In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

The millennium celebration of Mazu's ascension to heaven is definitely a grand event for millions of Mazu believers.

After all, the millennium anniversary was a special period, and even if people wanted to celebrate, they didn't have the courage to do so. It was already very good that the ancestral temple could be preserved.

Li Duoyu was also quite clear about the Millennium Celebration. Not only would people along the coast go there to worship, but overseas Chinese would also invite back the spirits of Mazu from overseas and let them return to their mother's home to receive the spiritual power of the golden body.

Li Duoyu remembered very clearly that in order to participate in this grand event, Mazu believers from overseas provinces had to travel to island countries and then come to the mainland from there.

That time was also the first ice-breaking trip between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It seems that there are the most Mazu temples in the overseas province in the world. It is said that there are more than 800 large-scale temples, and there may be several thousand unnamed ones. Two-thirds of the residents on the island are Mazu believers.

It is said that it was this ice-breaking trip that led to large-scale protests by veterans of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in overseas provinces, which led to the massive homecoming and family visit movement in 1987.

If Shitou's grandfather is lucky, he should be able to return to Dandan Island to visit his relatives openly next year.

Speaking of the millennium celebration, Li Duoyu felt very regretful. In his previous life, he was still in prison working on a sewing machine and was unable to attend the feast.

Everything he knew was told to him orally. It was said that next year's celebration would have more than 100,000 participants, making it an unprecedented grand event.

The Mazu of the Tianhou Temple on Dandan Island is one of the few golden statues and occupies a place in the entire millennium festival.

Chen Huotan continued, "I have discussed this with the people of Chenjia Village. We only have one Tianhou Temple on our island, so we should just not separate them and do it together. The head of the group should have two representatives from each village to ask Mazu.

If the big boss is from our Xiasha Village, then this year's financial and worship work of the Tianhou Temple will be mainly handled by our Xiasha Village.

If the big boss is from Chenjia Village, then they will be responsible."

A group of older people started talking. They were old and no longer at the age of fighting and killing. Now they were all very slick.

"Sure, as long as we don't fight, there won't be any problem if we work together."

"That's right, harmony brings wealth."

At this moment, Chen Huotan knocked on the floor twice with his cane, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"By the way, there is a situation now. Yuan Shan and I are unable to make a decision, so we would like to discuss it with everyone."

After hearing this, everyone looked at the two of them, although Li Duoyu was the boss this year.

But the ones who really did the work were the two people in front of them. They were also very curious about what had happened that prevented the two of them from making a decision and required them to be called over to discuss it.

Chen Huotan continued, "It's like this, originally, I called everyone here to discuss the candidate for the head of the family next year.

But now there is a special situation. That is, after Li Duoyu became the boss, the fortune of our Dandan Island has become quite prosperous.

I have discussed this with several people and feel that it is indeed Mazu who is blessing him. Now I would like to ask for everyone's opinions.

Should we continue with the previous rule that each person can only be the head once, or should we allow those who have made special contributions to continue to be elected? "

As soon as Chen Huotan finished speaking, someone immediately asked, "Uncle Huotan, what do you mean? Will Li Duoyu still be the head of the family next year? Don't we need to ask Mazu?"

Chen Huotan shook his head and said, "What we mean is that next year Li Duoyu will only be a candidate for the head of the family, but whether he can become the big head of the family will be decided by throwing the holy grail. In the end, Mazu has the final say."

"That's it."

"Li Duoyu has indeed made a great contribution, and we in Chenjia Village are very grateful to him."

"And everyone thinks he's extremely lucky. If he's the head of the island, maybe the luck of the entire island will improve as well."

Someone from Chenjia Village said, "But if that's the case, there will be one more candidate for the head of Xiasha Village, and Chenjia Village will have even less chance."

Chen Huotan said: "Our village will not take advantage. If Duoyu participates, we will also have two."

"If that's the case, we in Chenjia Village have no objection."

But there are also different voices. Many people actually want to be the boss. After all, next year is very important.

And many people think that Li Duoyu’s fortune has become so prosperous only after he was elected as the boss.

A middle-aged man named Zheng Shaolin said, "If Li Duoyu becomes a candidate for the head of the family again, will it break the rules set by our ancestors? If capable people all do this, then others will not have this opportunity."

Chen Huotan nodded and said, "So, this time we are here to discuss with you. When the time comes, everyone can vote to decide."

Some people also said: "Even if Duoyu continues to be a candidate for the head family, I don't believe that he can continue to be the head family."

"If he can beat everyone in the Holy Grail toss this time, I'll accept it."

"That really was chosen by Mazu."

Seeing everyone's attitude, Zheng Shaolin sighed. It was more like a briefing than a discussion with them.

Li Duoyu's performance in the past two years has been so dazzling that it has indeed boosted the economy of the entire island, and many people have made money through him.

If he wanted to be the head of the family again, most of the villagers would support him.

"Okay, if we agree, let's call Director Li over first. Actually, we haven't informed him about this matter yet."

"Didn't Li Duoyu take the initiative to ask for it?"

The two old men shook their heads and said, "No, Duoyu never mentioned this matter."

After hearing this, many people had a better impression of Li Duoyu. Just now, the two of them did not explain things clearly, which made them blame the young man and think he was too greedy.

The Qixingwan Shrimp Farm was filled with convoys transporting prawns and blue crabs, and there was even a traffic jam.

This scene reminded many people of the time when people from all over the world came to their Shangfeng Town to buy smuggled goods.

Several middle-aged men who were fishing for shrimp in the shrimp pond were suddenly reminded of the traffic jam: "Time flies so fast. I haven't seen so many cars in a long time."

The guy who was catching shrimps with him took a puff of his cigarette butt, but instead of flicking it into the shrimp pond, he put it out and put it in his pocket, because if he was discovered and reported, he would be fined at least one yuan.

"Yeah, who would have thought that maritime smuggling would be cracked down so quickly back then? I was thinking of making that money."

"Fortunately, you don't have the ability to earn this money, otherwise you would probably be in jail now."

"Hahaha~~"

The bosses on the trucks, each holding the pre-order agreement they had signed, rushed to pay the money at Minlong's finance office.

A fishmonger named Li Yajun said, "Director Li, we are also relatives. I would like to add another 20,000 yuan of prawns. Is it possible?"

Everyone knows that the prawns farmed by Minlong Company are in short supply, as long as someone has them.

It is 100% possible to make money. It can almost be said that no matter how much money you spend on buying prawns from Li Duoyu today, you are likely to make twice as much money.

But what he didn't expect was that Director Li in front of him was very firm:

"I'm really sorry, all the prawns in the pond have been reserved. If I give you more, there won't be enough for others."

Li Yajun asked anxiously, "Director Li, can't you really give me a little more?"

Li Duoyu shook his head: "Now that I've opened my mouth, I can't stop. We're all doing business, so you should understand."

Li Yajun smiled awkwardly, but he brought a lot of money with him this time. After thinking for a while, he said, "How about this, we buy another 5,000 blue crabs, what do you think?"

"Blue crab, yes."

Although there are no prawns, it might be a good idea to buy more blue crabs. After all, the products of Minlong must be top quality, and their blue crabs are better than others.

Li Yajun smiled and said, "Okay, that's a total of one ton of shrimp and five thousand dollars of blue crabs."

After saying this, Li Yajun directly put the suitcase he carried with him on the table and took out thirty bundles of drugs from it.

And he did not avoid suspicion, as if he was showing his strength to Li Duoyu. Li Duoyu just glanced at it and found that there was quite a lot of money in the suitcase.

I guess from the very beginning, Li Yajun came here with the mentality of buying more.

There were many people like him today. Almost everyone wanted to get more goods. Li Duoyu's mouth was almost dry and he didn't know how many cups of tea he had drunk.

In fact, just now the idea of ​​dealer membership popped into his mind, as long as the other party paid a certain amount of membership fee.

You can become a dealer member of their Minlong Company, and they can be notified first if there are good products next time.

But Li Duoyu thought about it and felt that this idea was too advanced for most people if he did this.

Other companies may follow suit, and by then, the domestic channel model may enter the membership-dealer model many years in advance.

There are two people in charge of counting the money these two days.

One of them is Chen Xiaoyan, who can be considered as the daughter-in-law of the Li family. Although they have not obtained the marriage certificate yet, both parties have already "decided" the marriage.

Even if both parties have calculated their birth dates and their parents have agreed, they are still too young. If they decide on their lifelong plans so early, there will definitely be many quarrels in the future.

The other one is Liu Xiaolan, who is now learning from her second brother Li Yaoguo and can count money very quickly.

But even though they counted the money very quickly, their hands were cramped from counting the money over the past two days.

Neither of them had ever seen so much money in their lives, and much of it was brand new, as if it had just been withdrawn from the bank.

After Chen Xiaoyan and Liu Xiaolan finished counting, they counted again for each other, then signed and said, "30,000 yuan."

After confirming the amount, Li Duoyu took out two slips and wrote "2,000 kilograms of prawns" on one slip.

Another note read: [Five thousand kilograms of blue crabs]

He then signed and stamped his own seal. Due to the standardized management, every process must be checked and signed by someone, including him.

After they got the note, my brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and Chen Wenchao would go to check out the goods and help them load them.

The room that Li Duoyu used to store money was filled with bundles of big unity tied with rubber bands. Not many people could enter this room.

Li Duoyu, feeling a little tired, simply lay down in the pile of money. At this moment, he really had the urge to throw the money into the sky.

At the same time, I also understood one thing: why the money had a bad smell, because I didn't know how many hands the money had passed through before it got to him.

The banknotes have long been "favored" by sweat, saliva, handwriting, etc., and a lot of dirt will be attached to the surface of the banknotes, which does have an indescribable smell.

There is only one reason why money doesn't smell bad, and that is that you have too little money. It's hard for so much money to not smell bad when it's piled together.

Just then, the shrimp farm's second eldest brother's landline phone rang. After Chen Xiaoyan answered it, she trotted over and knocked on the door.

"Brother Yu, Uncle Huotan wants to talk to you about something. He wants you to go back to the island to discuss the next year's first home."

Li Duoyu was a little puzzled. Couldn't they just decide on the boss's matters? Why did they have to discuss it with him?

Anyway, he can only be the boss once, so what does the new boss have to do with him?

"okay, I get it."

After Li Duoyu returned to the island, he went to the village council. He thought these people knew that he had made so much money today.

I guess they wanted to make him a sucker while he was still the boss and get him to donate more money.

But Uncle Huotan's words made Li Duoyu unable to believe his ears.

Li Duoyu pointed at himself and said, "Can I still be a candidate for the head family next year?"

Chen Huotan nodded and said, "That's right."

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "No, according to the rules of our village, isn't it true that a person can only be the head of a household once in his lifetime?"

Chen Huotan smiled and said, "Don't worry about this kind of thing. Many rules are set by people. This time everyone has voted and passed it. You can still be a candidate for the head family next year, but you still have to throw the holy grail together and ask Mazu."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu became serious instead. He glanced at the twenty or so middle-aged and elderly people in the room.

Having roughly guessed why they wanted him to continue to be the head of the family, Li Duoyu thought for a while and said seriously:

"I can't continue to be the candidate for the top job. It's not fair to others, and I don't want to be special.

When you guys elect a new boss, I will resign from my position as the big boss."

When Li Duoyu said this, all the board members present looked at him in surprise. They had been arguing for the whole morning about whether Li Duoyu could be re-elected as the head candidate.

It turns out that they were just being overly sentimental. They didn't seem to regard the boss as very important.

"Cough cough."

Chen Huotan said hurriedly: "Duoyu, next year will be exactly one thousand years since Mazu ascended to heaven. It is a very important year. We have just discussed it... If we agree, no one on the island should dare to..."

Before Uncle Huotan could finish, Li Duoyu insisted, "No matter how important it is, after I am the boss today, I will not compete for the candidate anymore."

Seeing his tough attitude, Chen Huotan was still a little embarrassed. What's wrong with young people nowadays? Everyone is eager to rack their brains to work for another term, but he refused so bluntly.

Now, the situation is so embarrassing!

Fortunately, at this time, Chen Yuanshan from Chenjia Village stepped forward and said, "Duoyu, if you don't want to be the head of the family, how about this? We recommend you to be the director of the ancestral temple. What do you think?"

"what?"

From being the head of the Tianhou Temple on Dandan Island to being a director of the Ancestral Temple on Meizhou Island, he was not demoted but promoted instead.

"Can I really become a director there?" Li Duoyu was really tempted. After all, ordinary people could not become a director of the ancestral temple.

"Sure, there is one spot available on our island."

However, Li Duoyu is not so naive. He doesn't think that Chairman Chen from the neighboring village would be so kind. If it were really that easy, he would have been elected long ago.

One hundred percent is conditional.