Smoke lingers in the seafood processing room on Tianya Island.

The flames were boiling in the stove under the two iron pots, and hot water vapor was bubbling up and out of the window like a cirrus of the wind.

This is the women of the island working on the processing of sea cucumbers.

Sea cucumber is a good thing, ranking first among the eight treasures of seafood, and it is the highlight of the banquet.

They have a slender, round body, long spines, and a sauce-brown appearance, which does not look very good, but is nutritious and easy to absorb, and is especially popular in the market.

Fuhai produces a variety of seafood, such as shallow sea fish, deep sea fish, prawns, crabs, conch, clams, scallops, mussels, and even jellyfish, kelp, and so on.

These seafood can be eaten by simple steaming and boiling after coming out of the water, and some can even be eaten raw - there is an old local saying that 'crabs are eaten raw and shrimp are eaten alive, and they will not be drowned if they fall into the sea'.

But the sea cucumber is not good, it is bitter and salty when eaten raw when it is just out of the water, and it is very strong, like a salted raw cowhide, which is unpalatable and cannot be chewed.

To eat sea cucumbers, they must be processed, dried and sold to supply and marketing cooperatives, before they can become the most popular seafood in the market.

Xiufang, Fengya and other women are handling sea cucumbers.

These sea cucumbers are sent back at noon, and the sea cucumbers that come out of the water cannot be left for a long time, otherwise they will melt and lose nutrients and lose their value.

To process sea cucumbers, clean the stomach and intestines first, and then put hot water in the pot.

Hot water was boiling on both stoves, with women lighting fires, women cleaning sea cucumbers' stomachs and intestines, and women taking care of the water.

They chatted as they worked.

Feng Ya said casually: "Fang, what did you hear about the radio with the branch secretary?" ”

Xiufang is cleansing the intestines of sea cucumbers.

She grabbed a round, black, hard sea cucumber and pressed it to the board, picked up a knife and stabbed it in the buttocks, and the black sea cucumber's intestines fell out with a 'coo' sound.

This intestine is full of mud and sand, and it has no value.

She threw it away casually and spoke: "The Seventh Supreme People's Assembly was held in North Goryeo, and *** was re-elected as their people's leader. ”

"What do you do when you talk about foreign affairs? Let's talk about our domestic ones. Huang Xiaohua, who was burning the fire, wiped her sweat and said.

Xiufang handed the sea cucumber to Feng Ya and said: "There is a very fresh thing in China, there are many vegetable fields called plastic greenhouses in Lu Province, which can grow vegetables in winter and spring, and now their local city has eaten leeks, rape, eggplant, peppers, and fresh onions." ”

Huang Xiaohua shook her head in disbelief: "How can there be rapeseed eggplant peppers now?" I don't believe it, it's so cold in winter, Lu Province is colder than ours, we can't grow vegetables here, where can it grow? ”

Xiufang argued with her: "CCTV news, can this be fake?" ”

A woman named Laifeng said, "Is there anything related to us?" We can't take care of things out there. ”

Xiufang said: "Yes, and this news is also related to our current work." ”

"Last night, I heard an expert introducing sea cucumbers, saying that this thing is good, and the sexual temperature supplement is comparable to ginseng, which can replenish qi and blood, strengthen the physique, nourish yin and yang, especially suitable for older people."

"Elderly people insist on eating sea cucumbers not only to prolong life, but even to rejuvenate themselves!"

Huang Xiaohua smiled: "Really? Rejuvenation? Did the birthday star eat sea cucumbers? ”

Xiufang nodded: "There is this possibility, our team will give the birthday star a sea cucumber for two days, anyway, the sea cucumber is very expensive now." ”

"Surely it is expensive," Feng Ya said, "Now you must have sea cucumbers when you go up to the Great Hall of the People to invite foreign guests to dinner, and down to the cadres to invite guests to dinner, and you will be embarrassed if you don't have sea cucumbers." ”

Xiufang said: "Yes, now the radio also says that there is a thing called sea cucumber magic in society, saying that if you want to pull the relationship through the back door, you must have sea cucumbers, and things that should not be done can be done with the accommodation of sea cucumbers - this is not a good thing, the branch secretary listened to it and scolded the mother." ”

Others laughed: "The branch secretary also scolded his mother? ”

Feng Ya said: "I heard my man say that the dried sea cucumbers of the supply and marketing cooperatives now cost sixty or seventy yuan a catty, and if you go to the black market, it will be even more expensive, at least one hundred yuan!" ”

"Really?" Huang Xiaohua was stunned, "One hundred yuan for a pound of sea cucumbers?" My mother! ”

Someone muttered unhappily: "Then why did the purchaser come to collect our sea cucumber and only give 20 yuan a catty?" ”

Xiufang said: "To support national construction, we farmers have the task of sending purchases, and it is very ......."

Right now!

A loud voice abruptly entered the processing room: "Hey, hey! Hey, hey! Ahem! ”

"Attention members, please pay attention! This is the brigade committee, cough cough, I'm cough cough, well, I'm Wang Xianghong! ”

"Here's one thing to inform you, well, one thing to all the members, today the team got two baskets of radish, and after work, each family arranged a female comrade to come over to receive the radish!"

"Ahem, repeat, I'll repeat again......"

Hearing these words, the women in the room were stunned.

Xiufang subconsciously asked: "This is my father-in-law, this is the voice of the branch secretary!" Why is it so big? Where he speaks, it can reach us! ”

Feng Ya shouted: "It's a big horn!" It's a big horn talking! In the past, when the troops were still there, they had loudspeakers, and every time the chief spoke, it was like that! I heard that right! ”

"But where did we get the big horn in the team? That's an electric horn! Huang Xiaohua also hurriedly spoke, "In the past, the army had a generator, but we didn't have it!" ”

The women went out to see it.

Wang Xianghong's voice still echoed on Tianya Island:

"Here I would like to inform you of one thing, today the team got two baskets of radish, and after work, each family arranged a female comrade to come and receive the radish!"

Listen to it even more clearly outside the door.

The women saw that the other workers had also come out, and they were all looking in disbelief in the direction of the top of the mountain.

Feng Ya said fiercely: "Oh, there are sea cucumbers in the pot!" Go and fish it out, let's go to the brigade committee to see what's going on! ”

"But the clerk hasn't struck the bell yet." Huang Xiaohua said worriedly, "If we stop working for no reason, let the branch secretary know that we will definitely criticize us, and if we don't say it, we will sue the team leader." ”

Feng Ya said: "He can do whatever he likes, anyway, I have to go to the brigade committee to see what's going on, otherwise I can't do the work of the cat scratching the dog in my heart!" ”

The other women nodded their heads and finally decided to go to the brigade committee together.

They take the sea cucumber out of the pot and put it in a salt jar to marinate it, which is to remove the water.

Cover the salt jar, and they hurried out to make a detour up the mountain.

On the way up the mountain, I found several teams of women, as well as old people walking in front, and it turned out that the big guys had to go to the brigade committee.

In this way, Feng Ya and the others were more steady, and they gathered with other women to go up to the top of the mountain, and found that the entrance of the brigade committee was surrounded by a group of children and old people.

Wang Yi knew that once the island was electrified, it would definitely cause a sensation, but he didn't expect that just a loudspeaker shouting would alarm everyone!

The trumpet was hung with a rope from the wooden pole that supported the large bronze bell.

Wang Dongmei stuffed a strip of cloth in her ears and held the horn.

This is the task arranged by Wang Xianghong, he is anxious to try the electric horn, but the horn needs a suitable angle to perfectly transmit sound to the whole island, so he asked Wang Dongmei to manually adjust the angle.

When Wang Yi saw this scene, he remembered the scene when he saw some people erecting TV antennas on the roof when he was a child.

But at that time, television was already very popular, and no one would watch this kind of thing.

At this time, it was different, children, the elderly, and women, and the people who stayed on the island were coming in an endless stream, and after arriving, they asked questions:

"Branch secretary, what's the matter with this horn?"

"Where's this electric horn? Where's the electricity? ”

"Oh oh loudspeaker, let me shout, I'll see if my voice can be heard all over our island like you?"

"Get out, kid go, don't have nothing to do!"

Wang Xianghong looked at the members with his hands behind his back and looked at the members with surprised faces.

He was very proud in his heart, but there was a light expression on his face: "Okay, okay, don't talk about children, look at what you are doing one by one?" It's just that the elderly don't go to work, what are the female members doing? ”

"There are also children leaving, you are in labor class, Mr. Wang, you don't care?"

Wang Yi said: "Aren't I responsible for stepping on the pedals to generate electricity? ”

"Pedal to generate electricity? What does that mean? Feng Ya asked anxiously.

Wang Yi said with a smile: "That's the case, auntie, the branch secretary left the relationship with Manager Xu of the supply and marketing company, and then applied for an electric horn and a manpower generator for our team......"

"Really?" Before he finished speaking, everyone immediately shouted:

"Human-powered generators? Hand crank, isn't it? There is one on Splash Island, and I used to show off to us! ”

"Do we have a generator too? Do we have electricity? ”

"I see the light bulb! A box of light bulbs, with the words written on it - safe use of electricity, to ensure personal safety; Save electricity and support industrial and agricultural production! ”

This last sentence sparked even more cheers: "Light bulbs? Are we going to use light bulbs on our island? ”

"And it's a hand-cranked generator, which doesn't burn oil and doesn't cost money, just take turns to generate electricity when the time comes!"

"Where's that light bulb? Branch secretary, Mr. Wang, when will you install the light bulb? ”

Wang Xianghong pressed down his hands and signaled everyone to be quiet.

But the people in the team were too excited, but the people on the sea were all loud because they wanted to talk in the wind and waves, so the scene was chaotic for a while.

Seeing this, he beckoned to Wang Yi: "Continue to generate electricity." ”

Then he went into the room and sat down into the microphone on the desk and said, "Hey, hey, hey, please be quiet, please be quiet!" ”

"We do have generators on the island now, and we do need to install light bulbs. But the power of our generator is too small to support many light bulbs, so we can't install light bulbs on every household for the time being......"

The birthday star came out and asked, "Why is the donkey too small?" Then can we feed it more fodder and let it grow faster? If you don't feed it some soybean meal, donkeys will grow fast when they eat soybean meal! ”

Wang Dongxi said helplessly: "Lord Shouxing, it's power, not a donkey!" Not a thing! ”

"To put it simply, the generator can't generate a lot of electricity, for example, this electric horn, if you want to use the electric horn, our generator can't do anything, you can only generate electricity for it!"

Wang Yi secretly said that this is still 22 years of advanced science and technology, and the hand-cranked generator is also equipped with a small transformer, and it is impossible for the hand-cranked generator in this era to supply power to such a loudspeaker.

He checked the old-fashioned broadcast horns, because they use constant voltage output, and the horns are high-resistance horns, so they need transformers to match.

Wang Dongxi explained clearly, and everyone sighed regretfully.

He himself was happy and said: "Branch secretary, with the electric horn, our old bronze bell can be retired, and we don't need it anymore, when will we smelt it to support national construction." ”

Wang Xianghong was a little reluctant: "Alas, this bronze bell has been around for many years, and the little devil didn't know where it came from and wanted to transport it to Shanghai by sea was rescued by our maritime martial arts team and hidden on our island, if it was smelted, it would be really reluctant." ”

Wang Dongxi said: "This bronze bell is not light, not five hundred catties? After smelting, purifying, and selling it according to pure copper, that's a lot of money! When the time comes, buy more light bulbs and distribute them to the members, and the four groups take turns to use this generator, which can illuminate the home, how good! ”

Wang Xianghong nodded: "Makes sense!" ”

Wang Yi was dumbfounded.

There's a!

I'm afraid this bronze bell is a cultural relic!

You have to smelt it in order to sell it for a few hundred more pieces according to pure copper?!

In case the bronze bell is a cultural relic, it is a matter of thunder and thunder!