1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 88 Tou Shui Kelp (Seeking Pursuit)

 Seeing the kelp scattered around the kelp field, Li Duoyu naturally couldn't just waste it.

Although these kelp have not reached the optimal harvesting standards, the two-meter-long kelp is considered good.

He, Lao Li, and Chen Wenchao spent a day picking up the scattered kelp piece by piece.

It took more than ten boats to fish out the fish.

 Seeing these kelp harvested "in advance", Lao Li felt so distressed that his face turned black.

But Li Duoyu looked at the sparse kelp field and felt that this was not too bad. The sparse kelp meant that the remaining kelp had more space to grow.

 At that time, the remaining kelp may be as long as possible.

 Kelp is a type of brown algae.

When cultivated in the sea, the color is tan, and most of the green kelp commonly seen in the market in later generations has been blanched at high temperatures.

 Kelp, there are two main processing methods.

 One type is salted kelp used for fresh eating, which is the green kelp that everyone often sees.

This kind of kelp is usually picked up and then treated with high temperature directly.

Kelp will turn green when it comes into contact with boiling water, but it can easily deteriorate after being scalded at high temperatures.

So the manufacturer will sprinkle salt to keep it fresh, then put it in a cold storage, and finally sell it to vendors and restaurants.

 This processing method is called salting, but the most important part of this method is that it must have a cold storage to keep it fresh throughout the process, which is obviously not suitable for today.

 The other method is the traditional sun-drying of kelp. This one is simpler. After you pick it up from the sea, you can directly pull it to dry.

 Let the sun shine for more than ten hours.

  You can put it away directly.

There is also a chain of discrimination in raising kelp. Those who do traditional sun-drying will never get used to those who do salted kelp.

　　It can be said that they are old enemies. Especially on a certain website, a merchant selling dried kelp would often spray salted kelp.

 But there will always be some scum in any industry. In order to make kelp greener and fatter, some unscrupulous businesses will use a chemical called ammonium bicarbonate to brew kelp.

Li Duoyu vaguely remembers that this practice was learned by local dealers from overseas provinces after frequent cross-strait exchanges at the beginning of the new century. It seems that in addition to this, they even learned telephone fraud.

 In fact, both are essentially kelp, but the processing methods are different. Although sun-drying is the mainstream, Li Duoyu is also very optimistic about salted kelp.

 Because it has good development prospects and can be made into a variety of ready-to-eat small-mouth snacks.

In the previous life, there was a large snack manufacturer that bought out the cultivated kelp on Dandan Island and specially used it to produce various flavors of kelp shreds. The sales were pretty good.

More than ten boats of kelp picked up from the kelp fields were spread out in the village squares, docks, and the courtyards of relatives’ homes.

Due to his heroic efforts to save the villagers, Li Duoyu has a particularly good reputation in the village. Everyone is also very polite to him, and his pinkeye has been reduced a lot.

Even the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the square, Chen, Zhao, Wu and Sun, who play four-color cards there all year round.

After seeing Li Duoyu drying kelp, he did not complain. Instead, he took the initiative to show his kindness and said that if it was going to rain, he would notify him as soon as possible and help him collect kelp.

 And Chen Atai from the next village.

 In the past two days, I was very happy to hear that all the kelp raised by the captain Wang Dapao was destroyed.

Even the captain can't grow well, which proves that Chen Dongqing is wrong and he was tricked.

When he thought that he had been in debt for two years and was afraid to go out in hiding, Chen Atai had to vent his anger on Chen Dongqing no matter what.

Unexpectedly, when he was planning to spread the news that the captain had failed in raising kelp, he heard the news that Li Duoyu had posted kelp in the entire square.

Since he did not believe in evil, he came to Xiasha Village that day and was dumbfounded when he saw the kelp covering the square.

He couldn't count how many streets there were in the square in front of him, he just felt that there were so many.

After seeing Li Duoyu who was drying kelp in the square, Chen Atai quickly stepped forward to say hello:

 “Many fish.”

“This kelp belongs to you, why did you harvest it so quickly? Didn’t Holly say at the beginning that it would have to wait until at least the end of April?”

 “Uncle Tai.”

"What kind of wind brought you here?" Li Duoyu, who had been drying kelp for a day, hammered his waist and said, "There is no way. These kelp were hit by the waves two days ago and fell off the rope. All we can do is Put it away and dry it first.”

“A few days ago, the waves were really big. There were several people in our village who went out to fish and almost couldn’t come back.”

 Chen Atai squatted down and touched the kelp, and found that the kelp was already quite thick and thick. It was better than the kelp he had raised for five or six months before. He couldn't believe it.

"Did you have any expectations? Otherwise, I have only raised you for a few months, why would you be so big?"

 Li Duoyu was speechless.

“The sea water is flowing, so it’s useless no matter how much material you put in. Didn’t Holly tell you when I raised it before? Kelp grows very fast.”

After Li Duoyu hammered his waist, he took a sip and sighed: "If it weren't for this **** wave, my kelp would be twice as long in more than a month."

 “No way, it’s been so long.”

 “It can be longer.”

Chen Atai thought it was impossible. In the past two years, he had raised it for four or five months, and it was only more than one meter long. He felt that it would be impossible for kelp like Li Duoyu to grow any longer.

Li Duoyu glanced at him and naturally knew that Uncle Tai had heard the news and came here specifically to take a look.

“There’s no point in lying to you. The current temperature is the most suitable for the growth of kelp, just like bamboo shoots springing up after the rain. It changes every day.”

“Then the thirty acres of kelp you raised are all here?” Chen Atai asked.

Seeing that Uncle Tai kept asking questions, Li Duoyu said directly: "Uncle Tai, to tell you the truth, the kelp you see is less than one-tenth of the kelp I cultivate. When it is harvested in another month, here It’s not enough for me to show off.”

 After finishing speaking.

Li Duoyu also smiled and said: "Also, Uncle Tai, thank you for selling me those kelp ropes. I will dry them later and send some to you."

 Chen Atai was dumbfounded for a moment.

　Why is this young man so bad?

To rub salt into people's wounds, you and your father jointly cheated my kelp rope, and I haven't even settled the accounts with you yet.

But Chen Atai still didn't believe it. He handed a cigarette to Li Duoyu: "Duoyu, tell Uncle Tai honestly, did you use any technological means? Otherwise, how could the kelp grow so fast?"

After Li Duoyu took the cigarette, he said calmly: "Since Uncle Tai asked this, I will tell you the truth. It does require some skills."

“Kelp, you should choose it on the sandy bottom, adjust the water level according to the light, take care of the kelp field at least twice a week, and clean the kelp rope.”

 After Chen Atai listened.

The glasses widened, and he thought there was some kind of technological means, but it turned out that Chen Dongqing had also told him what Li Duoyu said.

 And I emphasized it to him many times, but due to various reasons, he didn't take it to heart.

Thinking of this, Chen Atai smoked half of his cigarette in one gulp. He scolded Chen Dongqing for two years, only to find out that the clown was himself.

  What a coincidence.

A young man wearing glasses happened to come to the square at this moment and shouted at the top of his voice: "Duoyu, you have to work harder and try to dry the kelp today, so that the quality is the best."

After seeing Chen Dongqing nagging again, Li Duoyu was also a little impatient: "Your uncle, you are just talking but not practicing. Why don't you come over and help me."

 This guy has become very courageous recently.

 Apply directly to his aunt not to go home.

 Hand directly lay the floor in Li Xiaorong’s house.

He guards his thirty acres of kelp field every day, and he is much more attentive than the owner of the kelp field.

Since he narrowly escaped death that day, my uncle has changed a lot and is no longer so formal.

The biggest change is that after staying with Chen Wenchao for a long time, the "quintessence of China" in his mouth has obviously increased, and he can greet other people's homes during conversation.

When Chen Dongqing found out that Chen Atai was also behind, the two of them instantly became very embarrassed, but as a junior, Chen Dongqing still said it bravely.

“Cousin, you are here too.”

Chen Atai looked at Chen Dongqing with the same embarrassment, but his face was on fire, and he hesitated:

 “Well, I came over to see many fish drying kelp.”

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