Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 385 Bright White Moonlight (asking for monthly tickets)

When I returned to Daliang's house, the meal had already been prepared.

"You come to eat and bring food with you. Why are you so polite?" Daliang smiled and pulled him into the house.

"Haha, it's too late to meet old classmates empty-handed."

As soon as they sat down, Xiaoyu brought the dishes.

Qin Dahe opened a bottle of wine directly and opened more if it was not enough. However, they probably wouldn’t drink too much as they were not drunkards.

"Sister-in-law, please sit down and eat something with us." He said politely.

"You guys drink, I'll go take care of the children." After saying that, she went into the house.

The two of them didn't care and clinked glasses first.

"Sha!"

"Haha, you don't drink much?" Qin Dahe said with a smile.

Looking at Daliang's bitter face, you can tell that he didn't drink much.

"I rarely drink. I only started drinking after I got married two years ago."

"Then drink less. Let's have one glass each and leave the rest for grandpa." He put the remaining wine directly under the table.

"Okay, no need to be pretentious."

The two smiled at each other. The young man was pragmatic. If it were Qin's father and the others, they would have had a couple of cups to warm up the atmosphere even if they couldn't drink.

The braised beef was very chewy, and Qin Dahe also got a bowl of rice.

Not many people can eat white wine and rice like this.

"Everyone has started a family."

"Yeah, I heard Xiaoxue married the physics teacher?"

"Yeah." Qin Dahe recounted Xiaoxue's story.

I heard that they came to fight to make Xiaoxue's life easier, and Daliang's face was filled with anger.

At that time, Xiaoxue was the white moonlight of many boys in the school, and many of them had secret crushes on her.

It's normal to feel some emotions when you see that she married poorly.

Daliang sighed and took a sip of wine.

"Haha, it's all in the past. Don't let my sister-in-law hear it, or she'll get beaten up."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." Daliang shook his head. "You three are all shaking. Erhu's family bought an excavator and invested in a cotton mill."

"His house hasn't been built yet. It would cost at least 100,000 yuan to build a good one." However, Erhu paid for a yard in the city.

I didn't tell anyone about this. It's just over Qingshan Street. I'm thinking of sending my children to school in the city in the future.

"But after building the house, there's nowhere else to spend the big money."

In rural areas, "spending big money" means getting married and buying a house. After these two things are completed, the rest is to save money to build up a family foundation or to pay off debts and then save money again.

Unfortunately, with the migration of rural population to cities, many families have used the savings of three generations to buy houses in big cities.

After finishing a glass of wine and reminiscing about the past, Qin Dahe ate a bowl of rice to fill his stomach.

Then the two went to the inner lake behind.

The pond is not big, only about 40 acres, and the water depth is only about 1.5 to 2 meters.

"I released 1000 black carp fry, 1000 silver carp, and bream and grass carp each."

"Why don't you release mandarin fish?"

"It's too expensive, more than four dollars a piece. If it dies, there's nowhere to find it."

"Did you go to the breeding farm?"

"Yeah." Da Liang nodded. This was his first time doing breeding, so he definitely trusted the government.

He even went to the Agricultural Technology Station, but unfortunately, when the people there heard that he was a fish farmer, they ignored him.

The main support targets of the agricultural technology station are economic crops such as cotton, rice, wheat, corn, etc.

As for breeding, it is under the jurisdiction of the county's agricultural bureau, but...
"It's still necessary to add some mandarin fish fry, otherwise there will be too many other fish and they will squeeze the living space of other fish."

Qin Dahe explained the private seedling and flower factory and said, "You can buy seedlings there in the future. The price is not expensive and they are very responsible."

"I bought my mandarin fish fry there, 10 centimeters for 3.5 yuan each."

"That's great. As for the crab seedlings, I asked someone and it seems they're going to Shandong or Chongming Island."

"Those are very expensive, five or six dollars each. How many do you plan to raise?"

"It's so expensive." Daliang frowned.

"Forget it, let's not raise crabs for now. The cost is too high." His budget is only a few thousand yuan, so there is no point in buying a few hundred seedlings.

Qin Dahe nodded. The price of crab seedlings is high. Even if the price of crabs increases, many farmers cannot afford the risk.

The two walked to the end of L, which was a field and the fish pond itself also had an irrigation function.

I saw a lot of water plants in the river and many mulberry trees on the side, so there would be no problem for grass carp to grow.

"Are you ready to feed the feed?"

"I'll feed it after spring. I went to the feed mill and brought back 3,000 kilograms. We'll see how effective it is then."

“Grass-fed pellets?”

"Ah."

"What's the price now?" Qin Dahe asked curiously.

He used grass-fed pellets when fishing in black pits, especially Tongwei feed, whether it was bubble balls or pellets, which were common products for black pits.

However, the feed market is still quite chaotic. There are more than ten factories in each county, producing feed for all kinds of poultry, pigs and fish.

"It's 15 cents, and the protein content is about %. I see quite a lot of people buying it."

The profit is really high. The fish feed he makes himself costs only 30 cents, but it is high in protein.

Bean dregs, bran, potato flour, etc. are all extremely cheap.

Only the corn kernels are more expensive, which is a fixed cost, a little over 50 cents per pound. "Let's raise them for two years first to gain experience, and then we can exchange ideas when we have time."

"You are also involved in breeding, so I feel more confident. Otherwise, I wouldn't know who to ask when I encounter problems."

"Haha, I only release seedlings in the big lake."

"It's different. You've become rich, so there must be a reason."

Qin Dahe was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he heard this. Now that he had made a fortune, everything he said made sense.

After walking around the pond, my legs were tired.

But Daliang has done a pretty good job of cleaning up. There is no garbage at the lakeside and the lake bank has also been repaired.

With more than 40 acres of crops, it would be no problem to earn 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year if I raise them well.

"Are you going to apply fertilizer to this pond?" He asked, seeing that the water quality at the pond mouth was OK.

"fertilizer?"

"Spreading chemical fertilizers can increase the fertility of fish ponds, which is beneficial for the growth of aquatic plants and microorganisms, so we can use less feed." After a pause, he continued, "But the water quality will be worse."

"That's okay. We all drink water from the river. No one drinks water from the fish pond."

The opposite side of the L-shape is also L, which is actually a rectangular fish pond with villages on both sides and fields on both sides.

His fish pond has only one opening connecting to the outside river, so it is half stagnant and no one is willing to drink from it.

The outer river in Xiaowu Village is very clean and much better than the outer river in their village.

"Tell me how to spread fertilizer. No one teaches me." Daliang took out a pack of Double Happiness and handed it directly to Qin Dahe.

Information is not available now, and many of the farmers he asked were not relatives or friends of his, so they were unwilling to talk to him.

Even treating them to a meal is not an option. What if they become rich by raising fish? How miserable would I be?

Qin Dahe was not polite. He took the cigarette, opened it directly, handed it to him, and lit one for himself and took a deep breath.

The current seven-yuan Double Happiness tea tastes okay, but it's a little hoarse.

He completely forgot that when he first returned home, he had no money and the old man who only had one or two yuan could only buy two packs of cigarettes a day.

"Have you soaked it in lime?" Don't talk nonsense if you haven't even soaked it in lime.

"It's been soaked, I know that." Daliang nodded quickly.

"Has the silt been cleared?" he continued to ask, needing to understand clearly first.

"No, it's such a big lake, how can we clear it with money? The water is a meter thick at the bottom."

"That's fine. After spring, you can apply less fertilizer. For every acre of pond, use three pounds of nitrogen fertilizer and one pound of phosphorus fertilizer, and throw in some wood ash."

"Choose a sunny morning to spread the fertilizer, and scatter it widely, not pour it." In the presence of sunlight, the fertilizer in the water will dissolve quickly.

All this knowledge was taught to him by Wu Ye. Wu Ye was really generous and taught him step by step.

However, Qin Dahe also reads books. He wants to raise a clear water pond, so he doesn't use chemical fertilizers.

"After spring begins, spray once every two weeks. After two or three times, the weather should be hot. Don't spray at this time, otherwise the water quality will be too rich and the fish will die."

"You can reduce the amount of feed appropriately. You don't actually have many seedlings. With fertilizer, just a little bit will be enough."

Daliang kept taking notes in a notebook, feeling very grateful in his heart. His old classmates were really reliable.

He couldn't learn these things even if he became a disciple.

"You should also sprinkle lime occasionally, but not too much. It can disinfect and replenish calcium in the water."

The two men sat down in the yard, and Daliang's wife politely came over and poured two cups of tea.

When I see my man’s grateful face, I know I have learned something real.

"The purchase price of fertile water aquaculture is not high. In the second half of next year, we can catch big fish and sell them in the market. This is more cost-effective. Usually, we can just catch small fish."

“Does it have to be sold in the second half of the year?”

"Brother Liang, big fish are valuable in the second half of the year. Mom has bought them many times at the vegetable market." Xiaoyu reminded him.

"Yes, the price is high in the second half of the year, especially now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, silver carp costs seven yuan." Daliang slapped his forehead and forgot about this.

"Haha, raising fish is definitely for profit," Qin Dahe said with a smile. "Don't rush to sell the black carp. Wait until they reach 17 or 18 kilograms. The black carp stones will be more expensive than the fish themselves."

“How many years?”

"For a fertile pond, it should have this specification in three or four years, or even higher."

"Okay, then I'll clean the pond every four years."

"I know quite a few fishmongers here. This year, the wholesale price of farmed black carp is around 19 yuan for 17 or 18 kilograms, which means 300 or 400 yuan per fish."

"If you raise those 400 black carps well, they can be sold for over 100,000 yuan." Of course, this is theoretical.

In fact, fish, like humans, have skeleton sizes that are related to their genes. Some fish don't grow in size after eating, but only get fat in the belly.

The natural limit of this fat-bellied black carp is just there, and the black carp stone is not valuable.

Except for wild ones, there is no abundant food in the wild, and the fish stones of those that weigh that much will also have corresponding sizes.

Daliang and his wife were very excited when they heard this. One hundred thousand? This is going to be very rich.

"Really that many?"

"Well, my third uncle sold 230 black carps that reached this specification this year, and they were sold for 110,000 yuan." The total was 170,000 to 180,000 yuan, and the price of the big black carps accounted for more than half.

"Okay, then I'll throw in the black carp I catch. They don't sell small black carp anyway." Daliang nodded viciously.

Knowing that big black carp is valuable, who would still sell small black carp?

"It's up to you. If you have enough money, raise more herring. It's very cost-effective."

After saying these words, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

After strolling around for a while and his drunkenness wore off, he was ready to go home.

However, before leaving, Xiaoyu went to the village entrance to buy a black pine tree. Daliang asked her to buy it.

He had noticed a long time ago that Qin Dahe smoked expensive cigarettes. Today he brought two bottles of wine and taught him so many things. Nothing was too much.

After refusing twice, Daliang and his wife insisted that he accept it, so he had no choice but to leave with the cigarettes.

(End of this chapter)