1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 238 Meeting the little whale again

　　After the bubbles rising in the sea exploded on the sea surface, the waves stirred up caused the sampan boat to shake violently.

 Chen Wenchao, who had never seen such a scene before, was so frightened that his legs became weak and he looked at the deep sea in horror.

“Brother Yu, what is there down here?”

Li Duoyu said seriously: "Maybe there is a sea monster."

 After hearing this, Chen Wenchao's face turned dark instantly. If he really encountered a sea monster, his best swimming skills would be of no use at all.

 When he was a child, he often heard from the older generation that there were terrifying monsters in the sea, but he never thought that he would encounter them.

Chen Wenchao said anxiously: "What should we do if there is a sea monster?"

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly. He originally just wanted to make a joke, but Chen Wenchao actually believed it when he saw his anxious look.

Li Duoyu said calmly: "What else can we do? Let's get on the boat and run away."

As the "clicking" sounds became more and more intensive, Li Duoyu vaguely guessed what was on the bottom of the sea.

　　Although that thing does not attack fishing boats, there is a chance that the other party may not have eyes and knock their fishing boat away when it floats up. It is better to stay away from them.

Just as Li Duoyu guessed, they were less than thirty meters away when seven or eight giant deep-sea beasts rushed out of the water and sprayed out water jets.

The scene is very spectacular.

At this moment, there was a seagull that was catching a fish in the muddy water. It was sprayed by the water jet and was shot down by the water jet on the spot.

 Chen Wenchao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was a whale. Fishermen on the beach are afraid of sharks, but they are not particularly afraid of whales.

Since most whales are docile, there have been no incidents of whales attacking fishermen on Dandan Island so far.

 Huge body,

 Huge head,

 Small eyes.

 The sperm whale is probably the most recognizable whale.

Li Duoyu remembered that the last time he saw them was about half a year ago. He didn't expect to encounter sperm whales again so soon. He didn't know if it was the same group as last time.

 Sperm whales, like killer whales, are toothed whales and are relatively ferocious predators. Every adult sperm whale has more or less scars on its head.

Most of these scars were left from the fight with the giant squid.

 Speaking of which, the sperm whale is a rather strange kind of whale.

Obviously there are so many fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea, but it just doesn't like to eat them. It just likes to fight against the giant squid in the deep sea.

 When he was hungry, he dived into the deep sea.

 Catch a few king squids to eat.

It is precisely because of this habit that sperm whales have become the deepest diving mammals. It is said that they can dive to the bottom of two to three thousand meters to hunt for food.

Li Duoyu looked at these sperm whales, but they all looked the same. Even if there was a female whale he had rescued among them, he couldn't tell them apart.

With a series of "clicking" sounds, a dozen sperm whales ignored Li Duoyu's sampan and swam away towards the deep sea.

When they passed by the fishing raft, they also heard the sound of a whale. A small whale about seven or eight meters long was circling around the fishing raft.

The two hundred and five on the fishing raft kept barking at the little whale and kept a safe distance from it.

After Li Duoyu’s fishing boat approached, the little whale swam several times towards the fishing boat, then surfaced and looked at Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao with its small eyes.

 Then he got into the sea and spit out a huge bubble, as if to please them.

“Brother Yu, this whale can’t be the calf of the mother whale we rescued before.”

Intuition told Li Duoyu that the sperm whale in front of him was most likely the calf of the stranded mother whale back then.

Li Duoyu looked around and found that there was no mother whale around this little whale. Judging from the situation, there should be no mother whale.

After all, once a sperm whale is stranded for too long, its body will have problems and it will not be able to survive for a long time. Fortunately, her calf survived.

Li Duoyu glanced at the head of the cub. It already had the same scars as the adult sperm whales. It seemed that it had begun to hunt independently in the deep sea.

Seeing that the little whale was so close to humans, Li Duoyu did not try to pet it. Instead, he picked up a long stick and hit the little whale directly on the head.

 The little sperm whale, which was in pain, immediately got to the bottom of the sea, circled around the fishing raft several times, and made a series of "clicking" sounds.

Li Duoyu, who did not understand "whale language", picked up a long stick and slapped the water surface many times, making a loud noise, trying to drive the little whale away. After seeing Li Duoyu hitting the little whale, Erbai Wu also bared his teeth and kept screaming at the little whale.

The frightened little whale, like a frightened bird, ran away in the direction of the whale group without looking back.

Chen Wenchao looked at Li Duoyu with a puzzled look on his face: "Brother Yu, this should be the one we rescued last time. Why did we drive it away?"

Li Duoyu said calmly: "The best way to help it is to keep it away from humans. If we get too close to it, it will only harm it. Many fishermen like to catch whales."

Chen Wenchao suddenly realized that when the sperm whale stranded, the fishermen on the island immediately wanted to kill it and eat it.

 Luckily we encountered them today. If it had been encountered by other fishermen, the little whale might have been towed to the pier.

Li Duoyu touched the head of the two-hundred-and-five-year-old dog at Yupai. Since he had no time to come to Yupa recently, he found that it was a little depressed and its hair was not so bright.

Li Duoyu touched Erbaiwu's head: "Do you want me to find you a bitch?"

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“Then I’ll find you a boss and let you fight every day.”

 “Woof, woof, woof.”

“Uncle, are you scolding me?” Li Duoyu patted the dog’s head and asked, “Do you like white dogs or black dogs?”

 “Woof woof.”

　　"Is that a black dog? I'll try to buy you the **** dog in the village."

Chen Wenchao on the side was quite speechless. He actually found the **** man in the village, and he probably had to be beaten every day.

 …

 After arriving at the pier.

It was already dark. Li Duoyu was not in a hurry to go home. Instead, he carried the bucket to the eel breeding factory.

 After arriving there, Li Duoyu found that the lights were still on and that his second sister-in-law was still in the factory and cleaning.

 Now the second sister-in-law is considered a formal employee of the breeding factory. After receiving her salary, she has not gone to the dock to weave nets for others.

Rather, he comes to the eel factory every day. Even if he has nothing to do, he will pick up a broom to clean the eel factory and pick up fallen leaves from the pond.

  If you don’t take into account her character of taking advantage and gossiping, from a certain point of view, this is definitely a good employee that the boss likes.

“Second sister-in-law, I haven’t gone back yet.”

Zhu Xiuhua rolled her eyes at him and hummed: "I'm afraid I'll be caught by you if I go back too early. Then, you will find ways to deduct my salary."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly. He picked a few things, but he really wouldn't deduct people's wages casually.

Li Duoyu poured all these transparent eel fry into the treated cement pond.

 Then, he turned on the electric light above the pool and observed the eel fry.

By the way, pick up some dead and injured eel fry and throw them away, leaving only healthy eel fry.

 The first step in eel farming.

  It is to gradually adapt the eel fry to the freshwater environment, which is the so-called desalination culture.

Although eels themselves have a very powerful function of converting seawater into fresh water, after being caught from the sea, they cannot be put into an environment full of fresh water. There must be a process of salinity conversion.

Generally speaking, they should be placed in fresh water with a salinity of about 0.7 to allow the eel fry to adapt for a period of time. During this period, there is no need to rush to feed them. After the desalination of seawater is completed, they can be fed with red worms.

 In fact, Li Duoyu felt very unsure. This breeding process lacked a very important breeding process, which is to heat the pond.

 But in this era, water heaters are very rare, and Li Duoyu really can’t buy a set of constant temperature equipment suitable for the pond.

According to his breeding experience, raising the temperature is just to speed up the opening speed of eel fry.

  Without constant temperature equipment, breeding will only be slower, but it will not have much impact.

 After putting the eel fry into the pond, Li Duoyu left the eel breeding factory and returned home after observing it for a while.

 (End of this chapter)