1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 16 Shangfeng Town

 At that time, the road in Shangfeng Town was also a strange sight.

At that time, trucks cost at least 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. It was too expensive for a household with 10,000 yuan to buy this thing. Generally, only units like the Grain Bureau and Forestry Bureau had it, or the village raised funds to buy it.

But on the road in Shangfeng Town, there are too many such trucks to count. Some trucks actually have the name of a certain unit printed on the front.

It can be seen how blatant the "smuggling" was back then.

 There are many cars and the road is small, so it is easy to get stuck.

Once a car breaks down, the whole road will be full of cars, and children from nearby villages will run to the side of the road with the local "light cake" and sell it to the truck drivers and accompanying bosses at a high price.

Under the **** of the truck's horn and the driver's shouts of Chinese culture, Li Duoyu finally arrived at Shangfeng Town.

The streets in the town are crowded with cars and people, and are busier than the county town. There are hotels on both sides of the road, with small blackboards placed at the door.

 Looking up, you can see the four big red letters of Shangfeng Middle School not far away. He and Zhou Xiaoying both attended junior high school here.

When they were studying, the conditions of the school were very poor. There was not even a canteen. Since they were boarding students, they had to bring their own rice to cook.

Although Zhou Xiaoying was two years older than him, under Lao Li's deliberate arrangement, the two went to junior high school in the same year. Li Duoyu remembered clearly that at that time, he could not do without this woman at every meal time.

 At that time, he was just a delinquent boy with so much energy that he had nowhere to vent.

I had a fight with my classmates and needed five stitches on my head.

 Let’s go to the nearby watermelon field to steal watermelons.

　　Stealing the fishermen's boats in the town, he was criticized by the whole school.

 Absent school and played poker in the dormitory.

  Anyway, they are very interested in anything other than reading.

But what I remember most is that Li Duoyu asked Zhou Xiaoying to write a love letter for him, and the love letter was to a very beautiful girl at that time.

As for her name, Li Duoyu can't remember it now. She only remembers that the girl was very beautiful and loved singing and dancing.

 After writing that love letter.

Li Duoyu was hungry for a whole week.

Thinking about it now, besides Lao Li's matchmaking, there should be other reasons why Zhou Xiaoying was willing to marry him. Li Duoyu didn't ask in his previous life.

 In this life, Li Duoyu plans to make excuses.

 Due to the prevalence of illegal goods.

In recent years, most people in the town have made money, and there are shouts and hawking sounds everywhere in the town.

“The rough horse watch is cheap, only twenty.”

“Radio, electronic watch, does anyone want it?”

 Set up a stall directly in front of your home.

 There are those who carry poles and sell while walking.

 There are also those who sell sacks on the ground.

 It can be said that in Shangfeng Town at this time, even if you set up a tea stall in front of your home, business will be particularly good.

Li Duoyu remembers very clearly that since there was no running water at that time, there were too many people and tea could not be supplied, and there was a long queue even to get water from the well.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu also sold goods here. He and Agui took Yuan Datou to a small island in the Overseas Province, and exchanged items with those big ships.

They will bring them to the town and sell them.

 At that time, the best Shanghai brand watch in China cost 120 yuan. When they exchanged it with Dachuan, an Oriental watch from the island country with completely crushing performance and appearance only cost 30 yuan, and a rough horse watch cost 10 yuan.

 They just need to take them to Shangfeng Town to sell them. The prices have doubled. Oriental watches can be sold for 60 yuan, and rough horse watches can also be sold for 20 yuan.

At that time, these crude horse watches assembled in Hong Kong were of high quality and low price, and were very easy to sell. Many dealers from the north bought them sack by sack.

 Once he and Agui sold two dual-speaker three-way machines and earned 600 yuan, which was directly Zhou Xiaoying's two years' salary. They were so excited that they couldn't sleep for several days.

Looking at the bustling Shangfeng Town in front of him, Li Duoyu couldn't help but sigh, because this kind of scene would disappear soon after the smuggling office moved in.

The reason why Li Duoyu came to Shangfeng Town was to buy a few meters of good-looking cloth for his wife before the smuggling office arrived, and also buy her a folding umbrella.

While Li Duoyu was browsing the stalls, he unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance, a bald man wearing a silver necklace, Brother Shui.

 There were several horse boys following behind him.

 Brother Shui is a local snake who specializes in charging stall fees in this area. People like Li Duoyu and Agui do not have stores or houses in the town.

If you want to sell things on this site, local snakes like Brother Shui cannot get around them. They will charge stall fees from non-local stallholders.

 Depending on the location of the stall, the price ranges from 10 yuan to 50 yuan a day, but the stall fee that Li Duoyu and Agui paid to Brother Shui was several hundred yuan.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is the most profitable person in this area. His family has already built a four-story mansion, and there are two or three imported cars parked in the yard.

I heard that my wife, mistress, and mistress are quite harmonious and often play mahjong together. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

After Brother Shui saw Li Duoyu, he said hello:

“Isn’t this a lot of fish? I’ve been fooling around everywhere recently, and I haven’t seen you and Agui take care of my business for a long time. Without you two, I feel that the business has been much worse.”

"Brother Shui, you are joking. The small business that Agui and I have is not of interest to you. Isn't this because we were blocked by a smuggling ship some time ago and we didn't even get the goods?"

As soon as he heard about the anti-smuggling ship, Brother Shui's face suddenly dropped. In the past few days, they had also been detained on several ships, and all the goods on the ship were confiscated, causing him to lose a lot of money.

“These **** spend all day instead of doing business, just trying to steal things from us.”

 Brother Shui patted Li Duoyu on the shoulder:

“Do a good job. If you have the goods, you must take care of my business.”

 “That’s for sure.”

 In fact, Li Duoyu and Brother Shui had quite a lot of interactions in his previous life. Back then, he was reported by Agui’s wife and became a typical example of fighting against smuggling and speculation.

But Brother Shui is a typical among typical people, he is simply a representative figure. It is said that the great unity found in his house were packed into several sacks.

There were countless cadres who were implicated. After Brother Shui was arrested, many cadres wanted him to die quickly.

At that time, for the sake of Brother Shui's personal safety, the anti-smuggling office did not dare to lock him in a prison in this province, but instead sent him to a neighboring province for detention.

 Coincidentally, Li Duoyu was imprisoned in the same prison as him, but Li Duoyu was imprisoned for five years, while he was imprisoned indefinitely.

 Later, Brother Shui was released after being imprisoned for 30 years because of his good behavior. And the year he was released, Li Duoyu happened to return from the island country.

Later I heard that after he came out, his wife, mistress, and mistress all ran away with him and started families one after another.

Being alone, he could only go to the house of Ma Zai, who was following him, to help cultivate kelp.

　It makes me sad to think about it now.

 Li Duoyu raised his head and looked at the prosperous streets in front of him. He couldn't help but feel a little emotional. A crazy era was about to come to an end.

 Li Duoyu, who knows the prices thoroughly.

I was too lazy to choose, so I found a stall nearby and bought six meters of imported fabric and a folding umbrella at a similar price.

 I took the car and left Shangfeng Town and headed to Qingkou Pier.

Pursue reading and invest!

 (End of this chapter)