1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 77 Conspiracy (please follow up)

 Looking at the situation, Chen Wenchao probably didn't know that the kelp rope was cut off last night.

 Li Duoyu inspected the kelp.

 To Li Duoyu’s surprise, he found a lot of native abalone, nine-hole abalone, which he only eats secretly on the kelp.

The surface of this kind of abalone is relatively smooth, and there are 7 to 9 small holes on the edge of the back, so it is called nine-hole abalone.

 In the next ten years, this kind of abalone will be the main abalone culture species in the south, until the technology of "north-south transition" is later developed.

The fishermen on Dandan Island have just begun to raise larger crinkled abalone, a northern variety of abalone that has higher requirements for the living environment.

  Abalone eats algae.

 Especially like to eat kelp and asparagus.

I guess these few are foodies, and they actually came here from the reef living area so far away.

Since you are so optimistic about my kelp, I will reluctantly accept you all.

 What surprised Li Duoyu was that these abalones were quite big, with an average length of seven or eight centimeters.

A wild abalone of this size would take at least four or five years to reach this size.

 Fortunately, the local fishermen at this time did not like eating abalone very much, otherwise they would not be able to catch such large wild abalone.

Li Duoyu remembers that when he was a child, he and Lao Li also caught abalone, but they didn’t want its meat, but the shell.

It seems that its shell is a kind of medicinal material called "Stone Cassia". In the past, medicinal buyers would come to buy abalone shells every time on the island.

As for why fishermen don’t like to eat abalone, the reason is very simple. Fresh abalone is too hard to taste. Eating it steamed is like chewing rubber.

 To make abalone delicious, it must be dried. Speaking of which, some seafood is so magical.

 It must be dried in the sun to produce a chemical reaction before it becomes delicious.

 The same goes for abalone.

So is kelp.

 After inspecting the kelp field, Li Duoyu harvested a total of seven or eight large abalones and more than ten small abalones.

Li Duoyu plans to try to make dried abalone out of the big ones, and throw the small ones into the cage and give them a piece of kelp.

Li Duoyu plans to try raising it first to see if it will die suddenly easily.

 The sunlight in winter is relatively short.

Before it was completely dark, the sea breeze blew over, and Li Duoyu felt a chill, and fed Erbaiwu a meal.

Li Duoyu sailed away.

 At first, the little yellow dog wanted to get on the boat with him, but when he saw the boat getting farther and farther away, he barked twice.

 But the man who drove the boat didn't even look back.

 The little yellow dog watched him until the night was completely dark, and then returned to the new kennel.

Li Duoyu, who returned to the dock, parked the boat, and ran into Lao Zhuang, who was not very agile, and was the crew chief who had previously helped on the trawler.

Lao Zhuang smiled and said hello: "Duoyu, you came back so late."

 “Lao Zhuang, have you eaten yet?”

 “Eat, you must not have eaten yet.”

After some pleasantries, Lao Zhuang said directly without any hesitation:

“I heard that Chen Wenchao stocked up a lot of fish on your fishing raft. Didn’t he follow you? When the time comes, can you sell those fish to me?”

 Lao Zhuang's words surprised Li Duoyu. He used to be a fishmonger, but he only sold trash fish. It was a small business and he rarely collected fish in large quantities.

 Li Duoyu said: "It seems that you have also started to do big business."

Lao Zhuang sighed: "How can I have the capital? My Liangyu has opened a seafood shop in the county town, and now he wants me to help him get the goods."

 “It seems Liangyu has made his mark.”

Lao Zhuang said disgustedly: "Where is the interest? The money is all loaned out. I am afraid that the business will fail and I will be full of debt." "Okay, I will ask him about this. If there is no buyer to book, then, when the time comes, , I asked him to sell it to you directly.”

 “Then it’s settled first.”

After Li Duoyu saw Lao Zhuang, he suddenly remembered that he lived here at the pier, and the balcony was facing the pier.

He knows very well how many fishing boats leave and enter the harbor every day.

“Uncle Zhuang, let me ask you something. Are there any small fishing boats leaving the harbor at midnight these past two nights?”

Lao Zhuang frowned and thought: "It was so late at night, I really didn't pay attention to it, but when I got up to go to the toilet last night, I did see a small sampan rolling out."

Li Duoyu looked surprised: "Have you seen who it is?"

“It was too cold last night, so I went to the toilet and went back immediately, but looking at that figure, he didn’t look like a man.”

Lao Zhuang looked at Li Duoyu in confusion and asked, "Did something happen?"

 Li Duoyu felt that Lao Zhuang, who lived at the dock, might be able to help him in the future, so he did not hide it from him and said truthfully:

 “My kelp rope was cut dozens of times last night.”

Hearing this, Lao Zhuang cursed angrily: "Which **** is so wicked?"

 “I want to know too.”

 Subsequently, Li Duoyu took out two big unity coins and stuffed them into Lao Zhuang's pocket.

“Uncle Zhuang, please help me keep an eye on me these nights. If you find anything wrong, just come and knock on my door.”

 “This cannot be done.”

 Lao Zhuang quickly gave Li Duoyu two large pieces of unity and returned them:

“It’s already great if you are willing to sell the seafood to me. Even if you hadn’t told me about this, I would have helped you.”

"If you really want to give me money, I won't do this."

Seeing that Lao Zhuang was so determined, Li Duoyu also took the money back: "Then I'll trouble you."

 “Why are you so polite to Uncle Zhuang?”

 At this moment, in a small room of the supply and marketing cooperative.

A middle-aged man wearing military green work clothes said: "Yesterday you did something bad. I even lent you the boat and only cut a few strips. Are you kidding me?"

The woman kept a dark face the whole time: "I can't move that sampan of yours by myself. Besides, there were fishing boats fishing nearby that night, and I was worried about being caught by the lights of the boats."

The middle-aged man frowned: "If you do this, they will definitely ask people to guard the kelp field. Otherwise, let's forget about it now and wait until after the New Year."

The woman said resolutely: "No, I can't celebrate the New Year, and they won't want to celebrate the New Year either. On the night of the New Year's Eve dinner, you lend me a diesel sampan, and I will cut all their kelp fields."

After hearing this, the middle-aged man said seriously: "Okay, I believe you again. If you really want to make things beautiful, I will find a way to arrange a job for you in the cannery in the city."

 After the woman left.

 Another middle-aged man who looked very much like a cadre came to the hut and said, "Isn't this too anxious?"

“Brother, we can’t be in a hurry. Our third brother and the deputy director have both said that we can’t let their kelp fields start up, otherwise next year’s election will be very detrimental to us.”

“The deputy director also said that Li Duoyu’s photo with the senior leader was purely coincidental and he had nothing to do with it.”

 “What if this woman is caught and turns us out too?”

“Brother, has anyone seen us meeting that woman? Besides, if something really happens, we can sue her for stealing our boat.”

The middle-aged man who came in from behind suddenly realized: "Oh, you are still more advanced."

“Since I’m so advanced, I’ll run for village secretary next year. What do you think?”

 “You’re going to push yourself too far, aren’t you?”

 (End of this chapter)