Chapter 476 Family Portrait (1/2)

(I have a toothache, so please forgive me for the late update.)

New Year's Day.

This group of children had a great time. Under Xiao Jin’s guidance, everyone caught fish.

Li Duoyu also took Xiao Min to the beach and picked up a lot of shells.

When girls in this city arrive at the beach, they immediately take off their shiny leather shoes, barefoot, and hold up their skirts as they step on the waves on the beach.

There were smiles all over his face.

Li Duoyu also taught her how to catch dawn crabs with fish. He directly found a few branches, smashed a few miscellaneous fish, and strung them on the branches.

Then I inserted the branches on the beach with waves. Within ten minutes, I could see many golden crabs biting them.

Xiao Min said excitedly: "There are so many beautiful crabs."

Li Duoyu immediately started grabbing and caught four or five dawn crabs in one hand.

“Don’t these crabs bite?”

Little Fatty smiled: "This crab is very stupid and doesn't bite. I used to catch it and play with it."

But when he imitated his uncle to catch crabs, his face instantly turned pale, and then he kept waving his right hand.

"It hurts, it hurts."

Li Xiaorong frowned and said, "Hurry up and put it in the water. The more you shake it, the harder it will pinch it."

Looking at his pinched fingers which were red and bleeding slightly, Li Haoran said puzzledly: "Uncle, you caught so many crabs at once, why didn't they pinch you?"

Li Duoyu joked: "As long as you grab it from top to bottom, these crabs won't bite you."

Xiao Min believed it to be true and said, "Well, Uncle Duoyu, let me try it instead."

Li Xiaorong quickly said: "Don't imitate me. Your uncle's palm is as thick as a chopping board. It won't hurt at all if a crab pinches him."

Li Duoyu smiled. Xiaorong was right. The crab did bite him, but it didn't hurt much.

After all, compared to being pinched by a swimming crab, this crab is just like scratching an itch.

When he was a child, Li Duoyu also liked to catch this kind of crab, but not for eating, but for playing.

The locals call dawn crabs sand crabs. This kind of crab has a meatless shell and is hard. I heard that it is good for cooking porridge when there is paste, but Li Duoyu has never tried it. After all, the crabs are too small and the shells get stuck in the teeth. Very troublesome.

Happy time is always short. When Xiao Min left, she asked Xiao Jin's name.

"My name is Jin Tianshun, and today's weather is going smoothly."

Xiao Min grinned and said: "It's a very interesting name. My name is Pan Xiaomin."

Xiao Jin looked shy: "Hello."

Xiao Jin did not have any illusions because of this contact. For him, a girl like Xiao Min was too far away from him.

In fact, he is more interested in fishing than falling in love. He has always had a dream, that is, when he grows up and makes money, he will buy a fishing boat like Brother Yu and go to various places to catch different fish.

What I want to catch most is the big tuna that Brother Yu once caught, and the giant grouper.

This morning in the second grade of junior high school.

My sister-in-law has already cleaned the room. According to custom, she must return to her parents' house on this day.

Li Duoyu slapped his head and then remembered that he bought a camera at the Friendship Store and quickly took it out and loaded the film.

"Brother and sister-in-law, the passenger ship hasn't arrived yet. Don't worry. Let's all take a photo together."

The eldest brother Li Jinchuan was a little surprised: "Duoyu, you can also take pictures."

"Are you kidding? If your brother and I had studied hard back then, I might have become a photojournalist by now."

Zhou Xiaoying said disgustedly: "You can brag, you are a person who failed the math test."

Little Fatty's eyes widened and he suddenly said excitedly: "It turns out that my uncle is just like me. It seems that you don't have to be able to study to have a future."

After Li Haoran said this, many pairs of eyes stared at him. Zhou Xiaoying sighed: "Haoran, if you still fail the next quiz, come to my office after class and I will make up for you alone. ”

Li Haoran: (“▔□▔)

Everyone gathered at the old house, and Li Duoyu directed the standing positions: "Kids, squat in front, Zhang Lin, Zhang Yun, you stand in the middle, father and mother, you stand in the middle of the second row."

But if Li Duoyu takes the photo, he will be missing from the family photo. There is no such thing as scheduled photography yet.

Just at this time, neighbor Lin Shanshan came over, and Li Duoyu quickly asked her to help take two pictures.

Lin Shanshan looked confused: "I don't know how to use a camera."

"This is very simple. Put your eyes into this small box, and then you can see dotted lines on all four sides.

Anyway, if you stand here and see that we are all in the dotted line, just press the shutter. "

After Lin Shanshan got the camera, she was very stressed. It was her first time taking pictures of others. If she didn't take a good picture, she didn't know if she would be disliked by others.

Li Duoyu said: "Get ready, we will shout eggplant together later. When we shout, you press the black button."

Li Haoran asked: "Uncle, why do you call me eggplant?"

Li Duoyu said: "I don't know. When I take pictures outside, people always ask me to call me eggplant."

Li Xiaorong said: "If foreigners say it, it shouldn't be eggplant, it might be cheese. It seems that when you say this word, your mouth will open slightly and it looks like you are smiling."

Zhou Xiaoying smiled and said: "I know this word. The noun is cheese and the verb means stop."

Li Xiaorong was quite surprised: "When did you learn English?"

"I learned it blindly."

"Then we can practice with each other. Recently, our company has forced us to learn English well."

"Okay, but my English is very poor."

"I'm not much better."

After Lin Shanshan took a group photo of them, Li Duoyu took a photo of his parents separately.

It seems that the two of them haven't taken a group photo until now.

They sat on a bench, and their expressions were quite stiff, especially Lao Li, who was just like a stone sculpture.

A Niang was not much better, she looked very restrained and motionless, and there was no smile on their faces, looking quite serious.

Seeing that they were unwilling to smile, Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Mom and Dad, Xiao Rong has good news to tell you, she found a partner."

After hearing this.

The two of them instantly showed surprised and pleasant expressions, and at this moment, Li Duoyu instantly pressed the shutter.

After Li Duoyu finished taking the photos, Li Xiaorong came over and kicked his feet: "Please don't talk nonsense, but my father and mother really believed it. You can make one for me."

Li Duoyu laughed and said, "Sure, Defa, do you want to consider it? He is also a college student now."

Li Xiaorong glared at him: "When he graduates, I can be his teacher." After taking the group photo, Li Duoyu took photos of each family separately, and their brothers and sisters also stood together and took a photo with their parents separately.

By the way, I took a few photos of Lin Shanshan's family who helped, and her mother and son.

The film negatives of this era were limited. The Kodak film that Li Duoyu bought was about 30.

There are about five photos left now, and Li Duoyu directly left all the negatives to Xiao Tutu.

After all the negatives were taken.

The sound of a passenger ship entering the port was heard at the dock. The eldest brother Li Jinchuan said, "Duoyu, if the film has been taken, I can help you take it to the city to develop the photos. I happen to know the owner of a photo studio."

"Okay."

Li Duoyu wanted to get the money, but the eldest brother Li Jinchuan got angry on the spot: "Duoyu, are you looking down on me? Although my salary is not high, I still have money to develop photos."

On the second day of the Chinese New Year.

Although the fishermen have not yet gone out to sea to fish, they have already started working, mainly drying nets and cleaning fishing boats.

It happened that there were high tides on the first and second days of the Chinese New Year, and the fishermen with boats hurriedly drove their boats to the bad water beach.

Spending some money, hiring tractors to pull their fishing boats to the beach, there is only one purpose for doing this, that is, to give the fishing boats a major maintenance.

The main purpose is to remove the parasitic barnacles and mussels on the bottom of the boat.

Li Duoyu is no exception. The paint on his fishing boat is relatively "good", but facing the rogue barnacles in the sea, there is still nothing he can do.

If they are not cleaned regularly, barnacles will still grow to the bottom of the fishing boat.

Once there are too many barnacles, the weight of the fishing boat will increase, which will not only affect the draft, but also reduce the speed and increase fuel consumption.

And it is possible to summon its good brother mussels to attach to the bottom of the boat together. It can be said that it is the most annoying marine creature for the captain.

Li Duoyu is no exception. Including the fishing boat, he has a total of three fishing boats, all of which were driven to the beach for major maintenance on this day.

In general, the bottom of his fishing boat is relatively clean because of the toxicity on the bottom of the boat, and there are not many barnacles.

But the two wooden sampans are a bit horrible, and the utilization rate is not as high as that of fishing boats.

The barnacles on the bottom of the boat have grown several layers, and each one has grown very big. No wonder I always feel weak when driving the boat recently.

Before doing major maintenance on the fishing boat, fishermen often remove the diesel engine first.

Then more than a dozen people worked together to turn the fishing boat over to about 60 degrees, and then propped it up with a wooden stick.

Here, fishing boats must not be turned upside down. For them, this is a very unlucky thing.

Once someone finds out that your fishing boat has been turned upside down, maybe no one will be willing to get on your fishing boat.

The best thing to use to shovel barnacles is a flat-bottomed shovel, or the one used to shovel charcoal at home.

But shoveling barnacles is a technical job. If the force is too light, it can't be shoveled down at all. If it is too heavy, it can't be pushed. If you are not careful, it may damage the hull.

You must use clever strength. As for what clever method, Li Duoyu doesn't know how to explain it. Anyway, practice makes perfect. You will naturally know how to shovel more.

The fishing boats of the third uncle and the eldest uncle took advantage of the high tide to dock the fishing boats at a fairly forward position.

And a lot of large wooden piers with inclined surfaces were used to lift up the entire trawler.

The crew members, the eldest uncle, the second uncle, and Chen Liang, were all there to help shovel barnacles.

Li Duoyu walked over and saw that the bottoms of the two trawlers were even more exaggerated than his two sampans. The largest barnacles were as big as fists.

Uncle Zhuang had set up a pot and had already thrown the big barnacles into the big iron pot: "Duoyu, come and eat together later. The barnacles on the bottom of the boat are very big."

"Okay."

Li Duoyu glanced at the bottom of his uncle's boat. It seemed that in this era, the bottom paint of domestic fishing boats was still ordinary boat paint, and toxic boat paint had not yet begun to be used.

In fact, whether the bottom of the boat is toxic or not can generally be identified by color.

The bottom of Li Duoyu's fishing boat was red, which was likely to be toxic.

Because the most effective way to prevent barnacles from adsorbing is with two chemicals, cuprous oxide and mercuric oxide.

And they are red. As long as these two substances are added to the boat paint, the color of the boat bottom will naturally turn red.

So the barnacles shoveled off from Li Duoyu's fishing boat cannot be eaten.

When shoveling the barnacles, Uncle San's face was not very good. He was too busy recently and had no time to clean the bottom of the boat.

It was found that there were several holes in the bottom of the boat, which was more annoying than barnacles. It was very likely to cause shipwrecks and leaks.

The most important thing was that it was very troublesome to repair. Uncle San directly used an iron rod to smash the ship maggots. After cleaning them, he had to use wood and glue to repair them.

There were too many of these things. If the new owner of the boat found them, he would inevitably have to bargain. Fortunately, there were not many holes, otherwise he would not dare to sell them like this.

After cleaning the barnacles.

Li Duoyu ate barnacles with everyone. The taste of this thing was different from that of "turtle feet".

It was fresh with a little crab roe.

It is still very fresh and fragrant, but this kind of fishy smell may be unacceptable to mainlanders.

The two trawlers of Uncle San and Uncle Da have already found buyers, including the trawls on them, and the two boats have been sold for about 30,000 yuan in total.

After the barnacles are cleaned up, the boat will be painted again, and then the buyer can come and drive the boat away.

Because the steel fishing boat made by Captain Changwei Zao for them is about to be launched for sea trials.

In this era, it is not so simple to deliver a ship, especially for such a large ship. The core personnel on the ship must go to Ludao Fisheries Technical School for training and study, which is the school where Li Duoyu teaches.

It takes about one or two months of training, mastering complete navigation skills, and passing the exam before you can drive the big ship away.

After Li Duoyu cleaned the barnacles of the fishing boat and repainted it, Chen Wenchao had also prepared the fine net for catching eel fry and planned to start catching eel fry.

But he estimated that he and Qingguang would not be able to catch 200,000 eel fry in half a month.

If he wanted to complete the task assigned by Brother Yu, he had to spend money to buy them, but he was not very clear about the price.

Chen Wenchao asked: "Brother Yu, what is the appropriate price for eel fry?"

Li Duoyu thought about it. Eel fry are different from cloves. They are not concentrated and much harder to catch than cloves.

Although there are some eel fry in Dandan Island, they are lost. The real place is at the estuary.

If the boat goes there, it will cost money. Li Duoyu wanted to buy it by two, but he thought that eel fry is really too light.

Three or four eels weigh only one gram, and one catty would cost at least 1,500 eels. Li Duoyu has already asked, and the purchase price of the second sister-in-law is one cent per eel, which is about 15 yuan per catty. It is still acceptable.

"One cent per eel." (End of this chapter)