Chapter 88: First Water Kelp (Seeking Follow-Up)

Seeing the kelp scattered around the kelp field, Li Duoyu naturally couldn't just waste it.

Although these kelp did not meet the best harvesting standards, the two-meter-long kelp was already pretty good.

He, Lao Li, and Chen Wenchao spent a day picking up the scattered kelp one by one.

It took more than ten boats to finish the catching.

Seeing the kelp that was "harvested in advance", Lao Li's face turned black with heartache.

But Li Duoyu looked at the sparse kelp field and felt that this was not too bad. The sparse kelp meant that the remaining kelp had more room to grow.

At that time, the remaining kelp might grow longer and longer.

Kelp is a brown algae.

When it is cultivated in the sea, the color is brown, and the common green kelp in the market in later generations is mostly scalded at high temperature.

There are two main ways to process kelp.

One is salted kelp for fresh eating, which is the green kelp that everyone often sees.

This kind of kelp is usually processed by high temperature directly after being scooped up.

When kelp touches boiling water, it will turn green, but because it is scalded by high temperature, it is easy to spoil and deteriorate.

So the producers will sprinkle salt on it to keep it fresh, then put it in the cold storage, and finally sell it to vendors and restaurants.

This processing method is called salting, but the most important part of this method is that there must be a cold storage, and it must be kept fresh throughout the process, which is obviously not suitable for the current situation.

Another method is the traditional kelp drying, which is relatively simple. After being scooped up from the sea, it is directly pulled to the sun.

Dry for more than ten hours.

It can be collected directly.

There is also a discrimination chain in kelp farming. Those who do traditional sun drying will never be used to salting kelp.

It can be said that they are a pair of old enemies, especially on a certain audio, merchants who sell dried kelp will often spray salted kelp.

But there are some scum in any industry. In order to make the kelp greener and fatter, some illegal merchants will use a chemical called ammonium bicarbonate to soak the kelp.

Li Duoyu vaguely remembered that this practice was learned by local dealers from overseas provinces after frequent cross-strait exchanges at the beginning of the new century. It seems that in addition to this, they even learned telephone fraud.

In fact, both are essentially kelp, but the processing methods are different. Although sun-drying is the mainstream, Li Duoyu is also optimistic about salted kelp.

Because it has a good development prospect and can be made into various ready-to-eat snacks.

In the past life, there was a large snack manufacturer that bought out the cultivated kelp on Dandan Island and specially produced kelp shreds of various flavors, and the sales volume was not bad.

More than ten boats of kelp fished from the kelp fields were spread out in the village square, dock, and courtyards of various relatives.

Because of his brave rescue of villagers before, Li Duoyu has a very good reputation in the village. Everyone is very polite to him, and conjunctivitis has also decreased a lot.

Even the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the square, Chen, Zhao, Wu, and Sun, who play four-color cards all year round.

After seeing Li Duoyu drying kelp, he did not complain, but took the initiative to show goodwill, saying that if it was going to rain, he would notify him as soon as possible and help him collect kelp.

And Chen Atai from the next village.

These two days, he was very happy to hear that the kelp raised by the team leader Wang Dapao was all ruined.

Even the team leader couldn't grow it well, which proved that Chen Dongqing was wrong and was cheating him.

When he thought about his debt for two years and didn't dare to go out, Chen Atai had to find Chen Dongqing to vent his anger.

But he didn't expect that when he was planning to spread the news that the team leader had failed to raise kelp, he heard the news that Li Duoyu had dried kelp in a whole square.

He didn't believe in evil, so he came to Xiasha Village that day. He was dumbfounded when he saw the kelp covering the whole square.

He couldn't count how many there were in the square in front of him, he just felt that there were a lot of them.

After seeing Li Duoyu who was drying kelp in the square, Chen Atai hurried forward to greet him:

"Duoyu."

"All this kelp is yours. How come you harvested it so soon? Didn't Dongqing say that we had to wait until the end of April to harvest it?"

"Uncle Tai."

"What brings you here?"

Li Duoyu, who had been drying kelp for a day, pounded his waist and said, "I can't help it. These kelp were hit by the waves two days ago and fell off the rope. I can only collect them and dry them first."

"The waves were really big a few days ago. Several people in our village went out to sea to fish and almost couldn't come back."

Chen Atai squatted down and touched the kelp. He found that these kelp were already very thick and better than the kelp he had raised for five or six months. He couldn't believe it.

"Did you put in some ingredients? Otherwise, how could it be so big after just a few months of raising it?"

Li Duoyu was speechless.

"Seawater is flowing. It's useless to add more feed. Didn't Dongqing tell you when we were raising kelp before? Seaweed grows very fast."

After Li Duoyu finished hammering his waist, he drank a sip of water and sighed, "If it weren't for this damn wave, my seaweed would have doubled in more than a month."

"No way, it's already this long."

"It can grow longer."

Chen Atai thought it was unlikely. In the past two years, he raised it for four or five months, and it was only more than one meter long. He thought that Li Duoyu's seaweed should not be able to grow anymore.

Li Duoyu glanced at him and naturally knew that Uncle Tai had heard the news and came to see it specially.

"There's no point in lying to you. The current temperature is the most suitable for the growth of kelp, just like bamboo shoots springing up after the rain. It changes every day."

"Then the thirty acres of kelp you raised are all here?" Chen Atai asked.

Seeing that Uncle Tai kept asking questions, Li Duoyu said directly: "Uncle Tai, to tell you the truth, the kelp you see is less than one-tenth of the kelp I cultivate. When it is harvested in another month, here It’s not enough for me to show off.”

After finishing speaking.

Li Duoyu also smiled and said: "Also, Uncle Tai, thank you for selling me those kelp ropes. I will dry them later and send some to you."

Chen Atai felt dumbfounded for a moment.

Why is this young man so damaged?

And to rub salt into people's wounds, you and your father jointly cheated my kelp rope, and I haven't even settled the score with you yet.

But Chen Atai still didn't believe it. He handed a cigarette to Li Duoyu and said, "Duoyu, tell Uncle Tai the truth. Did you use any technological means? Otherwise, how could the kelp grow so fast?"

After Li Duoyu took the cigarette, he said calmly: "Since Uncle Tai asked this, I will tell you the truth. It does require some skills."

"For kelp, you need to choose it on the sandy bottom. You also need to adjust the water layer according to the light, take care of the kelp field at least twice a week, and clean the kelp rope."

After Chen Atai finished listening.

His glasses widened. He thought there really was some kind of technological means, but it turned out that Chen Dongqing had also told him what Li Duoyu said.

I also emphasized it to him many times, but due to various reasons, he didn't take it to heart.

Thinking of this, Chen Atai smoked half of his cigarette in one gulp. He scolded Chen Dongqing for two years, only to find out that the clown was himself.

What a coincidence.

A young man wearing glasses happened to come to the square at this moment and shouted at the top of his voice: "Duoyu, you have to work harder and try to dry the kelp today, so that the quality is the best."

After seeing Chen Dongqing nagging again, Li Duoyu was also a little impatient: "Your uncle, you are just talking without practicing. You should come over and help me."

This guy has become very courageous recently.

He directly asked his aunt not to go home.

Just lay the floor in Li Xiaorong's house.

He guards his 30 acres of kelp field every day, and he is much more attentive than the owner of the kelp field.

And since he narrowly escaped death that day, my uncle has changed a lot and is no longer so formal.

The biggest change is that after staying with Chen Wenchao for a long time, the "quintessence of Chinese culture" in his mouth has obviously increased, and he can greet other people's homes during conversation.

When Chen Dongqing discovered that Chen Atai was also there, the two of them instantly became awkward, but as a junior, Chen Dongqing still said it bravely.

"Cousin, you are here too."

Chen Atai looked at Chen Dongqing in embarrassment, but his face was on fire, and he hesitated:

"Well, I'll come over to see the fish drying the kelp."

Thank you all for your continued reading, recommendation votes, and monthly votes!

Thank you so much!