Chapter 69 Eel Fry (Revised)

After eating and drinking at the restaurant,

my uncle Chen Dongqing took the bus back to the county town.

When it was time to pay the bill.

Li Duoyu told the boss that Agui had left.

Although he had already guessed it vaguely, he still felt a little emotional when he heard it from Li Duoyu himself.

"Recently, many old acquaintances have disappeared. I miss the good old days when everyone was fine."

For the boss,

these things may have just happened not long ago,

but for Li Duoyu,

some people and things are really too far away.

After leaving Qingkou Wharf.

Li Duoyu simply calculated today's accounts. A total of 170 yuan was sold today, and 8 yuan was spent on the restaurant just now.

There were 162 yuan left in his hand.

Li Duoyu took out four big unity notes and handed them to the local dog Chen Wenchao. He also made a lot of efforts in fishing this time, and he still had to give it to others.

"This is your reward today."

Chen Wenchao took the money, his hands were shaking a little. If the goods were not counted, this should be the largest income in his life.

His parents died early, and his family was very poor. When he was a child, he was raised by his grandma who fished for small fish and made nets.

Later, when he grew up, he planned to work in the fishing team, but the captain thought he was too young and didn't want him.

In order to make a living, he could only fish for small fish on the beach and the sea, and do odd jobs for the boat boss when he had the chance.

He remembered very clearly that three years ago, he helped a boat boss catch thousands of kilograms of yellow croaker, but the boat boss didn't even give him a dividend, but only gave him a day's wages of 1.5 yuan.

Since then, he has been very disappointed with people, and especially wanted to make money and buy a boat of his own.

Unexpectedly, when he followed Brother Yu out today, he actually gave him almost a quarter of his income, which made him a little uncomfortable. His eyes instantly turned red and his nose suddenly became sour.

Seeing that he was about to cry.

Li Duoyu glanced at him and said disdainfully: "Do you think it's too little?"

Chen Wenchao turned around and wiped his eyes with his arm.

"No, it's too much."

"Today I didn't help much, and I almost ruined your good deeds, Brother Yu, and you gave me so much money."

"From childhood to adulthood, no one has been so kind to me except my grandma."

Li Duoyu patted his shoulder:

"Don't be so sentimental, okay? I can't stand it. If you give me money, keep it well, otherwise big-butt Liu Xiaolan will be married to someone else."

Thinking of the woman, Chen Wenchao no longer hesitated and put the money away.

He had to save money well, marry that woman, and then before grandma was buried, he must build a big house and have a bunch of fat babies.

When I got home.

It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Duoyu found that my mother had been cooking in the kitchen early today.

He smelled the fragrance.

He slipped into the kitchen, saw the small silver fish omelette, and took a piece to eat directly.

It tasted good, very fragrant.

The taste of the small fish was just right.

"Have you washed your hands? You just ate it with your hands. Aren't you afraid of getting worms in your stomach?"

"Mother, this fish omelette is delicious."

Li Duoyu grinned and was about to take the second piece when he suddenly looked at the fish omelette.

There are no silverfish on Dandan Island. They are only found in the seaports and lakes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Mother, where did you catch these fish?"

"I caught them behind our island."

"I heard from others that this river slippery seedling fried with eggs is very good for replenishing qi and blood. Your father and I caught a lot of them these two days to replenish your body for you and Xiaoying."

After hearing that it was river slippery seedling, Li Duoyu broke the omelette, pulled out a small fish and observed it, looking at the slender and white fish body.

Li Duoyu finally realized what this small fish that looks very similar to silverfish is.

It is eel fry.

Here on Dandan Island, people generally call it river slippery seedling. In this era, fishermen on the coast are not familiar with this fish.

All I know is that around the winter solstice, eel fry will swim from the depths of the sea to their area, and then enter rivers and lakes.

Looking at this big pot of fried fish eggs.

Li Duoyu estimated that there were at least more than 200 of them, and there were at least 400 or 500 of them still frying in the big iron pot.

Li Duoyu's heart was bleeding.

In later generations, local eel fry like this, when it is cheap, it is more than 10 yuan per piece, and when it is expensive, there are people who buy it for 40 yuan per piece.

The average price can be sold for about 20 yuan.

And if there are 500, that is more than 10,000 yuan.

What shocked Li Duoyu even more was that his mother actually said to him: "Wash the fry in that bucket, and then dry it, and eat it for breakfast in the future."

Li Duoyu suddenly looked at the wooden barrel in the corner of the kitchen. Sure enough, the whole barrel was full of eel fry. Li Duoyu couldn't count how many, but there should be tens of thousands.

No wonder I haven't seen my father and mother these days. It turns out that they are catching these fish.

Eels are very magical creatures. In order to reproduce, eels stop eating after they become adults.

They do not eat or drink for several months, and swim from inland lakes and mountain streams along streams and rivers to the depths of the ocean trench to reproduce and die.

Their offspring, which are only as thin as needles when they are born, have to swim from the ocean trench to the inland rivers along the ocean currents.

At this time, this kind of eel fry was not valued by fishermen until the late 1980s.

Businessmen from overseas provinces came to them to build factories to breed eels, and the fishermen realized that this fish, which is the size of a toothpick, is so valuable.

Eels are one of the few species that cannot be artificially cultivated. If you want to breed them, you must go to the estuaries of rivers to catch eel fry, and then put them in special breeding ponds, which are very difficult to breed.

In later generations, many people on Dandan Island also breed them, but Li Duoyu only helped in the eel breeding factory before, and did not have a complete set of breeding technology.

I only know that eel fry are particularly difficult to raise and picky. They don’t eat ordinary food. They must be fed with small red earthworms or freshwater red worms.

And eels have certain requirements for temperature, which cannot be too hot or too cold.

According to the current conditions of Dandan Island, breeding eels is indeed very difficult, and it may even be impossible to make money.

But Li Duoyu thought about it.

Or decided to give up breeding eels.

At this stage, first make the first pot of gold from kelp, and in your spare time, earn some income by fishing near the coast.

Wait until the basic situation is stable.

Consider other things.

In his life, he has seen too many farmers who fish for three days and rest for two days, and they want to raise whatever makes money.

As a result, they are only half-baked in everything, and they can't manage it, and some of them lose everything in the end.

The breeding industry seems simple, but it is actually very complicated. If you don't handle a simple fish disease well, your investment of several years will go down the drain.

This chapter is not well written, so I revised it.