I am farming in the real world.

Chapter 15 Eliminated Oyster Ash

“It really can be converted into bone meal!”

Looking at the new synthesis formula in front of him, Chen Jue's face suddenly showed some joy.

You know, when he first obtained the MC system and decided to take the path of farming to get rich, he had thought about how to obtain a large amount of [bone meal], a key item for ripening plants.

At first, he used pig bones to replace the output of the skeleton archers in the game, but pig bones were too expensive and the cost was too high, so he decided not to buy them after buying them twice.

After that, Chen Jue relied on the chickens in the chicken coop as the source of [bone meal].

Although they are both bones, chicken bones are much cheaper than pork bones.

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

But now, the discovery that crab shells can be transformed into [bone meal] has given Chen Jue a new idea!

That is to use the exoskeletons of crustaceans to replace chicken bones as a cheaper raw material for producing [bone meal].

Because compared to livestock bones on land, seafood bones are more abundant and easier to obtain in the real world.

"If the crab shells are identified as bones by the system, then the shells of shellfish such as scallops, oysters, clams, and clams should also be recognized as bones." Chen Jue's thoughts raced.

I turned around and went back to the Chinese restaurant specializing in seafood. While the aura of a customer who had just spent more than 400 yuan was still there, I shamelessly 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 a few shells shaved off the kitchen.

I returned to the carriage and closed the door to try again. As expected, the shells of these shellfish could also be converted into [bone meal] after being stored in the MC backpack.

The only difference is that compared to pig bones, the number of conversions has changed from ×3 to ×1.

"One shell in exchange for one portion of bone meal is enough!"

“As long as the quantity is large, we can ripen fruits and vegetables on a large scale in the future without considering the consumption.” Chen Jue was a little excited.

But on second thought, I felt that it was not easy to collect the discarded seafood shells from the kitchen waste.

Firstly, this stuff is mixed in with the garbage and there is no one specifically to sort it out.

Secondly, as a young man, he couldn't bring himself to learn from those Sanhe masters and go to the streets to open the green treasure chest (trash can) all day long.

So after sitting in the truck cab and thinking for a while, Chen Jue suddenly recalled that a distant relative of his in the countryside once did a similar business.

Without saying a word, he started the truck and went to the supermarket to buy several large boxes of fresh eggs. Then he went to the shopping mall wholesale market in Rui County and bought a stack of blue plastic baskets for vegetables.

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

……

Yanxia Village is the former residence of Sun Yirang, a master of Confucian classics in the late Qing Dynasty.

The famous scenic spot in Rui County, 'Yuhai Tower', was built by Master Sun Yirang and his father Sun Yiyan.

However, Chen Jue did not come here to pay homage to these historical celebrities, but drove his truck and stopped outside a new-style village house in the village.

After getting off the bus, Chen Jue carried two bags of MC bayberries into the village house. Seeing a gray-haired old man wearing reading glasses sitting on the first floor watching TV, he went up to greet him, "Grandpa Chaoming, do you remember me? I'm Chen Jue, the grandson of Chen Yan!"

This old man is called Sun Chaoming and is Grandpa Chen Jue’s cousin. He is over 90 years old and still in very good health.

Seeing that the other party was full of energy and had a sharp mind, Chen Jue moved a small stool and sat next to him, then touched a bayberry and let him taste it.

"It's Xiao Jue! Of course I remember. I'm not old and confused yet. Why did you think of visiting me today?" Sun Chaoming smiled when he saw his old friend's grandson coming. He took the MC bayberry with a surprised expression: "Is this the fruit from your grandfather's bayberry tree? How come it has grown so big?"

Chen Jue didn't beat around the bush with the old man: "Grandpa, this is the Dongkui bayberry I bought outside. It's delicious. You should try it. Didn't you run an oyster ash factory before? I want to ask where you get those shells from."

"Oyster ash factory? That happened a long time ago!"

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

The so-called "oyster lime" 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 in building everything from city walls and bridges to houses and ditches.

In the eleventh volume of "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" by Song Yingxing, "Burnt Stone and Lime", it is said: "In the coastal areas of Wen, Taiwan, Fujian, and Guangdong, where the stones cannot bear lime, the oyster worms are naturally produced to replace them."

The "Chonghao" here refers to oysters, which are the common oysters we see.

When Chen Jue was a child, he often wandered around the countryside with a group of friends, running around in various villages. He had seen the oyster ash factories opened on the country roads countless times, using motor-driven stone rollers to continuously crush broken shells, and then using mixers to grind them into oyster ash.

At first, I didn’t know the function of these oyster ash factories. I thought the ground powder was used to make chalk. It was not until I grew up and became sensible that I understood.

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

However, over time, domestic cement production skyrocketed and the price of cement became cheaper and cheaper. The oyster ash material that once accompanied Chen Jue's childhood memories was gradually eliminated and entered the stage of history.

Sun Chaoming had opened this kind of oyster ash factory before, so Chen Jue came over to ask the old man where he got those astonishing quantities of shells from.

"You have to go to Binhai Wharf to buy seashells from the boat captains! In the past, fishermen in Beiji and Nanji had seashells at home, which they could collect and sell for a few cents per pound. I used to buy several tons at a time and deliver them to the village with a tractor."

"No one uses oyster lime nowadays, it's all cement mortar. I guess no one is doing this business anymore." Sun Chaoming recalled the glorious history of his youth and told Chen Jue about the method of purchasing shellfish and the prices in the past.

Although it is an obsolete industry, the ideas in purchasing channels are similar.

"Northern deer or southern deer?"

Chen Jue muttered the two place names and recalled that there were people from these two islands among his high school classmates.

Occasionally, I would see the other party posting updates when I check my friends circle, and I planned to find an opportunity to ask him to see if I could get a large quantity of cheap shells.

……

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

Although he did not find out the specific source of shells, the old man taught Chen Jue many principles of conduct based on his past business experience.

Chen Jue felt that the trip was worthwhile. After leaving two bags of bayberries, he drove the truck into the mountain road and drove all the way back to an open space outside Chen Village and stopped.

The old men and women sitting in the store at the entrance of the village started to talk about it when they saw that he, a "daoshanlan (an insult to those who have been living a life of idleness and waiting to die)" who had been living in the village, actually drove back with his newly bought truck.

"Is this the Chen Jue?"

"Isn't he in a lot of debt?"

"Why did you buy a truck?"

The villagers were somewhat gossipy and curious.

Because Chen Village is a small village, there are usually only about a dozen private cars parked in the village.

This 4-meter-long JAC Shuailing is much more eye-catching than those sedans and SUVs.

"Chen Jue, have you found a job?"

“Is this the truck your boss gave you?”

After Chen Jue got off the car, he pushed a newly bought plastic cart and was transporting the fresh eggs home when he was stopped and asked questions by curious villagers.

"I just bought this. A second-hand truck is not worth much. I use it to haul goods and do business, to make a little money." Chen Jue laughed. Anyway, what he said was half true and half false.

But as long as the matter is related to "money", these village intelligence teams will be very enthusiastic and interested.

Within one night, the whole village knew that the bankrupt Chen Jue actually bought a second-hand truck and went 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 while he was having dinner in the evening, he received WeChat messages from several relatives in the village, asking Chen Jue indirectly how he was making money now, and at the same time hinting vaguely that if he made money and had enough money, he should pay off his previous debts as soon as possible.

The economy has been in recession in recent years and every household has been living a tight life.

Chen Jue politely responded to each of these relatives' inquiries.

He only said that his small debts would be paid off slowly before the Chinese New Year and asked them to wait patiently for a while.

As for what specific business he was doing, Chen Jue did not say it clearly, so as not to attract other people's covetousness and expose the existence of the MC system.

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

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