1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

At this time, a fishing boat came over with a gong and shouted to the villagers collecting kelp:

 “Breakfast is cooked.”

“There are salty rice, bone soup, and braised noodles. Let’s go to the pier to eat first.”

Hearing that the rice was ready, Li Duoyu sat up and drove the fishing boat towards the pier.

 To be honest, collecting kelp is really tiring, but Li Duoyu is used to it. In his previous life, whenever it was time to collect kelp, he just gritted his teeth and got over it. After all, the income was quite considerable.

 Arrived at the pier.

 There were already quite a few villagers holding bowls and eating standing up, all of them devouring the food.

 Chen Huiying, who was in charge of the meal, said to one of the villagers: "Liu Baldy, just ladle out the soup. Why do you scoop out the big bones every time? How many of them have you eaten?"

The man named Liu Baldzi chuckled and said, "Eat more meat so you can do more work."

“It’s the same thing if you eat more food, don’t come again, leave some for others.”

 Due to the sudden incident, the cost of this big pot meal was paid for by several kelp farmers. The specific amount of money each household paid was calculated based on the kelp culture area.

Li Duoyu was definitely going to be the big one anyway, and this day happened to coincide with the weekend, so Zhou Xiaoying also carried Tutu to the dock to help with cooking.

Many children also come here to have breakfast, because their parents are helping to collect kelp and no one at home cooks.

 For a time, the dock was very lively.

Most of them were holding bowls and eating while standing, while some people were squatting on the stone strips of the pier to eat.

Lao Lutou, who was drinking pickle and pork rib soup, shouted: "You guys, be careful, don't fall into the sea without eating."

Shi Shi, who was squatting on the stone strips to eat, said hehe, "I'm afraid of a hammer. Anyway, I'm wet. If I fall in, I'll just take a shower."

Lao Lutou snorted coldly: "Who cares whether you fall into the sea or not? The bowl you are eating from belongs to me. I am afraid that you will fall and break my bowl."

Shi Shitou looked at the bowl in his hand in astonishment: "Your family, Yanyan, hasn't eaten this bowl. Then I kissed her indirectly. Ah, I'm not clean."

“Shitou, are you itchy?”

After hearing this, everyone burst into laughter. If these two people didn't bicker for a day, everyone felt that they couldn't get along.

Although everyone is tired, everyone looks happy.

　　Some families are happy and some are sad, but there are also disharmonious voices.

 It’s the kelp that Wang Jinshan made.

His uncle’s daughter and son-in-law usually don’t help with kelp care, but when the kelp harvest is really good, they all jump out and want a piece of the pie.

“Jinshan, my father also owned part of your kelp field at the beginning. After harvesting the kelp, we also get half of it.”

“That’s right, I can’t let you take all the benefits.”

Wang Jinshan lowered his head and remained silent.

His mother was so angry that she was shaking all over and cursed on the spot:

“When Jinshan first planned to raise kelp, you all said no. Now that the kelp harvest has been harvested, you all jumped out and said that you also have a share. Have your consciences been eaten by dogs?”

Wang Dapao's eldest daughter Wang Huaniu said: "The past was the past and the present is the present. How can it be the same?"

"Hua Niu, you didn't say that before. Besides, you are all married, what does your father's kelp field have to do with you?"

“Our family is all female, so of course it has something to do with us. Otherwise, all my father’s money would have been given to this prodigal son Jinshan.”

Several sisters of Wang Huaniu also echoed: "Yes, our family's money cannot be given to Jinshan in vain. This time he collects kelp, and he will give us at least half of it."

Wang Jinshan’s chest heaved up and down, and he felt so aggrieved that he started crying on the spot.

She has seen how hard her son has worked this year. She often goes to work in the kelp fields before dawn. When she is free, she fishes every day to make money.

　　When the money was not enough when the floats and kelp piles were replaced last time, Jinshan also borrowed money from their cousins ​​and cousins-in-law.

 In the end, he refused to give any of them.

He also said that the kelp field has nothing to do with you. In the end, Jinshan got up early and caught fish in the dark for more than a month before he got the money together.

Their family also hopes that after making money from these kelp, they will quickly return the money to the supply and marketing cooperative to fill the hole that Wang Jinjun was greedy for in the first place.

She heard from others that Wang Jinjun’s crime was an economic crime. As long as he paid back the money and behaved well, there was a high probability that his sentence would be reduced.

But the kelp has just been harvested now, and they didn’t come to help last night. Now they jumped out and wanted to take away half of the kelp.

"What kind of evil is this? Why did your father raise so many white-eyed wolves?"

Li Duoyu saw this scene and felt that Wang Dapao's daughters and son-in-law were indeed going too far. Li Duoyu also heard that when Wang Dapao really fell ill, his daughters and son-in-law all disappeared, and it seemed that Wang Jinshan and his mother were helping to take care of them.

Although he is the village director, his experience as a human being in two lifetimes tells him not to meddle in other people's household affairs, otherwise it will be easy to do bad things with good intentions, and you will not be a human being inside and outside.

What everyone didn't expect was that the Wang family made a fuss behind the scenes and directly recruited Wang Dapao, who was recuperating in Rongcheng.

As soon as Wang Dapao came back, he immediately scolded his daughters and son-in-law, and then settled the matter.

The villagers of Xiasha Village were also very surprised when they saw Wang Dapao again. They had not seen him for more than half a year.

Wang Dapao feels very old. He is less than sixty years old, and his hair is already full of white. He looks thin and old, even older than the old men playing four-color cards in the square.

After half a year, Wang Dapao returned to the village and found that the changes were really big. There were many more boats coming out of the fishing port.

There is also a very beautiful imported fishing boat, and kelp is hung everywhere in the village. You don’t need to think about it to know that this year’s kelp harvest will be bumper.

 The difference from before is that when the villagers see him now, they no longer scold him or ask him to pay.

 But Wang Dapao saw a "pity him" look in the eyes of the villagers.

 This made him quite uncomfortable.

However, since he got really sick, he suddenly looked away. Especially when he was hospitalized, his daughters and son-in-law didn't come to see him much, which made him understand a lot of things.

 There is great terror between life and death.

　　You have to bear the consequences of your own sins.

When Wang Dapao arrived at the village committee office, he found that his tea table had gone to the office next door, but he was not angry at all.

When Lao Liao saw him coming back, he was surprised and said, "Wang Party Secretary, when did you come back?"

 “In the morning, I just came back.”

Lao Liao then said: "You haven't been back for a long time. I'll move your tea table to Director Li's office first. I'll find a tea table for you."

“No need, as I am now, no one will come to me to make tea.”

Wang Dapao continued: "Speaking of which, thank you very much. I haven't been in the village for so long and you haven't removed me yet."

Lao Liao smiled: "How dare you? You have made a great contribution to our village. You also took the lead in building the reservoir on our island."

 When he heard the word "contribution", Wang Dapao suddenly fell into memories and recalled every bit of the past.

 From the formation of the fishing team, to the construction of reservoirs, and leading everyone to plant sweet potatoes and corn, we won the title of the top ten teams in the county

Thinking of this, Wang Dapao couldn't help but laugh at himself: "I didn't seem that bad in the past."

After hearing this, Lao Liao was silent for a while and said: "Brother Wang, to be honest, I am really grateful to you for bringing me into the organization."

 “That’s what you get through your own efforts.”

Wang Dapao said: "By the way, I am coming back this time to resign as the village party secretary. Call them when you have time, and let's have a final meeting together."

"ah!"

After hearing this, Lao Liao hurriedly said: "Wang Party Secretary, you don't have to unload this village Party Secretary. It's okay if you're not around. We don't have any objections."

Lao Liao's words made Wang Dapao confused. Everyone actually had no objection to a village party secretary who did not work and only received salary.

Lao Liao said: "If you resign, according to regulations, the organization above must choose a new village party secretary. Director Li is still in the evaluation period and is not a member of the organization."

Wang Dapao finally understood that the village cadres wanted him to continue to be the village party secretary without "real power" so that Li Duoyu, the village director, could take charge.

Wang Dapao couldn't help but ask: "That Duoyu, is it really that good?"

Old Liao nodded and said truthfully: "This year, under the leadership of Director Li, our village may have seven or eight more households worth ten thousand yuan.

 The lives of the people in Banyao and the end of the village have also become better. Now every household in our village can afford to eat pork. Even Chen Wenchao, the poorest man in the village, has built a new house.

Also, Duoyu helped mediate the grievances between our village and Chenjiacun. Now the two villages are connected to each other. "

Hearing that Li Duoyu had done so many things, Wang Dapao fell silent. He lowered his head and felt very ashamed when he thought of what he had done over the years.

It seems that when they were young, their brothers were just like Li Duoyu, devoted to the organization and thinking about the villagers in everything.

 But why did he change in the end? He spent all day thinking about how to make money from the villagers and embezzle money.

If he had been able to stick to his original intention until now, wouldn't he be different?

“Old Liao, I’m really sorry for you and the people in the village.”

Liao Juntian looked at Wang Dapao, whose hands were still trembling, and said calmly: "It's all over. Take good care of your body and go back to the village to see more when you have time."

 “Hmm.”(End of chapter)