Back to 90s small fishing village

"Okay, you eat first. I'm back in the field. You don't have to go to work these days. Have a good rest. By the way, when you finish the infusion, go home. Don't forget to take the remaining medicine. The fee is paid. When you go back to work, don't forget to thank Brother Ping An for sending you here and helping you pay for your medical expenses."

"Okay, okay, go away. Mother-in-law and mother-in-law are so annoying." Xu Pingcai's cheeks were bulging. As soon as he spoke, a grain of rice flew out of his mouth and fell on the sheets.

This period of time is the critical period for planting pearl cores. The farm does not have many people, but the scale is not small. They have to plant these clam seedlings one by one by hand before the weather gets completely hot. The project is indeed not small. .

Perhaps because he had had enough sleep in the past two days, Xu Ping gradually calmed down. After eating, he sat on the hospital bed and waited for the IV drip to finish, while reflecting on himself.

After finally finishing the IV drip and leaving the health center, he returned home honestly.

When he walked into the courtyard, he looked at the back of Xu Jinfu, who was hunched over and coughing, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"dad……"

"Oh, I'm back." Xu Jinfu was concentrating on repairing the TV remote control without raising his head. "Are you full? If not, there is still rice in the pot. Let's go and rest after eating."

"Hey... it's not too hot yet, and it's going to be rainy weather soon. Please pay more attention to your health and stop smoking..." Xu Pingcai didn't dare to look at his father, and after explaining, he fled to the kitchen.

While holding the chicken soup, Xu Pingcai couldn't help but shed tears.

He sniffed and took a big sip, wanting to continue to feel his father's mountain of silent love, but he was stunned——

Normal chicken soup, normal saltiness, no "father's taste".

"Xu Pingli! Are you kidding me?" Xu Pingcai couldn't help shouting in the kitchen.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jinfu heard Xu Pingcai's shout and came over.

"Did you make this chicken soup, Dad?"

"No, Ping Li made it this morning. What's wrong? It's rancid? Can I try it?"

"It's okay." Xu Pingcai gritted his teeth and forced a smile, "You go about your business, I'll go to bed after dinner."

Xu Jinfu shrugged, curled his lips and left.

Although Xu Pingli returned home that day and inevitably had a friendly competition between brothers, Xu Pingcai's spirit visibly recovered after this episode.

Then he hurriedly threw himself into the work of the breeding farm against time.

As soon as he entered the farm, he saw three haggard people. The entire farm was silent, except for the occasional sound of fry in the nursery pond.

In the past few days, in order to catch up on work, the three of them brought bedding to the office, and the village chief and Xu Pingyi helped deliver meals.

The arrival of Xu Pingcai restored everyone's popularity a little bit, but only a little bit.

"I'm going to see the fishing ground." Xu Ping said hello.

"Don't go, come here to help." Xu Pingli said in a dry voice.Xu Ping said "Oh", moved the stool, took the tools, sat between them, and put on gloves.

"You see what we do, you do it."

Xu Pingcai leaned next to Xu Pingli and watched him skillfully fix the clam shells on the shelf. With one hand, he used a small hook to pick up the gonads of the mother shell. With the other hand, he removed a small piece from the stainless steel plate on the side from other clams. The removed "skirt" was stuffed in, and then a dozen bead cores the size of fried rice were put in.

After the internship, Xu Pingcai also started practice.

"Be careful," Xu Pingli said worriedly, leaning in to give instructions, "Be careful not to hurt the clams when picking them. These clams are very valuable."

"I know, I know." Xu Pingcai said, shaking his hand, he stabbed the clam's flesh, and the soft body of the clam shrank suddenly.

If it could make a sound, it would probably make me cry.

"It's all because you kept talking nearby and distracted me!" Xu Ping raised his head and looked at Xu Pingli angrily, "Go, go and do your own thing."

After pricking the same clam several times, Xu Ping finally succeeded in provoking its gonads and carefully inserted the mantle and bead core.

The joy of success surged in his heart, and he raised his head, only to see three people who were as numb as machines. Only a few clams with wedges in them were left in front of them.

Xu Ping swallowed, lowered his head, and continued to do his own thing.

Fortunately, they finally managed to implant bead nuclei into all the densely packed clam seedlings in the six nursery ponds before May.

"Wow, I'm going to throw up. I've been dreaming about planting bead cores... I'm going to recruit new people no matter what next year. I can't stand it anymore." After planting the last clam, Xu Pingli's eyes were empty, and he slumped down on the stool and murmured. .

For the next six months, the four of them spent every day around the farm with large and small fish and clams.

But as the saying goes, “No pain, no gain.” In September, the sea bass and the first batch of pearls from their farm were officially put on the market.

The first batch of 9 kilograms of high-quality sea bass for trial breeding was taken away by restaurants and processors participating in the city's agricultural cooperation project at a price of [-] yuan per kilogram.

The first batch of half-grown seedlings cultivated by agricultural experts produced an average of 17 pearls per clam after harvest.The 12 kilograms of pearls produced were all taken away by Boss Wang at [-] yuan per kilogram.

After completing this wave of business, the four of them sat in the office and held another small meeting to summarize the results.

"I always feel that Boss Wang's price is too low..." Xu Pingcai couldn't help but mumbled, "During the previous lecture, didn't Teacher Xie say that the normal purchase price of artificial pearls is between 15 yuan and 90 yuan per catty? This Isn’t it too low? Our pearls are big and good, so why are they not as good as the best ones? If this is the case, we might as well switch to selling sea bass, which is easy to raise and makes money quickly."

"There is no way, who makes people be our investors?" Xu Pingli said, "After all, we are favored by others, so we have to give them some benefits. And if you secretly change the content of breeding, you are not allowed to pay more liquidated damages? Just be satisfied. ."

"When we signed the contract before, it was clearly written that within ten years, the boss of each batch of Pearl King will buy [-] to [-] kilograms at a low price based on actual needs. The excess can be kept for ourselves, and we will find someone to collect it ourselves." Xu Caimei said, " This quota is similar to that of Yao Village - the main reason is that our batch of seedlings are semi-finished products from trial breeding after all. The cost is already high, so it is normal that we cannot make money. When the batch we bred ourselves comes out, the situation should be better."

"Eight hundred kilograms? If the batch we started from clam sprouts can grow, maybe..." Xu Ping'an said, "But the premise is that all the seedlings can survive healthily, and all the bead cores implanted are It will grow into a pearl smoothly."

"I don't think so... How about we ask the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to order a batch of half-percent emergency supplies?" Xu Pingcai looked at Xu Caimei and asked, "But it's really expensive..." (End of Chapter)