1983 Small Island, Starting From A Large Farmer
/ 1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer Chapter 630
Although the overseas Chinese relatives were very unhappy, they didn't want to have anything to do with Li Duoyu and the others. They were very happy. Not only did they feel relieved, but they also got money.
Especially the little chubby Li Haoran smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits, and the red envelopes given to their children were relatively small.
He had opened it long ago and found that there were only thirty foreign exchange coupons inside.
But thirty yuan is definitely a lot of money for Li Haoran, and he can buy a lot of delicious food.
Grandma has a baby in her belly, and he wants to go to the market to buy her something good to eat.
But when he looked at his father, Li Haoran's smile disappeared instantly, because he knew very well that he could not keep the money 100%.
Xiao Tutu also got the red envelope, but the next second, Zhou Xiaoying's face turned dark. He took the red envelope and said to Li Haoran furtively.
"Brother, I'll give you the money and let's buy a lot of delicious food. Let's hide and eat slowly."
Li Haoran was almost crying. He felt that this kid had a grudge against him in his previous life and he was here to take revenge.
But to be honest, the value of the aquatic products brought by Li Duoyu and the others this time is really no less than the red envelope they gave.
To put it bluntly, I just want to tell them that we are not that poor after all, so don't be so arrogant.
If there is a conflict, you can have a good talk, but if they are too high-minded and bullying, then there is no need to have a good talk.
After all, there is really no need to recognize a relative who looks down on you.
Under Li Hanhai's organization, everyone put on their robes and hats.
At this time, an old man who lived in Yantai Mountain all year round was invited. His seniority was higher than everyone present.
It is said that he is already in his early nineties, and many overseas Chinese who have returned to Yantai Mountain to recognize their ancestors like to ask him to host it.
The old man spoke with a vibrato, but his voice was quite strong.
"On November 25, 1986, at the Li family in Yantai Mountain, Rongcheng, the ceremony to recognize the ancestors and return to the clan began!"
After the old man finished speaking, firecrackers sounded outside the ancestral hall, and nearby residents were also attracted by the sound of firecrackers.
These people are no longer surprised by the return of overseas Chinese. After all, after the reform, many overseas Chinese came back to recognize their ancestors. This is the fourth group this year.
"The Li family was also a wealthy family in Yantai Mountain. It is said that our family used to work for them."
"Same goes for our family."
But when they saw a young man in the crowd, they became curious.
Someone rubbed his eyes and said in surprise: "Wait a minute, is that young man the one who engages in kelp and eel farming on Dandan Island and is often in the newspapers?"
Everyone looked at Li Duoyu.
"Damn it, it's really him. He's from the Li family. No wonder he always looks familiar. He looks exactly like the ancestors of the Li family."
The onlookers couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I always feel that times have been changing, but they are still so good at making money."
"They are better breeders and their brains are better than ours, but they can't compare. The ones in my family are pure waste."
"It's the same for those in our family. The factory was restructured in advance and now they don't have anywhere to work."
As the ceremony began, everyone became serious. In front of the ancestral tablets, these overseas Chinese relatives stopped causing trouble. Everyone listened to the master of ceremony's arrangements.
"Now, please give me a genealogy!"
After finishing speaking, Li Hanqing took out the family tree with both hands and placed it on the altar table in the ancestral hall.
The master of ceremonies then shouted:
"Please ask the person in charge of the ancestral home to speak, welcome those who come to recognize their ancestors, and confirm their identity information."
Next, there is a rather complicated family recognition ceremony, which not only requires a welcome speech and congratulations, but also the continuation of the family tree.
However, Li Duoyu and the other younger generations had little to do. They just stood there. When the master of ceremonies asked them to worship their ancestors, they would kneel down and worship.
When the memorial tablets of Taigong and Grandpa were placed in the Li family ancestral hall, their names were finally written into the family tree.
The master of ceremonies shouted loudly: "The ceremony is completed. Congratulations to the descendants of the Li family for recognizing their ancestors and returning to the clan. Please choose a day to pay tribute to the ancestors' graves."
After the ceremony, everyone was very tired, and next came the banquet.
The overseas Chinese relatives originally held a banquet at a foreign trade hotel, but Li Hanhai felt it was too extravagant and wasteful, so he invited several well-known local chefs.
An open space has been built directly near the ancestral hall and a banquet will be held. At that time, some local aborigines can also come and eat together.
After the banquet started, Li Duoyu directly handed over all the frozen shrimps, blue crabs, and some dried seafood to the chef.
When these chefs saw the prawns, their eyes widened. They hadn't seen such big prawns for a long time since the shrimp epidemic.
There are also those that are top-notch, each one full of meat and fat. For a cook, they are reluctant to waste such good ingredients.
They all discussed what to do to make it the most delicious.
Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Don't think too much, just add some **** and boil it."
The best ingredients really don't need to be too complicated, just the simplest cooking.
The prawns and blue crabs raised in a high-quality environment like Li Duoyu are even better than wild ones, and have less fishy smell, making them more suitable for boiling.
After his reminder, several old masters couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, this stuff tastes very good, but we thought too much."
This time, the Li family set up nearly ten tables in total, and many nearby residents came to join the banquet.
When they saw the prawns and blue crabs on the table, their eyes were all shining.
"It's so expensive. Now these shrimps cost more than ten yuan per pound, and such big blue crabs are not cheap either."
When the people who came to the banquet saw such good things, some of them were reluctant to eat them. They took out a bag on the spot and put the better things on the table directly into the bag.
When Li Duoyu saw this scene, he suddenly remembered that he had attended several banquets in his previous life.
After the dinner started, no one used their chopsticks very much. Instead, they held a plastic bag and kept putting things on the table into it.
In the past, he always felt that this was very rude and unsightly, but after understanding it, he realized that there was a historical reason.
Because at that time, everyone's life was quite poor. As long as there was a banquet, everyone was often reluctant to eat and wanted to take some back to share with their families.
Many people who knew Li Duoyu pretended and said, "Director Li, you are so stingy. Why are you ordering so many shrimps? I even saw some dried shrimps, so I ordered them for us."
Li Duoyu smiled and scolded: "That's a nice thought, these are for my relatives."
"Our family is actually related to your Li family."
"Bring me the evidence."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh, because just now there was a link in the Li family's recognition of their ancestors, which was to provide evidence.
The overseas Chinese relatives produced family trees, but Li Duoyu and his family had nothing, only witnesses and no physical evidence.
In the end, Li Duoyu had to stand in front of the portrait of his ancestor. After everyone took a look at it, they felt that it was very similar, and then they passed the ceremony.
The overseas Chinese relatives also noticed it and became interested in the active young man. They couldn't help but ask about Li Hanhai.
"What does that young man do? Why are everyone so polite to him?"
Li Hanhai smiled, and these people finally realized that something was wrong. In fact, he had been waiting for them to take the initiative to ask. "You said there are many fish. He is engaged in aquaculture. Among the younger generation in Rongcheng, he can be said to be a very powerful person."
After hearing this, some young overseas Chinese relatives felt a little sour.
"How is that possible?"
"The sea is full of fish. Do we need to engage in aquaculture? Isn't this superfluous?"
"It would be more like a few boats."
Li Hanhai smiled and was not in a hurry to refute them. He had scoffed at aquaculture when he first heard about it a long time ago.
But after getting to know it carefully, I realized that the things you look down on have already been made full of money by others.
Unexpectedly, when I got old, I was taught a lesson by young people. His son-in-law always recited a sentence that Li Duoyu said: If you don't understand, you have a prejudice against new things, which is equivalent to closing your eyes. Look at the world.
Li Xiuyun, who was sitting at the same table with her overseas relatives, saw how they looked down on Li Duoyu and couldn't help but say:
"Brother Duoyu, the farmed eels, shrimps and kelp are all very good. They are the benchmark for the entire industry and have been exported to island countries. The supply is still in short supply."
After hearing this, these overseas Chinese relatives were all stunned for a moment, and what shocked them was the words "exported to the island country".
Because today's island countries can be said to be the richest in the world, and their business is also the most difficult to do.
There are also a lot of businessmen in Nanyang, who are all trying to do business with the islanders.
But their requirements are very high, and it is very difficult to cooperate. But everyone knows very well that as long as the cooperation is successful, the profit will be several times higher.
They still didn't want to believe that a young man picked up the plate of boiled shrimp on the table and ate it on the spot.
What he didn't expect was that the shrimp meat gave people a fresh and sweet feeling, and the shrimp brains had an even richer taste.
"It's okay, let's give it a try." After the young man finished speaking, he was already ready to eat the big blue crab.
After several elders finished eating, they still held it and said, "It's not bad. Then, let's go and see how the factory is doing. Does it need investment?"
Li Duoyu at the next table stood up with his ears pricked up. After hearing this, he turned around and said, "Not bad, my prawns are 100% popular now. By the time before the Chinese New Year, everyone else will buy them. Not even ”
After saying that, he raised his glass and said, "Come on, I'll toast all the elders first. You can do whatever you want, I'll do it."
Li Hanhai scolded: "You are not sincere, shouldn't you clear the level and have a drink per person?"
"As I get older, I'm different from when I was young. I can't fight a little."
Seeing that he wanted to cheat, Li Hanhai insisted: "No, don't try to cheat, you must clear the level."
"Who is afraid of whom? Our group has the most people. If we start drinking, you will definitely be the ones who get drunk. Maybe you two together can't drink us."
When Li Duoyu said this, these overseas Chinese relatives stood up instantly. They were told that they could not drink enough and how could they endure it.
"Ganny, come and blow the bottle."
"Come just come, whoever is afraid of whom."
These overseas Chinese relatives really don't like this young man, but they don't want to recruit such a person. Not only is he rich, but he is also shameless. This kind of person is the most difficult to deal with.
But in fact, these overseas relatives were very happy to come back this time. They just wanted to take advantage of them and had no real intention to disown them.
After all, the grievances and resentments of those days are all in the past, and there is no point in holding on to them all the time.
At the end of the banquet, it turned into a drinking party. Li Duoyu and his group totaled more than thirty people.
And the overseas Chinese relatives and Li Hanhai's side, including Zhao Jialu, were only in their early twenties.
Li Duoyu couldn't drink enough. After a few rounds, they were all drunk.
One by one squatted on the roadside and vomited, shouting: "Damn Ganni, we can't be the only ones vomiting, we have to make them vomit too."
Under the influence of alcohol, the entire family seemed to be united, which was still a bit unfamiliar at first.
But now those who drank too much were already hooking up with each other, and some people came to Li Duoyu and said, "That shrimp is delicious, are there any more?"
"There are also a lot of dried shrimps."
So, everyone ate dried shrimps while drinking wine. The relatives on the second uncle's side felt distressed when they saw them stuffing dried shrimps into their mouths one by one.
Some even secretly hid a lot of dried shrimps in their pockets.
The young people were still drinking and punching each other, while the older generation talked about the past.
Li Duoyu, who had drunk a lot tonight, was also sitting and listening. He also wanted to know what his grandfather had done to make them hold a grudge to this day.
After listening to what they said, Li Duoyu realized that the original incident had a huge impact.
Even the Li family couldn't protect him, so they quickly severed ties with their grandfather and kicked him out of the house.
But even after this, the family was also implicated, and most of the money and property that originally belonged to the Li family were seized.
Li Hanqing said: "But if it were just like this, our group wouldn't hate Uncle Fourth so much. What we hate is that Uncle Fourth took the trouble himself, patted his **** and left.
Because my father looked a lot like his fourth uncle, he was mistaken and was arrested and tortured for nearly half a month. When he came out, he was almost useless.
In the end, we were forced to have no choice but to secretly flee to Hong Kong Island with the boat.
Unexpectedly, the boat did not go to Hong Kong Island, but took our whole family directly to Indonesia. "
Hearing this, Li Duoyu roughly guessed that this second grandpa must be too unlucky. They were directly trafficked.
"Ah, you are not going to work as rubber workers in Indonesia, are you?"
Seeing that this young man knew so much, Li Hanqing stared at Li Duoyu's group fiercely: "Who do you think we were all harmed by?"
"I'm not even your grandfather. After staying in school for a few years, you feel that you are so powerful that you have to start trouble with that guy named Lin."
After being abducted to Indonesia, their group lived a very dark life, but compared to those in China, they were relatively lucky.
Hearing this, Li Hanhai couldn't help but sigh: "Actually, I think your team is a blessing in disguise. You are relatively lucky. It is not necessarily better to stay."
Li Hanqing nodded. He naturally knew what this meant. He had a total of four uncles and two aunts.
But currently, there are only three of them that can be contacted, and there is no news about the remaining two.
After listening to this uncle's story, Li Duoyu suddenly felt that what his grandfather did was unfair.
Li Duoyu organized the generations of his generation, and then stood together and said to these overseas Chinese relatives.
"I'm sorry, we juniors have to apologize to your group on behalf of our great-grandfather."
After saying that, they all bent down and apologized.
Li Hanqing snorted, neither forgiving nor rejecting. On their side, a young man who had vomited twice shouted:
"You are not sincere in your apology. You should first punish yourself three times."
"There's not enough wine."
"Let's buy it." An overseas Chinese relative took out a stack of foreign exchange coupons and said: "We have money, so we intuitively go to the Friendship Store to buy it."
"At this point, the Friendship Store has long been closed."
Li Duoyu said: "Jia Lu, please contact No. 1 Courtyard and ask them to send some wine and charge it to my account." (End of Chapter)
Chapter end
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