Chapter 139 The Blushing Prawn Researcher As

usual, the family of three checked in at the police station of Jiang Sinian’s unit.

It was still early, and Lin Wanxia wanted to go to the research institute first.

Jiang Sinian bought a map and took Lin Wanxia and Xingxing to the research institute by bus.

You don’t need to go to the research institute to buy seaweed seedlings alone, you can buy them in the island city.

But when Lin Wanxia talked about this with Lei Yanjun, he said that he met a hitchhiker on the way back from delivering goods. He said

that he was from the research institute and had just made a breakthrough in the artificial cultivation technology of a prawn and went to the province to make a report, but missed the last bus.

Lin Wanxia knew that in the early 1980s, seawater aquaculture had just emerged, and the aquaculture technology was immature. Many seafood that will be common in the future are still in the aquaculture blind spot.

Prawns are one of the blind spots. Previously, they were a species that was difficult or impossible to raise.

Once it is done, prawns will be the next wave in the aquaculture industry.

***

Lin Wanxia successfully met the young man that Lei Yanjun mentioned at the institute. His

name is Xie Lijun. He was in the first batch of college entrance examinations in 1977 and was assigned to the city after graduation.

Xie Lijun is very shy. He blushes when he sees Lin Wanxia and speaks stutteringly, but he becomes talkative when talking about marine life.

At noon, Lin Wanxia invited Xie Lijun to a restaurant near their unit to have dinner together.

At first, Xie Lijun kept his head down and did not dare to look at anyone when talking.

Later, when Lin Wanxia asked about prawns, Xie Lijun suddenly changed into a different person, from a timid and dull nerd to an eloquent scholar.

He kept telling Lin Wanxia that the current seawater aquaculture in the province is still rough, so the output is too low. If it can be intensively cultivated, the output will definitely double.

Fishermen are like farmers. They are probably restricted by their origins, environment and culture, so they often don’t have such a long-term vision.

Whether farming or fishing, they adhere to a principle: you can sweat and bleed, but you can’t spend money!

Seawater aquaculture requires a lot of investment in the early stage.

It requires building ponds, buying seedlings and feed, and requires intensive management, etc. It may

not even make money in the short term.

These are the big taboos for fishermen, so seawater aquaculture has not been promoted.

The so-called seawater aquaculture on the market now is basically based on kelp and laver.

In response to this, Xie Lijun said: "If you want to get higher returns, you have to raise living things. In fact, shellfish and marine delicacies yield more. However, the current aquaculture technology is not good enough, and many economic shellfish and marine delicacies are difficult to be raised on a large scale. But our institute just broke through an artificial seedling technology a few days ago! It is prawns."

There are many kinds of prawns, and the prawns Xie Lijun mentioned are not originally produced in this city.

To be precise, they are not local prawns.

Their research institute has studied the artificial cultivation of imported shrimp seedlings and knows what kind of temperature, what kind of feed, and what kind of water temperature and seawater concentration are suitable for such shrimps.

Jiang Sinian and Lin Wanxia listened quietly. Only Xingxing ate more than he listened, and he didn't understand.

Lin Wanxia waited until Xie Lijun had finished speaking, and then invited him: "If I want to cultivate the shrimp you mentioned, can you help me?"

Xie Lijun, who had just put a mouthful of soup into his mouth, choked and coughed for a long time before stopping.

He subconsciously looked at Jiang Sinian first.

Generally, men are the ones who make the decisions in major matters.

Jiang Sinian shook his head, shifted his gaze to Lin Wanxia, ​​and said with a smile: "You asked the wrong person."

Xie Lijun was stunned at first, then his face turned red, and he stammered, not knowing what to say.

Lin Wanxia didn't care about this little detail. In fact, Xie Lijun's reaction was what most people should have.

There is still a lot of male chauvinism in this city.

Perhaps she and Jiang Sinian knew each other in different ways, and their professions were too different, so they didn't interfere with each other.

Jiang Sinian would often help her when he was free, but she couldn't help Jiang Sinian.

Anyway, except in bed, Jiang Sinian was particularly obedient to her.

Lin Wanxia came to Xie Lijun's rescue: "Don't worry, the head of our family agrees."

Xie Lijun's face turned redder, and he was at a loss for a few seconds before he remembered to answer Lin Wanxia's question: "I am willing to help. However, the prawns I just researched need to be semi-intensively raised.

It can't be like you did before, where you enclosed a pond by the sea, threw fish and shrimp fry into it and left it alone.

This is absolutely not okay!"

Lin Wanxia nodded: "I understand."

The so-called rough breeding is roughly equivalent to free-range breeding.

In fact, at the beginning, the fishermen caught too much seafood, so they made a pond by the sea and threw the live seafood on the boat into it. They

kept as long as they could survive.

Later, they bought some seedlings and threw them in, still keeping as long as they could survive.

Basically, everyone can make a little, but definitely not much.

Just like many ordinary people raising chickens and ducks, it can slightly increase their living allowance.

"Actually, I have another request." Lin Wanxia looked at Xie Lijun and said sincerely, "I want to invite your institute to build an experimental base in our island city."

She didn't know where the experimental base in the city was, but she guessed that their institute was similar to the agricultural research institute.

Many experts in agricultural research institutes need some test fields in addition to sitting in the office. They have to plant crops in person, study soil quality, water and fertilize, etc., and finally look at the yield per mu.

I guess Xie Lijun and his team also need such an experimental field to observe the marine life they are studying.

In particular, Xie Lijun and his team are studying marine life related to breeding, and they need a lot of practical data.

Xie Lijun was obviously very tempted, but still shook his head, "I don't have the final say on this matter, I have to go back and ask our leader."

***

Lin Wanxia and Jiang Sinian held Xingxing's hands and walked to the most prosperous street in the city.

I don't know if it's because of some wars that have been experienced in the city, many buildings in the city are European-style.

Even the police station looks like a foreign villa.

Xingxing is at an age when she is very curious. Everything she sees is new to her. She looks left and right along the way.

Lin Wanxia is also curious. She is not a native of the 1980s. She seems to have walked into history. She looks at everything with an inquiring eye.

And with a purpose.

Lei Yanjun is too busy and has not come to find a suitable place to open a high-end seafood restaurant.

Lin Wanxia happened to come over and thought about taking a look first.

Jiang Sinian is not interested in doing business. His main concern is to take care of the safety of them, mother and son. He

reminds Xingxing from time to time not to run around.

He also has to protect Lin Wanxia from being squeezed by the crowd.

In the end, he simply stands in the middle and leads one child in each hand.

Lin Wanxia actually thinks it is not so bad. Compared with the hustle and bustle of the new century, it is indeed safe in this era dominated by bicycles.

After walking for a while, Lin Wanxia stopped.

At a busy intersection, there was a shop that she thought was in a good location, but it was closed.

Lin Wanxia looked around and confirmed that the location was good.

Located in a prosperous area but closed?

From the outside, the overall layout of the shop was a bit like a fan.

It was three stories high and looked very impressive. It

was very suitable for a restaurant.

However, Lin Wanxia found that although the shop was closed, there was no transfer notice posted.