1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer Chapter 590

 It is quiet in the dead of night.

 Cricket cricket.

 Xiao Tutu played all day and fell asleep early.

 After everyone finished dinner, Zhou Xiaoying went to the kitchen to wash dishes, and Li Duoyu hurried over.

 “You go take a bath, and I'll do it instead.”

Seeing him being so proactive, Zhou Xiaoying felt that he had another agenda. She smelled the smell of sweat on his body and said disgustedly: "You stink so much, go take a shower quickly."

 “Okay, I'll go wash it right away.”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned, showing courtesy for nothing, she must be trying to cause trouble.

When taking a shower, Li Duoyu regretted building this bathroom. He still missed the famous scene of watching Teacher Zhou wipe his body through the mosquito net.

Now I can't even see Mao, so why do I feel like I shot myself in the foot.

Li Duoyu ate a lot of rock oysters today, and secretly brewed a bag of deer antler powder to drink. He had forgotten who gave it to him.

 Maybe it was Manager An, or maybe one of the leaders, who mixed it with warm water and drank it.

 Some people say that if you eat these two things together, the effect will be great. Anyway, Li Duoyu ate them all, and there was no other reaction except a feeling of heat in the lower abdomen.

 Honestly speaking, it's better to have a bottle of Red Bull from the previous life, or buy a couple of glasses of wine.

After the two of them lay on the bed, Li Duoyu held his head with one hand and looked at Zhou Xiaoying head on, not looking like he was going to sleep.

Having been married for so many years, Zhou Xiaoying naturally knows what he wants to do.

 “It will disturb the baby.”

Li Duoyu said disappointedly: "No, Teacher Zhou, you know this sentence now, don't you? I was afraid that Haoran would hear it before, and now I'm afraid that the baby will hear it. You can't do this to me."

Li Duoyu hugged her from behind, clamped her with her feet, and put her hands directly into her clothes.

 “Let go, let's do it tomorrow.”

Seeing that Teacher Zhou was not willing to cooperate at all, Li Duoyu had a bitter look on his face and couldn't help asking: "Is there something wrong with your health?"

 “You're the one with the problem.”

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Thirty is like a wolf, and forty is like a tiger."

Before Li Duoyu could finish speaking, Zhou Xiaoying pinched him: "I'm not even thirty yet."

“Comrade Xiaoying, your husband's eel pond is almost full. If you don't put water in it, the eels will run out of the pond and be picked up by others.”

Zhou Xiaoying turned around suddenly and said with a smile: "Tell me carefully, who picked up the eel."

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying's angry look, Li Duoyu quickly said: "I've only been picked up by you. If you don't believe me, you can touch it yourself."

 “Ah~~”

Zhou Xiaoying was very speechless. Why was this man so unruly at night? She was so angry that she wanted to punch him on the spot.

Li Duoyu took her into his arms and wrapped the two of them in quilts: "It's not easy to make Tutu noisy in bed."

 After saying that, the two people wrapped in quilts rolled under the bed.

 Zhou Xiaoying was shocked.

"You are going to die. The floor is very dirty. Just spread the quilt on the ground."

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "If it's dirty, just wash it. If you don't spread it, I'm afraid your knees will hurt."

 Zhou Xiaoying blushed on the spot.

"Shut up, don't make any sound for a while, do you hear me?"

“Copy that, I promise not to make a sound.” After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he impatiently began to take off his clothes.

 But Teacher Zhou's cooperation made him quite speechless.

 It will definitely not work if this continues. If she does not cooperate, it will definitely seriously affect family harmony.

Li Duoyu then thought about it, that shouldn't be the case. The relationship between the two of them was quite good.

At this age, Teacher Zhou should be working hard, so he shouldn't be so cold. Then there must be something wrong.

At this time, he suddenly remembered what Old Tang said in his previous life. Women are more emotional. Sometimes, when you are half exhausted, she will pretend to hum a few times to give you a sense of accomplishment.

 In fact, coaxing her with a few words is more effective than exhausting herself half to death. As soon as the other person's mood rises, she will act on her own.

Li Duoyu didn't know how to coax her, praising her for her beauty, but was it even necessary to praise her?

 What can you praise her for?

Compared with his own, her achievements are far behind, and he might even be looked down upon by her.

Li Duoyu thought for a long time and felt that he had been too busy recently and alienated her, which caused her to get into trouble.

Li Duoyu really couldn't figure it out, but he directly applied the universal formula. His recent situation was how much money the jellyfish really made, and he reported it to the hostess.

Sure enough, after hearing about the money-related matters, Zhou Xiaoying felt particularly happy and became very interested.

 “How do you plan to use this much money?”

She was in the mood, but Li Duoyu's small tent secretly leaked air. As expected, people are easily distracted when their attention is diverted.

 Fortunately, this body is still young. In the previous life, it was probably over.

Li Duoyu explained the use of the next money, including how much money will be paid every month, as well as the cost of breeding feed, etc.

Li Duoyu said: "Didn't I say last time that I wanted to buy a store? I'll leave you fifty or sixty thousand, and you can choose some good stores."

Zhou Xiaoying thought for a while, shook her head and said: "Forget it, you are spending too much here. It won't be too late to buy again when you have enough money later."

Li Duoyu said: "Don't worry about money all the time like my second brother. I will take care of the money. Remember the cloves over there in Dinghai Bay."

Zhou Xiaoying asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that we won't be allowed to go over there to fish this year?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "If we don't let him fish it, he won't be able to sell it. The mayor of Xiaocheng Town, Dinghaiwan, has approached me and wants to cooperate with me."

 “Why didn't you say anything just now?”

Li Duoyu scratched his head and said, "I just remembered that I don't have to do anything this time, I just need to be a middleman."

 Zhou Xiaoying thought for a while, then got up directly, took out a small notebook from the drawer, and said:

“Since we rented a house, we have received a total of 1,800 yuan in rent. Just like what you said, the price of the store has really increased, and it has increased a lot.”

“When we bought it, it was only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. Now it's 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. The monthly rent for the store now costs at least 150,000 yuan.”

“The introducer who happened to be in contact with us has several storefronts, but the location may not be as good as the one we bought last year.”

 Zhou Xiaoying just said this

Li Duoyu said straightforwardly: "It doesn't matter the location. As long as there are vacant stores, we will buy them all."

 In this era, even the worst storefronts will be in core locations within a few years.

 Zhou Xiaoying nodded: "I think so too. By the way, I have something that I might want to discuss with you."

Li Duoyu feels that what Teacher Zhou said before is probably not the reason. This is the real issue now.

Li Duoyu squeezed Zhou Xiaoying, why are women made of water? They fit so well!

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "Let me finish my words first. But after I say it, don't be angry."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment. If there is anything else going on now, he would still be angry after hearing this.

"It's like this. Xiao Weidong's parents have been making trouble. Shanshan might have to leave Dandan Island, so I lent her two hundred yuan."

 “Oh, what then?”

Li Duoyu looked indifferent. To him, this was just something that would happen sooner or later.

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "Why aren't you surprised at all? Shanshan is leaving, and I even lent her money."

“What's so surprising? She's not my wife. Even if she leaves with someone else, it's none of my business.”

“Besides, if it's only two hundred yuan, you don't need to report it to me. If it doesn't cost more than a thousand yuan, you can make your own decision.”

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help but laugh, and then she whispered as if she had made a mistake: "If I told you, I would leave too." After hearing this, Li Duoyu really cheered up. Dandan Island Primary School is already short of teachers.

 Lin Shanshan and Zhou Xiaoying are the two most outstanding teachers. If they both leave, Principal Zhu will have a huge headache.

  No, that's not the point.

Li Duoyu looked at the grinning Zhou Xiaoying and said, "You don't want to go to Rongcheng with Shanshan."

 Zhou Xiaoying shook her head and said, "No."

 “Then what are you doing, saying you want to leave?”

Zhou Xiaoying quickly explained: "It's like this, haven't I been learning English by myself recently? I've hit a bottleneck recently and can't make any progress at all, so I'm thinking of enrolling in an English correspondence class."

 “Correspondence class.”

Zhou Xiaoying was stunned and said: "Do you know about correspondence courses?"

Li Duoyu smiled. Of course he knew about correspondence courses, which seemed to be a particularly popular way of further study in the 1980s and 1990s.

“But if you sign up for this, do you still have time to teach?”

Zhou Xiaoying nodded and said: "I have consulted. Correspondence courses like ours are mainly held on weekends, winter vacation, and summer vacation. They are only for those who are working and will not affect their work."

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said, "Okay, then you can go. As for little Tutu, I will ask my mother-in-law to help bring more."

Zhou Xiaoying didn't expect Li Duoyu to be so straightforward, and thought he would definitely not agree.

Li Duoyu glanced at his watch and said: "Teacher Zhou, I have been chatting with you for more than an hour. My time is very expensive, so I need to pay some fees first."

Zhou Xiaoying hummed: "How much it costs, I am considered a housekeeper now, I can afford it."

"You think too highly of yourself. Your husband's appearance fee is only 5,000 yuan an hour."

Zhou Xiaoying glanced at him sideways: "Foreign professional English translation experts are less expensive than you for one hour."

After getting involved with English contracts, Zhou Xiaoying discovered that the contracts were so expensive. He also heard that asking a professional to translate a contract costs almost 5,000 yuan.

 She is taking a correspondence course this time, focusing on this direction. Maybe she can really help her husband in the future.

“I'm a top talent like them, okay? Last year, Haixin Eel Factory asked me once and they had to pay 30,000 yuan.”

 “Okay, okay, you're awesome.”

“It's necessary. How can a man say he can't do it?”

 Li Duoyu couldn't bear it any longer.

"Take off your watch first. It hurts me every time. Last time, it even gave me a scratch on my back."

Li Duoyu quickly took off his watch, and the monkey became anxious.

 “Take your hands away and don't press my hair.”

 Playing here and there is called passion.

 But in a nursery base in the county town, a young man felt that he was going crazy.

 At night, the temperature outside is still about 30 degrees, but inside the nursery base, it is only less than 20 degrees.

 The water in the nursery pond was only ten degrees cold. It was indeed cool in here, but his heart was bleeding.

 Since he took over the nursery base and made it a semi-independent fishery research institute, he discovered that it was a big pit.

The chiller outside has to run for twenty hours, otherwise the kelp soaked in the nursery pond will rot due to the high temperature.

Looking at the electric meter that was running very fast, Zhao Jialu asked his assistant: "Will the institute pay the electricity bill this month or we will pay it?"

“Director Zhao, last month the institute concluded the research, but starting from this month, we have to do it ourselves.”

 “But we don't have any money in our account at all, how can we settle it?”

 The assistant scratched his head and felt that this was not something he should consider, so he did not answer.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhao Jialu had no idea what to do. Since he came here, he has discovered the researchers here.

 Every one is made of wood.

They are not very talkative. I think the one who talks the most is my uncle Chen Dongqing, but recently he has been staying at Li Duoyu's shrimp farm and rarely comes over.

 Taking over the nursery base, Li Duoyu said it was easy, but it was really difficult to do.

There are really too many things to learn. Currently, there are four main types of seedlings in the nursery base.

 Kelp seedlings, clam seedlings, razor clam seedlings and oyster seedlings, among which kelp seedlings, clam seedlings and razor clam seedlings are all completed by the nursery base.

The oyster seedling breeding base is on Dandan Island.

 But the kelp seedlings alone gave him a lot of trouble. He used to think that raising kelp was a very simple matter.

It wasn't until I came to the nursery base that I understood why it was called kelp summer seedlings. There is another name for this thing.

 “Low temperature cultivation of kelp seedlings.”

 It's very easy to understand. The seawater temperature in the south is too high in summer, which is not suitable for the growth of kelp seedlings. Therefore, cold water must be provided indoors to allow kelp to grow comfortably.

 When the seawater temperature drops to suitable for the growth of seedlings, they will be moved to the sea for cultivation.

 “Damn, the treatment is better than that of other people.” Zhao Jialu couldn't help but cursed. He was just losing money. If his nursery base went out independently, there would be no “organization” to support the electricity bill.

If the kelp seedlings were not sold at a higher price, I would probably not be able to make back the electricity bill.

 No wonder Li Duoyu dislikes this place and would rather cultivate shrimp seedlings than touch this kelp seedling.

Although Chen Dongqing and Li Duoyu have been secretly helping him with this matter, he is still extremely stressed.

 Because this nursery base is very critical. To put it bluntly, if he fails to do it well.

This year all kelp farmers and clam farmers will definitely come to the nursery base to cause trouble.

 So whether it is kelp seedlings or clam seedlings, he cannot make any mistakes and must ensure that these farmers can get the seedlings smoothly this year.

 The number of kelp seedlings this year is even more exaggerated. Last year, only about 4,000 acres of kelp seedlings were registered.

 This year the area has soared to 10,000 acres, and the total clam farming area is 4,000 acres.

Moreover, Chen Dongqing said that it is almost time to start breeding kelp seedlings now, and then they will have to take care of them until mid-November.

 Until the weather cools down.

 It is not over until the seedlings are delivered.

At that time, we must immediately start cultivating clams and razor clam seedlings. At the beginning of the second spring, we must deliver seedlings again.

 Zhao Jialu is really going crazy.

 In the past, after get off work, I could go home immediately. Even after dinner, I could go to the dance hall to dance around and find a beautiful girl to play with.

 Now I wake up every day to work and learn a lot of knowledge related to seedling cultivation.

The nursery base is different from those related departments. Some department leaders do not need professional skills and knowledge at all, and they only need to hold meetings every day.

The nursery base is different. The people inside are all technicians. If you don't learn something, you probably won't even be able to hold meetings.

At that time, he was still a fashionable young man, but when he looked in the mirror recently, he found that he was dark and ugly. Maybe it was because of the beach. His hair was always greasy even without wax.

I used to think Li Duoyu's hands were a bit scary, but now my own hands are not much better.

During this period, he got blisters many times due to frequent soaking in water and moving things.

Zhao Jialu looked at his watch that had just been soaked in sea water and sighed.

 If he had to say he regretted it, he definitely regretted it to some extent. However, although this period of time was very difficult, he still had a sense of accomplishment that he had not had before. This was something he could not have before. He gritted his teeth and still had the confidence to do a good job in the nursery base.

 It's just a little far away from home.

 I feel homesick for my wife and children. (End of chapter)

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