In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

The continuous drizzle lasted until early May, and the faces of the kelp farmers on Dandan Island were as gloomy as the sky above.

Old Lu sat at the door of his house, cursing at the gloomy weather above his head.

"Oh my god, oh my god, what kind of horrible weather is this? I can't even dry a fish. How can it be so difficult to make money?"

Lao Jin, who runs a nearby pork stall, said, "You are just greedy. Duoyu has long said that the weather might not be very good this year. We should have sold the kelp directly to the processing plant in April."

Old Lu was too lazy to respond to this neighbor who always destroyed his own stage. Duoyu did say that last month.

The weather may not be very good this year, so you can sell the kelp to the processing plant in advance, where it can be directly processed into salted kelp and kelp shreds.

But he still wants to give it a try. After all, the growth of kelp depends on the last two months. By then, one acre of kelp field can make a difference of several tons.

But who could have thought that the weather has never been good and it has been raining all the time. If the kelp is not exposed to the sun for too long, it will easily get holes and rot at the edges.

Many kelp farmers are also worried. Zhu Xiuhua was so annoyed that she went to wash the sheets. She was in a very bad mood when she smelled the undried sheets.

Because her one hundred acres of kelp fields had not yet been harvested, but what made her most angry was that Li Yaoguo did not help her at all.

He is busy at the company all day long and doesn't even go home to sleep at night. He says that the company is particularly busy during this period.

She had a gloomy mood and nowhere to vent it, so she started muttering to the Tianhou Palace.

"Goddess Mazu, you bless us, so please make the weather better. If we don't, the kelp will all rot."

"You don't bless those who should be blessed, and you bless those who shouldn't be blessed. I provide you with so many delicious foods every year."

After hearing Zhu Xiuhua's mumbling, Chen Huiying's face instantly fell. For other things, she might have given in.

The only thing she would never give in to was this. No matter whether Zhu Xiuhua was willing or not, she would drag her to the Tianhou Temple to admit her mistake and apologize.

Seeing Chen Huiying so angry, the second sister-in-law didn't dare to offend her. After all, she had Li Duoyu protecting her, so she really didn't dare to offend him.

In addition, she is now completely under control. Her second daughter is just one year old and is at an age where she needs help to take care of her.

If she goes out to earn money, her mother will have to take care of the child for her. Now that she needs help from others, she naturally can't speak in a firm tone.

"Mom, I'm wrong, it's not enough. I'm going to admit my mistake to Mazu right now, so we don't have to go to the Tianhou Temple."

Chen Huiying insisted: "No, worship me and admit your mistake. We all make a living by the sea. How can you say that about Mazu? You are an ungrateful person."

Zhu Xiuhua muttered to herself, but turned back to her room and picked up the sacred basket.

There are also many kelp farmers on Dandan Island, and they have been rushing to harvest kelp since April.

Li Duoyu's uncle, third uncle and other farmers, including the Zhao brothers, Wang Jinshan, and Chen Atai, all listened to Li Duoyu's advice, collected some of the kelp, and took it to the processing plant to make salted kelp.

For them, it’s okay to earn less money, but what they want is stability.

While most kelp farmers were still worried, they had already completed most of the kelp harvesting.

Immediately began preparations for fishing for anchovies.

Due to the hot sales of canned anchovies, Minlong’s orders for canned anchovies have exploded, and this year it has also contracted several of CCTV’s popular advertising time slots.

Li Duoyu doesn't dare to go to the distribution company now. Every time he gets there, there are always channel dealers who come directly to ask when canned anchovies will be available.

An Yuliang estimates that the output of anchovies this year will have to increase at least fivefold to meet market demand, and if they work hard, it is possible to increase tenfold.

If it were ten times, the sales of canned anchovies this year would exceed 10 million, which is something that is simply unthinkable in this era.

In order to ensure the supply of this product, Li Duoyu currently focuses on the acquisition of cloves.

A temporary anchovy purchasing team was set up. This year, it is not enough to rely solely on fishermen from Dandan Island and Dinghai Bay to catch anchovies, but the entire fishing line must be extended.

Advertisements for purchasing anchovies were sent not only in their own province, but also in the two neighboring provinces.

At the same time, several technicians were sent to the two neighboring provinces to teach local fishermen some techniques for catching anchovies.

Although the "breakthrough" is about to come, after comprehensive evaluation, the impact on the Minlong is not particularly large.

And if he handles it well, Li Duoyu might be able to make a fortune from this "breakthrough".

As a person who has been reborn, he is very clear that failure in breaking through the level will definitely lead to inflation and currency depreciation.

Minlong is engaged in the most basic food industry, and its only job is to get the raw materials before inflation occurs.

I have to take advantage of the time difference, maybe I can take advantage of this inflation to make a lot of money.

Seeing Li Duoyu grinning foolishly with a hideous face from time to time, his uncle Chen Dongqing couldn't help but look at him with disgust. Every time he saw that expression on his face, he was sure that his mind was full of bad ideas.

Mid May.

The golden-red sunset dyed the entire sky brilliantly, and everyone had not seen such a beautiful sunset for a long time.

It finally cleared up.

That very evening, the village radio came on and the loud speaker made a crackling sound.

[All villagers, especially those who grow kelp, please listen carefully. According to the weather forecast and the judgment of the village meteorologist, there may be an easterly wind in the next few days. It will be good weather. Those who want to harvest kelp should hurry up.]

[If you are going to collect kelp tonight, please be careful and wear a life jacket if you can't swim.]

[If you haven't found anyone to collect the kelp yet, please report to the village committee as soon as possible. The village committee will then assign people to you.]

After hearing this broadcast at night, all the kelp farmers in the village became excited and put on their equipment for harvesting kelp.

The best time to harvest kelp.

It's not daytime but nighttime.

Because after collecting them at night, they can be dried in the sun all day long. If the weather is good, they can be dried on the same day.

But if you start working at dawn, you won’t be able to continue harvesting in the afternoon, because if you harvest in the afternoon, the kelp will not be dried and will easily rot.

At night, the sea was filled with ship lights and the rumble of diesel engines, making it impossible for those households near the dock to fall asleep.

Kelp farmers are driving their fishing boats, shuttling back and forth between rows of sea fields made up of buoys and farming ropes.

Each two or three meter long kelp was dragged onto a sampan and then transported back to Dandan Island.

At this time, the huge advantages of Li Duoyu's customized flat-bottomed iron-hulled boats were reflected.

Ordinary sampans can only transport about two tons at most, but Li Duoyu's flat-bottomed iron-hulled boats can pull six tons at a time, which is more than three times more efficient than theirs.

After seeing Li Duoyu’s iron-hulled boat, many kelp farmers wanted to buy one.

After hearing the broadcast, the second sister-in-law also started to harvest her 100 acres of kelp fields. This time, the workers were found by Li Yaoguo.

She couldn't ask the price. Although the second sister-in-law was very dissatisfied, she had no choice because it was the peak season for hiring. If you don't pay a high price, there will be farmers who pay a high price. When the time comes, you won't be able to find workers to harvest the kelp, and it will rot in the kelp field, which will be a big loss.

Zhu Xiuhua prepared everything, handed the second child who was still in the cradle to A Niang, and directly woke up Li Haoran who was still sleeping.

"Get up and get to work."

Li Haoran didn't want to help his family collect kelp at all, because if he did, he would be free labor.

If I don't do my job well, my mother will scold me, but if I help my uncle collect the garbage, I might be able to earn five or six dollars a day.

Li Haoran really didn't like his mother raising kelp by herself, so he had to pretend: "Mom, I'm seasick recently, can I not go to collect the kelp?"

"You are just like your father, always failing at the critical moment. I didn't ask you to go on the boat, you just need to help dry the kelp."

After hearing this, Li Haoran's face turned pale. Yes, how could he forget that after collecting the kelp, he had to dry it in the sun, and finally turn it over and put it away.

This was the first time that Li Haoran hated the new curriculum reform so much. It would have been fine to have one day off, why did they have to have two days now?

I want to go to school!
Since mid-May, Dandan Island has been busy and the whole island is filled with a strong smell of kelp.

But most kelp farmers are very happy because their luck is pretty good this year. Although the continuous rainy weather has prevented the kelp from growing very well.

But the price of kelp unexpectedly increased, and the increase was quite a lot.

In the past, thirty acres of kelp fields could be sold for a little over ten thousand yuan. After the price increase this year, thirty acres can be sold for about fifteen thousand yuan.

After Zhu Xiuhua's 100 acres of kelp fields were harvested, they were sold for nearly 50,000 yuan. After deducting all the breeding costs and labor costs, the profit was about 30,000 yuan.

Looking at the fifty stacks of Great Unity notes on the table, Zhu Xiuhua was so excited. It was the first time for her to earn so much money by herself.

After waiting for Li Yaoguo to come back, Zhu Xiuhua, who had been excited for many days, said excitedly: "Yaoguo, raising kelp is really profitable."

"Ah."

Li Yaoguo smiled awkwardly. Isn't it something that everyone has known for a long time that one can make money by raising kelp? Many fish have made a lot of money by raising kelp.

Zhu Xiuhua said directly: "How about you put your work at Duoyu aside for now, and let's grow kelp together and try to grow 1,000 acres. Maybe we can earn 300,000 yuan a year."

Li Yaoguo was quite speechless. It was not that easy to make money. Growing kelp depended on the weather. Everyone was lucky this year.

The chaotic market has caused the price of kelp to rise. If last year's situation were the same, we wouldn't be able to make much money from the quality of kelp this year.

Moreover, Li Yaoguo did not dare to say that he had privately paid a lot of wages to harvest her 100 acres of kelp.

He is the financial officer of Minlong Company and he knows very well that labor costs are becoming more and more expensive. When the kelp harvest was at its most exaggerated this year, it cost 15 yuan a day to recruit workers.

"You can raise it yourself if you want. I won't do it anyway. Besides, there is no place to grow kelp in Xiaoleiyang now. If you want to grow a thousand acres, you can only go to Dongjia Reef. By then, the labor cost and oil price will only be higher."

Zhu Xiuhua said angrily: "Li Yaoguo, can't you support me? If we work hard for a few years, we will be millionaires."

Li Yaoguo asked back:

“If you invest 1,000 acres, and there’s a typhoon or a weird wave during the kelp farming season next year, what will you do?”

After hearing this, Zhu Xiuhua got angry and said, "Pooh, pooh, pooh, you crow mouth, do you know how to speak?"

At this moment, a child's voice came from the small bed beside them.

"Shh, keep your voice down, Hanhan is awake."

Li Yaoguo was just about to coax his daughter, but he found that his little daughter's eyes were wide open.

"Little bastard, it's so late, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

The little girl was smacking her hands and looked like she was going to cry the next second. Li Yaoguo said nervously, "Hurry, hurry, Hanhan must be hungry, feed her quickly."

"But I don't have any milk now."

"You're so big, how could you not have milk?"

"There's no milk, there's no milk. What can I do? Hurry up and make some rice porridge for her to drink."

Next door, Li Haoran, who was secretly playing the video game, sighed. Ever since his younger sister was born, his father's attention has been completely on her since he got home.

After harvesting kelp on Dandan Island, the fishermen did not rest for two days. The more hardworking ones worked non-stop and all went out to sea to catch anchovies.

This year, the Minlong Processing Factory felt like it was running out of steam, and was busy like a dog every day.

In January and February, we kept producing grilled squid strips. From March and April, we started to produce canned kelp strips. From May, we started to focus on producing canned anchovies.

It can be said that from the beginning of the year to now, the processing plant has not been idle for a single day.

The only eighth-level fitter in the factory also worked around the clock because the machines in the factory were almost running 24 hours a day.

Once the equipment fails, he must deal with it immediately.

The company has also introduced new regulations, which stipulate that overtime work will be paid overtime and will receive extra points during assessments.

Those who get full marks in the assessment will receive an extra bonus every month. Some employees in the factory have not had a rest from the beginning of the year to now in order to earn more money, but their corresponding wages have also become very high.

Truckloads of canned anchovies were loaded from processing plants and shipped to various provinces. The farthest order was actually sent to Qinghai and Gansu.

Given the current road construction, it may take a month or so just to deliver the goods there.

For orders like this, after deducting the shipping costs, Minlong won’t make much money, but sometimes it is okay to sacrifice a little profit in order to expand the market.

Around this time, news came out that the country would adjust the retail prices of some major agricultural and sideline products, which directly triggered a buying frenzy.

This directly triggered a buying frenzy. During this period, almost all workers stayed at home and rushed to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy rice and pork.

At Rongcheng Farmers’ Market, Minlong Food was the first to be hit, and the entire store was emptied out.

Even here on Dandan Island, everyone has become panic-stricken. These past two days everyone has been discussing one thing: prices are going to rise sharply.

The supply and marketing cooperative was packed with people these two days, and even the shop run by Li Shuihua was emptied out, and even the wool was not spared.

Zhu Xiuhua, who is strong and healthy, took advantage of the rush to buy. He returned home carrying three bags of rice and half a pork, with a happy face.

But seeing Li Duoyu leisurely accompanying his pregnant wife, he couldn't help but persuade her:

"Duoyu, hurry up and grab some food. This time it seems to be very serious. If you don't grab some rice, you may not be able to buy rice in the future even if you have money."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "If I don't have rice, I'll eat meat. My company also raises more than 5,000 pigs."

After hearing this, the second sister-in-law was speechless. Looking at the half pork she bought at a high price, she suddenly felt that it was not delicious anymore. (End of this chapter)