Ye Yaodong shook his head, "Am I so free? I go to sea every two days and I can't even finish the work at hand, and I even work on kelp."
"Seeing how relaxed you said it was, didn't you think it was also very simple?"
"It also needs to be managed, and it also depends on the sea temperature. Not all places can raise it, but if it can be raised, it is very simple. As long as there is a rope clamped to hang it in the sea, and a foam ball to float it, you will not be afraid of being caught.
The waves are gone. If you are interested, I can teach you. If you can raise this, it will drive the whole village and allow some villagers to earn more money."
When everyone heard that they could earn more money, their eyes lit up.
"Okay, okay, this can be raised and sold, right?"
"You can sell it for money, hang it up in the sun, and dry it. Can't it be stored for a long time? And it is also easy to transport. Unlike the seafood we catch, transportation is very inconvenient and can only be transported to a few nearby towns. If this is done
If so, wouldn’t it be possible for large trucks to transport people all over the country?”
"Yes, yes..."
"Yes, we just caught so much. Everyone is thinking that after drying it, we can eat it on the boat for a few days without fear of spoilage. It would be better if we can sell it for money."
"Someone should want it. People in the city have to pay for the vegetables grown in the fields. The vegetables in our sea are also vegetables..."
Ye Yaodong looked at the kelp floating everywhere on the sea, and thought that if he couldn't do it, he could let the villagers do it, and then he would take it back and sell it in the shop.
I can make money myself, and it can also bring hope to my fellow villagers to earn a living.
Although kelp at this time is very cheap, it is the lowest-end seafood, and is commonly used as feed. The feed for sea cucumbers and abalones is kelp, but now few people raise abalone and sea cucumbers. What everyone eats is purely natural and wild.
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Therefore, no one bothers to raise low-end products such as kelp. It grows randomly on rocks. No one picks it up when it falls into the sea. No one wants it, and people on the beach don't care to eat it.
When you want to eat, you can pick up some from the sea and ask for two slices if they are drying at the door. You can have them, and the folks in the village are happy to share them.
Even if you stop at the door to take a few more glances, people will ask you if you want it and enthusiastically let you take some back to cook.
He thought about it and felt that it was indeed feasible to lead the entire fishing village to cultivate kelp. In his previous life, their village also had kelp cultivation, and in the offshore base field further away, there were also laver cultivation, hair lettuce cultivation, and oyster cultivation.
We have boats, we have everything, and now we are just developing ahead of schedule.
For seaside fishing villages with few mountains and little land, their hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich lies entirely in the sea. Building fishing boats to go fishing requires a certain cost. Some fishermen with no financial conditions at all do not have this capital.
There are more than 400 households in their village, and most of them can only do part-time jobs, doing odd jobs to earn a small amount of money to make ends meet, or they can just open up some land and grow some food to ensure that they don't starve to death.
There are still very few people who really make money, and most of them are around him now.
If these kelp seedlings fished back from the sea are taken back and raised, they might as well be a way out for the fishing village, or a way for the whole village to become rich.
If this is really grown, there will be no need to worry about selling it. Why do people in inland areas eat iodized salt? It is because they consume too little seafood and lack iodine.
Kelp is rich in iodine, so seafood is not easy to eat. It will be convenient if the kelp is dried and transported.
Therefore, the salt eaten by people at the beach does not contain iodine because they are worried about consuming too much iodine.
Drying kelp is much easier than drying dried fish. You can just find a place to spread it out and hang it.
After everyone discussed it, they all looked at Ye Yaodong.
"Can you afford it, A Dong?"
Ye Yaodong turned his head and said, "Okay, find a suitable sea area where you can raise them. When I went to sea last month, I occasionally saw some floating on the sea. At that time, I didn't think about catching them..."
"If it hadn't been caught in a fishing net, why would you want to fish for it? There is nothing rare about common things."
"If you want it, we'll catch some with a hand net and dry it in the sun. It probably grew on the rocks on some island. Now that the elders have grown up, they've been thrown into the sea by the waves, and no one wants them."
"Yeah, no one is fishing for it, no one wants it, that's why it's floating in such a large area."
"It's up to you. If you are done with the sorting work, you can just catch some and dry it in the sun. The work at hand must be more important. It doesn't matter whether you catch the kelp in the sea or not, because now is not the time for the kelp to grow.
"
Kelp grows in low-temperature seawater. If the water temperature is above 20 degrees, kelp will not grow but will rot. Therefore, January to April every year is the best season for kelp growth.
After the Qingming Festival, the temperature begins to rise, which is a good season for kelp harvest.
Some of the ones on the ground are indeed rotten, and they are also in their mature season.
Wild kelp grows on rocks, and its roots are firmly attached to the rocks. It has grown for too long, and it can be easily knocked off when it gets a little rotten. I don’t know how long it has been floating.
Otherwise, it grows in hot sea areas with strong currents and small waves. The faster the tide, the larger the kelp.
There are indeed kelp growing on the rocks on the islands near them. Last year, he and Ah Qing got a lot of them to dry in the sun. If they really wanted to raise them, the surrounding sea area would also be suitable for growing them.
At the beginning, he only thought about fishing and breeding, and he didn't have the energy. But seeing how interested everyone is now, he directly asked the village cadres to come forward and start collective breeding. If he collects it, he can also make the whole village rich.
The most important thing is that the sea near them is really suitable for breeding, and his shop is on the right track. The fish raised in the village can really be eaten, and there is no need to worry about sales.
Wealth first drives wealth later, personal wealth drives collective wealth, everyone gets rich together and responds to policies.
That is, the current kelp has not been carefully cultivated from generation to generation, and the yield and growth may not be as good as in the future. However, it depends on people. As long as he gets started and can see some results, it will be considered a success.
Professional things require professional talents. As long as some results can be seen, the village committee can think of ways to make it bigger, and the government can also take the lead in inviting technical personnel to vigorously develop it. This is beyond his control.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, but as long as he can see results at the beginning, he doesn't need to worry about the rest.
Everyone was confused when they heard that it was not the growing season for kelp, and even asked questions.
"These are the two months every year that have the most kelp, right?"
"Yes, it doesn't grow when the temperature is high, so it matures and is blown into the sea by the waves. It is more suitable to clip kelp in winter."
"If we catch more now, can't we take back the tender ones and raise them?"
"Didn't you just say you could take it back and raise it?"
Ye Yaodong thought for a moment about what he just said, and seemed to have said, "I just saw it, and it was so smooth, so I said you can take it back and raise it. It can be raised, but it is easy to rot at this temperature. If you want to raise it well, you can't
We have to wait until winter, now is the harvest season, not the time to plant seedlings."
In winter, go to a nearby island to collect seedlings, and then clip them with a rope to grow them directly on the nearby island.
"Oh, now these can only be eaten."
"Let's dry it in the sun. All the fishing nets have been caught. Don't waste it. Hang it up with a rope and let it dry in the sea for two days. Then you all can share it and you can take it home to make soup. Anyway, let's leave it there.
It won’t break.”
"Then let's dry it."
"There are quite a few floating in the sea. I wonder if they fell off one of the surrounding islands. Do you want to fish them out?"
"Let's fish. It happens that it's not dinner time yet. Everyone is in good spirits. Let's divide it into two people to help fish it out. It won't delay the work on the boat."
"Then let's do it... let A Dong teach me how to plant it in winter..."
"Yes, the vegetables grown in the ground cannot be sold for much. Does anyone want the vegetables grown in the sea when they are dried?"
"Vegetables grown on the ground can be sold for money. People in the city don't have land, so they have to spend money to buy the vegetables they eat. Who is like us in the countryside, where the vegetables are worthless and we can't even grow them ourselves."
"Then there should be some people who want this..."
"Let's fish it out first. Fish out what's within reach and forget about what's out of reach."
They themselves said it was lively, so after discussing it, two people were divided into fishing. Anyway, the fishing boat was not moving very fast.
Ye Yaodong also squatted in the corner of the pile of kelp and picked through it. If it was partially rotten, he would cut it off with scissors. If it was too big, he would throw it away. He also picked out the old and tender ones. Today's kelp is not as big as that of later generations, and the kelp looks wild.
Especially young.
To be honest, no one wants natural products now, and no one would even think about breeding them. What is really lacking is the inland mountainous areas, and it is not just the lack of these. The poor areas in the inland mountainous areas are lacking everything.
But how can people’s minds think so far now? Everyone is just in their own one-third of an acre of land and has no knowledge. Not even 1/10 of the people in the village have been to the county seat. Very few people can think forward.
If you want to farm, you won’t be able to eat all the fish you catch from the bottom of the sea, so you have to feed the livestock.
Everyone had so much confidence in him. They immediately believed that he could make money when he said he could sell it. This was because they saw how successfully he sold dried fish and made so much money.
Otherwise, who would believe him?
Those fish products that no one collects at their beaches can be turned into treasures, and kelp will certainly do the same.
Everyone picked and picked, salvaged and salvaged, divided labor and cooperated, and did not forget to chat and discuss a few words.
Father Ye watched them suddenly start salvaging the kelp from the cockpit, and he was a little confused. What was the purpose of fixing that thing?
He didn't have time to ask. He only asked casually when Dongzi came to take his place while waiting for dinner.
"Why are they picking up so much kelp?"
"When I said it could be sold for money, I quickly salvaged it."
"Sell it for money? How much can you sell it for? There is it in the sea when the season comes."
"Of course you can make money by drying it and selling it. Dried fish is easy to sell, but there is no reason why kelp is not easy to sell."
In an era when supplies are scarce, people want everything, especially things that don’t require tickets, and they are even more frantic to grab them.
In his previous life, he had seen a large truck pull a load of defective cloth, and women from the entire village surrounded it and tried to get it, as if they didn't want any money.
Father Ye was doubtful, "Does anyone really want it? It's floating on the sea and no one can catch it. Is there anyone who cares about it?"
"Why is there no one who wants something that is edible? In many places, the problem of food and clothing is still to be solved or has just been solved. It is so cheap here, and the things that no one wants can be snatched up in other places. Otherwise,
Where did there come from so many treacherous people and smugglers?"
"How can it be compared? Those people are messing around with valuable things. What do you think you are messing with?"
"What I deal with are all serious seaside souvenirs. They are breaking the law, but I am an honest person."
"Just a little bit, let's see how much you can sell it for..."
"Whoever sells them, those are kept in the sun and eaten. This little bit is not enough for me to sell. I will do more work when winter comes."
"So you can do it? You can do everything else?"
"Look at it, have you ever seen me talk big words? Haven't I accomplished everything I said? Look at what I earn now."
Father Ye didn't have to refute. It was proven that he was right many times. Maybe it was possible to sell it for money. Just because no one wanted it here meant that no one wanted it elsewhere.
After showing him the cockpit, Father Ye also went down to eat. By the way, he took a look at the pieces of kelp that the boatmen had hung up with ropes to dry, just like door curtains.
However, the current kelp is not as large as the one in the future. Just like the quilt, the width of the current kelp is only twenty or thirty centimeters. The varieties have not been continuously improved, but the thickness is quite thick.
Worried that hanging them there would affect the view, the boatmen hung them horizontally, above the deck. They were afraid that hanging them above the sides of the ship would affect the cockpit's view of the surroundings of the fishing boat.
"Third brother, A Dong said that this kelp can be sold for money. He knows so much now."
"He has traveled a lot. He has seen the world differently. Who is like us, who can never leave the village in his life? If he goes far away, he will be floating on a deserted sea."
"Indeed, there is no one in the whole village who has been to more places and met more people than A Dong. He can also recognize the leaders. He definitely knows more than us."
"If you really sell this kelp, how much can it cost?"
No one had time to ask Ye Yaodong just now, and now they all looked at Father Ye curiously.
"I didn't know that he has such upright ideas every day. He knows more heretical things than anyone else. He also subscribes to and reads newspapers every day. He must know something about it."
"We always give away things that no one wants, but I didn't expect that we can sell them for money outside."
"Let it dry in the sun first. There are no ribs at night. I put the shrimps in to cook the kelp soup. It tastes pretty good. It's quite fresh."
Father Ye tasted it twice and thought, isn't it the same thing?
I heard one by one that they can be sold for money, but the taste of the things seems to be different?
He cursed a little but didn't say anything.
After the meal, everyone continued to work in an orderly manner, and those who should rest also went to rest after nightfall.
It was calm for several days, and the kelp hanging on the boat was dried in the sun one after another.
After everyone knew that they could be sold for money, they worked hard these days to catch all the kelp they could get, and the kelp brought up by the trawl was not thrown away.
So much so that a large piece of kelp was dried in the sun and then hung up. For several days, the kelp on the deck has not stopped.
When the sky became a little gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain, everyone gathered up all their rolls and piled up three thick baskets, and white frost appeared on the top of each piece of kelp.
There will be a layer of white powder on the surface of dried kelp. Many people think it is salt or ash, and these white powder will be washed away when soaking. But in fact, it is a very precious medicinal substance called mannitol.
Don’t mistakenly think that the layer of white frost is the precipitation of salt or moldy deterioration.
This is a good diuretic, has the effect of reducing swelling, and has hangover, weight loss and anti-cancer and anti-bacterial effects!
Everyone looked at the two large baskets of kelp rolls at their feet and smiled.
"I didn't expect that just by fishing casually in the past few days, I could accumulate two big baskets. These can add up to a hundred catties, right?"
"Enough to last a long time."
"We can't eat it all in a year, so much."
"Ah Dong, if you sell these, how much can they cost?"
Everyone has wanted to ask this for a long time.
Ye Yaodong was also asked. He carefully said a conservative purchase price, "How can someone buy it for seventy-eight cents per catty of sun-dried food? More than a hundred catties of it should be sold for ten yuan each?"
The fact is that he knew that in the late 1980s, dried kelp sold for 7 cents per kilogram. The profits added up, and eventually 1/10 of it would reach the hands of vegetable farmers.
Everyone's eyes lit up. This was more expensive than many fish products, and it was something they had just fished from the sea when they passed by.
There is a lot of kelp in the sea area where we have been working these two days, all of which float from nearby islands.
"That's quite valuable! There are still seven or eight cents left."
"Yes, this is something everyone can just pick up."
"If we could dig up the fish from the island and plant it, wouldn't we be able to make money?"
"It's theoretically possible, but that will have to wait until the second half of the year."
"You are stupid, why do you have to dig it up and plant it? Just let it grow on the island. When it matures, can everyone just dig it up and dry it in the sun?"
Ye Yaodong smiled, and his thoughts were quite beautiful.
"It grows naturally on the island. There is no management. How much it grows depends on luck. It may grow this year but not next year, or it may only grow a little next year. It's all a matter of luck. If you raise it by yourself, take good care of it.
Reason, then the output must be higher."
"That's true..."
"Don't think so much. Winter is the time to pick up kelp. After taking these two baskets of kelp back, everyone will share one. Each person will get one or twenty kilograms. Neighbors or relatives will give one or two as a gift.
It doesn’t weigh much.”
"Okay, okay... Then we can divide it up after we get it back."
Father Ye thought that it would probably be winter, and everyone forgot about it. After all, it was a span of several months, so Dongzi had better not bother with it anymore.
He has workshops, shops, and a lot of fishing boats in his hands. He is very busy. If he is doing something to raise kelp, it is like a spinning top. Who can help him?
I don’t have time either, and I don’t know anything.
"Let's carry them all into the cabin first, and cover them with cloth to prevent them from getting wet. It looks like it's going to rain heavily today, but don't let the sun shine in vain. After we carry them in, we'll also prepare to set up an Internet cafe. I'll also tell my in-laws,
Go back early."
While I was talking, it turned out that the already cloudy sky had darkened even more, and it was clearly only 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Ye Yaodong also looked up at the dim sky. The air was also very stuffy, and he felt like the calm before the storm.
"Either don't get off the net and go back first. The waves are quite high. It looks like it's going to rain not only heavily but also a heavy rain today. We ran too far out. We originally planned to go back tomorrow."
, trawling the net as we go back."
"That's okay. I'll tell my in-laws that we'll go back first and wait to see if the rain is heavy. If it's not heavy, we can put the net down again; if it's raining too hard, just go back with all our strength.
There’s no need to collect it.”
"Um."
Everyone immediately took their places and got busy. Ye Yaodong also went to put on the raincoats and asked everyone to put them on first in case it rained suddenly.
As soon as the opening of the fishing net was closed, big raindrops began to fall. There was no need for them to make a decision on their own. God made the decision for them first.
After the crackling raindrops fell, it became extremely rapid, and it poured heavily in an instant, as if all the rain accumulated in the dark clouds fell down at once.
Everyone was collecting the nets under the heavy rain, and the thick rain curtains blurred everyone's vision. The waves were rolling due to the rapid rain, and the fishing boats were rocked even more by the waves.
When a boatman was closing the net, he was leaning against the side of the boat and the shaking of the fishing boat made him unsteady and he fell on top of it. Fortunately, Ye Yaodong was watching the closing of the net from the side and quickly pulled him with his quick eyes, otherwise he would have been completely injured.
They probably all have to fall down.
Unfortunately, the fish collection bag of the fishing net has just been hoisted up, and the fishing net is still in the water. If this person falls, he will definitely be entangled in the fishing net in the water, and will also be hit by the rolling waves.
Ye Yaodong was so scared that he shouted in the rain, "Be careful..."
The boatman's heartbeat also accelerated, he slapped his chest several times, and he quickly stood away.
No one knew what happened in the pouring rain. Only the two of them knew that someone had just almost walked away from the gate of hell.
Ye Yaodong also quickly went to tell others to be careful and not get too close to the edge of the boat. He just wanted to tighten the fish bag and lift it up, but there was nothing he could do.
Everyone was alert, as they were most afraid of accidents during the heavy rain.
Fortunately, there was no danger. After receiving the goods, all we had to do was squat on the deck and sort them. At most, the fishing boat would shake and fall a few times.
After the fishing nets were collected, the fishing boats also accelerated back. The Harvest was a little slower, but after ten minutes, it also appeared behind their tails.
The heavy rain continued for two hours, and their fishing boat was also in the wind and rain. After slowing down for two hours, the rain gradually slowed down and became lighter, and the sky became a little brighter.
After the rain subsided, Ye's father thought about setting up another net, and drove to the market while working. The time was almost just right to go ashore at night to sell goods.
If we speed up and go to the city now, we may have to arrive early and wait at the door for a long time.
Ye Yaodong watched the rain getting lighter and had no objection.
"After the goods are sold out in the docking city, we will go back directly and will not continue to go to sea."
"Okay, the weather doesn't look too good, so I might as well go back early."
"The harvest this time was not very good, it would not be a pity to go back."
Father Ye nodded.
This trip was rare and we only stayed for four or five days before going back. However, when we returned to the village, the ground was still dry and there was no trace of rain at all.
Being far away is one thing, but being unpredictable is another thing.
This time they still didn't dry the fish, so they sold all the fish they could sell in the city. They were worried that the sudden rain would be too much trouble, so they fermented everything.
It is worth mentioning that as soon as he got home, Ah Qing said that all the fish sauce that started fermenting at the end of last year has been brought to the city, and all the small shops have replenished a batch of goods in recent days.
There is not a drop left in the warehouse at home, and the existing ones will only start fermenting after the new year.
The fish sauce brought to the city can last for more than a month at most, and then it will probably be discontinued.
For those fermented after the New Year, it will take two months to wait for packaging. Those in the city can barely wait until fermentation, packaging and delivery of new ones, while small shops should have a one-month gap period.
Ye Yaodong did not expect to be able to sell short within half a year, and the speed was quite fast.
Ah Qing also recorded each batch of fish sauce transported separately, but in the market, he could only record the number of empty tanks brought back each time.
Otherwise, the sales would not be so fast, and most of them would be taken to the city for storage. But if her father could keep an account of what he sold on the same day, it would be good. The fish sauce was sold retail, and his father would not be able to keep accounts alone.
As for there being a window of opportunity, Ah Qing also told him when he went home that he had been assigned delivery boys in the past two days and asked him to tell each store that there would be no goods next month, and he would be contacted next month.
Pick up.
"It's good that we have said hello, lest people think that we are broken by our promises and will not sell it for half a year."
Lin Xiuqing said happily: "I thought it would take a whole year to sell out, but I didn't expect that it would be sold out in less than half a year. I was worried that it would not be connected."
"That's because when they were delivering goods, they would occasionally shout a few times while passing by the streets. If they saw a small shop, they would go in and ask. Gradually, more and more small shops were selling on consignment basis, and the sales were getting faster."
"Well, I've done the math. Those 30 tons of goods, after deducting the deposit cost from our large tank, also earned us more than 6,500 yuan. That is to say, in only half a year, we have almost recovered our capital. No.
When I think of those little fish sauces that are sold so cheaply and can pay back so quickly, I originally thought that the money spent on buying land and building walls might not be able to pay back this year."
"That's because it sells quickly. If it's sold until the end of the year, it won't be the same as having to wait until the end of the year to almost get the money back."
"Yes, it sells quickly. Calculated, it can only be a few hundred dollars short of recouping the cost. These are probably the raw materials for groceries. Anyway, the gas money is included in the total monthly expenses."
"Now we have just earned back what we invested last year, so there is no need to be happy in a hurry. We fermented more in the first half of this year, and the groceries brought back by the two ships combined were more than five times that of last year. We earned several thousand yuan in the first half of the year
We have to invest more than half of it and order a larger water tank for outdoor fermentation. We won’t really start to make money until the second half of the year.”
"Yes, yes." Lin Xiuqing nodded repeatedly.
Chapter completed!