In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Li Duoyu used Zhao Erniu's air gun to kill several rats, and also shot a big "spicy strip".

Then, we began to collect the ground cage.

The method of collecting the ground cage is also very simple, that is, push the fish caught at the end of the ground cage to the front end with the rope, and then pour them all into the bucket.

There are quite a lot of seafood in the cage, including all kinds of small fish, but Li Duoyu and the others are not very interested in the sea fish in the cage.

Ironically, in this era when offshore resources have not yet been exhausted, fishermen are still quite picky.

For fishermen, seafood has a hierarchy, and the seafood in the mangroves is the kind that cannot be sold on the table.

In the words of local fishermen, who eats the seafood in the mangroves? It smells earthy, and these fish can often only be treated as trash fish.

Since the marine fish in the mangroves are not valuable, this is why few people come to the mangroves, usually only the Zhao brothers.

In the ground cage, apart from the green crab seedlings, the most caught fish was the Wutang snakehead. The pattern on this fish's body is somewhat similar to that of the grouper.

Here on the tidal flats, the Wutang snakehead is similar to a grouper. It is an apex predator and is very ferocious. Small fish, shrimps and crabs are its food.

The locals call this fish tiger tiger, and the blue crab is called crab in local dialect.

Chinese people have a habit of naming animals. If the animal is good at catching a certain prey, it will be named XX tiger.

Such as gobies.

It doesn’t take much thinking to know that this fish is very good at eating shrimps.

There are also names like bee-eater.

Those who engage in blue crab farming are most afraid of tigers in the breeding ponds.

Especially for green crab seedlings, the destructive power of tiger crabs is very great. One mouthful of green crab seedlings feels like eating a snack.

But even if the blue crabs grow up.

He is still no match for Crab Tiger, the fish that loves blue crabs the most. It is said that this guy even fishes for crabs to law enforcement in order to eat blue crabs.

There is a long-standing saying along the coast that tiger tigers will deliberately seize the blue crab's nest when it is out, and deliberately expose its tail to tease it.

As long as the blue crab clamps its tail, the tiger will suddenly exert force and break the blue crab's big claw. After the blue crab loses its big claw, the tiger will slowly consume it to death.

However, Li Duoyu doesn't believe this statement. When he grows up, blue crabs are not afraid of tigers at all.

It is estimated that the tiger will take advantage of the weak period of the green crab to shed its shell and look for trouble with it.

Because after the blue crab sheds its shell, the whole body is soft and has no ability to resist at all. At this time, the blue crab is just a piece of meat without the ability to resist.

Most of the sea fish in the cage have died because they have been away for too long, and the only ones still alive are some tigers and earth dragons.

Moreover, there are so many tigers and tigers that one can catch seven or eight in one cage, and each one is still alive and well.

This fish is extremely tenacious and can survive in a slightly moist place away from sea water.

Today's fishermen don't like eating tiger tigers very much because there are too many sea fish to eat.

But after thirty or forty years, tiger fish will be very expensive to sell. Larger tiger fish can sell for nearly 100 per pound.

This fish is the same as Shi Jiugong. Everyone likes to stew it in soup, especially with some tofu, it is especially delicious.

Li Duoyu remembered that there was an anchor in Rongcheng who specialized in filming seafood, and he used this fish to stew soup with old tofu.

Zhao Erniu used to catch some of this fish and sell it at the dock, but now he really hates it.

Because he caught several tiger tigers and found that some actually had small blue crabs biting in their mouths. It seemed that their purpose of coming to the cage was very clear.

Zhao Erhu directly gave the tiger fish two big-mouthed melon seeds, and cursed: "You are so greedy, why don't you feed me to death?"

It took over an hour.

Li Duoyu, Zhao Erniu and Shitou finally collected the cage.

The one who caught the most was Zhao Erniu, who caught more than a thousand blue crabs in thirty cages, seven large blue crabs, three ground dragons and more than 20 kilograms of tiger fish.

Next, there are stones.

Li Duoyu is the least familiar. After all, he only has ten cages, and he is really unfamiliar with mangroves.

As for the marine fish that died in the crab pots, we did not throw them away, but put them into the net bags of the ground cages, so that we can continue to attract green crabs and marine fish into the nets to eat these fish meat.

Overall, Li Duoyu was very satisfied with the harvest of blue crab seedlings. Both large buckets were full.

The three people caught more than 2,000 green crab seedlings, most of which were the size of a thumb cap, and some were four or five centimeters wide.

Zhao Erniu carried a bamboo basket on his back and an open dustpan, and scooped up a piece of mud directly on the tidal flat.

Then it was washed in sea water. Not long after, after the soil was washed away, many small crabs appeared.

The most abundant are fiddler crabs.

The big pliers were particularly easy to recognize. Zhao Erniu flicked some fiddler crabs away, leaving only the small blue crabs.

The stone on the side was stunned and couldn't help but ask: "Er Niu, can you teach me how you can catch so many small blue crabs with just a shovel?"

Zhao Erniu said disgustedly: "If you want to learn, I can teach you, but you have to pay the tuition."

Shitou glared and said: "Damn, Zhao Erniu, are you crazy about money? If I go fishing, I will make more money than you catching blue crab seedlings. I'm just curious about how you caught them, so you have to accept me." tuition fee."

"Then if you don't go fishing, why are you here to grab blue crab seedlings from me?"

Shi Shi was stunned for a moment.

He would not tell Zhao Erniu that he came here just to convince Brother Yu and see if he could help him pull a red line.

Judging from Brother Yu's current reaction, it is almost impossible to pull the red line. Shitou, who was upset at the thought, said to Zhao Erniu:

"I didn't want to steal the blue crab seedlings from you at first, but when I heard that you wanted to charge me for the money, I had to steal them from you."

Zhao Erniu cursed:

"Stone, are you sick?"

"Huh, I'm sick."

"What's wrong." Zhao Erniu didn't like Shitou very much. The main reason was that Shitou was always talking loudly. He smiled every day and spoke very loudly.

But everyone quite likes him, and the main reason why Zhao Erniu hates stones is purely because of jealousy.

When the two brothers couldn't find a wife, the matchmaker disliked them several times and said:

If you two brothers are like that stone, with a house and a boat at home, young and sunny, then it will definitely be easy to introduce.

But what makes Zhao Erniu unhappy the most is that this stone is obviously easy to find a partner, but he doesn't want a wife and just likes to live alone.

Shitou also went home and brought a flat-head dustpan, imitated Zhao Erniu in shoveling dirt, and then went to the sea to wash it.

As a result, I searched several times.

They only caught fiddler crabs, not blue crabs at all.

Zhao Erniu mocked: "If you are really that eager to learn, I won't charge you any fees. Give me a hundred yuan and I'll teach you how to make money."

"You're thinking shit."

But what Zhao Erniu didn't expect was that after grabbing Shitou a few more times, he seemed to have found the trick.

"Er Niu, are the holes of the blue crabs different?"

The corners of Zhao Erniu's mouth twitched.

I don’t want to deal with people like Shitou at all.

Next.

Li Duoyu also lent the ten floor cages he just bought to Zhao Erniu.

He is preparing for the next step.

Caught green crab seedlings cannot be put directly into the pond. The pond must be cleared first.

Li Duoyu temporarily raised these green crab seedlings in the cement pond of the eel factory.

If you throw it directly into the pond like this, there must be something like a tiger in it.

No matter how many blue crabs Li Duoyu put in, they were still sending snacks to the tiger.

After Li Duoyu received this batch of blue crabs, he specifically checked the larger green crab seedlings to see if they had been infected by the crab slaves.

In addition to tiger crabs, farmers also hate slave crabs, and instinctively feel that slave crabs are very disgusting, even more disgusting than the iron worm.

Once blue crabs are infected by crab slaves, they will lose their ability to reproduce.

If a female crab is parasitized, she will not be able to turn into a crab. If a male crab is parasitized, she will become a sissy and will not be able to grow in size.

If the parasitism reaches the later stage, the green crab will be completely dominated by the crab slave and become a tool for the crab slave to reproduce offspring. It will even grow "egg bags" that are similar to crab eggs. Local farmers generally call blue crabs infected with crab slaves "bed bug crabs" because in the later stages of parasitism, the taste of crabs will become bad.

Some unscrupulous farmers will not dispose of the parasitized blue crabs after seeing them. Instead, they will cut off the fake egg bags and continue to sell them for money.

Li Duoyu patiently selected for more than half an hour, and he actually found several blue crabs infected with crab slaves. He directly disposed of them humanely and buried them in the soil.

After settling the green crab seedlings.

Li Duoyu came to the pond and looked at the pond in front of him. There were still many things to do next.

The first step is to clear the pond and clear the fish.

If you use a net to catch fish, it is inevitable that fish will slip through the net. Once any fry survive, the harm to the blue crab fry will be quite great.

In the past life, farmers used a lot of potion called [Fish, Shrimp, and Crab Removal], which only cost one bottle per acre.

As long as it falls in the pond, all the fish will be poisoned to death, but the shrimps and crabs will not be harmed.

But in this era, Li Duoyu couldn't find this thing at all, so he could only adopt the simplest method, which was to use a dry pond.

If you want to dry the pond, it is best to build a sluice. Without a sluice, you cannot change the water. In the event of a large algae outbreak or continuous heavy rain, the water body will explode in minutes.

When Li Duoyu raised eels, he had already experienced that if the water system is not well maintained, there will be big problems.

Li Duoyu called his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and several old masters, and together they dug a drainage channel on the embankment with hoes.

As the seawater in the pond continues to flow towards the outer sea, the water level in the pond has also dropped a lot.

After draining the water.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng directed the tractor to build a dike around the water outlet and wrap it up.

This way, the next time the tide rises, seawater will not pour into the pond.

Li Duoyu began to build the sluice gate. In his previous life, the gates were all electric iron gates poured with cement.

But in this era, Li Duoyu could only use the simplest method, which was to build a gate with stone bars and replace the iron gate with thick wooden boards.

It took Li Duoyu more than ten days to build this gate alone.

In summer, the sun is scorching.

Even an islander like Li Duoyu had lost a layer of skin due to the sun, and after more than ten days of exposure.

The soil at the bottom of the pond was also exposed to the sun until it cracked, but Li Duoyu still felt it was not enough, so he hired a group of people to plow the pond with plows and sprinkled a layer of quicklime to make the bottom.

Li Duoyu believes that since we want to engage in breeding, we cannot be careless. Although clearing ponds is troublesome, it is very necessary.

If you do more preparation work in the early stage, you won't have to be so embarrassed later. Li Duoyu has seen many people who engage in breeding with a sense of luck.

In the end, they often end up losing everything, because the farming industry is really not suitable for those who fish in troubled waters.

After clearing the pond.

The last step is to distribute the water.

In fact, it is very simple, just make the sea water in the pond suitable for the growth of green crabs.

Since Li Duoyu’s green crab seedlings are caught from the nearby mangroves, the water bodies are almost the same, so there is no need to allocate water.

If Li Duoyu's blue crab seedlings were purchased from other places, then he couldn't be so casual.

First, let the green crab seedlings pass through the water to see if they can adapt to the local sea water.

If they are not adapted, water must be allocated until the blue crab seedlings are adapted to the water body.

Some uninformed people took the blue crab seedlings and poured them directly into the pond. As a result, all the seedlings were dead in less than two days.

Breeding is like this, it seems very simple, but in fact, there are pitfalls at every step, and there are many special ways.

After filling the pond with water, Li Duoyu plans to officially release green crab seedlings.

During the period when he was building sluices and dry ponds, Zhao Erniu was also very helpful. He provided him with nearly 50,000 blue crabs by himself.

During the days when crab seedlings were released, I don’t know who leaked the news. Not only did many villagers come to watch.

Secretary Chen directly led a group of inspection teams to the island, and the members of the inspection team were village cadres from various villages in the town.

They were shocked when they saw that Li Duoyu had built such a large pond.

Secretary Chen sighed: "I haven't paid attention to you for a month or two, and you have launched such a big project again."

Li Duoyu scratched his head.

"I have nothing to do, so I'll give it a try."

Village cadres from other villages asked: "Director Li, if you raise all these green crabs, wouldn't you make a fortune?"

Li Duoyu said truthfully: "If these green crabs have a 10% survival rate, I would be grateful."

"It's only 10%, no way, it's such an exaggeration?"

Li Duoyu sighed: "I'm afraid I won't even get a cent."

In fact, blue crabs are really not very easy to raise. They have no fewer problems than eels. Especially when they are shedding their shells, they are very easy to die.

It can be said that most blue crab farmers are betting on dogs and often rely on quantity to win.

on an evening.

It was also a beautiful day. Li Shuguang and Shitou hurriedly found Li Duoyu.

Shitou asked slightly nervously:

"Brother Yu, my grandpa asked if he could come to the island."

The moment he heard this, Li Duoyu already understood that the two of them had met the old man.

But as the village director, Li Duoyu's whole face instantly dropped: "You asked me, that's definitely not possible."

"what!"

Shitou frowned and said with a bitter look on his face: "But my grandpa is already at sea, and he really wants to see my grandma."

Li Duoyu hummed: "You two are really brave. What if the other party is a spy?"

"My grandpa is definitely not."

"Do you think others will believe it? Can you prove it?"

After hearing this, Shitou froze on the spot, his mouth bulging with anger. He thought Brother Yu would definitely support it.

Because he was the first person to help Grandpa.

Unexpectedly, Brother Yu would be so opposed.

Li Duoyu glanced at Shi Shi, who was disappointed and aggrieved, and frowned.

In fact, Li Duoyu had already told his cousin Li Shuguang not to be in a hurry to bring him to the island even if he met an old man.

Because in two years' time, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will begin formal dialogue, and by then, veterans will be able to return to the mainland to visit relatives.

Unexpectedly, this old man was so courageous that he actually brought the boat to their side.

If this is encountered by the fishery administration.

They will probably be taken away directly.

To be honest, there is no need for Li Duoyu to take this risk for others. If they don't tell themselves and just meet secretly, that's fine.

But once told to him, he must fulfill the village director's accusation.

Shitou's eyes turned red: "Brother Yu, is there nothing we can do? My grandma has been waiting for my grandpa for more than forty years."

"As long as I am the village director, I will definitely not agree to it."

After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he added:

"However, when I was in the Zhoushan Islands, I saw a refuge for compatriots. Compatriots from overseas provinces, if the fishing boat is broken, we can help rescue it."

"But after you get to the island, there are rules. You can't run away casually. And for this kind of thing, you must notify our village committee as soon as possible."

After Shitou listened, he understood immediately.

"Thank you Brother Yu."

Li Duoyu said with a dark face: "I didn't help you, why are you thanking me?"

Shitou suddenly became serious: "I understand, I have never been here, and I have never discussed this matter with you." (End of Chapter)