1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 120 (fourth update) Eating raw oysters

 After leaving the kelp seedling breeding ground.

The iron boat arrived at a nearby sea area, which is full of oysters. There are more than fifty acres of oyster fields near the coast.

 At low tide, they are all pillars.

 It looks quite spectacular.

And what Zhang Qingyun took them to was not these oyster fields.

 It is a farming raft near an oyster field.

This farming raft is somewhat similar to a fishing raft. It is also made of moso bamboo, but the number of moso bamboo is denser than that of the fishing raft.

Each moso bamboo is tied with a lot of ropes, and underneath are strings of oyster shells.

 After the iron boat docks next to the breeding raft.

Zhang Qingyun took the lead from the boat and jumped onto the bamboo raft frame, and then said to everyone: "Come down, I will show you the oyster seedlings."

 When everyone is on the raft frame.

Zhang Qingyun lifted up a string tied with large oyster shells. There were many small oysters growing on the shells, each about the size of a thumb.

Zhang Qingyun introduced: "If you cultivate oysters, it takes about two to three years, and the oysters on this raft are almost one year old."

Li Duoyu mentioned a bunch of things and started observing.

 Zhang Qingyun asked:

“Whatever, it’s in good condition.”

Li Duoyu replied: "Yes, it's much better than what I raise at home."

Chen Wenchao also looked at it curiously.

I picked up a bunch of oyster sprouts and looked at them, but my head was filled with questions.

“Brother Yu, why do oysters still grow on oyster shells?”

Li Duoyu smiled and was about to answer this question to Chen Wenchao. Unexpectedly, his uncle Chen Dongqing answered it first.

Completely ignoring his image as the first college student on Dandan Island, he licked his right hand vividly.

“Oysters are similar to kelp, they all behave like this, and then the things sprayed out will hang on the shells of these oysters.”

 Chen Wenchao understood what his uncle said instantly, but he looked at the distance between the oyster field and the breeding raft.

“It’s so far away, will that thing float here?”

 Chen Dongqing shook his head and sighed:

"You are looking down on oysters. The amount of oysters they spit out at one time is more than yours. Not long ago, this area of ​​​​the sea was sprayed with oysters, and the sea water was almost dyed white."

 “Is there anyone so powerful?”

"That's for sure." Chen Dongqing nodded: "I heard from the older generation that after eating this thing, the combat duration will be increased. You can give it a try."

 “But I’ve been here for a long time.”

 Chen Dongqing asked curiously: "How long."

Seeing that there were so many people here, the two of them started whispering to each other.

Chen Dongqing frowned, then smoked a cigarette and said seriously:

"Xiaochao, I think something is wrong with you at this time. You must be sick and need treatment."

 “How to treat it?”

 “To become a monk and become a monk.”

 Chen Wenchao said ah, and then said: "You must be fooling me."

Li Duoyu discovered that these two people are quite compatible, and they are naturally evil!

 Just like what my uncle said.

When the oysters are first sprayed out, they are like kelp spores and can only be seen with a microscope.

 They will drift around the world with ocean currents, some attached to reefs, some attached to the bottom of ships, and some can even appear thousands of miles away along the ocean currents.

In order to obtain oyster seedlings, farmers will place seedling collectors near the breeding area in May and June when oysters are sprayed.

The making of the seedling collector is also very simple, just some larger shells. The north especially likes to use scallop shells as seedling collectors.

 There are not many scallops here.

So oyster shells are used directly as seedling collectors, and in the Zhanjiang area, they especially like to use cement blocks.

 Each one has his own thing.

However, in 2020, there will be very few farmers collecting oyster seedlings on Dandan Island.

 Because at that time, some units developed so-called triploid new varieties of oysters.

Li Duoyu doesn’t know much about the so-called triploidy. He only knows that this kind of oyster has been castrated by biotechnology and deliberately made infertile.

Once the oysters are no longer burdened with having babies, they will continue to cook and will not spray slurry, so they are very large.

 Some triploid oysters are larger than the palm of an adult's hand when reared. But because it does not reproduce, it directly makes it difficult for oyster farmers to collect oyster seedlings.

If you don’t have seedlings, you can only buy them from breeding factories that specialize in producing oyster seedlings. So capital slowly controls the market.

 After visiting the oyster seedlings.

  Section Chief Zhang took them to another moso bamboo farming raft.

The oysters here are very big, each half as big as a palm. Zhang Qingyun said: "I have been raising these oysters for more than two years."

 After saying that, Section Chief Zhang took out a pocket knife he carried with him and took out an oyster.

Immediately afterwards, he skillfully pried open the oyster with a knife, then took a sip, cut off the oyster's bite muscles with a knife, picked up the oyster, put it into his mouth and ate it in one bite.

 Chen Wenchao at the scene was stunned: "Brother Yu, Chief Zhang is eating it raw like this, aren't you afraid of parasites?"

 Li Duoyu smiled: "Probably not."

 After Zhang Qingyun finished eating, he felt very satisfied. He picked it up again and said to Chen Dongqing:

 “Holly, would you like some?”

 “Thank you, section chief, you can eat it yourself.”

From the moment Zhang Qingyun started to pry the oysters, Chen Dongqing had already traveled a long way.

When he first arrived at the institute and was still a young boy, he was tricked by the section chief into eating several oysters.

The taste is simply indescribable.

After that, he swore never to eat this stuff raw again.

Seeing Chen Dongqing running so far, Zhang Qingyun said to Li Duoyu: "Duoyu, do you want to try it? It won't taste good at first, but after eating it a few more times, it will taste good."

 “Okay, give me one.”

After taking the oysters from Chief Zhang’s hand, Li Duoyu took the first sip of the soup. It felt good, fishy but slightly sweet, with the saltiness of sea water.

Then, Li Duoyu picked up the whole oyster, put it directly into his mouth, chewed it, and found that the taste was quite rich.

 Very tender and fishy.

It also has a bit of a metallic pungent taste, but without the lemon, it would be more delicious.

After Li Duoyu finished eating, he looked at the sea water around him and found that the sea water at this time was very clean with almost no pollution. No wonder the quality of the oysters was so good.

 “How about it, it tastes good.”

 Zhang Qingyun asked.

Li Duoyu nodded: "It's quite delicious. The overall taste is very good. It has a light milky aroma and is a bit fishy but acceptable. If you eat it in winter, it will probably taste better."

 “Awesome, I even know it tastes better in winter.”

Li Duoyu replied: "My father also raised several acres of oysters on the tidal flats. I used to secretly eat them raw."

“Then do you think the oysters on the tidal flats are more delicious than the oysters I raise here?”

“The ones raised here are cleaner, taste better, and not so fishy, ​​while the ones raised on the tidal flats have an earthy smell.”

Zhang Qingyun smiled very happily: "Dongqing, your nephew is much better than you. He knows that this thing can be eaten raw."

Chen Dongqing looked at Li Duoyu with disgust, as if he was looking at the evil party. He could not vomit after eating such unpalatable food.

Zhang Qingyun picked up another one and said to Chen Wenchao, "Would you like to try it too?"

 Chen Wenchao frowned tightly, with a tangled look on his face. It could be seen that Brother Yu didn't seem to have anything wrong after finishing the meal. He nodded: "Try one and see."

　　Also imitate Li Duoyu and be bored.

After taking two bites, my eyes widened, my stomach became uncontrollable, and I became upset on the spot.

He covered his mouth with his hands, lay down on the side of the boat and vomited, with tears and snot all coming out.

Zhang Qingyun said with emotion: "Don't worry, it's really hard to get used to it at first. Just eat more and you'll be fine."

Chen Dongqing couldn't help but shake his head. He found that Section Chief Zhang was really persistent when it came to asking others to eat raw oysters.

 I don’t know that I’ve eaten and vomited many people, and now no one in the unit wants to come to his oyster raft.

However, he listened to the people in the place.

 Section Chief Zhang has spent almost half his life studying oysters. It seems that five years ago, after traveling to the island country, he saw the island country eating oysters alive.

 After returning to China, I have always wanted to develop local oysters that can be eaten raw. However, due to the limitations of current technology and the public's aversion to eating them raw.

 Everyone still likes dried oysters.

 That’s why Section Chief Zhang’s oyster breeding project has never been able to develop.

Because of this, he missed the opportunity for promotion, so Yang Zairong took advantage of the opportunity and was promoted to deputy director.

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