Chapter 192: Triumphant Province Ocean-going Team's Harvest Sets a New Record This Year
Within a short time, the news of Wu Lan's death spread throughout the village.
Wu Haiyao was forced to drink half a pot of sobering soup by the village cadres. He finally regained some consciousness, but he had no reaction to this incident and ran to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy wine.
The villagers were very sad about this, but no one wanted to get involved in such an unlucky thing, so they all stayed away from Wu Lan's house.
The old branch secretary held a small meeting with the village cadres to discuss the matter. After all, Wu Lan had made contributions to the fishing team in the past, so the public funds were used to buy a thin-skin coffin and bury her as soon as possible.
At the meeting, the group discussed Wu Haiyao's future and decided to transfer him back to his biological father's registered residence.
Unexpectedly, they didn't see him for a few days and the matter was left unresolved.
Yu Zhile remained silent about the matter. Yu Haizong and Yang Suyun did not intervene throughout the process, but they still burned a stick of incense for Wu Lan on the day of her burial.
A few days later, even Yu Fu disappeared. Some people said they saw him go up the mountain to eat tree bark because he was so hungry, while others said they saw Wu Caixia come back and take him away.
This kind of rumor spread in the village for less than two days before dying down. More news attracted everyone's attention, and the villagers gradually forgot about this family.
The time came to June 10th, a good day for marriage.
Zhang Wenxin and Ge Tai went to the marriage registration office to get their marriage certificate. Lan Yuanyuan finally used the New Year gift Du Sheng gave her and took a group of photos for them.
After getting the certificate, the two did not return to the village, but went directly to the provincial capital. Ge Tai was going back to the transport team to work, while Zhang Wenxin and Yu Zhile were going to the dock to pick up the ocean-going team.
"Wenxin, congratulations." Yu Peilan smiled and gave them a set of festive bedding sets when she heard the good news. "When will the wedding be held? Aunt and uncle should arrange a time in advance and go back to drink your wedding wine."
Zhang Wenxin took it generously and said, "July 18th, aunt and uncle, you must come."
At night, He Youan laid a camp bed in Yu Zhile's room so that the four girls could live in the same room.
"Wenxin, what does it feel like to get married?" Yu Chuyue asked this question again.
Lan Yuanyuan was also curious, so she turned over and pricked up her ears to listen.
"Very strange and very complicated." Zhang Wenxin repeated Yu Zhile's original answer exactly.
Yu Chuyue naturally remembered this sentence and muttered, "What exactly does it feel like? How about I try to marry Qin Yunbai?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Zhile and the other two burst out laughing at the same time.
"What's the point of trying this? You have to think carefully about the matter of marriage." Yu Zhile said with a smile.
The four of them always had endless things to talk about, and the topic quickly shifted to other things. They talked and laughed until late at night. When Yu Peilan woke them up early the next morning, none of them could open their eyes.
He Youan had to go back to the factory to arrange matters after the ship docked, so he left at dawn.
"You guys are really something. Don't chat so late next time." Yu Peilan brought hot porridge. "Staying up late is bad for your health. You can't make up for it even if you sleep for three days afterwards."
After drinking the warm porridge, the four of them felt more energetic.
Zhang Wenxin chuckled and said yes repeatedly, "The porridge cooked by Aunt Peilan is really delicious, it is definitely the best in the cannery family compound."
By joking around together, they avoided Yu Peilan's nagging.
After breakfast, the five of them went out together and headed for the dock where the ocean-going fleet was preparing to dock.
At this time, a clearing had been created at the dock by the shipyard employees, and the cannery's internal transportation team was ready.
There were quite a few people around, some came to pick up their family and friends, and some just came to join in the fun.
Yu Zhile immediately spotted Teacher Qiao and Editor-in-Chief Qiao, who were squeezed at the front of the crowd. The relatively thin couple unconsciously increased their grip on the camera due to the crowd around them.
"There are so many people." Yu Peilan sighed, "The previous ships were not this big, and there were not many people coming."
This ship belongs to a shipyard. It is said that because the custom-maker encountered a small problem and needed to postpone the delivery, the shipyard came up with this idea to make some operating money.
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of a whistle came from afar, and a small black dot appeared where the sea and the sky met.
"It's back! The ship is back!" Everyone was excited and stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to look at the sea.
The speed of large-tonnage ships is relatively slow, and it took a long time for the large ship to dock at the shore.
Yu Baiwei and her team members worked together to lower the gangway from the boat and place it on the dock, forming a stable passage, and then they called on people from the shipyard and cannery to get on board to move things.
Previously, the refrigerated transport ship would regularly transfer with the mother ship and bring back the fish processed by the mother ship. This is the last batch and also the largest batch.
Boxes of fresh frozen fish were loaded onto trucks. As soon as one truck was full, another one would take its place and wait to be loaded.
"Wow, the ocean-going team has a good harvest this year, much better than in previous years." said someone who comes to watch every year.
People who held the same opinion nodded in agreement, but there were also different voices in the crowd.
The boat was left to the people who were doing the porting. As soon as the members of the ocean-going team got off the boat, they were surrounded by several reporters. The reporters asked questions and took photos.
Yu Baiwei and others only knew Teacher Qiao and Editor-in-Chief Qiao, and they picked out questions from them and answered them very seriously.
After most of the cargo on the ship had been moved, reporters flocked to the heads of the shipyard and cannery to inquire about the specific harvest this year.
When there was no space around the team members, Yu Zhile and the other three stepped forward and hugged them one by one.
After several months of absence, everyone has a tan, a stronger physique, more obvious muscle lines on their arms, and a more stable temperament.
Only Hu Shuang still had so much to say. She talked with Yu Zhile and the others for a long time before she remembered her father.
"My dad didn't come today?" She leaned over to look for him. "I thought he would take some time off to come pick me up."
Lan Yuanyuan responded: "The store is busy, Uncle San can't leave."
At that time, Teacher Qiao got the information he wanted, and came over again and said, "Congratulations, you fought a beautiful battle. The provincial ocean-going team has set a new record for harvest this year."
As a representative of the ocean-going team, Yu Baiwei responded very modestly.
During the conversation, Teacher Qiao asked Yu Baiwei whether she insisted on creating while at sea. She was quite interested in the life on the ship of the ocean-going team.
Yu Baiwei nodded, took out a few crumpled notebooks from the package and handed them to her.
Teacher Qiao took one of the books and seemed determined to finish reading it right there.
"Hey, the sun is so strong here." Zhang Wenxin interrupted, "Let's go to a restaurant. Teacher Qiao, come with us. Let's sit down in the state-owned restaurant and watch it slowly."
Teacher Qiao and his wife readily agreed, and the group went to the state-owned hotel.
There were few fruits and vegetables on the boat, so Yu Baiwei and the others ordered ten seasonal vegetables at once. The waiter confirmed everything again and again before taking the money and writing the order.
It was not meal time yet and it would take some time for the kitchen to prepare the ingredients, so everyone chatted and waited.
Teacher Qiao and Editor-in-Chief Qiao picked up Yu Baiwei's sailing diary and read it eagerly, their postures and expressions were exactly the same as if they had been copied and pasted.
After all the dishes were served, the table was covered with green, but they ate with gusto.
"Your writing is still so delicate and interesting." Qiao Yu finally looked up from his diary. "I want to open an exclusive column for you. I'll write to you after the president approves it."
Yu Baiwei nodded and continued to eat vegetables with big mouthfuls.
After lunch, they took their certificates and went to a nearby guesthouse to get a room to rest. The next day, after receiving their wages from the shipyard's finance department, they immediately returned to the village with Yu Zhile and others.
When we arrived at the town railway station, Uncle Yu and another unfamiliar white-haired old man were waiting at the door in a ox cart.
"Brother Yu, another year has passed." The white-haired old man who had sent Yu Chaochuan and the crew back to the village sighed, "Time flies so fast."
"Thank you, Brother Yu." Yu Chaochuan smiled and asked everyone to get in the car.
Two ox carts, one in front and one behind, swayed slowly towards Haiyu Village.
"You don't know, the town has been very busy these past two days." Old Man Yu started to chat, "The former factory director and Secretary Huang left a big mess for the new factory director Li."
It turned out that when the provincial ocean-going team docked, the town ocean-going team also returned.
Unexpectedly, the Zhenyuanyang team's harvest this year was particularly poor, half less than in previous years.
With this result, the new captain and the crew blamed each other.
The former believed that it was all a problem with the crew. The people recruited by Secretary Huang this year were particularly bad, and some of them were not even familiar with the fishing process.
The crew members put the blame on the new captain, accusing him of having no judgment, which led to frequent fruitless attempts to cast the nets, and of ordering them to do useless work.
This drama of blaming each other lasted for two whole days until the new leadership of the ocean-going team received their wages, packed up their bags and returned to the provincial capital.
"The canning factory just made a major adjustment a while ago, and now it's been severely damaged again. I don't know how many years it will take to recover." Old Man Yu shook his head and sighed, "At my age, I probably won't be able to stay in the factory for much longer."
Yu Zhile said, "Grandpa Yu, you don't have to be so pessimistic. I can guarantee that within three years, the town cannery will be able to reach a higher level."
"I'd like to hear the details." Grandpa Yu asked with interest.
Yu Zhile listed for him the various measures taken by Li Ruxin after she came to power and conducted a detailed analysis.
Li Ruxin was very smart. After taking over the cannery, she did not hesitate to cut off the factory's non-special seafood production lines, focused on the development of canned fruits, and continued to develop new products to test the waters.
"As long as you can develop your own characteristics, it is not difficult to survive in a desperate situation," said Yu Zhile.
Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue also continued to pay attention to Li Ruxin's decisions and supplemented them from different angles.
Old Man Yu looked thoughtful.
After a long while, he figured out the tricks and sighed: "You are worthy of being the one who can develop the sideline group in Haiyu Village. You think better than me."
He continued to sigh the same way from time to time throughout the rest of the journey.
At the entrance of Haiyu Village, the sideline group had been waiting for a long time. As soon as the ox cart appeared in their sight, everyone began to applaud and cheer, and the scene was as lively as welcoming a triumphant hero.
Everyone hugged each other and had endless things to say to each other.
Ye Chengyu heard the news and invited them to attend the study session and share their experiences.
"Xiaoyu, you are such a competent former propaganda team leader." Zhang Wenxin exclaimed, "Aren't you preparing for the village primary school recently? These tasks should be done by my brother and others."
"I can't wait to hear their stories." Ye Chengyu responded with a smile.
Children and adults have different abilities to absorb knowledge, so their learning efficiency will be lower. So she proposed to the village to open a primary school, and took the initiative to resign from the position of leader of the propaganda team and took on the task of preparation.
"We want to hear stories, too! We want to hear our sisters' stories!" Her little followers came over and surrounded Yu Baiwei and the others, shouting.
The one who shouted the loudest was Zhang Xiaoyun, who imitated Ye Chengyu in inviting everyone from the Ocean Team to go to the primary school to share.
"Okay, I promise you." Yu Baiwei nodded with a smile.
The children all stretched out their little fingers and wanted to make a pinky promise with her. Their innocent expressions made the adults around them couldn't help but smile kindly.
For the next half month, Yu Baiwei traveled between study groups and primary schools, sharing her stories at sea.
Life at sea is quite boring, but she was full of interesting stories, which made the villagers very excited and they always asked her to tell more.
Yu Baiwei left some clues, saying that the newspaper would publish the rest of the story later. This made everyone feel like they were being scratched by a cat, and they looked forward to Teacher Qiao sending the newspaper from the provincial capital every day.
As everyone was eagerly waiting, the provincial capital's daily newspaper launched a new column - the captain's diary of life at sea. Each issue published two interesting stories, leaving everyone eagerly looking forward to the next issue.
In the letter sending the manuscript fee, Teacher Qiao mentioned that the new column was very popular with readers, and the sales of the provincial capital daily newspaper increased a lot, even to other provinces.
"There's a preview at the end of each issue, which whets everyone's appetite. It would be strange if sales weren't high." Zhang Wenxin put down the newspaper and read the words at the bottom, "The ocean-going team encountered their first storm at sea. How did they survive? Please watch the next issue of the newspaper."
Chen Zhao continued: "It's just like a radio program telling stories."
"Who knows, Bai Wei's story may be made into a radio program in the future and people all over the country can listen to it." Yu Chuyue began to imagine.
Chen Zhao said quickly: "Bai Wei, if this day comes, please let me be the announcer. I will definitely tell your story in a very attractive way."
Yu Baiwei was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and after his repeated requests, she agreed to his request.
"Be careful not to damage the window decorations that Wenxin will use for her wedding," Yu Zhile reminded.
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Zhao screamed, attracting everyone's attention.
Then, he showed his white teeth and smiled as he showed the paper-cut in his hand: "I'm just kidding, it's not damaged."
"Chen Zhao!" Zhang Wenxin shouted.
Chen Zhao immediately jumped a few meters away to avoid her slap, but she kept chasing him and finally got slapped on the back of his head.
Zhang Wenxin's wedding is approaching, and everyone in the sideline group has been in high spirits recently. Now everyone is watching the two of them playing and laughing.
"It's so lively even on a weekend." A strange female voice came from the gate of the courtyard.
Everyone looked towards the gate and saw three people, two adults and one child.
"Sister, I'm back." Yu Chi ran into the yard and hugged Yu Zhile.
Qi Er and the girl followed closely behind.
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