Chapter 575 Portuguese Man-of-War (1/2)

Chapter 575 Portuguese Man-of-War (1/2)

Earlier this year.

When Li Duoyu communicated with several shrimp farmers on Hong Kong Island, he already knew that overseas provinces are now the largest shrimp farming bases in Asia.

What they mainly raise is not Chinese prawn, but Penaeus monodon. Since this kind of shrimp likes to live in places with aquatic plants and seaweed in estuaries when they are young, people from overseas provinces usually call them grass shrimp.

On the mainland, they are generally called black tiger shrimps because they have the same patterns as tigers.

When fishermen on Dandan Island set off their nets, they can occasionally catch black tiger shrimps. The largest individual weighs more than a pound, which is much larger than the shrimps in Hong Kong.

Li Duoyu remembered that there was a time in his previous life when the sales of white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) were not good, so black tiger shrimp was still raised in China. This kind of shrimp is more difficult to raise and the price is more expensive than white shrimp.

As far as Li Duoyu knows, there are not only black tiger shrimps among the monodon shrimps, but also red tiger shrimps and green tiger shrimps. Among them, the largest individual of the blue tiger shrimps can grow to nearly two kilograms, and one cannot be eaten at all.

Fishermen on Dandan Island occasionally catch one or two large shrimps like this, which are usually bought by fishmongers at a high price as soon as they land on the pier.

It is a pity that there are relatively few sea areas near Dandan Island for Penaeus monodon, and the broodstock does not breed the next generation here. Otherwise, Li Duoyu can also breed this kind of shrimp.

Since Haixin Group obtains its shrimp seedlings from overseas provinces, they are not raising local prawns, but black tiger prawns.

This is one of the reasons why they are confident. After all, the shrimps they raise will be larger than the shrimps in Hong Kong, so they are naturally easier to sell.

But Li Duoyu doesn't pursue big shrimps. If he wants to raise real giant shrimps, he must raise them for at least the next year.

For a shrimp farmer, the longer the breeding time, the greater the risk, and even the issue of surviving the winter has to be considered.

If the temperature is too low, you have to build a greenhouse and install a boiler to overwinter the shrimp. The cost is too high and it is not cost-effective at all.

And in this day and age, even if they are on the coast, it is quite honorable to have a plate of shrimps when entertaining guests.

Li Duoyu thinks that after four or five months of raising this batch of prawns, they will be ready to go on the market together with this batch of blue crabs when they are about 15 to 20 heads (15 per pound).

As long as he sells these shrimps and crabs, he will immediately become a rich man again.

For now, an average shrimp farmer can only harvest about one to two hundred kilograms per acre of shrimp pond in a year.

But if Li Duoyu comes to raise it, he is quite confident that he can harvest it at 400 kilograms per acre.

At present, the purchase price of shrimp is relatively stable, almost three yuan per pound.

Li Duoyu's current ponds on Dandan Island and the shrimp ponds on Qixing Bay total almost 500 acres.

By then, the ideal income can reach nearly 600,000, and that's just for prawns, he also has blue crabs.

The output and market of blue crabs are not as big as that of shrimps, but if everything goes well, there is no problem in contributing 70,000 to 80,000 yuan to him.

If it can be shipped before the Spring Festival this year, the price will be even more beautiful, if you are lucky.

He might actually become a millionaire.

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

"Second brother, you don't need to save money especially on feed and management. I will figure out a solution for the money issue."

Li Yaoguo pursed his lips and nodded. He didn't mean to preach at all, he just wanted to remind Duoyu.

After all, this guy has a criminal record. When he was a smuggler, he spent money quite lavishly.

At this moment, a villager named Lao Hei ran over in a hurry: "Yao Guo, hurry up and take a look at your son."

Halfway through the words, the other party began to pant. Seeing him running in such a hurry, Li Yaoguo became nervous.

"Old Hei, what's wrong with Haoran?"

Lahei put his hands on his knees and gasped: "Hurry over and take a look. Your Haoran was probably bitten by a jellyfish when he was playing at the beach. Now he is crying in pain and his whole leg is swollen."

Hearing this, the second brother Li Yaoguo's expression changed drastically, and he asked on the spot: "Where is he?"

"Over at Badwater Bay, he's in so much pain that he can't walk anymore, and no one dares to bring him back."

"Duoyu, please collect the ledger, I'll go over first."

After Li Yaoguo finished speaking, he ran out on the spot. Li Duoyu had never seen his second brother run so fast in his life.

Hearing that Haoran had been bitten, Li Duoyu was also very worried. He hurriedly put away the account book and planned to see if it was serious.

But before setting off, Li Duoyu asked for some alum and a glass bottle from Lao Yang's Xiaochao Shop, and also borrowed his fish-killing knife.

Lao Yang looked puzzled: "Director Li, what are you doing with these things?"

"I'll pay you back later."

The alum they have here can be used to pickle jellyfish. Most restaurants will prepare some. If you are really bitten by a jellyfish, this thing is very useful.

When he just came out of Lao Yang's Fried Shop, Li Duoyu saw Lao Lu's wife hanging out her child's diapers at the pier.

She had just hung it up when Li Duoyu took it away and said with a smile:

"Aunt Lanying, I'll take one away first and buy you a new one later."

The aunt who was hanging the clothes looked puzzled. She didn't understand why Li Duoyu wanted to take a child's diaper.

Although she washed it very clean, after all, she had just pooped, so it didn't smell bad at all.

Before she could ask, Li Duoyu had already disappeared.

Badshui Beach is still a bit far away from the village. It would take more than ten minutes to run there, but Li Duoyu only ran for ten minutes before catching up with his second brother.

Maybe because I ran too fast at the beginning, I no longer have any strength, and my whole face is very ugly.

But he still endured it and kept "running" forward. Seeing his second brother out of breath, Li Duoyu shook his head and said, "You'd better slow down. I'll go over and see what's going on."

When Li Duoyu came to Badshuitan, there was no need to look for where Li Haoran was.

On the beach not far away, there were about ten people gathered around, and Li Haoran's screams like a slaughtering pig could be heard from a distance.

"It hurts, it hurts!"

Li Haoran was lying on the ground, feeling so painful that his hands kept hammering the beach, and his whole face was in pain as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis.

There were four or five adults in the crowd of onlookers. What surprised Li Duoyu was that his second sister-in-law, Zhu Xiuhua, had already arrived here first.

Someone shouted anxiously:

"Xiuhua, hold his hand, don't let him grab it. There are thorns on the wound. If you grab it, your hand will be destroyed."

Someone else said:

"If there is any carbon ash, give him some and sprinkle it on it. This is the most effective."

Li Duoyu took a brief look and found that Little Fatty was really bitten badly this time. Both legs were a bit miserable, as if he had just eaten an enhanced version of "Stir-fried Pork with Bamboo Shoots", and there were shocking whip marks all over. .

The two little boys next to him, although not as serious as him, were also injured and cried out in pain.

When everyone saw him coming, they quickly made room for him. One flatterer said: "Duoyu is here. He has the most ideas. Maybe there is a way to deal with it."

The second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua's face was also covered with tears. She felt sorry for Haoran when she saw that he was so painful that he punched the beach.

"Duoyu, is there anything you can do? Haoran has been crying out in pain. He almost lost his breath when he was crying just now."

When Little Fatty saw Li Duoyu, he cried so much that his nose ran out: "Uncle, my leg is so hot and painful. It's like burning."

At this moment, an adult came over with a bucket of water and shouted:

"Everyone, give me a moment. The well water is coming. Wash the wounds first."

Seeing that what the other party brought was well water, Li Duoyu frowned instantly and quickly stopped him: "Don't wash it yet, I will handle this matter."

The man continued: "You can use well water to ice it, it will definitely make you feel better."

Li Duoyu didn't bother to explain to them why he couldn't use clean water after being bitten by a jellyfish. Because after a jellyfish stings, the wound is full of tiny thorns and venom remains.

Once clean water is used, the venom will intensify and spread, causing more serious consequences.

The correct way to deal with it is to find a way to pull out the stinger first, but the thing is very small and not easy to see clearly with the naked eye.

So you need to use cotton cloth. Of course, you can take off your clothes.

But the diaper that the lady dried just now is very suitable for removing stingers and wiping out jellyfish venom.

Li Duoyu poured some alum into a can glass bottle, and then dissolved it with sea water.

After the alum water was prepared, Li Duoyu directly put the diaper into the water cup. After moistening it, he wiped Li Haoran's wound.

When the diaper soaked in alum water touched the red and swollen wound on Little Fatty, he instantly screamed in pain.

Li Duoyu said in a deep voice: "Hold it, don't move."

After being yelled at by Li Duoyu, Li Haoran immediately became more obedient, but his teeth were still clenched.

The villagers on the side couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, what kind of water is this?"

Li Duoyu replied casually:

"This is alum."

"The alum that pickled jellyfish?"

Li Duoyu nodded. In fact, he didn't understand why alum was effective for this.

Maybe this thing is naturally resistant to jellyfish. The jellyfish they often eat is actually pickled with alum.

There is even a professional name called "Three Alum Processing Method", which is to pickle it with alum three times. It is said that the jellyfish produced in this way can meet the export standards.

After Li Duoyu wiped it with cotton cloth, he could still see many small black dots near the wound.

That thing should be the nematocyst of a jellyfish. It is not easy to wipe off. After being stung by a jellyfish, the most fearful thing is to grab it with your hands.

If this thing is broken, the amount of toxins will be doubled. Many people are injured by jellyfish and their condition worsens because of their poor hands.

When the second brother Li Yaoguo ran over, he was panting and his face was almost the color of pig liver.

But he had just squeezed into the crowd when he happened to see Li Duoyu take out a bright fish-killing knife.

"Duoyu, what are you doing with the knife?"

Li Duoyu replied: "It's just scraping off the stinger, don't worry, your Haoran will not lose half a piece of meat."

This knife is a fish-killing knife that Li Duoyu borrowed from Lao Yang. Lao Yang usually has the habit of sharpening knives, and this knife feels very sharp.

When the second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua saw Li Yaoguo, she was so angry that she wanted to punch him twice.

"Don't make a fuss about Duoyu, he is treating our Haoran's wounds?"

Zhu Xiuhua looked at the panting man in front of her and cursed angrily: "How come Haoran has been stung? Duoyu has been here for so long, why did you just come?"

Li Yaoguo was also helpless. His physical fitness was incomparable to Duoyu's. He ran as freely as the wind, and he couldn't catch up at all.

When Li Haoran saw the fish knife in his uncle's hand, he was so scared that he wanted to faint so that he wouldn't have to suffer.

Li Duoyu took the fish knife and gently scraped the surface of Li Haoran's wound, which felt like scraping pig hair.

Where the blade passed, tiny black spots were scraped off. It took about ten minutes, and Li Duoyu was sweating profusely, to scrape off all the small black spots.

Then, he gently wiped it with alum water, but Li Haoran still felt very painful.

Li Duoyu frowned slightly. If he was stung by a jellyfish, it shouldn't be so painful and serious.

"Haoran, was the one that bit you a small jellyfish with long tentacles?"

Li Haoran had a bitter face: "I didn't pay attention. After being bitten, it was very painful, so I ran out of the sea directly."

The child next to him who was also bitten raised his hand and said: "Director Li, I saw that it was indeed a small jellyfish, and it was blue, and it looked a bit like a hat."

Hearing this, Li Duoyu was slightly startled. No wonder Li Haoran was in so much pain, it turned out to be a Portuguese man-of-war.

Even if an adult was bitten by this thing, he would probably cry for his parents.

But this thing is not distributed in Dandan Island. Most of the local jellyfish are jellyfish, whip jellyfish, and Tan Kah Kee jellyfish. Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish are rarely seen. How did it come to them?

Could it be that there was a problem again? After Li Duoyu dealt with it,

The little fat boy wanted to try to stand up, but Li Duoyu frowned and said, "Try not to move to reduce the spread of the toxins. Let your mother take you back."

"Also, soak the wound in 40-degree warm water for half an hour, and it should not hurt so much."

"Second sister-in-law, observe carefully. If Haoran has allergies or breathing discomfort, go to the health center immediately."

After treating the little fat boy, Li Duoyu treated the other two children who were not so seriously injured.

They only had one or two "whips" on their legs, and the situation was not very serious. When their parents knew the situation, they all came to the evil water beach.

But after seeing the real bamboo whips in their parents' hands, these children were so scared that their faces turned pale. They didn't care about the pain in their calves and ran away immediately.

"The Ghost Festival is coming soon. I told you not to go to the sea. You ignored my words, didn't you?"

"Please trouble Director Li to treat your wounds."

Seeing two shirtless children running and crying, Li Duoyu couldn't help laughing, as if he was often chased and beaten by his mother when he was a child.

The fat boy escaped because of his serious injuries, otherwise he might have to eat a meal of "bamboo shoots and fried meat".

Some villagers were very curious. Li Duoyu had previously given mouth-to-mouth treatment to Lao Mao's son and saved him.

Unexpectedly, now even jellyfish know how to deal with it. Someone couldn't help asking: "Duoyu, how do you know this?"

Li Duoyu laughed casually: "I saw it in magazines and books."

Li Duoyu said seriously to the man who brought the well water: "A Shui, in the future, if you encounter this kind of situation, don't use clean water and alcohol to clean the wound, otherwise it will only get worse."

But A Shui was still a little unconvinced: "But Chen Wenchao was stung before, but it was nothing, just wash it with water."

Li Duoyu said: "Jellyfish is not very poisonous, and the bite will not be particularly serious. The blue jellyfish is more terrifying."

Just at this time, a naughty little boy came to Li Duoyu with a branch and a blue jellyfish. When the sea breeze blew, the long tentacles also floated up.

"Director Li, is it this kind?"

Li Duoyu's mouth twitched and stepped back several steps: "Yes, it is this kind, don't get too close to me."

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Li Duoyu went to the beach for a simple walk, and he really saw several Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish again.

Li Duoyu looked at the people on the beach with a serious expression and said: "There are many poisonous jellyfish in the sea, everyone should not go down to play in the water anymore."

After returning home, the fat boy soaked his two big carrot legs in a bucket of 42-3 degrees.

After soaking for a while, the fat boy's face finally looked better: "Mother, it doesn't seem to hurt that much."

Zhu Xiuhua finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "Do you still feel any pain or discomfort in breathing now?"

The fat boy scratched his head and said: "No, I just feel very hot all over, and I really want to eat an ice cream."

After hearing this, Zhu Xiuhua was instantly angry and wanted to pull out the bamboo whip on the spot. (End of this chapter)