In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 9 Mimeograph

After returning home from the pier.

Li Duoyu took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and rode a [-] pole to the gate of Dandan Island Primary School.

As the school bell rang, elementary school students rushed out as usual.

After seeing Li Duoyu, the chubby Li Haoran was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth:

"Uncle, when did you cut your hair, I still think your afro is more handsome."

Li Duoyu smiled harmlessly:

"I'm going to the county seat tomorrow, do you want me to make a special trip to the bookstore for you?"

"Uncle, I was wrong."

Hearing the word bookstore, Little Fatty disappeared in an instant.

In the past, Zhou Xiaoying would come out after the students had almost left, but this time Li Duoyu waited for half an hour, and Zhou Xiaoying still hadn't arrived.

This made him a little anxious.

It just so happened that a female teacher who was closer to Zhou Xiaoying came out of class and saw that Li Duoyu was still waiting, so she said:
"Xiaoying is printing test papers today, and it may not be that fast. Do you want to go in and find her?"

"Where is she printed, I will go find him."

Lin Shanshan pointed to a small room next to the teaching building: "That room is where we print the test papers."

"Thank you, Teacher Lin."

Seeing Li Duoyu's hurried appearance, Lin Shanshan couldn't help but sighed, why didn't she realize that Li Duoyu looks quite clearly, and still loves his wife so much.

It's not like the one in her family, who didn't make any money, and treated herself like an uncle all day long, and she paid all the money for smoking and drinking every day.

life!

As soon as Li Duoyu approached the hut, he smelled a pungent smell of ink, while Zhou Xiaoying sat in the hut, holding a stylus and carving a test paper template on wax paper.

After Li Duoyu opened the door and came in, she was taken aback. A little carelessly, the stylus poked a big hole in the wax paper.

This annoyed her a lot, because once the stencil was punctured, it would have to be re-engraved on the original.

"It's all your fault, I have to engrave it again."

Li Duoyu smiled: "I waited at the door for half an hour, but I didn't see you, so I couldn't help but come in to look for you. You used to do this very quickly, why are you so slow today?"

Zhou Xiaoying was helpless:
"In the past, there was only one subject of Chinese, and now there is another subject of mathematics."

Li Duoyu just remembered that his wife had taken two courses concurrently, and had to print two copies of the test papers.

"Let me carve a copy for you." Li Duoyu said.

"You know how to carve stencil?"

"Don't look down on your husband like this, okay? I'm a junior high school graduate. I'm sure I can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within a hundred."

And Zhou Xiaoying is a technical secondary school student. In this day and age, she is already considered a high-achieving student. Originally, after she graduated, she could be assigned to work in a unit in the city.

But I don't know why, but in the end I chose to stay on the island to teach.

"Hurry up and give me another test paper, and I will help you engrave it."

After Li Duoyu took the test paper, he found that the pen writing written by his wife was just like her, very neat and beautiful.

In this era, exam papers are generally printed with mimeographs, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive.

The characters should be engraved on the wax paper first, and then placed on the gauze, and the wax paper should be rolled twice with a brush or ink roller, and a test paper will be engraved.

Among all the processes, engraving on stencil paper is the most cumbersome. The stencil paper needs to be engraved on a hard board.

"Be careful, don't ruin my original version." Zhou Xiaoying feared that Li Duoyu would not be able to do the job, so he gave him a relatively simple math test paper with fewer words.

She thought that he would stagger and yell to give up within two strokes, but what she didn't expect was that.

After Li Duoyu sat down, his expression became very quiet and focused, without any sloppy look, and he did things meticulously.

When engraving characters, every stroke is unambiguous, no worse than her teacher who has been engraving test papers for several years.

In the past few days, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't figure out how Li Duoyu had become so outstanding all of a sudden.

In the middle of class today, she suddenly started to giggle in a daze, and even made the students in the class laugh at her.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help blushing.

However, what Zhou Xiaoying didn't know was that the reason why Li Duoyu did things so meticulously was all forced out and punched out.

In the last life, after he arrived in the island country.

The first job I did was to assemble electronic components in a black factory, often sitting on the assembly line for more than ten hours.

Suffering accompanies growth, and it was those difficult years that made Li Duoyu orderly when doing things.

With the help of Li Duoyu, the two completed the printing of more than 100 test papers in an hour and a half.

And when they walked out of the school gate.

The sun has gone down.

The setting sun illuminated the sea red.

On the beach, there are only one or two naughty children playing.

When no one is around.

Zhou Xiaoying leaned closer to Li Duoyu and took his hand.

This made Li Duoyu startled, but unfortunately the atmosphere can only go so far, and there is no way to make the next move, otherwise Zhou Xiaoying would have to give him a football team.

After the two returned home.

Lao Li was sitting on the stone strip in the courtyard smoking a cigarette, seeing that the two of them came back late, he said:

"Why did you come back so dark?"

"The school will take the exam the day after tomorrow, and the test papers will be printed at school today." Zhou Xiaoying replied.

"You have a big belly now, you have to be careful to know if you don't."

"Got it, Dad."

After Zhou Xiaoying finished speaking, as usual, she went to the kitchen when she got home, but Lao Li said directly:
"How long does it take to cook at this point, you don't need to do it, my mother has already made it, and eat it with us at night."

Zhou Xiaoying just wanted to refuse.

Lao Li went on to say: "Today, Duo Yu went to beg Xiao Hai and got you a lot of small seafood. Your mother has already cooked it."

"You went to beg Xiaohai?" Zhou Xiaoying looked surprised.

If I remember correctly, this person in her family didn't like playing in the mud since she was a child, and she was not interested in those small seafood.

"Well, I went to beg Xiaohai with my mother today."

"Didn't you hate going to the tidal flat the most?"

"Everyone will change for the better."

"No, you've become too much."

"Isn't this going in a good direction? Why are you talking so much? Sit down and eat quickly. I'm starving to death."

Zhou Xiaoying: "."

After breaking up.

Although they all live in the same courtyard, because of the ticking time bomb of the second sister-in-law, everyone seldom gathers for dinner.

But recently, because Li Duoyu had changed his temper, and there was a lot of small seafood, the two elders wanted to have a meal together.

After the two sat down, they found a table full of delicious dishes, including fried sea melon seeds, dried sea oysters fried with green garlic, raw fried Balang fish, a plate of boiled spicy snails, and stewed Wangchao with old wine.
Maybe it's been a long time since I had dinner together and the food tonight is too rich, Zhou Xiaoying looked a little cautious, holding Li Duoyu's thigh with her right hand, and asked softly: "Is there any important matter at home?"

And Chen Huiying looked at her belly, the more she looked at it, the happier she was, and she kept saying:

"It seems to be much bigger."

"It seems that next year we can have another precious grandson."

Chen Huiying just picked up a balang fish for her daughter-in-law, and before she even started eating, she put another Wangchao into her daughter-in-law's bowl:

"Eat more, this is fish caught especially for you, stewed with old wine, so tired after class, you need to make up your body."

"Mom, I really can't eat that much."

"I only eat this little, it's not enough. In a few days, I will cook a hen for you to make up for it."

And just as they were eating, the second sister-in-law's family just came back from outside, and just heard that mother was going to make Zhou Xiaoying stew hen to nourish her body.

The whole face instantly pulled down.

Shouted loudly in the courtyard: "Yaoguo, I bought a pig's trotter today, and I will give you braised pig's trotters to eat tonight, and let you make up for it."

The eyes of the little chubby who followed her shone.

"Okay, I have pig's trotters to eat tonight."

But the group of people eating in the kitchen ignored her at all, which made her very upset.

Li Yaoguo, who was wearing glasses, frowned. In the past two months, his salary had been used by his wife to buy imported cloth to make clothes. How could he still have money to buy pig's trotters.

As a result, an old lady in the neighbor's house who was pouring the bath water shouted:

"Xiuhua, no one has killed pigs on the island these two days, where did you buy the pig's trotters?"

Zhu Xiuhua choked for words, and was so ashamed that she slammed the door.

When it was time for dinner, Li Yaoguo and his son looked at the wrinkled steamed buns made of sweet potato powder on the table, with bitter faces.

The chubby Li Haoran scratched his head and asked by luck:

"Where's the pig's trotters?"

Zhu Xiuhua looked at Li Yaoguo with great displeasure: "If you want to eat pig's trotters, go eat your father's."

On this day, Li Haoran's young heart was hurt again.

Taking advantage of his mother's bath time, Li Haoran slipped to the house of the grandpa and grandma next door, and Chen Huiying, who had known about the situation for a long time, left him a lot of food.

Little Fatty had a terrible meal.

"Eat slowly, no one will grab you, don't choke." Chen Huiying looked at this chubby grandson with distress.

Li Duoyu believes that Li Haoran was so fat when he was a child, and he has never been able to get a girlfriend, and the two elders have to bear certain responsibilities.

　It is really important to pursue reading effectively.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)