"Due to the influence of cold air from the north, the temperature in the southern coastal cities is lower than normal all year round, so please be prepared for the cold."

The weather was cold though.

But the farmers on Dandan Island are very busy, and the wharf is full of shouts and shouts for people to help with kelp seedlings.

"Lao Chun, are you free tomorrow, come and help my family with kelp seedlings, and give you three yuan a day."

"It's useless to give five pieces, my hands are frostbitten, and now I'm itching to death, and I can't clip it even if I want to."

"Then are you scumbags free?"

"My family, help Zhang Jinsha."

The last month of '84.

It is the busiest month on Dandan Island, and there are more than 20 farmers on the whole island, including Chenjia Village, raising more than 800 acres of kelp.

At this time, someone turned out what Li Duoyu said to the leader in the newspaper last year, and everyone found that he didn't seem to be bragging, he really made kelp farming bigger and stronger.

For a whole month, half of the villagers on Dandan Island were constantly sandwiching kelp seedlings, and those kelp farmers were all grabbing people to clip kelp seedlings.

But because the weather is so cold, many people have frostbite on their hands and feet within a week, and they can't do it if they want to.

This also led to the direct doubling of the wages of kelp seedlings, which was originally a maximum of two yuan a day, and now the wages of kelp seedlings are at least four yuan a day.

If you are quick with your hands and feet, it is not a problem to earn five or six yuan a day.

Fortunately, Li Duoyu has enough relatives, and in less than half a month, they took the lead in finishing the more than 200 acres of kelp seedlings.

Among them, Li Duoyu has 100 acres, the uncle's family has 100 acres, the third uncle has 50 acres, and the brother-in-law Chen Dongqing has 20 acres.

During this period, Li Duoyu also took time to attend Chen Wenchao's wedding.

Marriage in this era is quite simple, and it doesn't pay so much attention to the sense of ceremony.

Take a wedding photo with both parties.

Then go to the town and register, and you will be officially married.

As for the three major pieces, the four major pieces and the like, even in this era, it is the standard for the rich, ordinary people get married, at most they buy a few enamel basins and buy a sewing machine.

What refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines, that's just not even a thought.

After all, for fishermen, instead of spending so much money and buying those luxury goods, it is better to save more money and build a big boat.

On the day of their wedding, Chen Wenchao and Liu Xiaolan mostly listened to the good words of the bride there, and then worshiped heaven and earth, ancestors, and elders.

Then, it is to feast relatives and friends, all kinds of toasts, because Liu Xiaolan has more brothers and younger sisters get married, they are brothers-in-law, they don't get any benefits, and they still have some resentment.

On the day of the wedding, Chen Wenchao poured a lot of wine.

And in this month.

Li Duoyu's eel pond was finally dug up.

There are seven large ponds.

Li Duoyu also upgraded the original simple bamboo factory and built six shallow cement ponds in it, which were specially used to raise eel seedlings.

Li Duoyu, who came over, knew very well that the newly dug pond could not directly raise fish, and it had to go through a series of treatments.

First of all, add water to the new pond, soak it for ten days and half a month, observe whether there is a leakage point in the pond, and if there is a leakage, it should be plugged.

Then observe if there are any small fry in the pond, and if so, clean them all.

In the past, he was also curious about why there were fish fry in the newly dug pond, but later he heard from other people's families.

Some of the land that is lower and close to the creek may have fish eggs in the soil, even if it was not a pond before.

Thousands of years of grass seeds, 10,000 years of fish!

In the rainy season some time ago, Li Duoyu had already discovered that after these newly dug ponds were soaked in water, there were inexplicably more small miscellaneous fish fry.

For the eel pond, these small trash fish are unnecessary, so the last step is to sterilize the pond with quicklime, and by the way, these small fry are also purified.

In addition to the outdoor earthen ponds, the indoor cement ponds also have to be treated, because the alkalinity of the cement ponds is relatively large, in the previous life they generally used oxalic acid or alum to purify.

But in this era, these two things are difficult to buy, and Li Duoyu directly used the most stupid soil method, boiling the cement pool at high temperature.

Set up a few iron pots there, keep boiling hot water, and then pour it into the cement pool.

And Chen Dongqing, who was "watching" and "learning" the whole time, sighed from time to time, he was too lazy to ask Li Duoyu why he understood so much.

Anyway, no matter how much I asked, I couldn't ask why, but I felt a little stupid.

After the preliminary work was ready, Li Duoyu was officially ready to start catching eel seedlings, and I heard some women who begged Xiaohai say that some eel seedlings have been caught on the beach recently.

Li Duoyu also looked at the calendar, and in two days it will be January, and the eel fry is indeed coming.

However, before catching the seedlings, there is a more priority thing, that is, Li Duoyu has to catch a small thing called bloodworm first.

Bloodworms are larvae of midges and generally live in stinky gutters.

The way to catch them is also very simple, that is, to make a piece of gauze, and then see where there are bloodworms, and go down with a shovel.

Even the mud worms are dug up directly, then put them in gauze, and keep shaking and washing them in clean water, and after cleaning all the soil, the rest is the bloodworms.

After the construction of the eel breeding factory, in addition to Chen Wenchao, Li Duoyu had two more employees, namely his brother Li Yaoguo and his second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua.

And their work on the first day of work was to go to the stinky ditch with Li Duoyu to catch bloodworms.

After learning about the content of the work, Li Yaoguo thought about taking sick leave on his first day of work, but was dragged off the bed by Zhu Xiuhua.

Five people in rain boots were constantly scooping bloodworms in a stinky ditch full of foreign objects.

Li Yaoguo vomited while scooping, since he was a child, he has never done such dirty work, especially in the stinky ditch, and there is often the excrement of little children.

"This demon is tight, the tuba won't go to the pit, why is it all pulled into the ditch."

Li Duoyu smiled.

"If they don't pull here, maybe there won't be so many bloodworms."

And their bizarre behavior has also attracted the attention of the villagers.

If it were changed to other people's words, it is estimated that everyone would scold them for disgusting, but if they were replaced by Li Duoyu, everyone suddenly felt that bloodworms might become very expensive.

There are quite a few villagers who can't help but want to catch them together, but they don't know what Li Duoyu uses to catch bloodworms.

In fact, even Chen Dongqing of the Fisheries Research Institute was confused, but he was still tricked by Li Duoyu to come here to catch bloodworms.

At first, Chen Dongqing refused, but when Li Duoyu, the big boss, offered a price of two yuan for one pound of bloodworms, he knelt down on the spot.

Less than two days.

They turned over the stinky ditches in the entire village, but they only caught less than 20 catties of bloodworms, after all, the island has few fresh water resources, and there are relatively few stinky ditches.

The number of these bloodworms is far from sufficient, and Li Duoyu has seven large ponds, each of which can raise at least 7,000 adult eels.

Li Duoyu has to catch at least nearly 50,000 eel seedlings, considering that his breeding equipment is not very good, if the mortality rate is counted, he must breed at least 100,000 eel seedlings in the early stage.

And twenty catties of bloodworms are only enough to raise for two or three days at most, Li Duoyu had no choice but to release a broadcast of bloodworm acquisition through the village loudspeaker.

It will continue to collect bloodworms for a period of time at the price of two pieces per catty.

After hearing this price, some villagers who originally wanted to catch bloodworms were so angry that they slapped their thighs.

Many of them ran to the town, and in the stinky ditches of other villages, they scooped up this inconspicuous little red bug.

Li Duoyu, on the other hand, has made a special net for catching eel fry, and will be able to start fishing tomorrow. (End of chapter)