In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Ninety-two.

late October.

A postman in a green postal uniform holding a letter shouted at the door of Li Duoyu's house: "Director Li, you have a letter from abroad."

"I got it. Just put it in my mailbox." Li Duoyu, who was breastfeeding her baby, was somewhat surprised when she heard this. She thought it was sent from the island country.

"Your mailbox is almost full."

Ever since Li Duoyu became famous, all kinds of strange letters have appeared in his mailbox.

Some wanted him to donate money, some wanted to cooperate with him, some asked him to adopt a child, some young girls boldly confessed their love to him, and some wanted to be pen pals with him.

In short, there are all kinds of people.

Li Duoyu was enjoying the lesson at first, but later he just handed it over to Teacher Zhou to kill time.

Now most of the time it is Teacher Zhou who is checking the mailbox. Sometimes, he will pick out a few well-written letters and use them as lesson plans to share with students.

But she felt that it was too monotonous after seeing what happened later. Starting from the second half of the year, the original principal of Dandan Island Primary School retired, and Teacher Zhou was promoted to acting principal, becoming the youngest primary school principal in the entire county.

Of course she also has better choices. Due to her high teaching quality, the results of Dandan Island Primary School have always been among the best in the entire school district.

The county education bureau has always wanted her to work there, and the best primary school in Rongcheng has also invited her. But Teacher Zhou has three children after all. If she changes jobs to another place, it will affect her entire family and she probably will have to move. In the end, Zhou Xiaoying rejected all invitations and chose to stay on Dandan Island.

……

After Li Duoyu opened the mailbox while holding Minmin, there were so many letters in it that they all fell to the ground. Minmin, a four-year-old girl, looked very much like Teacher Zhou when she was a child.

Her mother always liked to braid her hair into two ponytails, which made her look very cute. She was particularly attached to him since she was a child and would hang around him whenever she had the chance.

Seeing the letters falling all over the floor, Minmin slid off him and said happily, "Dad, let me help you open the letter. Can you give me the stamp on it?"

Li Duoyu thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but you have to open the letter carefully and don't tear it up. Also, don't cut your hands with the scissors."

"Got it, Dad."

Sitting in the courtyard, the grown-up little Tutu saw this scene and groaned in disdain: "What a clingy guy, he just clings to daddy every day."

Seeing that his elder brother was scolding him again, Minmin said in a baby voice, "Grandma told me that when you were little, you were just like me. When Daddy held you, you would secretly pee."

"I don't have any, you are talking nonsense."

Li Pu's face instantly turned red: "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll spank you."

"Lululu, bad brother." Minmin made a face at Tutu: "If you dare to hit me, I will tell my mother that you paid someone to do your homework for you yesterday."

After saying this, Li Minmin covered her mouth immediately, and then looked at her father in horror.

Li Pu stood there completely frozen in place, not even having the courage to look at his father. He wished he could install springs under his feet to launch himself out.

Li Duoyu walked towards him with a smile, then touched his head and twisted his ear.

“Where does the money come from?”

Li Pu, feeling pain, looked at Minmin angrily. This evil person, didn't he know that his mother was just doing simple repairs, but if he asked his father to do it, it would be fatal.

Li Pu showed a harmless smile and said, "Dad, I earned all that money by fishing. It's been cold lately, so there are a lot of snappers on the fishing raft."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu, who wanted to give him a good scolding, let go of his ear and started thinking seriously.

Perhaps influenced by his family environment, this child is completely different from his previous life. In his previous life, he was a student with excellent character and academic performance.

But in this life, born in such a wealthy family, he does not seem to be so motivated, and the theory of the usefulness of studying does not have that much value to him.

Even if Li Duoyu didn't tell Xiao Tutu how rich his father was, someone else would tell him.

In fact, Li Duoyu didn't expect this child to be successful. If he didn't cheat, it would be impossible for him to surpass his father in future achievements.

Li Duoyu hopes that the child is safe and healthy, but of course cannot become a waste, so it is time to think carefully about how to raise this child.

Otherwise, if we continue with the current educational methods, I feel that this child will be ruined sooner or later.

Li Duoyu thought about it seriously, and then said to his eldest son: "If you think studying is boring, why don't you come with me to make money from tomorrow."

"Really, Dad?"

Li Pu looked excited, but then frowned: "But if I don't go to class, my mother will beat me to death."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "I'll talk to your mother. She won't beat you and may even support you."

"Well, I'll go make money with my dad."

Li Duoyu looked at the eager little Tutu and couldn't help but sigh. He said silently in his heart: "You don't want to read the most relaxing book, but you have to go to work, right? Then let you be a social animal first, so that you can feel the suffering of this world in advance."

At this time, Li Minmin came over with a letter: "Dad, this letter is so strange, the words on it seem different from the others."

Seeing the blue and white envelope, Li Duoyu roughly guessed that it was the foreign letter that the postman had just mentioned.

There were some simplified English addresses on the envelope, which were completely incomprehensible. Fortunately, there was a string of text in Chinese next to it, otherwise it might not have been sent to him.

Although Li Duoyu's English is very poor, he can still understand the stamping time on the stamp. He just took a quick look and found that it had been sent out more than half a year ago.

It took him seven months to get the letter, and by now it had become wrinkled and the stamp on it was almost worn out.

Looking at the English name on the letter (Jerry), Li Duoyu roughly guessed who sent him the letter.

There was a show-off in the dormitory who once said that his English name was Jerry.

After Li Duoyu opened the letter.

[It is like seeing you in person.]

Brother Yu, I really miss you guys so much.】

It was indeed sent by Zhao Jialu. There were four pages of letter paper. He was not as good-looking as Zhao Jialu, but his handwriting was even neater than his.

After reading the letter, Li Duoyu realized that so many things had happened to him in the past few years.

When Zhao Jialu arrived in Hong Kong Island, he developed his business with his uncle Chen Jiao. Since the Chen family had sensed something was wrong earlier, they transferred part of their assets to Hong Kong Island.

After they arrived in Hong Kong Island, their living conditions were pretty good. They had a place to live and a nanny...

After arriving in Hong Kong Island, they returned to their old job and started working in the catering industry. However, due to poor acclimatization, they were never able to outperform the Chaoshan people.

As a result, the development was not very good. After working there for two years, Zhao Jialu saw no improvement and started looking for another way out.

After all, the money earned in China is not enough to spend here. After opening a few stores and hiring dozens of employees, there is not much left.

But he couldn't help very well, so finally, with the introduction of a friend, he followed a group of people to the Gold Coast of Africa to pan for gold.

At first, he really went there to pan for gold, but because it was too tiring and dangerous, he later opened a supermarket with a few Fuqing brothers.

In the letter, Zhao Jialu kept complaining that people in Africa are poor and lazy, but prices are very high. In addition, there is a shortage of various items, so a plastic bag can be regarded as a treasure, making it very suitable to run a supermarket here.

The purpose of Zhao Jialu writing this letter back, besides reminiscing about the past, was another purpose.

That is, he plans to purchase goods from Li Duoyu. He plans to get several containers of Minlong canned food and some daily necessities to sell there.

Because of the inconvenience of communication there, Zhao Jialu also left him a contact number. If he was willing to cooperate, he could just call him directly and he would call him back in about a week.
After reading the letter, Li Duoyu's eyes widened. He really didn't expect Zhao Jialu to go to Africa to open a supermarket. But when he thought about it, it made sense. He was with Brother Fuqing now. At this point in time, it was really the time for Brother Fuqing to venture into the world.

Although it is very dangerous over there, if you are willing to go out in this era, there are business opportunities everywhere.

Li Duoyu still supports it very much.

It is estimated that the experiences in the past few years are much more exciting than those in the first half of Zhao Jialu’s life combined.

After receiving the letter, Li Duoyu immediately called Zhao Jialu back. After various transfers at the long-distance station, he waited for two hours.

Li Duoyu finally got through the call, but the person on the other end spoke poor Chinese English.

"Hello~~"

"Hoo Ah You, Ah Si, are you willing?"

Li Duoyu is very familiar with this kind of Chinese English. When he was working in the catering industry in the island country, many young people especially liked to communicate in English in the island country.

After hearing this, he would reply directly in Chinese, which always made them happy.

Li Duoyu tried to ask in Fuqing dialect: "Excuse me, can you contact a person named Zhao Jialu?"

After hearing the voice of his fellow villager, the other party was also very excited: "Looking for Brother Zhao, by the way, are you Li Duoyu from Dandan Island?"

"Yes, it's me. How did you know?"

Li Duoyu was also a little surprised. The other party replied: "Brother Zhao comes to my place every month and asks if you have called."

"Oh, sorry, I just received the letter."

The other party said excitedly: "Mr. Li, it's like this. It will take me about a week to contact Brother Zhao. Do you have his phone number? When the time comes, I will ask him to call you back, or I will ask him to wait by the phone next week and you can call me back then."

"Okay, sure."

As the signal was poor and could be disconnected at any time, Li Duoyu quickly left his number.

It is difficult to send letters these days, and it is even more difficult to make international long-distance calls. Often, in order to wait for a call from someone, you dare not run around and have to sit by the phone for several weeks, just for fear of missing the call.

In addition to Zhao Jialu's own affairs, the letter also talked about Chen Yuansu, who did not stay in Hong Kong Island but went to an island country and currently opened a Chinese restaurant in Tokyo.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but smile when he saw the news. To this day, he still remembers the first time Chen Yuansu took the initiative to approach him to discuss how to open a Japanese restaurant in China.

But unexpectedly, the situation is completely reversed now. She has gone to the island country to open a Chinese restaurant. In a sense, she can be said to have not forgotten her original intention.

But that's true. Li Duoyu could see that even though Xinyuan Group was developing so well back then, she didn't seem very happy. Perhaps returning to her original intention was the best thing for her.

While waiting for Zhao Jialu's call, Li Duoyu had already started preparing various canned seafood.

In addition to canned seafood, Li Duoyu also brought a lot of canned fruits from Zhangzhou City, as well as a lot of daily necessities.

If I remember correctly, daily necessities are even more popular in Africa. They don't have a production system there, and often even the simplest daily necessities have to be imported.

Li Duoyu waited by the phone for two whole weeks and finally received an international long-distance call from Zhao Jialu.

"Brother Yu, is that you?"

After receiving the call, Li Duoyu cursed on the spot: "Fuck, I slept in the company for two weeks just to answer your call."

The moment he heard Li Duoyu's voice, Zhao Jialu felt like crying: "Brother Yu, I was wrong. This broken phone was always busy. It took me two days to get through."

Hearing the intermittent buzzing sound coming from the phone, Li Duoyu said, "Hurry up and prepare the formalities. I will send the goods directly to you when the time comes. There are about fifteen containers with various things in them. They should be easy to sell at your place."

Hearing that Li Duoyu gave him so many containers of goods, Zhao Jialu's brain short-circuited: "Brother Yu, but we don't have that much money. Can you just give me a few containers first?"

Li Duoyu said disgustedly:

"It's just a few containers. I won't do such a small business. If you want, I'll give you fifteen. As for the payment, you can pay me when you make money. Or you can find a way to open an account for me abroad and deposit the money into it."

"Brother Yu." Zhao Jialu suddenly choked up. Li Duoyu trusted Zhao Jialu unconditionally. He truly regarded him as a brother.

Li Duoyu finished speaking: "Don't cry yet, you will cry later, I will let Xiuqing talk to you."

"Ah, Xiuqing is here too?"

Li Duoyu replied: "Well, Xiuqing just started working in my company, you don't have to worry about this, I'm here to protect them, no one dares to bully them."

Li Duoyu turned around and called Chen Xiaoyan, who was pregnant, and said, "Go call my cousin."

"Mr. Li, if you call Sister Xiuqing your cousin again, be careful that she will get angry with you later."

Not a moment.

A woman holding a little boy ran over hurriedly. She glanced at Li Duoyu and then looked at the phone.

"Hurry up, the signal isn't that good, it could be cut off at any time."

Li Xiuqing held the phone tremblingly: "Jialu, is that you?"

"it's me."

"Are you okay over there?"

"good, very good."

Li Xiuqing suddenly thought of something more important.

"Wait a minute, I'll let your son talk to you." Li Xiuqing picked up the child, put the microphone in front of the child's mouth, and said excitedly: "Fubao, hurry up and talk to your father."

The little boy was a little confused. He had no concept of "Dad". Li Xiuqing got anxious on the spot: "Don't you always say you miss your dad?"

"But my dad isn't here."

The little boy looked at the phone, a little confused, but after a while, he reacted and said in a crying voice:

"Dad, I'm Fubao."

"When will you come back? I miss you so much."

After hearing this, no matter how strong Zhao Jialu on the other end of the phone was, his eyes turned red and tears fell unconsciously.

Zhao Jialu cried and laughed: "Dad, I will be back soon. You must listen to your mother and your uncle Li, understand?"

"I know, Dad. I am very obedient and Fubao is very sensible."

When Li Duoyu saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel sad even though he had lived two lives as a human being. He had also experienced this scene in his previous life.

At that time, Zhou Xiaoying lived frugally for a long time before she was willing to make an international long-distance call to him.

At that time, little Tutu was just like this Fubao. The moment he heard the sound and realized what was happening, he immediately started crying.

Li Duoyu remembered clearly that his eyes were red all night. The greatest pain in his previous life was that he was no longer by his family’s side when they needed him the most.

At the end of the call, Li Duoyu gave Zhao Jialu some reminders.

"When you are away from home, life is the most important thing. You must bring a few reliable bodyguards with you. Also, remember, never trust your own people when you are abroad." (End of this chapter)