1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 17 Husband and Wife Duet

"Why would you go catch a thief alone in the middle of the night?"

"Huh?" Liang Ziqiang didn't react.

"You are really capable. Are you so sure in the dark?" Chen Xiangbei continued with a cold face.

Hearing her complaining tone, Liang Ziqiang was not angry at all. Instead, he moved closer, picked up the carrying pole and put it on his shoulder.

As he walked, he smiled and tilted his head to ask her:
"Worried about me?"

"What's the point of me worrying?" Chen Xiangbei said unhappily, "When my brother catches melon thieves, at least two of us will be there to watch, and sometimes we'll even bring Da Huang with us.

You dare to go alone. Have you ever thought about what if the other party has several people?"

"Don't mention it, but it reminds me. How about I also raise a rhubarb?"

Liang Ziqiang's focus shifted directly.

As they were talking, the slightly plump Da Huang came out from somewhere, followed them silently and joined their team.

It would have been fine if he had just joined, but Silly Dog actually automatically interposed himself between the two of them, like a small, self-moving isolation wall, separating the two of them.

Father-in-law Chen Dagang even knew to leave some space for the two of them, and was walking far ahead with big strides.

The stupid dog obviously didn't intend to have this awareness.

The peaceful world of two people turned into a clanging world of three.

"By the way, what's going on with Da Huang? When I just arrived at the door this morning, this guy rushed out and barked, and almost bit me. I've been here many times, how could it not remember?"

Liang Ziqiang complained to Dahuang directly in front of him.

Don't blame him for being petty and picking on the dog. The main reason is that the dog is too short-sighted.

When Dahuang heard him mention his name, he wagged his tail slightly in response, but he tilted his head with a confused look on his face, as if he couldn't figure out whether he was praising him or saying bad things about him.

"I heard that dogs are much better than humans at distinguishing between good and bad people. You can go there yourself!"

Chen Xiangbei still had a stern face and spoke nonsense in a serious manner.

"Come on, a stupid dog is a stupid dog."

This time, Dahuang seemed to have heard some slander against him, and he let out a light bark like a sneeze as a protest.

Liang Ziqiang then noticed belatedly that the area on Dahuang's abdomen seemed unusually swollen.

"Has it given birth to puppies?" he asked in surprise.

"You just noticed it? Your eyesight isn't much better than itss!" Chen Xiangbei explained, "The puppies are still crawling in their den. Now you know why it barked at you?"

Liang Ziqiang nodded with sudden realization:
"I see. This is due to poor eyesight. Is it because of confinement? Are you crying in the wind?"

"...What?" Chen Xiangbei stamped her feet and quickened her pace. "You are talking nonsense. I won't talk to you anymore!"

In fact, due to some kind of nature, a female dog's temperament will change drastically for a long time after giving birth, and it is not impossible for her to bite familiar people. No wonder she was highly alert to him, it turned out that she was protecting her cubs. Liang Ziqiang certainly understood this.

When they arrived at the melon field, Chen Xiangbei's two sisters-in-law were picking melons in the field, but her two brothers were nowhere to be seen, probably because they were busy with other things.

"Xiao Liang is here today!"

When they heard Liang Ziqiang calling them "eldest sister-in-law" and "second sister-in-law", the two of them looked up and greeted him with a smile.

From what I recall, Chen Xiangbei's two sisters-in-law were pretty nice people. At least they were nice to Chen Xiangbei, and they weren't as calculating as my sister-in-law Kuang Haixia.

"Yes, you picked so many melons this morning. These melons are really well grown, big and round, and must be very sweet!" Liang Ziqiang replied.

Although most of them have been picked, at a glance, there are still many round watermelons among the vines on the ground.

The sunlight in the morning is not that strong, and the wind is refreshing. When it blows on my face, I can smell the scent of watermelon vines and leaves.

"You'll know after trying it. Here, this one is good!"

My father-in-law knocked on a melon under his feet, cut it with a pair of scissors, and walked over with the melon in his hands.

In fact, when he was sitting at home just now, his mother-in-law was already washing the melons and preparing to cut them for him to eat, but he ran to the field in a flash.

He took the big round melon from his father-in-law's hand, and he was not polite. There was a little dirt on the melon skin, but he didn't wash it. He just raised his fist and punched it, and the melon cracked.

The air seemed to suddenly increase in sugar, and a sweet fragrance rushed into the nose.

The melon my father-in-law picked was indeed the right one, with bright red flesh that looked neither raw nor overripe.

He put one half of the melon on the ground and broke the other half hard, splitting it in half again. He gave one half to his father-in-law and the other half to his eldest sister-in-law, but both sisters-in-law said they had just eaten it and didn't want any.

Liang Ziqiang gave that half to Chen Xiangbei, and then he picked up the other half of the melon on the ground and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

A loose, crunchy sweetness instantly fills the mouth. It is delicious and thirst-quenching. It is simply wonderful.

The only drawback is that it is really watery. While eating it, my mouth was full of watermelon juice, making it feel like I was drooling.

Then I turned my head to look at Chen Xiangbei. They were both eating watermelon, but not a single drop of water dripped from his mouth. He looked a hundred times more beautiful when eating.

Da Huang, who was following nearby, had been jealous for a while, but no one gave him a piece.

At this moment, it trotted to Liang Ziqiang's body, raised its head, stretched its neck, and opened its mouth waiting for juice to fall from the sky.

Every drop of watermelon juice that Liang Ziqiang dropped was accurately caught by it into its mouth.

In its eyes, Liang Ziqiang was basically equivalent to a human-shaped juicer.

The picture is so beautiful...

When Liang Ziqiang discovered Sha Gou's magical operation, he was so angry that he could no longer bear it.

No one had noticed that he was leaking while eating, but now that Silly Dog had done that, he immediately became the focus of the whole place. His father-in-law, his eldest sister-in-law, his second sister-in-law, all looked at him...

He just wanted to ask, is it suitable to eat dog meat hotpot in summer?

"Go away!" He pretended to kick his legs to drive away this annoying thing.

Dahuang dodged for a while, but lacked self-awareness and came up again shamelessly.

Chen Xiangbei probably felt embarrassed for him, so she quickly broke off a small piece of watermelon and threw it aside, saying:
"Be obedient, Da Huang. Just eat this small piece. If you eat too much, you'll have diarrhea!"

Da Huang gave Liang Ziqiang a look of contempt, then jumped aside in surprise.

Liang Ziqiang was finally rescued by his wife.

After eating the melon, I washed my hands in the stream nearby and then started working.

It is actually very simple to pick watermelons. Just find a watermelon, then take a pair of scissors and aim them at the vines. With a click, the watermelon is separated from the vine, and then you can directly move the watermelon into the basket.

But Liang Ziqiang saw Chen Xiangbei's slender body constantly moving the big melon, and he felt a little tired for her.

Unconsciously, she recalled how in her previous life she had followed him for many years, wandering around to make a living. Her slender but stubborn figure was always unwilling to be outdone. She would do whatever hard work he did, and was as busy as a spinning top that could not stop.

However, two people with low education and no skills are like rootless duckweed. No matter how hard they work, they are just a perfect interpretation of the real-life version of "A poor couple has many sorrows."

Until she was ruthlessly eroded by the years and could no longer find the youthful and moving luster before her.

Quickly collect your thoughts.

"Xiangbei, how about this, let's work together."

"How do you cooperate?" Chen Xiangbei stopped and glanced at him.

"You are better at cutting melons than I am. Just squat down and cut them. Don't worry about them after you're done. I'll put them into the basket." Liang Ziqiang felt that he loved her in this life, so he started with this simplest suggestion.

"Okay!" Chen Xiangbei nodded calmly, but there was a light flashing in her eyes happily.

With the cooperation of the two, not only did Chen Xiangbei reduce his fatigue, but his speed also increased.

The key is, I can be with her up close and still look at her with a clear conscience.

He found that although she was wearing only the most ordinary gray cloth clothes which looked loose, her pants became tighter when she squatted down, revealing her good figure.

Is fishing at the seaside more enjoyable? Or is picking melons in the melon field more pleasant?
At this moment, he decisively chose the melon field.

There were many baskets of watermelons in the field, and Liang Ziqiang was very conscious and took on the task of picking the watermelons by himself. The key point was that with his physique, several loads of watermelons were not a problem for him at all, and he carried them with big strides.

When they were still a few meters away from the stone houses of the Chen family, voices were heard from the house.

He only knew that someone was talking to his future mother-in-law, Li Jinju, but Liang Ziqiang couldn't react immediately to who the woman was.

"Jinju, did Xiangbei's boyfriend Xiaoliang come over today? His family is really poor and can't even afford melons. He knew your family was picking melons, so he came here just in time to ask for some!"

"Fuck!" Liang Ziqiang immediately slowed down his pace, feeling fucked in his heart.

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