Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

Chapter 112 The Growth of the Koi Carp

The weather in September was cloudy and rainy.

While delivering big carp to the store, Lu Changhua focused all his energy on the pond of koi.

Today's koi are each about the size of a palm.

Because they eat fresh earthworms, they are all very large.

The colors are getting brighter and brighter.

The red ones are like blood, the white ones are like snow, the black ones are like ink, and the blue ones are like jade.

The combination of these colors makes each koi look like a living gem in the water.

Bright and eye-catching, lovable.

The water temperature has become lower these days, and the activity of koi has decreased.

The water in the heating pool has been filled, it has been exposed to the sun for three or four days, and it is also covered with plastic sheeting.

Living water comes in every day, bottom water flows out, and the water temperature is maintained well.

The indoor temperature of the pool is 28 degrees, and the water temperature is around 22 degrees.

Today is the day for the koi to move.

After feeding the fish, everyone came to help.

First drain the water, lower the water level to about fifty centimeters, and use a stirrer to scoop it directly into the bucket.

Buckets by buckets were transported into the warm pool.

When putting it out, you still tilt the bucket in the water first to let the water in the warm pool enter the bucket and let the koi get used to it before it swims in on its own.

There was no rush in moving the koi. It took Lu Changhua and the others a day to finally complete it.

Lu Changhua stood on the edge of the pond, looking at the koi carps inside, playing freely and feeling relaxed.

Hu Dagui and the others also looked at Zhi Le.

"Come on, let's have a little meeting!"

Just beside the warm pool, the six people currently in the reservoir gathered around.

"Now that the size of the reservoir is getting bigger and bigger, the two sisters-in-law will be overqualified for cooking. So, Dagui, let Aunt Hu do the cooking, and the salary will be 31 months, what do you think?"

"Okay, I don't have any objection. I'll go back and ask."

"Okay, I'll leave this to you. Then there's the division of labor. You can't do it all at once. It's too inefficient."

Lu Changhua continued: "Da Hong, Er Hong and Da Gui, you four are mainly responsible for feeding and patrolling the reservoir, and arrange your own shifts."

All four of them nodded, "Dagui is still in charge. If there is an emergency, please discuss with Dagui."

"Sister-in-law, you two are responsible for the warm pool, one for the day shift and the other for the night shift."

"What about the night shift?"

Dahong's wife asked.

"That's right, there's no place to sleep."

Erhong's wife also followed suit.

"I'll have someone build another one here in Nuanchi."

"You two need to get over it in the past two days. Where are you now? You still have to burn the stove in winter."

Things were arranged and everyone was busy.

Hu Dagui hurried home and discussed cooking with his mother.

Lu Changhua took his two daughters-in-law to the north duty room to install earthworms.

The koi are fed twice a day, and in addition to earthworms, fish food is also added.

Mainly for balanced nutrition.

Each person carried a bucket of washed earthworms and fed them on the fish feeding table.

Tap the fish table gently, and the koi will float over like a colorful cloud.

Cover the fish feeding table.

Earthworms and fish food are fed at the same time.

The koi slowly dispersed after eating.

Just like the clouds parted and the fog dispersed, the fish food table finally revealed its true appearance.

Lu Changhua remembered that many people raised koi in his previous life. They took great pains and had various water circulation and filtration systems.

Sterilize and disinfect frequently.

Lu Changhua also thought of this while doing the warm pool.

But then he thought about it carefully and realized the difference.

The important reason why so many equipment and facilities were needed to raise koi in previous lives was to save water.

Many units circulate water, so they must have these equipment.

But now it is different.

First, he uses underground spring water, which itself meets drinking water standards and contains no harmful viruses and germs.

Such water has been exposed to the sun, and it can be said that there is no problem for koi in it.

The second is to change the water frequently.

All day long, new water comes in and water from the bottom is discharged, keeping the water clean and oxygenated.

Therefore, the pool water does not need to be disinfected and sterilized anymore.

Everyone can drink the water in the warm pool. Do you think raising fish will make them sick?impossible.

Dahong's wife worked the night shift first and stayed by the warm pool.

Lu Changhua went to Zhao Laosi and asked him to come to the reservoir tomorrow and build another house.

Hu Dagui came back to report the situation.

Aunt Hu agreed to cook.

Zhao Laosi came early the next morning.

After walking around in a circle, he said to Lu Changhua: "Xiao Lu, I think we should build a house on these stoves, so that we can also use the stoves for heating."

Once Lu Changhua thinks about it, he can kill two birds with one stone.

"Okay, Master Zhao, just do it."

Fortunately, there was still some distance to the north, otherwise there would be no room to build a house now.

Zhao Laosi started to go offline with the four furnaces on the north side of the warm pool.

It is 20 meters from east to west, the south side is close to the north wall of the warm pool, the north side is two meters away from the shoji, and the north-south span is eight meters.

This span is considered wide among bungalows.

Generally, it is about six meters.This is because there are several large stoves in the south.

The stove takes up more than three meters.

The maintenance team is busy overhauling harvesting machinery, and the drying field is also busy sorting out grain storage and drying field cement boards.

Houses are still being built in Lu Changhua's reservoir.

More than a dozen people worked hard continuously, and it was basically completed in late September.

The house has windows on the south side, doors on the east side, and no doors or windows on the north or west sides.

The door is on the east gable.

Once inside, there is a through corridor.

There are four openings on the floor of the corridor, leading down to four basements with four furnaces.

On the north side of the corridor, five rooms are divided.

Four of the rooms correspond to the four basements, which are the warehouses used by Lu Changhua to store wood and coal.

The remaining room is the duty room.

There is a fire kang inside, and you can burn a fire directly in the kang hole to keep warm.

This house is very thickly built, especially the north wall, which is caulked and plastered.

Interior plastering and whitewashing.

The door for entering and exiting the warm pool has been rebuilt indoors.

Coming out of the duty room, there is a door on the south side of the corridor, from which you can directly enter the warm pool.

Only then did Zhao Laosi discover the colorful divine fish in the warm pool.

When he curiously asked what it was, Lu Changhua said it was a new variety and hoped he could keep it a secret.

Zhao Laosi slapped his chest and said, "No problem, I will never say anything."

Aunt Hu comes to the old duty room to cook every day.

This is going to be very painful for Lao Hutou.

Deal with it at home all day.

"Dagui, why don't you let your dad come too, can't you work in the reservoir?!"

Hu Dagui grinned.

"My dad? Can I still have a good life if he comes?!"

"It's up to you. Then ask your dad to come to the reservoir to eat. Otherwise, he will starve and lose weight. I won't be able to bear it!"

"Tsk tsk~"

Hu Dagui was extremely confused.

Now he has the final say in the reservoir, and these people are under his control.

If dad comes, who of us will care about whom? !

Hu Dagui really didn't want the old man to come. It would be troublesome if he came.

Aunt Hu knew the key, so she said, "I'll give him food, so he doesn't come here to cause trouble."

The old lady's words decided the life or death of Lao Hutou.

Old Hutou, who was far away from the Hu family, sat on the edge of the kang and sneezed twice.

Who is nagging me? !

The koi carp grew up happily under the careful care of Lu Changhua and his two young wives.

The autumn rain did not affect them either.

On the other hand, the three Xiong Bao brothers, besides looking at the big white geese every day, they would run into the warm pool and lie down on the wall to watch.

Let me go, since when did we have such a group of guys at home? !
The owner didn’t notify me either!

After Lu Changhua had dinner, he took Xiong Bao for a walk on the reservoir dam.

Mo Bao and Ta Xue would also follow along.

Now it is not an exaggeration to say that these three dogs are goose dogs.

Every morning early in the morning, the three brothers ran out to poop and pee, and then walked around the goose shed several times. As long as Hu Dagui opened the door of the goose pen, they would run in and pen the geese.

Drive the geese into the reservoir.

This is their first task.

Come back and eat with everyone.

Then it’s time to patrol the geese.

The geese were playing and grazing in the water, and they just lay on the shore and stared.

When it's time to go home, they can drive the geese back and drive them directly into the goose shed.

It's no different than a sheepdog.

For the koi in the warm pond, they have no choice.

I can only stare on the shore.

Lu Changhua stroked Xiong Bao's head.

Xiong Bao stared with bright eyes, looking at the koi swimming in the pond for a while, and then at Lu Changhua, with a look of unwillingness in his eyes.

"Okay, just mind your own business."

Seeing the koi carp growing up a lot more in the pond, Lu Changhua was secretly pleased with himself.

I am afraid that I am the No. 1 person who has succeeded in breeding koi in China, right?

He struggled for a long time about whether to use growth promoters for koi fish.

He also wants the koi to grow up early so that they can reproduce.

But he has concerns about using growth promoters.

Koi are so precious, and if anything goes wrong with the potion, it will be too late for him to regret it.

He doesn't have the courage.

This dragged on for several months.

Looking at it now, the koi are growing well and everything is moving in the right direction.

Next year, next year, when the next generation comes, I will do the experiment myself.

The sun has been a bit hot these days, and the air is filled with heat.

The corn and soybeans in the feed fields will be harvested in about ten days.

There is quite a lot of work waiting for him.

(End of this chapter)