1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 179 Sold a lot of yellow croaker

Zheng Liu was much busier today than in the past few days. The sea had been quiet for a while, and now everyone was out looking for winter fish, but there were always villagers who found this or that kind of fish.

When Liang Ziqiang and the others went in, Zheng Liu had just received a hundred kilograms of gobies and had some free time.

Before he could even sit down, he looked up and saw Liang Ziqiang and Liang Zifeng coming in with two loads of fish. He stood up again:
"Have you encountered a season of yellow croaker and golden pomfret?"

Liang Ziqiang hummed: "Weigh these first, there are more on the boat, I will pick some more!"

Zheng Liu said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, pick them all over here!"

Liang Ziqiang has a lot of fish, so he earns a lot!

After all the fish were brought in, he weighed them several times and finally added them all up.

There are 473 jin of large yellow croaker, which costs 0.4 yuan per jin. This one costs 189.2 yuan.

Five hundred and eleven pounds of golden pomfret, thirty cents a pound, this is one hundred and fifty-three and thirty cents.

I kept some of the mantis shrimp for myself and sold 39 kilograms for one cent, or 3.9 yuan.

I kept some of the shrimp for myself and my wife to eat, and sold them for 41 kilograms, which was a good price, 70 cents per kilogram, so I sold them for 28.70 yuan.

All in all, the total amount I got was three hundred and seventy-five dollars and ten cents.

A while ago, I took a different approach and went night hunting. I was exhausted, and when I was lucky, I could earn more than 100 yuan.

This time during my trip to Longjuling, I caught nearly 400 fish, which is much higher than the night fishing!
And it’s not just today’s trip, there will definitely be no problem going a few times in a row.

While Liang's father was still weighing the shrimps on the cart, Liang Ziqiang and Liang Zifeng returned home first. Before they reached the door, Lizhi, who was sitting in front of the door, got up and ran over. He winked at Liang Zifeng and said mysteriously:
"Third brother, think about it, did you leave something behind the house? Luckily I found it and helped you hide it. If dad saw it, I would beat you to death!"

Liang Ziqiang and Liang Zifeng almost simultaneously thought of the stone pillar:

"Are there any more books on top of the stone pillar?"

Litchi snorted, "You still remember!"

Liang Ziqiang and Liang Zifeng both looked a little strange and asked Litchi to be taken out quietly.

Going to the inner room, Lizhi took the book out of her room and said, "Look, there is a beautiful leaf inside. Third brother, you also like to play with this. I thought I was the only one who liked to play..."

"This is my book, don't tell dad!" Liang Zifeng quickly took the book and warned Lizhi.

As soon as Lizhi left, Liang Zifeng scratched his head:

"Who is this? There is no one in our village who has high school textbooks at home, right?"

Liang Ziqiang also couldn't figure it out: "Who knows? Just keep it first, and then you'll know who it is and return it to the person."

In fact, Liang Zifeng no longer needs these secretly sent textbooks. Last time, Liang Ziqiang accompanied him to Xinhua Bookstore and bought all of them at once, and they were the latest editions.

Liang Ziqiang brought the slippery shrimp and mantis shrimp he brought back to Chen Xiangbei and asked her to pick some to make dinner.

"By the way, I specially saved a few large yellow croakers. They are very nutritious and good for you. You can steam them or braise them. You can eat them any way you like!"

He specifically showed her a few large yellow croakers in the bucket.

"They look pretty good," the wife was busy washing a bunch of leafy vegetables and looked into the bucket. "You brought so many back to eat today, did you come across a fishing season?"

Liang Ziqiang smiled with a sense of accomplishment: "Eating these few fish is nothing. You haven't seen the fish on my boat. There are hundreds of kilograms! You will know when you count the money later!"

"Did we really encounter a fishing season? That's great. This trip was not in vain!" Chen Xiangbei was happy.

Taking the fish from his hand, she said, "I'll pick two of the smallest yellow croakers. I'll steam one for you and make sweet and sour fish with the other one. Is that okay?"

The big yellow croakers he brought back weighed only a few taels each, and each person could eat one.

Sweet and sour yellow croaker, there is indeed such a way to cook it, but Liang Ziqiang didn't dare to think about the taste, it was definitely not to his taste, she just liked it. Chen Xiangbei picked up the fish briskly and went to kill it.

Liang Ziqiang took two more and gave one to his mother and one to his eldest sister-in-law, asking him to cook for Xiaohai. Otherwise, Liang Xiaohai would have to climb onto his second aunt's table, and Chen Xiangbei herself would probably not even get a bite of the sweet and sour fish.

After giving the fish, I caught a glimpse of Xiao Hai squatting beside the big bamboo cage near the woodshed. Inside the cage, an oystercatcher was calling, and it sounded so shrill!
Liang Ziqiang was puzzled. How could this little kid always come up with all kinds of crooked ways to torture the two big birds? A while ago, he tied them up with ropes and flew them as kites. Now, he didn't know what kind of torture he had used to make them scream miserably?

"If you want to raise Xiaohai, just take good care of him. Otherwise, he will be killed by you sooner or later!" He turned his head and said to Liang Xiaohai.

Liang Xiaohai quickly stood up, spread his hands and looked innocent:

"Uncle, I didn't touch them. They just started fighting! One bird wanted to ride on the horse, but the other one didn't want to, so it started crying!"

Liang Ziqiang heard the words and took a look. It was really...

There were two oystercatchers in the cage, one male and one female. At the moment, the male flapped its wings and sang in a showy voice, trying to get on.

The female just wouldn't let him ride it, and screamed loudly as if she was being stabbed by a knife.

Liang Ziqiang remembered. Although these two oystercatchers were a male and a female, they were not a pair. They originally had their own partners, the two that later flew away from the nameless island in melancholy.

It is said that most birds are loyal animals, only staying with one fixed partner and not cheating. Liang Ziqiang had heard this before.

But he was still a little surprised. These two birds have been kept in the same cage for a long time. It’s time for them to “reorganize the family”, right?
The male seemed to have fallen in love with her, but the female was so loyal that she refused to change her mind and still silently missed the white moonlight that flew away on the nameless island...

He had witnessed the level of concentration of birds.

But these two birds are in the same cage, one attacking and one defending, so I'm afraid there will be a fight.

"When will my second uncle and his two brethren give birth to little birds for me to play with?" Liang Xiaohai asked expectantly.

"Looking at this situation, it's a bit difficult, just wait!"

Maybe the two big birds will fight each other one day. Who knows.

The aroma of food wafted in the air, and Chen Xiangbei actually made a steamed fish and a sweet and sour fish.

His wife's cooking skills were indeed better than his own. This steamed yellow croaker tasted much better than the one he had steamed on the boat at noon. As for the sweet and sour yellow croaker that Chen Xiangbei had enjoyed so much, he had no idea what it tasted like, and he didn't want to know...

After dinner, he gave the money to his wife and asked her to count it herself, then he went to take a hot bath.

When the weather got cooler, he went out to sea to cast the nets. There was not so much sticky sweat on his body, but he still smelled like fish. Liang Ziqiang was afraid that he would not be able to get into bed if he didn't wash himself clean, and he couldn't stand it himself.

Thinking that I would have to get up early tomorrow morning to go out to sea, I went to bed early that night.

The next day, Liang Zifeng and he went to the beach before dawn. Li Liang was more enthusiastic this time and had already arrived at the beach with Deng Zhaocai.

Four people and two boats quietly headed out to the sea.

The boat had been sailing for half an hour when it finally got light. After sailing for a while, the four of them arrived near Longju Mountain again.

Near the continuous reefs, the sea surface is calm, but in the water, there are schools of fish and shrimps.

Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai were shocked at the time.

"Is it really like what Brother Qiang said, that the black dragon does not do anything strange in winter, but instead prepares a lot of fish as gifts for people?"

Deng Zhaocai always felt that there was some truth in it, but something was not right...

But he and Li Liang obviously didn't want to delve into this brain-twisting question. Why think so much? Just follow Brother Qiang...

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