Changshui Village Farming Notes

Chapter 403 Chinese horseshoe crab (four in one)

When Chen Yuhang was young, he could often see these things on the beach, but since he grew up, the number of times he could see them every year has also decreased.

He was ignorant when he was young, and he once hurt a Chinese horseshoe crab very cruelly. At that time, he still thought that although this "monster" looked scary, it was not fierce at all, and he could overturn them with one small hand. Very proud.

But since he went to university, once in a public class, his teacher released a documentary about Chinese horseshoe crab, which introduced the habits and preciousness of Chinese horseshoe crab in detail.

Horseshoe crab is an ancient creature that lived on the earth as early as the Devonian period more than 3 million years ago, and has always maintained its current form. It can be called an ancient remnant in the ocean. It is in the same period as trilobites animal.

Before the emergence of primitive fish and the rise of dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs were the prosperous marine inhabitants of the Devonian period from [-] million to [-] million years ago.

Although it has undergone hundreds of millions of years of vicissitudes, the Chinese horseshoe crab is still like this, with little change.

Therefore horseshoe crab has the title of "biological living fossil" all the time.

The Chinese horseshoe crab has a very long growth cycle, and it takes nearly 13 years to complete reproduction.

In recent years, due to land reclamation and tidal flat development, the horseshoe crab has lost the shallow sea beach on which it lives.

Due to the high medicinal value of Limulus chinensis, its meat, shell and tail can be used as medicine.

In particular, the blood of horseshoe crabs is blue because it contains copper ions.

The amebocytes of Limulus blood contain coagulation protein, which will have an effect when encountering bacterial endotoxin. The "Limulus Reagent" extracted from this blue blood can accurately and quickly detect whether the internal tissues and medicines of the human body are contaminated by bacteria. Therefore, it is widely used in the medical field.

In the 90s, Limulus reagent was introduced into my country, and a large number of Limulus reagent factories sprung up. The huge market demand for Limulus blood led to a large number of fishing for Limulus sinensis.

Many countries release the horseshoe crab blood into the sea after taking it. However, due to the tradition of eating horseshoe crabs in China, coupled with the environmental pollution accompanying the current domestic economic development, the seawater in the area where the horseshoe crab lives is seriously polluted. The sea horseshoe crab is forced to migrate, and when it swims to the shallow sea area, it is pushed to the beach by the waves and dies of suffocation due to lack of water.

Therefore, in recent years, the number of Chinese horseshoe crabs in China has become increasingly rare. Until now, Chinese horseshoe crabs have become an endangered animal in the country and are facing an extinction disaster.

When Chen Yuhang saw groups of horseshoe crabs dying collectively on the beach because of losing their homes in the documentary, he was deeply touched and felt ashamed of himself who was ignorant when he was a child.

Beside, the crowd couldn't help but feel solemn after listening to Chen Yuhang's science popularization. They didn't expect such an ugly thing to be such a precious animal.

"I will definitely love animals in the future!" Said a child.

Next to her, her mother touched the child's head in relief.

After a while, another villager from Changshui Village came. Hearing what they said, he interjected, "For some reason, there were very few people in our village at this time in the past two years, but this year there are many more. These days There are a lot of these things on the seashore, it should be their breeding season."

Chen Yuhang nodded, "Then I'll have to talk to Uncle Haiping later, and let the people patrolling the beach pay attention to these horseshoe crabs in the past few days, and send them into the sea in time if they find them."

Regarding the protection of these marine organisms, in fact, fishermen pay more attention to them than anyone else. If they catch seafood fish that have not yet matured, they will be released back into the sea, let alone this kind of endangered and protected animals in the country.

This incident was just an episode, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it. Yang He had a deep memory of this creature. Since then, when he was at the beach, he would subconsciously look around to see if there was such a thing.

People patrolling the seaside have also increased their attention to Chinese horseshoe crabs.

The first captain is the person in charge of the patrol team. Every morning, he will personally patrol the whole village, so every morning the first captain is also the first person to find these breeding horseshoe crabs.

Most of them are majestic females carrying shriveled males, piled one on top of the other on the beach. It should be that the tide swept them into the shallow sea area, and they lost their sense of direction for a while, so they ran aground on the beach.

Seeing their figures, the team leader carefully put them back into the sea.

For this thing, the first captain had a very profound experience.

He joined the army when he was young, and was fortunate to be assigned to the navy, army, border, and defense. He was once responsible for the defense of the country's southeast coastal defense line. At that time, the first team leader had been involved in a case of smuggling Chinese horseshoe crabs.

At that time, although the Chinese horseshoe crab was not considered an endangered animal and could still be seen from time to time in the southeastern coastal areas of my country, it was already a marine creature that was banned from overfishing by the state.

The distribution of horseshoe crabs in the world is actually not widespread, only a small amount in my country, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, and because horseshoe crab blood is widely used in the medical field, many countries need to rely on imports.

The demand for horseshoe crab blood has given rise to the prevalence of many underground transactions, and smuggling Chinese horseshoe crab is one of them.

Since the number of horseshoe crabs in my country is relatively large, smuggling activities of horseshoe crabs in China are very rampant.

The smuggling team catches horseshoe crabs from the southeast coastal areas of our country, and then smuggles them to Southeast Asian countries, where they are finally shipped to all parts of the world.

The smuggling gang they are concerned about has long been operating in the southeast coastal areas of our country and has connections with smuggling gangs in Southeast Asia. They often use civilian fishing boats as a cover, but they are actually secretly fishing for horseshoe crabs. .

They tracked and investigated the gang for a long time. They were going to catch the gang before they sent the Chinese horseshoe crabs out of the country again, but they fell short in the end.

The people in the gang also knew that things were going wrong, and there was a group of frontier defense troops chasing after them waiting to catch them, so they sucked out all the blood in the Chinese horseshoe crabs they caught, and then put them on the ground. Nearly two hundred horseshoe crabs were on the verge of death and thrown into the sea.

When the first team leader and his comrades arrived, they saw all the dead horseshoe crabs fall into the sea, and some of them were still alive, flapping their gills in the sea, but none of them survived.

For the first time, Captain One felt the powerlessness of life, and he hated these smugglers in his heart.

However, until the first captain retired from the army, he did not catch this gang of smugglers, and he always felt regretful.

Of course, in his military and brigade career, such hateful smuggling and smuggling cases were not rare, but it was because Captain One was born in a fisherman's family and had a deep memory of this thing since he was a child.

In the current Changshui Village, there seems to be an impending storm behind the prosperity.

The tourists who came to play were all in a happy mood, while the villagers were all in a heavy mood, like prisoners waiting in jail for sentencing, waiting for the expedition team to leave and the definite news from the county.

In such a tense atmosphere, Han Qingyi suddenly sent a message, "I will come to see you and my brother the day after tomorrow afternoon".

On the surface, Gu Kuangyun calmly replied with a very calm answer, "Oh, yes", but he still subconsciously looked forward to it.

It also occurred to her that Han Qingyang was coming too. The previous meeting at the resort still left a deep impression on her. She wondered if Mr. Han would come here this time with the same cold suit and leather shoes as the previous meeting.

Such news can be regarded as a ray of joy in the tense atmosphere.

But after a while, Sun Guangyao brought good news again, saying that the courtyard on the other side of the harbor had been renovated.

Because Gu Kuangyun decided to leave this house to the aunt who said hello, but the aunt is not here now, so I can't understand their specific requirements for the time being, so Gu Kuangyun can only see if there is anything that needs to be changed. place.

The small courtyard has changed from a high wall of one person to a wall of half a person's height. A wooden fence more than ten centimeters high has been installed on it. Plant some flowers and plants.

The ground of the yard in the small courtyard has also been re-concrete, and the flower beds have been re-repaired. The bush of wild roses from the beginning is still blooming, and it blooms quite brilliantly.

The roof of the house was covered with new tiles, and the paint was repainted in the room. After some repairs, it really looks more energetic than before. Can live.

Gu Kuangyun immediately went to the flower garden, asked Meng Fangzhi for some small sunflower seeds, first filled the groove with a layer of soil, then spread a layer of flower fertilizer, threw the flower seeds on, and sprinkled them again. Spirit spring water was added to speed up their growth.

I thought how beautiful the scene would be if the sunflowers on the wall bloomed and filled the walls of the small courtyard.

Putting a few more wooden chairs and tea tables in the small courtyard, Gu Kuangyun first took a few photos, the blue sea and blue sky, the sun shining everywhere, this seaside cottage bathed in sunlight looks very beautiful.

Under the embellishment of the lush wild roses, the small courtyard was full of vitality. Gu Kuangyun took a few photos of Kacha Kacha and thought it was very good.

Going back in the evening, Gu Kuangyun sent all the photos taken today to the aunt to see if she was satisfied with the house, if she was satisfied, she would keep the house, if not, she would put the photos on the Internet, and see See if anyone else wants to rent.

Early the next morning, Gu Kuangyun had just packed vegetables from the mountain when the message from his aunt came.

"Little girl, I am very satisfied with your house, please keep it for me! I will show your photos to my friends, and they are also very satisfied, so when the time comes, I will reserve all four rooms of yours for you. Me! We'll come over as soon as the summer vacation is over."

"Okay, no problem." Gu Kuangyun replied.

Afterwards, the aunt also expressed that she would pay Gu Kuangyun the rent for the delayed one or two months, and they would leave the house for them until the summer vacation. If Gu Kuangyun rented out the house now, he would be able to charge an extra month or two of rent. , They must not compensate others for their losses!
Then she was rejected by Gu Kuangyun. Anyway, the house will be open for a while, and even if it is rented to someone else, it will be about a month later. She doesn't want to haggle over every detail for such a small amount of money.

As for the house in the south of the village, it has just started to be renovated now, and it is all fine carpentry work, so there is no rush.

However, this house is about to be inhabited, which has aroused discussions among many villagers.

No, a new round of discussions began under the big tree at the entrance of the village this day.

"It's a pity that the village chief actually gave the house of the former patriarch of the Gu clan to the little girl of Gu Jianping's family as a long-term rental house!" said an old man whose ancestors had lived in Changshui Village for generations.

"What's the pity, the house has been there for so many years, the wood has long since rotted, and Xiao Yun doesn't know how much it will cost for renovation!" Another old man felt sorry for Gu Kuang. Yun's money.

"That's right, the people who repaired the house are still in the yard now! I think the wood they planed are all made of good materials! The wood is not cheap now."

"The wood used in the house was not bad. At any rate, he was the head of our Gu family. How could the house be good? I heard from my grandfather that it took more than a year to build the yard! The stones are all It was transported from the side of Yunnan."

"It's a pity that Gu Xiaoye was such a good person and passed away at such a young age." This person said it was a pity, but there was some confusion about the seniority between the two of them in his words.

"yes."

This group of old people was chatting vigorously, but they didn't realize that there was a young face among them.

This person's name is Wen Liangjian. He was originally a tourist in Changshui Village. He was engaged in cultural work and was the editor of a magazine.

Their magazines are also biased towards literature and history, so they are also very sensitive to such rumors.

He wears a single-lens reflex camera on his chest. Unlike other tourists who come straight to the beach, he wanders around the village and takes pictures with his camera when he sees something commemorative.

He had seen that house just now when he was strolling around the village. It was very close to the entrance of the village, and it was very conspicuous. He wanted to go in and take some photos, but he saw someone busy inside, so he didn't have the nerve to go in.

Originally, he was photographing the Shitouko Commercial Street, which had just taken shape at the entrance of the village, when he heard the discussion of these old people, he followed the voice.

Hearing the old people talk about the old house, I was very interested, so I stopped involuntarily and stood aside to listen to them.

"Grandpa and grandma, I heard you talking about the owner of that yard, can you introduce me in detail!" Soon, Wen Liangjian couldn't help but speak.

It would be great if someone could explain it for free.

"Yes, Lao Gu, you are from the same family, so you must know about this house! Tell us about this young man."

The group of old people didn't blame him for interrupting suddenly, but rather agreed with his words and urged them together.

　The deeds of the first captain involve fictional parts, please don't get too deep into it!
　　And, once again, I would like to thank Suyu Xiaocute for her reward and support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)