1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 2 Earning a Fortune

Upon hearing this, Yang Laizi jumped up in anger:

"It's almost done!"

Liang Ziqiang completely ignored him and looked at the village party secretary Zhong Yongrui and said:
"A thief must go to jail. Uncle Rui, I demand that Yang Tie be taken to the police station!"

"Bullshit! What's the big deal about flattering someone? Do you think the police station is owned by your family and you can arrest anyone you want?" Yang Laizi roared.

Liang Ziqiang sneered:
"During this period of time, I believe that our family is definitely not the only one in the village who has lost a ground trap net. Once the police station investigates the case, it will not just be a matter of my family being stolen. Isn't it obvious whether it is a small matter or a big one?!"

"Who are you trying to threaten? Stop throwing dirty water on me!" This time, although Yang Laizi still tried to argue, his voice lacked confidence and his face fell a little.

It was obvious that Liang Ziqiang had hit the vital point.

Some villagers who had suffered theft began to talk about it, wondering if it was also related to Yang Laizi.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yang Tie's uncle quickly stepped forward and took the initiative to discuss with Liang's father and plead for Yang Laizi.

After some negotiations, according to Secretary Zhong's suggestion, all the trap nets that the Liang family had lost recently were counted together and Yang Tie was asked to compensate.

Liang Defu was about to report the number when Liang Ziqiang secretly pulled his father and spoke first:

"I'm the one who sets the traps, so I know them best. In the past six months, the number of traps stolen must be no less than 20 rows.

I've always had good luck with my nets, and I can get seven or eight kilograms of shrimp and crabs in each row of the nets!"

Liang Defu also reacted quickly and took over his son's words and said:
"Crabs are 40 cents a pound, and shrimps are 40 cents more, so they are all calculated at 40 cents. Twenty rows of nets, that's 140 pounds of shrimps and crabs, 56 yuan.

As for the ground cage net, my family has a 4-meter-long, 13-section net. At the very least, each row is worth yuan, so rows is yuan. The total loss is yuan."

As soon as his father finished speaking, Liang Ziqiang added:

"My family only has four or five rows of ground cage nets. Every time they are stolen, we have to spend time making new ones. They are stolen, and then stolen again. I haven't even counted how much time I have wasted!

I only charge you eighty-six dollars, all because of your uncle's kindness!"

Hearing the numbers reported by the father and son, Yang Laizi was so anxious that he wanted to jump up and down again, but was kicked by his uncle and shut up.

If he doesn't pay the money, he will have to go to jail. Thinking of this, he could only grit his teeth.

After being beaten up, he had to pay compensation. Is this considered walking on the road too much at night and encountering a ghost?

The matter was handled quickly. Perhaps because the Yang family was afraid that Liang Ziqiang would go back on his word, they immediately asked their relatives to collect 86 yuan, which was eventually handed over to Liang Defu at Secretary Zhong's home.

Liang Ziqiang watched the other party take the money quietly without saying another word.

In fact, he was also afraid that the other party would go back on his word! With his experience in his previous life, he knew one thing more clearly than the people in front of him: the law is based on evidence.

The only thing that Yang Laizi was caught stealing was the row of trap nets in the tidal ditch. There was no evidence to attribute the stolen nets from the Liang family to Yang Laizi. In fact, not all of them were stolen by Yang Laizi alone.

If he really had to be taken to the police station, based on the row of nets in front of him, the amount involved was too small, so he wouldn't be detained for a few days. He would probably be criticized and educated, and then released.

That little punishment, which was not painful at all, was far less intimidating than when he pressed the other person into the water and tortured him.

In this case, why not do a favor and give face to the Yang family elders so that we can meet each other in the village in the future.

As for the twenty rows of ground cage nets, Liang Ziqiang must have exaggerated this number.

Who made Yang Laizi so mean!

There is another reason. Who told me that my family is so poor...

These days, we are really short of money.

The four members of the Liang family, father and son, were walking on their way home.

Liang Defu used the flashlight to scan Liang Ziqiang again and again, and asked in a deep voice:
"Even if the fish dies, we still have to fight to break the net. Yang Laizi really didn't hurt you?"

Faced with the family affection and concern that he had not seen for forty years, Liang Ziqiang felt moved but also inexplicably sad.

All kinds of emotions surged up invisibly, but in an instant they turned into a sly smile, facing the beam of the flashlight:

"Dad, do you look down on me? From childhood to adulthood, let alone other aspects, I have never embarrassed you in a fight, right?"

The flashlight suddenly stopped. Liang Defu quickly moved away the flashlight and said honestly:

"That's indeed not the case!"

The elder brother Liang Tiancheng scratched his head and revealed his true thoughts:
"Actually, I'm more afraid that Aqiang will get angry and break some of Yang Laizi's ribs or something!" Liang Ziqiang suddenly fell silent: Brother, can your mouth be more accurate?

Behind him, his younger brother Liang Zifeng also said with emotion:

"Brother, you are so calm today. You are not like your usual self!"

Liang Ziqiang: ...

He laughed dryly twice:
"How can you talk like that? I have always been brave and resourceful, but sometimes I am just more brave!"

The father and son were talking and soon they arrived home.

Although it is called “home”, in fact, even the house is not your own home.

The ancestral house where the Liang family originally lived was too old and collapsed a few years ago.

They couldn't come up with such a large sum of money to build a new house at the moment, so in the past few years, Liang Ziqiang's family has been temporarily living in a semi-old vacant house left by the government, and they pay rent to the village every year...

As a native villager, I still have to rent a house.

I'm afraid he's the only one left.

Liang Ziqiang looked at the house in front of him in the moonlight and slowly matched it with the home in his memory.

As soon as he stepped through the door and before he could stand firmly, a rough hand covered with calluses reached out and went straight to Liang Ziqiang's ear.

If I hadn't dodged fast enough, I would have been grabbed by the ears on the spot!
Then the mother Yuan Qiuying's scolding voice rang out:
"Now you know how to hide! I told you not to guard the net, but you went there anyway and I couldn't stop you! Now look, who did you hit? What are you going to use to pay for it?"

Yuan Qiuying stayed in the house to look after the house. She only knew that something had happened outside, but she didn't know the specific circumstances.

Liang Ziqiang called out "Mom" and was about to explain.

Liang Defu fished out eight Great Unity notes from his pocket.

When Yuan Qiuying saw the banknotes, she cried out:
"I'll tell you! Who is this family that is willing to lend you so much money to pay you back? Your family is so poor, how are you going to pay it back in the future?"

Liang Ziqiang was speechless. But he understood that he had always been stubborn and could not tolerate any injustice, so he had often gotten into fights outside, which really worried his mother.

The reason his mother scolded him was because she was worried about him.

Fortunately, before Yuan Qiuying found the broom, Liang Defu came over in time and stuffed the money into her hand:
"Put it away first. Eighty-six yuan. Yang Laizi compensated our family."

"Yang Laizi? What did he do to Aqiang?"

Yuan Qiuying was even more panicked. When she looked at her son again, she looked at him as a wounded man.

After a long while of explanation, Yuan Qiuying finally felt relieved.

After all the twists and turns, it was almost five o'clock in the morning. The eldest brother and the younger brother went into the inner room and fell asleep. Mother grumbled a few words and went back to her room to sleep.

Only my father seemed not to be sleepy at all. He picked up the big bamboo and took a few puffs of the water pipe. The smoke dispersed lightly, but his brows were tightly furrowed.

Liang Ziqiang didn't go to bed right away. He carried the row of trap nets he brought back from the tidal ditch and looked around for pots.

Liang Ziqiang found some small fish in it, but more were stone crabs and mantis shrimps.

Mantis shrimp, also known as mantis shrimp, has shrimp eyes and crab legs, and is commonly known as mantis shrimp, slipper shrimp, and mantis shrimp.

In fact, it has a better name, Qin shrimp, because the sections of this little thing are very clear, like a guqin.

Of course, there seems to be something wrong with you saying it looks like a centipede.

After pouring the shrimps and crabs into the basin, he added a little water. There wasn't much water, just a shallow layer that only reached half of the crab's body.

The only sounds left in the entire room were the soft sound of him pouring water and the gentle gurgling sound of his father's chimney, which made the room seem particularly quiet.

Just after I finished, my father's voice came over:

"Are you done? If you're done, don't go to sleep yet. Come over here. I have something important to tell you..."

Liang Ziqiang looked at his father without surprise.

He knew that his father was sitting there alone waiting for him, and that he must have something important to talk to him about.

(End of this chapter)