Chapter 28 Cutting Down Trees

The next day, after everyone woke up.

Li Yaoguo took Lao Li and Li Duoyu to see the Casuarina planting area designated by the production team.

These Casuarinas are almost 20 years old, and each tree is more than 20 centimeters thick.

Casuarinas grow slowly, have straight trunks, and are resistant to water and humidity. There is also a saying in the local area that "millennium pine in the water", which is particularly suitable for piling on the seabed.

After the family cut the Casuarinas.

In order to get the kelp breeding raft ready before November, they planned to cut down these Casuarinas in the next few days.

He carried a bucket of red paint and marked the suitable Casuarinas. When the time came, they could just cut down the marked trees.

In the future, such wooden piles can be bought directly, without having to make them by themselves.

The entire Lianjiang County is just in the initial exploration stage of marine aquaculture, and no one specializes in selling wooden piles.

Therefore, wooden piles can only be made by themselves.

Making wooden stakes is not easy. You have to cut down the trees first, then cut them into small stakes of about 1.5 meters, and finally sharpen one end of the stakes. Only then can it be considered complete.

If Li Duoyu wants to cultivate 30 acres of kelp, if he wants to ensure that the stakes are not pulled out, he must drive at least more than 200 wooden stakes into the seabed.

In this era of low mechanization, driving more than 200 wooden stakes is definitely a big project, and it requires a lot of people to help.

However, for such things as hiring people, most of them still have to rely on Lao Li. Li Duoyu just broke up with Agui's group of drinking and eating friends, and they will not come to help him at all.

Even if they didn't break up, they were used to making quick money, drinking, eating meat and playing cards all day, and it was estimated that they would not come to help him cut trees.

The people that the second brother knew were all pen holders in the production brigade, and they couldn't do such rough work.

When Li Duoyu was marking.

Old Li had been active in the village. He always smoked hand-rolled cigarettes, but this time he spent a lot of money to buy seven or eight packs of Daqianmen from the supply and marketing cooperative.

He was usually a dog mouth that could not spit out ivory, but today he saw his neighbors and greeted them with a smile on his face:

"Old Hu, are you free these two days? If so, come and help."

"Wang Po, is your old Chen here?"

After visiting the neighbors, he went to the fishing boat at the dock:

"Brother, there has been no fishing these two days. If there are more fish, we need to cut some trees for piling. If you are free, come and help."

Old Li spent the whole morning visiting almost all the neighbors and relatives, and finally determined eight people to come to help.

They were Uncle Hu next door, Wang Po's husband Chen Sanyuan, four from the eldest uncle's family, two from the third uncle's family, and two from the fourth aunt's family.

Adding the three from his family.

There were thirteen people in total.

That afternoon, a group of people went to the production brigade to get tools and set off for the pine forest.

In this era, relatives are very important.

Once there is a big thing, relatives will help together, and if there are many relatives, it is not easy to be bullied.

Lao Li is the second child, with a total of seven brothers and sisters. Li Duoyu's cousins, brothers and sisters, add up to more than 50 people.

To exaggerate, if all the relatives are added together, they can form a company.

It is also because of the prosperity of the population.

Lao Li's family is considered to have more weight in Dandan Island, which is one of the reasons why the second brother can be the accountant and deputy secretary of the brigade.

And asking relatives and neighbors to help with work.

Normally, no money is given.

If you really give, they may not accept it, and they may even turn against you.

However, there is an unwritten rule in Dandan Island, that is, if you ask relatives and neighbors to work, you must cook salty rice and egg drop soup for everyone.

In this era, eating salty rice is a luxury. If you want to make a pot of salty rice, you must not only have three-layer meat, but also mushrooms, dried balang fish and dried clams.

A pot of rice costs a lot of money.

The men all went to cut trees, so the job of making salty rice naturally fell to Chen Huiying and Zhou Xiaoying. Chen Huiying was the chef and Zhou Xiaoying was helping.

When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law worked together, a few nagging words were inevitable. Zhou Xiaoying was severely educated by Chen Huiying for secretly going to the sea yesterday.

Finally, Chen Huiying looked at her growing belly and said seriously: "You, haven't had that recently?"

Hearing her mother talking about such a private matter, Zhou Xiaoying, who was helping to cut mustard greens, hurriedly shook her head: "No."

"It's good that you didn't."

While frying salty rice, Chen Huiying said: "Recently, I found that you and Duoyu didn't get up so early, and I thought you didn't sleep at night."

Zhou Xiaoying blushed and laughed awkwardly.

They really didn't have that, but Duoyu was not honest in any part of his body recently, and often woke her up in the middle of the night, making her sleep bad.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help but mutter: "I'm really going to annoy him to death."

"Xiaoying, what did you say just now?"

"No, no, no, I mean, the baby in my belly always kicks me, it's annoying."

Chen Huiying was surprised:

"It must be a boy because it's so active."

And seeing so many relatives at once.

Li Duoyu was a little happy.

After all, there were quite a few people here, and he had never seen them again after he came back from the island country.

My uncle got liver cancer because he drank too much fake wine.

He died earlier than his father.

The cousins ​​in the eldest uncle's family also inherited his main business. They are all sailing boats. The youngest one specializes in offshore fishing and returns home once or twice a year.

The family of three uncles and three aunts were fighting against smuggling.

I vomited out most of the money I earned, and then followed the local smuggler to sneak into the beautiful country. After that, I rarely contacted my relatives.

The fourth uncle, in the 1990s, started eel farming and sold it specifically to islanders. His children all bought houses in Rongcheng, and later started speculating in real estate, and they all made a good living.

There are more than ten old smokers, all holding cigarettes in their mouths.

To cut down such trees, they usually use two hands to pull the saw. One person stands on one side, then holds the handle of the saw with both hands and starts pulling continuously.

The two-man hand saw is very efficient.

And if the two of them cooperate, they will not get tired so easily. In less than one afternoon, more than ten people have planted more than thirty casuarina trees.

The tractors of the production team transported them to the only sawmill on the island, and asked the masters there to help saw the tree trunks into small wooden piles of about 1.5 meters.

Originally this cost money.

But under the guidance of my second brother, the master at the sawmill not only helped with sawing for free, but also helped with sharpening.

I worked that day until about six o'clock in the evening.

Everyone just finished work and went to Li Duoyu's house for dinner. Since the kitchen was too small, everyone almost stood on the courtyard to eat salted rice with bowls in their hands.

More than ten people worked all afternoon.

Everyone was hungry. After seeing the delicious salty rice, some of them went to work. Everyone ate at least three bowls and drank one or two bowls of egg drop soup.

After Li Duoyu ate two bowls of rice, he went to look for the most delicious thing in the whole pot of salted rice, which was the half-burnt but not burnt layer of rice.

As a result, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he found that a mouse had already arrived first, holding a large piece of rice cake in his hand and gnawing with relish.

After seeing Li Duoyu.

Little Fatty tore off a piece on the spot and said, "Uncle, do you want to eat crispy rice together?"

Li Duoyu took it.

I started to nibble on it, and there was a crisp clicking sound, and the burnt and fragrant deliciousness swirled on my taste buds.

Unlike Li Haoran, for Li Duoyu, rice dumplings bring him more beautiful memories.