Chapter 1060 Another Idea

Ye Yaodong shook his head, "Am I so idle? I go to sea every two days. I can't even finish the work at hand, and I also work on kelp."

"Looking at how relaxed you said it was, didn't you think it was also very simple?"

"It also needs to be managed, and it also depends on the sea temperature. Not all places can raise it, but if it can be raised, it is very simple. As long as there is a rope clamped to hang it in the sea, and a foam ball to float it, you will not be afraid of being caught. The waves are gone. If you are interested, I can teach you. If you raise this, it will help the whole village and make some villagers more money."

When everyone heard that they could make more money, their eyes lit up.

"Okay, okay, I need to be able to raise this and sell it for money, right?"

"You can sell it for money, hang it up and dry it in the sun. Can't it be stored for a long time? And it is also easy to transport. Unlike the seafood we catch, transportation is very inconvenient and can only be transported to a few nearby towns. If this is done If that’s the case, can’t it be transported by large trucks all over the country?”

"Yes, yes..."

"Yes, we just caught so much. Everyone is thinking that after drying it, we can eat it on the boat for a few days without fear of spoilage. It would be better if we can sell it for money."

"Someone should want it. People in the city have to pay for the vegetables grown in the fields. The vegetables in our sea are also vegetables..."

Ye Yaodong looked at the kelp floating everywhere on the sea, and thought that if he couldn't do it, he could let the villagers do it, and then he would take it back and sell it in the shop.

You can make money for yourself, and it can also bring hope to the villagers to make a living.

Although kelp at this time is very cheap, it is the lowest-end seafood, and it is sold on the market. It is usually used as feed. The feed of sea cucumbers and abalones is kelp. However, now few people raise abalone and sea cucumbers. What everyone eats is purely natural and wild. .

Therefore, no one bothers to raise low-end products like kelp. It grows randomly on rocks. No one picks it up when it falls into the sea. No one wants it, and people at the beach don't care to eat it.

When you want to eat it, if someone goes to sea and picks it up, or if it is drying at the door, you can ask for two slices, and you can have it. The folks in the village are happy to share it.

Even if you stop at the door to take a closer look, people will ask you if you want it and enthusiastically let you take some back to cook.

He thought about it and felt that it was indeed feasible to lead the entire fishing village to cultivate kelp. In his previous life, their village also had kelp cultivation, and in the sea base farther away, there were also laver cultivation, hair lettuce cultivation, and oyster cultivation. In his hand, We have boats, we have everything to keep, and now we are just developing ahead of schedule.

For seaside fishing villages with few mountains and little land, their hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich lies entirely in the sea. It costs a certain amount of money to build a fishing boat and go fishing. Some fishermen who have no financial conditions at all do not have this capital.

There are more than 400 households in their village, and most of them can only work part-time, doing odd jobs to earn a small amount of money to make ends meet, or they can open up some land and grow some food to ensure that they don't starve to death.

There are still very few people who actually make money, and most of them are around him now.

If these kelp seedlings fished back from the sea are taken back and raised, they might as well be a way out for the fishing village, or a way for the whole village to become rich.

If this is really grown, there will be no need to worry about selling it. Why do people in inland areas eat iodized salt? It is because they consume too little seafood and lack iodine.

Kelp is rich in iodine, so seafood is not easy to eat. It will be convenient if the kelp is dried and transported.

Therefore, the salt eaten by people at the beach does not contain iodine, because they are worried about consuming too much iodine.

Drying kelp is much easier than drying dried fish. You can just find a place to spread it out and hang it.

After everyone discussed it, they all looked at Ye Yaodong.

"Can you afford it, A Dong?"

Ye Yaodong turned his head and said, "Okay, find a suitable sea area where you can raise them. When I went to sea last month, I occasionally saw some floating on the sea. At that time, I didn't think about catching them..."

"If it hadn't been caught in a fishing net, why would you even think about fishing for it? There's nothing unusual about common things."

"If you want, we

Just use a hand net to catch some and dry them in the sun. They probably grew on the rocks on some island. Now that the elders have grown up, they have been thrown into the sea by the waves, and no one wants them. "

"Yeah, no one is fishing for it, no one wants it, that's why it's floating in such a large area."

"It's up to you. If you are done with the sorting work, you can just catch some and dry it in the sun. The work at hand must be more important. It doesn't matter whether you catch the kelp in the sea or not, because now is not the time for the kelp to grow. "

Kelp grows in low-temperature seawater. If the water temperature is above 20 degrees, kelp will not grow, but will rot. Therefore, April every year is the best season for kelp growth.

After the Qingming Festival, the temperature begins to rise, which is a good season for kelp harvest.

Some of the ones on the ground are indeed a bit rotten, and they are also ripe for the season.

Wild kelp grows on rocks. Its roots are firmly attached to the rocks. It has grown for too long and is easily knocked off when it gets a little rotten. It is not known how long it has been floating.

Otherwise, it grows in hot sea areas with strong currents and small waves. The faster the tide, the larger the kelp.

There are indeed kelp growing on the rocks on the islands near them. Last year, he and Ah Qing got a lot of them to dry in the sun. If they really wanted to raise them, the surrounding sea area would be suitable for growing them.

At the beginning, he only thought about fishing. He didn't have the energy for breeding. But seeing that everyone is so interested now, he asked the village cadres to come forward and start collective breeding. He would collect it and drive the whole village to get rich.

The most important thing is that the sea area near them is really suitable for breeding. His shop is also on the right track. The fish raised in the village can really be eaten and there is no worry about sales.

The first rich will drive the later rich, and the individual rich will drive the collective rich. Everyone will get rich together and respond to the policy.

That is, the kelp has not been cultivated for generations, and the yield and growth may not be as good as in the future. However, things are in the hands of people. As long as he can get started and see some results, he will be successful.

Professional things need professional talents. As long as they can see some results, the village committee can find a way to expand it, and the government can also take the lead to invite technical personnel to vigorously develop it. This is not something he can do.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as the results can be seen at the beginning, he doesn't need to worry about the follow-up.

When everyone heard that it was not the growing season for kelp, they were confused and asked questions.

"There are the most kelp in these two months every year, right?"

"Yes, it won't grow when the temperature is high, so it will mature and be thrown into the sea by the waves. Winter is more suitable for picking kelp."

"We are picking more now, so can't we take the tender ones back to raise them?"

"Didn't you just say that we can take them back to raise them?"

Ye Yaodong thought about what he just said, as if he had said it before, "I just saw it, it's so easy to say, so I said that I can take it back to raise it. It can be raised, but it's easy to rot at this temperature. If you want to raise it well, you have to wait until winter. Now is the harvest season, not the time to pick seedlings."

In winter, go to the nearby islands to collect seedlings, and then use ropes to clamp them, and you can raise them directly on the nearby islands.

"Oh, now we can only eat these."

"Let's dry them. The fishing nets have been salvaged. It's a waste. Hang them up with a rope. They will dry up in the sea in two days. You can share them and take them home to make soup. They won't go bad anyway."

"Then let's dry them."

"There are still a lot of them floating on the sea. I don't know which island they fell from. Do you want to catch them?"

"Catch them. It's not dinner time yet. Everyone is in good spirits. Let's assign two people to help catch them. It won't delay the work on the boat."

"Catch them, catch them, catch them...wait... Let Adong teach me how to plant in winter..."

"Yes, vegetables grown in the field can't be sold for much money. Does anyone want these vegetables from the sea after they are dried?"

"Vegetables grown in the field can also be sold for money. People in the city don't have land. They have to spend money to buy vegetables. We are in the countryside. Vegetables are worthless. We can't eat them all even if we grow them casually."

"Then there should be someone who wants this..."

"Let's catch them first. Catch what we can reach. Forget what we can't reach."

They talked a lot. After discussing, they divided two people to catch them. Anyway, the speed of the fishing boat was not fast.

Ye Yaodong also squatted in the corner of the pile of kelp and picked it. If it was partially rotten, he would cut it off with scissors. If it was a large area, he would throw it away. He also picked out the old and tender ones. The kelp now is not as big as in the future. The wild ones look particularly young.

To be honest, no one wants the natural ones now, and no one would think of breeding them. The real lack of these is still in the inland mountainous areas. It's not just these. The inland mountainous poor areas lack everything.

But people nowadays don’t think that far ahead. Everyone is just focusing on their own little piece of land and has no experience. No one in the whole village has ever been to the county town, and there is no 110. Few people would think of farming. They can’t eat all the fish caught from the bottom of the sea, and they have to feed the animals.

Everyone has so much confidence in him. He believes that he can sell it immediately when he says it can make money, or because they see that he sells dried fish so successfully and makes so much money.

Otherwise, who would believe him?

Those fish that no one collects on their seashore can be turned into treasures, and kelp can definitely be turned into treasure.

Everyone picked and picked, salvaged, divided the work and cooperated, and didn’t forget to chat and discuss.

Father Ye was in the cockpit and saw them suddenly start to salvage those kelp. He was also a little confused. Why did they bring that thing here?

He didn’t have time to ask, and only when Dongzi came to replace him during dinner did he ask casually.

"Why are they picking up so much kelp?"

"They heard me say it can be sold, so they hurried to salvage it."

"Sell it? What can it be sold for? It's always in the sea when the season comes."

"Of course they dry it and sell it. Dried fish sells well, so it doesn't make sense that kelp wouldn't sell well."

In the era of material scarcity, people wanted everything, especially things that didn't require tickets, which were even more frantic to grab.

In his previous life, he saw a truck carrying a load of defective cloth, and the women in the whole village surrounded and scrambled for it, as if it didn't cost money.

Father Ye was skeptical, "Does anyone really want it? It's floating on the sea, no one wants it, and there are people who want it?"

"Why would no one want something edible? In many places, the problem of food and clothing is still to be solved or has just been solved. It's so cheap here. Things that no one wants may be robbed in other places. Otherwise, where would there be so many dealers and smugglers?"

"How can it be compared? Those people are dealing in valuable things, what are you dealing in?"

"I'm dealing in legitimate seaside specialties. They're breaking the law, but I'm an honest man."

"Just a little bit, let's see how much you can sell it for..."

"Whoever sells them, those are kept in the sun and eaten. This little bit is not enough for me to sell. I will do more after winter."

"So you can do it? You know everything?"

"Look at it. Have you ever seen me talk big words? Haven't I accomplished everything I said? Look at what I earn now."

Father Ye didn't have to refute. It was proven that he was right many times. Maybe it was possible to sell it for money. Just because no one wanted it here meant that no one wanted it elsewhere.

After showing him the cockpit, Father Ye also went down to eat. By the way, he took a look at the pieces of kelp that the boatmen had hung up with ropes to dry, just like door curtains.

However, now the kelp is not as large as the one in the future. Just like the quilt, the width of the current kelp is only twenty or thirty centimeters. The varieties have not been continuously improved, but the thickness is quite thick.

Worried that hanging it there would affect the view, the boatmen hung it horizontally, above the deck. They were afraid that hanging it above the sides of the ship would affect the cockpit's view of the surroundings of the fishing boat.

This chapter is not finished yet, click on the next page to continue reading. "Third brother, Adong said that this kelp can be sold for money. He knows so much now."

"He has traveled a lot. He has seen the world differently. Who is like us, who can never leave the village in his life? If he goes far away, he will be floating on a deserted sea."

"Indeed, there is no one in the whole village who has been to more places than A Dong, met more people, and knows the leader. He definitely knows more than us."

"If you really sell this kelp, how much can it cost?"

No one had time to ask Ye Yaodong just now, and now they all looked at Father Ye curiously.

"I didn't know that he has such a good idea every day. He knows more about the heretical things than anyone else. He also orders and reads newspapers every day. He should know a little bit."

"We always give away things that no one wants, but I didn't expect that we can sell them for money outside."

"Let it dry first. I didn't have ribs at night. I put the shrimps in the seaweed soup. It tastes pretty good. It's quite fresh."

Father Ye tasted it twice and thought, isn't it the same thing?

I heard that they can be sold for money one by one, but the taste of the things seems to be different?

He cursed but said nothing.

After the meal, everyone continued to work in an orderly manner, and those who should rest did so after nightfall.

It was calm for several days, and the kelp hanging on the boat was dried in waves.

After everyone knew that they could be sold for money, they worked hard these days to catch all the kelp they could get, and the kelp brought up by the trawl was not thrown away.

So much so that a large piece was dried and then hung up. For several days, the kelp on the deck has not stopped.

When the sky became a little gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain, everyone put away all their rolls and piled up three thick baskets, and white frost appeared on the top of each piece of kelp.

There will be a layer of white powder on the surface of dried kelp. Many people think it is salt or ash, and these white powder will be washed away when soaking. But in fact, it is a very precious medicinal substance called mannitol.

Don’t mistakenly think that the layer of white frost is the precipitation of salt or moldy deterioration.

This is a good diuretic, has a swelling effect, and has hangover, weight loss, anti-cancer and anti-bacterial effects!

Everyone looked at the two large baskets of kelp rolls at their feet and smiled.

"I didn't expect that just by fishing casually in the past few days, I could accumulate two big baskets. These can add up to a hundred catties, right?"

"Enough to last a long time."

"We can't eat it all in a year, so much."

"Ah Dong, if you sell these, how much can they cost?"

Everyone has wanted to ask for a long time.

Ye Yaodong was also asked. He carefully said a conservative price for the purchase, "How can someone buy it for seventy-eight cents per catty of sun-dried food? More than a hundred catties of it should be sold for ten yuan each?"

The fact is that he knew that in the late 1980s, dried kelp sold for 70 cents per kilogram. The profits accumulated over time, and eventually 110 cents would definitely reach the hands of vegetable farmers.

Everyone's eyes lit up. This was more expensive than a lot of fish, and it was something they just fished from the sea when they passed by.

There is a lot of kelp in the sea area where we have been working these two days, all of which float from nearby islands.

"That's quite valuable! There are still seven or eight cents left."

"Yeah, this is something everyone just picks up."

"If we could dig up the fish from the island and plant it, wouldn't we be able to make money?"

"It's theoretically possible, but that will have to wait until the second half of the year."

"You are stupid. Why do you dig it up and plant it? Just let it grow on the island. When it matures, can everyone just dig it up and dry it in the sun?"

Ye Yaodong smiled, and his thoughts were quite beautiful.

"It grows naturally on the island. There is no management. How much it grows depends on luck. It may grow this year but not next year, or it may only grow a little next year. It's all a matter of luck. If you raise it by yourself, take good care of it. Reason, then the output must be higher.”

"That's true..."

"Don't think so much

Now, winter is the time to pick up kelp. After taking the two baskets of kelp back, everyone will share one piece. Each person can only get one or twenty kilograms. It’s not much to give one or two kilograms to neighbors or relatives. "

"Okay, okay... Then we can divide it up after we get it back."

Father Ye thought that it would be winter and everyone had forgotten about it. After all, it was a span of several months, so Dongzi had better not bother with it anymore.

He has workshops, shops, and a lot of fishing boats in his hands. He is very busy. If he is doing something to raise kelp, it is like a spinning top. Who can help him?

I don’t have time either, and I don’t know anything.

"Let's carry them all into the cabin first, and cover them with cloth to prevent them from getting wet. It looks like it's going to rain heavily today, so don't let the sun shine in vain. After we carry them in, we'll also prepare to set up an Internet cafe. I'll also tell my in-laws, Go back early."

While I was talking, it turned out that the already overcast sky had darkened even more, and it was clearly only 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Ye Yaodong also looked up at the dim sky. The air was also very stuffy, and he felt like the calm before the storm.

"Either don't get off the net and go back first. The waves are quite high. It looks like it's going to rain not only heavily but also a torrential rain today. We ran too far out. We originally planned to go back tomorrow. , while trawling the net while going back.”

"That's okay. I'll tell my in-laws that we'll go back first and wait to see if the rain is heavy. If it's not heavy, we can put the net down again; if it's raining too hard, just go back with all our strength. There’s no need to collect it.”

"Um."

Everyone immediately got into their seats and got busy. Ye Yaodong also went to put on the raincoats and asked everyone to put them on first in case there was a sudden heavy rain later.

As soon as the opening of the fishing net was closed, heavy raindrops began to fall, and there was no need for them to decide on their own. God will help them make a decision first.

After the crackling raindrops fell, it became extremely fast, and it poured heavily in an instant, as if all the rain accumulated in the dark clouds fell down at once.

Everyone was collecting the nets under the heavy rain. The thick rain curtains blurred everyone's vision. The waves were churning due to the rapid rain, and the fishing boats were rocked even more by the waves.

When a boatman was closing the net, he was leaning against the side of the boat and the shaking of the fishing boat made him unsteady and he fell on top of it. Fortunately, Ye Yaodong was watching the closing of the net and quickly pulled him with his quick eyes, otherwise he would have been completely They probably all have to fall down.

Unfortunately, the fish collection bag of the fishing net had just been hoisted up, and the fishing net was still in the water. If this person fell, he would definitely be entangled in the fishing net in the water, and he would also be hit by the rolling waves.

Ye Yaodong was so scared that he shouted in the rain, "Be careful..."

The boatman's heartbeat also accelerated, he slapped his chest several times, and he quickly stood away.

No one knew what happened in the pouring rain. Only the two of them knew that someone had just almost passed away.

Ye Yaodong also hurriedly called others to be careful and not get too close to the edge of the boat. He just wanted to tighten the fish bag and lift it up, but there was nothing he could do.

Everyone was alert, as they were most afraid of accidents in the heavy rain.

Fortunately, there was no danger. After receiving the goods, all we had to do was squat on the deck and sort them. At most, the fishing boat would shake and fall a few times.

After the fishing net was collected, the fishing boat also accelerated back. The Harvest was a little slower, but after ten minutes, it also appeared behind their tail.

It rained heavily for two consecutive hours, and their fishing boat was also in the wind and rain. After slowing down for two hours, the rain gradually slowed down and became lighter, and the sky became a little brighter.

After the rain subsided, Ye's father thought about setting up another net, and drove to the market while working. The time was almost right to go ashore at night to sell goods.

If we speed up and go to the city now, we may have to arrive early and wait at the door for a long time.

Ye Yaodong watched the rain getting lighter and had no objection.

"After the goods are sold out in the docking city, we will go back directly and not continue to go to sea."

"Okay, the weather doesn't look too good, please hurry up

It's okay to go back. "

"The harvest this time was not very good, it would not be a pity to go back."

Father Ye nodded.

This trip was rare and we only stayed for four or five days before going back. However, when we returned to the village, the ground was still dry and there was no trace of rain at all.

Being at a distance is one thing, but being unpredictable is another thing.

This time they still didn't dry the fish. They sold all the fish they could sell in the city. They were worried that the sudden rain would be too much trouble, so they fermented everything.

It is worth mentioning that as soon as he got home, Ah Qing said that all the fish sauce that started fermenting at the end of last year has been brought to the city, and all the small shops have replenished a batch of goods in recent days.

There is not a drop left in the warehouse at home, and the existing ones will only start fermenting after the new year.

The fish sauce brought to the city can only last for more than a month, and then it will probably be discontinued.

For those fermented after the New Year, it will take two months to wait for packaging. Those in the city can barely wait until fermentation, packaging and delivery of new ones, while small shops should have a one-month gap period.

Ye Yaodong did not expect to be able to sell short within half a year, and the speed was quite fast.

Ah Qing also recorded each batch of fish sauce transported separately, but in the market, he could only count the empty tanks brought back each time.

Otherwise, the sales would not be so fast, and most of them would be taken to the city for storage. But if her father could keep an account of what he sold on the same day, it would be pretty good. All the fish sauce was sold at retail, and his father would not be able to keep accounts alone.

As for there being a window of opportunity, Ah Qing also told him when he returned home that he had been assigned delivery boys in the past two days and asked him to tell each store that there would be no goods next month. Pick up.

"It's good that we have said hello, lest people think that we are broken by our promises and will not sell it for half a year."

Lin Xiuqing said happily: "I thought it would take a whole year to sell out, but it was sold out in less than half a year. I was worried that I would miss the connection."

"That's because they occasionally shouted a few times when they were delivering goods on the street, and they would go into small shops to ask when they saw them. Gradually, more and more small shops became consignment stores, and the sales were fast."

"Well, I also calculated the accounts. The more than 30 tons of goods, minus the deposit cost of our big vats, also made us earn more than 6,500 yuan. That is to say, in just half a year, we almost got back the money. I didn't expect that those small fish sauces, which were sold so cheaply, could also make back the money so quickly. I originally thought that the money spent on buying land and building walls was so much, but this year is not the same "It will definitely pay back."

"That's because it sells fast. If it sells until the end of the year, wouldn't it still take until the end of the year to pay back the money?"

"Yes, it sells fast. It's only a few hundred yuan short of paying back the money. These are probably the raw materials for the sundries. Anyway, the gas money is included in the total monthly expenses."

"Now we've only made back last year's investment. Don't be too happy. We fermented more in the first half of this year. The sundries left by the two boats are more than five times last year. Most of the thousands of yuan we earned in the first half of the year have to be invested. We ordered a larger water tank for outdoor fermentation. We will really start to make money in the second half of the year."

"Yes, yes, yes." Lin Xiuqing nodded repeatedly.

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