1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 33 I won't make you worry anymore

If it were in the past, if a fight broke out in the village, Liang Ziqiang would definitely run away and join in the fun.

It’s not because he likes fighting, but he takes the opportunity to go up and watch when someone is fighting.

Next time if you have a conflict with the other party, you will be more familiar with their attacks and you will definitely win.

If you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

Perhaps, this is his little secret to always having the upper hand in fights.

Of course, body shape itself is also an advantage.

As for why he had attracted so much hatred in the past and had often led to fights, Liang Ziqiang felt that it was probably mainly because he was too tough and could not tolerate any injustice.

Well, to put it another way, maybe it’s just impulse…

Liang Ziqiang took a deep breath and looked at the sea beside him with a lot of thoughts.

After his past life, perhaps some of his former integrity and courage still remain in him.

However, that thoughtless impulse had long since settled into silence in the previous life.

His temperament now is more like the sea before him, becoming flatter but also wider.

He stretched his back and continued looking for clams.

Liang Lizhi, who was standing next to him, was confused by him.

She pointed in the direction where the fighting sound came from and asked in disbelief:
"There's a fight! I want to go and see it. Brother, are you really not going to take a look?"

"If it's a fight between crabs, I'll still go and take a look and take both of them.

"How can a fight between crabs be as interesting as a fight between humans?"

Liang Ziqiang said this and started pouring salt water on a new air hole.

Liang Lizhi looked at him for a while with an unfamiliar look, as if she was doubting whether the guy in front of her was her biological brother.

It seems that even the silly girl has sensed the change in his personality. Liang Ziqiang's forehead was covered with black lines.

But it doesn’t matter.

If we want to change, it is impossible not to be noticed.

Hadn't his father, eldest brother and third younger brother noticed his changes a long time ago?

Slowly they will get used to it.

Anyway, this is easy to understand: after people are over 20 and are faced with the prospect of starting a family and building a career, who wouldn’t become more mature and stable?

The sounds of fighting over there gradually died down, perhaps the winner had been decided.

After Liang Ziqiang dug up more than a dozen bamboo clams, he then used a small rake to dig out some white sand and some clams from the beach.

In the bucket, there are stone crabs, razor clams, white clams, flower clams, oysters, cockles, and all kinds of things. Together, it fills up more than half a bucket.

"Huh? Mom is here too!"

Liang Lizhi stood up.

Liang Ziqiang also stood up and found a familiar figure walking towards him and Liang Lizhi along the beach.

Liang Ziqiang didn't expect that after his mother Yuan Qiuying finished her chores at home, she would also come to the beach with a bucket to catch seafood.

"Did you two pick up anything?"

When Liang's mother came over, she looked into the buckets of the brother and sister and smiled:

"This is already half a bucket full, with quite a few crabs. You two didn't come out in vain this morning!"

As she said this, she put down her bucket, which was full of snails, not many in number.

Liang Lizhi moved closer to her mother and stood close to her.

Liang Ziqiang thought she was trying to show off to her mother by talking about the incident of poking the crab nest.

Unexpectedly, Liang Lizhi did not mention crabs, but pulled her mother and asked with a gossipy look:
"Mom, there was a fight just now, did you see it?"

Liang's mother was walking towards the direction where the fight was happening. She actually saw the fight.

When she mentioned this, the expression on her face became unhappy and she looked disgusted.

Although the person asking the question was Liang Lizhi, the mother glanced at Liang Ziqiang and answered her daughter: "Who else could it be? It's your brother's two mortal enemies, Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai, the two brain-chopping ones!"

In fact, when the noise came from afar, Liang Ziqiang could faintly hear the voices of those two people.

Unexpectedly, they were the ones causing trouble.

My mother was right.

Almost since elementary school, Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai relied on their greater strength than their peers to bully this one today and beat that one until it cried tomorrow. They were complete bullies in the school.

When they grew up, unsurprisingly, they both became notorious villains in the village.

When dealing with fellow villagers, there is basically no reasoning, only fists are used to do everything.

Even the fiddler crabs running sideways on the beach couldn't get across as well as them.

But Liang Ziqiang loved to stand up for the weak, so the two guys teamed up to target him.

From childhood to adulthood, half of the fights Liang Ziqiang had been in were because of these two.

It is no wonder that when the mother Yuan Qiuying mentioned those two people, she started to curse them and said that they were "brain-chopping people."

"Who did they bully this time?"

Liang Ziqiang couldn't help but asked.

“Anyway, I took a quick look and saw that it was the brothers Lin Guangming and Lin Guangqi who were pinned to the ground and beaten by those two bastards.

I heard that Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai beat Lin Guangming to death just to snatch a dog-leg fish from him. How shameless!

Liang Ziqiang was speechless for a while:
"The dogleg fish isn't worth much, is it worth fighting for?"

Mother Liang glared at her son and retorted:
"Do they care whether their fight is worth money? A mad dog that can reason is no longer a mad dog.

Be smarter next time, stay away from them when you see them. It's hard to be a good man with three hands, I don't want to worry about you all day long!"

Liang Ziqiang was squatting down to look for clams again, and his answer was a little slow.

Liang's mother raised her hand and slapped him:
"Did you hear me? I don't want you to get hurt by them. I also don't want you to become like them, causing trouble everywhere and being scolded behind your back for having no mother to teach you!"

Liang Ziqiang was startled and quickly jumped away and said:
"Mom, what does their fight on the beach have to do with me? I've been digging clams with Litchi!"

Liang Lizhi became anxious upon seeing this, and spoke up for her second brother:
"My second brother has been fishing these days to make money for the family. He has earned a lot of money. It has been at least five or six days since he had a fight with anyone!"

Liang Ziqiang simply rolled his eyes.

Girl, if you don’t know how to speak, just keep silent, okay?

He couldn't figure out what had irritated his mother so early in the morning.

It was clearly just a fight between a few unrelated outsiders, so why was he being given a lesson?

Not only did he scold him, he almost hit him.

However, when I thought about the fights I had gotten into outside and the glorious past that had caused my mother to worry and cry, I didn't feel it was so unfair.

"Mom, the past is the past. I will definitely not make you worry again in the future!"

"You better keep your word!"

After hearing her son's promise, Liang's mother's face looked better.

Liang Ziqiang also laughed.

In fact, he could feel that among his sons, his mother favored him more.

Perhaps because he is good at working, he is like a little adult when it comes to fishing since he was young.

Or maybe it’s because, apart from being stubborn and a fighter, he’s very sensible in other aspects.

Although his mother scolded him, she never really used force when she hit him with the broom on his back.

For some reason, Liang Ziqiang recalled the situation in his previous life when his mother followed him away from home.

In order to stop himself from thinking about the sad past, he quickly used a rake to turn over the fine sand under his feet.

"I'm rich, I'm rich, there's such a huge pile!"

Liang Lizhi was the first to scream in surprise.

(End of this chapter)