1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 336: Finally Encountering a Large School of Tuna
After sending Liang Zifeng off, we returned to Yanghai and it was time to set out for the deep sea again.

Everything that needed to be prepared for the evening was prepared, including oil, salt, rice, noodles, vegetables, and fresh water. Chen Xiangbei was busy preparing the most adequate portions for him.

In addition, she made a lot of sweet cakes, steamed buns and steamed buns for him.

Seeing that he would be away for several days again, his wife was particularly hardworking and cooperative at night, seeming to be completely submissive.

Early the next morning, Liang Ziqiang was not awakened by his son's crying, but by the sound of banging on the door.

The sound insulation of my door is so good that no one would be able to hear anything unless someone bangs on it hard.

Liang Ziqiang realized that it was his sister who was shouting for her second brother in a hurry, as if she was angry.

"What's wrong with Lizhi? Why don't you get up and take a look!" Chen Xiangbei was also awakened from her sleep and pushed him.

Liang Ziqiang hurriedly put on his coat and when he ran to open the door he discovered that both of his shoes were worn inside out.

"What's wrong, Lizhi?" He rubbed his eyes and saw that Lizhi was crying, so he asked quickly.

"Brother, this is terrible. Your bird is gone!" Lizhi cried out in tears.

When Liang Ziqiang heard this, he felt a gust of cold wind blowing past him.

"Speak properly!" Liang Ziqiang said angrily, "What's going on? Are the two oystercatchers missing?"

Lizhi felt even more aggrieved, not knowing what was wrong with her expression, and said with tears in her eyes:
"That's right, second brother. Two big birds. They disappeared as soon as I got up!"

Liang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief. When he first heard Lizhi banging on the door and crying, he thought the house was on fire. It wasn't a big deal that the oystercatcher was missing!

"I'll go take a look!"

Liang Ziqiang followed Lizhi towards the woodshed. Halfway through the journey, he quickly changed his shoes that had fallen off.

When I got to the cage, I saw the door was wide open and the cage was empty. There was no trace of the two oystercatchers.

When I looked up, I saw my mother holding a bamboo pole. She had been searching for it from somewhere and came back empty-handed.

"Isn't he usually staying in the cage? Why did he push the cage door open last night?"

Liang Ziqiang was also quite puzzled. Could it be that the IQ of these two oystercatchers had increased as they were raised?
Unexpectedly, the mother poked Litchi angrily:
"You asked this stupid girl, how did she push the cage open? It was because she forgot to close the cage door after feeding the birds last night!"

Liang's mother became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and was about to hit someone with the bamboo stick in her hand.

Liang Ziqiang quickly grabbed his mother's arm and said, "Look again. I feel like those two are already well-trained. They can't run far. They might be staying in the corners in front of or behind the house!"

He knew that the two oystercatchers were still highly valued in their mother's eyes, and they were said to have made great achievements in the process of fishing at the sea over the past six months.

Without even washing his face, he searched around the house. Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, including all the trees and grass where he could hide, he still couldn't find any trace of him.

It seems that he took advantage of the fact that the cage door was not closed last night and really ran away dragging the rope.

Seeing that they were usually trained to be obedient, I thought they were tamed, but unexpectedly, the two of them took off without hesitation when they got the chance. Speaking of which, they are quite willing to endure hardships!

And the most amazing thing is that these two, one male and one female, have been staying in the same cage since they lost their original partners. Nothing has happened for such a long time, and it is really amazing that they have created a few little birds.

Liang Ziqiang came back from the back of the house with his mission almost accomplished. When he looked closely, he found that a fight was going on at the door again.

The mother was so angry that she couldn't help herself and chased Litchi with a bamboo stick.

It seemed that his father went to the field to dig sweet potatoes, and Chen Xiangbei couldn't persuade him. As a result, the person who was pulling the strings was Zhu Tianpeng.

Obviously, Zhu Tianpeng came here to wait for him to go out to sea together, but when he arrived, he ran into Liang's mother beating Lizhi.

"Aunt! Lizhi didn't do this on purpose. She definitely didn't want the two birds to fly away, right? It's no use beating her like that. You can't bring the birds back!"

The bamboo stick didn't hit the lychee, but almost hit Zhu Tianpeng. Liang's mother was stunned for a moment and quickly stopped chasing.

Zhu Tianpeng winked at Lizhi frantically, asking her to hide first. I don't know if Lizhi understood what he was saying, or if she was just afraid of being beaten, she quickly hid in Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei's bedroom.

Liang Ziqiang also came forward to persuade his mother. In fact, it seemed that his mother wanted to scare Lizhi with the stick so that she would learn her lesson in the future, and she did not intend to really beat her. After such persuasion, she naturally took the opportunity to throw the stick aside. Liang Ziqiang also had to go out to sea. He came to the seaside and boarded the big steel ship with Zhu Tianpeng, Deng Zhaocai and others, and headed towards the sea again steadily.

When passing Guanqi Island, Zhu Tianpeng, who was standing on the bow looking out, actually took out the black binoculars and kept looking towards Guanqi Island.

Liang Ziqiang was a little curious. He wondered what was so interesting about Guanqi Island. Why did he need to take out a telescope to look at an island that he was so familiar with?

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Zhu Tianpeng turn his head and shout:

"Look, Qiang, there really seem to be oystercatchers on the island!"

"..." Liang Ziqiang was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect that Zhu Tianpeng was still thinking about the oystercatcher!
"Why do you want to catch a bird? Oystercatchers are very smart, you can't catch them!" Lu Song replied to him.

Zhu Tianpeng put down the telescope in disappointment. "What a pity! If only there were oystercatchers stuck in shells, we could have gone to the island and caught two!"

Liang Ziqiang naturally did not stop the boat. He soon left Guanqi Island behind and continued to head towards the deep sea.

He didn't understand why Zhu Tianpeng was so serious today. He really wanted to catch a few oystercatchers to take back to appease his mother.

In fact, based on his understanding of his mother, after today she would be absorbed in the new gossip in the village and would no longer bother with Litchi about the oystercatcher matter.

Zhu Tianpeng doesn't need to take this matter to heart.

We drove all the way and arrived at the distant deep sea area.

Even though the big steel ship could go much faster than the wooden boat, the deep sea was too far away after all, and it was almost noon when they arrived.

Without time for lunch, Liang Ziqiang arranged to throw the trawl into the sea and began a three-hour trawling operation.

Taking advantage of the free time while waiting, Lu Song and the others made lunch.

Liang Ziqiang could not leave the cab and had to drive at a speed of three to five nautical miles per hour, so he ate his meals directly in the cab.

On the first day, we rushed to finish two rounds of trawling operations before dark.

The catch was quite normal, with a lot of fish in each net, mainly popular fish and shrimp. Unfortunately, there were basically no particularly valuable deep-sea fish.

After putting everything into the cold storage cabin, we were busy until after nine in the evening. We took turns to keep watch as usual and spent the night in the deep sea.

After the operation started that morning, after towing on the sea for more than an hour, the eyes of several people on the boat suddenly lit up.

Looking ahead, there are many seabirds circling with their wings spread above the sea. Correspondingly, groups of small fish are rising and falling like big and small beads, bouncing non-stop on the sea.

Underwater, big fish would occasionally raise their heads, apparently chasing after schools of small fish.

"I'm afraid it's a Spanish mackerel? The price of a Spanish mackerel is about fifty or sixty cents. It's big and can be sold at a high price. I'm lucky today, so the catch should be much better than yesterday's!" Lin Liming speculated.

Zhu Tianpeng said nothing and raised the telescope in his hand.

At almost the same time, Liang Ziqiang, who was sitting in the cab, picked up the fishing telescope in front of him and looked towards the water ahead.

When I saw this, a feeling of joy suddenly spread through my heart.

"What kind of mackerel is this? It's tuna, it's tuna!" Zhu Tianpeng's voice rang out excitedly.

What is shown in Liang Ziqiang's lens is the tuna with graceful streamlines, firm and round, leaping on the water like a melody.

Not just one, but a group of them, one after another, rushing out of the water to prey on small fish.

Not only are there a lot of them, but they are also big, each one weighing at least several dozen kilograms.

Deep sea tuna!

Although we have occasionally caught tuna in our trawl nets since we went out to sea last month, they were only one or two.

How could he not be excited to encounter such a large group of valuable tuna, which was the first time in his life since he swam in the deep sea!
(End of this chapter)