1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 259 Save money to buy you one

When we returned to the village shore, many people were attracted.

"A Qiang, have you brought your friends from the city to the village again?" At first, it was a bit far away and the villagers couldn't see clearly, so they thought they were friends Liang Ziqiang brought back from outside.

"Oh my god, isn't this Ah Xian? Ah Xian, don't go. Lend me this for two days to satisfy your craving!"

The villagers were talking at once, and it was almost too late for Lin Baixian to keep a low profile.

So he simply didn't turn off the tape recorder, but just held it in his hand, singing all the way, and walked home with a proud look on his face.

Liang Ziqiang and his friends also returned home.

"You bought so many things?" Liang's mother took a quick look and saw that the father and his two sons had their hands and shoulders full of things. She couldn't help but come forward to take the things and asked.

"You have work to do these few days. Don't weave the fishing nets yet. Come and do longline fishing!" Liang's father decided.

"Just fish, what are you going to do with all these pots?"

Liang's mother obviously didn't have a deep understanding of longline fishing, so she asked curiously.

"Can't you let me eat first? I'll talk to you later. I'm busy anyway!"

Liang's father was also hungry, so he went straight to the dining table.

After lunch in the afternoon, everyone sat in the yard in front of the door and started longline fishing.

The longest and thickest one is the main line, and the float is connected to it with a rope.

Below the main line, there are branch lines connected one after another. The branch lines should not be too dense, at least to ensure that the branch lines will not be tangled with each other after being put into the water.

Iron hooks are installed on the branch lines. Each branch line can be installed with dozens or even hundreds of iron hooks depending on its length.

Of course, the longer the branch line is, the more hooks it can accommodate.

A branch line can be tens of meters long or nearly a hundred meters long, running vertically from the upper layer of the water surface to the lower layer or even the bottom layer.

Some people will fork out new small branches from the branch line, and then hang a few iron hooks on the small branches. This makes it more complicated, and if the operation is not done properly, it is easier for them to get hooked and tangled together.

Liang Ziqiang and his team currently do not have the conditions to go to the real deep sea, so the branch line cannot be made too long, otherwise it will easily get hooked on rocks, cracks, etc. on the seabed.

Of course, the lengths of these branches can be temporarily increased or decreased according to the target sea area each time you go out to sea.

At present, there are only about fifty iron hooks installed on each branch line.

This long branch line hangs down in the sea water for dozens of meters. One branch line is equivalent to hanging dozens of fishing rods into the sea.

There are more than twenty similar branch lines, which means more than a thousand hooks, and this is just for Liang Ziqiang's boat.

Including Liangfu's boat, there are more than forty long branches and more than two thousand hooks.

Such a large amount of work obviously cannot be completed in one afternoon. Today, we will just try to make a part of it so that everyone can get familiar with it.

For the next period of time, the men in the family went out to sea, and the women had to stay at home and do longline fishing.

Lizhi was also strange. Normally, she felt tired when she was asked to weave a net, but when she saw that there was something new to do, she took the initiative to come over and help install the hooks.

Before she had even tied a few of them up, she cried out in pain. Her hand was caught by a hook!

Liang's mother was so angry that she pushed her aside:

"You are destined to be rich! You can't do these rough jobs, go feed your birds!" Lizhi went to feed the oystercatchers with grievance. Liang Ziqiang saw that she only had a slight skin break, which was not a big problem, so he gave her the iodine tincture that was used to treat turtles last time and asked her to apply it.

They were busy from the afternoon until the evening. It was time to prepare dinner, so Liang's mother went to the fields to pick vegetables.

After going to the vegetable garden and coming back, Liang's mother was like she had been to an information exchange center. As soon as she came back, she asked Liang Ziqiang and Liang's father mysteriously:

"You know what? Lin Baixian has returned to the village. I heard that he has made a fortune in business just like his cousin! He bought a black box that can sing songs, which people in the city can't afford!"

Liang Ziqiang didn't know who in the vegetable garden had spread the news, but after they spread the news, it became like Lin Baixian became a boss and made a fortune. The tape recorder was clearly a semi-second-hand item given to him by his cousin, but it became like Lin Baixian bought it with his own money.

As a first-hand witness of the incident, Liang's father did not take his wife's exaggeration seriously. He raised his eyelids and glared at her and asked:

"What's wrong? How much does it have to do with you?"

"Why are you rolling your eyes at me?" Liang's mother glared back. "You may not have heard that several women in the vegetable garden are saying that Yuan Xiaomei's family made the wrong choice again this time. No one has ever had high hopes for Li Liang. How can he be compared to Ah Xian now? It's all fate..."

These women are really worried...

Liang Ziqiang felt that he should advise his mother to stay out of this kind of topic in the future.

No matter what, Li Liang still has a very close relationship with his family. The key is that the couple are now as close as glue, and it is not good for anyone to spread these words around.

From Lin Baixian's perspective, it's even worse. He's about to get married, and you're still spreading rumors about him and Yuan Xiaomei.

Besides, Lin Baixian isn't that rich, so he'll have to go out to sea to make money next month. If you spread this, won't Lin Baixian be slapped in the face next month?
"Mom, these words are really not good for Ah Xian. If those women in the village mention it again in the future, you have to say something to them! And you should stop saying anything too!" Liang Ziqiang advised.

Unexpectedly, Liang's mother was already annoyed by Liang's father's rolling his eyes, and now seeing Liang Ziqiang also talking about her, she became even more angry:
"You're still teaching me? Have you forgotten the smell of a bamboo stick? If your wife Xiangbei wasn't sitting here, I would have gone to get a big broom right now!"

Chen Xiangbei was tying a longline fishing line when she unexpectedly was called out.

She raised her head and smiled awkwardly, then said to her mother-in-law:

"Mom, he's got thick skin and tough muscles, so don't break the broom. I'll help you beat him up later in the evening!"

"Xiang Bei is still the best!" Liang's mother went down the stairs, ended the topic, and went to the kitchen.

After dinner, after a busy day, Liang Ziqiang finally fell asleep in bed with his wife in his arms again.

It was impossible to hit him. Chen Xiangbei turned her face on the pillow and asked him:
"What on earth is that black box that can sing that mom talked about during the day?"

Liang Ziqiang saw her in a trance during the day, concentrating on longline fishing, and thought she didn't care at all about what his mother said.

She was good at remembering the key points. His mother said that there were so many things, but she only remembered the singing black box, and she even asked him about it specifically.

"That's called a tape recorder! There's a tape in it, and when the tape is turned, it can play songs. If you want to listen to it, I'll go to the city and buy one for you when I save up more money!"

"Don't!" His wife said anxiously, as if he could buy a tape recorder in the next second. "This kind of high-end stuff must be so expensive that it's shocking. We have a lot of money to spend at home right now, don't waste money on this useless thing!"

"I didn't say I'd buy it right away. When you have more money, so much that you can't even count it no matter how hard you try, then we'll talk about it!"

"How can I make mistakes when counting money? Are you just wishful thinking or are you underestimating me..."

The daughter-in-law leaned her face on his arm and said unconvincedly.

Liang Ziqiang put his hands into her black hair and combed it back.

My wife is only three years older than Lizhi, and she will be twenty in two months. After all, she is still a little older. How could she not be attracted by a singing box?

In fact, it is not that far away. She can save money by going to sea and raising shrimps. The things she thinks are out of reach may be within her reach one day.
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