In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

"Due to the influence of cold air from the north, the temperature in southern coastal cities is lower than normal. Please be prepared for cold weather."

Although the weather is very cold.

But the farmers on Dandan Island are very busy, and the pier is full of shouts for people to help pick up kelp seedlings.

"Lao Chun, are you free tomorrow? Come and help me plant kelp seedlings. I'll give you three yuan a day."

"It's useless even if I give you five yuan. My hands are covered in frostbite. Now they're itching to death. I can't even pinch them even if I want to."

"Then is your scumbag free?"

"The one at my house went to help Zhang Jinsha."

The last month of 84.

It is the busiest month on Dandan Island. There are more than 20 farmers on the island, including Chenjiacun, raising more than 800 acres of kelp.

At this time, someone found out what Li Duoyu said to his leaders in the newspaper last year. Everyone found that he didn't seem to be bragging. He had really made kelp farming bigger and stronger.

For a whole month, half of the villagers on Dandan Island have been collecting kelp seedlings, and the kelp farmers are all competing for people to collect kelp seedlings.

But because the weather is so cold, many people have frostbite on their hands and feet within a week, making it impossible to do anything even if they want to.

This has also resulted in the labor cost of clipping kelp seedlings doubling. Originally, the maximum wage for clipping kelp seedlings was two yuan per day, but now the wages for clipping kelp seedlings are at least four dollars per day.

If you are nimble with your hands and feet, it is not a problem to make five or six yuan a day.

Fortunately, Li Duoyu had enough relatives. In less than half a month, they took the lead in collecting all the 200 acres of kelp seedlings.

Here Li Duoyu has [-] acres, his eldest uncle's family has [-] acres, his third uncle has [-] acres, and his brother-in-law Chen Dongqing has [-] acres.

During this period, Li Duoyu also took the time to attend Chen Wenchao's wedding.

Marriage in this era was quite simple and did not pay so much attention to the sense of ceremony.

Both parties take a wedding photo.

Then go to the town to register and you will be officially married.

As for the three or four big items, even in this era, they are standard equipment for wealthy people. When ordinary people get married, they only buy a few enamel basins and a sewing machine.

Refrigerators, color TVs, and washing machines are simply out of the question.

After all, for fishermen, instead of spending so much money on buying those luxury goods, it is more practical to save more money and build a big boat.

On their wedding day, Chen Wenchao and Liu Xiaolan mostly listened to Xiniang's good words, and then worshiped heaven and earth, their ancestors, and their elders.

Then, there was a banquet for relatives and friends, and various toasts. Since Liu Xiaolan had more brothers and her younger sister was getting married, they, who were brothers-in-law, did not get much benefit, and they still felt a little resentful.

On the wedding day, Chen Wenchao drank a lot of wine.

And in this month.

Li Duoyu's eel pond was finally dug.

There are seven large ponds.

Li Duoyu also upgraded the original simple moso bamboo factory building and built six shallow cement ponds specifically for raising eel seedlings.

Li Duoyu, who has been here, knows very well that fish cannot be raised directly in newly dug ponds, and they must go through a series of treatments.

First, add water to the new pond, soak it for ten days and a half, and observe whether there are any leaks in the pond. If there are leaks, plug them up.

Next, you need to observe whether there are any small fry appearing in the pond. If there are any, you need to clean them all.

He used to be curious about why fish fry appeared in newly dug ponds, but he later found out after hearing other people's stories.

Some land with relatively low terrain and close to streams may still have fish eggs in the soil, even if it was not a pond before.

Thousands of years of grass seeds, ten thousand years of fish!

During the rainy season some time ago, Li Duoyu had already discovered that after soaking in water in these newly dug ponds, some small miscellaneous fish fry appeared inexplicably.For eel ponds, these small miscellaneous fish are unnecessary, so the last step is to use quicklime to disinfect the pond and purify these small fry.

In addition to outdoor earth ponds, indoor cement ponds also need to be treated. Since cement ponds are relatively alkaline, they usually used oxalic acid or alum to purify them in previous lives.

But in this era, both of these things are difficult to buy, so Li Duoyu directly used the stupidest method, boiling the cement pool at high temperature.

Set up a few iron pots there, keep boiling hot water, and then pour it into the cement pool.

Chen Dongqing, who was "watching" and "learning" the whole time, would sigh from time to time. He was too lazy to ask Li Duoyu why he knew so much.

No matter how I asked, I couldn't figure out the reason, but I felt a little stupid.

After the preliminary work was completed, Li Duoyu was officially ready to start catching eel seedlings. I heard from some women who were begging for Xiaohai that some eel seedlings had been caught recently at the beach.

Li Duoyu also looked at the calendar. It will be January in two days, and the eel fry are indeed coming.

But before catching the seedlings, there is one more priority thing, that is, Li Duoyu must first catch a small thing called a red worm.

Red worms are the larvae of chironomids and generally live in smelly ditches.

The method of catching them is also very simple, just get a piece of gauze, and then shovel it down where there are red worms.

Dig up the mud worms directly, then put them into gauze, shake them in clean water and wash them. After all the soil is cleaned, what is left are the red worms.

After the eel breeding plant was built, in addition to employee Chen Wenchao, Li Duoyu had two more employees, namely his brother Li Yaoguo and his second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua.

Their first official day of work was to go to the smelly ditch to catch red worms with Li Duoyu.

After learning about the work content, Li Yaoguo wanted to take sick leave on his first day at work, but was dragged off the bed by Zhu Xiuhua.

Five people wearing rain boots kept searching for red worms in the smelly ditch full of foreign objects.

Li Yaoguo vomited while scouring. He had never done such dirty work since he was a child, especially in the smelly ditch, which often contained the excrement of children.

"You're so pretty and tight. You don't know how to go to the latrine, so why did you end up in the ditch?"

Li Duoyu smiled.

"If they hadn't moved here, there might not have been so many red worms."

Their strange behavior also attracted the attention of the villagers.

If it had been anyone else, everyone would probably have cursed him with disgust, but if it had been Li Duoyu, everyone suddenly felt that red worms might become very expensive.

Many villagers couldn't help but want to catch them too, but they had no idea what Li Duoyu was using to catch red worms.

In fact, even Chen Dongqing from the Fisheries Research Institute was confused, but he was still tricked by Li Duoyu into coming here to catch red worms.

Chen Dongqing refused at first, but when the big boss Li Duoyu offered the price of two yuan per pound of red worms, he knelt down on the spot.

Less than two days.

They searched all the stinking ditches in the entire village, but they only caught less than twenty kilograms of red worms. After all, the island has little fresh water resources and there are relatively few stinking ditches.

The number of these red worms is far from enough. Li Duoyu has seven large ponds, each of which can support at least [-] adult eels.

Li Duoyu needs to catch at least nearly [-] eel seedlings. Considering that his breeding equipment is not very good, if the mortality rate is taken into account, he will have to raise at least [-] eel seedlings in the early stage.

Twenty kilograms of red worms can only be kept for two or three days at most. Li Duoyu had no choice but to broadcast a red worm acquisition broadcast through the village loudspeaker.

We will continue to collect red worms for a period of time at the price of two yuan per catty.

After hearing this price, some villagers who originally wanted to catch red worms slapped their thighs in anger.

Many people ran to the town one after another, and picked up this inconspicuous little red bug from the smelly ditches in other villages.

Li Duoyu, on the other hand, has made special nets for catching eel fry, and can start fishing tomorrow. (End of chapter)