In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Although the overseas Chinese relatives were very unhappy, their unhappiness had nothing to do with Li Duoyu and his friends. They were extremely happy. Not only did they feel relieved by the argument, but they also got money.

Especially the fat boy Li Haoran, his eyes narrowed into slits when he laughed, and the red envelopes given to their children were relatively small.

He had opened it and looked at it early, and found that there were only thirty foreign exchange certificates inside.

But thirty yuan is definitely a lot of money for Li Haoran, and he can use it to buy a lot of delicious food.

A Niang is pregnant, and he wants to go to the market to buy her some good food.

But when he looked at his father, Li Haoran's smile disappeared instantly, because he knew very well that he could not keep the money at all.

Xiao Tutu also got the red envelope, but the next second, Zhou Xiaoying's face turned black. He held the red envelope and said to Li Haoran stealthily.

"Brother, I'll give you the money, let's go buy a lot of delicious food, and then we can hide and eat slowly."

Li Haoran was about to cry, thinking that this boy had a grudge against him in his previous life and was here to take revenge.

But to be honest, the value of the aquatic products brought by Li Duoyu and his friends this time is no less than the red envelopes they gave.

To put it bluntly, tell them that we are not that poor at all, so don't be so arrogant.

If there are conflicts, we can talk them out, but if they are too arrogant and overbearing, then there is no need to talk about it.

After all, there is really no need to acknowledge a relative who looks down on you.

Under Li Hanhai's organization, everyone changed into robes and wore hats.

At this time, an old man who had lived in Yantai Mountain for many years was invited. His seniority was higher than that of everyone present.

It is said that he is already in his early nineties. Many overseas Chinese who come back to Yantai Mountain to trace their ancestral roots like to invite him to host the celebration.

The old man spoke with a tremor in his voice, but it was quite powerful.

"On November 25, 1986, the Li family of Yantai Mountain in Rongcheng began the ceremony of recognizing their ancestors!"

After the old man finished speaking, firecrackers were heard outside the ancestral hall, and the residents nearby were also attracted by the sound of firecrackers.

These people are no longer surprised by the return of overseas Chinese. After all, after the reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese have come back to trace their roots. This year is the fourth batch.

"The Li family was once a wealthy family in Yantai Mountain. It is said that my family used to work for them."

"So is our family."

But when they saw a young man in the crowd, they were very curious.

Someone rubbed his eyes and said in surprise, "Wait, that young man, is he the one who farms kelp and eels on Dandan Island and is often in the newspapers?"

Everyone looked at Li Duoyu.

"Fuck, it's really him. He's from the Li family too. No wonder I always thought he looked familiar. He looks exactly like the ancestor of the Li family."

The crowd watching couldn't help but sigh: "It feels like the times are changing, but these people are still so good at making money."

"They have better seeds and smarter brains than us. No, they can't compare. The ones in my family are pure trash."

"It's the same with the ones in my family. The factory was restructured ahead of schedule, and now they have no place to work."

As the ceremony began, everyone became serious. In front of the ancestral tablets, the overseas Chinese relatives stopped making trouble and everyone listened to the master of ceremonies' arrangements.

"Now, please welcome the family tree!"

After saying this, Li Hanqing took out the family tree with both hands and placed it on the altar in the ancestral hall.

The MC then shouted:

"Please ask the person in charge of the ancestral home to speak, welcome those who come to recognize their ancestors, and confirm their identity information."

Next, there is a rather complicated ceremony of recognition of relatives, which not only requires welcome speeches and blessings, but also the continuation of the family tree.

However, the younger generations like Li Duoyu had almost nothing to do. They just stood there, and when the master of ceremonies asked them to worship their ancestors, they knelt down and worshipped.

After placing the tablets of great-grandfather and grandfather in the Li family ancestral hall, their names were finally written into the family tree.

The master of ceremonies shouted loudly: "The ceremony is over. Congratulations to the descendants of the Li family for returning to their ancestral home. Please choose a day to pay respect to the ancestors' graves."

After the ceremony, everyone was exhausted, and the next step was the banquet.

The overseas Chinese relatives originally planned to hold a banquet at the Foreign Trade Hotel, but Li Hanhai felt it was too extravagant, so he invited several famous local chefs.

We cleared a piece of land near the ancestral hall to hold the banquet, and some local indigenous people could come and eat together.

After the banquet began, Li Duoyu directly handed all the frozen fresh shrimps, blue crabs, and some dried seafood to the chef.

When the chefs saw the huge prawns, their eyes widened. They had not seen such big prawns for a long time since the shrimp plague.

And those are also the best ones, each one is fat and plump. For a chef, they are reluctant to waste such good ingredients.

Everyone was discussing how to make it the most delicious.

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "Don't think too much, just add some ginger and blanch it."

The best ingredients don’t need to be too complicated; they only require the simplest cooking.

The shrimps and blue crabs raised in a high-quality environment like Li Duoyu are even better than wild ones, have less fishy smell, and are more suitable for blanching.

After he reminded them, several old masters couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, this thing tastes good, we just think too much."

This time, the Li family set up nearly ten tables to celebrate their ancestral home, and many nearby residents came to attend the banquet.

When they saw the prawns and blue crabs on the table, their eyes lit up.

"This is so expensive. Now the shrimps cost more than ten yuan per pound. This big blue crab is not cheap either."

When the people who came to the banquet saw such delicious food, some of them were even reluctant to eat it. They took out a bag on the spot and put the better things on the table directly into the bag.

After seeing this scene, Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that he had attended several banquets in his previous life.

After the meal started, no one moved their chopsticks much. Instead, they held a plastic bag and kept putting food on the table into it.

He used to think this was very impolite and unsightly, but after learning more about it, he realized that there were historical reasons for it.

Because at that time, everyone's life was very difficult, so if there was a banquet, everyone was often reluctant to eat and wanted to take some back to share with their families.

Many people who knew Li Duoyu pretended to be nice and said, "Director Li, you are too stingy. Why did you order only so many shrimps? I saw some dried shrimps. Please give us some too."

Li Duoyu laughed and scolded: "You wish, these are gifts for my relatives."

"Actually, our family is also related to your Li family."

"Bring me the evidence."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh, because there was a step in the Li family's tracing of their ancestry, which was to present evidence.

The overseas Chinese relatives produced a family tree, but Li Duoyu's branch had nothing, only witnesses but no physical evidence.

Finally, they had to let Li Duoyu stand in front of the ancestor's portrait. After everyone took a few glances, they felt that he looked very similar, so they passed the ceremony.

Those overseas Chinese relatives also saw it and began to take an interest in the active young man. They couldn't help but ask about Li Hanhai.

"What does that young man do? Why are people so polite to him?"

Li Hanhai smiled. These people finally realized something was wrong. In fact, he had been waiting for them to ask. "You mean Duoyu? He is engaged in aquaculture. Among the young generation in Rongcheng, he can be said to be a very powerful person."

After hearing this, some of the young overseas Chinese relatives sounded a little sour in their responses.

"How can it be"

"The sea is full of fish, so is there a need for aquaculture? Isn't this just adding fuel to the fire?"

"It would be better if there were a few boats."

Li Hanhai smiled and was not in a hurry to refute them. A long time ago, he also scoffed at aquaculture when he first heard about it.

But after I got to know it carefully, I found that different industries have different worlds. The things you look down on have already been used by other people to make a fortune.

Unexpectedly, when he was old, he was taught a lesson by the young people. His son-in-law always repeated a sentence Li Duoyu once said: If you don’t understand and have prejudices against new things, it is like looking at the world with your eyes closed.

Li Xiuyun, who was sitting at the same table with her overseas relatives, saw how they looked down on Li Duoyu and couldn't help but say:

"Brother Duoyu, the eels, shrimps and kelp you farm are all very good. They are the benchmark for the entire industry and have been exported to island countries. They are in short supply."

After hearing this, all these overseas Chinese relatives were stunned, and what shocked them were the words "exported to the island country".

Because today's island countries can be said to be the richest in the world, and their business is also the most difficult to do.

There are also many businessmen in Southeast Asia who are trying their best to do business with the islanders.

But their requirements are very high, and cooperation with them is very difficult. But everyone also knows that as long as the cooperation is successful, the profit will be several times higher.

They still didn't want to believe it, so a young man picked up the plate of blanched shrimps on the table and started eating them on the spot.

What he didn't expect was that the shrimp meat gave people a fresh and sweet feeling, and the shrimp brain had an even richer taste.

"It's okay, everyone try it." After the young man said this, he was ready to eat the big blue crab.

After the elders finished eating, they still held the food and said, "Not bad. When the time comes, let's go and see how the factory is doing and whether it needs investment."

Li Duoyu at the next table pricked up his ears. After hearing this, he turned around and said, "Not bad, my prawns are now 100% in hot demand. Before the New Year, others couldn't buy them even if they wanted to."

After saying that, he raised his glass and said, "Come, let me toast to all the elders first. You can drink as you please. I'll drink it."

Li Hanhai scolded: "You are not sincere, shouldn't you pass the level and have one cup each?"

"I'm old now. I'm not like when I was young. I can't fight at all."

Seeing that he wanted to play it safe, Li Hanhai insisted: "No, don't try to cheat, you must pass the level."

"Who's afraid of who? We have the most people in this group. If we really start drinking, you will definitely be the drunk ones. Maybe even the two of you combined can't drink as much as us."

After hearing what Li Duoyu said, these overseas Chinese relatives stood up immediately. How could they tolerate being told that they could not drink much?

"Ganni, come and blow the bottle."

"Come just come, whoever is afraid of whom."

These overseas Chinese relatives really don't like this young man, but they have no idea what to do with such a person. Not only is he rich, but he is also shameless. This kind of person is the most difficult to deal with.

But in fact, these overseas relatives were quite happy to come back this time. At most, they just wanted to take advantage of them verbally, and they had no real intention of disowning them.

After all, the grudges of the past are all things of the past, and there is not much point in holding on to them.

At the end of the banquet, it turned into a drinking contest. There were more than 30 people in Li Duoyu's group.

Even if the overseas Chinese relatives and Li Hanhai's side are added together, including Zhao Jialu, the number is only in the early twenties.

They couldn't drink as much as Li Duoyu's group. After a few rounds, they were all drunk.

They squatted on the roadside and vomited, shouting, "Damn it, we can't be the only ones vomiting, we have to make them vomit too."

Under the influence of alcohol, the whole family seemed to be united, although they were originally somewhat unfamiliar with each other.

But now those who were drunk were already hugging each other, and someone even approached Li Duoyu and said, "That shrimp is delicious, do you have any more?"

“There are also a lot of dried shrimps.”

So, everyone started eating dried shrimps while drinking. The relatives from my second uncle's side felt so distressed when they saw them stuffing the dried shrimps into their mouths.

Some of them even secretly hid a lot of dried shrimps in their pockets.

The young people were still drinking and playing drinking games, while the older generation was talking about the past.

Li Duoyu, who had drunk a lot of wine tonight, also sat aside and listened. He also wanted to know what his great-grandfather had done to make their branch hold a grudge against him until now.

After listening to them, Li Duoyu realized that the incident had actually had a huge impact.

Even the Li family could no longer protect him, so they quickly severed ties with their grandfather and kicked him out of the family.

But even so, the family was implicated, and most of the money shops and properties that originally belonged to their Li family were seized.

Li Hanqing said: "If it were just like this, we wouldn't hate Fourth Uncle so much. What we hate is that Fourth Uncle got into trouble himself and just walked away.
Because my father looked like my fourth uncle, he was mistakenly identified as a criminal. He was arrested and tortured for nearly half a month. When he was released, he was almost disabled.

Finally, we were forced into a corner and had to secretly flee to Hong Kong Island on the ship.

But unexpectedly, the ship did not go to Hong Kong Island, but took our whole family directly to Indonesia."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu had roughly guessed that this second grandfather was too unlucky. They were directly trafficked as human beings.

"Ah, you're not going to Indonesia to work as rubber workers, are you?"

Seeing that this young man knew so much, Li Hanqing stared at Li Duoyu's group fiercely and said, "Who do you think harmed us?"

"It's your grandfather who stayed back for a few years to study and thought he was so powerful that he had to get involved in trouble with that guy named Lin."

After being abducted to Indonesia, this group of people had a very dark life, but compared to their situation in China, they were still relatively lucky.

Hearing this, Li Hanhai couldn't help but sigh: "In fact, I think your group can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. You are still relatively lucky. It may not be better to stay."

Li Hanqing nodded. He naturally understood what this meant. He had four uncles and two aunts in total.

But at present, only three of them can be contacted, and there is no news from the remaining two.

After listening to what his great uncle said, Li Duoyu suddenly felt that what his great-grandfather did was not right.

Li Duoyu organized the generations of their branch, and then stood together and spoke to these overseas Chinese relatives.

"Excuse me, we, the younger generations, apologize to your branch on behalf of our grandfather."

After saying that, they all bowed and apologized.

Li Hanqing snorted, not forgiving but not rejecting either. On their side, a young man who had vomited twice after drinking yelled:

"Your apology is insincere. First punish yourself with three bowls of rice."

"There's not enough wine."

"We're here to buy." A Chinese relative took out a stack of foreign exchange certificates and said, "We have money, so we intuitively go to the Friendship Store to buy."

"At this time, the Friendship Store has already closed."

Li Duoyu said: "Jialu, contact No. 1 Courtyard and ask them to send some wine over and put it on my account." (End of this chapter)