Chapter 93: Oyster Fields, Bamboos Planted (Please Read Later)

In a small place like Dandan Island, news spreads very quickly. Once there is any movement, the whole island will know about it in less than two days.

And the fishermen who were saved by Li Duoyu, after eating the dried kelp that Lao Li gave them, turned directly into mobile human trumpets.

They praised the kelp soup sold by Li Duoyu to everyone they met, saying that it was very delicious.

Not long after.

Many villagers who wanted to try it came to the door and wanted to buy kelp stew to drink.

At the beginning, Li Duoyu saw that there were not so many buyers, so he simply bought half and gave half away.

But unexpectedly, after this group of people went back, they all thought that the kelp stew was good, and they also started to promote it.

As a result, in less than a few days, more than a hundred villagers came to buy.

Seeing that more and more people were buying, Li Duoyu did not dare to give it away, but since no one had sold kelp before.

Li Duoyu was also not sure about the price.

In addition, most of the dried kelp sold in Rongcheng Vegetable Market was transported from the north, mixed with transportation costs.

The price was not low.

After comprehensive consideration of many aspects, the price was temporarily set at 50 cents for first-class vegetables, 40 cents for second-class vegetables, and 20 cents for raw vegetables.

But even at this price, it was still very profitable for Li Duoyu.

The kelp that was harvested earlier had a total of 140 cents. Normally, after drying, the kelp would shrink by about six to seven times, and then deduct various scraps.

The dried kelp that Li Duoyu could sell was about 4,000 kilograms.

Even if it was sold at this price, there would be about 1,300 yuan in revenue, and this batch of kelp that was forced to be harvested in advance only accounted for about one-tenth of the total output.

So Li Duoyu estimated that if all the kelp was harvested, dried and sold, his final profit would be just over 10,000 yuan.

The overall investment in kelp farming is not particularly high. With the cost of wooden stakes, palm ropes and various labor costs, Li Duoyu invested about 2,000 yuan.

The income is a full five times the investment.

Of course, there are many things involved. For example, his kelp rope was bought cheaply, but after this use, it will probably be scrapped.

The most important point is that the kelp seedlings provided by the institute for free have saved Li Duoyu at least a lot of money.

However, high returns are often accompanied by high risks, and raising kelp is very dependent on the weather.

If you are unlucky and encounter a winter typhoon or a spring typhoon, all your investment will go down the drain.

And these villagers buy Li Duoyu's kelp not just for eating, they want to try whether the kelp is good or not.

In less than a few days.

Li Duoyu sold 70% of the dried kelp, and the meat stalls on Dandan Island were also sold out.

Pork man Lao Jin recently found that the sales of pork bones have skyrocketed by more than ten times. Every morning, the stall is opened for less than ten minutes.

All kinds of pork bones were snapped up, and those villagers who didn't buy pork bones would complain to him: "Lao Jin, bring more bones tomorrow."

After asking around, Lao Jin learned that everyone bought pork bones to make kelp soup, and for a butcher like him, his family had long been tired of pork soup.

But he couldn't help but be curious, so he bought a bag of dried kelp to make soup, but the family drank up the soup that day.

Looking at the empty pot bottom, Lao Jin realized that it wasn't that his family didn't like pork anymore, but that they hadn't found a suitable way to eat it.

These days, Chen Wenchao was not in Dandan Island, but in Dazhu Village, Gushan, with Brother Ou to buy bamboo.

Originally, he planned to go to Gushan to collect bamboo ten days ago, but due to extreme weather and the addition of a new baby in Brother Yu's family.

Chen Wenchao also postponed for more than ten days before coming to Dazhu Village. This time he walked into the village and met Brother Ou again.

Faced with Brother Ou's enthusiastic invitation

Chen Wenchao refused on the spot and insisted on walking all the way into the village.

But before he had walked a few kilometers, Brother Ou changed to a motorcycle and came down to pick him up.

Sitting on the motorcycle, Chen Wenchao felt an indescribable excitement. He felt the speed and passion for the first time.

Chen Wenchao secretly made up his mind that he planned to buy a motorcycle when he married Liu Xiaolan, and then take her to fly around the village.

The bamboo that Li Duoyu wanted to purchase this time was different from the one used to make fish rafts last time. It only needed medium-sized bamboo of about seven inches.

If you pile on the mudflat, the bigger the bamboo head, the harder it is to hit. If you don’t hit it deep, it’s easy to pull out the pile.

As a result, the bamboo was constantly transported back to the island.

Li Duoyu also invited Master Zhang, who specializes in pile driving, to come over. Professional matters should be done by professionals.

However, Master Zhang and his team also drove bamboo piles on the mudflat for the first time, and they didn’t have much experience.

With Li Duoyu’s intentional or unintentional reminders, this group of pile drivers quickly figured out the tricks of bamboo pile driving.

They first used an iron rod to poke the diaphragm at the bottom of the bamboo, which would increase the friction between the bamboo and the mud.

The bamboo piles driven in were more stable and secure, and then they tied a wooden stick horizontally in the middle of the bamboo.

Then, they asked a larger person to stand on the stick and keep stepping and jumping, using their own weight to drive the bamboo into the mudflat.

Although this method was very tiring, the effect was very good. Three people worked in a group, and their pile-driving team could drive five or six piles at a time.

The bamboos driven in were tied with brown ropes at both ends.

The upper one was used to hang kelp for drying, and the lower one was used to hang oysters for farming.

After seeing this new breeding method, Lao Li, who has been raising oysters for so many years, was completely dumbfounded.

He naturally knew how good this breeding method was. For example, their pile-type oyster fields can only be set up in the intertidal zone, and the working time every day is very limited.

Once the tide rises.

You can't do anything.

You can only wait until the tide recedes to work.

But if you use fishing ropes for breeding, it is very simple to harvest oysters even when the tide rises. Just drive the boat over and pull up the breeding rope to harvest.

And most importantly, the hanging breeding method will greatly reduce the invasion of natural enemies.

In the years that Lao Li has been raising oysters, what he hates most is oyster snails and various small crabs.

Every time he harvests oysters, he wishes these species would disappear directly from the earth.

But if the hanging breeding method is adopted, it will not be so easy for oyster snails and crabs to eat oysters.

When the nearby fishermen saw Li Duoyu making trouble again, they all came to watch. After learning about this new breeding method, they all followed suit.

After all, those who had cast a net with Li Duoyu last time had already made a lot of money, and these days, Li Duoyu's kelp was selling well.

He has become an indispensable topic of conversation on Dandan Island.

Fishing for big bass, making a net, making a fish raft, and raising kelp, if you take one of them out, it is enough for fishermen to brag about it for several years.

However, everyone is not blindly following the trend. They have indeed seen the advantages of this kind of hanging oyster culture, so they have made up their minds to change to this breeding method.

In addition to the fishermen who want to raise oysters and buy bamboo from him, there are also many fishermen who want to build fish rafts and want to buy bamboo from him.

Although Li Duoyu has repeatedly emphasized to them that summer is the high-incidence season of typhoons, there is a risk of pulling out bamboo piles, and fish rafts are also difficult to withstand typhoons.

But these fishermen are all crazy, and they all plan to gamble with God.

As a middleman who has never made a profit from the price difference, Li Duoyu does not want to dampen the enthusiasm of these fishermen.

This large order of 2,000 bamboos also made Li Duoyu earn 500 yuan with tears and blood, saving the labor cost of driving bamboo piles.

After you see the update, you can postpone reading it a little, because the author has been in a bad mood recently and has to revise the text several times before the sentences can be written smoothly (crying~~)