1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 162: One Trip Is Better Than Two Trips
Not long after the boat left Xiangluo Island, there was a noise on Li Liang's boat.

This guy was greedy and stuffed a snakeskin bag too full without tying the mouth. As a result, when the boat started, the bag tilted and all the blood clams rolled out and scattered all over the boat.

The sight of blood clots rolling around on the boat was too much to look at...

Liang Ziqiang stood on his boat and witnessed this scene. He shouted to Li Liang:

"Damn it, you didn't even prepare a bigger snakeskin bag. You filled it so full, it's about to burst now, right? Just wait and see how you wash the boat!"

Not long after he finished speaking, the boat had been sailing for a few minutes when Liang Ziqiang saw that one of the snakeskin bags on his boat had tilted and fell onto the deck.

He used a string to hastily tie the mouth of the bag, but it was useless and it broke open. The blood clams rolled all over the boat with blood. The scene was the same as on Li Liang's boat. It was quite stunning...

Li Liang immediately died of laughter, pointing at Liang Ziqiang and retorting:
"Your bag is really big, it's really different. When the bag exploded, the blood balls rolling out looked much better than mine!"

Liang Ziqiang exclaimed, it seems that you really can't just bully others. Now, the blood on his boat is even harder to wash away than Li Liang's.

The two of them teased each other, but their words clearly showed their unconcealable joy.

A boat covered in blood from clams is probably what many people in the village have been dreaming about recently!
At this moment, several boats from other villages appeared from some sheltered place. When they passed by Liang Ziqiang's boat, they saw a small pile of blood clams on his boat and immediately became jealous. They started to talk openly:
"There's Xiangluo Island ahead. Could it be that it was taken from Xiangluo Island?"

"Are there blood clams on Xiangluo Island? I've been there once or twice before, but why didn't I see so many blood clams?"

Liang Ziqiang didn't say anything. The wooden boat gradually sped up and sailed away.

Back at the village dock, Zheng Liu was also happy when he brought the blood clam to the front of him:

"You two are so thoughtful. You knew I wanted to collect this stuff recently. Where did you get so many of them at once? This amount is more than all the people in the village combined during this period of time!"

"Yeah, we'll still hold your ground. Recently people in the city have been scrambling to use blood clams to replenish their blood, so the price must have gone up again, right? It was 90 cents last time, so it must be one dollar this time, right?!" Liang Ziqiang was more realistic, and he talked about the price in just a few sentences.

Zheng Liu frowned:
"Last time you sold me the blood clams you caught, I gave you the price that had just gone up! It's only been a few days, and it's gone up again? That's not going to be a good deal. It's still 90 cents like a few days ago, and that's a very high price. Other clams are only a few cents or 10 cents!"

This stingy guy refused to raise the price by even a cent, and Liang Ziqiang had no temper left, so he had to still give him 90 cents.

He alone collected more than 70 kilograms of blood clams, which he sold for more than 60 yuan. The cow-eye snails and horse-hoof snails he picked up on the island beach were not as expensive as blood clams, but they were not cheap either, at more than 10 yuan. That was more than 70 yuan.

Those four pictures of fish, red crab and other creatures diving on the seabed were also worth about seventy yuan.

This was equivalent to making one trip under the sea and collecting the money from two trips, totaling 140 yuan.

As for the mussels, clams, and bamboo clams that we picked up from the island beach, we didn’t sell them but took them home to eat. We also took a few stone crabs and blue crabs back to cook.

Before going home, I used buckets of sea water to rinse the deck clean.

As soon as he got home, Chen Xiangbei came over and touched the corner of his clothes, and said angrily while going to get a dry towel:
"What kind of weather forecast is this? It's all lies! If I had known, I wouldn't have gone to the sea today. It's raining so hard, you won't drift on the sea forever, will you?"

Liang Ziqiang took the towel and wiped his hair:
"I found a small island to hide for a while, luckily..."

However, before he could finish the word "good", a sneeze occurred out of nowhere.

Chen Xiangbei curled her lips and said, "Is this good? Don't eat yet, the first thing to do is go drink a bowl of ginger soup!"

"There's ginger soup? Who made it?"

"Who else can wait for it? How many wives do you have? I saw it was raining so heavily and thought you would definitely get wet, so I waited for you in advance." Chen Xiangbei curled her lips.

He thought Chen Xiangbei didn't understand these things, and it was probably her mother or sister-in-law who made her feel uncomfortable.

After drinking the ginger soup, my body didn't feel so cold anymore, and after eating, my body temperature returned to normal.

"Go take a shower quickly, I just boiled hot water for you!" Chen Xiangbei ordered again.

"Hot water?"

Liang Ziqiang found that this was the first hot shower he had taken since the beginning of autumn this year. Before that, no matter how cold the weather got, he always took cold showers.

When I returned to the small room, I felt warm all over.

Chen Xiangbei saw the money on the bedside cabinet and counted it:
"Haidi Chuan's income has been decreasing recently, only about 30 or 40 yuan, right? How come so much suddenly appeared this time?"

"Then you must have counted wrong. Count again?" Liang Ziqiang hugged her soft waist from behind and pouted.

"Don't scratch your head! Let's get down to business. Could it be that... there are more fish diving into the seabed during heavy rains?" She started to guess. "I moved to a new place, so there must be more fish. The other half were blown here by the strong wind."

After listening to his detailed explanation, she finally understood that it seemed to be blown by the strong wind...

It was almost time to go to bed, so she took a bath and went to bed. The two of them talked for a while in bed, and there was no more footsteps outside the small door. The whole family was resting.

"Hey, why are your big feet still cold?"

While Chen Xiangbei was lying down, she touched his feet with her slippery and soft little feet, and found that his feet were colder than usual.

My feet were the wettest part of the rain today, they were almost always soaked in water. So now my whole body has warmed up, but my feet are still a little cold.

"How about I continue to make ginger soup for you tomorrow and make it thicker?" She rubbed his feet twice again.

Liang Ziqiang couldn't understand it either. The soft and tender feet were clearly rubbing against the back of his feet, but the strong reaction occurred somewhere else.

My feet wouldn’t warm up for a long time, but some parts of my body would suddenly warm up and wouldn’t cool down again.

She's still rubbing. It's killing me...

He guessed that she might be thinking of using her own little feet to warm his feet, the legendary "warm your feet".

Who can bear this.

"Wife, you've been moving your feet for a long time. It's time to move your hands!" he reminded.

"What do you mean?"

"I taught you a few days ago, have you forgotten it again?"

"You come again? My hands are sore!"

"I'll try to be quick this time. Wife, please help me. Happiness won't take too long..."

"What? You didn't pronounce it like that last time!"

She finally couldn't beat him and showed him her skills...

The next morning, he heard the sounds of pots and pans and stoves. When he got up, he saw Chen Xiangbei was already busy making breakfast.

Now their meals have really improved. They no longer eat sweet potato porridge in the morning, but cook rice and dishes directly.

The food looks very nutritious. Look, there are some fresh shrimps being steamed in the pot, and there are crabs on top of the shrimps. It is so delicious...

Since crabs should be eaten in moderation during pregnancy, the dish mainly contained shrimps and only two crabs.

Wait! What the hell? What did you steam?

One of them is a red crab, but why is the one on top different?
My heavy-shell crab?!

Liang Ziqiang's heart trembled.

I searched many places and this is the only heavy-shell crab I found. Can you make it for breakfast for me?
Before the fire was started, he ran to the pot, sweating, and reached out to scoop it out.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Are you so hungry? The fire hasn't even been lit yet, and you plan to eat it raw?!" Chen Xiangbei glanced at him and said angrily.

"You didn't use the knife?"

"Why use a knife? Just brush it with a brush. Look, aren't its pliers still moving?"

Liang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief: "Mom, you can steam any one, but not this one! I'm saving this for fishing for grouper. I'll just put it in a small basin by itself, so don't take the wrong one again!"

She exclaimed, "How would I know if you put them together?"

Fortunately, before the heavy-shell crab turned into a red crab, it was rescued from the line of fire.

Liang Ziqiang decided that he must go to Wuming Island as soon as the weather was better to use this heavy-shelled crab.

This matter cannot wait...

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