I am farming in the real world

Chapter 15: Discarded Oyster Shells

“It really can be converted into bone meal!”

Looking at the brand new synthesis formula in front of him, a look of joy suddenly appeared on Chen Jue's face.

You must know that when he first obtained this MC system and decided to take the road of farming to get rich, he had thought about how to obtain a large amount of [Bone Meal], a key item for ripening plants.

Initially, he used pig bones to replace the output of skeleton archers in the game, but pig bones were too expensive and the cost was too high. After buying them twice, he didn't plan to buy them anymore.

After that, Chen Jue pinned his hopes for obtaining [Bone Meal] on the chicks in the chicken coop.

Also bones, chicken bones are much cheaper than pig bones.

What's more, with MC's rapid fattening, as long as the scale of chicken farming is increased, there will be a steady stream of chicken bones to collect in the future.

But now, the discovery of converting crab shells into [Bone Meal] has brought Chen Jue a brand new idea!

That is to use the exoskeletons of shellfish seafood to replace chicken bones as a cheaper raw material for generating [Bone Meal].

Because compared to livestock bones on land, seafood bones in the real world have a larger output and are easier to obtain.

“If the crab shell is recognized by the system as a bone, then the shells of scallops, oysters, clams, and river mussels should also be possible in theory.” Chen Jue's thoughts raced.

He turned back to the Chinese restaurant that specializes in seafood. Taking advantage of the customer halo of spending more than 400 yuan just now, he cheekily chatted with the charming proprietress of the restaurant.

He said he wanted to take it back to make a specimen, and asked the other party for some shells that had been shaved off in the back kitchen.

Returning to the carriage and closing the door for a test, sure enough, these shellfish shells could also be converted into [Bone Meal] after being stored in the MC backpack.

It's just that compared to pig leg bones, the conversion quantity has changed from ×3 to ×1.

“One shell in exchange for one serving of bone meal is enough!”

“As long as there is a large quantity, fruits and vegetables can be ripened on a large scale without worrying about consumption.” Chen Jue was a little excited.

But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not easy to collect these discarded seafood shells from kitchen waste.

First, this thing is mixed in the garbage and no one specializes in sorting it.

Secondly, he is a young man, but he can't bring himself to learn from those Sanhe Gods and open that green treasure chest (garbage bin) in the streets all day long.

So after sitting in the truck cab and pondering for a moment, Chen Jue suddenly recalled that a distant relative in his hometown used to do a similar business.

Without saying a word, he started the truck, first went to the supermarket to buy several large boxes of fresh eggs, and then went to the Ruixian shopping mall wholesale market to buy a stack of blue plastic baskets for vegetables.

Then he drove all the way from the county seat to Yanxia Village, Panlong Town, not far from Chen Village.

… …

Yanxia Village, this is the former residence of Sun Yirang, a master of classical Chinese studies in the late Qing Dynasty.

Ruixian's famous scenic spot 'Yuhailou' was built by Master Sun Yirang and his father Sun Yiyan.

However, Chen Jue came here not to pay homage to these historical figures, but to drive the truck and stop outside a new-style village house in the village.

After getting out of the car, Chen Jue carried two bags of MC Yangmei into the village house, and saw an old man with gray hair and reading glasses sitting on the first floor watching TV, so he went up to say hello: “Grandpa Chaoming, do you still remember me? I am Chen Jue, Chen Yan's grandson!”

This old man is called Sun Chaoming, he is a cousin of Chen Jue's grandfather. He is over 90 years old this year and is still very healthy.

Seeing that the other party was full of energy and his thinking was still very bright, Chen Jue moved a small stool and sat next to the other party, took a bayberry and let the other party taste it.

“It's Xiaojue! Of course I remember, I'm not too old to be confused yet. Why did you think of coming to see me today?” Sun Chaoming's face was full of smiles when he saw the grandson of an old friend coming. He took the MC bayberry and also showed a surprised expression: “This is the fruit from your grandfather's bayberry tree? Why is it growing so big.”

Chen Jue didn't beat around the bush with the old man: “Grandpa, this is Dongkui bayberry that I bought outside. It's very delicious. You can try it. Didn't you used to run that oyster shell factory? I want to ask where those shells were collected from.”

“Oyster shell factory? That was a long time ago!”

Sun Chaoming took a bite of the bayberry, and a look of memory appeared on his face.

The so-called [Oyster Shell Ash] is a very traditional building material in coastal areas in the past. In the last century when domestic cement production was not yet popular, it was used for everything from building city walls and bridges to building houses and repairing ditches.

Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" Volume 11 "Burning Stone · Lime" says: "Where the coasts of Wen, Tai, Min, and Guang are, the stones are not suitable for ash, then Tian Shengli insects are used to replace them."

The insect Hao here refers to oysters, which are the oysters we commonly see.

When Chen Jue was a child, he often wandered around the countryside with a group of friends, scurrying around in various villages.

He had seen countless oyster shell factories built next to the country roads, using stone rollers driven by electric motors to continuously crush the broken shells, and then using mixers to beat them into oyster shell ash.

At first, I didn't know the function of these oyster shell factories. I thought the ground powder was used to make chalk. It wasn't until I grew up and understood things that I understood.

As for the oyster shell factories, every time I passed by, there would be piles of shells like hills. A group of rural children who had never been to the beach would go inside to pick up some intact shells and take them back to collect.

It's just that over time, domestic cement production has soared, and the price of cement has become cheaper day by day. This oyster shell material, which used to be accompanied by Chen Jue's childhood memories, has gradually been eliminated from the historical stage.

Sun Chaoming used to run this kind of oyster shell factory. Chen Jue came here to ask the old man about where those amazing quantities of shells were purchased from.

“You have to go to the Binhai Wharf to find those boat bosses to buy shells! In the past, fishermen's families in Beiji and Nanji had shells, and they could sell them for money if they saved them up. I used to buy several tons at a time, and send them to the village by tractor.”

“Now no one uses oyster shell ash anymore, it's all cement mortar. It is estimated that no one is doing this business anymore.” Sun Chaoming recalled the glorious history of his youth, and told Chen Jue about the way to buy shells and the past price.

Although it is an eliminated industry, the ideas on the source of goods are the same.

“Beiji, Nanji?”

Chen Jue muttered these two place names, recalling that he had people from these two islands in his high school class.

Occasionally, I can see the other party posting updates in Moments, and I plan to find an opportunity to ask to see if I can get a large batch of cheap shells.

… …

After visiting Sun Chaoming, I chatted with the old man for an hour or so.

Although he didn't find out the specific shell purchase channel, the old man taught Chen Jue a lot of great principles for dealing with people based on his past business experience.

Chen Jue felt that the trip was worthwhile. After leaving two bags of bayberry, he drove the truck into the mountain road and returned to an open space outside Chen Village to stop.

The old men and women sitting at the village entrance store saw that he, a “Daoshanlan (meaning scolding someone for being useless)” who was just hanging around in the village, actually drove back in a newly bought truck, and they were all talking about it.

“Is this that Chen Jue?”

“Isn't he in debt?”

“Why did he buy a truck?”

The villagers were a little gossipy and curious.

Because in the small Chen Village, there are only a dozen or so private cars parked in the village.

This 4.2-meter Jianghuai Shuailing is much more eye-catching than those cars and SUVs.

“Chen Jue, have you found a job?”

“Is this a truck that the boss gave you?”

After Chen Jue got out of the car and pushed a newly bought plastic flatbed truck to transport the fresh eggs home, he was stopped by curious villagers and asked.

“This is what I just bought, a second-hand truck is not worth much. I use it to pull goods and run business to earn some small money.” Chen Jue gave a haha, anyway, the words he said were half true and half false.

But as long as it comes to things related to "money", these village intelligence teams are very enthusiastic.

Before the night was over, the whole village knew that the bankrupt Chen Jue had actually bought a second-hand truck to go out to make money. It seemed that this young man who had been decadent for a long time was planning to make a comeback.

So in the evening, several relatives in the village sent WeChat messages, asking Chen Jue what kind of money-making tricks he was doing now, and at the same time subtly implying that if he made money and had money on hand, he should hurry up and pay back the debts he owed before.

The economy has been sluggish in the past few years, and every household is living a tight life.

Chen Jue also politely replied to these relatives' inquiries one by one.

He only said that he would slowly pay off their small debts before the Chinese New Year this year, and let them wait patiently for a while.

As for what kind of business he was doing, Chen Jue didn't say it clearly, so as not to attract the covetousness of others and expose the existence of the MC system.

Just like he dragged Fatty Luo Xian for two days, he was also afraid that making money too fast would cause unnecessary trouble.

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