1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

 Mayday has just begun.

 The rainy season is ushered in again, which is the most annoying thing for fishermen. The roads are always wet and muddy, and it is easy for people to slip when the boat is stained with seafood mucus.

 Maybe it’s because it’s approaching summer.

The rain in this rainy season is quite abundant, and it often lasts for a whole day. It is useless for the old fishermen to wear coir raincoats.

 After a while, my whole body was wet.

The rain has been falling, and Li Duoyu has been forced to stop building a new house. There are puddles all over the homestead, and he can only continue to build a house after the rainy season has passed.

 Fortunately, the foundation has been laid long ago.

 The septic tank has been completed,

 The red brick wall is also built one story high.

 The next step is to wait for good weather and pour the cement slabs on the first floor.

According to the current progress, Li Duoyu estimates that if the house is to be completed, it will take at least October.

During this period, a major event also happened in the county, that is, the pirate case in Uiqi Village was officially announced to the public.

 The villagers on Dandan Island were really shocked when they saw the newspaper.

Nearly a hundred people in the entire village were arrested. Half of the young people in the village became pirates, the youngest was only fifteen years old.

Although the newspaper did not explicitly say that the boat bombing at the end of last year was related to this group of people.

But people who came back from Qingkou Pier said that after the news was announced, the whole village of Shangqi Village where the ship was bombed almost rushed to the pirate village and planned to smash all the fishing boats in the village.

 Fortunately, the leaders of the two towns persuaded them to stop, otherwise the two villages would be fighting together again.

 At the pier, there were several fishermen wearing coir hats discussing this matter.

“Just take it away and you won’t have to worry about it every day when you go to sea.”

 “I didn’t expect that you are so young.”

“Children must be taught well and beaten when necessary, otherwise the state will take care of it for you.”

 Zhao Erniu, who was wearing a bamboo hat and selling blue crabs, didn't pay attention to pirates at all after hearing the news. He was thinking about another thing.

　　Since all the young people in this pirate village have been arrested, there should be many young women of the right age who cannot find a partner.

 Zhao Erniu thought that if he could make more money during this period, he could ask a matchmaker to go over there and maybe he would be able to pick up the slack.

At the thought of this, Zhao Erniu wiped the rain off his face, and his originally decadent cheeks were instantly filled with fighting spirit.

He gritted his teeth and said bitterly:

“Haidai, you go to the widow, and I’ll marry a young girl, and we’ll see who will be embarrassed when the time comes.”

Just as Li Duoyu expected, Wang Xianghong went to several places, even outside the province, but failed to buy diesel generator parts.

 Fortunately, during this period, there was abundant rainfall and the water level in the reservoir on the top of the mountain was relatively high. At night, water could still be released to generate electricity for an hour or two.

This rainy season has also made Li Duoyu quite uncomfortable. He stays at the eel breeding pond every day, always staring at the eel pond.

 The water tanker used for oxygenation is running almost 24 hours a day.

 Eel farmers hate the rainy season very much, because a large amount of rainwater pours in, which can easily cause the pond system to become unbalanced.

It can also cause overflowing ponds, dam breaks and other situations.

The transition between spring and summer is the time when eels are most susceptible to disease. If there are continuous rainy days, it will be the worst situation.

 One bad move and the entire pond of eels will be turned over for you. These days, Li Duoyu personally keeps an eye on the eel pond. Once there is an imbalance in the water body, he will immediately make adjustments.

 This rainy season lasted for more than a month, and when it ended, it was already the end of May.

 As soon as the rainy season ends.

Those villagers who cultivate kelp are all impatient. They come to Li Duoyu every day to ask when the kelp can be harvested.

Those who grow kelp are really lucky this year. There has been no natural disaster. In the past, there would be one or two typhoons every year. This year, it is almost June, and there is no movement at all.

 At the time when the kelp harvest was approaching, neither the uncle nor the third uncle went to sea anymore, and everyone was ready to start harvesting kelp.

During the kelp harvest period, the town leaders were very concerned about the kelp harvest on Dandan Island.

Secretary Chen also used the name "Learn from Dandan Island" and organized village party secretaries and village directors from more than ten villages to come to Dandan Island to study and learn from the experience.

Seeing Li Duoyu fish out the thick and long kelp from the sea, Secretary Chen Shulin couldn't help but ask: "Your kelp seems to be growing better than last year."

 Li Duoyu replied:

“Secretary, this is a good year, and kelp production will increase by about one-third compared to last year.”

Chen Shulin smiled and said: "This is a good thing."

 The village party secretaries and village directors who came to visit still didn’t think much of Li Duoyu’s kelp farming.

 For them, the most profitable way is to set up a big boat to go out to sea for fishing. They can earn hundreds of dollars on a single trip to the sea.

 The households in their village are worth 10,000 yuan.

 Except for those who stole goods in the early stage, the rest are all fishing boat bosses.

 As for Langqi Village, which has the largest number of boats and the largest number of households worth 10,000 yuan in the entire Shangfeng Town, their village party secretary couldn’t help but ask:

“Director Li, how much investment do you have in kelp farming? How much money can you make if you raise one acre of kelp for half a year?”

We are all village cadres, so there is no use in boasting about vain things. The key is to see whether we can make money.

Li Duoyu did a simple calculation:

“The cost of one acre of kelp is about fifty yuan.”

"Our kelp production is relatively high this year. One acre can be sold for two to three hundred."

 Li Duoyu's calculation is already quite conservative. Last year, his kelp production was not as high as this year, and he sold more than 300 yuan per acre.

 Not only has the output increased this year, but exports are also available. The actual income per acre may be much higher than last year.

 After hearing this price.

The village party secretary of Langqi Village was stunned on the spot. Their village has a natural deep-water port, which is very suitable for the development of fishery.

 Since opening.

He has been leading the whole village to develop the fishing industry. He also owns a big boat. He can make at least five to six hundred when he goes fishing for a week or two at a time, and seven to eight thousand a year.

 In two years, the household will be worth 10,000 yuan.

 Most of the 10,000-yuan households in their village came from this way.

But now, this acre of kelp field can be sold for two to three hundred, and Xiasha Village has more than 500 acres of kelp field.

If they are all sold, the income will be more than 100,000 yuan, and the young man in front of me, Director Li, raises 100 acres of kelp by himself.

The village party secretary of Langqi Village envied: "In other words, you only spent half a year raising kelp and earned 20,000 to 30,000 yuan."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "You can't calculate it that way. I also invested five or six thousand in this kelp farming, and I was just lucky this year and there was no typhoon."

"That's more profitable than us." Party Secretary Zhang sighed with emotion: "Besides, for those of us who seek the sea, no line of work is risk-free. Our village is all about fishing at sea, and our lives are tied to our belts every day. "

“Zhishu Zhang is right.”

On the spot, many village party secretaries and village directors suggested: "Secretary Chen, we also think this kelp can be grown. You should ask Director Li to guide us."

As soon as he heard about this troublesome matter, Li Duoyu naturally refused to do anything. He passed the blame to Chen Dongqing on the spot and said very humbly:

"I only have half a bucket of water. I rely on the guidance of Section Chief Chen Dongqing of the Lianjiang Fisheries Research Institute. If you really want to raise kelp, I suggest you consult him." Lianjiang Fisheries, more than ten kilometers away, In the nursery center, Chen Dongqing, who was cross-breeding abalone seedlings, sneezed for no reason.

 The student who came for the internship next to him asked with concern: "Teacher Chen, do you have a cold? Do you want me to pour you some hot water?"

 Chen Dongqing rubbed his nose:

“No need, summer is coming soon, maybe it’s rhinitis.”

Chen Dongqing frowned, and his intuition told him that there must be some **** plotting against him secretly.

Li Duoyu has also been listening to the weather forecast every day these days.

 It may be due to the abnormal weather this year.

 It often rains one day and is sunny the other.

 Under normal circumstances, it takes at least two or three days of sunny weather to dry kelp.

 But the weather this year is a bit abnormal, and the weather forecast is not reliable at all. It is obviously a continuous sunny day, but the weather forecast says it will be cloudy and rainy.

 So much so that everyone missed several opportunities to dry kelp.

 In a blink of an eye.

At the beginning of June, the seawater temperature increased by several degrees, and some farmers' kelp was even slightly rotten.

Li Duoyu can only ask everyone to put the kelp deeper to prevent the kelp from being exposed to the sun.

The farmers are very anxious. Chen Atai from the next village can’t sit still at all. He comes to Li Duoyu’s eel factory every day to drink tea and ask when the kelp can be harvested.

 To be honest, the weather forecast is not accurate.

 Li Duoyu also had a headache. In his previous life, when they collected and dried kelp, they were almost always notified by text messages from the local fishery bureau.

 But during this period, the south wind blows every day on Dandan Island.

 Southerly winds are highly humid and changeable.

  Weather forecasts don’t work at all.

Seeing that the sea water temperature was getting higher day by day, and if it went down further, the kelp would really rot. Li Duoyu, who was also upset, started to smoke a cigarette for the first time in a long time.

 It didn’t take a few puffs.

Li Duoyu stared at the direction of the smoke and was stunned. Only then did he realize that the wind direction on Dandan Island had changed significantly. It was no longer a moist southerly wind, but a drier northeasterly wind.

 “Damn it, it’s finally here.”

 In the past life, if this kind of wind blew on Dandan Island, the weather would definitely be good in the next few days, and this kind of wind was very suitable for drying kelp. If you were lucky, you could dry the kelp in just one day.

Considering the recent change of weather, Li Duoyu frowned and thought for a while, then picked up the loudspeaker and shouted:

“Dear fellow villagers, if you have kelp farmers, hurry up and collect kelp tonight. Tomorrow is a good day. Let’s try to dry the kelp in one day.”

After hearing Li Duoyu’s notice, the kelp farmers who had been waiting for more than half a month got out of bed one by one and knocked on the doors of their relatives door to door.

“Third sister-in-law, tell Yu Gui to get up. We need to collect kelp tonight.”

 “How can I still let you sleep in the middle of the night? Can’t I collect it tomorrow?”

“Our village director said that if the weather is good tomorrow, we will harvest it overnight tonight.”

 “Okay, let’s get dressed.”

 Not long after.

Xiasha Village is full of villagers carrying lanterns, and they are all rushing towards the pier.

These days, Chen Atai, who was working as a floor worker at Li Duoyu's eel factory, ran back to the village overnight after hearing Li Duoyu's notice.

 There were all villagers holding lamps on the other side of the pier. According to a rough calculation, there were probably more than 200 people.

The largest group among them was Li Duoyu’s relatives, including seven aunts and eight aunts.

Looking at the huge team in front of him, Li Duoyu, who was holding a loudspeaker, shouted: "This is the first time that our village collects kelp at night. Everyone must pay attention to safety."

Li Duoyu was only halfway through speaking when his second uncle and eldest uncle couldn't help but said: "Duoyu, don't imitate those leaders in reading compositions, just talk about the key points."

Li Duoyu coughed twice and said with a fierce face: "Listen up, safety comes first. If anyone messes up and causes trouble, they will not be included in any breeding in the future. Do you understand?"

 The villagers shouted in unison: "I know."

 “Then let’s go.”

 Immediately afterwards, all fishing boats of all sizes in the village were dispatched.

Standing from the side of Thean Hou Temple and looking over, the sea is full of orange-red light.

The last time there was such a big fight in the village, it was still the fishing pipe.

At the kelp field, everyone worked hard to pull the kelp onto the sampan boat, and then the motorized fishing boat pulled their fishing boat to the drying point.

Li Duoyu and others have bamboo pole racks specially designed for drying kelp. All they need to do is pull the boat to the tidal flat and hang it up.

 Some farmers do not have racks for drying kelp on the tidal flats. They can only transport the kelp to the dock and then pull it to the drying place by tractor.

 This night.

Offshore of Xiasha Village, the sound of diesel engines and the whistling of pulling kelp are everywhere. Many villagers were also disturbed by the noise and could not sleep, but most of them were jealous and annoyed.

 Actually, many villagers originally wanted to invest in kelp farming with Li Duoyu last year.

Unexpectedly, two Hong Kong Islanders came out halfway and defrauded them of all their money. As a result, they did not grow kelp last year.

I heard that this year’s kelp harvest was bumper and it was going to be exported. Many villagers were so regretful that their intestines turned green. They cursed Wang Dapao for being such a pest in their dreams in the middle of the night.

Some villagers made rough statistics and found that if the kelp market this year is the same as last year, Xiasha Village could have seven or eight more households worth 10,000 yuan, directly surpassing Langqi Village and becoming the fishing village with the most households worth 10,000 yuan in Shangfeng Town.

 The weather has changed over the past few days, and those who have not raised kelp are still secretly happy, wishing that the south wind would blow for a while longer.

In this way, they who raise kelp would not make so much money. Unexpectedly, after waking up one night, the wind direction had changed.

 The happiest person about this bumper harvest of kelp is Uncle Tai from Chenjia Village because he purchased a lot of brown ropes and floating **** for kelp cultivation in advance.

 As a result, he had no money to invest in abalone farming, thus dodging a disaster.

Now he also has thirty acres of kelp, although it is not as well managed as Li Duoyu, and the yield is not as high as that of Xiasha Village.

 Happily planning, he can earn 10,000 yuan this year.

 He did the math.

Even if all the arrears are paid back, there will still be six or seven thousand left, although it will not be possible to become the first ten thousand yuan household in the village.

 But at least, you no longer have to bow your head in the village.

As the first ray of light in the morning shone on Dandan Island, the children who slept until morning found that Xiasha Village had changed drastically overnight.

The roads in the village, the roofs of houses, and even the tops of public toilets, wherever kelp can be dried, are all covered with kelp.

The moso bamboo racks on the other side of the tidal flat are also covered with kelp. When the morning sun shines on them, they still shine with a faint golden light.

　　It’s pretty good-looking. (End of chapter)