239. Chapter 238: Meet the Little Whale Again

Chapter 238: Meet the Little Whale Again

After the bubbles in the sea exploded on the sea surface, the waves caused by them made the sampan shake violently.

Chen Wenchao, who had never seen such a scene, was so scared that his legs became weak and he looked at the deep sea in horror.

"Brother Yu, what is there under here?"

Li Duoyu said seriously: "Maybe there is a sea monster."

After hearing this, Chen Wenchao's face turned black instantly. If he really encountered a sea monster, his best swimming would be useless.

When he was a child, he often heard the older generation say that there were terrible monsters in the sea, but he didn't expect that he would really encounter one.

Chen Wenchao said anxiously: "If there is a sea monster, what should we do?"

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly. He originally just wanted to make a joke, but he didn't expect Chen Wenchao to really believe it, seeing his anxious look.

Li Duoyu said calmly: "What else can we do? Let's get out of here."

As the "click" sound became more and more frequent, Li Duoyu had already vaguely guessed what was on the bottom of the sea.

Although that thing didn't attack the fishing boat, it was possible that it didn't have eyes and would knock their fishing boats away when it floated up. It was better to stay away from them.

Just as Li Duoyu guessed, they were less than 30 meters away when seven or eight deep-sea monsters rushed out of the water and sprayed water.

The scene was very spectacular.

At this moment, a seagull that was groping for a barramundi was sprayed by the water column and was shot down on the spot.

After seeing that it was a whale, Chen Wenchao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fishermen on the beach are afraid of sharks, but they are not particularly afraid of whales.

Because most whales are very docile, there has been no incident of whales attacking fishermen on Dandan Island so far.

Huge body,

huge head,

small eyes.

Sperm whales should be the easiest whale to recognize.

Li Duoyu remembered that the last time he saw them was about half a year ago. He didn't expect to meet sperm whales again so soon. He didn't know if it was the same group as last time.

Sperm whales, like killer whales, are toothed whales and are considered to be relatively ferocious predators. Every adult sperm whale has more or less scars on its head.

Most of these scars were left when fighting with giant squids.

Sperm whales are a rather strange kind of whale.

There are so many fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea, but it just doesn't like to eat them. It just likes to make trouble with giant squids in the deep sea.

When it's hungry, it dives into the deep sea.

Catch a few giant squids to eat.

It is precisely because of this habit that sperm whales have become the deepest diving mammals. It is said that they can dive to the bottom of the sea two or three thousand meters deep to hunt.

Li Duoyu looked at these sperm whales, but these whales all looked the same. Even if among these whales, there was the mother whale he had saved, he couldn't tell them apart.

With a series of "click" sounds, more than a dozen sperm whales ignored Li Duoyu's sampan and swam towards the deep sea.

When they passed the fishing raft, they also heard the sound of whales. A small whale about seven or eight meters long was circling around the fishing raft.

The idiot on the fishing raft kept barking at the small whale and kept a certain safe distance from it.

After Li Duoyu's fishing boat approached, the small whale swam several circles towards the fishing boat, then surfaced and looked at Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao with its small eyes.

Then it went into the sea again and spit out a huge bubble, as if to please them.

"Brother Yu, this whale can't be the calf of the mother whale we rescued before."

Intuition told Li Duoyu that the sperm whale in front of him was most likely the calf of the stranded mother whale that year.

Li Duoyu looked around and found that there was no mother whale around the little whale. Judging from the situation, it should be gone.

After all, if a sperm whale is stranded for too long, its body will have problems and it will not be able to live for too long. Fortunately, her baby survived.

Li Duoyu glanced at the baby's head, which had scars like those of the adult sperm whales. It seemed that it had begun to hunt independently in the deep sea.

Seeing that the little whale was so close to humans, Li Duoyu did not try to touch it, but picked up a long stick and hit the little whale's head directly.

The painful little sperm whale instantly drilled to the bottom of the sea, circled around the fishing raft several times, and made a series of "click" sounds.

Li Duoyu, who did not understand the "whale language", picked up a long stick and slapped the water surface many times, making a loud noise, trying to drive the little whale away. After seeing Li Duoyu hit the little whale, the idiot also bared his teeth and kept shouting at the little whale.

The frightened little whale, like a frightened bird, ran away in the direction of the whale group without looking back.

Chen Wenchao looked at Li Duoyu in confusion: "Brother Yu, this should be the one we rescued last time, why did you drive it away?"

Li Duoyu said calmly: "The best way to help it is to keep it away from humans. If we get too close to it, it will only harm it. Many fishermen like to catch whales."

Chen Wenchao suddenly realized that when the sperm whale was stranded, the fishermen on the island wanted to kill it and eat it first.

Luckily, they encountered it today. If it was seen by other fishermen, maybe this little whale would have been dragged to the dock.

Li Duoyu touched the dog's head at the fishing raft. Since he had no time to come to the fishing raft recently, he found that it was a little depressed and its hair became less bright.

Li Duoyu touched the head of the idiot: "Do you want me to find you a female dog?"

"Woof."

"Then I'll find you a male dog, so that you can fight every day."

"Woof, woof, woof."

"Damn, are you scolding me?" Li Duoyu patted the dog's head and asked: "Do you like white dogs or black dogs?"

"Woof woof."

"Black dogs, right? I'll try to buy you a big black dog from the village."

Chen Wenchao on the side was quite speechless. He really found a big black dog from the village. The idiot would probably get beaten every day.

...

After arriving at the dock.

It was already dark, and Li Duoyu was not in a hurry to go home, but carried a bucket to the eel breeding farm.

After arriving there, Li Duoyu found that the lights were still on, and the second sister-in-law was still in the factory and cleaning.

Now the second sister-in-law is a formal employee of the breeding farm. Since she received her salary, she has not gone to the dock to weave nets for people.

Instead, she came to the eel factory every day. Even if she had nothing to do, she would pick up a broom to clean the eel factory and pick up fallen leaves in the pond.

If you don't consider her character of taking advantage of others and being a nag, from a certain perspective, she is definitely a good employee that all bosses like.

"Second sister-in-law, you haven't gone home yet."

Zhu Xiuhua rolled her eyes at him and snorted, "Isn't it because I'm afraid that I'll go back too early and be caught by you? Then, you will find ways to deduct my salary."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly. He did deduct a little, but he really wouldn't deduct wages casually.

Li Duoyu poured all these transparent eel fry into the treated cement pool.

Then, he turned on the light above the pool and observed these eel fry.

By the way, some dead and injured eel fry were picked up and thrown away, leaving only healthy eel fry.

The first step in eel farming.

It is to let the eel fry gradually adapt to the freshwater environment, which is the so-called desalination farming.

Although eels have a very strong ability to convert seawater into freshwater, they cannot be placed in an environment full of freshwater after being caught from the sea. There must be a process of salinity conversion.

Generally, they should be placed in freshwater with a salinity of about 0.7 to allow the eel fry to adapt for a period of time. There is no need to feed them in a hurry during this period. After the seawater is desalinated, they can be fed with bloodworms.

In fact, Li Duoyu was also very unsure. This breeding process lacked a very important breeding process, that is, pond heating.

But in this era, water heaters are very rare, and Li Duoyu really can't buy a set of thermostatic equipment suitable for ponds.

According to his breeding experience, raising the temperature is only to speed up the opening speed of eel fry.

Without thermostatic equipment, breeding will only be slower, but it will not have much impact.

After putting the eel fry into the pond, Li Duoyu observed it for a while, then left the eel breeding farm and returned home.