In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

On the inf dike side, the construction has been underway for more than a month, and a small sea pond has been built.

This seawall is about the size of two standard football fields, about twenty acres.

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that his uncle Chen Dongqing also came. With a cigarette in his mouth, he looked at the pond in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Due to the strong sea breeze, half of the smoke was taken away by the sea breeze.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng, who was wearing a white vest and had a dark complexion, said, "Duoyu, what do you think? I did a good job on this matter, didn't I?"

Li Duoyu gave a thumbs up and praised in the local dialect, "Ya Ba."

Zhang Mingsheng grinned. He was really happy after arriving at Dandan Island. The most important thing is that his family was also very happy.

Although I gave birth to three daughters.

But there are really very few people on the island who would stimulate him by saying that he could not give birth to a son. Instead, many people joked about whether they should arrange a baby marriage.

In Xiagang Village, his family owns two fishing boats and has made a lot of money over the years, but his life is not happy.

When drinking with brothers, one of them might get drunk and suddenly say, "You are not good enough to give birth to a boy, why don't I give it a try, maybe I can give birth to a boy."

Zhang Mingsheng knew that the other party might have drunk too much, but he was really angry, so he drank half a bottle of sorghum wine and beat the bastard hard.

Moreover, there is a bad custom in Xiagang Village that no wedding banquet will be held until a boy is born.

After Shui Hua married him.

There has never been a wedding reception.

In short, in that place, not giving birth to a boy is like a sin, and you have to be careful about what you say.

A man like him who has given birth to three girls has no status at all in the village, as if anyone can step on her.

Now that they have arrived at Dandan Island, Zhang Mingsheng's whole family is much more relaxed. The eldest and second child laugh happily every day.

The most important thing is that life suddenly has hope, and his intuition tells him that Li Duoyu must be doing something big if he spends so much money on the pond enclosure.

My uncle Chen Dongqing looked at the large pond in front of him and asked, "How much did it cost to build such a pond?"

Li Duoyu replied, "This one should be around 3,500."

Chen Dongqing sighed, "What a big deal! What are you going to raise in such a large pond?"

Li Duoyu was too lazy to prepare it anymore. "First, raise some blue crabs, and then add some shrimps. Raise the two together."

Chen Dongqing was stunned for a moment. "You are really a talented person. I just went to the neighboring province for an inspection last week. I was just about to come back and tell you that blue crabs can be raised together with shrimps, but you already knew it."

After Chen Dongqing finished speaking, he found that at least half of the cigarette in his mouth had been smoked by the sea breeze, and he flicked the cigarette holder into the sea.

"This cigarette is really useless."

Seeing his uncle rummaging through his pockets looking for a cigarette, Li Duoyu took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket and handed it to him.

"Is this right? If you see that I have no cigarettes in the future, you should take the initiative to find out if I have any more."

Li Duoyu glanced at him and said, "You're given a cigarette, but you're still talking nonsense. Believe it or not, I'll kick you down."

Chen Dongqing took a puff of his cigarette and asked, "Can you raise blue crabs and shrimps?"

Li Duoyu nodded.

"I guess I know how to do it. Someone taught me how to raise it when I was in Taizhou. Comrade Dongqing wants to teach me how to raise it, right?"

Chen Dongqing said disdainfully, "I don't know how to raise one at all, why would I teach you anything? By the way, I came to see you today mainly for two things.

The first thing Director Zhang asked me to ask was, wasn’t there a red tide not long ago? Director Zhang was afraid that your oysters would be affected, so he asked if you could keep up with the oyster seedlings here. "

Li Duoyu nodded and said, "Sure, it's not a big problem. Half of the oysters are alive. Xiao Chao is already making oyster cakes. They should be ready for hanging in a week."

"That's good. If there is a problem on your side, it will be quite embarrassing for the institute. By the way, there is one more thing. The institute wants to sign a comprehensive cooperation agreement with your Minlong Company and plans to set up a Base, I wonder if you are willing?"

Li Duoyu narrowed his eyes and said, "It's such a big deal, can you give me some time to think about it?"

"Consider Mao Yao, if you cooperate with us, you won't suffer any loss. What's there to consider?"

"Consider it for a day or two. This will make me appear more stable. If you say it, I will directly agree. This will make me look very unqualified."

Chen Dongqing was stunned for a moment. "What is it?"

"Pretentious style."

Chen Dongqing rolled his eyes at him and said, "Where did you learn this nonsense? I'm leaving now."

"You're leaving so soon. Why don't you go sit at home?"

Chen Dongqing waved his hand and said, "No, I won't go. I used to be pretty cool, but now I can't handle you. It would be embarrassing to go to your house."

Li Duoyu took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and said, "This is a pack of Huazi cigarettes that I just opened. Do you want some?"

Chen Dongqing, who had only walked a few steps, stepped back and said, "Director Li, you are a righteous man. Please buy more in the future."

Li Duoyu looked at the pond in front of him. It looked really big, but compared with the real pond bosses in his previous life.

This small pond of 20 acres is simply not worth mentioning. Li Duoyu once saw a pond of 30,000 to 40,000 acres in a place called "Longyingwei". At a glance, he could not see the end. A spectacular one.

However, due to geographical restrictions, the beach area of ​​Dandan Island is not very large, so it is destined to be impossible to build such a large-scale project.

Li Duoyu doesn't want to do it on such a large scale. If he eats up all the tidal flats on Dandan Island and makes all the money, it will be no different from the Wang brothers in the previous life.

Li Duoyu does not intend to occupy too much resources, and will leave at least half to the villagers.

The short-term economic benefits of dikes and ponds are definitely not as good as those brought by eel farming and sea farming, but it is more suitable for long-term development.

In addition to kelp, oysters, and eels, Li Duoyu believes that these ponds will definitely become a shining business card of Dandan Island in the future.

At this moment, Li Duoyu discovered that a tractor was emitting black smoke and stopped on the embankment, unable to move.

Li Duoyu rushed over to take a look and found the tractor master lying on the bottom of the tractor, looking like he was repairing it. His whole body was covered with diesel, including his face.

"Master Zhang, is the engine broken?"

The tractor mechanic said, "It may be a problem, but we can get a spare part from the county and it should be fixed."

Li Duoyu really admires his generation because almost all of them have driving licenses.

And many people have participated in training and can repair tractors by themselves. For example, the uncle and the third uncle can also repair tugboat engines and fishing boats.

After determining that the repair could not be completed, Master Zhang controlled the direction of the tractor, and Li Duoyu followed more than a dozen villagers to push the tractor.

"Get ready, come together."

"Walk."

In less than ten minutes, the tractor was pushed to the shore.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but laugh when he saw the sunburned and sweaty villagers on the shore.

This is really a good era.

After having oil and water, everyone looks quite strong.

Li Duoyu still has a profound memory of what he experienced in those ten years. At that time, even if the family had money and water, he did not dare to eat more. He was as skinny as a monkey and had little energy to work.

After leaving the pond, Li Duoyu went to Lao Chen, a second-hand fishing gear shop.

"Old Chen, how many cages are left?"

After seeing Li Duoyu, Lao Chen smiled and said, "There are still quite a few, Duoyu. You don't catch fish very often, so why did you buy a trap?"

Lao Chen is in a good mood recently. He has sold more fishing gear in the past two weeks than he did in the whole year. This is all thanks to the village director in front of him.

"I'm going to catch some small blue crabs."

Old Chen suddenly asked, "You built such a big pond, aren't you really just raising blue crabs?"

"That's right."

"You really want to raise everything." Lao Chen sighed, "The investment is too big. I don't have the money. Otherwise, I would like to raise one with you."

"Don't worry, I'm going to test the water first. Maybe it's not easy to raise, and I'll die from it."

Old Chen rolled his eyes at him and said, "The Tianhou Temple is halfway up the mountain. Don't say such unlucky words."

Li Duoyu grinned.

Then I bought ten ground cages from Lao Chen and walked towards the mangrove forest.

At this moment, Shitou ran up panting.

"Brother Yu, where did you go just now? I just looked for you."

Li Duoyu looked at Shitou in confusion. "Why are you looking for me? Is there something wrong?"

Shitou made a bitter face and said, "I don't know why I want to find you. Anyway, I am very upset now. I feel safe with you."

Li Duoyu was speechless and couldn't help but sigh that it was great to be young. "You kid, you don't want to do anything bad to me, do you?"

"You wouldn't dare even if you gave me a hundred courages. Brother Yu, what are you doing with such a cage?"

"Go catch some green crab sprouts."

Shitou smiled and said, "I have a lot of traps there too. I'll get them and go catch them with you."

"How many do you have?"

"About twenty."

"Hurry up then. When the time comes, you can catch the green crab seedlings and sell them directly to me."

"Okay, I'll go back and get it right away." Shitou hesitated for a moment and asked, "Brother Yu, do you think there is a chance for Shanshan and I?"

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "How would I know? Don't ask me about love matters."

After blue crabs lay eggs, they have to go to waters with higher salinity to lay eggs, which is a bit like eels.

However, as a fisherman, he has found everything interesting, that is, the habits of marine life are very interesting.

For example, deep-sea fish like to go offshore to lay eggs, such as hairtail, turtles, horseshoe crabs, etc.

The offshore ones, on the contrary, like to go to the deep sea to breed.

Li Duoyu thinks that this should be related to natural enemies. If blue crabs lay eggs offshore, they will probably become snacks for natural enemies.

Crab larvae are generally divided into two types, one is called big-eyed larvae, which locals generally call white larvae and aircraft larvae, which are crab larvae with long tails.

This kind of crab larvae is very small, just like water fleas, but in the previous life, the price was not cheap at all, and one could only be sold for one or two cents.

Each "metamorphosis" process of blue crab seedlings requires different seawater salinity. Due to the complexity of the growth environment, blue crab seedlings have not completely broken through artificial breeding. They are mainly raised by catching wild blue crab seedlings. Lord.

The method of catching big-eyed larvae is somewhat similar to that of eel fry. A large number of blue crab fry can be caught with a net.

Catching crab fry is not difficult, and you can even catch a lot of them on the tidal flats with a dip net, but selecting crab fry is a pain.

Because what is caught is often not only blue crabs, but also sea monks, sea spiders, flat crabs, stone crabs, etc.

If you don't know how to do it, you won't be able to tell the difference at all. If you don't know the difference, you might sell it, and you might even get scolded by the collector.

Li Duoyu remembered that there were a few people on Dandan Island in his previous life who specialized in fishing for various species for a living.

From December to April, eel fry are caught, and from April to October, blue crab fry are caught.

And these Miao fishermen often only need to catch a few pieces of water to cover their living expenses for a year.