Chapter 139 Hope (additional update)
January is over.
The flavor of the new year in February is getting stronger.
The cannery at the Magong Town Fishing Port Wharf was relocated to the Yandunshan Fish Ball Factory, but the location of this factory is not bad. Last year, the company purchased the factory building from the landlord and transformed it into a specialty store.
In the specialty store, in addition to ordinary canned eels, soft canned kabayaki eel, and various frozen fish balls, there are also live eels and special-grade Egyptian pond lice, as well as strawberries, tomatoes, ginseng fruits, and white truffles.
At the pier seafood market at the door, baskets of freshly landed mackerel, crabs, prawns, prawns, and mackerel have attracted many local customers.
"How much does this white eel cost?"
Xiao Li, who was packing tomatoes for a customer, quickly turned his head and looked at the customer with a smile: "Brother, the special white eel weighs forty-five pounds per pound."
"Special grade?" The bald middle-aged man picked up a struggling white eel in a net bag. The eel is also called white eel and mackerel in Lingnan and southern Fujian.
Xiao Li quickly explained: "This is specially bred and has no earthy smell."
"Real or false?" Bald Head was a little doubtful.
Xiao Li immediately guessed that the other party might be a migrant worker who had just returned home from other places, so he asked with a smile: "Brother, did you just come back from other places?"
"Yes! I just came back from Xiangjiang. I didn't expect that my hometown has changed so much." Baldhead sighed with emotion.
"Come on, brother, try it." Xiao Li took out a box of samples from the thermal cabinet on the side.
He took the chopsticks and picked out a piece of steamed eel with shredded ginger. He took a bite and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Huh? There really is no earthy smell. Is this white eel the same as the one in the pond?"
"Of course, brother, our company is here. If you taste the earthy smell, just come back with the fish and return it. We will refund the full amount." Xiao Li promised.
"Give me a message."
"Brother, how big do you want it to be?"
"Just over two kilograms is enough."
"Okay, do you want to kill?"
"No need." The bald man waved his hand, took the eel that was jumping alive in the bag, and then bought another box of strawberries and went back.
Just walked out of the store.
"Huh? Terry?"
The bald middle-aged man turned his head and looked at a tricycle on the opposite side of the pier, and found that it was his cousin Lin Taishun. He walked over with a smile: "Brother Shun, come here to buy fish?"
Lin Taishun put a large bag of chilled mackerel on the back of the tricycle. After wiping his hands, he took out a pack of King Furong, pulled out two sticks, handed one to the bald man Lin Taili, lit one himself, and smoked After taking a sip: "Huh...when will you come back?"
"I just came back. I took the high-speed train at nine o'clock last night." Lin Taili lit a cigarette, leaned on the side of the tricycle, and looked at the Hailufeng store opposite.
"So early this year?"
"Without goods, business in Xiangjiang is difficult."
"What did you buy?"
"I bought it from the opposite side, a white eel and a box of strawberries. You bought so much mackerel and you have to make balls of it?" Lin Taili glanced at the bag of mackerel, which weighed at least thirty kilograms.
Lin Taishun shook his cigarette shit and said with a smile: "Yes! But I still have the eldest brother's fifteen pounds."
"How is your health, brother?"
"He is in good health. He raised Egyptian fish last year and made tens of thousands of dollars. This year Yongqiang can relax a little bit."
Lin Taili raised his eyebrows: "That boy Yongqiang isn't married yet, is he? He's already twenty-seven, and you and your sister-in-law have to help him make arrangements."
"Hahaha, you have to say, your sister-in-law has already introduced it to him, but he said that he would like to repair the house in two years, otherwise the woman will probably turn around and leave after seeing the house."
"How much is left to repair the house? I will make up for it." Lin Taili asked.
"It's not like you don't know Big Brother's character, he won't accept it." Lin Taishun took another puff of cigarette: "Huh... But don't worry, this year Big Brother's two acres of fish ponds can still earn 120,000, plus Yongqiang Working on the construction site, together with my previous savings, I can collect almost 200,000 yuan, which should be enough to repair the house.”
Lin Taili shook his head: "What are you talking about? What is 200,000 yuan enough for? In my opinion, it is better not to repair his house, but to tear it down and rebuild it. I will lend him 200,000 yuan, which is enough to build a three-story building. His 200,000 yuan is enough to build a three-story house." Just use it for decoration.”
"Go and convince brother." Lin Taishun looked helpless.
"Leave it to me. His arrogant personality should be changed. Otherwise, even if his daughter-in-law marries him, he will be prone to conflicts. It will no longer be the same as before." Lin Taili dropped the cigarette butt and crushed it with the sole of his shoe.
Lin Taishun suggested: "It's better not to demolish the old house and build a new one somewhere else. I guess the eldest brother and his daughter-in-law can't get along, so it's better to live separately."
Hearing this suggestion, Lin Taili also nodded: "This is also a way. By the way, the house (homestead) I bought before is not far from my elder brother's house. I won't use it anyway. Just build a house for his family!”
"It's fine if you give it up, but you'd better explain it clearly to your wife to avoid conflicts between the two parties." Lin Taishun reminded.
"Don't worry! Brother Shun, she doesn't know how many houses I have in mainland China. Don't tell me, she won't know."
"That's good."
"By the way, Brother Shun, what are you doing recently?"
"Me?" Lin Taishun said with a smile: "I am growing durians for Hailufeng Company."
"What?" Lin Taili touched his bald head and was immediately confused: "Did I hear correctly? Planting durians? Going to Qiongzhou to plant them?"
"Yandun Mountain is just east of our village. Didn't you see it when you came back?"
Lin Taili was speechless: "It was night when I came back! It was pitch black, who could see it! In the morning I came to the pier from the south road again."
"Haha." Lin Taishun was a little embarrassed.
Lin Taili looked confused: "Speaking of which, is it really possible to grow durian here in Ma Palace? Why haven't you heard of it before?"
"I don't know either, but Boss Jiang has invested so much money. Not only does he have durian plantations in Ma Palace, but also in Hongcao Town and Pinghe Town. The total area is more than 50,000 acres. It doesn't look fake."
"Fifty thousand acres? Is his old Jiang family so rich?"
Lin Taishun looked as if you are very strange: "Boss Jiang is about to become the richest man in Shantou and the United States, and he will probably surpass Lin Weihua in a few years."
"I just heard that, Brother Shun, tell me, I'm very curious about Hailufeng Company."
"Don't just stand there?"
"Hahaha, it's my little brother's fault, Ke Ji Ma Surimi, I'm treating you."
"Wait a minute, I'm going to buy a bag of ice."
Lin Taishun quickly bought a bag of crushed ice from an ice shop opposite the seafood market, and poured it into the mackerel bag.
Then we drove the tricycle to the entrance of Keji Ma Surimi not far away.
Before he even got out of the car, Lin Taishun shouted loudly: "Ma Yu man, give me two bowls of ma surimi and a plate of vegetable cakes."
"I know, find a place to sit by yourself." The owner of Ma Surimi, with only a handful of hair left on his head, turned on the two burners, put two small soup pots on the fire, and scooped up two tablespoons of the porridge that had been cooked in advance. At the end of the day, start making porridge.
After a while, Lin Taili also walked in.
"Ma Yu man, don't let your hair fall out!" Lin Taili joked.
"You, a Xiangjiang guest, come to my roadside stall to eat? You're so embarrassed!" The man laughed and cursed in Cantonese, while he put a dozen pieces of eel meat under the rolling porridge and grabbed another handful. Throw in the small shrimps.
"Hahaha..."
Other locals in the store laughed too.
After all, Magong Town is too small, with tens of thousands of people in total, and everyone knows everything about it.
Another dark-faced middle-aged man who knew Lin Taili was eating at the next table and asked: "Tali, when will you be back?"
"Last night."
"Where is your wife? Why don't you see her? Don't you usually stick together?" Black Face teased.
"She was taken to the city for morning tea by her sisters." Lin Taili poured herself a cup of mango leaf tea: "Heitan Tou, are you still running a boat?"
"No, there has been no goods in the offshore in recent years, and my boat cannot go to the open sea. Now I am pulling goods from Hailufeng Company." Heitan Tou replied with a smile.
"It's already past seven o'clock, you don't go to work?"
Heitan Tou took a sip of porridge: "It's early."
"How much does your company cost per month?"
"4500 yuan."
"That's okay!"
Lin Taishun, who was drinking tea, quickly interrupted: "Don't be deceived by Heitantou. His 4,500 is a basic salary, as well as five insurances and one housing fund, overtime pay and various subsidies. There will also be stock dividends at the end of the year. I mean Heitantou." , how much dividends did you receive at the end of the year? ”
"Are there any dividends?" "Not much! Just over two thousand yuan." Heitantou waved his hand.
Lin Taili became more and more curious: "Your company will give you back the stock?"
"This stock can only pay dividends. It seems to be called a virtual stock." Heitantou said casually.
"That's not bad. My hometown has developed rapidly in the past few years!" Lin Taili sighed again.
The boss, Ma Yu Lao, held two large bowls of ma fish and shrimp mince, placed them on the table of the Lin Taili brothers, and quickly picked up a plate of vegetable cakes from the stainless steel steamer.
Suddenly four pickup trucks stopped on the side of the road not far away.
On the door of the pickup truck, there is also a line of words spray-painted: Jianfang Hydropower Engineering Contracting Company.
Lin Taili took a bite of mackerel, glanced at the pickup trucks, and asked his third brother: "Do we still have hydropower projects here?"
"It's invested by Hailufeng Company, and it's over at Baishafu in Nanhu." Lin Taishun said while eating.
Ma Yulao placed a plate of vegetable cakes in front of the two of them and sat at the next table drinking tea.
"Ma Yu man, your business is not good!" Lin Taili looked at the store with only two tables of customers and started teasing again.
The corner of Ma Yulao's mouth raised slightly: "Really?"
Hei Tantou casually took out a tissue and wiped his mouth: "Terry, don't underestimate this old boy. He sold a self-built house to our company. His two sons are still working in the company, and one of them is now..." He’s the team leader.”
"Ma Yu, why are you waiting here for me?" Lin Taili discovered that all his old friends in Magong Town had become rich.
"Just a casual meal."
Just as he was about to say something, Lin Taili suddenly saw a familiar figure driving a small electric donkey past the dock.
"Isn't that Yongqiang?"
Lin Taishun turned his head and took a closer look: "Really, why is he here?"
Lin Yongqiang, who was driving away on a small electric donkey at this time, did not find the two uncles. There was a bag of ginseng fruit hanging on the pedal of his car, which he had just purchased from the Hailufeng store.
Lin Yongqiang drove a small electric donkey to the town health center.
Carrying a bag of ginseng fruits, I came to the door of a ward in the health center and knocked on the door.
"Brother Qiang, why did you come here to buy things and buy such expensive fruits?" On the hospital bed was a girl with a cast on her calf. The girl had dark skin and looked to be in her mid-twenties.
Lin Yongqiang smiled and put the ginseng fruit on the bedside table: "It doesn't matter, isn't money just for spending?"
"Thank you, Brother Qiang." The girl whispered a little embarrassedly. Fortunately, the wheat color of her face, which was blown by the weather and sun, covered up her shyness.
"Xiao Man, please take good care of yourself. After all, you injured your bones. Don't go back to the construction site so quickly." Lin Yongqiang poured her a glass of hot water.
"Where's my dad?"
"Lao Liu asked another colleague to help buy groceries."
"I don't know if he can do it alone." Liu Xiaoman is a little worried about her father's work. The father and daughter have been working with the contractor on projects in the past few years, and they are mainly responsible for the meals at the construction site.
"Don't worry, I can also help Old Liu."
Liu Xiaoman shook his head: "Brother Qiang, you are also very busy with your own work and have to take care of your family. There should be no big problems with my dad, so you'd better not go."
"It doesn't matter, I don't have much to do." Lin Yongqiang waved his hand.
The two chatted for a while, and seeing that the time was almost up, he hurriedly rode a small electric donkey to the construction site. He was bundling steel bars on the employee community project in Dongtian, Xinxiang, and also met Liu Xiaoman at the construction site.
He felt that although Liu Xiaoman did not read much, he was relatively simple, which suited him well.
If it were in the past, Lin Yongqiang would not open his heart to pursue a girl. The reason is that he has a very low self-esteem. He feels that his family environment is too bad, there is no hope in life, and he does not want to delay others.
Until last year, as the family's economic situation continued to improve, Lin Yongqiang's inner inferiority had also reduced a lot, and he became more and more confident about his future life.
At this time, he met Liu Xiaoman, the girl who was busy in the simple kitchen at the construction site.
The first heartbeat in my life. Although she was not beautiful, the smile on her face was very charming.
It's a pity that he never mustered up the courage.
It wasn't until he saw Liu Xiaoman falling down while driving that he felt heartache involuntarily, and began to greet her. Liu Xiaoman also felt his thoughts, and the two of them slowly approached each other, silently speaking to each other.
Maybe, this is love!
Maybe, this is life!
Maybe, this is instinct!
In this age of materialistic desires, pure love, like the poplar trees in the Taklimakan Desert, is too rare and too fragile.
It’s not that we don’t want to love each other.
But the price of falling in love is too high.
It’s so big that it’s daunting, it’s so big that it’s helpless, it’s so big that it suppresses your instincts.
Lin Yongqiang is one of the vast majority of ordinary men.
Liu Xiaoman has become less and less popular.
Xinxiang Dongtian construction site.
Place the small eDonkey at the door of the container house on the construction site, pull out a power strip, and plug in the small eDonkey.
After reporting to the team leader, he put on a reflective vest, a safety helmet, and a tool bag.
Lin Yongqiang came to the third floor of one of the buildings under construction and began to bundle the steel bars for the floor.
The winter sun still rises.
The sun shone on his face, and the light and heat brought a touch of warmth to his body, making the fingers stiffened by the cold wind no longer tense and dull.
"Huh... finally warmed up." Worker Jiang Dazhong breathed out white air.
"Brother Dazhong, isn't your family's land expropriated? Are you still coming to the construction site?" Lin Yongqiang asked curiously while tightening the wire quickly.
"Stop talking, my old man didn't give me a penny. When he talks about it, I get very angry." Jiang Dazhong looked depressed.
Lin Yongqiang pulled out a piece of iron wire and continued to tie the steel bars: "I heard that these houses were built for employees of Hailufeng Company. I wonder how much this house costs per square meter?"
"How much more, let's go with the market price! It's estimated to be six thousand yuan per square meter." Jiang Dazhong muttered in a low voice: "However, employees of Hailufeng Company have internal discounts and subsidies, plus provident fund, it is still quite cost-effective, and This house has no shared area.”
"Really?"
"Of course it's true. My family and Jiang Miao's family are relatives, and after this construction site is completed, I will also be an employee of Hailufeng Company." After Jiang Dazhong said this, he lost a trace of resentment towards his old father's stinginess.
After all, joining Hailufeng Company now is a good job locally, even if he is just a small security guard.
"It would be great if I could also join Hailufeng Company." Lin Yongqiang said enviously.
Jiang Dazhong stopped and took a sip of water: "Why don't you apply for the job? You are from Shiomachi, it should be easy to get in!"
"I need to take care of my dad. He is deaf-mute and there is a pond at home."
"So you are the landlord! How many acres are there?"
"Two acres, earning hundreds of thousands a year."
"That's right. I used to have to burn incense to earn 10,000 yuan a year. My old man planted three acres of duckweed and only earned 60,000 yuan a year."
After thinking about it, Lin Yongqiang felt that if he wants to marry Liu Xiaoman, he still needs to have a stable and decent job, otherwise his father-in-law will be sad at that stage: "I still want to join Hailufeng Company. Brother Dazhong, do you have any suggestions?"
"Suggestion? Of course it's nearby! If your home is in Shiomachi, you can choose a feed mill, a breeding farm, a fish ball factory, or a Nanhu farm."
"Well, I'll ask after I get back." Lin Yongqiang nodded.
Jiang Dazhong tied up a steel bar and reminded in a low voice: "You guys have to hurry up and don't procrastinate. After all, the first phase of the project only has 2,700 houses. Now that there are more and more local employees, this house may not be enough." ”
"I know." Lin Yongqiang really had the idea of joining Hailufeng Company after seeing the house.
After all, there are no new houses in Magong Town, and the place where there are new houses nearby is over Kanamachi Bay. Unfortunately, the price of the houses there is too high, and there is a shared area. He feels that the little money he has is not right. The house in Kanamachi Bay is a wishful thinking.
The community developed by Hailufeng Company at least gave Lin Yongqiang a glimmer of hope.
The thing that people fear most is that at first glance, there is no possibility of changing reality.
The emergence of Hailufeng Company has brought an economic miracle to the local area, and has also brought many people's expectations for life, giving thousands of Lin Yongqiang the motivation to change the status quo.
Perhaps, this is the significance of the emergence of Hailufeng Company!
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