In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

May has just begun.

The rainy season that fishermen hate the most is ushering in again. The roads are always wet and muddy. When the boat is stained with seafood mucus, it is easy for people to slip.

Maybe it's because summer is approaching.

The rain in this rainy season is quite abundant, and it often lasts for a whole day, so the old fisherman has no use wearing a raincoat.

After a while, my whole body was wet.

The rain has been falling, and Li Duoyu has been forced to stop building a new house. There are puddles all over the homestead, and he can only continue to build a house after the rainy season has passed.

Fortunately, the foundation has been laid long ago.

The septic tank has been completed;
  The red brick wall is also built one story high.

The next step is to wait for good weather and pour the cement slabs on the first floor.

According to the current progress, Li Duoyu estimates that if the house is to be completed, it will take at least October.

During this period, a major event also happened in the county, that is, the pirate case in Uiqi Village was officially announced to the public.

The villagers on Dandan Island were really shocked when they saw the newspaper.

Nearly a hundred people in the entire village were arrested. Half of the young people in the village became pirates, the youngest was only fifteen years old.

Although the newspaper did not explicitly say that the boat bombing at the end of last year was related to this group of people.

But people who came back from Qingkou Pier were saying that after the news was announced, the whole village of Shangqi Village, where the ship was bombed, almost rushed to the pirate village and planned to smash all the fishing boats in the village.

Fortunately, the leaders of the two towns persuaded them to stop, otherwise the two villages would be fighting together again.

Over at the pier, there were several fishermen wearing coir hats discussing this matter.

"Just drop it and you won't have to worry about it every day when you go to sea."

"I didn't expect that you are so young."

"Children must be taught well and beaten when necessary, otherwise the state will take care of it for you."

On the side, Zhao Erniu, who was selling green crabs in a bamboo hat, didn't pay attention to pirates at all after hearing the news. He was thinking about another thing.

All the young people in this pirate village have been arrested, so there should be many young women of the right age who can't find a partner.

Zhao Erniu thought that if he could make more money during this period, he could ask a matchmaker to come over and maybe he could catch something he missed.

When he thought of this, Zhao Erniu wiped the rain off his face, and his originally decadent cheeks were instantly filled with fighting spirit.

He gritted his teeth and said bitterly:

"Hai Dahai, you support the widow, I will marry a young girl, and we will see who will be embarrassed when the time comes."

Just as Li Duoyu expected, Wang Xianghong traveled to several places, even outside the province, but failed to buy diesel generator accessories.

Fortunately, during this period, there was a lot of rainfall, and the water level in the reservoir on the top of the mountain was relatively high. At night, water could still be released to generate electricity for an hour or two.

This rainy season also made Li Duoyu very uncomfortable. He stayed at the eel breeding pond every day and stared at the eel pond.

The water tanker used for oxygenation is running almost [-] hours a day.

Eel farmers hate the rainy season because a large amount of rainwater pours in and can easily unbalance the pond system.

It can also cause overflowing ponds, dam breaks and other situations.

The transition between spring and summer is the time when eels are most susceptible to disease. If there are continuous rainy days, it will be the worst situation.

If you do anything wrong, the entire pond of eels will be turned over for you. These days, Li Duoyu personally keeps an eye on the eel pond. Once there is an imbalance in the water body, he will immediately make adjustments.

And this rainy season lasted for more than a month, and when it ended, it was already the end of May.

And as soon as the rainy season ends.

The villagers who cultivate kelp are all impatient. They come to Li Duoyu every day to ask when the kelp can be harvested.

Kelp farmers are really lucky this year. There has been no natural disaster. In the past, there would be one or two typhoons every year. This year, it is almost June, and there is no movement at all.

As the kelp harvest approaches, neither the uncle nor the third uncle go out to sea anymore, and everyone is ready to start harvesting kelp.

During the kelp harvest period, the town leaders were very concerned about the kelp harvest on Dandan Island.

Secretary Chen also used the name "Learn from Dandan Island" and organized village party secretaries and village directors from more than ten villages to come to Dandan Island to study and learn from the experience.

Seeing Li Duoyu fish out the thick and long kelp from the sea, Secretary Chen Shulin couldn't help but ask: "Your kelp seems to be growing better than last year."

Li Duoyu replied:
  "Secretary, this is a good year. Kelp production will increase by about one-third compared to last year."

Chen Shulin smiled and said: "This is a good thing."

The village party secretaries and village directors who came to visit were still not very optimistic about Li Duoyu's kelp farming.

For them, the most profitable way is to set up a large boat to go fishing, and they can earn hundreds of dollars on a trip to the sea.

Ten thousand yuan households in their village.

Except for those who stole the goods in the early stage, the rest were all fishing boat bosses.

As for Langqi Village, which has the largest number of ships and the largest number of households worth ten thousand yuan in Shangfeng Town, their village party secretary couldn't help but ask:
  "Director Li, how big is your investment in kelp farming? How much money can you make if you raise one acre of kelp for half a year?"

We are all village cadres, so there is no point in blowing nonsense. The key is to see whether we can make money.

Li Duoyu did a simple calculation:
  "The cost of one acre of kelp is about fifty yuan."

"Our kelp production is relatively high this year. One acre can be sold for almost two to three hundred."

Li Duoyu's algorithm is already quite conservative. Last year, his kelp production was not as high as this year, and he sold more than [-] yuan per acre.

Not only has the output increased this year, but exports are also available. The actual income per acre may be much higher than last year.

After hearing the price.

The village party secretary of Langqi Village was stunned. Their village has a natural deep-water port, which is very suitable for the development of fishery.

Since opening.

He has been leading the whole village to develop the fishing industry. He also owns a big boat. Every time he goes out to sea for a week or two to fish, he can earn at least five to six hundred, and he can earn seven to eight thousand a year.

In two years, it will be [-] yuan per household.

Most of the ten thousand-yuan households in their village came from this way.

But now, this acre of kelp field can be sold for two to three hundred, and Xiasha Village has more than [-] acres of kelp field.

If all were sold, the income would be more than [-] yuan, and the young man in front of me, Director Li, raised one hundred acres of kelp by himself.

The village party secretary of Langqi Village envied: "In other words, you only spent half a year raising kelp and earned [-] to [-] yuan."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "You can't calculate it that way. I have also invested five or six thousand in this kelp farming. Also, I was just lucky this year and there was no typhoon."

“That’s more profitable than us.” Party Secretary Zhang sighed with emotion: “Besides, for those of us who seek the sea, no line of work is risk-free. Our village is all about fishing at sea, and our lives are tied to our belts every day. "

"Zhang Zhishu is right."

On the spot, many village party secretaries and village directors suggested: "Secretary Chen, we also think that this kelp can be cultivated. You have to ask Director Li to guide us."

As soon as he heard about this troublesome matter, Li Duoyu naturally gave up and passed the blame to Chen Dongqing on the spot, saying very humbly:

"I only have half a bucket of water. I rely on the guidance of Section Chief Chen Dongqing of the Lianjiang Fisheries Research Institute. If you really want to raise kelp, I suggest you consult him." Lianjiang Fisheries, more than ten kilometers away, In the nursery center, Chen Dongqing, who was cross-breeding abalone seedlings, sneezed for no reason.

The student who came for the internship next to him asked with concern: "Teacher Chen, do you have a cold? Do you want me to pour you some hot water?"

Chen Dongqing rubbed his nose:

"No need, summer is coming soon, maybe it's rhinitis."

Chen Dongqing frowned, and his intuition told him that there must be some bastard plotting against him secretly.

Li Duoyu has been listening to the weather forecast every day these days.

But due to the abnormal weather this year.

It often rains one day and is sunny the other.

Under normal circumstances, it takes at least two or three days of sunny weather to dry kelp.

But the weather this year is a bit abnormal, and the weather forecast is not reliable at all. It is obviously a continuous sunny day, but the weather forecast says it will be rainy weather.

As a result, everyone missed several opportunities to dry kelp.

And in a blink of an eye.

By early June, the seawater temperature had increased by several degrees, and some farmers' kelp was even slightly rotten.

Li Duoyu can only ask everyone to put the kelp deeper to prevent the kelp from being exposed to the sun.

The farmers are very anxious. Chen Atai from the next village can't sit still at all. He comes to Li Duoyu's eel factory every day to drink tea and ask when the kelp can be harvested.

To be honest, the weather forecast is inaccurate.

Li Duoyu also had a headache. In his previous life, when they collected and dried kelp, they were almost always notified by text messages from the local fishery bureau.

But during this period, the south wind blows every day on Dandan Island.

The southerly wind has high humidity and is changeable.

The weather forecast doesn't work at all.

Seeing that the temperature of the sea water was getting higher day by day, and if the temperature continued, the kelp would really rot. Li Duoyu, who was also upset, started to smoke a cigarette for the first time in a long time.

Not a few puffs.

Li Duoyu stared at the direction of the smoke and was stunned. Only then did he realize that the wind direction on Dandan Island had changed significantly. It was no longer a moist southerly wind, but a drier northeasterly wind.

"Fuck, it's finally here."

In the past life, if this kind of wind blew on Dandan Island, the weather would definitely be good in the next few days, and this kind of wind was very suitable for drying kelp. If you were lucky, you could dry the kelp in just one day.

Considering the recent changeable weather, Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a while, then picked up the loudspeaker and shouted:
  "Dear fellow villagers, if you have kelp farmers, please go out to collect kelp tonight. Tomorrow is a good day. Let's try to dry the kelp in one day."

After hearing Li Duoyu's notice, the kelp farmers who had been waiting for more than half a month got up from their beds and knocked on the doors of their relatives door to door.

"Third sister-in-law, tell Yu Gui to wake up. We need to collect kelp tonight."

"It's so late at night, why don't you let me sleep? Can't you accept it tomorrow?"

"Our village director said that if the weather is good tomorrow, we will harvest it overnight tonight."

"Okay, let's get dressed."

Not long after.

Xiasha Village was full of villagers carrying lanterns, and they all rushed towards the pier.

These days, Chen Atai, who was working as a floor shop at Li Duoyu's eel factory, ran back to the village overnight after hearing Li Duoyu's notice.

There were all villagers holding lamps on the other side of the pier. After a rough calculation, there were probably more than [-] people.

The largest group among them was Li Duoyu's relatives, including all seven aunts and eight aunts.

Looking at the huge team in front of him, Li Duoyu, who was holding a loudspeaker, shouted: "This is the first time that our village collects kelp at night. Everyone must pay attention to safety."

Li Duoyu was only halfway through speaking when his second uncle and eldest uncle couldn't help but said: "Duoyu, don't imitate those leaders in reading compositions, just talk about the key points."

Li Duoyu coughed twice and said with a fierce face: "Listen up, safety comes first. If anyone messes up and causes trouble, they will not be included in any breeding in the future. Do you understand?"

The villagers shouted in unison: "I know."

"Then go."

Immediately afterwards, all fishing boats of all sizes in the village were dispatched.

Standing on the side of Thean Hou Temple and looking over, the sea is full of orange-red light.

The last time there was such a big fight in the village, it was when fishing for small pipes.

In the kelp field, everyone worked hard to pull the kelp onto the sampan boat, and then the motorized fishing boat pulled their fishing boat to the drying point.

Li Duoyu and the others have special bamboo pole racks for drying kelp. All they have to do is pull the boat to the tidal flat and hang it up.

Some farmers do not have racks to dry kelp on the tidal flats. They can only transport the kelp to the dock and then pull it to the drying place by tractor.

this night.

The offshore of Xiasha Village is filled with the sound of diesel engines and the whistling of kelp pulling. Many villagers were also disturbed by the noise and could not sleep, but most of them were jealous and annoyed.

In fact, many villagers originally wanted to invest in kelp farming with Li Duoyu last year.

Unexpectedly, two Hong Kong Islanders came out and defrauded them of all their money. As a result, they failed to cultivate kelp last year.

I heard that this year’s kelp harvest was bumper and it was going to be exported. Many villagers regretted it until their intestines turned green. They cursed Wang Dapao for being such a pest in their dreams in the middle of the night.

Some villagers made rough statistics and found that if the kelp market this year is the same as last year, Xiasha Village could have seven or eight more households worth [-] yuan, directly surpassing Langqi Village and becoming the fishing village with the most households worth [-] yuan in Shangfeng Town.

The weather has been changing in the past few days, and those who have not grown kelp are still secretly happy, wishing that the south wind would blow for a while longer.

In this way, they who raised kelp would not make so much money. However, after waking up one night, the wind direction had changed.

As for this bumper harvest of kelp, the happiest person is Uncle Tai from Chenjia Village because he purchased a lot of brown ropes and floating balls for kelp cultivation in advance.

As a result, he had no money to invest in abalone farming and thus escaped disaster.

Now he also has [-] acres of kelp, although he is not as well managed as Li Duoyu, and the yield is not as high as that of Xiasha Village.

But with full calculation, he can earn [-] yuan this year.

He did the math.

Even if all the arrears are paid back, there will still be six or seven thousand left, although it will not be possible to become the first ten thousand yuan household in the village.

But at least, I no longer have to bow down and be a human being in the village.

As the first ray of sunshine in the morning shone on Dandan Island, the children who slept until morning found that Xiasha Village had changed drastically overnight.

On the roads in the village, the roofs of houses, and even the tops of public toilets, wherever kelp can be dried, are all covered with kelp.

The moso bamboo racks on the tidal flat are also covered with kelp. When the morning sun shines, they still shine with a faint golden light.

It's quite nice. (End of chapter)