1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 174 Selling Airplane Crabs
During dinner, Duobao ran over, kept shuttling under the table, and rubbed Liang Ziqiang's trouser legs from time to time.

"Get out of here! Isn't your bowl in the woodshed? Don't always come here to eat delicious food!"

Duobao didn't leave, so he just sat down and watched him. When he saw Liang Ziqiang finished his meal, Duobao immediately bit his trouser leg and pulled him out.

Liang Ziqiang then realized that he had misunderstood. Duobao kept rubbing against him, not to ask for food, but as if he had something to tell him.

Duobao ran in front and he followed him out, curious about where Duobao was going to take him.

As a result, Duobao kept running to the back of the house, led him to a large stone pillar behind the house, raised his paw and pointed at the stone pillar for him to see.

Liang Ziqiang saw a book on the stone pier. He quickly reached out and picked it up. The dense numbers and symbols in the book made his head swell, but looking at the cover, this somewhat worn book was a textbook, a high school mathematics textbook.

Liang Ziqiang was puzzled. Could it be that his younger brother Liang Zifeng was reading a book secretly, then left for something and forgot the book on this stone pillar?

But he took note of all his brother's books, which were the three books he bought from the bookstore in the department store last time. He vaguely remembered that there was no such book among them, and that book was much newer than this one.

Besides, my younger brother Liang Zifeng has always treasured those books very much, it is impossible for him to forget them outside by mistake.

No matter what happened, it must be related to Liang Zifeng. I have to ask him to find out.

Liang Ziqiang praised Duobao as a good dog, quietly put the book in his pocket and went back into the house.

While his father and mother were sitting under a tree chatting, he pulled Liang Zifeng aside and took out the half-worn textbook to show him.

Liang Zifeng's eyes lit up: "Where did you see it, second brother? Is it the stone pillar behind the house?"

"Duobao saw it on the stone pier! How come you really forgot it there?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

Liang Zifeng shook his head: "I don't know who put it there. This is already the third copy!"

"No way, he always appears at the stone pier?"

"If you don't believe me, I'll show you!" Liang Zifeng said as he quietly took out two other books, still about mathematics, but from different semesters. The common point was that they were both very old.

"There's a maple leaf stuck in one of the books. I don't know what it means!" Liang Zifeng really shook out a red maple leaf from one of the books.

"It seems that someone knows that you want to take the college entrance examination, and specially sent you books!" Liang Ziqiang thought, "The problem is that sending you books is a good thing, why do they do it so secretly? Wouldn't it be better to send it directly to you when Dad is not at home? Have you guessed who it is?"

"Who knows? There's no name in the book." Liang Zifeng shook his head. "It's a pity that this book is too old and some pages are missing. But I still have to thank this person. Anyway, flipping through it will help a lot!"

Liang Ziqiang pondered for a moment:
"The book issue is easy to solve. You won't be able to go out to sea for several months before and after the Chinese New Year, so you'll have a lot of free time. In addition to chopping wood and working in the fields, you'll have plenty of time to secretly read books and prepare for the exam. I think Xinhua Bookstore has the most books. They should have all the books you need. You can go there and buy a new set.

But you also know that I don’t know much about these things, you have to go to the city with me and find and choose books by yourself! ”

"That's great. In terms of time, the last few months at the end of the year and the beginning of the year are the most free!" Liang Zifeng was very happy.

The next day, Liang Ziqiang went to the city to sell seafood and took Liang Zifeng with him.

I met up with Lin Baixian at the beach, and I was too lazy to drive two boats. Because the last time I went to Fox Bay Island, I used Liang Ziqiang's boat, and this time Lin Baixian offered to use his boat.

We drove all the way to Sham Shui Po and arrived at Yue Hai Restaurant carrying seafood.

Du Ziteng saw them and asked:
"What good groupers are there this time? Dongxing? Big oily grouper?"

Facing Manager Du's enthusiasm, Liang Ziqiang and Lin Baixian felt a little ashamed. Liang Ziqiang smiled awkwardly and said:
"We didn't catch any grouper this time, not even the most common blue grouper. It was due to the weather and other reasons."

He didn't intend to go into detail about cat sharks, as that would make the story too long.

Du Ziteng's eyes darkened, unable to hide his disappointment: "No grouper? That's a bit difficult. The other fishermen who supply us with grouper also said that the grouper has become less available due to the cold weather. Moreover, the grouper they send us is not as good as yours in appearance and taste. I usually prefer to pay a higher price for yours!"

Lin Baixian quickly replied, "We did get some conches and abalone!"

Du Ziteng took a look at the chicken claw snails and three-headed abalone they had collected this time. The quality did not change much and was as good as before. However, he could not preserve the chicken claw snails for too long and could not freeze them, so he could only collect this much at a time.

As he spoke, Liang Ziqiang opened another bucket. In addition to the chicken claw snails, there were also two large crabs - airplane crabs.

This happened a few days ago at Fox Bay Island. He was originally looking for heavy-shelled crabs, but unexpectedly caught a batch of red flower crabs and two airplane crabs.

The ordinary red flower crabs were sold to Zheng Liu on the same day, but these two big ones that stood out among the red flower crabs were not taken out.

I asked specifically at that time, and Zheng Liu said that if there were airplane crabs, he could give a price of two dollars and eighty cents per catty.

"Brother Teng, although we didn't catch any grouper this time, we did catch another rare item: a super-large red flower crab, with a pair of large claws stretched out like an airplane!"

Du Ziteng had already looked over and recognized the distinctive crimson spots on the plane crab's shell:
"Airplane crab? This is indeed a bit rare, and some customers have always wanted to eat this!"

Lin Baixian quickly brought his own bucket to him: "I have one here too, it's probably almost two kilograms!"

"Well, I didn't expect you to get this guy this time!"

There was a hint of surprise in Du Ziteng's words, which somewhat diluted his disappointment at the lack of grouper.

"What do you think of the price?" Liang Ziqiang asked directly.

"Twelve, that's really hard for you to get, I'll try to give you a higher price if I can!"

Twelve yuan. Zheng Liu said two yuan and eighty yuan. The two felt that they had picked up a lot of extra money.

After the negotiation, go to the scale.

Lin Baixian's airplane crab was the largest one, weighing two pounds and one ounce.

Liang Ziqiang has two airplane crabs, one big and one small. The big one weighs exactly two kilograms, and the small one weighs one kilogram and six ounces.

Just the two airplane crabs cost me forty-three dollars and twenty cents.

Then we weighed the chicken claw snails and three-headed abalone.

Liang Ziqiang's chicken claw conches weighed 15.6 jin, totaling 280.8 yuan.

Three abalones weigh 2.6 pounds, totaling 98 yuan.

The total cost of the airplane crab, chicken claw conch, and three-headed abalone is four hundred and twenty-two yuan.

Since he couldn't catch any grouper, his original plan was ruined, and the income from Wuming Island was much less than expected. Liang Ziqiang had originally hoped to make more than 1,000 yuan from Wuming Island in this last wave of fishing at the end of the year.

But more than 400 yuan is a lot of money. Anyway, it is much better than going out to sea normally.

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