Chapter 31 Digging a pond to raise yellow eels
Hearing the blind date, Li Qingyun suddenly had a headache. It's only been a few days since he was single, and his parents began to make plans for his marriage, which was too anxious, and he didn't have the heart to think about it now.
"Forget it, now I can't achieve anything, and I can't straighten my waist to find a daughter-in-law. Or, wait for me to get rich in two years, and then talk about my daughter-in-law?" Li Qingyun put down his duffel bag and wanted to slip out.
"When you get rich, our hair is gray, what kind of grandson do you want? Chen Xiuzhi grabbed Li Qingyun's ears and pulled him back.
When the plan failed, Li Qingyun hurriedly changed his strategy and shouted: "Ouch, Mom, you are light, with your strength, you will not be too old in another twenty years." By the way, I brought something for you two elders in the bag, it tastes very good, open it and try it. ”
Of course, Chen Xiuzhi was not fooled, and she had to force Li Qingyun to agree to the blind date. But his father was not so anxious, and deliberately helped Li Qingyun, opened his luggage, and saw the special vegetables inside.
Father Li was suddenly surprised: "Huh, we can't eat all the vegetables we grow, how can you bring vegetables home? This tomato is too big, isn't it? And this cucumber, the fragrance is too strong, it can't be a potion, right?"
Li Qingyun hurriedly said: "How can it, this is a real green vegetable, cultivated with special science and technology." I went to the city this time and met my former college classmates, which were a new variety that they had developed in their research institute and had a special set of cultivation methods. I learned a little bit from my friends after I said all the good things, and I'll try it at home in a few days, and our family's fortune depends on them. ”
Mother Li was really attracted to it, let go of Li Qingyun, picked up a tomato and said: "High-tech new varieties? How does it taste? Don't look weird like the varieties promoted in the town before, but they look like bubbles when you eat them, and they don't have any taste." ”
"You two can't taste it, you can't forget it!" Li Qingyun is like a super salesman on TV, exaggeratedly inviting his parents to taste it.
In his own home, no one is polite, after a simple scrubbing, the two elders tasted cucumbers and tomatoes respectively, and were immediately pleasantly surprised, no different from the people who tasted the space vegetables for the first time, and shouted delicious.
"Mi'er, this thing is good, if we plant it, we must give your friend a red envelope and thank others. After my mother finished eating, she was refreshed, and a fragrance emerged from the depths of her body, as if the pores were opened, and there was an indescribable use.
"Head to head, this taste is simply great! Mi'er, the vegetable field and melon field in the south will be handed over to you, what fertilizer and pesticide do you need money to buy, tell Dad directly, Dad will come to the town to help you buy, you just need to study the technology and grasp the overall situation." My father also agreed, and was conquered by these vegetables.
"Haha, then you're welcome. Anyway, I haven't eaten in the morning, so I'll use these vegetables and give me a whole meal. Li Qingyun was very happy to change the topic of blind date and begged his mother to cook.
Mother Li was also on the rise, and she agreed again and again, went into the kitchen, and made a few side dishes for her son after a while. Stir-fried beans, green pepper eggs, cold cucumbers, tomato and egg soup. Although it was not the first time for Li Qingyun to eat the cooked vegetables grown in his own space, he almost bit his tongue off, and together with his parents, he wiped out all the dishes in front of him.
The gold and copper coins smelled the fragrance, and they tore Li Qingyun's trouser legs desperately, wanting to beg for some vegetables to eat. It's a pity that they were ignored by Li Qingyun, these two second goods, their stomachs have long been round, and if they eat again, they may explode, and they don't know how to go on a diet, so there is really no way to take the two of them.
After dinner, Li Qingyun and his father went to Nandi Pond together, cleaned up a place in the corner of the pond, and trimmed it with a pickaxe, which can be regarded as a new pond. Bring the water from the fish pond and add aquatic weeds to prepare for raising yellow eels here.
Li's father was fooled by Li Qingyun's high-end technology, saying that he entered the city this time, and not only learned the high-end technology of growing vegetables, but also learned several fish farming techniques. The small pond developed this time is for the practice of cultivating yellow eels.
"Mi'er, this small pond is only thirty or forty square meters, or has it just been developed, can you raise eels? If you really want to raise it, I will clean up the big pond on the ground and toss it for you?" Father Li looked at the fruits of this day's labor, and shook his head worriedly, feeling a little unreliable.
Eels are notoriously good at dying and getting sick, and although the economic benefits are high, they are also extremely risky, and many successful aquaculture farmers are afraid to set foot in the field of eel farming. Therefore, eel is a scarce species in the market, and the wholesale price has always been high.
Li Qingyun was very confident in the efficacy of his space spring water, and persuaded his father's worries: "Dad, don't worry, this pool is just a test of technology, I have contacted an aquatic company in the morning, and asked them to send more than 100 catties of yellow eel seedlings. ”
"You want to put more than 100 catties of eel fish in this small pond? This can get more than 2,000 yuan...... Hey, tsk, don't waste money. According to me, fifty pounds of eel fish is too much. When Father Li heard Li Qingyun's words, he immediately shook his head, and his worry became even heavier.
"Haha, otherwise what is new technology? Li Qingyun disagreed, in the name of high technology, he could do a lot of things.
When it was almost dark, the talent of the prefecture fishery company brought eel fish. Li Qingyun glanced at the eel fish in the makeshift pool made of plastic paper on the tricycle and shook his head. The quality of this batch of eels is really not good, especially after such a long mountain road, many eel fry have been shaken to the belly. If it weren't for the space spring water, Li Qingyun would definitely not receive this batch of fish fry.
"Hehe, there is a lot of luck, and the dead ones that are removed must be enough, if you don't believe it, we can call it now. The man who delivered the fish fry was in his thirties, with a small beard and messy hair, and I don't know if he was the owner of a small fish company or an employee who specialized in delivery.
The local eel fry is relatively expensive, 24 yuan a catty, with the local wage level, it is a very expensive thing, if you don't weigh it, it is absolutely not at ease. At least, Li Qingyun's father asked to be weighed on the spot.
As a result, the speed of putting it in the pond is a little slow, and people from the village pass by here, and many people stop to watch the hot spots, point their fingers, talk and laugh, and say anything.
"Brother Chengwen, is your family also engaged in professional breeding?" The person with a good relationship stood on the side of the road and asked curiously.
"Ha, it's not good to raise, I actually think of raising yellow eels, and I'm not afraid of death. It's not me bragging, if you can raise it, I'll give you a few raw ones on the spot!" This person with a bad tone is called Hongqi, an older young man in his twenties, who works odd jobs in the town, and has a bad relationship with Li Qingyun's family.
Li Qingyun glanced at him and ignored him, when he used to go to school, he didn't clean him up. But later, after this thing went out to learn boxing for a few years, Li Qingyun couldn't beat him a little, so he was arrogant in the past few years, stimulating Li Qingyun and wanting to stir up trouble and avenge the revenge of the year.
The old man in the village couldn't look at it, and reprimanded: "The red flag of the turtle grandson of the mother, the Chengwen family has provoked you, you don't talk all day long! ”
"Haha, according to me, maybe someone has abducted him, and the green hat has already been put on the red flag!" The others couldn't see his provocation, and laughed at him.
"You old immortals, I also tell the truth, a good heart was treated by you as a donkey's liver and lungs! You wait and see, there will be a time when he regrets it in the future. With that, Hongqi hurriedly fled from the crowd watching the excitement and rode a broken bicycle towards home.
Li Qingyun smiled and greeted a few old people, and said a few kind words, at this time, all the eel fry brought by the aquatic company were weighed and put into the crowded small pool. The actual weight is more than ten catties different from the said weight, originally scheduled for 120 catties, but now the number of living is only a hundred and a few catties, plus the dead, it is not enough.
The delivery man was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "Maybe it's on the road, let's do business for the first time, so let's just count your hundred catties as an integer, and the extra few catties are considered to be an addition, so you should make friends." ”
This delivery person is not stupid, Qinglong Town is a well-known area in the county, located on the border, the ethnic composition is complex, if they do something in their village, maybe they can't even get out of the village.
A few catties is a hundred and ten yuan, Li's father is very happy, and Li Qingyun understands the mentality of the delivery person, and he doesn't say anything, he says thank you, pays the money, and lets him leave.
After putting the eel fish in the small pool, you need to add grass immediately, and the water grass that you put in at the beginning is not enough. When fishing for aquatic plants, Li Qingyun secretly added a lot of space spring water, which made the listless eel fish immediately refreshed and had a bit of vitality.
However, this newly developed pool was too small, and the eel fry were so dense that Li Qingyun couldn't stand it. Li Qingyun had never raised eels before, so how could he have thought that the gap was so big, so he had to smile awkwardly and said to his father: "Or, let's open up another depression tomorrow?"
The ponds on this land are all Li Qingyun's house, between the pond and the highway is a small forest of fruit trees, there are potholes in it, there are many wetland depressions, as long as a little development, attract water sources, it is a new pond.
"That's all there is to it! However, I am afraid that the eel fry in here will not survive tomorrow and will die of lack of oxygen. Father Li was also worried at this time, and said, "Why don't you get half of it and put it in the big pond first?"
If you want to put it in a large pond, it will be completely stocked, that is, it is purely wild, such a large pond, and there is no cage, and you are powerless to manage it.
The father and son, who had no professional farming experience, thought it would be a good idea to move to the big pond temporarily, so they were busy putting fish fry into the big pond with a net.
Maybe Hongqi is right, if you can successfully raise a few eels, they will eat a few raw ones in front of them! So they laughed and joked a few words about Li Qingyun and his son, and went home for dinner.
The second person in the village was stunned and didn't leave, but walked slowly to the edge of the small pond and said, "Uncle Qingyun, I'll help you get fish, the melons you grow are ripe, just give me a few." Don't eat more, I'll eat seventy or eighty!"
As he spoke, he counted with his fingers, seemingly hesitating, not knowing how many melons to eat.
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