Vol 3 Chapter 498: Let’s cultivate the shrimp seedlings first.

Vol 3 Chapter 498: Let’s cultivate the shrimp seedlings first.

 The night after Li Duoyu came back, there were no stopping visitors at home, including the first relatives and neighbors to come.

Li Duoyu always gives some souvenirs, such as potato chips and the like. Although these things are not very expensive, they are really not available in China.

Little Fatty started eating early, and Lao Li also took a bite and couldn't help but said: "Isn't this just like shrimp crackers?"

After Lao Li said this, Li Duoyu realized that potato chips and shrimp chips are really similar. Personally speaking, shrimp chips are much more delicious than potato chips.

 When I have some free time, I can make some shrimp crackers myself.

 As for the children, they almost all circled around the robot Li Duoyu bought. When the robot moved, the children became excited.

 In this era, there are very few toys for children. Even Friendship Store does not sell such toys.

“It’s really interesting. The robot’s hands can still move and its eyes can glow.”

Little Fatty couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, what's the name of this robot?"

Li Duoyu thought for a few seconds and replied: "This is Transformers, and its name is Optimus Prime."

 “Then are there any cartoons about this?”

“Yes, in a few years, maybe it will be broadcast in our country.”

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, how much did you pay for this toy?"

“After converting it into our RMB, it’s almost eighty yuan.”

 After hearing the price, everyone in the yard fell silent, and brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng's eyes widened.

 There was a child who wanted to reach out and grab the robot. His father quickly said, "Don't touch it, Goudan. If you break it, your father can't afford to pay for it."

 It’s almost around ten o’clock in the evening.

 Nearly all the kerosene lamps on the island were extinguished, and everyone dispersed from Li Duoyu's house.

 After taking a shower.

Lying on his bed, Li Duoyu couldn't help but said: "It's still my own bed. It's comfortable to sleep on."

Zhou Xiaoying said disgustedly: "I don't know who it is. When I was on Hong Kong Island, I slept like a dead pig every day."

 Zhang Sanming next door seemed to have applied for a room change because Li Duoyu’s snoring was too loud and kept him awake.

After returning to Dandan Island, Zhou Xiaoying was never happy. For her, Li Duoyu was really too aggressive this time, taking out so much money in loans to buy equipment.

Zhou Xiaoying whispered: "Duoyu, I mean what if, what should we do if your shrimp farm doesn't start up?"

Li Duoyu smiled: "The leaders have said that if I fail in breeding and cannot pay back the money, I will be asked to work as a chef in the compound to pay off the debt."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "I'm serious, can you stop smiling? We have to discuss such a big matter carefully."

Li Duoyu suddenly sat up from the bed and said with a serious face: "You can't put the eggs in the same basket, otherwise if you fall down, they will all be broken. That's why I started to do more breeding, even if I raise Shrimps don’t make money, but we can always make money raising eels. Even if eels don’t make money, then we can always make money raising kelp.”

Zhou Xiaoying thought about it and felt that what Li Duoyu said made sense: "But our family breeds so many, what should we do if a typhoon comes?"

Hearing the word "typhoon", Li Duoyu's lips twitched. Xiaoying was right. Typhoons are the lifelong enemies of coastal farmers.

 Many farmers were bankrupted by typhoons in previous lives. Li Duoyu remembers that one year, a typhoon named "Maria" seemed to sweep through their entire county.

 Nearly all fishing rafts, cages, kelp piles, including breeding plants, were destroyed by the typhoon. Insurance companies and fishermen suffered heavy losses.

 But in this day and age, Li Duoyu cannot buy insurance for these farms, kelp and oysters.

As for fighting against typhoons, there is actually no good way. The only thing that can be done is to grab this option in advance.

 What’s even more fatal is that the typhoon forecasts in this era are not very accurate, and typhoons are really super naughty.

 Sometimes, even if a typhoon has arrived in an overseas province and it looks like it will come soon, there is no guarantee that it will make a sudden turn for you.

This is what fishermen and farmers hate the most. If they harvest early and it doesn’t come, they will feel like they have been cheated.

 But once it is not collected, if it comes, it probably won’t be able to cry.

Li Duoyu racked his brains to recall. Li Duoyu couldn't remember other years, but in 1986, a big typhoon would definitely land on the coast of their province.

By then, it will not only affect Fujian Province and overseas provinces, but also the neighboring Zhejiang Province.

Li Duoyu remembers very clearly that in the prison where they were detained, many doors and windows were blown out, and the walls were almost blown down.

Later, after he was released from prison, he also heard that two ships capsized on the island that year, and several people died.

Thinking of this, Li Duoyu couldn't help but frown. This year, the entire Shangfeng Town has raised a lot of kelp, and Xiasha Village has raised a particularly large amount. If it is destroyed by the typhoon, then Xiasha Village may really return to before liberation. .

 At that time, he will have to appear in newspapers in a different way, and his reputation as a kelp leader will probably become negative.

Li Duoyu feels that if the typhoon can be dealt with early this year, he will do so early. He would rather earn less than go against God.

The eel factory also needs to be strengthened. The shrimp farm that is about to be built should just spend more money and build it to a typhoon-resistant level.

 Li Duoyu brushed the hair scattered in front of Xiaoying's face with his hands: "Don't worry, your husband and I have a way to deal with it. It's just a typhoon, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Um."

Zhou Xiaoying smiled.

By this time, Li Duoyu's hands and feet were already unclean. During this trip, he had been eating vegetarian dishes for so many days due to the hotel's soundproofing problem. Now he could finally eat some meat dishes.

Zhou Xiaoying slapped his dog's paws off: "Tutu is still holding me, please don't mess around."

Li Duoyu, who was wearing underpants, stood up and found that little Tutu had fallen asleep. When he wanted to hug him, he found that he was holding his mother's arms tightly with both hands.

 I heard from Aniang that two days before they left, the boy cried for two whole nights, and he cried until he ran out of energy and fell asleep.

Li Duoyu sighed: "Forget it, I'll give it to you today."

 When I woke up the next day.

Li Duoyu was not in a hurry to go to the village committee, but went to the eel breeding place first.

He is quite shy and not that proactive. Let's wait until the next village committee meeting to meet with the new village party secretary.

There is a chimney in the eel factory that is emitting light white smoke. This is not cooking or anything like that, but heating the water.

 In the absence of temperature control equipment, Li Duoyu simply bought a boiler for boiling water and relied on artificial heating of the breeding water. This is a complex and tedious process.

 After all, Dandan Island is an island with a very large temperature difference. In this season, the temperature can drop to single digits at night and rise to about 20 degrees during the day.

 So someone must keep an eye on it 24 hours a day. If you are careless, all the eel fry may be cooked. During the period of eel fry breeding, everyone was still quite nervous. Second brother Li Yaoguo, Chen Wenchao and brother-in-law put aside everything they were doing and were all busy working in the eel factory.

 Especially at night.

 There must be at least two sets of people, one set is responsible for patrolling and checking the temperature of each pool to see if there are any abnormalities.

 The other set is responsible for burning the boiler, ensuring that there is hot water in the boiler 24 hours a day.

 After arriving at the eel factory, Li Duoyu could clearly feel that the temperature inside the factory was several degrees higher than outside.

What he didn’t expect was that in addition to his second brother and the others, his uncle Chen Dongqing was also here early in the morning.

 “Come here so early?”

After seeing Li Duoyu, my uncle Chen Dongqing said angrily: "Oh, after playing for so many days, are you finally willing to come back?"

Seeing this guy's jealous look, Li Duoyu didn't tolerate him: "I can't help it, Hong Kong Island is really nice, the food is delicious, the girls are pretty, and it's really fun."

 “Get out of here, uncle, did you bring me something back?”

Li Duoyu shook his head and said: "No, but Xiaoying did buy Wenwen a toy, it seems to be some kind of Disney princess."

Although Li Duoyu said this, he still took out a Zippo lighter from his pocket and threw it to him.

"This thing is very valuable. When I bought it, Xiaoying was heartbroken for a long time, so I gave it to you directly, with kerosene added."

After Chen Dongqing took the lighter, he clicked, opened the lid of the lighter, turned it, and the wick of the lighter started to burn.

 “This thing is good, much more convenient than matches.” After saying this, Chen Dongqing directly smoked a cigarette and took two deep puffs.

Li Duoyu frowned slightly: "Why do you smoke like a smoker?"

The uncle sighed: "It's not because of you. Ever since your aunt found out that you and Xiaoying went to Hong Kong Island with the boss, she has been scolding me for being useless. Recently, she deducted all my smoking money."

Li Duoyu smiled. After the last contact, he could tell that his aunt was not a fuel-efficient person.

The uncle took out the pack of Chengfeng cigarettes from his pocket and said, "Yaoguo asked me to smoke this pack of cigarettes. By the way, you have gone to Hong Kong Island. Have you bought a few packs of good cigarettes?"

 “I was so busy that I forgot about it.”

 “Dear me, didn’t you have a great time in Hong Kong Island?”

“You may believe me if I lie to you. I went to communicate with many farmers on Hong Kong Island this time and learned a lot of farming experience. Now I am more confident about raising shrimps.”

After hearing this, my uncle Chen Dongqing's eyes lit up: "Really, what kind of skills did you learn when you came back?"

“There are so many things that I can’t finish them all in one and a half minutes. I’ll tell you slowly when I have time later.”

Li Duoyu started to talk nonsense. He would not tell his uncle to learn some nonsense skills. On this trip to Hong Kong Island, he taught the local farmers a lot of breeding techniques.

“But this time, I did something big.” Li Duoyu whispered in his uncle Chen Dongqing’s ear.

After my uncle heard this, he was stunned for several seconds, and then he started talking about the quintessence of Chinese culture: "You are too brave."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Farming is inherently a very risky business. I bought these equipment to reduce the risk."

Li Duoyu did not continue chatting with his uncle, but checked the eel pond. After opening the colorful plastic sheet covering the pond, he checked the status of the eel.

 The eel has grown at least twenty times, is no longer so transparent, and its back is slowly turning black.

 As long as it lasts for a while, it will become a "spot" in the mouth of eel farmers.

In previous lives, many eel farmers did not have the conditions and technology to raise eel fry. They did not start with eel fry, but purchased the sunspots directly from eel fry manufacturers.

 The price of sunspots will be a bit more expensive.

 Generally, it is about twice the price of eel fry. When the market is good, the price of a local sunspot can even be sold for thirty or forty yuan.

Li Duoyu checked with a flashlight. He found that the eel fry were in good condition and were very active in grabbing food. After continuing to raise them in the small pond for half a month, they could go to the secondary pond.

While Li Duoyu was inspecting the eel pond, the uncle beside him couldn't help but asked: "Duoyu, I don't understand, why do you need this cloth?"

Li Duoyu rolled his eyes and said, "As a researcher, don't you understand this? Eels usually like to drill holes. If it is too bright, they will feel insecure."

Uncle Chen Dongqing suddenly realized: "No wonder the water in your eel pond is very dark."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Okay, I can understand everything at once, and I can draw inferences from one instance to another. I am indeed a professional."

 “Grass, you looked down on me just now.”

At this time, the second brother Li Yaoguo came over and said: "Duoyu, that Liu Yun has caught a lot of live shrimps for you these days. Do you want to take a look?"

Following his second brother Li Yaoguo, Li Duoyu came to the two ponds at the corner of the eel factory.

These two pools use sea water, and the water level is relatively high. You can see that there are densely packed living shrimps in them.

Second brother Li Yaoguo said: "These shrimps are not easy to raise. A few days ago, a diesel engine suddenly broke down. Even the eel seedlings were fine, but a lot of these shrimps died."

Li Duoyu glanced at his uncle on the side and said, "I heard from the breeding experts on Hong Kong Island that shrimps are different from eels. They are not big, but they need more oxygen, so once the oxygen injection stops, It’s easy to die.”

"So this is ah."

Li Duoyu discovered that the second brother was really meticulous in doing things. Without him having to say anything, he had already divided the ponds into two ponds according to the size of the shrimps.

Li Duoyu directly ignored the small shrimp in the pond and looked directly at the larger pond.

 Selecting broodstock for breeding is actually very simple. Just choose the ones that are strong and relatively large.

There is a common saying that as long as it grows bigger, it proves that the genes are good.

 This is the same with people.

There are thousands of kinds of people, some are tall and some are short, some are fat and some are thin. It is difficult for two tall people to give birth to a short person.

 Those with single eyelids, it is absolutely impossible for their children to have double eyelids. If they have double eyelids, it is 100% the fault of Mr. Wang next door.

 What Li Duoyu needs to do now is to select the healthiest batch from as many breeding broodstock as possible.

Then, before the breeding season comes, lock them alone in a small dark room so that they can do some shameful things.

 It is relatively simple to let shrimps hatch the next generation, but cultivating excellent shrimp seedlings is not an easy task.

 It requires a lot of technical support and experience accumulation, and it is impossible for Li Duoyu to cultivate shrimp larvae that grow quickly and have high resistance like in the previous life.

 For him now, the most important thing is to cultivate the shrimp seedlings first. (End of chapter)