In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 7
Li Duoyu stepped on the mud horse and got off the beach.

Mud horses are also known as "sea bicycles". On Dandan Island, anyone who lives on the tidal flats usually has one at home.

And because his family breeds sea oysters, the mud horse is bigger than others, and it looks like a small boat, with two or three grids for loading seafood and transporting things.

It's been a long time since I used this thing, even at such a young age, Li Duoyu was sweating when he slid the mud horse to the oyster breeding ground.

In the 80s, the sea oyster farming technology was still very backward, and there were two methods: catapulting and column methods.

The stone catapulting method is to fix sea oyster seedlings on stones with cement, then throw them into the sea and let them grow by themselves.

This method of breeding is more Buddhist, but the rate of bad seedlings is high, and once the mud covers stones and sea oysters, the whole army will be wiped out.

The column method is a popular breeding method at present. It evolved on the basis of the stone sinking method. Cement columns are inserted on the tidal flats, and then the seedlings are fixed on the cement columns.

This kind of breeding is easier to take care of, and sea oysters are not easy to be attacked by natural enemies.

Even in later generations, when the breeding technology is perfect, there are still many old fishermen who will use the column method to raise sea oysters.

But there are also many disadvantages. The pillars are inserted on the tidal flats, and the surge of the tide often makes the pillars fall or tilt. At this time, it needs to be straightened manually.

After arriving at the sea oyster breeding ground.

Li Duoyu started to work. He straightened some rickety concrete pillars, grabbed a conch that was stealing oysters, and threw it on the mud horse.

For sea oyster farmers, it is not as simple as feeding them. They also have to guard against various natural enemies of sea oysters, such as conch, which eats sea oysters most, and various crabs.

In addition to guarding against natural enemies, it is also necessary to clean up various competitors and parasites, such as sea rainbows that like to compete with oysters for living space and barnacles that like to attach to oyster shells.

In this era, farming is more difficult than fishing, which is why not many people are willing to engage in farming.

Li Duoyu knocked off some small sea rainbows attached to the stone pillars, and then started knocking oysters.

In this era, because they have not yet been baptized by bio-genetic technology, sea oysters are quite casual in appearance, and they are not very big, and there is no such thing as diploid or triploid in later generations.

Li Duoyu knocked some relatively large sea oysters on a stone pillar, then moved to the next one, and continued to repeat the previous process.

Under the scorching sun.

Li Duoyu was exhausted after knocking twenty or thirty catties.

Old Li, who was watching from the sidelines, was very surprised. He thought that the fourth child must have beaten him indiscriminately, and he just pretended to be two hundred catties to perfunctory.

He had already thought out his lines, and was ready to educate his son so that he would give up the idea of ​​raising kelp.

I didn't expect to do things more meticulously than him.

Even details such as supporting pillars, catching conch shells, and cleaning barnacles and sea rainbows are all well done.

And knocking oysters is not random knocking, but picking big oysters.

This made him swallow the lines he had prepared in advance, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't utter a good word:

"Hands and feet are so slow, the tide will rise later, how can you knock two hundred catties, you push the cart, and I will knock."

Facing Lao Li's "dislike".

Li Duoyu grinned, he knew this old man was a duplicity guy, according to Chen Huiying's words, he clearly wanted to praise you, but "a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory".

Besides, today is the tide.

The sea water has just receded, how can it rise up so quickly.

The father and son went into battle together, and they had to knock oysters for two or three hours, but they finished knocking in less than an hour.

Lao Li sat on the shore, wrapped a cigarette, and asked, "Do you want one?"

Li Duoyu, who was covered in sweat, shook his head and said, "Stop smoking, Xiaoying is pregnant, it's not good for the child."

"Since when did you become so obedient?"

"I was very obedient in the first place, okay?"

Lao Li was stunned for a long time, but his heart was full of joy. It seemed that the fourth son had really changed.

I used to always worry that he would go astray.

Now he suddenly changed his temper and suddenly became the most stable among the brothers.

At this moment, Lao Li felt that the burden on his body was a little lighter. Next, the boss and the second child should be worried.

The eldest had a quarrel with the second, and went directly to Rongcheng to work in anger. Now he is almost thirty and has not found a partner yet.

Although the second child has no money, he can live a decent life, but this daughter-in-law, like a time bomb, explodes from time to time, making everyone very uncomfortable.

Li Duoyu took a break.

Looking at the sea oysters on the mud horse, although he knows the whole set of sea oyster breeding techniques, he even knows the rope hanging method and cage cultivation method, which can make the current sea oysters bigger and fatter.

But in a short period of time, he didn't want to engage in sea oyster farming, because the cultivation cycle of this thing is long, time-consuming and laborious, and most importantly, it lacks fresh-keeping methods.

Even if they are grown and fattened, they will eventually be dried into dried oysters, which may not be much more expensive than the current dried oysters.

Seeing that the tide has not risen yet.

Li Duoyu walked towards Xiaohai's mother not far away.

There are a lot of small seafood on the beach.

There are densely packed holes, there are fiddler crabs holding big pincers in front of you, and there are jumping fish that have been jumping in front of you, but you just can't catch them.

There are also various mud snails, mud clams, razor clams, sea melon seeds and so on.

Li Duoyu came to the place where A Niang was begging for Xiaohai. She was wearing a bamboo hat, carrying a bamboo fish basket with a cover on her back, and holding a hoe in her right hand.

One look at this situation, it is to catch Wang Chao.

Wangchao is a small octopus that lives on tidal flats. Its scientific name is short octopus. When the tide is low, it will curl up in the hole. Once the tide starts, it will crawl out of the hole and shake its tentacles up and down against the tide.

Fishermen can use this special habit of watching the tide to judge the ebb and flow of the tide, hence the name "watching the tide".

The taste of Wangchao is much better than that of octopus. It is very suitable for boiled, and then dipped in light soy chili water, the taste is very delicious and fresh.

If I remember correctly, in later generations, the price of a Wangchao can be sold for about 10 yuan. On the tidal flats, some old people make money by digging this.

"Why are you here?"

After seeing her son, Chen Huiying seemed very surprised.

The women who begged Xiaohai together also looked over after seeing Li Duoyu.

In this era, there is a division of labor, men beg for the sea, women beg for the small sea, under normal circumstances, very few men would follow the woman to beg for the small sea.

Because it makes them feel ashamed.

And Li Duoyu didn't care about these worldly gazes at all. I have lived to the second life, so I don't care about these messy rules.

After walking a few steps, Li Duoyu saw a hole the size of a coin next to his feet, which was pumping out sea water regularly.

"Mother, give me the hoe."

Chen Huiying looked at the fourth child suspiciously, he had never begged Xiao Hai before, how could he know how to catch Wang Chao.

After handing over the hoe, Chen Huiying warned: "Be careful, don't hit your feet."

"understood."

Li Duoyu quickly hit a few hoes at the small hole that swallowed sea water, and an octopus covered in mud ran out. Unfortunately, it was hit by the hoe and broke one or two legs.

Li Duoyu picked it up and grinned:

"I'm not bad at this technique, I've got two or two."

This smooth operation made Chen Huiying look stupid, and what shocked her the most was that the fourth child was very good at finding holes.

One dig one accurate.

(End of this chapter)