In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Li Duoyu felt that Haoran was a good kid, and it was not in vain that he had loved him for so many years.

After the Chinese New Year.

This kid is only fourteen years old, which is not considered young in this era. In two years, he will graduate from junior high school.

Speaking of which, Qingguang dropped out of school and started making money before he even graduated. A few years ago, he was almost the same age as Haoran.

Now, in the blink of an eye, they have found their partners and are "decided". They are just waiting to get married and hold the wedding banquet when they reach the required age.

Li Duoyu glanced at the little fat boy and felt that time passed really quickly. This guy was just a little kid two years ago, but now he has become such a big guy.

Just like my second brother said.

At that time, if he really can't read, there is no need to force him to study, just find a back door for him.

Just let him finish his studies. After all, there is a big difference between having attended college and university and having not.

As for how much money you can earn after graduation, that is another matter.

Having lived two lives, Li Duoyu can see through some things. People born in Rome can make money with their eyes closed after they come out.

Li Duoyu feels that studying has another benefit, which is that he can get to know more classmates and good friends.

Also, when your mind is immature, don't come into contact with society too early, otherwise you will be polluted quickly.

Li Duoyu has seen many young people who have become heavy smokers. Their daily entertainment is: Madam, give me a big health meal.

Li Duoyu felt that if little Tutu couldn't study in the future, he would sell everything he had just to send him to college, which would be embarrassing.

New Year's Eve.

My second brother still has to look after the shrimp farm, so he only has time to come back during the fireside gathering.

This year, my eldest brother Li Jinchuan did not return to the island to celebrate the New Year, but spent it in Rongcheng.

Li Duoyu thought for a while, and gave the little fat boy a task:
"Haoran, go back and tell your grandparents that you should just spend the New Year together around the fire this year."

Li Haoran was so excited. To be honest, his father was extremely busy this year. He even had to stay at the shrimp factory on New Year's Eve.

My mother is pregnant again and has severe morning sickness. Normally, she would make his favorite rice cakes and white rice cakes every Chinese New Year, but she didn't do that this year.

And it seems that he is still very angry with his father. When his father came back yesterday, the two of them started quarreling without saying a word.

It seemed that my father was so busy that he forgot to buy a color TV and a washing machine, and then my mother scolded him for a long time.

So, my father rushed to the shrimp farm overnight. The family was rich now, but Li Haoran felt that this year was meaningless.

Now that his uncle said that they would celebrate the New Year together around the fire, he finally became energetic and was willing to eat with his uncle and the others.

One hundred percent there is a feast.

If my uncle cooks it himself, it might taste better than what the owner of the restaurant cooks.

"Okay, uncle, I'll go back and tell grandma right away. By the way, uncle, if we're going to sit around the fire together, should we go to your house or the old house?"

Li Duoyu thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the old house. The atmosphere there seems to be better."

"Ok."

On the way to the fishing raft, Li Duoyu went back home and got some couplets, but there were still many couplets on the table.

"Which couplet should I choose from the ones on the fishing raft?"

Zhou Xiaoying, who was brushing her teeth in the bathroom in her pajamas, replied, "Choose the one with [Ten Thousand Acres of Smoke and Waves Connecting to the Sea] and [Thousands of Cabins Laughing and Welcoming the Spring]. Just put a blessing character on the stupid doghouse."

"Then which one should we put up at home?"

"The couple with the words [Auspicious house filled with auspicious spirit, a happy family with a successful entrance exam]."

"What about the shrimp farm?"

"The couple who are going to make a fortune."

Li Duoyu didn't pay much attention to these Spring Festival couplets, but Zhou Xiaoying was a writer of Spring Festival couplets after all, and each pair of couplets was written very well.

Because she was too busy this year, Zhou Xiaoying no longer helped people write Spring Festival couplets for free, so she started a calligraphy class at school.

After one year of training, more than ten students were selected to help the villagers write Spring Festival couplets.

After Li Duoyu came to the fishing raft with the Spring Festival couplets, the idiot who hadn't seen him for a long time wagged his tail so fast when he saw him.

If the water hadn't been so cold, this guy would have jumped into the sea before his boat even reached the shore.

After Li Duoyu came up.

He threw two pig thigh bones to it, but it didn't chew the bones first. Instead, it rubbed them around his feet and almost broke the couplet.

"If it really breaks, you'll just stay on the fishing raft for the New Year."

Li Duoyu put up the couplet, touched the idiot's head, and took him on the boat.

During the New Year holidays, we let it go to the island to have fun for a while.

As soon as the idiot got on the island, he started sniffing everywhere, then lifted his legs and urinated everywhere.

I guess it must have been suffocated on the fishing raft and is now running to find a partner. I hope it doesn't go too far, or it will get beaten by other dogs.

Li Duoyu glanced at the time.

It's about nine o'clock in the morning.

The vendors who had set up stalls on their island had already started to pack up and were moving their goods onto the boat one by one.

There were no fishmongers at the dock, and some fishermen who came back late were cursing:

"It's not even ten o'clock yet, how come they're all gone? All my work today was in vain."

The fisherman had no choice but to shout at the dock: "Good fish for sale at a low price, is there anyone who hasn't bought fish yet?"

It just so happened that the vendors who were about to leave bought all the seafood he had caught before leaving.

It doesn't take a while.

The dock became deserted, and there was a group of kids playing with firecrackers there.

Sparklers are also sold in Sister Shuihua’s store. They are particularly popular this year, just like matchboxes.

Rub it, sparks will come out, throw it out and it will explode. Little Tutu was woken up several times last night by this thing. After lighting it and throwing it on the ground, cover it with a broken iron basin, and after a muffled sound, it exploded high.

As a result, the iron basin smashed onto the roof of Old Lu's house, blowing him out on the spot, and he cursed on the spot:

"Whoever did this, if my tiles are broken, just let your parents pay for it."

When they saw Lao Lu coming out, all the children scattered, but they did not run far away. Instead, they went to the dock.

They wrapped the firecrackers in mud, lit them, and threw them into the cracks near the dock.

Along with that, a bubble of smoke floated up, and the group of children became excited.

"Wow, that really exploded."

"It seems to be Shi Jiugong."

"Hurry and get the scoop net."

A group of children scooped up the half-dead Shi Jiugong with a scoop net.

For fishermen, the fish like Shi Jiugong has no economic value at all, and they are usually thrown away after catching it.

Because this fish is considered a small fish in their local area, and there are a lot of them. As long as there are reefs, there will be this thing.

Moreover, this thing is already very big at a few taels, usually less than half a tael, and has no meat at all, so it can only be used to make soup at most.

After frying the fish.

The group of kids prepared a lot of mud-covered firecrackers and kept throwing them at the bottom of the dock.

They actually fried up a lot of sea fish, not only stone nine king mullets, but also small groupers and some small whitebait.

Children's happiness is really simple. These children remind Li Duoyu of his childhood when he was as naughty as these children.

No, he should be worse, always liking to secretly blow up other people's water tanks and urinals.

Li Duoyu walked for a distance and found that every household was very busy, either preparing New Year's Eve dinner or worshiping their ancestors.

Many adults urged the children.

"The water is boiling, go take a shower and change into new clothes."

After walking aimlessly for a while, Li Duoyu suddenly realized one thing: the so-called New Year atmosphere is just a feeling.

It means that everyone takes this day very seriously and cherishes the day of being together.

The so-called New Year atmosphere is standing on the green train for several days and nights, thinking about going home and meeting your family.

The so-called New Year atmosphere means that after working hard for a year, you want to buy new clothes for your family so that they can celebrate the New Year with new clothes.

The so-called New Year flavor is not about how many fireworks there are or how loud the firecrackers are, but the bonds between people.

The so-called New Year atmosphere means that everyone will prepare a lot of tributes to thank their ancestors for their protection, thank the gods for their blessings, and pray that the next year will be better.

Unfortunately, this pure New Year atmosphere will gradually fade or even disappear in a few years.

Li Duoyu remembered very clearly that in his previous life, this group of old men would feel particularly helpless every New Year.

Because many children, after settling down in big cities, simply spend the New Year there and do not return to the island.

"Ugh!"

Li Duoyu sighed and walked towards the village committee.

As the village director, he has a lot of things to do. Today he has to visit the elderly in the village with the village committee.

Send them some warmth.

When I arrived at the village committee, Uncle Liao, Zhang Jinsha, and Tang Ping were already waiting for me.

Beside them were portions of food packed in bamboo baskets, including ten kilograms of rice, three kilograms of vermicelli, ten eggs and two kilograms of meat.

All together, there are about fifty of these, and all of these things were bought in the name of the village committee.

Compared with the previous two years, when the entire village committee’s account had less than 100 yuan, the Xiasha Village Committee has been relatively wealthy in the past two years.

One is the income from stall fees from outsiders. Although it is not much, it is money. But the real source of income is the donations from Li Duoyu's Minlong Company.

This year, Li Duoyu donated three thousand yuan, part of which was sponsored to students, and the rest can be used by the village committee.

But Li Duoyu did many things in the name of the village committee. Although he paid the money, Li Duoyu did not want to portray himself as a philanthropist.

Sometimes, if you do too many good things, it is no longer a good thing, and people will think that you should do good things.

After Li Duoyu arrived.

Everyone just picked up their things and set off. Uncle Liao was in charge of teams one to five. These teams were relatively wealthy and there weren't many elderly people who needed help.

Zhang Jinsha went to teams six to ten. These teams were also good, especially team seven, where Li Duoyu was. If you averaged them out, everyone in the team had an annual income of 10,000 yuan.

The economy in the village is not very good.

It’s still the people halfway up and at the end of the village.

There is still a serious polarization in the village. Those who have no money are still poor, while others have plenty of fish and meat, but some people are still eating sweet potatoes.

These people are all elderly people. They have no pension. Once they are in poor health and can no longer work, they will not earn a penny. If they have unfilial descendants, their old age will be very miserable.

This time, Li Duoyu's focus was to help these elderly people, and this was the first person he helped.

He was an elderly widower. Several of his children unfortunately died in the big arrest in Zhoushan that year!
He had always depended on his wife, but a thousand years ago his wife passed away and now he is the only one left.

Li Duoyu smiled and said:
"Uncle, these are for you."

When Li Duoyu delivered the gifts to these elderly people, they burst into tears on the spot.

Seeing him like this, Li Duoyu couldn't help but feel sad.

"Really, thank you so much, Director Li. It is really the blessing of Mazu that we can have a village director like you."

Li Duoyu smiled and said:
"If it's not enough, let's talk about it later. Let's have a good New Year together this year."

Before leaving, Li Duoyu smiled and said, "I wish you good health, peace and success, uncle." (End of this chapter)