Boxes of cans are sealed and sent into small baskets on a conveyor belt.

Someone else picked them up and put them into cardboard boxes and stacked them.

Finally, boxes were sent to the corner for stacking.

Wang Yi shouted: "Just be on guard against some birds coming in."

One advantage of islands such as Mangrove Island is that once there are no rats in the mainland, no one will settle here, and there will basically be no more rats.

Rats on inhabited islands such as Tianya Island were brought in by big ships. The rats hid on the boats. When the boats docked at the islands, the rats invaded and entered the islands.

No one has ever settled on Mangrove Island. People only come to hunt birds in spring and autumn, and people come to fish in all seasons. In this way, fishing boats either do not dock on the island or leave quickly after docking.

Occasionally there is a boat that docks for a longer time, and it is a small boat instead of a big boat.

The hiding places for rats are always on big ships.

Listening to him saying that we should be on guard against birds, Wang Qianli asked doubtfully: "Are we on guard against woodpeckers? Even if other birds steal our cans, they won't be able to peck them open!"

Wang Yi said: "They won't steal our cans, they will poop on them!"

If you are in the food industry, you must pay attention to hygiene.

These cans must be sterilized before and after, and the soup contains food-grade preservatives, such as potassium sorbate and Streptococcus lactis, which can limit the reproduction of microorganisms and extend the shelf life.

The first batch of cans will not be stored on the island for long. According to the old rules, after these cans are produced, the team will collectively buy them and distribute them to the members as welfare.

Nowadays, many families are setting up sea accounts, and there are many relatives coming and going. When relatives come to bring gifts, it is best to take the canned fish produced by their own company as a return gift.

Man Shanhua knew that the commune and brigade enterprise produced canned fish, and she was the first to ask about it after work in the evening.

Wang Yi brought a box of cans to show her.

These are all big tin cans, weighing a pound even with the fish and fish soup in your hand, very heavy.

Man Shanhua looked at the can and was very curious: "Did our production team make this iron thing ourselves? Do we still have such a factory?"

Wang Yi said: "It's mainly due to the machine. With the machine, we can have these cans."

Man Shanhua rubbed the can and looked at it carefully, then laughed: "It's really good. It's similar to the cans from the supply and marketing cooperative, but there are no colorful stickers."

Wang Yi said: "It will be available in the future. Our production team has a hot stamping machine. When the team leader goes to the county industrial and commercial unit to apply for a food circulation license and a food production and processing workshop license, we will print design stickers for sale."

The hot stamping machine cannot print promotional images on plastic paper, but other machines can, so he used the hot stamping machine as the reason.

Man Shanhua asked: "How much will this thing cost then?"

Wang Yi said: "Different fish, different prices, I guess it costs two yuan a bottle to make a base."

Man Shanhua said with a smile: "It's not cheap, it's not cheap. A pound of pork only costs NT$56. This bottle of canned fish is more expensive than a pound of pork? Is that appropriate?"

Wang Yi explained to her: "Our target customers are not our seaside fishermen, but the mainland!"

"A pound of pork costs NT$56, but how much does a can of Hudu Meilin lunch meat cost less than 8 taels? It costs NT$2.50 when sold to Fuhai!"

"And that canned sugar water, doesn't it cost two yuan a can? Isn't it more expensive than pork? Let's take the canned peach with sugar water. How much does it cost to buy two kilograms of peaches at the market? A can of sugar water costs two yuan, so fish

Canned goods are not expensive.”

Whether it is expensive or not is determined by the market.

Ma Liu asked him about it in Shanghai, and found that canned food is now a high-end food, and its status is higher than that of instant noodles.

No matter whether children in the city or in the countryside don't usually have access to canned foods, they are just a window-dressing thing when visiting relatives and friends during the holidays.

It's okay for families with good family conditions. On weekdays, if the children are sick or have good grades, they can buy canned fruit to improve their lives. Those with poor family conditions are reluctant to buy it at all.

The two of them were chatting, and other members who wanted to see the cans also came over.

The production team produced tin cans themselves.

Strange!

Man Shanhua came to Wang Yi for something important. She saw that there were many people, so she quickly grabbed Wang Yi and said, "Teacher Wang, when will these cans start to be sold? I want to buy some."

Wang Yi asked: "Do you want to use it at the wedding? I haven't asked yet, is Fengzi's engagement going well?"

Man Shanhua smiled and said: "Our captain personally takes action, one can stand up to the other two, can it not go well for him?"

"I didn't buy the canned food for a banquet, but because I wanted to give it to the woman's family as a return gift."

"When we hold a banquet here, isn't the woman's family also hosting a banquet? When the time comes, the woman's relatives and friends will come. I'm thinking of buying some cans for Daya's house. Then a relative will pack a pack of biscuits and two cans. How nice it will be.

"

Wang Yi understood and said, "Okay, how much do you want?"

Man Shanhua took out a piece of paper and said, "I've done the math. There are a lot of people coming to the woman's family, there must be more than 20 households, so I want fifty cans, which is exactly one hundred yuan."

Wang Yi waved his hand: "The price of two yuan is for external sale. If our members buy it for themselves as gifts, the cost price will be given."

Man Shanhua was very happy to hear this and said with a smile: "That's a good deal. How much is the cost?"

Wang Yi pointed to the room and said: "Ask the captain, he calculates carefully. I don't know the cost of tinplate, so I can't calculate the cost price."

The cost-price ratio is low.

What they mainly pay for here is tinplate and diesel. The fish they use is free, and the manpower they use is the labor of the production team. In this way, their cost price is suddenly reduced.

Originally, Wang Yi wanted to use UPS to power the machine for production, but the UPS was not powerful. It could only supply power to run the machine. If the conveyor belt, can forming machine and can sealing machine were fully opened, the voltage of the UPS was not good at all.

Finally, he started a diesel generator and relied on diesel power to drive the equipment.

After the canned fish is produced, it is sent to Tianya Island and distributed according to human hair.

This can became a hot topic of discussion in the production team in the next few days. Many people from outside the team heard about it and came to inquire about the condition of the can.

However, the members didn’t know much about the equipment, and outsiders couldn’t access Mangrove Island. Gradually, the news attention decreased.

Halfway through March, the first month of the month is fleeting, and the 15th is the wedding day of Wang Dongfeng and Shi Hongxin.

The first day of the second lunar month.

Wang Dongfeng was in a hurry to hold a banquet, or to get into the bridal chamber - the young man was very energetic, and the male laborers who usually worked at sea liked to talk nonsense, which made the unmarried young people feel itchy.

Unfortunately, there is a tradition in the outer islands that you cannot get married during the first month.

There is a saying in traditional saying that "the head is red", that is, when a man and a woman get married in the first month, they are destined to have their heads pressed down by Tai Sui.

As the saying goes, don't get married if you don't get married in the twelfth lunar month, that's what it means. Don't get engaged in the twelfth lunar month, and don't get married in the first lunar month.

There is also a saying that if you marry a daughter-in-law in the first month, you will harm your parents-in-law, and if you get engaged in the twelfth month, you will defeat your husband's family.

Anyway, these things have nothing to do with Wang Yi. They are all what he heard from others. Tu Yi is happy.

On Tuesday, March 15th, Tianya Island was bustling with activity.

The students had just moved into the teaching building on Monday, with a new table for each of them and a new stool for each. Wang Xianghong also put two firecrackers in front of the teaching building, which made the atmosphere very lively.

On Tuesday, it was Man Shanhua's turn to hang firecrackers at the door of her house. People had been coming and going at her house since the morning. Wang Yi led the people to set up the tent.

The main difficulty in setting up a tent is to install the scaffolding.

But the scaffold Wang Yi bought is very simple. It is made of steel pipes folded into a skeleton. The intersections have special elbows or fasteners. They are stable when they are put together in order like building blocks.

The steel pipes are used to build the frame, and a standard-sized canvas is spread on top. There are buckles between the canvases, and ropes are used to tie the steel pipe frame tightly, so it is formed.

Such a structure is simple and easy to implement. Wang Yi directed a few agile young people to build it in less than an hour.

There is no need to climb up or down, and the risk is almost zero, but it is simple, elegant, beautiful and practical.

Coincidentally, the weather is bad today, with dark clouds and hazy spring rain.

Man Shanhua came over with a smile on her face to entertain the young people setting up the scaffolding for tea, and then revealed her true thoughts when facing Wang Yi:

"I just said you shouldn't rush to hold a banquet. You have to check the almanac carefully before you get married. How can you just find a date to get married? Teacher Wang, look, the weather is bad today!"

Wang Yi said: "Today's weather is very good. It is a perfect day. If it rains on the day when famous generals in ancient times go out to choose their troops, it will make the emperor and generals extremely happy. This is called heaven washing the troops."

"God helps wash away the filth and bad luck, leaving only the fresh air - have you ever felt that the air is extra fresh after every rain? That's the truth!"

Man Shanhua only said this to him to seek comfort.

The banquet was all prepared, and Wang Xiangxiong asked for leave to be a master chef to help. The groom had already gone to pick up his wife, so how could he change the date?

The atmosphere has reached this point, it would be disrespectful not to get married.

And the needs of Manshanhua were also met.

The explanation Wang Yi gave her made her feel very comfortable.

She looked at the scaffolding and tent carefully, and exclaimed: "These steel pipes must also be produced in the factory, right? That's great!"

The neighbor who came to help shook the steel pipe.

Stable as Mount Tai.

She also praised: "This tent is really well built. Speaking of weddings and weddings in our outer islands, people of all ages set up tents to entertain guests all year round. I saw that they are struggling to set up tents."

"It's really laborious," the person next to him added, "it takes several strong laborers, and they have to move long bamboos, lead wires, and cables in advance. It takes a long time to prop up a big frame. It's a bit dangerous."

"Even if the shed is erected in a shaky way, the available canvas sheets are not of good quality. They are not as tight as these."

Xiang Yuhuan said: "Speaking of this, I am deeply impressed. Just a few months ago last year, my natal family got married to their daughter, and then my natal family held a banquet for the bride, but it also happened to be a rainy day, so they set up a tent."
To be continued...