In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 98 Collecting Kelp (Please recommend)

The kelp field here.

The six sampans were already at work.

The work of collecting kelp is extremely hard.

The kelp on a two- to three-meter-long kelp rope weighs more than 100 kilograms, and it takes manpower to salvage them one by one from the sea.

In later generations, there is a special kelp harvesting machine, which is relatively easy to harvest kelp. You only need to control the crane to lift the kelp from the sea.

Available in this day and age.

It is almost entirely dependent on human labor, and it is about physical strength and endurance.

Usually, each sampan boat requires three people to work together, one is responsible for untying the slipknot between the kelp rope and the main rope, and the other two are responsible for dragging the kelp onto the boat.

And before closing.

Li Duoyu spread a rectangular brown rope net under the sampan boat, so that the crane on the trawler can easily lift the kelp to the big boat.

Li Duoyu, Chen Wenchao, and Li Yaoguo were assigned to the same boat, and Li Yaoguo, who seldom went to sea to work, was responsible for untying the kelp rope.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao are responsible for pulling up the kelp. With the cooperation of the three, they can pull up a kelp rope in about 2 minutes.

The eldest and second uncles, as fishermen of the older generation, have the habit of shouting when they do this kind of work.

I didn't pull the kelp for a while.

The two shouted at the top of their voices, but there was no chant for the libretto.

"Ouch."

"Hey~hey~hey~"

Miraculously, as soon as the trumpet sounded, everyone's movements became coordinated, and when they started working, it became much smoother.

After about an hour of pulling, everyone's sampan boats were already filled with kelp.

Li Duoyu's sampan was loaded with a lot of kelp, and the pile of kelp was half the height of a person.

The sea water has already reached the edge of the boat, and it looks like it may pour in at any time.

Li Yaoguo, who rarely went to sea, was very nervous when he saw that the boat was about to be submerged, holding the head of the diesel engine with both hands.

"Many fish, our boat won't sink."

The uncle on the side smiled and said, "It looks like you seldom go out to sea. Our boat has empty cabins and is all made of wood. You are afraid of capsizing and not sinking. If you have another two hundred catties, I will take it away for you."

Li Yaoguo kept shaking his head: "Forget it, let's do it like this."

After the six sampans were filled with kelp.

Brother Da Tang drove his power fishing boat and pulled these small sampans to Uncle Third's trawler.

Then use the crane of the trawler to pull the harvested kelp to the trawler first.

Then, everyone returned to the kelp field.

Continue to harvest kelp.

When the trawler couldn't fit and the tide rose, everyone went to the moso bamboo piles on the tidal flat, and hung the collected kelp on the ropes of the moso bamboo piles.

And this time.

The advantages of drying kelp with moso bamboo piles are reflected. You only need to work in a sea area, and you don’t need to transport the kelp to land and find an open space to dry, which saves a lot of time and effort.

After all, it is a race against time to collect kelp. The better the weather, the faster everyone can collect it.

As for being tired,
That must be exhausting.

But Li Yaoguo, who sits in the office, has survived, and the others are too embarrassed to shout tired,
Even though it's only the end of April.

But the sun at noon was still scorching hot, making everyone uncomfortable.

But everyone didn't go back, but rested temporarily on the trawler.

After a whole morning of harvesting, the relatives who came to help were all wet and sticky. Qingguang, the youngest, felt too uncomfortable, so he jumped into the sea and swam twice.

The older generation laughed and scolded: "Silly, this is sea water, the more you wash it, the more uncomfortable it will be, and you will be covered in salt later."

Li Duoyu, who was resting, suddenly had a foreign object on the sole of his foot, as if a small stone fell into the pair of waterproof shoes Zhou Xiaoying gave him.

When it was poured out, it turned out to be a small abalone, which may have fallen into it while harvesting kelp.

Li Duoyu sniffed it curiously. It was the kind of beriberi mixed with stinky and dead smell, the kind of giant head.

In order to thank everyone for their help, Li Duoyu didn't save money this time. In addition to letting his mother make salty rice and seaweed bone soup, he also bought several boxes of Rongcheng beer to reward everyone.

The big hall brother who ate three bowls of salted rice couldn't help but praise: "I have eaten so many salted rice, and I feel that the salted rice from my aunt's is the most delicious."

Chen Huiying said with a smile: "Can it not be delicious? Frying this pot of salty rice has used up all the lard in the house."

"It's so worth it."

"It's not that Duoyu specifically told you to eat more oil and water, so that you won't have the energy to work when the time comes."

"Hahaha."

This reminds everyone of the days when the 70s were particularly short of oil and water, because at that time, everything was allocated.

There is no shortage of seafood on the island, but the most lacking thing is oil and water. At that time, no matter how much seafood you ate, but there was no oil and water in your stomach, you still felt hungry and uncomfortable.

Li Duoyu remembered that for a while, he was afraid of seafood. After steaming the big yellow croaker without oil and water, he really didn't want to eat a bite.

In later generations, his son told him what kind of "rabbit meat syndrome" they had.

What else to say, when people are hungry, they must first consume fat. When the fat is not enough to consume, they will start to consume muscle to provide energy, so it is useless to eat more meat without fat.

Therefore, humans cannot do without oil and water, and animals are the same. Many animals do not like to eat meat, but only like to eat liver and fat meat that is rich in oil and water.

It's a pity that Li Duoyu doesn't read much, and except for seafood farming and cooking skills, he really doesn't know anything about it.

Until later let go.

The situation has improved since I can raise pigs and chickens by myself. For a period of time, the fish and shrimp caught by the fishermen were used to feed the pigs.

And after everyone finished the salty meal, they all drank kelp bone soup again. Even though they had drank it several times, everyone still praised the taste.

After Chen Wenchao finished his meal, he squatted alone in a place without sunlight, bit off the bottle cap with his teeth, and drank beer.

Li Duoyu also came over with a bottle of beer, leaned the edge of the bottle cap against the edge of the wood of the boat, and quickly punched down a dozen.

The beer bottle caps were also opened.

Speaking of which, there are really many ways to open beer bottle caps, some with chopsticks, some with knives, and some with lighters.

The most exaggerated thing is that in the short videos of later generations, there are still "murder weapons" opened, and Li Duoyu still doesn't understand what's going on.

After opening the beer cap.

Li Duoyu raised the beer bottle and touched the one in Chen Wenchao's hand.

"Did you work too hard last night? Why are you so tired today?"

Chen Wenchao grinned: "I slept alone last night."

"Then why do you still look constipated?"

Chen Wenchao said truthfully: "I just see that you have so many relatives and such a good relationship. I'm really envious."

Li Duoyu sighed.

No wonder this kid talked so little today, he thought he had an argument with Liu Xiaolan, that's the reason.

Chen Wenchao's family should be the latest group of people to live on Dandan Island, and the family population is relatively small.

In addition, his father and mother, who asked for Xiaohai in the early years, were swept away by the sea on the other side of the reef, and in the end there were only him and an old lady left.

Li Duoyu patted him on the shoulder.

"It's not easy to have more people. If you and Xiaolan work hard to have more children, it won't take a few years for the population to prosper."

Chen Wenchao smiled bitterly and said, "Birth is planned now. I've heard people say that there are only two at most, and if there are more, you will be fined."

Hearing what he said, Li Duoyu realized that now is indeed the time when the family planning is the strictest.

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "Then make more money, as long as you have enough money, you won't be afraid of being punished."

Chen Wenchao smiled and said:
"Brother Yu, how many babies my family can have depends entirely on you."

"OK, no problem."

But when Li Duoyu thought about it carefully, why did this statement always feel a bit wrong.

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