1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Li Duoyu used Zhao Erniu's air gun to knock over several rats, and also hit a big "spicy strip".

 Then, start collecting the ground cage.

 The method of collecting the ground cage is also very simple, that is, push the fish caught at the end of the ground cage to the front end with the rope, and then pour it all into the bucket.

There are quite a lot of seafood in the ground cage, including all kinds of small fish, but Li Duoyu and the others are not very interested in the sea fish in the ground cage.

 The irony is that in this era when offshore resources have not yet been exhausted, fishermen are still quite picky.

 For fishermen, seafood has a hierarchy, and the seafood in the mangroves is the kind that cannot be put on the table.

 In the words of local fishermen, who eats the seafood in the mangroves? It has an earthy smell, and these fish can often only be treated as trash fish.

Since the marine fish in the mangroves are not valuable, this is why few people come to the mangroves, usually only the Zhao brothers.

In the ground cage, apart from the blue crab fry, the most caught fish was the Wutang snakehead. The pattern on this fish's body is somewhat similar to that of the grouper.

In the tidal flats, the snakehead is similar to a grouper. It is an apex predator and is very ferocious. Small fish, shrimps and crabs are its food.

The locals call this fish tiger tiger, and the blue crab is called crab in the local dialect.

Chinese people have a habit of naming animals. If the animal is good at catching a certain prey, it will be named XX tiger.

 For example, goby.

 You don’t need to think about it to know that this fish is very good at eating shrimps.

There are also other names such as bee-eater.

 Those who engage in blue crab farming are most afraid of tigers in the breeding ponds.

Especially for green crab seedlings, tiger tigers are very destructive. Taking a bite of a green crab seedling feels like eating a snack.

 Even if the blue crabs grow up.

Still no match for Crab Tiger, the fish that loves to eat blue crabs the most. It is said that this guy even fishes for crabs to law enforcement in order to eat blue crabs.

There is a long-standing saying along the coast that tiger tigers will deliberately seize the blue crab's nest when it is out, and deliberately expose its tail to tease it.

As long as the blue crab clamps its tail, the tiger will suddenly exert force and directly break the big turtle of the blue crab. After the blue crab loses its big turtle, the tiger will slowly consume it to death.

However, Li Duoyu doesn't believe this statement. When they grow up, blue crabs are not afraid of tigers at all.

 It is estimated that the tiger will take advantage of the weak period of the green crab to shed its shell and look for trouble with it.

Because after the blue crab sheds its shell, the whole body is soft and has no ability to resist at all. At this time, the blue crab is just a piece of meat without the ability to resist.

Most of the sea fish in the cage have died because they have been away for too long, and the only ones left alive are some tigers and earth dragons.

And the number of tigers is particularly large, one cage can catch seven or eight, and each one is still alive and well.

This kind of fish is extremely tenacious and can survive in a slightly moist place away from the sea water.

 Fishermen nowadays don’t like to eat tiger tigers very much because there are too many sea fish to eat.

 After thirty or forty years, tiger fish will be very expensive. Larger tiger fish can be sold for nearly 100 per kilogram.

This fish is the same as Shi Jiugong. Everyone likes to stew it in soup, especially with some tofu, it is especially delicious.

 Li Duoyu remembers that there was an anchor in Rongcheng who specialized in filming seafood, and he used this fish to stew soup with old tofu.

Zhao Erniu used to catch some of this fish and sell it at the dock, but now he hates it.

 Because he caught several tiger tigers and found that some actually had small blue crabs biting in their mouths. It seemed that they came to the cage for a very clear purpose.

Zhao Erhu directly gave the tiger fish two big-mouthed melon seeds and cursed: "You are so greedy, why don't you feed me to death?"

 It took more than an hour.

Li Duoyu, Zhao Erniu and Shitou finally collected the cage.

 The one who caught the most was Zhao Erniu. He caught more than 1,000 blue crabs in thirty cages, seven large blue crabs, three ground dragons and more than 20 kilograms of tiger fish.

 Next, there are stones.

And Li Duoyu is the least, after all, he only has ten cages, and he is really unfamiliar with mangroves.

As for the marine fish that died in the crab pots, we did not throw them away, but put them into the net bags of the ground cages, so that we can continue to attract blue crabs and marine fish into the nets to eat these fish meat.

Overall, Li Duoyu was very satisfied with the harvest of blue crab seedlings. Both large buckets were full.

Three people caught more than 2,000 green crab seedlings, most of which were the size of thumb caps, and some were four or five centimeters wide.

Zhao Erniu carried a bamboo basket on his back and an open dustpan, and shoveled a piece of mud directly on the tidal flat.

 Then it was washed in sea water. Not long after, after the soil was washed away, many small crabs appeared.

 The most common species are fiddler crabs.

The big pliers were particularly easy to spot. Zhao Erniu flicked some fiddler crabs away, leaving only the small blue crabs.

The stone on the side was stunned and couldn't help but ask: "Er Niu, can you teach me how you can catch so many small blue crabs with just a shovel?"

Zhao Erniu said disgustedly: "If you want to learn, I can teach you, but you have to pay the tuition."

Shitou glared and said: "Damn, Zhao Erniu, are you crazy about money? If I go fishing, I will make more money than you catching blue crab seedlings. I'm just curious about how you caught them, so you have to accept me." tuition fee."

“Then why are you coming here to grab blue crab seedlings from me if you don’t go fishing?”

 Stone was stunned for a moment.

He would not tell Zhao Erniu that he came here just to convince Brother Yu and see if he could help him pull a red line.

Judging from Brother Yu's current reaction, it is almost impossible to pull the red line. Shitou, who was upset at the thought of this, said to Zhao Erniu:

“I didn’t want to steal the blue crab seedlings from you at first, but when I heard that you wanted to charge me for the money, I had to steal them from you.”

 Zhao Erniu cursed:

 “Stone, are you sick?”

 “Hmph, I’m sick.”

"Problem." Zhao Erniu didn't like Shitou very much. The main reason was that Shitou was so loud. He smiled every day and spoke very loudly.

 But everyone quite likes him, and the main reason why Zhao Erniu hates stones is purely because of jealousy.

When the two brothers couldn't find a wife, the matchmaker disliked them several times and said:

If you two brothers are like that Shi Shi, have a house and a boat at home, are young and sunny, then it will definitely be easy to introduce.

But what makes Zhao Erniu most unhappy is that this stone is obviously easy to find a partner, but he doesn't want to ask for a wife, and just likes to live alone.

 Shitou also went home and brought a flat-head dustpan, imitated Zhao Erniu in shoveling dirt, and then went to the sea to wash it.

 As a result, I shopped several times in a row.

 Only fiddler crabs were caught, not blue crabs at all.

Zhao Erniu mocked: "If you are really that eager to learn, I won't charge you any fees. Give me a hundred yuan and I'll teach you how to fish."

 “You’re thinking shit.”

What Zhao Erniu didn't expect was that after grabbing Shitou a few more times, he seemed to have found the trick.

“Er Niu, are the holes of the blue crabs different?”

Zhao Erniu’s mouth twitched.

  I don’t want to be a person like Li Shi at all.

 Next.

Li Duoyu also lent the ten ground cages he just bought to Zhao Erniu.

 He is preparing for the next step.

 Caught green crab seedlings cannot be put directly into the pond. The pond must be cleared first.

Li Duoyu temporarily raised these green crab seedlings in the cement pond of the eel factory.

 If you throw it directly into the pond, there will be a tiger in it.

Even if Li Duoyu puts more green crab seedlings in, they are still sending snacks to the tiger.

After Li Duoyu received this batch of blue crabs, he specifically checked the larger green crab fry to see if they had been infected by the crab slaves.

In addition to tiger crabs, farmers also hate slave crabs, and instinctively feel that slave crabs are very disgusting, even more disgusting than the iron worm.

 Once green crabs are infected by crab slaves, they will lose their ability to reproduce.

If female crabs are parasitized, they will not be able to turn into crabs. If male crabs are parasitized, they will become very effeminate and will not be able to grow in size.

 If the parasitism reaches the later stage, the green crab will be completely dominated by the crab slave and become a tool for the crab slave to reproduce offspring. It will even grow "egg bags" that are similar to crab eggs. Local farmers generally call blue crabs infected with crab slaves "bed bug crabs" because in the later stages of parasitism, the taste of crabs will become bad.

 Some more unscrupulous farmers will not dispose of the parasitized blue crabs after seeing them. Instead, they will cut off the fake egg bags and continue to sell them for money.

Li Duoyu patiently selected for more than half an hour, and he actually found several blue crabs infected with crab slaves. He directly disposed of them humanely and buried them in the soil.

 After settling the green crab seedlings.

Li Duoyu came to the pond and looked at the pond in front of him. There were still many things to do next.

 The first step is to clear the pond and clear the fish.

 If you use a net to catch fish, it is inevitable that fish will slip through the net. Once any fry survive, the harm to the blue crab fry will be quite great.

 In the past life, farmers used a lot of potion called [Fish, Shrimp and Crab Removal], and only one bottle per acre was needed.

 As long as it falls into the pond, all the fish will be poisoned to death, but the shrimps and crabs will not be harmed.

 But in this era, Li Duoyu couldn't find this thing at all, so he could only adopt the simplest method, which was to use a dry pond.

If you want to dry the pond, it is best to build a sluice. Without a sluice, you cannot change the water. In the event of a large algae outbreak or continuous heavy rain, the water body will explode in minutes.

Li Duoyu already experienced this when he was raising eels. If the water system is not well maintained, there will be big problems.

Li Duoyu called his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and several old masters, and together they dug a drainage channel on the embankment with hoes.

As the seawater in the pond continues to flow toward the outer sea, the water level in the pond has also dropped a lot.

 After draining the water.

 Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng directed the tractor to build a **** around the water outlet and wrap it up.

This way, the next time the tide rises, seawater will not pour into the pond.

Li Duoyu started to build the sluice gate. In the previous life, the gates were all electric iron gates poured with cement.

But in this era, Li Duoyu could only use the simplest method, which was to build a gate with stone bars and replace the iron gate with thick wooden boards.

 This gate alone took Li Duoyu more than ten days to build.

 In summer, the sun is scorching.

Even an islander like Li Duoyu has lost a layer of skin due to the sun, and after more than ten days of exposure.

The soil at the bottom of the pond was cracked by the sun, but Li Duoyu still felt it was not enough, so he hired a group of people to plow the pond with plows and sprinkled a layer of quicklime to make the bottom.

Li Duoyu believes that since we want to engage in breeding, we cannot be careless. Although clearing ponds is troublesome, it is very necessary.

 If you do more preparation work in the early stage, you won’t have to be so embarrassed later. Li Duoyu has seen many people who engage in breeding with a sense of luck.

 In the end, they often lose everything and go bankrupt, because the farming industry is really not suitable for those who fish in troubled waters.

 After the clearing of the pond.

 The last step is water distribution.

 In fact, it is very simple, just make the sea water in the pond suitable for the growth of blue crabs.

Since Li Duoyu’s blue crab fry are caught from the nearby mangroves, the water bodies are almost the same, so there is no need to allocate water.

If Li Duoyu’s blue crab fry were purchased from other places, they would not be so casual.

 First of all, you need to let the green crab seedlings pass through the water to see if they can adapt to the local sea water.

 If they are not adapted, water must be allocated until the blue crab seedlings are adapted to the water body.

Some uninformed people took the green crab seedlings and poured them directly into the pond. As a result, all the seedlings were dead in less than two days.

The thing about farming is like this. It seems very simple, but in fact, there are pitfalls at every step and there are many doorways.

 After filling the pond with water, Li Duoyu plans to officially release green crab seedlings.

During the time when he was building sluices and dry ponds, Zhao Erniu was also very helpful. One person provided him with nearly 50,000 green crabs.

During the days when crab seedlings were being released, I don’t know who leaked the news. Not only did many villagers come to watch.

Secretary Chen directly led a group of inspection teams to the island, and the members of the inspection team were village cadres from various villages in the town.

 They were shocked when they saw that Li Duoyu had built such a large pond.

Secretary Chen sighed: "I haven't paid attention to you in the past month or two, and you have launched such a big project again."

 Li Duoyu scratched his head.

　　"Idle time is also idle, so just give it a try."

Village cadres from other villages asked: "Director Li, if you raise all these green crabs, wouldn't you make a fortune?"

Li Duoyu said truthfully: "If these blue crabs have a 10% survival rate, I would be thankful."

“It’s only 10%, isn’t it, such an exaggeration?”

Li Duoyu sighed: "I'm afraid I won't even get a cent."

 In fact, blue crabs are really not very easy to raise. They have no fewer problems than eels. Especially when they are shedding their shells, they are very easy to die.

It can be said that most blue crab farmers are betting on dogs, and they often rely on quantity to win.

 In the evening.

 It was also a beautiful day, and Li Shuguang and Shitou hurriedly found Li Duoyu.

Shitou asked slightly nervously:

“Brother Yu, my grandpa asked if he could come to the island.”

The moment he heard this, Li Duoyu already understood that the two of them had met the old man.

 As the village director, Li Duoyu's whole face instantly dropped: "You asked me, that's definitely not possible."

"ah!"

 Shitou frowned and said with a bitter look on his face: "But my grandpa is already at sea, and he really wants to see my grandma."

Li Duoyu snorted: "You two are really brave. What if the other party is a spy?"

 “My grandpa is definitely not the one.”

 “Do you think others will believe it? Can you prove it?”

 After hearing this, Shitou froze on the spot, his mouth bulging with anger. He thought Brother Yu would definitely support it.

 Because he was the first person to help Grandpa.

 I never expected that Brother Yu would be so opposed to it.

Li Duoyu glanced at the frustrated and aggrieved stone and frowned.

 Actually, Li Duoyu had already told his cousin Li Shuguang not to be in a hurry to bring him to the island even if he met an old man.

 Because in two years' time, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will begin formal dialogue, and by then, veterans will be able to return to the mainland to visit relatives.

 I never thought that this old man would be so courageous that he would bring the boat to their side.

 If this is encountered by the fishery administration.

 It is estimated that they will be taken away directly.

 To be honest, Li Duoyu doesn't need to take this risk for others. If they don't tell themselves and just meet secretly, that's fine.

 But once told to him, he must fulfill the village director's accusation.

Stone's eyes turned red: "Brother Yu, is there nothing we can do? My grandma has been waiting for my grandpa for more than forty years."

“As long as I am the village director, I will definitely not agree to it.”

 After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he added:

“However, when I was in Zhoushan Islands, I saw a refuge for compatriots. Compatriots from overseas provinces, if the fishing boat is broken, we can help rescue it.”

"But after you get to the island, there are rules. You can't run around casually. And for this kind of thing, you must notify our village committee as soon as possible."

After listening to this, Shitou immediately understood.

 “Thank you Brother Yu.”

Li Duoyu said with a dark face: "I didn't help you, why are you thanking me?"

Shi Shitou suddenly became serious: "I understand, I have never been here, and I have never discussed this matter with you." (End of Chapter)