Looking at these black seeds, Lu Wuyai suddenly said, "These are Eledia."
Elodea is a high-quality, fast-growing, and high-yielding submerged plant. Native to the Americas, it is rich in nutrients. It can purify water, prevent eutrophication, and contribute to a healthy aquatic environment. It is an excellent aquatic plant.
This algae is highly adaptable; it can be cultivated as long as the water does not freeze and it can grow at temperatures above 5°C.
However, because its ancestral home is in warm South America, Elodea was not well adapted to the local environment when it arrived on a certain island. Unable to survive the cold winter, it endured the winter as a plant.
This is a drawback for algae and aquatic plants because aquaculture is not seasonal. Fish, shrimp, and crabs need to feed in winter, but Elodea turns into a plant in winter, which causes a lack of food for fish, shrimp, and crabs.
However, the vegetative body of Elodea contains abundant nutrients. Fish, shrimp, and crabs will eat it, which is tantamount to uprooting it. Even if the temperature is suitable next year, the algae may not be able to grow back.
Lu Wuyai asked this question, and Lu Hu waved his hand and laughed, "Can I give you ordinary Ed? Then I can't."
“Eloisa is unusual too.” Lu Wuyai was very curious.
Land Rover said, "In the mid-1990s, the Institute of Geography and Limnology of a certain academy of sciences on a certain island introduced the common Elodea nuttallii and cultivated it to this day, resulting in this variety - Elodea nuttallii with large red edges."
"The green leaves of this algae have some red edges, and it can grow all year round. Of course, they grow faster in spring, summer and autumn, and slower in winter, but they can still stay green all year round."
After hearing the introduction, Lu Wuyai was overjoyed: "Hey, this kind of algae is also cultivated in a certain area of our island country."
Land Rover stated, "Yes, you can use it with confidence, and it will not become an invasive species."
Lu Wuyai accepted the box of seeds. He had just started a breeding pond, and this stuff would be a great help to him.
He poured tea for Lu Hu and said, "Brother Hu, this box of seeds isn't cheap."
Lu Hu laughed and said, "It's not expensive. What's so expensive about aquatic plant seeds? However, Elodea nuttallii is just starting to be cultivated and has not yet been widely promoted, so it is a bit difficult to obtain it."
Lu Wuyai nodded; he had never heard of the promotion and cultivation of this type of algae.
Land Rover continued, “I have an acquaintance at the Institute of Geography and Limnology, and I got some from him for you. If you want more, I don’t have any more.”
There seem to be a lot of seeds in this box, probably about 1 million.
However, not every algae seed will germinate and grow. The probability of it growing from falling into the water into an aquatic plant is less than one percent. This box of seeds is enough for a small aquaculture pond, but it's not much for large lakes and rivers.
After receiving the seeds, he went to the pool and selected four of the largest lobsters, which he then sold to Land Rover.
As he himself said, the gift wasn't expensive, but it was very meaningful. Some things may seem cheap, but not everyone can afford them.
Coincidentally, the pond was currently being used for aquaculture in cages, so Lu Wuyai grabbed a handful of seeds and carefully scattered them into the aquaculture pond.
Now that the loaches and eels are trapped in the nets, the Elodea seeds can take advantage of the situation to germinate and sprout. A few days later, the female fish will lay eggs, which will hatch into fry, which will then eat the algae seeds. It's difficult.
That day, Lurofer left Coconut Grove Village immediately after receiving the lobster.
Lu Wuyai didn't hold back much. After all, the sea breeze had been strong these past two days, and the Land Rover had come from the sea. For safety's sake, it was better to leave as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, the wind is always weaker in the morning than in the afternoon, and the wind is always weaker during the day than at night.
A strong wind blew, and the spring corn in the fields began to fall one after another.
Wang Ming's corn was planted in late April, and a large corncob had just sprouted, but it was difficult to clean up after falling off. Liu Xiaole's family had to go to the field and pick it off by hand.
Lu Wuyai would help out whenever he had free time, and finally tidied things up. Liu Xiaole's family found some tender corn and handed it to him: "Cough cough, intestines, go back and cook something. Your sister-in-law's corn is sticky and delicious."
“Okay.” Lu Wuyai didn’t stand on ceremony.
Gu Yuxin came home with a schoolbag full of corn, waiting for him, and gave him a few more: "Hey, some of my corn was blown away by the wind, so my mom asked me to bring you some tender corn."
Lu Wuyai said with a smile, "I took some from Sister Qiu Min's field, I guess we can't eat it all."
"Eat the hard stuff," Gu Yuxin said. "You can't eat corn from your hometown in Beijing; it tastes like home."
Lu Wuyai said, "Come and eat with us."
Gu Yuxin pursed her lips: "I don't eat. I've lived in my hometown for over 20 years, and the taste of my hometown makes me nauseous."
Lu Wuyai took the corn home, and after a while, someone else brought it over. Tang Congyang came over carrying a bag of corn, saying the same thing: "Brother Yang, I haven't eaten corn from my hometown for many years. Give it a try."
Later, Ao Mupeng, Ao Muyi, Ao Qianying and others rushed over to deliver the corn. A small pile of corn had been stacked in the courtyard of the old house all morning.
Lu Wuyai was moved by homesickness, but he knew it wasn't just about homesickness. The corn had already fallen, and it was difficult to get up at this time. There was too much tender corn for them to eat themselves, so everyone was happy to give it away.
He had no choice but to retaliate, so after thinking for a moment, he turned on the gas stove.
There was plenty of seafood at home. He boiled a kettle of water, poured in ginger juice and white wine, and went inside to cook.
He quickly boiled the seafood in the water. Instead of taking it out, he continued cooking it until it became sticky. Then he poured it out and added peanut oil to the pot instead.
As soon as the oil was heated, he put in the prepared raw garlic, chili sauce, and pickled pepper pieces and stir-fried them.
The aroma filled the air, and Earl Pygmalion (the dog) ran in. But as soon as it entered the kitchen, it saw Lu Wuyai take out dried chili peppers. Upon seeing this, it immediately slammed on the brakes, turned around, and ran away.
Lu Wuyai waved his hand with a smile: "Come back, come back, this chili pepper isn't for you."
The little count (dog) stood outside the door, watching him warily, then studied his smile before decisively burying his head in the corn pile.
The tender corn is sweet. After smelling the sweet aroma, it took one out, lay down on the ground, hugged it with its front paws, shook its head to tear off the corn husks, and then gnawed on the corn with a "crunch, crunch" sound.
Even if the corn is raw at this time, it is sweet and juicy, so it eats it very happily, wagging its tail back and forth, so happy that it wants to fly away.
Seeing this, Lu Wuyai stopped teasing it. He added ginger juice, sweet bean sauce, and egg white to the pan and continued frying. After it became sticky, he added the seafood, which had also become sticky from being cooked for too long, along with dark soy sauce and chicken bouillon, and kept the heat low. He carefully stir-fried it until the sauce thickened, and finally, it became a pot of sauce.
This is a seafood sauce with various ingredients. It tastes both spicy and fresh. When he was at the hotel, they used this sauce to preserve cold dishes.
He bought a bunch of pretty bottles online; he's going to use them to store seafood sauce, and he'll send them home one by one.
Besides adding a fresh touch to cold dishes, this seafood sauce has another great use: as a barbecue sauce.
After preparing the seafood sauce, Lu Wuyai checked the time, picked some corn, peeled it, put it in his schoolbag, and took the barbecue grill to school.
Ms. Lu Zhizi arranged a simple English situational exchange for the students. She designed a stage play-like performance. The children played different roles and conversed in simple English.
She assisted and corrected him from the side. Because the conversation was simple and her work was not heavy, when Lu Wuyuan arrived at the school, she saw him through the window and greeted him.
"It's so windy, what are you doing here?"
Lu Wuyai said, "I'll make you something delicious."
Lu Wuyai was overjoyed: "It's delicious again. Give me a call, I'll come to your house at noon."
Lu Wuyai said, "I can't eat alone. This time it's communal cooking."
He found a sheltered spot, set up the stove, put in smokeless charcoal, and lit it.
The charcoal fire flickered and sizzled as he placed the corn on it, arranging them one by one, then lightly brushed them with peanut oil and seafood sauce. As the brush flew, a layer of sauce gradually formed on the delicate corn.
After the fire subsided, the sauce soaked into the corn. By then, the sauce had dried, and the corn was cooked.
He kept the time under control. By the time he finished roasting the corn, the children were dismissed from school at noon.
And so, Lü Zhizi distributed the roasted corn to her classmates, one for each of them, and they ate it on their way home.
Gu Yuxin handed the freshly roasted corn to three teachers, including Lü Zhizi, and said with a smile, "You must be tired after a busy morning. Have some roasted corn and taste it."
The sauce was dry, but the corn kernels inside were still tender. After one bite, the delicious hot sauce seeped into the corn kernels. The sweetness of the corn juice balanced the saltiness of the sauce, creating an extraordinary flavor.
Lu Wuyai nodded, his hair twitching as he said, "Mmm, it's delicious."
Zhu Chunhong said with a smile, "I've been eating roasted corn for forty or fifty years, but this is the first time I've tasted it like this."
Lu Wuyai said, "If Teacher Zhu likes it, I'll bake it for you every day from now on."
Li Zhisheng chewed on a corn cob and said, "I'm afraid it wasn't roasted for us."
Lu Wuyai said, "Based on what I know about Mu Yang, he really likes us."
Zhu Chunhong nodded in agreement: "We, um, it is indeed us, but we are following 'me' to obtain some credit."
Lu Wuyai smiled and said, "Look what the teacher said. I'll prepare a menu at school from now on. You can order whatever you want."
Zhu Chunhong said, "By the way, speaking of which, I wanted to tell you, Wuya, what are your plans for the future? With such good skills, why don't you open a fisherman's house in the village?"
Lu Wuyai shook his head: "If I wanted to make a living by cooking, I definitely wouldn't go back to that small village. My goal this time is to develop the fishing industry. I want to make the fishing industry successful. I not only want to do my job well, but I also want to lead the whole village to do their job well."
Li Zhijie nodded in agreement: "Okay, this is the only ambitious way."
Lu Wuyai nodded and said, "Ambitious young man, the stars and the sea are your journey."
The villagers couldn't hide the news. Hearing that Lu Wuyai's purpose in returning to his hometown was to start a fishing business, the local residents immediately became interested.
Li Zhijie walked over to him and said, "Yangzi, you came back this time to work in the fishing industry. Then follow Second Master; he has a boat."
Lu Wuyai laughed and said, "Second Master, my most pressing need isn't fishing, but finding a companion. You see, I'm still single, aren't I?"
Li Zhijie said indignantly, "Then the second master can't be of much help."
Lu Wuyai said, "Second Master needs help. You help me find someone, and I will definitely help you with fishing in the future. If you don't help me with this, then I'm afraid I won't be able to help you in the future."
Li Zhijie grimaced, then walked away with his hands behind his back.
In early August, the sea breeze was blowing continuously.
The wind was strong, but it was also very hot. Being constantly buffeted by the hot wind made life by the sea difficult.
Experienced people would recognize this as a tropical cyclone at sea.
A cyclone is a vortex that occurs in the atmosphere. The air pressure at its center is much lower than the surrounding air pressure, hence it's also called a low-pressure system. It originates over tropical oceans, where the evaporation of water vapor provides a tremendous amount of energy for its development. And so on.
Radio and television stations broadcast detailed reports of the tropical cyclone, which appeared in the eastern Pacific and was classified as a tropical storm.
The name "tropical storm" sounds scary, but it's nothing compared to the devastation caused by tornadoes. There are bigger brothers like severe tropical storms and typhoons ahead of it.
Therefore, after listening to the broadcast, the people of Coconut Grove Village didn't change much, except that they stopped going out to certain areas of the island. Those who were supposed to work went to work, and those who were supposed to go to school went to school.
Lu Wuyai was very concerned about this tropical cyclone. It was a tropical storm that evolved from a typhoon, and it had taken away his parents and everything else.
Generally speaking, the path of a storm is predictable and takes time to develop. The cyclone more than five years ago was not a tropical storm, but a relatively weak tropical depression.
The maximum sustained winds near the center of the tropical depression are below force 8, or less than 14 meters per second. This is not an exaggerated wind force; it remains so near the center, and the wind speeds are even lower in the peripheral areas and even in unaffected areas.
At the time, his parents underestimated the hurricane, and even the weather bureau underestimated its severity. So, despite knowing that there would be rough seas, many people still chose to go out to sea to take risks because they could catch more fish during the storm season.
Ultimately, the tropical depression upgraded directly to a typhoon and severe tropical storm of tropical storm strength or higher.
The typhoon passed by without leaving a trace of vegetation.
Lu Wuyai still remembers that he had just finished the college entrance examination and was planning how to help his parents work during the summer before going to university. Suddenly, the world changed, and he lost his parents.
Feeling the whistling sea breeze, he stood on the island's trading post and gazed out at the sea.
One after another, huge waves rushed across the sea, each one crashing against the water with a loud 'bang'.
At this moment, a strong fishy smell wafted from the seawater, and seagulls and gannets flew back and forth in the air. They were more excited than usual because they knew this was the easiest time to hunt.
The waves crashed against the stone pillars of the small town with a thunderous roar, and the warm seawater surged up and flew up, quickly turning Lu Wuyai into a drowned rat.
Someone repairing a ship at the island's trading post saw this and shouted, "Brother Yang, what are you doing? You're going to stay at the island's trading post and wait to die. Go home!"
Lu Wuyai smiled and nodded, then took the little count (dog) home and waited patiently for the hot-tempered dog to leave.
He felt that the storm was not limited to tropical storms. He could tell from the waves at sea. Now it was one long wave after another.
Waves are classified into several categories. Simply put, they are wind waves, large waves, long waves, and hurricane waves. Their classification is related to wind speed and duration. The higher the classification, the more dangerous the wave.
Sure enough, by the afternoon, the wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, and the storm began to make landfall.
Then, the television weather warning suddenly escalated. At noon, the tropical storm intensified into a severe tropical storm. By the time it made landfall in the Red Sea with winds and clouds in the afternoon, it had become a typhoon.
In other words, at this time, the wind force has reached level 12, and the wind speed can reach 32 meters per second.
Businesses and schools will close when a typhoon hits.
Lu Wuyai looked around the street but didn't see his child coming home from school, so he asked Li Mukang's father, "Is the child still in school today?"
Li Mukang said calmly, "What does Xiaofeng do when he doesn't go to class? They don't learn anything in the city. Teacher Lü knows a lot now, so he should study hard."
His attitude made Lu Wuyai very anxious. He said, "It's a typhoon, and you're still a bit windy. Do you think you can't move like a mountain?"
Li Mukang, who had just returned from harvesting crops in the fields, was startled: "Oh, I see. It's a typhoon."
Just as the two were talking, a storm brought heavy rain. Huge raindrops pounded against the window, making a deafening roar.
Lu Wuyai quickly said, "No, I have to go to the school and check on things. The children must be sent home at this time."
The school classrooms are no worse than our homes. We're urging everyone to go home because the school is located on higher ground and has suffered more damage. Secondly, it's hard to say when the typhoon will end, and we can't keep the children in the classrooms. Let's spend the night there.
He reached the foot of the mountain in just two minutes, where groups of children happily ran down with their schoolbags on their backs.
The fishermen's children are resilient and unafraid of wind and rain. They chase each other and have a great time.
Lu Wuyai grabbed Su Xi and asked, "Have you all graduated?"
Wang Ming said, "Yes, Principal Li said that a typhoon is coming, so he gave us a holiday first."
Where are Mr. Lu and the others?
Wang Ming said, "We're still on the mountain."
Lu Wuyai draped the raincoat over him and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look. You all go home quickly, all of you go home quickly, and don't play on the street, understand?"
Now every household has received news of the escalating rainstorm, and parents have taken the initiative to pick up their children. So, although the wind and rain are very strong, the children are all safe and sound.
As Lu Wuyai walked up the mountain, the wind increased by one level with each step he took.
After all, the higher you climb, the stronger the wind blows, and Hongyang is where this typhoon made landfall. It used to only make landfall on the edge of cyclones, but now the storm's center has moved away.
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