1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 83 New Year and New Atmosphere

  New year and new atmosphere.

 After the Spring Festival, the pier became lively again, with fishing boats and the sound of firecrackers everywhere.

As for Zhang Meiying’s story, not many people were interested after it was uploaded on the island for a day or two.

 On the contrary, it was the money Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao earned on New Year's Eve that made everyone jealous and aware of the importance of fishing rafts.

 In the past, when everyone caught fish, they treated it as dead fish by default. I didn’t expect that they could be kept in cages like fishing rafts for so long.

 In the past, those trash fish were either used to make shrimp oil or fish fertilizer.

 Sometimes there is so much that no one wants it, so we just dump it into the sea. I never thought that it could be used to feed groupers, large yellow croakers and the like.

Beside the pier, several boat bosses lamented that Li Duoyu was very good at making money, and discussed whether they should also build a fishing raft.

They even thought further and planned to retrofit a live fish cabin on the fishing boat to increase the survival rate of the fish.

While the ship bosses were discussing, a middle-aged woman named Lin Jinlan happened to be prying oysters aside.

She did not have a good Spring Festival this year. The reason was that the youngest daughter of the family fell in love with a poor boy who had no father or mother, despite the opposition of the family.

 Originally, she had made an agreement with the matchmaker, and after the Chinese New Year, her marriage to the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative was decided.

I didn’t expect a poor boy to show up halfway. If the matchmaker comes to propose marriage in two days, how should I answer her?

 Say that your daughter is already with someone else?

Lin Jinlan really didn’t understand what the good thing about that poor boy was. There was only an old lady with handicapped legs and feet at home, and she didn’t even have a fishing boat.

After getting married, if you don’t have money to eat, maybe in two years, the old lady will be lying in bed, and she will have to do all the food, drink, and care.

 What are you drawing?

Wang Jinshan, the son of the director of the Marketing Cooperative, is rich, but not as good as expected. She has been asking about it these days.

I once dated a woman, but we broke up with her for some unknown reason. I heard someone said that she seemed to have some health problems.

Although her brothers wanted her to marry the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative quickly so that they could buy a diesel fishing boat.

 But the palms and backs of her hands are all flesh, and her daughter was born in her tenth month of pregnancy. Anyone who has watched her grow up since she was a child, how can a mother not love her daughter?

 She didn’t want to push her daughter into the fire pit before she figured it out.

This is also the reason why the matchmaker has been talking to her for so long and she hasn't finalized the deal yet.

 But at this moment.

Lin Jinlan seemed to hear that the ship bosses had been praising the young man named Li Duoyu and saying that they wanted to learn from him.

this?

 She didn't have a good impression of this young man. She used to go near their house and whistle at her daughter.

That poor boy is hanging out with him. There is nothing to praise about such a person.

Lin Jinlan put down the oyster shell in his hand, leaned over and asked, "Is that Li Duoyu really that powerful?"

 One of the ship bosses said:

“I don’t know if Li is great, but he can really make money. Last year, he and Chen Wenchao made the most money on our island on New Year’s Eve.”

"ah."

Lin Jinlan was stunned: "Is that my neighbor Chen Wenchao?"

 “If not him, who else.”

The boss of the boat said with emotion: "This kid is really lucky. After surviving the disaster, he finally followed the right person. I heard that on New Year's Eve, he received almost 300 yuan."

 After hearing about the money.

Lin Jinlan took a sharp breath of air. No wonder during this period, she always felt that her daughter had too much jewelry on her body.

 But she was still worried, Lin Jinlan continued: "Young people nowadays must make quick money, so it is possible that they will be so lucky every time."

The boatman laughed and said:

“Sister-in-law Lin, you don’t go out too much. The most active young people on our island now are Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao.”

"Once it's good luck, but twice or three times, it's not a matter of luck, but that the person really has that ability."    "Besides, these two young people are really working hard now. If we old men don't work harder, They will soon be eliminated.”

Lin Jinlan was also very surprised after hearing this, because his family did not have a fishing boat, so they seldom came to the dock, and he did not know what had happened in the past few months.

On this day, she asked someone again to find out which side was doing the real work. She now knew clearly.

 Forget it, if you are scolded, you will be scolded. You can't ruin your child's future just because of face.

After prying out the oyster shells that day, Lin Jinlan took the initiative to find the matchmaker, brought an apology, and explained the matter clearly.

 As a result, he was naturally scolded.

But after being scolded, Lin Jinlan felt relieved. Even after returning home, she still had to face Xiaolan's incompetent brothers.

"well."

 …

 …

 After the Lantern Festival.

 The Spring Festival is over.

Li Xiaorong also went north to study, but Li Haoran, the little chubby boy, had not been happy for two days before he started a new semester.

Li Duoyu’s kelp seedlings, after more than four months of growth, are now more than two meters long.

 The length is enough, but it is not thick enough or wide enough. If the kelp is packed up, it will not taste very good, and the grade is not very high, so it is a second-rate product.

 But after the Spring Festival, the sea water will get slightly warmer, especially around the Qingming Festival, when the kelp will explode in weight.

What Li Duoyu has to do now is to raise the water level for kelp cultivation so that the kelp can get as much sun as possible.

 With this one-month growth spurt, kelp can at least double its weight.

 At that time, the harvest will be ready.

Since the kelp harvest is approaching, my brother-in-law Chen Dongqing comes back frequently.

 Looking at how well managed the thirty acres of kelp are, how healthy they are, and how beautiful the color is, there is no need for him at all.

 Chen Dongqing is used to it.

 Even started to doubt myself.

 Is the kelp farming project he studied too simple?

 But when he came to the captain’s kelp field, his blood pressure was so high that he smoked half a pack of cigarettes on the spot.

I have obviously told them that the weather is too cold, there is a lot of fog during the Spring Festival, and there is not enough light, so the water level for kelp farming must be increased.

As a result, as soon as he left, Wang Dapao just fooled around and turned a deaf ear to his words.

He was so angry that he couldn't help but help adjust the water layer, but before she could adjust the water level a few times, her face turned so dark that she didn't want to speak.

 There is no unified standard fixed method for tying the kelp ropes in the one hundred acres of kelp fields. Some are tied with loose knots, some with dead knots, and some fishermen's knots.

Those knots that have been tied to death cannot be untied after being soaked in sea water and swollen, so they can only be cut with a knife.

These 100 acres of kelp have been cultivated for more than three months. On average, they are only one meter long and more than ten centimeters wide. And because the water layer has not been adjusted, a large amount of kelp has developed green rot.

In more than a month, it will be the harvesting period of kelp. Chen Dongqing knows very well that the summer seedlings of the variety he studied will not survive May on Dandan Island.

 If we don’t harvest in May, once the temperature rises, it will all rot in the sea within a few days.

 If this development continues, the kelp produced from these more than one hundred acres will not only be of poor quality and taste bad, but the overall output may not be as high as that of Li Duoyu's thirty acres.

 The whole farming operation will probably cost a lot of money, and it is possible that things like Chen Atai will happen again, and he will start preaching that raising kelp is not profitable and loses money.

But now Chen Dongqing no longer has any hope for the one hundred acres of kelp fields. Instead, he hopes that there will be a big tide and wipe out the one hundred acres of kelp fields.

 This way he will not be affected.

 (End of this chapter)