1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 129 My Wife Might Be Pregnant
"Shh, can you keep your voice down!" Chen Xiangbei quickly covered his mouth with her hand. "I'm not sure whether she's pregnant or not. It's hard to tell. It doesn't happen on the exact day of every month. It could happen a few days earlier or later!"

"How late is it?"

"It's been five or six days, but normally it should be one or two days in advance, so it's more than five or six days!"

That being said, the possibility is quite high...

Liang Ziqiang's thoughts couldn't help but drift.

In the previous life, I married Chen Xiangbei in 1985, and a baby boy was born a year later, at the end of 1986.

The second child was born much later. The couple was financially strapped, so they kept delaying until six years later. Still, because they were living in another city, they managed to circumvent the family planning policy and secretly gave birth to a daughter.

Due to the lack of conditions for careful upbringing, the son and daughter in the previous life neither grew up well nor achieved much, and later became ordinary workers in the factory.

When he was hit by a brick at a construction site and died, his son was 38 years old and his daughter was 32 years old.

In this life, the marriage time is two years earlier, and the baby is also coming two years earlier.

Will the baby born two years earlier still be the same baby from the previous life?

He estimated that it would definitely not be the same person. The relationship between him and the two children in the previous life might be forever left in the previous life.

I just don’t know if this baby will look and behave like its two older brothers and sisters after it is born?

Thinking about it, the matter was so subtle that Liang Ziqiang felt as if he was in a dream for a long time.

"Hey, what's with that expression on your face? Wouldn't it be a good thing if you're pregnant?" Chen Xiangbei became unhappy when she saw that he didn't say anything.

"Ah? I was wondering, if I really am pregnant, should I take the time to buy doll clothes, diapers, etc.!"

The emotions of two lives could only float in his heart, unable to be expressed in words, so he quickly made up an explanation to answer her.

When Chen Xiangbei heard him say this, her pretty face immediately brightened up a lot:
"You're thinking about this? Even if you get pregnant, it will take more than nine months. I can make some clothes myself when I have time, and buy a few more when I go to town one day. Isn't that right? You don't have to worry about diapers. I can just cut up some old clothes and I'll have them, right?"

"Yeah, it seems so!" Liang Ziqiang responded.

Chen Xiangbei sat beside the bed and spoke to him for a few more words before going out to continue weaving the web.

Later, Liang Ziqiang slept almost the entire day and his energy was restored.

When it was almost time for dinner, I suddenly heard someone calling outside the house. I looked and it was Lin Baixian.

"A Qiang, why have I only seen your father's boat from afar during the day these two days? Your boat didn't go out to sea with them?" Lin Baixian asked as he sat in the main room waiting for Liang Ziqiang to come out of the small room.

"There have been fewer fish during the day recently, so we've switched to night fishing. You know what, the catch from night fishing is pretty good. Do you want to come along?"

"You went night fishing? How many fish can you catch in one night?"

"I was lucky last night. I caught several hundred kilograms of fish, plus a few valuable squids, so I made over a hundred dollars." Liang Ziqiang felt that there was nothing to hide in front of Lin Baixian.

"So much? I only make about 10 or 20 bucks during the day, and after paying for gas, I can barely make a few bucks."

"Then why are you still hesitating? Let's go hunting together tonight!"

"I've thought about it, but I heard it's very tiring. I'm not afraid of being tired, but my dad will probably have a headache if he misses his sleep!" Lin Baixian was a little helpless, "Let's talk about it another day. Today I'm looking for you mainly because of Lu Feng. He will be here soon, and he said he will come the day after tomorrow!"

Liang Ziqiang then remembered that he had been very busy recently. Lu Feng had said in advance that he would take his relatives to the island to find something on the weekend. Last weekend, due to continuous heavy rain, it was delayed until this weekend.

"The day after tomorrow, right? That's fine. I can do it here."

It was just right because Liang Ziqiang and his six companions would continue their night hunting tonight, and it would be time for them to rest tomorrow night. After they had rested enough, they could take Lu Feng to the island the day after tomorrow.

After making an agreement with Lin Baixian about the island matter, Liang Ziqiang set out again after dinner to continue his night hunting.

There was not much difference in the catch this night compared to last night. The biggest difference was that there were no more diamond-fin squid.

They took turns guarding Guanqi Island for half the night again, but the fish thief still did not show up.

Since nothing was lost during the seabed crawling, this harvest is very worth looking forward to.

At daybreak, the three boats had already sailed out from behind the reefs, each busy recovering submarine submarines on the sea surface.

The first sea-diving fish was pulled aboard. "There aren't many plum fish this time..." Liang Ziqiang was a little disappointed.

At a glance, this bag should contain more than 40 kilograms of harvest, and the largest amount in it is actually shrimps.

Shrimp, mullet, and Penaeus harvey are the main targets of the "bottom-crawling" trap net. However, shrimp is far less valuable than mullet.

The shrimps in front of me have very slender bodies, and their eyes are so small that they can be almost ignored. The most special thing is that these shrimps are slippery all over, with almost no scales, and their bodies are milky white, with the back and sides of their heads translucent.

It looks soft, like translucent tofu stretched into long strips.

Shrimp Chan is also called "tofu fish", probably because of this.

But it also has an extremely domineering name, "Dragon Head Fish". This name is so majestic that it has nothing to do with its weak and helpless appearance...

The fish actually tastes pretty good, the meat is tender, and there are no bones. It tastes as soft as tofu. It is good to braise, steam, salt and pepper, or deep-fry. But the disadvantage is also very obvious. Because the shrimp meat is too tender, if you are not careful when cooking, the fish meat will break into a pot of paste.

Moreover, as it cooks, it will automatically release too much water, which is also a test of the cooking skills.

Maybe it’s because of these reasons, dragon head fish is really cheap in this era, cheaper than bamboo saury at 1.5 cents and goby and white mullet at 1 cent, only 6 cents...

Compared with the 50-cent plum fish, it is almost one-tenth of the price.

Liang Ziqiang now felt that this bag of dragon head fish was not worth the effort he put in for two nights...

Forty kilograms of dragon head fish only cost a little over two yuan...

When he was driving the boat to look for the second sea cucumber, he was praying almost all the way that he would not be given another bag full of dragon fish.

Perhaps the prayer was really answered. The second bag was pulled onto the boat. It was not as heavy as the first bag, but it contained quite a few plum fish.

White croaker, sea bass, stone crab and mantis shrimp together account for about half, while the relatively valuable whitebait accounts for half alone.

Not bad, the depression of the first network is completely compensated by the prosperity of the second network.

When we moved to the third net, we found that golden pomfret and mantis shrimp accounted for the majority, but there were also quite a few whitebait, estimated to account for about one third.

The last net of plum fish had fewer and fewer, with only a few to be seen. But when it was pulled up this time, Liang Ziqiang actually laughed.

Although there were not many plum fish, there were a lot of swimming crabs! They were not ordinary swimming crabs, but fat ones with a lot of red roe.

The price of 50 cents for the plum fish is very beautiful, and the red crab is 1.2 yuan, isn’t it more delicious?!
If so many red crabs were converted into money, the income would definitely not be low.

Overall, all four underwater dives can be considered a good harvest, and Liang Ziqiang is of course happy.

He had just laughed out loud when he heard singing coming from the sea beside him. The tune was so loud that it sounded like someone was slaughtering a pig on the sea to offer to the Dragon King.

Upon hearing, it was Deng Zhaocai.

This guy spends a lot of money to put it on the bottom of the sea, and he puts out more than ten each time.

Last time, all ten of her underwater cards were stolen, and she burst into tears on Guanqi Island. This time, she got all ten, and she started singing a fisherman's song, flirting with the men...

Li Liang was annoyed by his disturbance and cursed:
"Except for the female fish, all the others here are male. What are you looking for a mate for on my boat? Come on, I caught a blobfish from the bottom of the sea. It must be a female. If you want a mate, just sing to it. You can even breed on the boat if you want!"

Liang Ziqiang was laughing so hard that he was out of breath. He glanced at Li Liang's boat and saw a real blobfish.

Courting a blobfish, so scary!
The blobfish has no bones or muscles. Its body is gelatinous and covered with wrinkles, like a ball of mud.

It is known as the ugliest, most paralyzed, most miserable and most helpless fish.

By the way, her appearance is also described as similar to the legendary "Meng Po".

Courting Meng Po, this painting style is really yours...

As Deng Zhaocai sang his song of seeking wealth and killing others, the three boats returned.

Set sail in the night and return to shore in the rising sun.

Although staying up all night for consecutive nights is inevitably exhausting, when they think about the harvest from night fishing and seabed diving, it will be very impressive. Everyone is like returning victorious from a battle, and their mood is very high...

(End of this chapter)