In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 645 Dad, I'm Not Alone Yet

Seeing that this group of kids was quite interesting, Li Duoyu asked, "Do you think Li Duoyu is handsome?"

The little boy said, "I have seen it from a distance once before, and it seems to be a little worse than you, uncle."

"You are such a good talker, okay, I'll buy your blue crab for two dollars."

"Thank you, uncle." The little boy was quite excited: "Uncle, I will tie up this big crab for you so that it won't pinch your hand."

"You can also tie up blue crabs."

The little boy actually took out two Miscanthus leaves from his pocket, rolled them into a rope, and tied them up on the spot.

"I have been tying three-eyed crabs with my dad at the dock since I was a kid. I am not bragging. Hehe~ Don't look at my young age. I have tied thousands of crabs, if not tens of thousands."

Li Duoyu gave a thumbs up and praised: "Not bad, very impressive, he will definitely have a bright future."

The little boy blushed a little after being praised by Li Duoyu.

After Li Duoyu got the crab, he took out a wallet from his pocket and took out two dollars from it and gave it to the leading boy.

"Thank you, uncle!" The little boy took the money with both hands and smiled happily.

The other children also stared at the two banknotes with the Great Wall on the back.

At this moment, I can't wait to dig a few more blue crabs.

Seeing that it was getting dark and the children were all wet, Li Duoyu said, "It's getting dark and it's very cold at night. You should go home quickly."

The little boy grinned and said, "We'll dig for a while longer and then go back. If we can't catch any blue crabs, we'll go back."

"By the way, uncle, if we catch blue crabs again, will you buy them again?"

Li Duoyu thought for a moment and said, "Sure, if you catch it, just sell it to me later."

The little boy asked, "Wait, where should we find you?"

Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a moment: "If you catch it, just take it directly to the guard."

Hearing the word "security guard", the little boy said with some embarrassment: "Uncle, can we go to another place? We are afraid that the security guard will confiscate our blue crabs."

"No, you give him the blue crabs and say they are for the fourth son of the Li family. Not only will he not confiscate them, he will give you the money directly."

"Okay, Uncle Li Si."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. Zhang San, Li Si? Then he laughed: "Okay, there's nothing wrong with calling me Li Si."

The light of the torches reflected on the children's cheeks. They were all dirty, but their eyes were very clean and clear.

The appearance of this group of children also reminded Li Duoyu of some things from his childhood.

Although the memory is already very vague, Li Duoyu still remembers some of it.

When he was a child, there was a year when the sweet potato harvest was not good and there was nothing to eat.

It happened that the tide was receding late at night, and Li Duoyu was forcibly pulled out of bed by his mother.

He and Zhou Xiaoying followed A Niang to ask Xiao Hai for food, and they actually caught a big blue crab for him, but they were also pinched by it and cried loudly.

In order to help him, Zhou Xiaoying used her teeth to bite the blue crab's claws into pieces.

I guess it was from that time that Xiaoying started to like eating blue crabs.

I didn't expect that time flies and so many years have passed.

Li Duoyu left with the tied blue crabs. Two dollars was just a small amount of money for him, but for these children, it could do a lot of things.

The children of the poor are in charge early.

These children reminded Li Duoyu of the little girl catching crabs at Rongcheng Wharf. He guessed that her mother was in good health now and she should be going to school well.

Li Duoyu suddenly felt that compared with these children, little Tutu was much happier.

In another two years, I'll just let him earn money to buy toys on his own.

After returning to the factory, Li Duoyu first gave a few brief instructions to the security guard.

Then I went to the cafeteria, where the workers were having their meals.

Li Duoyu threw the blue crab to the canteen's fireman and said, "Uncle Zhang, use this blue crab to make seafood porridge. Add more lean meat and some ginger to drive away the cold. Make a bigger portion. This should be enough for five children."

"Ok."

The cafeteria boss didn't ask much and thought it was the boss's child who wanted to come over to eat.

"Director Li, you haven't eaten yet, do you want me to cook a special meal for you?"

Li Duoyu shook his head and said, "No, I can just eat the same as everyone else. I especially like eating from a big pot."

Li Duoyu turned around and took an aluminum plate from the basket, then scooped some salty rice, picked up some water spinach, ordered a portion of braised pork, and filled a bowl of kelp soup.

The food in Qixingwan Canteen is very good, and almost every meal comes with three dishes and one soup.

Almost everyone who comes here to work will gain several pounds after a period of time.

Many people who work here would like to bring their families here to eat.

While Li Duoyu was having dinner, the group of children holding torches were also discussing curiously.

"Brother, the uncle just now should also work here."

The little boy thought for a while and said, "That should be it. Even if all the water in this shrimp farm is drained, only children like us can come in. If adults from outside come in, they will be immediately driven away."

"Well, he has a lot of blue crabs, so why does he buy from us?"

"right."

The little boy finally realized that he couldn't understand why the uncle wanted to buy his blue crabs.

"Forget it, never mind. Let's catch some more. I heard from others that the blue crabs will come out at night. Let's try to catch two more blue crabs. Then we can pay for our tuition fees for next semester."

These children are all from Xia Gong Village, the same village where Xiao Jin was beaten and Li Duoyu’s bamboo fence was snatched away.

Although they are also a fishing village, their economy is not particularly good because they do not have a deep-water wharf, just like Chenjia Village.

Moreover, smuggling has been a serious problem in their village in the past two years, even though compulsory education has already begun.

However, there are still many parents who think that studying is useless and don’t want to pay even a few dollars in tuition fees.

However, the kids were not very lucky.

The light from the small torch was too dim, and they searched the pond for a long time but couldn't find any blue crabs.

As it got darker, everyone was shivering with cold. One child even had purple lips and began to tremble.

"Brother, it's too cold, let's go back."

"If we go back too late, we will be scolded by our father."

The little boy still didn't give up: "Just bear with it for now, we'll catch one more and go back."

Just then, one of the children shouted, "Be quiet, someone is coming."

The group of kids saw someone walking towards them with a flashlight.

The direction they were coming from seemed to be the guards, and the kids thought they were coming to chase them away. The leading boy immediately stuck his torch into the mud, but what they didn't expect was that the guard shouted:

"Don't run. Our boss is afraid that you will get frozen, so he made some seafood porridge for you to warm you up."

The children didn't believe it and ran away as fast as they could after hearing this.

As a result, the security guard got anxious: "You make me look like a bad guy. Our boss, the one who just bought your blue crabs, please come back quickly. This seafood porridge contains blue crabs and a lot of lean meat. It's delicious. If you don't want it, we'll give it to someone else."

After hearing that there was lean meat in the seafood porridge, several children stopped and swallowed uncontrollably.

"You didn't lie to us. Is that Li Si really your boss?"

"Why would I lie to you?" The security guard snorted, "If our boss hadn't said so, you guys would have been chased away long ago, even though you were able to catch crabs here for so long.

There is also Li Si. Our boss Li Duoyu is the fourth child in the family and his name is Li Duoyu. "

"The uncle just now is the millionaire Li Duoyu."

The children were all stunned, so nervous that their breathing became rapid.

"Wait a minute and wash your hands and feet. He cooked a large portion of seafood porridge for you. Go and eat it while it's hot."

The children were a little dazed, and then followed the security guard to the cafeteria of the shrimp farm.

But when they got here, they didn't see the kind uncle, but there was a bowl of hot and fragrant seafood porridge on the table.

The security guard said, "Your hands and feet are so cold, eat it while it's hot, or you'll catch a cold."

The little boy in the lead's eyes instantly turned red after eating the hot seafood porridge.

It's so delicious.

They had never seen so much lean meat in seafood porridge.

A little boy was looking at the unfinished salty rice crusts and some leftover braised meat sauce in the cafeteria.

"Can I have some rice crust with some gravy?"

"Sure, our boss said you can order whatever you want today."

But the fireman, Lao Zhang, never expected that the person who came was the boss's relative.

A lot of lean meat was put into the seafood porridge, and I didn’t expect it to be a treat for the kids who came to pick blue crabs.

Sometimes, even he felt that Director Li was very kind to all the children.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the island was very lively. Ever since Li Duoyu decided not to participate, the position of the candidate for the head of the family has been in great demand.

A large group of villagers were at the Tianhou Temple, and someone shouted, "I think the election should be fair. It can't just be these rich people who get elected. We have to vote together as well."

"That's right. Everyone must be eligible to vote. Our Director Li refused to serve for two consecutive terms. This is a good example for us. We must carry forward this spirit of fairness and justice."

“Everyone is eligible to choose.”

Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, the members of the Tianhou Temple Council gathered together to discuss.

Finally, a more reasonable solution was given.

Chen Huotan stood on the stage, holding a loud speaker and shouting: "Fellow villagers, listen to me first"

"After discussion by the board of directors, we will adopt a rotation method for the candidates for the top post starting this year.
There are thirteen teams in our village. Each team should send a representative to ask Mazu directly by throwing the holy grail.

Until the last one wins, and this year's leader candidate will be someone from this team.

However, we agreed in advance to ensure that every team could become the leader.

The team selected this year will not be able to throw the Holy Grail again for the next twelve years until the last team has had a turn, and then they can start again.

I would like to reiterate one point here: there are requirements for candidates for the head office. First of all, they must have good character, cannot be reactionary, have no criminal record, and must be over 25 years old.

After the villagers heard this, they all started to whisper. Someone raised his hand and asked, "Can those who have been in prison be elected as such?"

Chen Huotan said on the spot: "No, someone who has been in prison cannot be a candidate for the head of the family."

"Then can those who have been caught in adultery be considered as such?"

Chen Huotan said disdainfully: "It's good enough that you didn't get beaten to death, and you still want to be a candidate for the head of the family."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Everyone felt that the election of this head candidate was quite fair: "We think it's fine, let's do it this way."

Compared with previous years, the competition among candidates for the top job this year is more intense and lively.

There were thirteen teams in the village, and they directly sent their captains of that year to throw the Holy Grail. My uncle was the captain of the third team.

Lao Li is from the seventh team.

Every team wanted to win very much, and they asked questions very devoutly before each toss of the Holy Grail.

When someone threw the holy grail, they shouted, "Good, may Mazu bless you."

As a result, he spent a whole day asking about the Holy Grail, and it was not until that night that he finally found out the answer.

The second team from Xiasha Village won, which was the team at the dock.

The candidates for the boss were chosen by their team themselves, and in the end, Lao Lu and Lao Chen, who sold fishing gear, were elected as candidates.

And tomorrow the two of them will have to go with the neighboring Chenjia Village to compete for a spot in the Datou family.

The next day is New Year’s Eve, which this year is the 29th day of the lunar year, not the 30th day of the lunar year.

At night, the sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere. These days, little Tutu, who is often woken up by firecrackers, puffs his mouth.

"Mother, tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Why hasn't Dad come home yet? I haven't seen him for several days."

Zhou Xiaoying, who had just finished taking a shower, smiled and said, "Your father has been busy recently, and he should be back tomorrow."

"Can you ask him to buy me a toy? I want a big robot."

Zhou Xiaoying pinched his nose and said, "You already have so many toys, why do you want to buy more?"

"But Dad has made so much money, and he's still making money."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying didn't even know how to respond, and smiled bitterly: "Who taught you to say such things?"

"Brother Haoran said this while doing his homework. He said that adults only care about making money all day and don't care about us kids."

Zhou Xiaoying was stunned. Although Li Haoran was not very good at studying, sometimes what he said made sense.

"If your father doesn't make money, you won't even have meat to eat."

“I don’t like meat.”

The corners of Zhou Xiaoying's mouth twitched. When she thought that this kid had difficulty in getting food, she really wanted to pull him up right now and give him another bowl of rice.

At this moment, there was a sound of unlocking the iron gate of the courtyard, and not long after, a figure walked into the room.

He hugged Zhou Xiaoying directly: "You haven't slept yet, it's the last day of this year, I have already taken a shower in the factory."

But at this moment, little Tutu, who was pretending to sleep, stood up suddenly and said excitedly: "Dad, I haven't slept yet either."

(End of this chapter)