Chapter 517: Harvesting Kelp (1/2)

Before waiting for the next day, Li Duoyu organized fishing boats that night and began to collect kelp overnight.

At night, the sea area near Dandan Island was full of the rumbling sound of diesel engines, and from a distance, the sea surface was full of light.

At the dock.

There were many villagers who collected kelp. They were all wearing bulky black glue shoes and cotton gloves, but they only had these equipment.

In this era, ordinary fishermen would not buy waterproof clothing. This thing is not cheap now. Only those crew members who work on large ships all year round would be willing to spend money to buy it.

Many villagers took a hemp rope and tied a piece of colorful plastic cloth directly around their waists. Although it was not very good-looking, it could also play a waterproof role.

After all, if you don’t take protection when pulling kelp, you will not only get wet by the sea water, but the mucus on the kelp will also make people very uncomfortable.

Like these old fishermen, he also persuaded them to wear long pants and long sleeves as much as possible, but many young people didn’t think so, thinking that there were no mosquitoes on the beach.

These people are too simple!

Nowadays, the plum rain season has just ended. During this period, the seashore is full of female mosquitoes waiting to "give birth", and each one is particularly fierce.

There are also several families whose kelp ropes are not tied properly. It is miserable to collect kelp from such farmers. Not only is the collection slow, but it is also very troublesome.

After seeing this kind of dress, some old fishermen shook their heads and persuaded them kindly: "Hurry up and put on more clothes, there will be a lot of mosquitoes when you get to the sea."

"Ganni mother."

And the mosquitoes on the seashore will punish everyone who likes to wear shorts and short sleeves, especially fishermen and young people.

"You dodge, I won't dodge."

Zhou Xiaoying has a real worry recently, that is, there are always people behind her saying that she is the wife of the village chief, saying that she is so lucky to have a man who is so good at making money, so she doesn't have to work.

Every time the kelp harvesting season comes, everyone fights day and night, harvesting kelp for a whole month.

These two sentences are easy to say, but if you really do it, the workload will increase a lot.

Fishing boats kept coming in and out of the dock, and boatloads of kelp were transported to the village. Now, all the open space in the village is used to dry kelp.

But Zhou Xiaoying regretted it after carrying two baskets of kelp for more than 200 meters. She hadn't carried anything for a long time. Now she was carrying such a heavy load, and her shoulders really hurt.

"Xiasha Village is really nice."

A villager who was collecting kelp took out a fish knife impatiently and complained about the kelp farmers: "I can't untie it, Lao Zheng, what's wrong with your kelp field? Why are there knots in every field?"

Seeing her carrying more than 100 kilograms of kelp, Li Duoyu said a little worriedly: "Slow down, you haven't worked for a long time, don't hurt your waist."

"Didn't Director Li say that we must tie a slipknot here?"

The second brother Li Yaoguo didn't come to collect kelp this year because he had to take care of the eel farm. This time, Zhang Mingsheng and Zhu Xiuhua were on the same boat.

"Zhang Youli, your boat is bigger, you will be the bow of the eighth fleet, responsible for pulling the fleet's sampans back to the dock."

"It's okay, we are not afraid of mosquitoes."

Li Duoyu, who was also collecting kelp, saw that the sampan of his second sister-in-law and brother-in-law had been filled with a whole boat of kelp and began to return to Dandan Island. Suddenly, he felt a little sorry for his brother-in-law.

He also brought out a theory that mosquito larvae cannot survive in seawater.

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "I am not only good at taking care of children, I can also work, okay? From childhood to adulthood, I have done almost all the housework, okay?"

The steps seem simple.

The farmer, Zheng Chunfa, nodded and apologized: "I'm sorry, I was busy at the time, so I tied a knot."

Li Duoyu's money is not so easy to get. Sure enough, after giving red envelopes to these fishermen, he started to shout with a loud speaker:

"First of all, thank you very much for coming to help, but everyone listen carefully, our batch of kelp is for export. When collecting kelp, if you see mud, please help shake off the mud in the water and pull it up."

I have heard Li Duoyu say before that Zhu Xiuhua can do the work of two people. Now it seems that it is probably more than that.

This boat was called by my uncle Chen Dongqing. This kind of sand-carrying boat is also very suitable for transporting kelp.

"We are already at sea, why are there so many mosquitoes? How did they fly here?"

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying carrying such a heavy load of kelp, Li Duoyu couldn't help but worry, and said to Li Shuihua: "Sister, talk to Xiaoying and tell her not to carry so much."

The old fisherman sighed and looked at the group of young people in front of him, as if he saw himself when he was young.

Li Duoyu had been pulling for more than an hour, and his whole body was sweaty, and his clothes were soaked.

All night.

Seeing those young people who were bitten and covered with lumps, Li Duoyu couldn't help laughing, and suddenly remembered the many young people who came to Dandan Island for tourism in his previous life.

A group of old fishermen laughed there: "Why don't you be stubborn? Let alone here, even at the West Liga Reef, there are super many mosquitoes."

Unlike now, it was relatively easy for them to collect kelp in the past. Not only did they have sampans specifically for collecting kelp, but they also had net bags and cranes, which saved a lot of trouble.

However, he had long been accustomed to this kind of thing. In his previous life, the seaweed cultivated in the sea area near Dandan Island was tens of thousands of acres.

Everyone worked like this until dawn. By eight o'clock in the morning, Dandan Island Pier was already densely packed with fishing boats.

After hearing this, Zhang Mingsheng felt a little hopeless. He just wanted to sit down and smoke a cigarette. He could make money, but he couldn't risk his life like this.

Zhang Mingsheng's face was dark the whole time, but now he wanted to slap himself twice. Why did he want to be in the same boat with Zhu Xiuhua? He was almost exhausted, and she kept pulling kelp on the boat.

Li Duoyu negotiated with these fish farmers and gave each fishing boat that came to help an extra five yuan in red envelopes.

Li Duoyu, who had been collecting kelp all night without sleeping, registered the fishing boats that came to help and divided them directly into teams.

"Zhu Fugui, when you arrive at the Seventh Fleet, you will follow the command of the Seventh Captain."

After Zhou Xiaoying said this, Li Duoyu remembered that this was really the case. Zhou Xiaoying was not the kind who only taught and raised children.

After dividing the teams.

"If they still keep it this year, they won't go to their village to collect kelp."

Workers collecting kelp only need to drag the kelp into a large net bag. When they arrive at the dock, a crane will lift the kelp from the sampan boat into a large truck, and then pull it directly to the processing plant for processing.

Weaving fishing nets, fishing in the sea, and knocking oysters, she seems to have done all these things, and she did them well.

In fact, what the young man said is correct. Mosquito larvae cannot survive in the sea, but there are many reef groups on the seaside.

After Li Duoyu's sampan docked, someone immediately shouted from the shore: "This boat of kelp belongs to Li Duoyu's family. Come and move it quickly."

After receiving the red envelopes, these people all smiled happily.

Even after it was cut into an apron shape, many male compatriots were unwilling to wear it in an era when machismo was prevalent.

But after taking it all, I feel a little embarrassed to give it back. I can only say that you will learn from the pain. If you pay back the standard next year, you will have to pay more.

After learning that the price of kelp harvesting has increased this year, the second sister-in-law’s face was full of smiles and she worked even harder than last year.

Some people even said that she no longer had to teach and could enjoy the happiness directly at home. These words made her somewhat uncomfortable.

The villager who helped collect the kelp continued to complain: "Next time, if you continue to tie your kelp like this, don't ask us to help. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive."

"Last year when we went to help Shangqi Village collect it, they were really stingy. They didn't give us any red envelopes and even deducted our wages."

But once you experience danger, you will feel that the sea is super scary.

Villagers who had collected kelp in the past two years cooperated very well and put the main rope of kelp on the sampan boat.

There are at least a dozen boats collecting kelp from Li Duoyu's 300-acre kelp field.

Plus two packs of cigarettes.

Zhang Mingsheng doesn't really care about money. After all, he works for Duoyu. What he cares more about is whether he can survive these days.

"Mingsheng, don't rest, hurry up and leave. Let's go back to the dock and unload the kelp before coming back. We will try to get seven or eight ships tonight."

The ropes holding the kelp are as thick as a thumb, and they are brown ropes that absorb water. Each rope is 3 meters long and is very heavy when immersed in water.

"Zhang Aru, you go to the third fleet."

"Also, if there is a lot of seaweed on it, please pick it off easily."

They were all fishing boats from nearby villages and towns that came to help. It was conservatively estimated that there were more than 80 small sampans, and there were also many larger tugboats. Even the canals in the river were called in.

Some young people felt that they did not look good when wrapped in plastic sheets, so they did not wrap them up. A few other young people came wearing shorts and vests.

And this thing is even more perverted. When it bites you, you don't feel it at all. Its toxicity is no weaker than that of sea mosquitoes.

They could only rely on manpower to carry the kelp from the ship to the dock. When their ship arrived, the dock was full of people.

As a result, I was bitten and fled Dandan Island. In addition to mosquitoes, there is a more terrifying gadget on the island, and that is midges.

One person reached into the sea to untie the slip knot on the main rope of kelp, and the other person pulled hard and dragged the rope full of kelp onto the boat.

Once the rainy season arrives, the reefs become mosquito incubators.

"I know, I definitely won't do it next time."

A few young people only lasted less than two hours. They took advantage of the sampan boat to bring the sea back to the dock and hurried home to change into long pants and long sleeves.

After hearing this, many fishermen who came to help widened their eyes. They suddenly felt that the red envelope in their hands was a bit hot and really wanted to return it to him.

The most exaggerated thing was that she didn't seem tired at all. She had just finished collecting a boatload of kelp and started urging him.

"If you are so slow, when the time comes, I will not share the wages earned from collecting kelp with you. I will get more."

In fact, she can do a lot of things, but she was pregnant the year before last and her mother-in-law didn't let her work. Then she had to teach and take care of the children. In addition, she had to learn a foreign language some time ago. Indeed, she couldn't help with many things.

After hearing the sound, Li Shuihua, Zhou Xiaoying, and Li Duoyu's relatives all gathered around and quickly pulled the kelp from the sampan boat to the shore and put it in a large basket.

But when everyone was collecting kelp, things happened frequently. Some people who didn't cooperate well would blame each other.

Lao Jin, the owner of the pork stall, dresses like this all year round. When chopping meat, he is not afraid of blood splashing on his clothes.

A villager who often worked for Li Duoyu couldn't help but shook his head when he saw how happy they were in collecting money.

A few young people smiled and didn't take it seriously, but when they arrived at the kelp field and started collecting kelp, they immediately started complaining and scratching here and there.

From other sampan boats, they had already collected a whole boat of kelp before half of it was received, and two-thirds of the work was done by Zhu Xiuhua. He was the one who was despised.

In less than an hour, these young men's calves and arms were covered in countless mosquito bites.

One boat can reach more than twenty sampan boats, but it cannot park here at the old pier. It has to be unloaded at the new pier.

But now, it's not that advanced at all, and many things need to be solved by manpower. When Li Duoyu's sampan boat returned to the dock.

But there is nothing we can do. He had already asked several people, but no one was willing to collect kelp with his second sister-in-law. In addition, time was tight, so he had to give in to his brother-in-law.

Others used two people to pull a kelp rope, but she could do it alone. Seeing that Zhang Mingsheng was not that fast, Zhu Xiuhua felt disgusted:

"Mingsheng, hurry up. Your efficiency is too low and you can't keep up with the speed of collecting kelp."

Li Shuihua looked disgusted: "You two, stop showing off your affection. I can almost smell the sour smell."

After assigning teams to each fishing boat that came to help collect kelp, Li Duoyu gave them a red envelope on the spot.

The old fisherman sighed: "Okay, it's up to you. If you get bitten by mosquitoes later, don't blame me for not warning you."

This night, the men in the village were working in the sea, and the women were not idle either. They were helping at the dock.

"Grass, I can't untie it."

Seeing Zhou Xiaoying also running to help, Li Duoyu said angrily: "Teacher Zhou, you don't need to take care of the child."

But now that the child has grown up, it is easier to take care of him, and there is no need to breastfeed anymore. She is so tired from watching Duoyu every day, and she also wants to help him share some of the pressure.

Most of them are women from the village.

Some women who are more ingenious will cut the plastic cloth directly into an apron shape, which makes it easier to wear.

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that a few days ago, he might have been too tired and forced to work overtime, and he almost broke his waist.

The sea will tame everyone who does not fear her. If people have not experienced danger, they will especially want to conquer the sea.

In this day and age, five yuan is not too little, but if something is urgent and you want others to work hard, you must not miss this.

In addition to Xiasha Village's own fishing boats, more than a hundred small sampans are collectively operating at sea, and the scene is quite spectacular.

The wharf is already severely overloaded, and many ships carrying kelp have begun to queue up.

After seeing this summary, Li Duoyu could only let half of the fleet unload at Beilan Ling Pier. (End of chapter)