Li Duoyu stepped on the mud horse and went down the tidal flat.

Mud horses are also known as "sea bicycles", and here on Dandan Island, anyone who is begging for a living on the tidal flats usually has one at home.

And because of the oyster farming in his family, the mud horses are larger than others, and they look like a small boat, and there are two or three lattices used to carry seafood and things.

I haven't used this thing for too long, Rao is the age of blood and energy, and Li Duoyu slid the mud horse to the oyster breeding site and sweated.

In the 80s, the cultivation technology of oysters was still very backward, and there were two kinds of stone throwing method and column method.

In the stone throwing method, oyster seedlings are fixed to stones with cement, and then thrown into the sea to grow on their own.

This method is more Buddhist, but it has a high rate of bad seedlings, and once the mud is covered with stones and oysters, it will be completely wiped out.

The pillar method, which is a popular breeding method at present, is evolved on the basis of the sinking stone method, in which the cement pillar is inserted on the tidal flat, and then the seedlings are fixed on the cement pillar.

This kind of farming is easier to take care of, and oysters are not easily attacked by natural predators.

Even in later generations, when the farming technology was perfect, there were still many old fishermen who would use the pillar method to raise oysters.

But there are also many disadvantages, the column is inserted on the tidal flat, and the tide surge will often make the column fall or tilt, so it needs to be manually straightened.

After coming to the oyster farm.

Li Duoyu began to work, he first straightened the somewhat crooked cement pillars, grabbed a conch that was stealing oysters, and threw it onto the mud horse.

For oyster farmers, it is not so simple to feed it, but also to guard against various natural predators of oysters, such as the conch that loves to eat oysters, and various crabs.

In addition to guarding against predators, it is also necessary to clean up various competitors and parasites, such as Haihong, which likes to compete for living space with oysters, and barnacles, which like to attach to oyster shells.

In this era, farming is harder than fishing, which is why not many people are willing to engage in farming.

Li Duoyu knocked off some small sea rainbows attached to the stone pillars, and then began to knock on the oysters.

In this era, because they have not yet undergone the baptism of biological gene technology, sea oysters grow quite casually, and their size is not very large, let alone any diploid and triploid in later generations.

Li Duoyu knocked some relatively large oysters on a stone pillar, and then moved on to the next one, repeating the previous process.

Under the scorching sun.

Li Duoyu knocked twenty or thirty pounds, and he was tired enough.

Lao Li, who was watching from the sidelines, was very surprised, thinking that the fourth child must have knocked on the ground and casually pretended to be two hundred catties perfunctory.

He thought of his lines and was ready to educate his son so that he would give up the idea of raising kelp.

I didn't want to do things more delicately than him.

Even the details of supporting the pillars, catching conchs, and cleaning barnacles and rainbows are all done very well.

And knocking on oysters is not a random knock, but a large oyster.

This made him swallow back the lines he had prepared in advance, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't hold back a good word:

"The hands and feet are so slow, when the tide will rise, where can you knock two hundred catties, you come to push the cart, and I will knock it."

Faced with Lao Li's "disgust".

Li Duoyu grinned, he already knew that this old man was a duplicitous guy, according to Chen Huiying's words, he obviously wanted to praise you in his heart, but "the dog's mouth can't spit out ivory".

Besides, today is the tide.

The sea has just receded, and it has risen so quickly.

The father and son went into battle together, and the oysters that were supposed to be knocked for two or three hours were finished for them in less than an hour.

Lao Li sat on the shore, wrapped a cigarette, and asked, "Do you want to have a cigarette?" ”

Li Duoyu, who was sweating all over his body, shook his head and said, "Don't smoke, Xiaoying is pregnant, which is not good for the child." ”

"When did you become so well-behaved?"

"It's good to be very well-behaved."

Lao Li was stunned for a while, but his heart blossomed, it seems that the fourth child has really changed.

I used to worry that he was going down the wrong path.

Now he suddenly changed his temperament, and suddenly became the most stable among the brothers.

At this moment, Lao Li felt that the burden on his body was a little lighter, and next, it was the eldest and second who should be worried.

The boss had a quarrel with the second child back then, and went directly to Rongcheng to work in anger, but now he is almost thirty years old, and he has not found a partner yet.

Although the second child has no money, his life is still passable, and this daughter-in-law, like a time bomb, explodes from time to time, which makes everyone very uncomfortable.

Li Duoyu took a break.

Looking at the oysters on the mud horse, although he knows the whole set of oyster farming techniques, and even knows the rope hanging method and cage breeding method, he can raise the current oysters bigger and fatter.

But in a short period of time, he didn't want to engage in oyster farming, because the cultivation cycle of this thing is long, time-consuming and laborious, and most importantly, there is a lack of preservation methods.

Even if it is raised and fattened, it will eventually be dried into dried oysters, which may not be much more expensive than the current dried oysters.

I saw that the tide had not yet risen.

Li Duoyu walked towards the mother who was begging Xiaohai not far away.

There is a lot of small seafood on the tidal flats.

It's all densely packed with eyelets, including fiddler crabs with big pincers in front of you, and jumping fish that keep jumping in front of you, but you can't catch them.

There are also all kinds of mud snails, mud cockles, razor clams, sea melon seeds and so on.

Li Duoyu came to the place where A-Niang begged Xiaohai, she wore a hat, carried a bamboo fish basket with a lid, and held a hoe in her right hand.

As soon as I saw this formation, I came to catch the tide.

Wangchao is a small octopus that lives on the tidal flats, the scientific name is the short cricket, when the tide is low, it will curl up in the hole, once the tide starts, it will crawl out of the burrow, tentacles to shake up and down against the tide.

Fishermen can judge the rise and fall of the tide according to the special habit of looking at the tide, hence the name "Wangchao".

Wangchao has a much better taste than octopus, which is very suitable for boiling, and then dipping it in light soy pepper water, the taste is extremely beautiful and fresh.

If I remember correctly, in later generations, the price of a Wangchao can be sold for about 10 yuan, and on the tidal flats, some old people make money by digging this.

"Why are you here?"

Chen Huiying looked very surprised when she saw her son.

The women who begged Xiaohai together, after seeing Li Duoyu, also looked over.

In this era, there is a division of labor, men beg the sea, women beg the sea, and under normal circumstances, few men will follow women to ask for the sea together.

Because it will make them feel shameless.

And Li Duoyu doesn't care about these worldly eyes at all, Lao Tzu has lived to the second life, where will he care about these messy rules.

After walking a few steps, Li Duoyu saw a coin-sized hole next to his foot, which was regularly swallowing seawater.

"Mother, give me the hoe."

Chen Huiying looked at the fourth child suspiciously, he had never courted Xiaohai, how did he know how to catch the tide.

After handing the hoe, Chen Huiying advised: "Be careful, don't hit your feet." ”

"Got it."

Li Duoyu quickly hit a few hoes at the small hole that swallowed seawater, and an octopus with mud all over his body and teeth and claws ran out, but unfortunately he was hit by the hoe and broke one or two legs.

Li Duoyu picked it up and grinned:

"I'm good at this, I've got two or two."

This operation was smooth, and Chen Huiying was stupid, and what shocked her the most was that the fourth child's hole-finding skills were very good.

One digs and one is accurate.