Chapter 399 Catching Blue Crab Seedlings (1/2)

Chapter 399 Catching Blue Crabs

On the dike side, construction has been started for more than a month, and a small seawall 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 look all over his body, said: "Duoyu, what do you think? I'm doing a pretty good job at this."

Li Duoyu gave a thumbs up and praised in local dialect: "Yaba."

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

Although she gave birth to three daughters.

But there are really 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, the other person may suddenly say, "You can't do it tomorrow, why don't I give it a try, and maybe I can give birth to a good child."

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 severely.

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 pond enclosures.

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: "For this one mouthful, it's almost three thousand and five thousand."

Chen Dongqing sighed: "What a generous move. What do you plan to raise in such a large pond?"

Li Duoyu was too lazy to pretend anymore: "Raise some blue crabs first, then add some shrimps, and raise the two together."

Chen Dongqing was startled for a moment: "You are really a damn talent. I just went to the next province for inspection last week. I just wanted to come back and tell you that blue crabs can be mixed with shrimps. 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 worthless."

Seeing his uncle rummaging through his pockets looking for a cigarette, Li Duoyu took out a Huazi from his coat 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 sideways: "I gave you a cigarette and you're still talkative. Believe it or not, I'll kick you down."

Chen Dongqing took a puff of 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 disgustedly: "I don't know how to breed at all. I teach you how to knit. By the way, I came to 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: "Okay, it's not a big problem. The oysters are half alive. Xiao Chao is already making oyster cakes. In another week, the oyster steaks should be ready."

"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 squinted his eyes and said, "It's such a big matter, 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 her eyes at him: "Where did you learn such nonsense? I'm leaving."

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

Chen Dongqing waved his hand: "I won't go. I used to be very capable, but now I can't handle you. I'm going to embarrass you at your house."

Li Duoyu took out the cigarette from his coat pocket and said, "This pack of Huazi has just been opened. Do you want it?"

Chen Dongqing, who had only taken a few steps, stepped back and said, "Director Li, you are a righteous person. 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 didn't want to do it on such a large scale. If he took over all the mudflats on Dandan Island and made all the money, he would be no different from the Wang brothers in his previous life.

Li Duoyu didn't plan to occupy too many resources. He would leave at least half for the villagers.

The short-term economic benefits of dikes and ponds are definitely not as good as those of eel 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 time, Li Duoyu found that a tractor on the dike was constantly emitting black smoke and stopped on the dike and could not move.

Li Duoyu rushed over and found that the tractor master was lying on the bottom of the tractor, repairing it. His whole body was covered with diesel, even on his face.

"Master Zhang, is the engine broken?"

The tractor master said: "There may be some problems, but it should be able to be repaired by getting a spare part from the county."

Li Duoyu really admires their generation, because almost all of them have a driver's license.

Many people have participated in training and can repair tractors by themselves, just like the uncle and the third uncle can repair tugboat engines and fishing boats.

After confirming that it could not be repaired, 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."

"Let's go."

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

Seeing the villagers on the shore who were tanned and sweating, Li Duoyu couldn't help laughing.

This is really a good era.

With oil and water, everyone looks strong.

Li Duoyu still has a deep impression of the experience of those ten years. At that time, even if there was oil and water at home, they didn't dare to eat more. Everyone was as thin as a monkey and had no strength to work.

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

"Old Chen, how many traps are left?"

After seeing Li Duoyu, Old Chen smiled and said, "There are still quite a few, Duoyu, you don't catch fish much, why do you buy traps?"

Old Chen has been in a good mood recently. The number of fishing gears he sold in the past two weeks is more than the total of the whole year, all thanks to the village director in front of him.

"I plan to catch some small blue crab seedlings."

Old Chen suddenly asked, "You built such a big pond, you won't really raise blue crabs."

"That's right."

"You really raise everything." Old Chen sighed, "The investment is too big, I don't have the money, otherwise I would like to raise them with you."

"Don't worry, I'll go test the water first, maybe it's not easy to raise, I'll raise them all to death."

Old Chen rolled his eyes at him, "The Queen of Heaven Temple is halfway up the mountain, don't say such unlucky words."

Li Duoyu grinned.

Then he bought ten traps from Old Chen and walked towards the direction of the mangroves.

And at this time, 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 had a bitter face: "I don't know why I want to look for you. Anyway, I am very confused now. I feel safe with you." Li Duoyu was speechless and couldn't help but sigh that it was good to be young: "You kid, you don't want to do anything to me."

"I wouldn't dare to do it even if I had a hundred guts, Brother Yu, what do you do with such a ground cage?"

"To catch some blue crab seedlings."

Shitou smiled and said: "I also have a lot of ground cages, I will take them and go catch them with you."

"How many do you have?"

"About 20."

"Then hurry up, when the time comes, sell the blue crab seedlings directly to me."

"Okay, I'll go back and get it right away." Shitou hesitated and asked: "Brother Yu, do you think there is a possibility between me and Shanshan?"

Li Duoyu frowned and said: "How should I know? Don't ask me about love."

After the blue crabs carry eggs, they need to go to the sea area with higher salinity to lay eggs, which is a bit like eels.

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

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

On the contrary, those in the nearshore 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 in the nearshore, they will probably become snacks for natural enemies.

Crab seedlings are generally divided into two types, one is called megalops, which are generally called white seedlings and airplane seedlings by locals, that is, crab seedlings with tails.

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

The salinity of seawater required for each "metamorphosis" of blue crab seedlings is different. Due to the complex growth environment, blue crab seedlings have not completely broken through artificial breeding, and they are mainly caught in wild blue crab seedlings.

The fishing method of megalops is a bit similar to that of eel seedlings. A large number of blue crab seedlings can be caught with a net.

It is not difficult to catch crab seedlings. You can even catch a lot of them with a scoop net in the mudflats. But selecting crab seedlings is a pain.

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

If you don't know the business, you can't tell them apart. If you don't tell them apart, you might get scolded by the collectors if you sell them.

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

From December to April, they caught eel seedlings, and from April to October, they caught blue crab seedlings.

And these seedling catchers often only need to catch a few water to make enough living expenses for a year.

Another kind of crab seedling is called armored crab, which is a slightly larger crab with a shell.

And it is very difficult for blue crabs to grow to such a large size, and they have many natural enemies.

If you encounter a pufferfish, you can just eat one in one bite, just like eating snacks. Wangchao is also a good crab catcher.

And the most terrifying thing should be those seabirds with long legs and long beaks, which are definitely the nightmare of various crab seedlings.

This kind of blue crab seedling is generally caught in the mangrove area. It usually does not come out during the day and only comes out at night.

And some experienced masters usually dig directly, but Li Duoyu does not have this skill, so he does not do this job.

Li Duoyu walked barefoot on the mudflats of the mangrove forest. The mudflats of the mangrove forest and the mudflats where oysters are farmed are completely different worlds. There are more and richer creatures here.

But fishermen don't like this kind of place, because the mangrove forest is really smelly and dirty. When walking there, birds might poop on your head.

And every step is particularly painful, and there are all kinds of messy tree heads. If you step on them, it will be painful.

After walking a few steps, Li Duoyu found footprints in front of him and walked forward along the footprints.

Then he saw a mud man digging a hole there, half of his body was in the hole, and he could still talk to himself: "Dig so deep, if you don't get a pound, will you be sorry for me?"

The mud man was digging too seriously, and he didn't notice that there was already a person standing by the pit watching him dig the pit.

"Fuck, dare to pinch me."

The next second, the mud man squirmed out of the hole, holding a blue crab with a big crab claw in his hand.

Although wearing gloves, the crab was still pinched and screamed. Zhao Erniu quickly put the blue crab in the sea water.

When the blue crab was in the water, it felt safe and loosened its claws. Just when it was about to run away, it was instantly held down by Zhao Erniu and thrown onto the mudflat.

Then, a ball of mud was directly smeared on the blue crab's eyes.

"Your uncle, you pinched me and made me bleed, and you still want to run?"

The blue crab covered with mud lost its vision and dared not move directly, but raised its claws to defend itself.

Zhao Erniu directly grabbed the last pair of legs of the blue crab, pulled out a straw rope from his waist, and tied the blue crab in an instant.

"Erniu, your skills are good."

After hearing the voice, Zhao Erniu turned back suddenly and found Li Duoyu standing behind him.

"Fuck, I'm scared to death."

"Brother Yu, why are you here in the mangroves?"

When Zhao Erniu saw the ground traps in Li Duoyu's hand, he opened his eyes wide and said, "So many ground traps, you are so rich, you are not here to steal my job, are you?"

Li Duoyu looked at the clay figurine in front of him and smiled:

"If I want to learn how to dig blue crabs from you, I guess I can only sleep on the ground when I go back. I am here to catch blue crab fry, I won't steal your big blue crabs, but if the ground traps are caught, there is nothing I can do."

Zhao Erniu suddenly remembered what Li Duoyu said before, asking him to help catch blue crab fry.

"Brother Yu, I am good at catching blue crab fry, how much do you charge?"

Li Duoyu thought for a while.

"About one cent per crab."

Zhao Erniu opened his eyes wide, as if a huge fortune had descended on his head, he didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly.

In the past, every time he collected ground traps, the number of crab fry was really not small. Recently, the number of crab fry is even greater, with an average of 30 crab fry in each ground trap.

Before, the crab seedlings the size of a fingernail were of no use to him. If he caught them, he would release them directly.

He didn't expect that Brother Yu would charge one cent for each crab seedling now. Thinking of this, Zhao Erniu suddenly felt very sad. In the past two years alone, he had released at least hundreds of thousands of crab seedlings.

Thinking of this, Zhao Erniu's heart seemed to be bleeding.

Now he has a total of 30 ground traps. If each ground trap has 30 crab seedlings, the income from the blue crab seedlings that day is 10 yuan, which is much more profitable than digging big blue crabs.

When the two brothers quarreled about the separation, the newly bought house was taken by Zhao Dahai, and Zhao Erniu was allocated the old house.

After the separation, the two brothers swore to each other in order not to fight when they met.

Zhao Dahai could not go to the mangroves to make money, and Zhao Erniu could not go to the sea to fish to make money.

After Zhao Dahai broke up with his widow, he wanted to move back to his original house. Zhao Erniu naturally refused, so he wanted to see that it was difficult for Zhao Dahai to fish alone and make no money, so he built a house on the land.

But he didn't expect that a net-lifting machine would appear halfway, giving Zhao Dahai a ray of hope. Now he is fishing very hard every day.

Yesterday, he used the net-lifting machine to fish and made more than ten yuan a day. He also showed off at the dock, saying that he would definitely build a new house within a year, and then he would not be allowed to enter the door.

Recently, seeing that Zhao Dahai was making more and more money, Zhao Erniu was so anxious, afraid that he would be outdone by him. If his new house was really built, he would lose face.

During this period, he also worked very hard to catch blue crabs, earthworms, and tide watchers in the mangroves.

Sometimes, he would also take out some bird eggs to sell for money. Recently, he planned to raise some sea ducks in the mangroves.

Zhao Erniu asked the God of Wealth carefully: "Brother Yu, how many blue crab seedlings do you want to collect in total?"

Li Duoyu pondered for a while and replied: "In these two months, we need to collect about 50,000 to 100,000."

Zhao Erniu widened his eyes: "So many."

Li Duoyu smiled and asked: "Can't you do it?"

"No problem, as long as you are willing to collect, I can get you two or three thousand a day."

"By the way, how many blue crabs did you catch today?"

Zhao Erniu scratched his head and said: "I only caught three today, but they are all big, some are two mu, all oily."

"If no one orders, just sell them all to me. It happens that our family hasn't eaten blue crabs for a long time."

Zhao Erniu smiled and said: "If no one orders, then Brother Yu, I won't weigh them. I will give you three yuan for these three blue crabs."

"Sure, if you go back to the village, just give the blue crabs to my mother directly."

"I understand, Brother Yu."