duoyu said to Qin Huaiyun, "Cousin, let's go. You can't leave the island anyway. Let's go to the village committee to settle the accounts first."

Seeing that Li Duoyu was serious, Qin Huaiyun quickly covered her stomach and said, "Ouch, it hurts so much, my old illness has relapsed, I have to go to the hospital, otherwise it will be fatal."

Li Duoyu also looked nervous: "Cousin, are you okay? Why do you suddenly have a stomachache? Oh, it just so happens that our village doctor has to go back to school. If it really hurts, I'll let the veterinarian on the island give you two injections."

"The sick pigs on our island can be brought back to life with just a shot of that big needle."

Hearing Li Duoyu's nonsense, all the villagers couldn't help laughing. There was no veterinarian on the island at all.

Qin Huaiyun was stunned for several seconds, and she finally understood that Li Duoyu was not only bad but also extremely immoral.

Qin Huaiyun held her belly, turned to Zhou Xiaoying and started crying on the spot:
"Xiaoying, I took the money but didn't build the ancestral house or repair your grandfather's grave. It's all our fault. Please forgive us this time as we are relatives."

Qin Huaiyun raised his right hand: "I swear, my family will never think about the remittances again, and I will never bother you again."

Zhou Xiaoying shook her head and said, "I have no say in this matter. My uncle has handed the matter over to Duoyu. The accounts must be settled clearly."

"Xiaoying, I am your aunt."

"I am your only relative in the country."

Zhou Xiaoying looked at her speechlessly and couldn't help scolding: "You think too highly of yourself. I have a husband, children, a mother-in-law and father-in-law, and so many fellow villagers who have taken care of me. Who do you think you are?"

At this moment, Zhang Erhu shouted, "Take the person to the village committee first."

When the three of them were held up, Qin Huaiyun finally understood that they were not here to ask for money, but to get killed.

Arrived at the village committee.

It was still the familiar interrogation room, but what Qin Huaiyun didn't expect was that Li Duoyu actually took out a stack of remittance slips.

The first sheet reads:

【RMB Remittance Certificate from Bank of Communications Hong Kong Island Branch】

Payee: Qinhuai Cloud

Address: Zhouzhuang Village, Jinling City
Remitter: Zhou Shidong

RMB: 1000

1976 5 Month 23 Day.

There were notes on the bill: Qin Huaiyun charged 300 yuan, Zhou Shiqing charged 400 yuan, and the renovation of the old house cost 300 yuan.

When Li Duoyu first received these remittance slips, he truly felt that the Zhou family was so nice. In 76, the country had not yet been completely reformed.

Three hundred yuan was definitely a huge sum of money at that time. If all of it was exchanged for various "food coupons", you could really have meat to eat every day, and it would be the kind that would be given priority supply.

Li Duoyu still remembers it very clearly. When everyone in Xiasha Village was eating sweet potato noodles, Xiao Weidong's family was the only one in the village who could go to the town with the overseas remittance coupons to buy pork.

Their family was afraid that when they cooked pork, a bunch of people would line up at their door, so they cooked it secretly in the middle of the night.

At that time, Li Duoyu's family couldn't even afford lard, and could only use some fishy fish oil instead. One time, when he saw Xiao Weidong eating braised pork with a bowl in his hand, he was so greedy that his mouth was watering and he wanted to snatch it away and eat it.

Speaking of which, this was also the reason why Wang Po married Lin Shanshan to Xiao Weidong, just to let her live a good life, but unexpectedly, she fell into a trap instead.

Li Duoyu discovered that families with foreign exchange coupons were really prone to go to extremes.

Either you can make a career, or end up like Xiao Weidong and Qin Huaiyun's family, who are turned into good-for-nothings by the foreign exchange coupons.

Seeing Li Duoyu reading out the amount of the foreign exchange coupons, Captain Zhang and Chen Jianghe's eyes widened.

"In 78, I sent money twice, once for yuan and once for yuan."

After staying on the island for a long time, Chen Jianghe's catchphrases became very fluent.

"Ganni, I received 78 yuan in remittances in . What kind of divine relative is this? Why didn't you give me some? I don't even know how to cherish it."

Zhang Erhu was also greatly shocked. The Zhou family was much more helpful than Xiao Weidong's relatives. In 78, their family only received about yuan at most.

What surprised Zhang Erhu the most was that there were additional notes on the remittance slips, and almost every remittance was to Zhou Shiqing, Zhou Xiaoying's father.

But Zhou Shiqing had already left, which means that these people had been deceiving the Zhou family and asking for money in Zhou Shiqing's name.

It's really like eating up the entire family!

Such remittance slips continued until 84, and the amount increased every year. By 84, the total remittance amount reached an astonishing more than yuan.

Li Duoyu read it while pressing the calculator. After finishing the last one, he sighed:

"A total of 64,000 yuan was remitted, but only 14,000 yuan was actually given to your family. As for the 20,000 yuan that was supposed to be given to Zhou Shiqing, you didn't give a cent.

Of this money, 30,000 yuan was intended for the renovation of the ancestral home and the expansion of Xiaoying's grandfather's tomb, but you did nothing with it, not even sweeping the tomb, which means you embezzled 50,000 yuan."

Qin Huaiyun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "How can there be so many? You must be making a wild guess. Besides, we didn't know that Zhou Shiqing would die so young, and no one told us that he had a daughter."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu's face darkened immediately: "Then I'll tell you now, you should know now, and you can return the money."

The interrogation room was small and extremely hot. Qin Huaiyun's entire back was soaked. She never thought that things would develop in this direction.

She originally planned to go to Dandan Island to find out if Zhou Xiaoying had not yet contacted her relatives in Hong Kong Island.

Then their family still has a chance.

But they didn't expect that not only did they go directly to Hong Kong Island, but Li Duoyu was also a local boss and directly detained them.

We have to settle accounts with them.

The third brother, Ma Xiaotiao, did a business with someone and signed a contract without thinking. Now he still owes 20,000 yuan, and the interest is still 2% every month.

If they don't pay back the money, their house in Zhouzhuang may be taken away by the other party.

The eldest brother's family lives in the house now. If someone takes it over, the family will be in chaos.

After Li Duoyu settled the money with them, he still owed them 40,000 or 50,000 yuan. Qin Huaiyun burst into tears and made a fuss on the spot.

"You can't bully people like this. We couldn't contact Zhou Shiqing at that time, otherwise we would have given him the money long ago.
We are not doing well now. The third child is in huge debt, the second child has lost his job, and the eldest child may get a divorce at any time."

Faced with such crocodile tears, Li Duoyu felt no sympathy at all and even sneered at them.

"You owe someone money, it's none of our business. And if you really don't have any contact information, how did you find me today? Don't tell me someone told you in a dream." (End of this chapter)