1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

 After handling the blue crabs.

 The matter is not over yet. Li Duoyu also sprinkled a large amount of quicklime in the first two ponds.

I have to say that quicklime is a very useful thing for the breeding industry.

 After being sprinkled into the pond, quicklime will react quickly with water and release a large amount of heat, but the heat will not kill the bacteria.

 Mainly, after sprinkling quicklime, the reacted water will become highly alkaline, thus achieving the effect of killing bacteria and parasites.

 After Li Duoyu poured quicklime on it, he planned to dry it in the sun for ten days and a half, and then use it directly as a shrimp pond.

It is indeed not easy to engage in breeding in this era, but it also has the advantage of being less competitive.

 Now organizations have subsidies, most aquaculture seedlings are very cheap, and the cost of trial and error is very low.

Although the blue crabs from two ponds died, Li Duoyu did not lose much money after calculation. A total of 100,000 crab seedlings were released into the two ponds, which totaled almost 1,000 yuan.

 The total amount of various shellfish and snail feeds used for more than two months is only about 700, and the manual calculation is quite 300.

 The actual loss is actually only about 2,000, but the return rate is very high, if this disease does not occur.

Li Duoyu estimates that these two ponds can harvest at least 20,000 blue crabs. Even if one blue crab is sold for only 50 cents, that is an income of nearly 10,000 yuan, a full five times profit.

If Li Duoyu uses some scientific methods to increase the production of cream crabs and butter crabs, a tenfold profit is not impossible.

 It is normal to fail in breeding, but the profits in this business are often very high. If you succeed once, you can often make a lot of money.

 At least compared to those who grow fruits in the mountains, their business is very good.

Not long ago, when Li Duoyu bought a basket from Ou Ge, he learned that their village was vigorously promoting the planting of Wendan and navel oranges in order to make more money.

 After the saplings are planted, it will take at least four to five years to bear fruit and have a good harvest. This waiting time is much more difficult than breeding.

Li Duoyu’s farming techniques for blue crabs, oysters, and kelp are actually open to the public, as long as the villagers come and ask.

Li Duoyu will tell them. However, Li Duoyu’s “failure” has discouraged many villagers who originally planned to raise blue crabs.

 And that’s how people are, when you haven’t succeeded yet, no one is willing to believe you even if you tell the truth.

 But as long as you make money, even if you say blue crabs are very difficult to raise, they will sharpen their heads and dig in.

 After dealing with the crab pond matter, Li Duoyu started to deal with the clove fish matter.

After more than a week of large-scale purchases, the eel factory has accumulated a large amount of cloves, all of which are packed in baskets, totaling more than 400 baskets.

Even if we use the trawl boat of the uncle and the third uncle to pull it, so many baskets of cloves will still have to be hauled two or three times.

These baskets were specially customized by Li Duoyu and were produced overnight by the bamboo factory in Ouge. Li Duoyu ordered a thousand baskets in total.

 After drying, clove fish becomes extremely brittle and can easily break if packed and transported in sacks.

 In this era, there are not so many plastic baskets, and bamboo baskets can be said to be the best choice now.

Each basket of clove fish weighs fifty kilograms. If there are more than four hundred baskets, it will be more than twenty thousand kilograms.

 During this period of time, Chen Wenchao was really stressed and couldn't sleep. At the beginning, Liu Xiaolan was able to comfort and encourage him.

 But as the amount of the purchase of Lilac Fish became larger and larger, she, who was responsible for the accounting, also collapsed.

 The two of them had never seen so much money in their lives, because in more than a week, she had handled nearly 60,000 yuan, and she was counting the money in her dreams in the middle of the night.

Now, both of them have panda eyes. Because they haven’t slept well for a whole week, their tempers have become much bigger.

Seeing that some fishermen were trying to make up for their losses, Liu Xiaolan scolded her directly: "Zeng Datou, if you do this again next time, I won't accept your fish."

"There is no such thing as messing around. The quality of mine is obviously very good. One pound of fish is only three ounces of sand, and the quality is still good. Go back and rinse it quickly."

"Whose is this? It's all broken and messy. Go back and pick it up again."

Seeing Liu Xiaolan getting angry, no one among those selling cloves dared to criticize her. If Li Duoyu was excluded, Liu Xiaolan would now be their Goddess of Wealth.

Liu Xiaolan, who was slightly angry, immediately smiled when she looked up and saw Li Duoyu, but her face still looked tired.

 “Brother Yu, you are here.”

 After Li Duoyu saw the panda eyes of Chen Wenchao and his wife, he couldn't help but asked: "Have you slept well recently?"

 Liu Xiaolan replied: "The children have been quite noisy recently, and they always want to drink grandma in the middle of the night."

As soon as she finished speaking, someone started cheering: "I think it's Xiaochao who wants to drink milk in the middle of the night."

Liu Xiaolan's face turned red instantly, but she also blamed herself. Why did she talk to a man about such a private matter as breastfeeding?

Liu Xiaolan glared at him and planned to follow the strictest standards when buying his clove fish later.

"Seeing that you are a little tired, do you want to take a rest? I will ask Yao Guo to take over for a few days."

Liu Xiaolan quickly said: "No, we can do it. It's just the accounts. You'd better check them again to see if there are any mistakes."

 “Well, let me go and check the accounts.”

Li Duoyu glanced at Chen Wenchao who was still collecting fish and said: "Xiaochao, go to bed early tonight and wake up early tomorrow. You have to take the cloves to the aquatic products processing factory with us."

 “Okay, got it.”

Li Duoyu followed his second brother Li Yaoguo to settle accounts at the eel factory.

I didn’t expect that Liu Xiaolan did very well when doing accounting for the first time. He just opened the account book casually, and every transaction was very detailed.

 【November 8, Team 9, Zhang Shuitou, 6.5 jins of dried fish, 16.25 yuan. 】

 【November 8, the third netting team, 235 jins of dried fish, 587.5 yuan. 】

 The packaged clove fish only weighs more than 20,000 kilograms, but the money spent this time was nearly 60,000 yuan.

Mainly because after the acquisition, Li Duoyu hired people to select and grade again to remove the broken cloves and debris.

In addition to the 400 baskets of top-quality cloves, there are also 30 to 40 baskets of inferior products. In fact, these cloves are not that big of a problem. They are still edible, but they may not look so good when exported.

 Looking at these defective clove fish, Li Duoyu planned to make them into canned clove fish.

 After deducting these defective products, Li Duoyu found that the final cost of each kilogram of dried clove fish was about three yuan.

  After all, the price Director Liu gave Li Duoyu was probably the purchase price from the island country. The processing factory was most likely not profitable, and there might even be a discount.

 What Li Duoyu can do is to give him the best quality.

He has indeed heard that various cities now have rigid targets for earning foreign exchange, and many factories would rather lose money to win foreign trade orders.

Just like tobacco and alcohol, the export price is almost always much cheaper than domestically. Some smugglers will even go out to buy cheap domestic tobacco and alcohol and sell them back. And Li Duoyu has always remembered clearly that Maotai-flavor wine, which is extremely expensive in China, could be bought at the counter in the island country for less than half the price.

At this stage, the organization is in great need of foreign exchange, and Li Duoyu wants money. In short, this is a win-win situation.

The purchase of cloves this time has also made many villagers on the island make money. As long as there are people involved in fishing, even the smallest one can earn 50 yuan.

 Zhao Dahai and Lao Lu, who own boats and can fish for cloves in Ding Bay, have earned nearly 700 to 800 yuan in just over a week.

Cousin Li Shuguang and his family also earned nearly a thousand dollars, and the most profitable ones were actually not the fishermen on Dandan Island, but the ones from Nanri Town next door.

And Li Duoyu also knew him very well. There had been unpleasant things happened between the two parties before, that was Liu Yun who stole his oysters.

The relationship between the two parties has already eased. Li Duoyu met him two days ago. Now that Liu Yun sees him, he treats him like Director Li and always wants to treat him to dinner and drinks.

  It was probably Li Shuguang who asked him to fish for cloves together. His fishing boat was originally used for shrimp fishing. It can be used to catch cloves with a fine net, which is very efficient.

 In just over a week, their boat made nearly 2,000 yuan, which made all the fishermen on Dandan Island red-eyed.

During this period, not only the business of the fishing gear shop was very good, but also the business of the restaurant on the pier also picked up.

 After all, these days, there are no mortgages, car loans, etc. After everyone makes money, except for the four major items, there is no other consumption.

In addition, everyone was used to being poor in the past. As soon as they had money, the first thing they wanted to satisfy was their appetite.

 But these villagers on the island really like to eat wild animals.

Li Duoyu dared to eat eels, oil cones and the like, but every time he saw Lao Yang killing those king snakes and cobras in the street, he felt goosebumps all over his body.

He has also touched a snake before, and the cold and rough feel made him quite uncomfortable.

But it’s disgusting. Every time Lao Yang Restaurant stews snake soup or boils wild boar soup, Li Duoyu can’t help but swallow his saliva every time he passes by.

Li Duoyu also talked to Lao Yang, and then he realized that he did not buy these delicacies from the mountains with money, but directly exchanged the seafood for the restaurants in the mountains.

 They islanders like to eat game from the mountains, and those people from the mountains also like to eat seafood from the seaside.

Especially the big color TV lobster, which is extremely expensive at their place. One can be sold for five or six yuan.

Li Duoyu didn’t do much reconciliation, he just calculated the approximate amount and randomly checked the grade of the clove fish in the basket.

Li Duoyu is really satisfied with Chen Wenchao's performance this time. It is his first time to handle such a large project.

 It is really rare that there is no chaos and the account can be done so clearly.

Of course a lot of the credit for this must go to Liu Xiaolan. Li Duoyu didn’t understand it very well before, but now he finally understands it.

　　Why do old people always say that when looking for a wife, you don’t have to look for someone who is too beautiful? The most important thing is to be reliable, because marrying a good woman is really likely to change your life.

Of course, someone as beautiful and reliable as Zhou Xiaoying is naturally the best.

Thinking of his wife and Xiao Tutu, Li Duoyutu took three kilograms of cloves from the eel factory and prepared to cook something delicious for them.

 After Li Duoyu returned home, he found that no one was at home. Aniang must have gone out to play with little Tutu.

Li Duoyu was at the well, cleaning the clove fish and drying it.

Immediately afterwards, I carried a plastic bucket to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought two kilograms of rapeseed oil, and bought a whole can of black tempeh.

Now in the city, people still use grain and oil coupons to buy oil, but it is different in rural areas. No one gives them such things.

Especially in fishing villages like these in coastal areas, they got away from food stamps and oil stamps relatively early. Now they don’t like to use stamps very much, and they value unity more.

 After Li Duoyu finished shopping.

 When I came back, I heated up the pan and planned to make a dish of black bean and clove fish.

This dish is very easy to make and delicious. The only disadvantage is that it requires quite a lot of oil. For three kilograms of clove fish, it is estimated that one kilogram of oil will be used to make this dish.

Everyone has experienced an era when there was no oil to eat. There are really not many families who are willing to cook this dish.

After the oil in the pot is cooked, Li Duoyu slowly puts the clove fish in and deep-fries it. There is no technical content in this dish, and most housewives along the coast can make it.

 The only thing to note is that the clove fish is very small and the oil should not be too hot, otherwise it will be easily burnt.

 After it was almost fried, I sprinkled a few handfuls of shrimp skin into the Li Duoyu and fried it together to increase the seafood flavor.

 Finally, scoop a few tablespoons of black tempeh, add a little salt, monosodium glutamate, and sugar and stir-fry. After the aroma comes out, pour a circle of green and red wine next to it.

 With a stabbing sound.

The strong aroma of wine wafts into your nostrils. Li Duoyu covers the pot and simmers for a while. The dish is complete.

When Li Duoyu finished cooking the clove fish, Xiaopangdun, Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun happened to be back, and the three children came over after smelling the fragrance.

“Uncle, what are you cooking? It smells so good.” The little fat man took off his schoolbag and red scarf and came to the kitchen.

 The two girls, Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun, were quite reserved and did not run directly into the kitchen to ask.

Seeing his greedy look, Li Duoyu asked with a smile: "Does it smell good?"

 Li Haoran kept nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice: "It smells really good. It makes my mouth water."

Seeing Li Haoran swallowing his saliva, Li Duoyu said with a bad smile: "You can't eat it now. Let's eat together when we have dinner in the evening."

“Ah, let me take a look at what it is. It smells so good.”

“That won’t work. After you see it, there will be no sense of mystery anymore.”

"ah"

At this moment, little chubby Li Haoran seemed to have thousands of ants crawling in his heart. In the past, after school, he would run to the pier and play for an hour.

 Today I just stayed at home and refused to leave. When grandma came back, I immediately urged: "Grandma, hurry up and make a fire to cook. Let's eat early today."

Chen Huiying asked: "Are you hungry?"

Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun on the side laughed and said: "He's not hungry, he's greedy. Third uncle made a pot of delicious food and said he can't eat until dinner."

Chen Huiying glanced at Li Duoyu and thought he had bought something expensive again.

“You just had a problem with your crab pond. You need to save some money and don’t spend it recklessly.”

Li Duoyu smiled.

 “I know, I don’t have much money.”

For fishermen, clove fish is indeed not very expensive, but if my mother-in-law knows that he put a whole catty of rapeseed oil for this dish, she will definitely scold him to death. (End of chapter)