Chapter 577: Intercepting the Jellyfish (1/2)

Chapter 577: Intercepting the Jellyfish (1/2)

Li Duoyu sometimes feels that he is too lucky. There are many kinds of jellyfish. In addition to cotton stingers and sand stingers,

There are also spotted yellow stings,

stick jellyfish,

Ma stings etc.

But it happened that he encountered the most expensive jellyfish. To be honest, Li Duoyu might not necessarily like other jellyfish.

Even if the second-ranked sand sting is, Li Duoyu has to think about it. After all, jellyfish can easily weigh one or two hundred kilograms. If a boat is full, it won't be able to hold much.

Therefore, when many fishermen catch sand stings, they process them directly on the boat and throw the unwanted parts directly into the sea.

But just after being happy for a while, Li Duoyu started to get into trouble, because the swimming ability of jellyfish is very weak, and they prefer hitchhiking to swimming.

As long as you open the jellyfish umbrella, it will be like a "sail", and the sea will take them to other places.

So jellyfish generally don't stay in one place for too long.

Li Duoyu looked down at the tide for a while, and then looked to the east. This ocean current was heading towards Zhejiang Province.

If we don't catch them now, it feels like in two days, these stings will be in the nets of fishermen in the next province.

Li Duoyu is really envious of the Zhoushan Islands now. There are endless fish to catch when he goes out, it's just God's food.

Li Duoyu snorted:

"No, this money must be earned. No matter what, I have to cut off his beard. They eat meat, and I at least have to drink the soup from their head."

Li Duoyu glanced at his watch and found that it was still early. He immediately sailed back to Dandan Island and went to his uncle's house as soon as possible.

After all, Little Elephant Island is still quite far away. If we rely on small boats for fishing and transportation, the efficiency is too low, and we won’t be able to catch much at all. We must have large ships that can load cargo to help transport it.

The first thing Li Duoyu thought of was the large steel tugboat that several of their relatives purchased together.

The deck is large enough and the fish hold is large enough. It is not a problem to pull it dozens of meters at a time. It can even be easily processed and sorted on the ship, saving a lot of trouble.

Li Duoyu asked:

"Auntie, where is my uncle going this time?"

Zhang Guifen, who was washing clothes, said: "I said I went fishing for hairtail. It seems to be in the nearby waters, but I haven't returned to Hong Kong for seven or eight days."

"That's it."

Li Duoyu frowned slightly. Now is indeed the best time to catch hairtail. It seems that all the big boats along the coast have gone to catch hairtail.

It would have been difficult to communicate with the original wooden fishing boat, but after switching to this large steel boat, all the communication equipment has been upgraded.

If uncle and his fishing boat didn't go too far, there would still be a way to contact them.

Li Duoyu returned to his fishing boat and directly contacted the coast radio station using the boat radio.

"The main station?"

"Hello, this is the shore station of the radio station of the Mindong Fishing Grounds Headquarters." (The locals call it the main station.)

"Hello, front desk, I am Li Duoyu, the village director of Xiasha Village on Dandan Island."

"The main station has received it, please speak."

"Can you please broadcast for me and ask Minrongyu 056 from Dandan Island to return to the island immediately after hearing the news?"

"No problem, Director Li. We will broadcast it immediately. Because it is a channel broadcast, there is no guarantee that we will be contacted."

Li Duoyu replied: "Thank you to the main station."

The other party also replied happily: "Our station director said, the station also thanks you very much for the detailed charts you provided us last year."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu smiled. The charts he provided did help a lot of people.

Not long after.

Li Duoyu's fishing boat received the wireless message from the main station.

"This is the shore station of the radio station of the Mindong Fishery Headquarters. If Fujian Rongyu 056 hears the broadcast, please return to the island immediately. Director Li Duoyu of Xiasha Village on Dandan Island tells you to return to the island immediately."

In the days before mobile phones, this was the only way to communicate with fishing boats out at sea.

Coast radio is unfamiliar to ordinary people, but for coastal fishermen, it is a channel that they listen to every day.

Not only can it predict the weather.

When the fishing season comes, they will even directly notify the fishing boats to go fishing. When fishing boats have problems at sea, the first thing fishermen think of is to seek help from the main station.

As long as the imported three-way radio in Li Duoyu's home is tuned to the broadcast channel of the main station, he can even hear their intercom content.

As early as a few years ago, the main station had announced its telephone number. If there was no marine radio station like Li Duoyu, if there was an emergency, you could still call the main station and ask them to help broadcast.

Not long ago, a fisherman suffered from acute appendicitis while fishing in the open sea. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the engine of the fishing boat. However, he contacted the main station in time and was rescued.

What’s even more outrageous is that the wife of a ship owner in the next county gave birth to a boy. Her family was so happy that they called the front desk and asked the front desk to inform the ship owner that his wife had given birth to a boy.

I thought I would be rejected, but I didn't expect that the main station would still report it. Li Duoyu still remembers those words to this day.

[Li Dafu from Minning Fishing 045, your wife has given birth to a boy. Your family has asked you to stop catching fish and go back to pay the fine. 】

For fishermen, coast radio is very good for them and can really help them with anything.

However, there are still inconveniences. Contacts are almost always unilateral. Whether the other party can receive it depends on luck.

After all, the broadcasting distance of the radio station is limited. If the fishing boat exceeds the broadcasting distance, it will definitely not be able to hear the broadcast information.

While thinking about these issues, Li Duoyu suddenly had an idea and remembered the call problem on Dandan Island.

If I remember correctly, it would be at least ten years before it would be possible to bring in the landline telephone service on Dandan Island.

Since wired ones are not easy, then wireless ones can be used. If I remember correctly, there are many small electronics workshops in Quanzhou.

It specializes in high-power cordless phones. It seems to be called "Black Pearl".

The distance from Dandan Island to Qixing Bay is as long as building a larger signal amplifier on the top of the mountain.

With a high-power cordless phone, you might be able to make free unlimited calls from Dandan Island to Qixing Bay.

And in a place quite far away from Dandan Island, surrounded by the vast sea, there was a large boat with its lights on, fishing for hairtail with a row of hooks.

The bait they used were small tubes that could not be sold at a high price. There were four or five people on the deck reeling in the fishing lines. After a while, a hairtail fish that was brighter than stainless steel was pulled up.

Caught hairtails are of the best quality and sell for a very high price, while hairtails caught by trawling are generally sent to processing plants and the price is much lower.

The boss of the boat, Li Zhengtian, was on the fishing boat. The ship's radio occasionally made a buzzing sound, and then some intermittent sounds appeared.

But as the fishing boat got closer and closer to the coast, Li Zhengfa in the captain's room suddenly heard a broadcast, and his face suddenly changed.

Because there are generally few contacts with fishing boats on land, every time there is contact there must be something big, so I immediately went to the ship deck to find my brother.

"It can't be that something happened to our family."

Li Niantian frowned: "Duoyu, that's all you said. You didn't say anything else."

Li Niantian replied: "That must be because he is embarrassed to say something. Based on my understanding of him, if it was really urgent, he would have already said it long ago. It is 100% that this boat is needed to pull something, but I am embarrassed to say it on the radio. Open on the channel.”

The elder brother said this.

The third child, Li Zhengfa, also calmed down and said, "What should we do now?" Li Niantian frowned and thought for a while, then shouted to the crew members who were pulling out the hooks: "After pulling these few hooks, we will stop fishing and prepare for it." , we will return to Hong Kong soon."

The second uncle, who was smoking a dry cigarette, was very puzzled: "The harvest tonight is not bad. The hairtail is big and fat. Why don't we catch it anymore?"

Li Niantian quickly explained:

"I just received a broadcast from the main station. Duoyu asked us to go back quickly. There is probably a more profitable business."

Hearing this, several crew members were stunned for a moment. When listening to the radio before, they heard about rescue and childbirth.

They kept thinking that one day, someone could ask the main station to find them, but they didn't expect that they actually received it today.

After hearing that he was going back to Hong Kong, a shirtless young man jumped up for joy on the spot: "Damn it, I can finally go back to Hong Kong. My underwear is almost soaked."

His father couldn't help but patted his head: "If you don't wash yourself, who will do it if you don't do it?"

Chen Liang touched his head. He was about to say something about his father when he suddenly felt a pain in his arm. The hairtail fish he caught bit his forearm with its sharp teeth, causing it to bleed on the spot.

Chen Liang grabbed the hairtail on the spot and threw it on the deck, and cursed: "Sa Linnei, how dare you bite me."

The rest of the crew all laughed, and his father was also disgusted: "If you don't pay attention to catching fish, you deserve to be bitten."

The jellyfish are just passing through.

But Li Duoyu has a lot to think about if he wants to catch it. Not only does he need to organize a fishing fleet, but he also has to consider the fishing nets.

In addition, we have to consider processing this area. After all, their area is not the main producing area of ​​jellyfish, and the processing factory is not willing to process it.

And they are not very familiar with the trivitriol processing method. He has a good relationship with Factory Director Liu, but they will not embarrass their employees just to make you make money.

Li Duoyu thinks that if you want to do it, you should simply achieve the quality of export. If the local sales are not good, then it will be a problem.

Contact the Foreign Trade Bureau directly and ask them to help sell this batch of goods.

Just next to the eel factory and Qixing Bay, there are many vacant cement ponds for breeding. If you wash them, they can be used to process jellyfish.

Speaking of which, this matter is quite urgent. If you want to make this money, you must be fast. The flood season for jellyfish is very short.

Once you miss it, you will have no choice but to fish in other people's territory. If the fleet is too big, there may be a fight.

So try to catch more jellyfish before they arrive in the next province. To put it bluntly, it only takes two or three days.

If you travel too far, it is not cost-effective to fish with your own fleet. The more expensive ones are the processed jellyfish heads and jellyfish skins.

To process jellyfish, you must use a lot of salt and alum, as well as some plastic buckets to hold the jellyfish.

It is impossible for Li Duoyu to do all these things by himself, otherwise by the time he prepares these things, the jellyfish will not know where to go.

After much deliberation, Li Duoyu still felt that his second brother was the most suitable person to be a purchaser. When the time came, he asked Xiao Chao to go with him.

After Li Duoyu came to his second brother's house, the little fat man who didn't soak his feet in warm water was howling on the bed.

"It hurts and itches so much."

Li Yaoguo also had a distressed look on his face: "Don't scratch me. Your uncle told me that your legs will get rotten if you scratch me."

Seeing the fat boy like this, Li Duoyu felt very distressed. His second brother's house was still an old house with poor sanitary conditions.

The house was short and it was really stuffy when the weather was hot. Li Duoyu frowned and said, "If you feel itchy, come to my house and I'll turn on the air conditioner for you."

Hearing the words "turn on the air conditioner", the fat boy's eyes lit up and he jumped up from the bed: "Uncle, please turn on the air conditioner for me."

Li Yaoguo said angrily:

"Why turn on the air conditioner? You should stay at home. Turning on the air conditioner consumes a lot of electricity."

After hearing this, the fat boy was a little disappointed and felt his feet start to hurt and itch again.

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "It's okay. Electrical appliances are bought for use. If you don't turn on the air conditioner to save electricity, it's better not to buy it."

"It just so happens that I have something to do with your father. You can go to my house to enjoy the air conditioning in the next two days, and let your aunt take care of you."

Li Haoran was originally very happy, but when he thought of his aunt, he immediately frowned. Although his aunt would no longer be his class teacher after the end of this semester, he didn't know why he was still particularly afraid of her.

But when he thought about being able to use the air conditioner, Li Haoran thought and struggled fiercely, and said with a smile: "I'll stay at my uncle's house and play with Xiao Tutu."

Li Yaoguo frowned:

"You kid."

Just now, when he heard that Li Duoyu was looking for him for something, Li Yaoguo was also very happy: "Is it because the shrimp farm is too busy and wants me to go over to help?"

Li Duoyu shook his head and said:

"It's another matter, second brother, do you know President Wu of the county supply and marketing cooperative?"

Li Yaoguo nodded: "I know him. When I came to our island last time, I sat at the same table with him for dinner."

"That's good."

Li Duoyu took out a list on the spot and said: "Wait a minute, you and Xiao Chao will go to the county supply and marketing cooperative by boat to purchase a batch of goods for the company and say that it is for Minlong Company to buy."

Li Yaoguo took the list, looked at the items to be purchased on it, and frowned.

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Edible salt: one dense.

Alum: 500 kilograms.

Large sealed plastic barrels with lids: 500 pcs.

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Li Yaoguo couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you going to do with these things?"

Li Duoyu said:

"I'm going to process jellyfish and make some money."

Li Yaoguo was stunned: "Can you make money from jellyfish? People on the coast don't like to eat this thing."

Li Duoyu smiled. Just because people on the coast don't like to eat it doesn't mean that people in other places don't like to eat it.

Li Duoyu said: "The islanders like this thing very much. If the quality is good, it can be exported."

Li Yaoguo looked at the list and said again: "Edible salt and alum should be available. This plastic bucket is very expensive and a bit difficult to get."

After the second brother said this, Li Duoyu realized that the plastic industry was not particularly developed in this era, so plastic buckets were still very expensive.

Everyone considers a lot when buying things. For example, after eating canned food, glass bottles will not be thrown away. They are generally used to pickle various small things, or to store salt and MSG.

Plastic buckets are even more useful. Not only can they be used as buckets, but they can also be used to hold various things.

Li Duoyu continued:

"If President Wu doesn't have it, you can go directly to Rongcheng Plastic Factory. You need the salt and alum quickly, as they may be needed in the early morning."

Seeing Li Duoyu so anxious, Li Yaoguo glanced at the fat boy and said, "Go to your aunt's house. Don't cause trouble for your aunt, okay?"

Li Haoran jumped up with joy:

"I can use the air conditioner now, Dad. If you go to the county town, please buy me a watermelon." (End of this chapter)