1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 267 The Wedding Date Has Been Set
It was Liang Ziqiang's turn to weigh the fish.

The net he cast on his boat caught 96.5 jin of needlefish, which cost 9.65 yuan per jin.

The white mullet was a little less, 72 catties. Like the needlefish, it was also priced at 10 cents per catty, 7.20 yuan.

As for the floating thorn nets and seabed fishing in Longjuling, this time they were far worse than casting nets, with only a few dollars of harvest.

All the gains today added up to just over twenty-one dollars.

Excluding the three yuan wages given to Zhu Tianpeng, there were only a little more than eighteen yuan left.

Of course, Li Liang was the same as him and only got a dozen yuan today.

Holding it in his hand, Li Liang was worried on the spot:

"If this goes on every day, how will we live?"

Deng Zhaocai refuted him:

"More than ten yuan a day. If we split the days we can go out to sea in half, that's fifteen days, so that's almost two hundred yuan! Even if we deduct the diesel cost and the wear and tear of the machine, it's still a hundred yuan a month, right? Isn't this better than the income of workers in the city?!"

Actually, there is nothing wrong with Deng Zhaocai's calculation. He earns a dozen yuan a day from going out to sea. Excluding various factors, he can make a few hundred yuan, or even less, but still earn several dozen yuan. This is indeed no worse than the workers in the city.

Moreover, over the years, Li Liang and his friends, like other villagers, have only earned a few dozen yuan a month, and that's how they have managed to get by.

The difference is that Li Liang is different now and can’t accept this gap!

First, he followed Liang Ziqiang and made a lot of money from the winter floods. Each trip brought in hundreds of dollars in revenue.
And recently, I used the seabed to pick up leaks from the spring flood, and the harvest was not bad at the beginning.

Now, all of that was gone. He suddenly fell back to his previous normal level, which was like returning to his original state. He couldn't adapt psychologically! No wonder he was worried.

Liang Ziqiang could understand this feeling of falling.

He now and then comes up with some crooked ideas and takes shortcuts to make some money, but suddenly he feels a little disappointed when he only makes a dozen bucks from a normal trip to sea like he did today.

Fortunately, he recently decided to take the step of longline fishing. Although it is a bit tiring, combined with casting nets, the daily situation of going out to sea should be improved.

While he was thinking, Li Liang next to him had already confronted Deng Zhaocai:

"You are a single man, and you are talking without any pain in your back! Don't I have to support my wife? Oh, and it seems that my wife is pregnant this month. Don't I have to start thinking about the money for raising the baby? A few dozen dollars a month would be enough for me!"

Liang Ziqiang, Deng Zhaocai and others only paid attention to part of the information in the words.

Liang Ziqiang exclaimed: "Your wife is pregnant? Congratulations, Liangzi, you will be a father soon!"

Deng Zhaocai's reaction was even more extreme, he almost jumped up:
"Oh my god, your wife is pregnant?! I didn't even know about this great news!"

Li Liang almost reached for the knife on Zheng Liu's desk. "How dare you talk like that? What does it have to do with you if my wife is pregnant?!"

Liang Ziqiang hurried forward and pulled it. It was no wonder that Li Liang was angry.

What do you mean you fucked his wife and got her pregnant? When you were a kid, you didn't listen carefully to your Chinese teacher in class. When you grow up, you start punctuating your sentences. You might end up killing someone!
Several villagers selling fish nearby laughed insincerely for a while, and then congratulated Li Liang:
"You've been married for a few months now, it's time to have the baby. Congratulations!"

Li Liang was keeping a low profile at this moment: "I'm not completely sure that she's pregnant yet, so don't tell anyone when you go out!"

Liang Ziqiang saw from his attitude that it was obvious that he wanted to spread the word everywhere.

Taking the dozen dollars they earned from today's trip to the sea, they all walked out, planning to go home.

Seeing that it was still early today, Liang Ziqiang returned home, put away the collected floating nets and seabed slings, picked up the bucket and went to the shrimp pond in the east of the village.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something, so he took out the extra eighteen dollars he had on him today and stuffed it into Chen Xiangbei's hand:
"That's all for today. The spring flood is over and there's nothing we can do about it. Good things like that, where money falls from the sky, will only last for a while!"

Chen Xiangbei took the money and looked at the floating thorn net next to him:

"This big floating gill net is not torn at all today. Isn't this a good thing?"

Liang Ziqiang couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Your way of comforting people is very special!"

In fact, he knew that this was not consolation. His wife was like this. She would always think on the bright side no matter what happened. In his previous life, he lived such a miserable life. Thanks to her temperament, she not only did not blame him, but also brought him a lot of comfort along the way. Carrying a bucket, he came to the east of the village and scooped up Artemia to feed the shrimps in the shrimp pond.

Soon, the eldest brother and father came over. He analyzed the situation of the broodstock for them and taught them some key points.

Judging from the situation, the broodstock should be carrying eggs soon.

When I was returning from the shrimp pond and almost reaching Juzipo, I saw a man walking towards his home.

The flared pants, flowered shirt, and sheep-like hair made him so cool and recognizable in the whole Pomwang Village. It was Lin Baixian.

"Ah Xian, are you looking for me?" He stopped and waited for Lin Baixian to come closer before asking.

"I was just about to go to your house to find you. It's great that you're here! Aqiang, it's like this, my marriage has been decided!" Lin Baixian's face was full of joy, as if he was in a hurry to run over to share the good news with him.

Liang Ziqiang put down the bucket he was carrying and said happily, "This is great news! Congratulations, groom!"

Even Liang's father, who came closer, congratulated him repeatedly.

Lin Baixian thanked him with a smile, then said seriously:

"Qiang, you know that since she is marrying in our village, we must follow the rules of a water wedding, so as not to wrong her. I will use my own wedding boat, but we must have a wedding team. I thought about that day, can you spare some time to join us? You can lead the entire wedding fishing team!"

"What are you talking about?" Liang Ziqiang said affirmatively, "How can I not go to your wedding? I will go even if you don't ask me to. Okay, your boat will be in the front, followed by mine, and I will lead the other fishing boats to maintain formation!"

"Her situation is a little different. She's from another county. The entire fleet of boats will have to go there to pick her up, and it will take at least a whole day!" Lin Baixian said apologetically.

"It's normal that the girl you're dating is from another county. What's the big deal? Just one day at a time. Just remind all the ships to fill up the diesel!" Liang Ziqiang said cheerfully, "By the way, when is the date?"

"The end of the month, April 4th, Lin Quansheng said it was an auspicious day. I asked my girlfriend's parents about the date and they agreed," Lin Baixian replied.

Liang Ziqiang asked Lin Baixian to stop by his house, but Lin Baixian was in a hurry to go to the village to contact other fishing boats for the wedding, so he refused.

Finally, he called Liang's father and said, "Uncle Fu, on the 28th, remember to come to my house for a drink when you have time!"

"Of course, it's a happy occasion! Just prepare some more wine for me!" Liang's father also agreed readily.

The two families have a good relationship, so he will definitely go.

When Liang Ziqiang got married, Lin Baixian and his son also joined the wedding fleet.

When Liang Ziqiang was building a house, Lin's father, who was usually too lazy to work, came over and helped for a few days, which was a rare occasion.

Seeing Lin Baixian busy with his work, Liang Ziqiang had some emotion in his eyes, but also some relief.

In the same April, Li Liang announced that Yuan Xiaomei was pregnant, and Lin Baixian finally found another girl he liked and set a date for his wedding.

After all, days are like the waves on the sea, surging forward one after another, without being trapped in any reefs.

How wonderful it would be if everything in this life could be smooth and without any twists and turns, with some minor hardships but no major disasters!

The next day, he got up early as usual and found that the weather was particularly suitable for going out to sea. Liang Ziqiang moved a stool and started fiddling with the fishing lines.

There were more than 20 fishing lines, and they had not been taken care of since they were put out the day before yesterday. Now he and his wife had to sort out the iron hooks that were hooked on the lines one by one.

After sorting it out, hang the bait on it, and then hook the baited hook on the mud ball to avoid making a mess again on the way.

The baits used this time were all the thorny fish and whitebait left over from last time, cut into small pieces.

It took about two hours in the morning for Liang's father and eldest brother to make the same preparations, and then they set out for the beach together.

Li Liang arrived in a blink of an eye, and he had prepared basins of fishing lines in great detail.

The six people discussed which sea area to target for this longline fishing.

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