1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 343 Witnessing a large ship capsize
Visual blind spots are not the biggest danger.

What is even more dangerous is that merchant ships have a "ship suction effect" on fishing boats.

When a merchant ship travels at a relatively high speed, it will generate large ship waves.

The small fishing boat thought it was sailing parallel to the merchant ship at a distance. In fact, the "ship wave" would cause the small boat to deviate from its course without it noticing, making it difficult to maintain a steady course. A negative pressure would cause the small fishing boat to instantly press towards the merchant ship.

Zhu Tianpeng had obviously considered this. He was kindhearted, and before Liang Ziqiang gave any instructions, he had already stood at the bow and waved his arms vigorously to warn the people on the large merchant ship.

In order to attract attention, he swung his body with great amplitude, twisting it like a magic dance. While twisting his body, he opened his voice:
"There's a boat, there's a boat next to us, get away from it, get away from it!"

Deng Zhaocai couldn't help himself and used his lion's roar, and his throat like a broken gong let out a strange roar.

Not only them, but also the fishermen on two or three other small fishing boats in the distance began to call out.

It seemed that some people were cheering for the wooden boat to overtake the merchant ship, some were nervously giving warnings, and some were shouting in panic.

As the sea surface was boiling with noise, the white waves under the small wooden boat also boiled.

Like a whirlpool.

The small wooden boat, which had just been running at full speed, seemed to have lost all its strength in an instant and became light and fluttery.

I lost weight, I lost control, and even all the sounds on the sea surface suddenly disappeared.

Only the small boat was left, which turned into a small paper boat. It changed its course on its own and "stuck" towards the hull of the merchant ship.

A muffled "bang" sound instantly choked the throats of all those shouting, and also choked Liang Ziqiang's wide-open mouth.

Liang Ziqiang looked over and saw that the two fishermen on the small wooden boat had simultaneously mastered the art of flying, and their bodies were flying above the white waves with their arms outstretched.

The next second, it hit the cold-toned hull of the merchant ship, bounced, and fell into the water.

There were two bright red spots on the cold-toned hull, as red as dying embers.

At the same time, the small wooden boat seemed to be turned by an invisible hand and flipped over, with the bottom of the boat facing up, covering the waves and beginning to sink.

After a moment of dead silence, shouts rang out again on the sea. Liang Ziqiang's boat and the other two small fishing boats on the sea all shouted frantically at the large merchant ship.

There was no need to think about the two fishermen who fell into the water. They were definitely dead. They didn't look like fishermen from Changwang Village. I don't know which village they were from. They loved to grab the prize. This grab directly brought them to the end of their lives.

The merchant ship of "Qingwei Group" seemed to start slowing down, as if it had noticed something and was trying to stop.

Liang Ziqiang did not continue to pay attention to how the matter would be handled next.

He couldn't stop it when it happened, and he can't change anything after it happened, so he should just continue to do his own thing.

But sitting in the driver's seat, his heart was still pounding. This would shock anyone for a while.

For some reason, he remembered the day when Lizhi put the spoon upside down at home. The boat capsized in front of him, not his, but someone else's small wooden boat...

Of course, he knew that the two things were completely unrelated. The capsizing was purely due to the greed of the fishermen in the small wooden boat, and he just happened to meet them by coincidence.

All the way to the fishing port purchasing station in the county town, Deng Zhaocai and his friends kept talking, still discussing the capsizing of the small wooden boat.

"Apeng, you just saw it. Lookout is very important for a large ship. In situations like today when a small wooden boat suddenly runs away, you still have to pay special attention!"

After coming out of the cab, Liang Ziqiang specifically emphasized this to Zhu Tianpeng.

"We need to pay attention," Lin Liming said, "but in a situation like just now, it's a blind spot even if we look out. Or maybe the little wooden boat was too competitive and got itself into trouble!"

"That's right. In my opinion, the big ship of Qingwei Group has suffered bad luck for no reason. They will probably have to pay some price for such a thing. It depends on whether they are willing to pay the compensation!" Lu Song said.

"I guess they will pay compensation. The Qingwei Group is usually willing to do unrelated good deeds. Now that this matter falls on them, they will definitely give some money to the family of the small wooden boat!" Deng Zhaocai began to analyze the matter because he had a brief dealings with the Qingwei Group during the typhoon last time.

Liang Ziqiang also felt that the whole incident was an unexpected disaster for the Qingwei Group.

His steel ship was quite large, and the biggest lesson for him was that it reminded him that lookouts must be vigilant and be able to make necessary judgments and reactions in advance before the small boat approaches the blind spot.

After asking everyone to be extra careful, he began to move baskets of fish out of the cold storage compartment.

Liang Ziqiang sold bluefin bream, parrotfish, and all other common fish and shrimp at the fishing port.

The total catch was more than 8,000 kilograms, of which the parrotfish with better appearance were sold at two yuan per kilogram, and those with more scales falling off were only sold at one yuan and seventy yuan. Overall, they were good and already the price of blue spot.

There were more than a dozen parrotfish, weighing a little over 100 kilograms in total, and the parrotfish alone were sold for over 200 yuan.

After deducting 3% tax, I got more than 1,700 yuan from the catch of more than 8,000 kilograms of fish.

Then he immediately went to the city and rushed to Yuehai Restaurant.

It was the first time that Du Ziteng saw him carrying sturgeon to sell.

In fact, he had just asked about it at the county fishing port, and the people at the purchasing station told him that if he really came across any sturgeon, he could sell it for about 2.8 yuan at the purchasing station.

At this moment, Du Ziteng looked at his sturgeon carefully and said:

"Rice fish is indeed a good thing. Let me estimate that your fish is about ten pounds, and the fish maw should not be big, only about two handfuls. In this case, I will give you four dollars and fifty cents per pound!"

Liang Ziqiang calculated that it was already one dollar and seventy cents more expensive than the two dollars and eighty cents at the purchasing station in the county, so naturally he had nothing to say.

"Oh, look at this one. It's not just 10 kilograms, it must be more than 20 kilograms. Shouldn't the price be higher?"

This was the only and biggest fish, and he still hoped to sell it at a higher price.

"The biggest fish maw is probably only about two taels. It's okay if it's a little more expensive. I'll charge five dollars for this one!"

The big one is fifty cents more expensive than the others, so that’s it.

After weighing, there were seven sturgeons, one large and six small, and they were sold for a total of about four hundred and ten yuan.

Together with the income from the previous several thousand kilograms of fish caught in the county town, the total harvest this time once again exceeded the two thousand mark, reaching more than two thousand one hundred.

Of course, we still have to deduct the 600 yuan for gas, as well as the costs of wages, meals, etc.

The net profit is about 1,400 yuan!
This time, Zhu Tianpeng, Deng Zhaocai, Lu Song and others also got off the boat and went into the city together, planning to use their newly paid wages to buy some small things at the department store.

After five days, everyone's wages were 25 yuan, and Zhu Tianpeng earned a little more than them.

They all bought some food, including noodles and sugar.

As usual, Liang Ziqiang purchased rice, oil and salt needed for the next voyage, and then asked to see an electric fan.

The sales clerks all knew him and knew that he would not have any tickets on him, so they did not mention the more popular brands like Watson, Double Horse, and Bat, and directly gave him a slightly ugly and expensive desktop fan.

Brown base, red buttons, black mesh cover, green fan blades, and golden plastic part in the middle.

Each color is very bright in itself, but when put together it looks awkward. I don’t know what kind of thought process produced such a design.

I saw two big words next to the button, "Xiangju".

It was such an unscientific situation that Liang Ziqiang didn't know what to say.

In this world, no one’s chrysanthemum can be fragrant, right?

Although it is September, it is very hot in the south. I can only rely on the cool breeze from the "Xiangju"... Electric fans, a necessity, are like luxury goods in this era. I asked the price and found that the "Xiangju" electric fan is 9 yuan.

Electrical appliances are generally expensive, which is one of the characteristics of this era.

"Just buy two Xiangju electric fans!" Liang Ziqiang decided.

Since you are going to buy one, you should also buy one for your parents' room. My mother seems to be quite afraid of heat, and it won't be of much use to fan her with a palm-leaf fan all the time.

The two machines together cost 270, so I paid and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, Deng Zhaocai, who always complained that he didn't have enough money, saw Liang Ziqiang buying a fan and immediately decided to buy one as well.

He said that his mother usually stays in bed and has a layer of prickly heat on her body. It would be much more comfortable if there was a fan blowing on her.

The guy didn't have much money on him, so Liang Ziqiang lent it to him first and they bought it together.

After buying things, I quickly sailed back to the village. As soon as I got home, I found myself being criticized again.

"Summer is over now, why did you buy this expensive stuff?!" Although it was not her own money, Liang's mother felt painful just looking at it.

"Mom, the autumn heat is so hot and stuffy that it's unbearable. Now is the perfect time to buy it!"

"Then you can just buy one for your room. Why are you buying me one? I have a palm leaf fan. Shaking it at night is better than anything else. Haven't I been doing this for decades?"

Liang Ziqiang didn't care and connected the black plug without saying anything. The wind was not very strong, but it was definitely not on the same level as the palm leaf fan.

Lizhi was the first to jump over, and he was almost holding the electric fan to blow his clothes. His clothes fluttered in the wind, and he looked like he had descended to earth. As he fell into the mortal world, he was muttering to himself and shouting that he felt comfortable.

Liang's mother was still muttering to herself at first, but after a while, the sweat on her forehead decreased visibly, and eventually there was almost no sweat at all.

At this point, she finally shut up and kept silent.

The way my wife enjoys the fan is the most special. She holds little Jingcheng in her arms and dares not let Chengcheng blow directly at the fan, so she sits on a stool with her back to the fan. This way, she can blow the wind and use her body to block Liang Jingcheng.

The daughter-in-law has already enjoyed the convenience brought by the washing machine, so she learned her lesson this time and did not blindly join Liang's mother in attacking Liang Ziqiang, so as to avoid the situation where she would suddenly feel "it's really good" after the attack.

Unfortunately, this type of desktop fan is not only expensive, but also has very simple and primitive functions, and it doesn’t even have the function of shaking its head.

In order to enjoy the breeze, several people at home sat in a column in front of the electric fan at different distances from each other, like geese lined up in a line in the sky, which was a spectacular sight.

As the group was enjoying the benefits brought by the fan, they suddenly heard someone calling outside the house, and then saw a slightly fat figure coming in.

"They're all playing now?" Deng Zhaocai was also shocked by the scene in the house. "Your family is playing the trumpets in unison. I can't play them with such vigor in my house!"

Liang Ziqiang rolled his eyes. Nonsense, there are only your mother and you two in your family, how can you form a "single-line formation"?

"Did your family buy it too?" Liang's mother asked immediately after hearing this.

"Yes, I just bought it today, and Brother Qiang paid for it for me. Now I'm here to pay you back!"

Deng Zhaocai took out a dozen Big Unity notes from his trouser pocket and gave the money for buying the fan to Liang Ziqiang.

Mother Liang nodded repeatedly, her face looking relaxed:
"You should have bought it a long time ago! How hot must your mother be when she's stuck in bed? The heat of autumn is the worst, and this thing is ten times better than a palm-leaf fan. You really made the right decision to buy this fan!"

For a moment, Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei were both dumbfounded.

Mom, you didn’t seem to say this ten minutes ago?

Seeing that there were too many people in front of the electric fan in Liang Ziqiang's house, Deng Zhaocai didn't stay for long. After chatting for a few minutes, he immediately went home to enjoy the empty fan in his own home.

When he went to bed at night, Liang Ziqiang turned on the electric fan in his bedroom.

The two of them slept on the outside, and their son was placed at the innermost position against the wall, so they didn't have to worry about his son catching a cold.

A few days ago, when he was at home, he sent love signals to his wife, but she said she was hot and was slack in doing certain things because she was afraid of sweating.

Now, the sound insulation of the house is simply the best in the industry, and the problem of stuffiness has also been solved.

If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to do something, we will be wasting the opportunity.

It's rare for my daughter-in-law to wear such cool clothes, a short top and shorts, and her exposed arms and legs look like crisp lotus roots.

The shorts didn't have any complicated patterns, they were just made of floral fabric, but they looked particularly eye-catching on her.

I don’t remember in which TV show I saw this sentence: What matters is not the clothes, but who wears them.

At Chen Xiangbei's age, even the most common and tacky piece of cloth can turn into gold when she wears it.

He held his cool wife in his arms, and as she held her in his arms, she felt even cooler with his personal guidance.

With the electric fan, they seemed to have returned to the night when the big typhoon blew, tossing in the wind.

However, even the wisest man can make mistakes. The two of them were not paying attention, and suddenly they felt their bodies pressed against something soft, and then they cried out in frustration and anger.

There is nothing wrong with being affectionate, but if you accidentally suppress little Jingcheng who lives in a remote corner, that would be a sin.

In fact, as soon as they were pressed, the two of them stopped their movements nervously as if they were electrocuted, and quickly moved to the side. But Xiao Jingcheng was not a pushover, and after being awakened, he would never let it go. He cried heartbreakingly at the two of them for a long time.

Liang Ziqiang felt so bitter when he saw the crying baby, just like a dumb person who had eaten bitter herbs.

Can I still get things done smoothly?

Even though he was as wise as he was, and had built a thick soundproof wall and everything was ready, things were still so difficult at night!
Chen Xiangbei was afraid that her son's noise would get louder and louder, so she tried her best to hold him in her arms and rock him gently, and hummed to him, using all the talents she had and didn't have.

The main thing is that if her crying gets too loud, her parents-in-law outside the door might hear it. If they ask her tomorrow why Cheng Cheng was crying last night, she won’t know how to answer.

I was accidentally pressed to tears by the two of them...

Is this something you can say?
After much difficulty, Liang Jingcheng finally fell asleep again. Liang Ziqiang thought about it and suggested:

"Wife, you see, our son is almost three months old now. I think he doesn't need to share a bed with us anymore. He can sleep in a cradle!"

Chen Xiangbei hesitated: "Isn't that a bad idea? He's still so young, wouldn't he be scared sleeping in a cradle alone? Besides, he needs milk at any time, so it's not convenient to put him in a cradle!"

"At about three months old, he can start sleeping in the cradle by himself. He will cry when he wants milk, and when you hear the sound, just take him out of the cradle and feed him. It's not inconvenient at all!" Liang Ziqiang insisted, and he personally took the sleeping Liang Jingcheng away from the bed and put him in the cradle beside him.

"How can you be like this! You only care about your own enjoyment..." Chen Xiangbei's eyes were full of heartache.

Liang Ziqiang discovered that after putting the little guy in the cradle, the bed suddenly became empty and he could do a lot of things with it.

This time, I completely eliminated all my worries and was finally able to enjoy something that I hadn't been able to fully enjoy.

But he underestimated his wife's persistence. As soon as the two of them finished their fun and took a rest, she got up quickly, took the little meat ball out of the cradle again, and put it back in the innermost position of the bed.

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and thought this might be a good idea.

From now on, before the two of them interact with each other, they can temporarily put the baby in the cradle for a while. When they are done, they can put the baby back to the bed to avoid getting in the way.

From then on, the young Liang Jingcheng was destined to wander back and forth between his parents' room...

(End of this chapter)