1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 217 The lion opens its mouth

Suddenly, there was a loud "crackling" sound, and the colored bead tube that was about to burn out exploded from the middle.

Liang Ziqiang was startled and quickly threw it to the ground. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise his hand would have been blown up.

Chen Xiangbei was even more frightened: "Be careful! Did you burn your hands?"

"If you had thrown it away any later, you would have gotten burned!" He smiled at her thankfully.

"You're still laughing! You'd better not let it go. It's New Year's Day. If it really gets too hot, who can you turn to?"

There were still a few colored bead tubes on the table. She didn't order any more for him. She rolled them up and put them aside. The only program on New Year's Eve ended like this.

The two of them guarded Tai Sui for a while, and then Liang Ziqiang set off firecrackers and closed the door to wealth.

The next morning, they woke up early to the sound of firecrackers, opening the door to wealth. The tea and fruit tray on the table was filled with candies and biscuits. They ate rice cakes and eight-treasure rice in the morning, and then planned to go to the rental house to wish Liang's father and mother a happy new year.

Before anyone got up, they heard the sound of gongs and drums outside the house, and the noise was getting closer and closer.

The two men ran out of the main room and when they reached the gate, they saw two red and yellow lions stepping towards the door.

It was the village lion dance troupe that had arrived. The lion nodded and bowed to Liang Ziqiang, then suddenly opened its mouth and spit out the word "Liang" like a tongue.

Between the inhalation and exhalation, another red strip of cloth unfolded from the lion's mouth, this time with the words "happiness, wealth, longevity and happiness";
What came out of the mouth of another lion next to it was "Good luck in the new house".

It's obvious that they came prepared and their attack was clearly targeted.

Fortunately, the couple had anticipated this and prepared red envelopes in the back room. At this moment, the lion was having fun with the face-changing game, and Chen Xiangbei had already turned around and ran to get the red envelope.

Liang Ziqiang took the red envelope and handed it to the two lions.

Unexpectedly, the two lions did not turn around to go to other houses. Instead, they shook their heads and mouths, and new red strips of cloth spread out.

"Attracting wealth and fortune", "Welcoming wealth and honor"...

Two more red envelopes went out...

The lion didn't stop, and one blessing after another kept appearing. It felt too much to take in, and endless.

Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei were standing in front of the door, dumbfounded, and wanted to ask, how many red ribbons have you prepared? !
Everyone knew that the lion dance team swept all the way, especially those who had built new houses. But they didn't expect that their new house would be so valued!

It seems that the lions don’t want to leave and are planning to set up camp here to celebrate the first day of the new year!
Now, every time the lion trembles, Liang Ziqiang's hands will tremble unconsciously. He has seen countless lion dances since he was a child, but he has never been as frightened as he was today!

And right now, he understood a word -

What does "the lion's mouth is too big" mean!
Fortunately, his wife was also very smart. Considering that if they continued dancing like this, the little money in the bottom of the box would be emptied on the spot, she turned back to the inner room and directly changed the money into smaller denominations and stuffed it into the red envelope.

The red envelopes are still big, but the money inside is shrinking...

I think the lion dancer could have noticed it by pinching it with his hands, and his enthusiasm for saying auspicious words gradually subsided.

The Lion Class, which received a lot of red envelopes, did not turn around and leave, but turned around and came to the open flat ground in front of their home.

Two fairy boys wearing Ruyi crowns and holding prop swords jumped out, swiftly moving left and right to fight with the lions. The two lions sometimes leaped and sometimes rolled on the ground, seemingly fighting with the fairy boys, but in fact they were performing a wonderful lion dance.

Seeing how hard they dance, it seems they are not the type who just want money, they are quite dedicated.

Suddenly, the two lions opened their mouths one after another and swallowed the two little fairy children who jumped up into their stomachs!

It makes people's eyelids jump, they never thought there would be such a thing.

The two lions were quite proud of themselves for winning the fight. They stroked their fur, yawned, and looked like leisurely winners.

After a moment, the lion suddenly staggered, as if it had a stomachache, and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth, helpless. The little fairy boy suddenly jumped out of the lion's mouth, leaped onto the lion's back, held down the two lions, and successfully subdued the lions.

At this moment, gongs, drums and cymbals sounded on the side, and the music became louder and louder, which was very exciting.

The lion was tamed and became a mascot for the human world.

After the performance, the fairy children and the lion dancers stood up from the ground and bowed to Liang Ziqiang and the other two, as if they were closing the show.

Liang Ziqiang and his wife had not expected that the plot of the lion dance was not simple and there was even a big reversal.

Chen Xiangbei had been puffing out her cheeks before, somewhat annoyed at the two lions' greed, but now her expression looked better.

That look gave me the feeling that it was "worth the money".

After receiving the wave of lion dancers who came to their house on the first day of the new year, the two rushed to their rented house to wish their parents and brothers a happy new year.

Their daughter and son-in-law "return home" not on the second day of the first lunar month, but on the fourth day. On the fourth day, Liang Ziqiang went to Huagu Village with his wife, and while wishing New Year's greetings to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he also brought many gifts such as cigarettes and alcohol.

After visiting relatives in the first month of the lunar calendar, the Lantern Festival passed quickly. When the first month of the lunar calendar was over, it was still chilly in the spring, but some peach blossoms were vying to burst out from the branches.

It is already March in the Gregorian calendar.

According to the rules of previous years, in more than a month, around April in the Gregorian calendar, the months-long off-season for fishermen will finally come to an end, and various fish will return from the deep sea to the shallow sea one after another. This is called the "spring flood", which corresponds to the winter flood.

However, Liang Ziqiang had been idle at home for such a long time that he couldn't hold it in any longer.

There was another important reason why he couldn't hold it in. After spending a lot of money on building a house and celebrating the New Year, there was not much left in the wooden box, even the last two hundred yuan of savings.

He didn't want to wait for more than a month until the real "spring flood" came before going out to sea.

He thought that he could choose a sunny and calm day to go to Longjuling now. Maybe he could see some early migratory fish that had already begun to return to the shallow sea during the spring flood in Longjuling.

On March 3, he went to look for Li Liang. Unexpectedly, he didn't know what Li Liang was doing at home with Yuan Xiaomei behind closed doors. Liang Ziqiang knocked on the door for a long time before he saw someone come out.

He told Li Liang the purpose of his visit, but Li Liang was somewhat disapproving:

"It's only the first day of March, Brother Qiang! How can the spring flood come so early? Let's wait at least a month, and then we can go and take a look once April comes!"

"You may have forgotten that the closer it gets to May or June, the more dangerous it is! It's only March now, and the temperature hasn't risen much yet, so there will definitely be no black dragons. If there really is a fishing season now, you can fish without worry!"

"But I haven't heard of any spring floods in early March..." Li Liang looked like he hadn't gotten enough sleep. "How about we go again in ten or twenty days?"

Liang Ziqiang then noticed that this guy had two dark circles under his eyes, and looked as if he was overdrawn.

Silently, he understood a little. They were also newlyweds, but he and his wife had never been so exaggerated, right?
Li Liang had been waiting for more than ten years, and he had given all his millions of savings to Yuan Xiaomei...

"Take care of yourself!"

Liang Ziqiang gave a heartfelt blessing and then turned around to make his own arrangements.

Just after the Spring Festival, my younger brother Liang Zifeng ran to the county town again to seek instruction and answer questions from his middle school teacher.

It would take another month or so for Zhu Tianpeng to come and be his partner at sea. Liang Ziqiang hadn't thought it through yet. What if he found that Longjuling really had an early spring flood? How would he cast his net and fish by himself without any help?

Anyway, I'm driving the boat alone today, so I'll go there and take a look at the situation first...

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