Golden Fishing Village

Li Ji finally agreed to his request. He said: "Since you dare to die, how can I not dare to bury you?"

The old professor is a very sentimental person. He knows why Ao Muyang wants to bring manatees to the sea outside the village. Isn't it because there are no manatees in the country, and manatees look cute, which can attract tourists?

But he knows the strong appetite of manatees. To use the local fishing village's insulting words, this manatee can eat the landlord's family out of money by eating shit, and its appetite is so big.

Ao Muyang is confident about this. He asked Li Ji to handle the matter of bringing manatees to the sea outside the village, and he went to the fishery to collect giant algae seedlings.

He hasn't been to Zhuantou Island Fishery for a while. Now the fishery is managed by Zhong Cang and his wife and old man Ao Zhibing. Because of the maintenance of Jindi, the fish, shrimps and crabs in the fishery will not get sick. In addition to fishing every day according to Lu Hu's commission, there is nothing else to do.

After seeing Ao Muyang, Ao Zhibing waved to him and took him to see the ambergris in the house.

After learning that the thing vomited by sperm whales can undergo oxidation reaction after being exposed to wind and sun, Ao Muyang later simply bought a UV lamp and irradiated it with UV light every day.

Ao Zhibing asked him to see the current situation of ambergris. This thing has become very hard. If you smell it, you can still smell a different smell.

It’s hard to say what the smell is, but it’s not a fragrance.

“Is this thing really ambergris?” Ao Muyang still has some doubts. It was Erdeng and Sandeng who told him the answer at the beginning. With Erdeng cheating, he doesn’t believe this thing anymore.

Ao Zhibing took a puff of cigarette and said, "It's ambergris, Boss, that's right, but ambergris needs to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and it can only take shape after hundreds of years of accumulation."

Ao Muyang said, "I thought you said it could become a spirit, Grandpa Bing, you are a bit superstitious."

The old man said seriously, "This is not superstition, this is a fact."

Ao Muyang raised his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I believe you, then you can come and roast it when you are free, I'll go to the fishing ground for a walk."

This time when he returned to the fishing ground, he still only brought Black Dragon with him. The two of them had to go into the water to dig for giant kelp seedlings. He could adapt to the cold water temperature, but Black Dragon couldn't, so he asked Black Dragon to wear a dry diving suit.

Dry diving suits are relatively thick and have strong warmth retention capabilities. Correspondingly, the flexibility of divers will be reduced after wearing them, so Black Dragon is unwilling to wear them.

Ao Muyang glared at him and said, "Do you want to go down and be an ice lolly? It's good to go into the water naked at this time. It's not easy to rot after freezing to death. Do you want to freeze to death underwater?"

The black dragon rubbed his dark skin and posed a bodybuilding pose. Ao Muyang said, "Don't be conceited. There are no women underwater. Who cares what you look like?"

After listening to him, the black dragon put on the diving suit honestly.

After entering the water, Ao Muyang went straight to the giant kelp forest.

Because he often walks golden dots in the water, the giant kelp also absorbs it, so it grows taller and stronger. The giant kelp forest has expanded and occupied half of the fishing ground.

Most giant kelp can grow to dozens of meters, and the longest can even reach 200 to 300 meters, and the weight can reach an astonishing 200 kilograms.

Although these giant kelp in the fishery are spreading all the way, it will not affect the operation of the fishery. It seems to have consciousness and actively expands to the deep sea area at the edge of the fishery.

There are reefs on the seabed, and the giant kelp's huge holdfast embraces the reef like a monster's limbs, and then a main trunk floats up luxuriantly.

Roughly speaking, the giant kelp is like a tree, with a thick trunk stretching straight upwards, and many small stalks growing around it. These small stalks grow outward like branches, and leaves grow along the small stalks.

The leaves of the giant kelp are very large, most of them are one meter long, but the width is not wide, only five or six centimeters, so it looks a bit strange. There are air sacs on these leaves, and it is the air sacs that generate buoyancy to lift the thick trunk of the giant kelp.

In order to better absorb solar energy, the leaves of the giant kelp are dark green. This color is too strong, almost black and brown, so when you look at the giant kelp through the sea water, plus the refraction of sunlight by the sea water, the surrounding sea water is black and brown.

Giant kelp is a cold-water seaweed. They are not native to China, but were introduced from foreign countries.

Ao Muyang looked at these giant algae and vaguely remembered that the giant algae in the red ocean seemed to be introduced from Mexico. This association with manatees also came from Mexico, so everything was quite coincidental.

After discovering that there were giant algae in the fishing grounds, he studied this seaweed.

Of course, he initially studied to see if there was any economic value, and also studied the method of multiplying giant algae. This research had been useless before, but now that he was raising manatees, it finally came into play.

The common method of multiplying giant algae is to artificially cultivate a large number of young spores and release them to the seabed. The release period is winter and early spring. There is no need to worry about the temperature. Giant algae are cold-water seaweed.

However, Ao Muyang took another approach, which is to tie the artificially cultivated young algae to stones or cement balls and release them to the seabed. According to his understanding, if it is released in spring, it can grow to ten meters in summer. If it is released in autumn, it will grow slower. However, with the accumulation of strength in autumn and winter, the giant algae will grow rapidly in spring.

Giant algae is the fastest growing plant in the world. Under suitable conditions, a giant algae can grow 30 to 60 centimeters in a day. In a year, a giant kelp can grow to more than 50 meters.

There are many seedlings developed from spores on the bottom of the fishery. Ao Muyang dived in the water with a knife and cut off the seedlings' fixation.

This is not the root system of the seedlings. After the fixation is broken, it can still grow, but it takes time, so Ao Muyang has to tie them with stones or something to fix them in the early stage.

After cutting off the seedlings' fixation, don't worry about it. There are air sacs in their leaves, and the seedlings can automatically float to the surface of the water.

This work is not complicated or heavy. Ao Muyang and Heilong cut the Gordian knot and picked up a lot of giant algae seedlings on the same day.

It just so happens that the fishery does not need giant algae seedlings for large-scale reproduction. He decided that if he raised manatees, he would transplant seedlings regularly in the future.

In fact, Hongyang has the largest seaweed research base in China, which has giant algae seedlings for sale. Ao Muyang is unwilling to buy them. It's not a matter of money, but a problem of seedling activity.

These giant algae in his fishery grow up by absorbing gold drops. They have excellent properties and better activity. He estimates that the nutrition is more abundant, and the manatees should like them.

That evening, he drove back to the village by boat. He called Ao Wenchang in advance and asked him to organize people to transplant giant kelp to the seaside.

So, in the evening, the autumn wind was howling, but the sea outside the village became lively.