Chapter 83 New Year, New Atmosphere

New Year, New Atmosphere.

After the Spring Festival, the dock became lively again, with fishing boats and firecrackers everywhere.

As for Zhang Meiying's story, after it was spread on the island for a day or two, not many people were interested.

On the contrary, the money that Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao made on New Year's Eve made everyone jealous and realized the importance of fish rafts.

In the past, when everyone caught fish, they would treat them as dead fish by default. They didn't expect that they could be kept in the net cages of fish rafts for so long.

In the past, those miscellaneous fish were either taken to make shrimp oil or fish fertilizer.

Sometimes there were too many fish and no one wanted them, so they were directly dumped into the sea. But they didn't expect that they could be used to feed groupers, yellow croakers and the like.

At the dock, several boat bosses sighed that Li Duoyu was very good at making money, and discussed whether to build a fish raft.

They even thought further and planned to modify a live fish tank on the fishing boat to increase the survival rate of the fish.

While the captains were discussing, a middle-aged woman named Lin Jinlan happened to be prying oysters nearby.

She did not have a good Spring Festival this year because her youngest daughter, despite her family's opposition, fell in love with a poor boy without a father or a mother.

She had originally agreed with the matchmaker that after the Spring Festival, she would be married to the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative.

But she did not expect a poor boy to appear halfway. If the matchmaker came to propose marriage in a few days, how should she answer her?

Say that her daughter is already with someone else?

Lin Jinlan really couldn't understand what was so good about the poor boy. There was only an old lady with inconvenient legs and feet in his family, and there was not even a fishing boat.

After marrying him, not only would she have no money to eat, but maybe in two years, the old lady would be lying in bed, and she would have to take care of her eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

What was he looking for?

But Wang Jinshan, the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, was rich, but not as good as she imagined. She had also gone to inquire about him these days.

I had dated a girl before, but they broke up for some unknown reason. I heard that she seemed to have some health problems.

Although her brothers wanted her to marry the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative so that they could get a diesel fishing boat.

But she was the one who gave birth to her daughter after ten months of pregnancy and watched her grow up. How could a mother not love her daughter?

Before she figured it out, she didn't want to push her daughter into the fire pit.

This is also the reason why the matchmaker has been talking to her for so long, but she hasn't finalized it yet.

But at this moment.

Lin Jinlan seemed to hear those boat bosses praising the young man named Li Duoyu all the time, and said they wanted to learn from him.

This?

She didn't have a good impression of this young man. He used to come to their house and whistle at her daughter.

That poor boy was hanging out with him. What's there to praise about such a person?

Lin Jinlan put down the oyster shell in her hand, leaned over and asked: "Is that Li Duoyu really that powerful?"

One of the captains said:

"I don't know if he is powerful or not, but he can really make money. Last year, he and Chen Wenchao made the most money on New Year's Eve on our island."

"Ah."

Lin Jinlan was stunned: "My neighbor Chen Wenchao?"

"If not him, who else?"

The captain sighed: "This kid is really lucky. After surviving a disaster, he finally followed the right person. I heard that on New Year's Eve, he got nearly 300 yuan."

After hearing about this money.

Lin Jinlan took a deep breath. No wonder she always felt that her daughter had more jewelry during this period.

But she was still worried, Lin Jinlan continued: "Young people nowadays must make quick money, so it is possible that they are always so lucky."

The captain laughed and said:

"Second Sister Lin, you rarely go out. The most active young people on our island are Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao."

"Once is good luck, but twice or three times, it is no longer a matter of luck, but they really have that ability."

"Besides, these two young people are really fighting hard now. If we old men don't work harder, we will soon be eliminated by them."

After listening, Lin Jinlan was also very surprised, because their family did not have a fishing boat, and they rarely came to the dock. I don't know what happened in the past few months.

That day, she asked someone to inquire again. She now knew which side was doing practical work.

Forget it, I will be scolded if I am scolded. I can't ruin my child's future just for face.

After prying the oyster shells that day, Lin Jinlan took the initiative to find the matchmaker, brought an apology, and made things clear.

As a result, he was scolded.

But after being scolded, Lin Jinlan felt relieved, but she had to face Xiaolan's useless brothers when she returned home.

"Alas."

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After the Lantern Festival.

The Spring Festival was over.

Li Xiaorong also went to the north to study, but the fat boy Li Haoran had not been happy for two days before a new semester began.

And Li Duoyu's kelp seedlings, after more than four months of growth, are now more than two meters long.

The length is enough, but not thick or wide enough. If the kelp is collected now, the taste will not be too good, and the grade is not very high. It is a secondary product.

But after the Spring Festival, the sea water will warm up a little bit, especially around the Qingming Festival, when the kelp will usher in an explosive weight gain period.

And now what Li Duoyu has to do is to increase the water layer for kelp cultivation and let the kelp sunbathe as much as possible.

With this growth spurt of more than a month, kelp can at least double its weight.

By then, the harvest will be ready.

As the kelp harvest time approaches, my uncle Chen Dongqing comes back frequently.

Seeing as the thirty acres of kelp are managed so well, so healthy, and the color so beautiful, there is no need for him at all.

Chen Dongqing is used to it.

I even started to doubt myself.

Is the kelp farming project he's studying too simple?

But when he came to the captain's kelp field, his blood pressure was so high that he smoked half a pack of cigarettes on the spot.

I have obviously told them that the weather is too cold, there is a lot of fog during the Spring Festival, and there is not enough light, so the water level for kelp cultivation must be increased.

As a result, as soon as he left, Wang Dapao fooled around casually, completely turning a deaf ear to his words.

He was so angry that he couldn't help but help adjust the water layer, but before she could adjust the water level a few times, her face turned so dark that she didn't want to speak.

There is no uniform standard fixed method for tying the kelp ropes in the 100-acre kelp field. Some are tied with slip knots, some with dead knots, and some with fishermen's knots.

Those knotted knots cannot be untied after being soaked in sea water and swollen, so they can only be cut with a knife.

After raising these 100 acres of kelp for more than three months, the average length is only one meter long and more than ten centimeters wide. And because the water layer has not been adjusted, a large amount of kelp has developed green rot disease.

In more than a month, it will be the harvesting period of kelp. Chen Dongqing knows very well that the summer seedlings of the variety he studied will not survive May on Dandan Island.

If we don't harvest in May, once the temperature rises, it will all rot in the sea within a few days.

If this trend continues, the kelp produced from these more than one hundred acres will not only be of poor quality, but also taste bad. The overall output may not be as much as that produced by Li Duoyu's thirty acres.

I am afraid that after the whole breeding, a lot of money will be paid. It is possible that a situation like Chen Atai will happen again, and he will start to preach that raising kelp is not profitable and loses money.

But now Chen Dongqing no longer has any hope for the one hundred acres of kelp fields. Instead, he hopes that there will be a big tide and wipe out the one hundred acres of kelp fields.

This way he won't be affected.