1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 202 New Seagoing Personnel Confirmed
"Zhu Tianpeng, is that you? Are you...working here?"

If Liang Ziqiang didn't put down the tea bowl, he would really get scalded, so he quickly put the bowl down and walked to the open space in front.

There was a tree in the open space. On the stone platform below the tree, there was a young man about his age, about the same size and fatness, but slightly shorter than him.

At this moment, the man was putting down the brick mold in his hand and grinning at him.

There are many stone platforms for making bricks in such a large open space, but this one stone platform has a big tree on top.

This guy is quite good at choosing a work environment. This is definitely a five-star stone platform in the entire brick kiln site.

The winter sun is not very strong, and there is a big tree above to block the sun, but Zhu Tianpeng still sweats profusely while shaking the bricks. This is mainly because the labor intensity of making bricks is really high.

Suddenly seeing Liang Ziqiang, he probably felt that the mud on his face was not decent enough, so he quickly wiped his face and head with his hands and said to Liang Ziqiang:
"Yes, Aqiang, I have been working here for more than half a year, how come you didn't know about this?"

It would have been fine if he hadn't wiped it, but once he did, his face became stained with clowns. Liang Ziqiang really didn't recognize him anymore...

"I knew you were in the brick kiln, but I didn't know you were in this brick kiln. By the way, I went to your house to look for you two months ago. Did your uncle tell you later?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

Zhu Tianpeng is not from Changwang Village, but from the nearby Xiaolang Village. However, because Xiaolang Village does not have its own primary school, Zhu Tianpeng also attended the Changwang Village Primary School.

Later, they were promoted to Chaoyang Town Junior High School and were in the same class. They both went back home to work before graduation. But after dropping out of school, they often visited each other and went to each other's village to play.

Although Liang Ziqiang and he were not from the same village, they were typical friends since childhood. In terms of close relationship, they were no less close than Lin Baixian.

Speaking of which, Zhu Tianpeng and Liang Ziqiang might get along better.

Liang Ziqiang didn't lie to him. After his rebirth, he really went to Xiaolang Village to look for Zhu Tianpeng, but Zhu Tianpeng was working outside and not at home, so he found him empty-handed.

"It's not that he didn't tell me. I work in this brick kiln, eat and live here, and I haven't been home for half a year!" Zhu Tianpeng said in a muffled voice.

I see. I haven't been home for half a year, so he naturally didn't know that I went to Xiaolang Village to look for him two months ago.

"Are you here to play with me, or is there something wrong? By the way, why are you here today? I remember that your family has an old boat. You don't want to fish anymore, so are you planning to come here with me to make bricks?!" Zhu Tianpeng continued to ask.

"Look, you still understand me so well! You guessed everything without me saying anything. You have worked here for more than half a year and you can be considered an old hand. I'm new here, so you have to teach me more!" Liang Ziqiang approached the stone platform with interest.

"Damn it, you really want to make bricks? You have good fish but you don't want to catch them! Making bricks is like a beast of burden, it's exhausting! Okay, since you're here, I'll teach you from now on!"

Zhu Tianpeng was a bit naive and believed it to be true. He even planned to teach Liang Ziqiang how to make bricks.

After teaching him twice, the brick kiln owner came over and shouted at Liang Ziqiang:
"Oh, Boss Liang, there's one thing I didn't mention. Do you want to call a car to pick you up the day after tomorrow, or do you want me to arrange one for you?"

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and realized that the boat would not be able to get close to the brick kiln, and the weather was unpredictable. If he called a car himself, there was only one tractor in the village, and it was difficult to arrange a time.

"Please arrange a car for me. Send it directly to Pomfret Village the day after tomorrow!" He decided immediately. Anyway, the car fare is inevitable, so it doesn't matter who calls the car.

Boss Zhang from the brick kiln hummed and walked away.

Zhu Tianpeng patted him on the shoulder and covered him in yellow mud:
"You kid are kidding me! So you came here to buy bricks. Are you planning to build a house so soon? I think you mentioned a wife last year. Have you married one yet?"

Zhu Tianpeng asked a lot of questions like a string of cannonballs. Liang Ziqiang sat down on a stone nearby and told him everything.

After chatting for a while, Zhu Tianpeng realized that so many things had happened in the past six months. Liang Ziqiang got married, bought a boat, and now planned to build a house.

Liang Ziqiang didn't have much to hide from him. Apart from the most important secrets of rebirth and Nameless Island, he told him everything else. "How much can you earn in a day?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

"I work so hard, and I only make about two dollars a day. Actually, two dollars is not a small amount. I can make sixty dollars a month. The workers in the city make even less than me!"

Zhu Tianpeng, on the other hand, knew how to find joy in adversity and thought positively, and said with a chuckle.

Two yuan a day is equivalent to doing odd jobs. The advantage is that there is work to do every day, but the intensity of the work is not easier than doing odd jobs, but more tiring.

"Do you still want to continue fishing? Fishing is much more fun than this! There are more than a hundred people here, and you wouldn't make a difference." Liang Ziqiang thought after thinking about it.

"Okay, I haven't seen the new boat you bought yet. When the weather is suitable for fishing next year, I will take a few days off and go to Changwang Village to join you for fishing!" Zhu Tianpeng became interested.

"Taking a few days off is of no use. You'd better take a long vacation of several years!" Liang Ziqiang said with a chuckle.

"You mean, from now on, I should... go fishing with you?" Zhu Tianpeng finally came to his senses.

"Don't want to go? Have you been making bricks for half a year and forgotten all about fishing?"

The idea of ​​asking Zhu Tianpeng to help out at sea was not something that suddenly came to my mind when we met by chance today.

In fact, Liang Ziqiang originally planned to visit his home in Xiaolang Village again during the Chinese New Year and discuss the matter of helping him while he was at home celebrating the New Year.

My father has now officially agreed to let my younger brother Liang Zifeng prepare for and apply for the exam. With Liang Zifeng's stubbornness, even if he fails in one exam, he will definitely take several more. Regardless of whether the exam goes well or not, it is unlikely that he will have time to go to sea with me in the next few years.

Besides, if I really buy a trawler in the future, I will be in need of a capable helper even more urgently.

There are not many people who are truly trustworthy and can rely on each other on the boat, and Zhu Tianpeng is one of them.

Moreover, Zhu Tianpeng has experience in fishing. He grew up with his grandfather and started going out to sea with him when he was still young. Later, his grandfather passed away and the old boat was inherited by his uncle. He had no boat and no partner, so he simply went out to help out and find work.

"What are you talking about? I've been going to sea since I was fourteen or fifteen. How could I forget about fishing? It's already been three months, right? Then I will tell the brick kiln factory in March next year that I will quit my job and go fishing at sea with you!" After Zhu Tianpeng understood what was going on, he agreed without much hesitation.

"Going out to sea is hard work. I'll pay you based on your work as a skilled worker, three dollars a day. But it's not completely fixed. If the catch of fish on that day exceeds a hundred, I'll add an extra two dollars for your hard work. Brothers are brothers, but I'll be clear about this with you in advance!" When it came to business, Liang Ziqiang said seriously.

After all, Zhu Tianpeng is different from his younger brother Liang Zifeng, so he will not give him six yuan as a labor fee. But if there are a lot of fish, it means that Zhu Tianpeng has worked twice as hard as he should, so it is completely appropriate to give him two more yuan as a labor fee.

"Three dollars is not a small amount. It's one dollar higher than what I get now. There's really no need to add more, even if we catch a lot of fish. How hard can it be? It can't be harder than I am now, right?" Zhu Tianpeng declined.

Liang Ziqiang did not argue with him about this detail. Anyway, when they go out to sea in March or April, they will see how much fish they catch and how hard they work, and do whatever is reasonable.

Before leaving, Zhu Tianpeng asked him again:

"You said earlier that the construction of the house would start on the 27th, right? I will ask Boss Zhang for a few days off and go to Pomfret Village to help you build the house for a week!"

"You don't need to ask for leave specifically to build the house. I have already hired manpower in the village." Liang Ziqiang said hurriedly.

"Please come back. Building your house is such a big event, would it be inappropriate for me not to join in for a few days? I'll come find you then!"

Seeing that he was determined to go, Liang Ziqiang did not persuade him any more. After talking for a while, the tea had gone cold, so he picked it up and drank it, then prepared to leave the brick kiln and continue to do his own business.

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