Chapter 402 Tiger Crab Slave Water Gate (1/2)

Li Duoyu used Zhao Erniu's air gun to knock over several mice, and also shot a big "spicy strip".

Then, he started to collect the ground traps.

The method of collecting the ground traps is also very simple, that is, push the fish caught at the end of the ground trap to the end of the rope tied in the front, and then pour them all into the bucket.

There are still a lot of seafood in the ground traps, including various small fish, but Li Duoyu and his friends are not very interested in the sea fish in the ground traps.

Ironically, in this era when offshore resources have not yet been exhausted, fishermen are still quite picky.

For fishermen, seafood has grades, and seafood in mangroves is not the kind that can be put on the table.

In the words of local fishermen, who would eat seafood in mangroves? It smells of earth, and these fish can only be treated as miscellaneous fish.

Because the sea fish in the mangroves are not valuable, this is also the reason why few people come to the mangroves, usually only the Zhao brothers.

In the ground traps, in addition to the blue crab seedlings, the most caught fish is the black tang snakehead, the pattern on the body of this fish is a bit like that of grouper.

In the mudflats, the black snakehead is similar to the grouper. It is a top predator and very ferocious. Small fish, shrimps and crabs are all its food.

The locals call this fish 𫊻虎, and the blue crab is called 𫊻 in the local dialect.

Chinese people have a habit of naming animals. If the animal is good at catching a certain prey, it will be named XX tiger.

For example, shrimp goby.

You don’t have to think about it, you know that this fish is very good at eating shrimp.

There are also names like bee-goby.

And those who are engaged in blue crab farming are most afraid of 𫊻tigers in the breeding pond.

Especially for blue crab seedlings, 𫊻虎 is very destructive. It feels like eating a blue crab seedling in one bite.

But even if the blue crab grows up.

It is still not the opponent of 𫊻虎, the fish that loves to eat blue crabs the most. It is said that this fish will even catch crabs to eat blue crabs.

There is a long-standing saying along the coast that the tiger will deliberately seize the blue crab's nest when the blue crab is out, and deliberately expose its tail to tease it.

As long as the blue crab clamps its tail, the tiger will suddenly exert force and directly break the blue crab's claws. After the blue crab loses its claws, the tiger will slowly kill it.

However, Li Duoyu does not believe this saying. The blue crab is not afraid of the tiger when it grows up.

It is estimated that the tiger will take advantage of the weak period of the blue crab when it sheds its shell to cause trouble to it.

Because after the blue crab sheds its shell, its whole body is soft and it has no ability to resist at all. At this time, the blue crab is just a piece of meat without resistance.

Most of the sea fish in the ground cage died because they left for too long. Only some tigers and earth dragons are still alive.

And the number of tigers is particularly large. Seven or eight can be caught in one cage, and each one looks lively.

This fish is extremely tenacious. It can survive in a slightly moist place as long as it leaves the sea.

Fishermen nowadays don't like to eat tiger fish because there are too many sea fish to eat.

But after 30 or 40 years, tiger fish will be very expensive. A large tiger fish can be sold for nearly 100 yuan per catty.

Like Shi Jiugong, everyone likes to use this fish to make soup, especially with some tofu, which is particularly delicious.

Li Duoyu remembered that there was an anchor who specialized in shooting seafood in Rongcheng, and he used this fish to make soup with old tofu.

Zhao Erniu used to catch some of this fish and sell it at the dock, but now he hates it very much.

Because he caught several tiger fish and found that some of them were still biting small green crabs in their mouths. It seems that their purpose in coming to the ground trap is very clear.

Zhao Erhu directly gave the tiger fish two big-mouthed melon seeds and scolded: "You are so greedy, why don't you eat it to death."

It took more than an hour.

Li Duoyu, Zhao Erniu and Shitou finally finished collecting all the traps.

Zhao Erniu caught the most. With 30 traps, he caught more than 1,000 blue crab seedlings, seven large blue crabs, three earth dragons and more than 20 kilograms of tiger fish.

Next, it was Shitou.

Li Duoyu caught the least. After all, he only had 10 traps and he was not familiar with the mangroves.

The dead sea fish in the crab cages were not thrown away, but put into the nets of the traps, so that they could continue to attract blue crab seedlings and sea fish to eat the fish meat.

Overall, Li Duoyu was very satisfied with the harvest of blue crab seedlings this time. Both large buckets were full.

The three of them caught more than 2,000 blue crab seedlings, most of which were the size of a thumb cap, and there were also many that were four or five centimeters wide.

Zhao Erniu carried a bamboo basket on his back and an open dustpan, and shoveled a piece of mud directly on the mudflat.

Then they were washed in sea water. Not long after, when the mud was washed off, many small crabs appeared.

The most were fiddler crabs.

The big claws were very easy to recognize. Zhao Erniu flicked off some fiddler crabs, leaving only small blue crabs.

Shitou, who was standing by, was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Erniu, can you teach me? How can you catch so many small blue crabs with just a shovel?"

Zhao Erniu said disdainfully, "If you want to learn, I can teach you, but you have to pay the tuition."

Shitou glared and said, "Damn, Zhao Erniu, are you crazy about money? If I go fishing, I can make more money than you catch blue crab seedlings. I'm just curious about how you catch them, and you want to charge me tuition."

"Why don't you go fishing? Why come here to snatch blue crab seedlings from me?"

Shitou was stunned.

He would not tell Zhao Erniu that he came here just to convince Brother Yu to see if he could help him find a love match.

Judging from Brother Yu's reaction, it was almost impossible to find a love match. Thinking of this, Shitou, who was upset, said to Zhao Erniu:

"I didn't want to compete with you for the blue crab seedlings, but when I heard that you wanted to charge me, I had to compete with you."

Zhao Erniu scolded:

"Shitou, are you sick?"

"Humph, I am sick, so what?"

"I am sick." Zhao Erniu did not like Shitou very much, mainly because this person was noisy, smiling every day and talking very loudly.

But everyone liked him very much, and the main reason why Zhao Erniu hated Shitou was purely jealousy.

When the two brothers could not find wives, the matchmaker disliked them several times and said:

If you two brothers were like Shitou, with a house and a boat at home, young and sunny, it would be easy to introduce them.

But what annoyed Zhao Erniu the most was that Shitou was good at finding a partner, but he just didn't want to get married and just liked to live alone.

Shitou also went home and got a flat dustpan, and learned how to shovel soil like Zhao Erniu, and then went to the sea to fish.

As a result, he fished several times.

He only caught fiddler crabs, and didn't catch any small blue crabs at all.

Zhao Erniu mocked: "If you are so easy to learn, I won't charge you. Give me 100 yuan and I will teach you how to fish."

"You are dreaming."

But what Zhao Erniu didn't expect was that Shitou seemed to have found the trick after catching it a few more times.

"Erniu, are the holes of small blue crabs different?"

Zhao Erniu's mouth twitched.

He didn't want to pay attention to people like Shitou at all.

Next.

Li Duoyu also lent the ten ground traps he had just bought to Zhao Erniu.

He prepared for the next step.

The blue crab seedlings caught cannot be put into the pond directly, and the pond must be cleaned first.

Li Duoyu temporarily kept these blue crab seedlings in the cement pool of the eel factory.

If they were thrown directly into the pond, there would be a tiger in it.

Even if Li Duoyu put more blue crab seedlings in, they were just snacks for the tiger.

After receiving this batch of blue crabs, Li Duoyu specially checked the larger blue crab seedlings to see if they had been infected by the crab slaves.

In addition to the tiger, farmers also hate the crab slaves, and instinctively think that the crab slaves are very disgusting, even more disgusting than the iron wire worm.

Once blue crabs are infected by crab slaves, they will lose their reproductive ability.

If female crabs are parasitized, they will not be able to become crab roe, and if male crabs are parasitized, they will become very effeminate and will not grow up.

In the later stage of parasitism, blue crabs will be completely dominated by crab slaves and become tools for crab slaves to reproduce offspring, and even grow "egg bags" that are very similar to crab eggs. Local farmers generally call blue crabs infected with crab slaves "bug crabs" because the crabs will taste bad in the later stages of parasitism.

Some unscrupulous farmers will not dispose of the blue crabs infected with crab slaves, but cut off the false egg bags and continue to sell them for money.

Li Duoyu patiently selected for more than half an hour, and he really found several blue crabs infected with crab slaves. He directly treated them humanely and buried them in the soil.

After settling the blue crab seedlings.

Li Duoyu came to the pond and looked at the pond in front of him. There are still many things to do next.

The first step is to clean the pond and fish.

If you use a net to catch, it is inevitable that there will be fish that slip through the net. Once the fish fry survive, the harm to the blue crab fry is still quite large.

In the past life, farmers used a potion called [Fish and Shrimp An], which only cost more than one bottle per acre.

As long as it is poured into the pond, all the fish will be poisoned to death, but the shrimps and crabs will not be hurt.

But in this era, Li Duoyu couldn't find this thing at all, so he could only take the simplest way, which was to dry the pond.

If you want to dry the pond, it is better to build a sluice. Without the sluice, you can't change the water. When encountering an algae outbreak or continuous heavy rain, the water body will explode in minutes.

When Li Duoyu raised eels, he had already experienced that if the water body is not well managed, the problem will be big.

Li Duoyu called his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and several masters, and together they took hoes to dig a drainage channel on the dike.

As the seawater in the pond continued to flow toward the open sea, the water level in the pond also dropped a lot.

After the water was released.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng directed the tractor to repair a dike outside the water outlet and wrapped the outlet.

In this way, the seawater will not flow back into the pond next time the tide rises.

Li Duoyu began to build a sluice gate. In his previous life, the gates were all electric iron gates poured with cement.

But in this era, Li Duoyu could only use the simplest method, which was to build a gate with stone strips, and replace the iron gate with thick wooden boards.

It took Li Duoyu more than ten days to build this gate alone.

In summer, the sun is scorching.

Even an islander like Li Duoyu was sunburned, and after more than ten days of exposure.

The soil at the bottom of the pond was also cracked by the sun, but Li Duoyu still felt it was not enough, so he specially invited a group of people to simply turn over the pond with a plow and sprinkle a layer of quicklime as a base.

Li Duoyu believes that since we want to engage in breeding, we cannot be careless. Although clearing ponds is troublesome, it is very necessary.

If you do more preparation work in the early stage, you won't have to be so embarrassed later. Li Duoyu has seen many people who engage in breeding with a sense of luck.

In the end, they often end up losing everything, because the farming industry is really not suitable for those who fish in troubled waters.

After clearing the pond.

The last step is to distribute the water.

In fact, it is very simple, just make the sea water in the pond suitable for the growth of green crabs.

Since Li Duoyu’s green crab seedlings are caught from the nearby mangroves, the water bodies are almost the same, so there is no need to allocate water.

If Li Duoyu's blue crab seedlings were purchased from other places, then he couldn't be so casual.

First, let the green crab seedlings pass through the water to see if they can adapt to the local seawater.

If they are not adapted, water must be allocated until the blue crab seedlings are adapted to the water body.

Some uninformed people took the green crab seedlings and poured them directly into the pond. As a result, all the seedlings were dead in less than two days.

Breeding is like this, it seems very simple, but in fact, there are pitfalls at every step, and there are many special ways.

After filling the pond with water, Li Duoyu plans to officially release green crab seedlings.

During the period when he was building sluices and dry ponds, Zhao Erniu was also very helpful. He provided him with nearly 50,000 blue crabs by himself.

During the days when crab seedlings were released, I don’t know who leaked the news. Not only did many villagers come to watch.

Secretary Chen directly led a group of inspection teams to the island, and the members of the inspection team were village cadres from various villages in the town.

They were shocked when they saw that Li Duoyu had built such a large pond.

Secretary Chen sighed: "I haven't paid attention to you for a month or two, and you have launched such a big project again."

Li Duoyu scratched his head.

"I have nothing to do, so I'll give it a try."

Village leaders from other villages asked: "Director Li, if you raise all these green crabs, wouldn't you make a fortune?"

Li Duoyu said truthfully: "If these green crabs have a 10% survival rate, I would be thankful."

"It's only 10%, no way, it's such an exaggeration?"

Li Duoyu sighed: "I'm afraid I won't even get a cent."

In fact, blue crabs are really not very easy to raise. They have no fewer problems than eels. Especially when they are shedding their shells, they are very easy to die.

It can be said that most blue crab farmers are betting on dogs and often rely on quantity to win.

on an evening.

It was also a beautiful day. Li Shuguang and Shitou hurriedly found Li Duoyu.

Shitou asked slightly nervously:

"Brother Yu, my grandpa asked if he could come to the island."

The moment he heard this, Li Duoyu already understood that the two of them had met the old man.

But as the village director, Li Duoyu's whole face instantly dropped: "You asked me, that's definitely not possible."

"ah!"

Shitou frowned and said with a bitter look on his face: "But my grandpa is already at sea, and he really wants to see my grandma."

Li Duoyu hummed: "You two are really brave. What if the other party is a spy?"

"My grandpa is definitely not."

"Do you think others will believe it? Can you prove it?"

After hearing this, Shitou froze on the spot, his mouth bulging with anger. He thought Brother Yu would definitely support it.

Because he was the first person to help Grandpa.

Unexpectedly, Brother Yu would be so opposed.

Li Duoyu glanced at Shi Shi, who was disappointed and aggrieved, and frowned.

In fact, Li Duoyu had already told his cousin Li Shuguang not to be in a hurry to bring him to the island even if he met an old man.

Because in two years' time, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will begin formal dialogue, and by then, veterans will be able to return to the mainland to visit relatives.

Unexpectedly, this old man was so courageous that he actually brought the boat to their side.

If this is encountered by the fishery administration.

They will probably be taken away directly.

To be honest, there is no need for Li Duoyu to take this risk for others. If they don't tell themselves and just meet secretly, that's fine.

But once told to him, he must fulfill the village director's accusation.

Shitou's eyes turned red: "Brother Yu, is there nothing we can do? My grandma has been waiting for my grandpa for more than forty years."

"As long as I am the village director, I will definitely not agree to it."

After Li Duoyu finished speaking, he added:

"However, when I was in the Zhoushan Islands, I saw a refuge for compatriots. Compatriots from overseas provinces, if the fishing boat is broken, we can help rescue it."

"But after you get to the island, there are rules. You can't run away casually. And for this kind of thing, you must notify our village committee as soon as possible."

After listening to this, Shitou immediately understood.

"Thank you Brother Yu."

Li Duoyu said with a dark face: "I didn't help you, why are you thanking me?"

Shitou suddenly became serious: "I understand, I have never been here, and I have never discussed this matter with you." (End of Chapter)