1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 69 Eel Fry (Modified)

 After eating and drinking at the restaurant,

 Brother-in-law Chen Dongqing caught the shuttle bus back to the county town.

 When checking out.

Li Duoyu told his boss that Agui had left.

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

“Many old acquaintances have disappeared recently. I miss the days when everyone was good.”

 For this boss,

These things may have happened not long ago,

 But for Li Duoyu,

　Some people and things are really too far away.

 After leaving Qingkou Pier.

Li Duoyu simply calculated today's accounts and found that he sold a total of 170 yuan today, and he spent 8 yuan on the restaurant just now.

 There is still 162 yuan left in hand.

Li Duoyu took out four big unity cards and handed them to the local dog Chen Wenchao. He also put in a lot of effort in fishing this time, and he still has to give what is due to others.

 “This is your reward for today.”

  Chen Wenchao's hands were trembling a little when he took the money. If you don't count the money, this should be the largest income in his life.

his parents passed away early, and the family was very poor. When he was a child, he relied on his grandma to fetch the sea and weave nets to support him.

 When he grew up, he originally 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 work on the tidal flats and seaside, and do odd jobs for the boss of the ship when he had the opportunity.

He remembered very clearly that three years ago, he helped a boat owner net a thousand catties of large yellow croaker. As a result, the boat owner didn't even pay him any dividends, but only gave him one day's wages, one yuan and a half.

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

He didn't expect to follow Brother Yu out today, but 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 sore.

I saw that he was about to cry.

Li Duoyu glanced at it and said in disgust: "Don't you think it's too little?"

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

 “No, it’s too much.”

“I didn’t help you much today, and I almost ruined your good deeds, Brother Yu. You still gave me so much money.”

“Growing up, no one has been so kind to me except my grandma.”

 Li Duoyu patted him on the shoulder:

"Can you please stop being so sensational? I can't stand it. Just keep the money you give me, otherwise the big-ass Liu Xiaolan will be married off by someone else."

After thinking about the woman, Chen Wenchao no longer hesitated and collected the money.

He will save money, marry that woman, and then build a big house and give birth to a bunch of fat babies before his grandma is buried.

 When returning home.

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

 He who smells the fragrance.

 Sneaked into the kitchen and saw the little whitebait omelette, so he grabbed a piece and ate it.

It tastes pretty good, very fragrant.

 The taste of the small fish is just right.

“Whether you have washed your hands or not, if you eat it directly with your hands, you won’t be afraid of getting worms in your stomach.”

 “Aniang, this small fish omelette is delicious.”

Li Duoyu grinned, and when he was about to take the second piece, he suddenly looked at Xiaoyu Omelette. They don’t have small whitebait on Dandan Island. They can only be found in the inlets and lakes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

“Mom, where did you catch these fish?”

“He was caught just behind our island.”

“I heard from others that these Xishu seedlings are fried with eggs and are very good for replenishing qi and blood. Your father and I caught a lot of them in the past two days to replenish you and Xiaoying’s health.”

After hearing that it was Xishu seedlings, Li Duoyu broke open the omelette, pulled out a small fish and observed it, looking at the slender and white body of the fish.

Li Duoyu finally realized what the **** was this little fish that looked very similar to a small whitebait.

  It is an eel fry.

Here on Dandan Island, everyone generally calls it Xihu Miao. In this era, fishermen on the seaside were not familiar with this kind of fish.

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

 Looking at this big basin of small fish and fried eggs.

Li Duoyu made a visual inspection and found that there were at least two hundred fish. There were also at least four to five hundred fish still being fried in the big iron pot.

 Li Duoyu’s heart was bleeding.

 In later generations, native eel fry like this, as small as this, cost more than 10 yuan a piece when they were cheap, and some people bought them for 40 yuan a piece when they were expensive.

 The average price can be sold for about 20 yuan.

 And if there are 500 items, that’s more than 10,000 yuan.

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

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

  No wonder I haven’t seen my father and mother in the past few days. They are both fishing for this fish.

 Eels are very magical creatures. In order to reproduce, eels will stop eating when they reach adulthood.

Without eating or drinking for several months, they swim from inland lakes and mountains along streams and rivers to the depths of the Great Trench to reproduce and die.

And their offspring, who are only as thin as a needle when they are born, will swim from the Great Trench to the inland rivers along the ocean currents.

 This kind of eel fry did not receive the attention of fishermen at this time, almost until the late 1980s.

 Businessmen from overseas provinces came to build factories for eel farming. Only then did the fishermen realize that this fish, which is as big as a toothpick, is so valuable.

Eels are one of the few species that cannot be artificially cultivated for the next generation. If you want to cultivate this thing, you have to go to the river estuary to catch eel fry, and then put them in special breeding ponds to raise them. It is very difficult to raise them.

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

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

And eels have certain requirements for temperature, not too hot or too cold.

Judging from the current conditions on Dandan Island, cultivating eels is indeed very difficult, and it may even be impossible to make money.

 Ke Li Duoyu thought about it for a while.

 Decided to give up eel farming.

 At this stage, let’s first earn the first pot of gold from kelp. In our spare time, we can earn some income by fishing offshore.

  Wait until the fundamentals are stabilized.

 Think about other things.

 In his life, he has seen too many farmers who fish for three days and dry the nets for two days. They raise whatever they want to make money.

As a result, in the end, everything is only half a bucket of water, and you can't manage it. In the end, some people lose everything.

 The aquaculture industry seems simple, but the water is actually very deep. If a simple fish disease is not handled well, your investment will be wasted for several years.

  This sentence is not very well written, so I have revised it.

 (End of this chapter)