In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Zhang Mingshan was promoted, entrusted with important tasks, and joined the leadership of the processing plant. Now he always has a seat in meetings.

After Li Duoyu's mysterious operation, the dismissed Qiu Shanhe was completely dumbfounded.

This strike did solve many problems. Ms. Huang’s problem was also solved and her family’s situation improved.

But it seemed that he was the only one who was injured. He lost his job and didn't know where to get next month's salary.

His wife has been scolding him these past two days, saying that he is an idiot, which makes him feel strongly that he is being used.

Although it was Li Duoyu who fired him, Qiu Shanhe hated Zhang Mingshan who instigated him the most and wanted to beat him up as soon as they met.

Several of Zhang Mingshan’s former buddies also had the same feeling. Now, none of them wanted to talk to him, and they even refused to sit at the same table with him for meals.

Zhang Mingshan, who was excluded, also wanted to explain to his good brothers that Li Duoyu gave him a promotion purely out of ulterior motives.

But what made him depressed was that Li Duoyu often came to the processing plant recently. Every time he saw him alone, he would deliberately come over to get close to him and ask about his recent work situation.

This made him quite devastated. In the eyes of outsiders, he, Zhang Mingshan, seemed to be the new boss's favorite.

But in fact, he really wanted to quit these days, but if he left without any reason and asked his relatives to help him find another job, he would definitely be scolded for being unreasonable.

He is in a dilemma now and can only grit his teeth and hold on.

However, that day soon arrived, and a squid fishing boat docked at the ice factory where the processing was carried out.

The conveyor belt is transporting ice blocks to the fishing boats. Each block of ice weighs about two hundred pounds, and workers usually drag them with ice hooks.

Once the ice arrives on the ship, crew members will use the same equipment they use to split rocks to split the ice in half.

Fishing boats of that era did not have extra power to make ice, and the ice cubes were relied upon to keep seafood fresh.

Although the cold storage and ice-making factory at Qingkou Wharf belongs to a seafood processing plant, it has always been independently operated.

In order to take care of the coastal fishermen, this ice factory has been in a loss-making state since its establishment, but fortunately there are policy subsidies.

So even though the seafood processing factory was sealed off some time ago due to continuous losses.

The cold storage and ice-making factory is still in operation. After all, if the factory closes, it will affect all the fishermen in Rongcheng.

But ever since Li Duoyu took over the entire aquatic product processing plant, the biggest worry of all nearby fishermen is whether the price of ice will skyrocket.

It used to belong to grandpa, and they could choose not to make money from it, but now it’s private, and it would be a bit stupid if they didn’t make money.

In addition, there is only this one ice factory in the entire county, or even in the entire sea area. It can be said that it is a complete monopoly.

If Li Duoyu intends to raise the price, the fishermen will have no choice but to swallow their anger.

But to the surprise of the fishermen, more than two months have passed since Li Duoyu took over the processing plant, and the price of ice has not increased much, but has remained within a range acceptable to both parties.

In fact, Li Duoyu had no intention of making money from this ice factory, but just tried to maintain a balance between income and expenditure as much as possible.

If the price of ice goes up but the price of seafood does not, the fishermen's income will definitely decrease.

But for Li Duoyu, making the entire aquatic industry stronger is far better than making a few cents in the present.

After all, the more developed the local aquatic products industry is, the larger the scale of his processing plant will become in the future.

Just like there are a lot of fishing boats in Zhoushan, the local processing plants will do better business.

On this day, Zhang Mingshan was assigned an important task, which was to follow the Minrongyu 056 to the waters off Zhoushan fishing ground to carry out squid fishing operations.

Zhang Mingshan’s main task this time is to ensure the quality of the squid!

At the meeting, Li Duoyu repeatedly emphasized the significance of this squid for the future development of the processing plant. Zhang Mingshan really didn't want to go, but Mr. Li was really good at talking.

After the meeting, even Zhang Mingshan himself was excited. He felt that he was valued by his leaders and was eager to do a good job.

But on Dandan Island, Li Duoyu smiled and said to his uncle: "I'll send you a person this time when we go out to sea. Although he's not that obedient, it's just a matter of having an extra pair of chopsticks."

Chen Liang smiled and said, "Disobedient ones are the best. New crew members who are too obedient are really meaningless."

When Chen Liang's father heard this, he patted him on the head and said, "Are you sick? You just bully newcomers all day long."

"You bullied me in the same way before. This is called inheritance."

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Although he was entrusted with an important task, Zhang Mingshan also had his own plans. He even brought a fishing rod, a radio, and a lot of food.

He planned to just direct everyone's work on the boat and treat it as a sea vacation.

At the beginning, he was really curious about the life of the crew, but ever since he carried his quilt and stepped onto the Minrongyu 056.

He spent every moment of the next two months in regret.

On the first day on board, he found that he did not have a separate cabin, but was crowded in a small room with the crew.

After waking up, if he got up too quickly, he would hit his head directly, and the smell inside was so overpowering that he could only bury his head in the quilt to fall asleep at night.

But he could endure all this, after all, he had experienced that era and lived in poverty.

But what made him devastated was that in less than two days, the pack of cigarettes he had in his bag disappeared.

Also, all the beef jerky, dried fish and meat floss in the bag were gone.

There is a thief on the boat. I have to stay on the boat for more than ten days. How can I survive without cigarettes?

In addition, the new quilt he brought became inexplicably dirty while he was fishing, as if someone had slept in it, and there was an unknown liquid on it, similar to snot.

Zhang Mingshan ran to the cabin angrily to find the captain, hoping that the captain could catch the thief.

But the captain ignored him and kicked him out of the cabin on the spot, saying, "Do you understand? Even if Mr. Li comes to this ship, he cannot come to the cabin without my permission."

“But my stuff was stolen.”

"How do you prove you lost something?"

"I"

Zhang Mingshan, who realized something was wrong, shouted that he wanted to get off the boat, but he didn't expect that after hearing this, all the crew members looked at him "kindly".

The captain was even more blunt: "You can go back, but you have to bear the losses of this trip."

A detailed list was immediately drawn up. Zhang Mingshan was dumbfounded when he saw the prices. There were loss of work time, fuel costs, and ice loss fees. The most exaggerated was the breach of contract fee with the processing plant, which was as high as 5,000 yuan. All the fees added up to more than 10,000 yuan.

"If you can afford the compensation, we can turn around and go back immediately." Zhang Mingshan's mouth twitched. Even though he was an old employee of the processing plant, the actual salary he received was only more than 70 yuan per month.

Based on his current salary of more than 10,000 yuan, it would take him more than ten years to work without eating or drinking.

After realizing that he was on a "pirate ship", Zhang Mingshan wanted to grit his teeth and hold on for another ten days.

But that day, after he woke up from a nap on the boat, he wanted to find something to eat, but found that the lame cook was already washing dishes.

"Uncle Zhuang, is there anything else to eat?"

Uncle Zhuang looked at him in confusion: "What time is it now? Where can we eat? It's the rule of us fishermen that we have no food after a certain time."

Zhang Mingshan, who was so hungry that his stomach was rumbling, said quickly: "Uncle, this is my first time on a boat and I don't know many of the rules. Can you make a separate portion for me?"

When Uncle Zhuang heard this, he looked at him like he was mentally retarded: "What are you thinking? The firewood and coal briquettes on the ship are limited. How can we cook for you? To be honest, even the captain doesn't get this kind of treatment."

Zhang Mingshan took out a half pack of cigarettes from his pocket and said, "Please be accommodating. I'm really hungry."

Uncle Zhuang glanced at the pack of imported cigarettes, but still waved his hand and said, "You'll get used to being hungry after a while. This situation will happen a lot in the future. If there are big waves, I won't be able to fire, and everyone will just go hungry."

Zhang Mingshan really wanted to say: This is the first time and the last time, there will be no more.

Seeing that he was so hungry, Uncle Zhuang reminded him, "Later tonight, everyone will go squid fishing. I advise you to go with them."

"I'm really not here to work, but to check the quality of the squid you caught."

Uncle Zhuang shook his head and said, "What are you thinking? Our squids have no quality problems other than being bitten by tuna. They are freshest when they are just caught. If they are bad, they must have gone bad during transportation."

After hearing this, Zhang Mingshan suddenly came to his senses and realized that he had been cheated by Li Duoyu.

This guy is not here to supervise the work, he is just here to cause trouble.

On the fishing boat, Li Sande, who had raised his middle finger to everyone and vowed never to get on the boat again some time ago, is now as obedient as a dog.

After observing for two days, he was so happy to find that this new crew member didn't seem to be a so-called leader.

Seeing him smoking on the deck and not working, he rushed over, kicked him down, and cursed:

"Fuck you, I'm already too busy and you're still here smoking and daydreaming. Damn it, are you trying to rebel?"

Zhang Mingshan was also very angry, but he was about to say, I am the leader of the processing plant, okay?

But this stupid guy didn't even give him the chance to show off and just threw the mop bucket in front of him.

"I'm making this clear today. If you don't clean the deck tonight, you won't have breakfast tomorrow."

Zhang Mingshan couldn't hold it in any longer: "Fuck you, do you know who I am? My uncle is from the province."

But before he could finish, Li Sande kept patting his head: "Everyone can pretend, but why are you pretending? Damn it, according to seniority, Li Duoyu has to respectfully call me brother when he sees me."

Zhang Mingshan was completely confused!

At this moment, he felt that what was more terrifying than a scholar meeting a soldier was meeting a fool with a poor brain.

But Zhang Mingshan really had no idea what to do. Under the beatings of this idiot, he could only start working with tears in his eyes.

"Fuck you, can you please stop touching me?"

Li Sande said in a very greasy way: "Not only can I do it, I can also do it."

He used to curse Chen Liang in his dreams, but after he became "Chen Liang", he found how cool it was.

Fortunately, the people on the fishing boat are relatively trustworthy. As long as they work, they will get food. Zhang Mingshan has been working for more than ten years and has never been so tired.

Lying on the small deck of the boat, I didn't care whether the smell made me feel sick or not, nor did I bother to wonder why there were still flies and mosquitoes on the boat even though we were so far out to sea. I just fell asleep.

But when he woke up again that day, he heard the bad news, that is, the fishing boat would not be out to sea for half a month, but for a full two or three months.

During this period, other fishing boats will transport the frozen squids in the hold back.

Zhang Mingshan, who heard the news, cursed on the spot: "Li Duoyu, you bastard, how can you be so sinister?"

And just after he finished cursing, someone actually resonated with him, and Li Sande patted him on the shoulder.

"Brother, you are right to scold me. I also think that the most sinister person in the entire Dandan Island is my cousin."

But just as he finished speaking, he threw the brush and bucket to him and said, "You need to clean the corners of the boat. This big squid can spray ink very well. If you don't clean it well, you will be scolded by the captain."

Zhang Mingshan: “Fuck!”

What made him most upset was that he found a lot of dismantled cigarette boxes in a corner of the fishing boat, and these cigarette boxes were the ones he brought.

While Zhang Mingshan was suffering, Dandan Island conducted a major sanitation inspection these two days and the dock was cleaned very well.

Many people even keep their homes very clean, and some even put flower pots in the yard.

Men who usually don't pay attention to hygiene started shaving their beards for a rare occasion.

The barber has been so busy these past two days that even one of his scissors was broken.

Because the village radio has been repeating the same message these two days, that is, the actress of the King of the Kingdom of Women is likely to come to the island to shoot a commercial, and everyone is asked to maintain good hygiene in the village.

Once the news came out, not only the people on Dandan Island were excited, but also the people in Shangfeng Town who heard the news were very excited.

Some people even plan to stay on Dandan Island for a day or two just to see how handsome the king of the Kingdom of Women is.

The male compatriots are very excited, but the female compatriots have been very dissatisfied recently. The women who are mending fishing nets at the dock can't stop talking about the King of the Kingdom of Women.

"She's just a little slut. If it weren't for her makeup, she'd look like Teacher Zhou at best."

"You know, this Li Duoyu is really something. Why not find a male actor to be the spokesperson instead of a female one?"

"I really like Guo Kaimin. His Love in Lushan is really good."

"Yes, yes, yes. I like him too, but I like Fei Xiang more. I even have his poster at home."

Talking about these male actors, the group of women were so excited, except Zhu Xiuhua who couldn't get a word in.

Because she seldom watched TV, her mind was full of thoughts about how to make money. After she finished her confinement, the first thing she did was to come here to mend her fishing nets.

Although Li Yaoguo is earning a lot of money now, she still feels uneasy and can't help wanting to do some work.

When they were chatting happily, Zhu Xiuhua couldn't help but mutter: "If you ask me, the most handsome man in the world has to be the God of Wealth." (End of this chapter)