Agriculture Idol

Chapter 30: Harvesting Sea Urchin

"Ten years ago, the sea area near Hongming Village was still a seabed forest of copper algae, but now there are only bare rocky beaches. In recent years, due to the depletion of marine resources in the village, young people have moved to the town to live in the deep sea. Fishing, our village is becoming more and more deserted and impoverished. Xinwaer’s proposal to turn worthless sea urchins into salable sea urchins is a way out for our village.”

After Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong finished making sea urchin breeding cages, Lin Yiyi, as a publicity specialist for this event, went door to door asking villagers to help them harvest sea urchins.

Receiving a call from Lin Yiyi, the idle villagers came to the seaside with tools and wearing rubber one-piece waterproof suits, or at least wearing rubber gloves.

[I feel like the old people are so powerful]

[Modern fisherman's clothing feels like the Avengers' uniform 2333333]

[I saw sea urchins! 】

[There are so many sea urchins in such a shallow place! ? 】

【How unpleasant are these sea urchins】

As soon as the underwater camera is placed, netizens can see groups of purple sea urchins sticking out their venomous stingers in the crevices of the seabed.

Li Chengxin picked up a sea urchin: "Isn't this fishing method too easy?"

Brother Xiaoyong weighed the sea urchin: "It's not light."

"Then do you want to cut it open and have a look?" Li Chengxin suggested.

Hearing that the sea urchin was going to be opened, the old fisherman next to him took the sea urchin, took out a pair of scissors from the breast pocket of the one-piece suit, and skillfully pried the sea urchin open from its mouth.

There are indeed full ovaries inside, but it is a black mass, not like the normal edible sea urchin yellow.

"Want... to eat?" Li Chengxin made this suggestion with some uncertainty.

Brother Xiaoyong dug out a small lump of black and yellow ovary from the sea urchin, touched it carefully with the tip of his tongue, bit off a small piece, and smacked it.

"Uh, it's not delicious at all! It just tastes salty and astringent like sea water. The sea urchin yellow should at least be sweet!"

The old fisherman who helped them cut open the sea urchins sighed, "It's because of this that everyone won't pick sea urchins anymore!"

"But if we can really fatten up sea urchins, then you can let me eat 50 sea urchins for a meal!" Another fisherman interjected.

"Old man, be careful that your cholesterol exceeds the standard!" The old lady beside him instantly turned into a gangster.

Li Chengxin and the others walked in front of the old people, and soon discovered that the sea urchins all over the ground made it impossible to get down.

【I'm afraid of committing a crime】

[Those on the ground are all sea urchins?Gosh! 】

[I can't imagine that there were children playing barefoot at the beach before. 】

The camera extended into the sea again, and saw that the coastal reefs were corroded layer by layer by the waves, and the gaps in each layer were filled with sea urchins.

[I seem to have seen a sea urchin apartment]

"This is one of the reasons why sea urchins can grow in large quantities in a small area," Li Chengxin explained. "These rock crevices and stone pits that are just the size of sea urchins are actually dug by sea urchins themselves. Sea urchins protect themselves from waves. Or the infestation of natural enemies, they will bite rocks and dig holes, and then hide themselves in them.”

"So, the first step in harvesting sea urchins is to drive these sea urchins out of the house."

The sea urchin was tightly embedded in the hole. Brother Xiaoyong used a bamboo pole with a 90-degree hook tied to the front end of the sea urchin, inserted it into the hole along the edge of the sea urchin, and then pulled out the sea urchin.

"Hopefully, in the future, these small holes will become habitats for small fish."

Li Chengxin followed Brother Xiaoyong. Whenever Brother Xiaoyong dug out sea urchins, he would step forward to pick them up and throw them into the plastic bucket floating beside him.

After a while, a small half of the bucket was filled.

Unlike Li Chengxin, who has to operate the camera with one hand and explain knowledge points at the same time.

After Lin Yiyi encouraged the villagers, he worked silently by himself.

Li Chengxin turned the camera to her, Lin Yiyi held a hook in one hand and a big net bag in the other.She directly used the hook to dig out the sea urchin, and then operated the net bag with the other hand to catch the sea urchin.

The efficiency is definitely higher than the combination of Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong.

When the camera got close, I heard Lin Yiyi muttering something: "Ten yuan, 20 yuan..."

【I see!One by one girls are counting the prices! 】

Netizens in the barrage gave the first word.

[I don’t like money-worshiping girls, but girls like Yiyi are so hot and cute]

[Suspect—the seabed in the eyes of a girl is covered with ten-dollar tickets]

【I'm going to die laughing at what you said】

[At the time of editing, please add a post-production sound effect, the kind where a girl puts one in the net pocket, and there will be a "ding--" sound when it arrives]

The camera sneaked up on two old ladies who were digging sea urchins together.

"When there were a lot of kelp in the past, my husband would always catch me roundfin fish and cook soup for me. In recent years, I haven't eaten it anymore."

“My family has also made round-fin fish soup, it was so delicious!”

[Round fin fish?Do I know that round fin fish? 】

[There is only one type of round-finned fish, what else can it be! 】

[You actually eat such cute fish? 】

[Can anyone explain what a round-finned fish is? 】

Li Chengxin turned the camera and explained in a low voice: "The round-finned fish has been regarded as a small internet celebrity in the aquarium recently. Its skin has sea cucumber-like bumps, so it is often called sea cucumber spots. The round-finned fish will turn red during spawning , Their pelvic fins can be separated from the left and right, and together they form a round sucker, so the round-finned fish often cling to the rocks by the sea, which is beautiful and cute.”

"In addition, the skin of the round-finned fish accounts for one-third of the weight of the whole fish. It is rich in collagen and is the best natural skin care product. It is a good food supplement for beauties, and its nutritional value will never lose to that of sea cucumbers."

[It's over, I'm already drooling]

[I haven’t eaten the sea urchin yet, here are new ingredients]

[There is a French restaurant in the CBD of the company that seems to have the dish of jelly with round fin fish. You can try this dish next time you accompany customers at public expense]

【Envy~】

[Cha Lemon! 】

Li Chengxin used the camera to "eavesdrop" again.

Uncle Zhengwen came to avenge his grandson Tianzhe's assassination; Uncle Donghai hoped to wipe out the sea urchins and bring back the abalones and salamanders that had disappeared in the past few years.

With their respective wishes, after two hours of continuous fishing for sea urchins, when the tide reached high tide, the waves had already gotten bigger, knocking several elderly people back and forth.

Lin Yiyi greeted everyone loudly: "It's almost time to go back, the tide is high, and the waves are dangerous."

All those present were experienced fishermen, and they all knew the power of the tide, so they walked back one after another.

"Thanks to everyone, the way back is much easier, and I don't have to worry about stepping on sea urchins."

"It's really clean, it's completely different from the beginning!"

"Awesome, the change is too big!"

Back on the shore, everyone counted the sea urchins they had caught.A total of nearly [-] sea urchins were caught.

"If this can really grow fat, wouldn't it be worth 3 yuan?"

"But now their value is still zero." The old lady bar Jing continued to go online.

【Hahaha!This grandma made me laugh to death! 】

[There are so many sea urchins, if they are really fattened...saliva! 】

The villagers packed the sea urchins in large buckets and carried them to Li Chengxin's houseboat on poles.

Li Chengxin followed the villagers with a live camera. He was a weak chicken who couldn't lift his shoulders or hands. He was not assigned to carry the task: "Then without further ado, let's put the sea urchins into the breeding cages now."

When we got near the boat house, we saw three square floating platforms floating in the tide from a long distance away.The place Xiaoyong chose to place the floating platform is a sheltered spot, so the tide fluctuations are much smaller.

Several experienced fishermen neatly put buckets of sea urchins into the small sampan, then rowed to the floating platform and carefully put the sea urchins into the breeding cages one by one.

Li Chengxin squatted on the shore to take pictures of the situation there, and continued to do science popularization for netizens by the way: "Sea urchins use their spines to forage, so if you accidentally break too many sea urchin spines at one time, Sea urchins may die. However, the average purple sea urchin has less than 3000 spines, so the upper limit of broken spines is quite high."

【I'm looking forward to it, I want to eat sea urchin】

[According to the white-skinned guy, it will take two to three months! 】

【Can I buy a few empty sea urchins? I also have a seawater aquarium at home. I really want to see if I can grow edible sea urchins】

"For those netizens who want to try raising sea urchins, you can ask the customer service of our online store, Lin Yiyi, and you can discuss the price and packaging with her, I don't know much about that. "Li Chengxin answered the questions from the netizens.

【⊙⊙!I want to raise too! 】

【As you said... My aquarium can probably hold 3 of them】

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Early the next morning, Li Chengxin came to the floating platform with various tools.

First, I used the periscope to look at the situation inside the breeding cage. After seeing that there were no major problems, I opened the live broadcast room and let netizens watch the living environment of sea urchins.

In the "sea urchin apartment" built with hollow bricks, there are already sea urchins shrunk in the hollows of the bricks.

In the breeding cages covered with live rocks, sea urchins gather densely on the bottom of the sea, competing for the right to live on the live rocks.

Li Chengxin commented: "It seems that this is not good. The sea urchin may need more climbing space. I will let Brother Xiaoyong adjust this later."

Sea urchins are also living well in the breeding cages with driftwood interlaced. They are attached to the branches and move slowly.

Li Chengxin took out two plastic buckets from the sampan, filled with chopped vegetable leaves.

"We have already contacted Sister Ding to buy the outer layer of Chinese cabbage left in the field and discarded by their family. Sister Ding actually only charged us for shipping and packaging fees, and those cabbage leaves will be shipped soon. "

"These I brought were harvested from our village, and we don't grow much, so there are only a few. At least we can see if the sea urchins are eaten."

(End of this chapter)