Chapter 448 It’s Time to Pick Kelp Seedlings Again (1/2)

The military green clothes instantly attracted the attention of most people on the pier, especially the two touches of red on the collars of their uniforms.

Although I had told the villagers not to come and watch, many people still came.

Especially the unmarried girls on the island, all looked at the disciple soldiers with admiration.

"They are all so handsome and energetic. They are indeed different from the men in our village."

Li Duoyu was slightly embarrassed and felt offended by these words.

When some men in the village heard this, they retorted on the spot: "What's the use of being handsome? When they retire from the army, they will still have to work in the fields. In two years, they will be like us."

"We are talking about those officers, those recruits, they are all younger than us."

"Well"

Li Duoyu smiled bitterly. Women in this era do admire soldiers.

According to his experience in two lifetimes, it seems that every time the military and civilians unite, one or two military wives are born, and they are usually female teachers.

Li Duoyu noticed that after the soldiers arrived on the island, an old man in the crowd saluted directly after seeing them.

The thin body stood very upright. Li Duoyu couldn't help but look at the old man twice. Everyone seemed to call him Lao Zhang because of his inconvenient legs and feet.

He has never married a wife, has a rather eccentric personality, and lives a very simple life. He wears a very old old-fashioned uniform all year round. The clothes are full of holes. They have been mended several times, but he just can't bear to change them.

When Li Duoyu was a child, he heard that he had participated in the Northern War against America, and he still had a pistol given to him by the leader at home.

Seeing that the crowd of onlookers was getting bigger and bigger, Li Duoyu held a "loud loudspeaker" and shouted: "Don't look anymore, everyone, give way, don't cause unnecessary trouble to our people's soldiers."

Some relatively bold girls said:

"If there are many fish, it won't matter if you take a second look. How long will they stay? When will they organize a party for us?"

After hearing this, the Zhao brothers' faces turned dark and they became inexplicably nervous.

Nowadays, there are more men than women in the village. If more people marry outside the village, the competition will be even greater. The matchmaker will definitely charge a lot of money.

Zhao Dahai hurriedly said: "Director Li, this won't work. It's easy to cause problems. What should we do if someone gets pregnant after the friendship but can't find his biological father?"

The young women who heard this all stared at Zhao Dahai: "You can stop saying a few words about your bad mouth. If you can't find it yourself, why don't you let others find it? Besides, is there any woman in our village who is willing to marry a man?" Like the widow."

Zhao Dahai, who was told this, retorted on the spot: "When I make money, I will go to the next village and find anyone who is not prettier than you."

"Then go find it."

Seeing them arguing, Li Duoyu had a headache and coughed twice: "I'll talk about this when I have a chance. Now everyone, please give in and get to work quickly."

After Brother Bing came to the island.

They lined up directly on the spot. Due to discipline reasons, they did not plan to live close to the village.

Mainly because they were worried about causing unnecessary trouble, the soldiers directly picked up all the equipment and trotted to Beilan Leader.

Seeing them leaving like this, some young women were a little disappointed: "Why don't you live in the village?"

"Ahua, what are you thinking about? I can't live in your house even if I live in the village."

The woman named Ahua smiled and said: "I would like to just take him away, so that I don't have to nag me all day long."

Li Duoyu and the village cadres also went to Beilan Ling to communicate with Company Commander Xu and Instructor Zhang.

They found a relatively flat piece of land and set up camp directly with tarpaulins and set up iron pots.

As they were building, Li Duoyu asked: "Company Commander Xu, Instructor Zhang, are there anything missing?"

Xu Donghua thought about it. They all brought their own rice, oil, salt, flour, etc., but there were indeed some things they were lacking.

That is, the firewood they bring may not be enough, and the Beilan collar looks like it is bare everywhere, as if there is firewood for them to collect, and they don't know where to get fresh water at the moment.

"Director Li, there are regulations above that we cannot take things from the masses. Just tell us where to collect firewood and fetch water."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "That's different. Those people at the dock are the masses, but we are from the same organization. Besides, you are here to help us. If you have any problems, just raise them and I will help you solve them."

Just when they put down their equipment and luggage, Li Duoyu had already discovered that they were lacking a lot of things, not just firewood and fresh water.

The only things they brought were some rice, pickled vegetables and some flour, but no meat or vegetables at all.

When they come to the island, they are 100% required to do physical work. Without high-protein food, it is estimated that these young soldiers will lose weight in less than half a month.

Although there are regulations from above, a veteran like him is still quite good at taking advantage of loopholes.

Next.

Li Duoyu and the village cadres introduced information about Dandan Island to Company Commander Xu and Instructor Zhang.

Including the location of the new wharf, where the quarry is, where the windmill will be erected, and the road to be built.

In addition to these, Li Duoyu also brought a hand-drawn map of Dandan Island and handed them the hydrology and tidal fluctuation tables of the waters near the island.

With so many new recruits, bathing is definitely a problem. They can't use fresh water to wash, and they will definitely go into the water to play.

The Beilan Territory's waters are deep and dangerous. Li Duoyu marked several dangerous places with turbulence, and even exaggerated some of the words.

Finally, Li Duoyu was still worried, so he tied a red streamer with a bamboo pole and put up a wooden sign to remind them of the dangers of this sea area.

These soldiers came to the island to help. As the village director, Li Duoyu hoped to see them come happily and go back safely.

The second day after the soldiers landed on the island.

There was a constant "boom boom boom" sound on the island, and the rocks had already been blasted.

On the third day, the engineer in charge of the windmill project also came to the island, and the project officially started.

Volunteers from the two villages of Dandan Island also came to help, and the main point was that more people means more strength. In less than a few days.

The new dock was already full of stones. At the beginning, the soldiers and villagers cooked their meals separately.

At Li Duoyu's suggestion, in order to reduce the workload of the cook, both sides simply ate from a big pot.

It was from this day that these soldiers fell in love with seafood. Of course, there were some poor ones who had allergies all over their bodies after eating seafood, and could only watch their comrades eat seafood with big mouthfuls.

Especially the grilled oysters, grilled saury, and the sweet and delicious shrimps. What they loved to drink the most was the mixed fish soup, and the hard dried fish they liked the most was the hard dried fish that could be put in their pockets and nibbled directly when they were hungry.

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that Captain Xu and Instructor Zhang took the initiative to find him, hoping to hold a military-civilian friendship.

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "Will this violate the regulations?"

Instructor Zhang said seriously, "No, it aims to unite the masses, and the superiors still support us very much."

Due to the particularity of their profession, young officers and soldiers have almost no contact with the opposite sex, and it is very difficult to find a suitable partner.

In order to solve their marriage and love problems, the superior units often organize various friendships.

"Are you attracted to a young woman?"

Since they have been getting to know each other well these days, Captain Xu did not hesitate and said directly: "A female teacher in the school is pretty."

"You are really going for the teacher."

"Okay, I will try my best to arrange it for you, but I don't know whether she will participate or not."

It was during this social gathering that two young female teachers from Dandan Island Primary School were very likely to be promoted to military wives.

And the ones who were hurt the most in this matter were not bachelors like the Zhao brothers, after all, it was impossible for them to pursue the female teachers.

The ones who were hurt the most were the male teachers in the primary school. They had just started to have some conflicts and felt that they were just one step away from success, but they ended up being picked by others.

But because they were teachers, they still had to save face and could not jump up and curse like the Zhao brothers. After a month of working day and night, the soldiers who came at the beginning were all tanned black.

The villagers who went to help from Dandan Island were replaced in several batches, and finally in the middle of November of the lunar calendar.

The new dock of Beilanling is almost completed, and its length alone is three times that of the old dock.

The draft depth of the dock is nearly ten meters, and even fishing boats of the Wanmi level can dock at that time.

Due to the rush of the project and the fact that it is a national project, mechanized equipment will be put on the island as soon as the dock is built.

Nearly ten imported bulldozers and excavators were directly dispatched. When these big guys came to the island, almost half of the children on the island came to watch.

After all, in this era, which child doesn't like excavators? In fact, even Li Duoyu likes to watch them.

If there were peanuts and wine, he might really watch it for a whole day.

With the arrival of large-scale mechanical equipment, the villagers who went to help were stopped, mainly because of danger.

After all, with bulldozers and excavators, if the villagers ran around everywhere, it would not only be dangerous, but also cause trouble for the masters.

Of course, the most important point is that there is no need. More than 50 villagers working hard may not be able to compare with an excavator in terms of opening the road.

With the first few days of the twelfth lunar month, the cold air that kelp farmers have been looking forward to finally arrived.

This year, Li Duoyu's kelp farming area has not increased much, about 250 acres.

And some kelp farmers on Dandan Island who are more willing to invest have also expanded to more than 100 acres.

The main reason is that Li Duoyu does not need to increase, and his current identity is mainly an exporter.

The Nagasaki Fisheries Association now only recognizes him. If those kelp farmers want to export, they can only bring the kelp to him to sell.

These days, those kelp farmers are scrambling for people everywhere. After meeting, relatives hurriedly said: "Second uncle, my kelp seedlings will arrive the day after tomorrow, your family must come to help."

"Oh, Lao Chen."

Some relatives who are relatively few directly shouted at the dock with a "loudspeaker": "Come with experience, help pick up the kelp seedlings, at least two yuan a day."

Last year, kelp farmers started at one yuan a day when picking up kelp, and many people signed up.

But this year, the market situation has completely changed. The price has directly increased to two yuan, and you have to fight for it. Otherwise, if you ask, you will find that the seats have been reserved.

Lao Lu on the other side of the dock has also established a kelp field of 70 to 80 acres this year. If he wants to complete it before the year, he will need at least 20 people.

Really unable to grab anyone, he directly spent money and used the village's broadcasting equipment.

"For those with experience, it's two and a half dollars a day. Those who want it can go directly to Old Lu's house at the dock to sign up. We need twenty people, ten men and ten women."

Li Duoyu's family should be the largest on the island, with all their relatives combined covering more than 500 acres.

All her relatives came to help, but there were not enough manpower. The eldest aunt had no choice but to go to Nanri Town to find help.

He directly invited No. 30 people to help, mainly relatives from his aunt's side, and Li Duoyu also saved a lot of trouble.

At that time, relatives like the eldest aunt and uncle will start picking up his kelp seedlings after they have finished picking them up.

And the aunt's approach of directly looking for people from outside the island instantly opened up an idea for the farmers on the island.

If the manpower on the island is not enough, you can definitely ask people from outside to help.

As a result, some farmers took advantage of the time to go to the fair and recruited people to come to the island to help collect kelp seedlings.

It turned out that the kelp farmers in Shangqi Village and Langqi Village coincided with their ideas.

In the month before the Chinese New Year, Shangfeng Town started a vigorous battle to grab labor.

What no one expected was that at the end of the rush, at the most expensive time, the price of a labor was raised to four yuan, which was four times as much as in previous years.

During the time when I was making kelp, there was one person who was scolding me every day, that is, Chen Dongqing, who was in charge of distributing kelp seedlings.

During this time, he was at the nursery base almost every day.

"Chen Fugui from Shangqi Village, what you registered this year was obviously ten acres, why do you want twenty acres of kelp seedlings now?"

The farmer named Chen Fugui saw that Chen Dongqing was smoking. When no one was around, he stuffed a pack of imported cigarettes into his pocket.

"Leader, I accidentally drove too many kelp piles. I made a wrong report earlier. Please be accommodating and give me twenty acres."

Chen Dongqing took out the cigarettes and gave them back to him on the spot, and cursed: "If you ask for more, there will definitely be fewer people. Besides, do I look so easy to handle? You can kill me with just one pack of cigarettes."

After hearing this, Chen Fugui seemed to have enlightened himself: "Boss, I understand. I will bring you a box."

Chen Dongqing said disgustedly:

"Ten boxes are useless. Ten acres are ten acres. If you really want it, then register it and wait until the seedlings are divided. If there is any left, I will leave it to you."

"Thank you, leader."

Chen Dongqing frowned and said: "Don't call me leader. If my leader hears it, he might give me some shoes and call me comrade, or Section Chief Chen."

"Chief Chen, thank you very much."

What bothers Chen Dongqing the most is that because there are so many kelp seedlings distributed for free, the superior units do not want to allocate this cost to the subordinates, and let them bear the responsibility for their own profits and losses.

In other words, if you want to get kelp seedlings next year, you will probably need money.

But it makes sense to think about it. The scale of kelp farming has increased dramatically this year, with the entire county's kelp farming reaching an astonishing 5,000 acres.

They spent 50,000 to 60,000 yuan just to cultivate these kelp seedlings, but what made Chen Dongqing the most unhappy was this.

What date is this?

Why hasn't Li Duoyu come to collect the kelp seedlings? This guy wants to scare people to death.

What Chen Dongqing didn't know was that Li Duoyu had something more important to do now.

He stood in the crab pond and pulled up a ground cage, which was densely packed with blue crabs.

Most of them are seven to eight crabs. The larger ones have grown to one pound. When the big crabs are opened, they are quite big.

Li Duoyu casually grabbed a blue crab and stood up. The blue crab held up its big clam and kept resisting, but it was of no use.

After all, this two-legged beast was grabbing its last pair of feet. No matter how much it resisted, its big claws couldn't catch him.

After Li Duoyu caught the blue crab, he knocked on the crab shell and pinched the crab legs. Unexpectedly, the meat was quite plump and firm.

When the blue crab wasn't paying attention, Li Duoyu opened the blue crab's shell, and it was full of crab roe.

The crab paste is very good and slightly red in color. For locals, this kind of blue crab is the most delicious. If you use it to make sturgeon rice, it is really good.

Chen Wenchao widened his eyes and said, "Brother Yu, there's a lot of green crab paste, it's so fat."

Li Duoyu opened another blue crab, which was also full of crab paste.

"Xiao Chao, pick out a box of good blue crabs and send it to Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company. Then go directly to Manager Chen Yuan Yuan to see if they want this batch of goods."

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and blue crabs should be very popular. We will also try to clear the crab ponds before the Chinese New Year."

After all, the two parties have signed a contract. Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company has priority over the seafood from Minlong Food Breeding Factory, and when they sell seafood, they will note that it is produced by Minlong Food.

"Brother Yu, I will send the blue crabs over this afternoon.

Chen Wenchao scratched his head and asked: "Then if Manager Chen asks how many blue crabs we have, how should I answer?"

Li Duoyu thought for a while: "If she asks, just tell her directly, it's about 40,000."

"Okay, I get it." (End of chapter)