Chapter 98: Harvesting Kelp (Seeking Recommendations)

Here at the kelp field.

Six sampans have already started working.

The work of harvesting kelp is particularly hard.

The kelp on a two- or three-meter-long kelp rope weighs more than 100 kilograms, and it has to be fished out of the sea one by one by manpower.

In later generations, there were special kelp harvesters, and harvesting kelp was relatively easy. You only need to control the crane to lift the kelp from the sea.

But in this era.

Almost all of it depends on manpower to pull and tug, and it is a test of physical strength and endurance.

Usually, each sampan requires three people to work together, one is responsible for untying the slipknot between the kelp rope and the main rope, and the other two people drag the kelp onto the boat.

Before harvesting.

Li Duoyu laid a rectangular brown rope net under the sampan, so that it is convenient for the crane on the trawler to lift the kelp onto the big ship.

Li Duoyu, Chen Wenchao and Li Yaoguo were assigned to the same boat. Li Yaoguo, who rarely went out to work, was responsible for untying the kelp rope.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao were responsible for pulling up the kelp. With the cooperation of the three people, it took about two minutes to pull up a kelp rope.

The eldest uncle and the second uncle, as fishermen of the older generation, have the habit of shouting when doing this kind of work.

They didn't pull the kelp for a while.

The two of them shouted loudly, without lyrics.

"Hey hey."

"Hey~ Hey~ Hey~"

The magical thing is that when the call sounded, everyone's movements also coordinated, and the work was much smoother.

After about an hour of pulling, everyone's sampans were already full of kelp.

Li Duoyu's sampan was particularly loaded with kelp, and the kelp pile was half a person high.

The seawater has reached the edge of the boat and it seems that it may pour in at any time.

Li Yaoguo, who seldom goes out to sea, was very nervous when he saw that the boat was about to be flooded. He held the diesel engine head with both hands.

"There are so many fish, our boat will not sink."

The uncle next to him smiled and said, "I can see that you rarely go out to sea. Our boat has empty cabins and is made of wood. We are afraid of capsizing, not sinking. We will pull away another 200 kilograms for you."

Li Yaoguo kept shaking his head: "Forget it, let's do it."

After the six sampans were filled with kelp.

The eldest cousin drove his power fishing boat to pull these small sampans to the trawler of the third uncle.

Then use the crane of the trawler to pull the harvested kelp to the trawler first.

Then, everyone returned to the kelp field.

Continue to harvest kelp.

When the trawler could not fit in and the tide rose, everyone went to the bamboo piles on the mudflats and hung the collected kelp on the ropes of the bamboo piles.

At this time,

The advantages of using bamboo poles to dry kelp are reflected. Everyone only needs to work in one sea area, and there is no need to transport the kelp to land and find an open space to dry it, which saves a lot of time and effort.

After all, harvesting kelp is a race against time. The better the weather, the faster everyone can harvest.

As for tiredness,

it must be very tiring.

But Li Yaoguo, who works in an office, has managed to hold on, and others are embarrassed to complain about being tired,

although it is only the end of April.

But the sun at noon is still scorching, making everyone feel uncomfortable.

But everyone did not go back, but took a temporary rest on the trawler.

After a morning of rushing to harvest, the relatives who came to help were all wet and sticky. Qingguang, the youngest, felt too uncomfortable and jumped into the sea to swim two laps.

The older generation laughed and scolded: "Silly, this is sea water, the more you wash, the more uncomfortable you will be, and your whole body will be covered with salt."

Li Duoyu, who was resting, suddenly felt something foreign under his feet, as if a small stone had fallen into the pair of waterproof shoes Zhou Xiaoying gave him.

When he poured it out, he found that it was a small abalone, which might have fallen in when collecting kelp.

Li Duoyu smelled it curiously, and it was the kind of athlete's foot mixed with the smell of stinking and dead, which was very intoxicating.

In order to thank everyone for coming to help, Li Duoyu did not save money this time. In addition to asking his mother to make salty rice and kelp and bone soup, he also bought several boxes of Rongcheng beer to reward everyone.

The eldest cousin, who had eaten three bowls of salty rice, couldn't help but praise: "I have eaten salty rice from so many places, but I still feel that the salty rice from my aunt's house is the most delicious."

Chen Huiying smiled and said: "How can it not be delicious? I used up all the lard in the house to fry this pot of salty rice."

"You are so generous."

"Didn't Duoyu specifically tell me to eat more oil and water so that you won't have the energy to work when the time comes?"

"Hahaha."

This reminds everyone of the days in the 1970s when oil and water were particularly scarce, because at that time, everything was rationed.

There was no shortage of seafood on the island, but the most lacking was oil and water. At that time, even if you ate a lot of seafood, you would still feel hungry and uncomfortable without oil and water in your stomach.

Li Duoyu remembered that for a period of time, he was afraid of seafood. After the yellow croaker without oil and water was steamed, he really didn't want to eat a bite.

In later life, his son told him that they had "rabbit meat syndrome".

What else can be said? When people are hungry, they will definitely consume fat first. When there is not enough fat to consume, they will start to consume muscle to provide energy. Therefore, it is useless to eat more meat without fat.

Therefore, humans cannot live without oil and water, and animals are the same. Many animals do not like to eat meat, but only like to eat liver and fat with high oil and water.

Unfortunately, Li Duoyu has little education, and apart from seafood farming and cooking skills, he really knows nothing else.

It wasn't until later that I let go.

The situation has improved since we can raise pigs and chickens and ducks by ourselves. For a period of time, the fish and shrimps caught by fishermen were used to feed pigs.

After everyone finished eating the salty rice, they all drank the kelp tube bone soup. Even though they had drank it several times, everyone still praised the taste.

After Chen Wenchao finished eating, he squatted alone in a dark place, bit open the bottle cap with his teeth, and drank beer.

Li Duoyu also brought a bottle of beer, placed the edge of the bottle cap against the wooden edge of the boat, and quickly drank a dozen.

The beer bottle caps were also opened.

Speaking of which, there are really many ways to open beer bottle caps, including chopsticks, knives, and lighters.

The most exaggerated thing is that in later short videos, there are still shots fired with a "violent weapon". Li Duoyu still doesn't understand what happened.

After opening the beer cap.

Li Duoyu raised his beer bottle and touched it with the bottle in Chen Wenchao's hand.

"Did you work too hard last night? Why do you look so tired today?"

Chen Wenchao grinned: "I slept alone last night."

"Then why do you still look constipated?"

Chen Wenchao said truthfully: "I just see you have so many relatives and our relationship is so good, I'm really envious."

Li Duoyu sighed.

No wonder this kid said so little today. He thought he had a quarrel with Liu Xiaolan. This was the reason.

Chen Wenchao's family should be the latest group of people to live on Dandan Island, and their family size is relatively small.

In addition, his father and mother were swept away by the sea water on the rocks when they were searching for a small sea in the early years. In the end, only he and an old lady were left.

Li Duoyu patted his shoulder.

"It's not easy to have more people. You and Xiaolan work harder to have more children. In a few years, the population will be prosperous."

Chen Wenchao smiled bitterly and said: "Now that we have children, we have planned them. I heard people say that there are only two at most. If you have more, you will be fined."

After listening to what he said, Li Duoyu realized that now is indeed the time when the birth plan is the strictest.

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Then make more money. As long as you have enough money, you are not afraid of being punished."

Chen Wenchao smiled and said:

"Brother Yu, how many babies my family can have depends entirely on you."

"OK, no problem."

But when Li Duoyu thought about it carefully, there was something wrong with these words.

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