1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 367 1985 Seafood Hot Market Starts
"It's normal to come a few days in advance. Don't worry, you have to drive the boat steadily on the road!" Liang Ziqiang greeted Li Liang from behind.

I don't know how Li Liang was doing the next day. Because the next day, the rest was over, and the sea was rough, but not enough to bother the big steel ship, so Liang Ziqiang went out to sea again.

As usual, there are always a lot of hairtails, but this time, in addition to hairtails, a lot of small yellow croakers were caught right away.

Small yellow croaker is a relatively cold-resistant fish. Its wintering season is often later than that of large yellow croaker, so it tends to appear in wintering grounds later.

The amount of small yellow croakers harvested this time is much greater than that in Longjuling last year. After all, this is the base camp where fish from all directions gather.

On the second day, there were fewer small yellow croakers, but more toothfish and bigeye snapper. In short, these late winter flood season fish began to appear in large numbers in this sea area.

The number of fish and shrimp continued to increase, which naturally attracted big fish as well.

We caught a lot of giant mackerel, striped fish, and bonito, and also got some tuna and sturgeon, which were quite expensive.

After one trip, the catch was still as good as the previous times, definitely about 14 or 15 tons.

It was not easy to catch all the clownfish hiding in the anemones, but as long as they brought fishing rods, they could always catch dozens of them. However, when Liang Ziqiang went to look for those rare and valuable snail shells later, it would be relatively difficult to find gold among the gravel.

This time when I returned home it was almost mid-January, and as expected, there was over ten thousand more savings in the box.

I heard from her mother that Yuan Xiaomei's pregnancy was going well and she gave birth to a son in the hospital.

Everyone in the village said that Li Liang’s parents would wake up laughing in the middle of the night. Li Liang was the only child, and his first child was a son, so the family line continued.

Liang Ziqiang returned home around four o'clock in the afternoon. During dinner, Chen Xiangbei would glance up at him from time to time with a smile on her lips, as if she was hiding some great joy.

As soon as he put down the bowl, she smiled and looked at him sideways:
"It should be quite comfortable to sit in the back seat of the car, right? Want to try it? I'll take you!"

After hearing the first half of the sentence, Liang Ziqiang thought she wanted to sit in the back seat, but after hearing the last three words, he realized that she wanted to take him with her.

This look and tone are quite crazy. He has only been out to sea for four and a half days. What happened? He can actually bring people with him?

He was a little unconvinced: "Did you really learn it or did you pretend to learn it?"

"You'll know after you take a look." His wife was not angry because of his disbelief. After putting her sleeping son in the cradle, she pushed the 28-bar bicycle to the open space in front of her house.

The movement of getting on the bike was not very smooth, as this type of bike is a bit too high for a woman to ride, but fortunately her legs were quite long, so she found sitting on it quite natural after she got on.

In front of him, I pedaled again and again, and not only did I get the bike moving, but when I reached the corner of the open space, I slowly turned the handlebars and actually turned it smoothly without shaking or falling.

"You're good! After practicing for a few days, you've finally gotten it right!" Liang Ziqiang smiled happily.

"I learned it the day after you went out to sea," the wife said as she rode on the bike. Her slender figure became quite dashing, and her smile was as loud as the bell. "Do you believe it now? It's mainly because Lizhi was supporting me from behind. She's more reliable than you!"

When the younger sister heard her second sister-in-law praising her, she raised her head with an arrogant look, as if it was she, not her second sister-in-law, who learned to ride a bicycle.

“Lizhi, come up!” Chen Xiangbei shouted at Lizhi, “Ask your brother to see if I can lead someone!”

Lizhi had been gathering her strength on the side for a long time. When she heard the order, she shouted, "Second sister-in-law, I'm here," and rushed to the back seat as if she was going into battle.

The silly girl's way of getting into the car was quite fierce! Liang Ziqiang's face trembled, and he was ready to fly forward and hold his wife at any time.

Chen Xiangbei was hit by the lychee and swayed several times on the back seat, but she managed to stabilize herself and continued to ride forward carefully.

It seems that she has practiced a lot these days and has become accustomed to Lizhi's forceful way of getting on the car!
After they finished riding two laps, Liang Ziqiang quickly taught his sister:
"Lizhi, this is not the way to get on the bus. You have to do this, and then this."

Unexpectedly, the silly girl couldn't understand his abstract gestures and explanations at all, and her eyebrows were almost wrinkled into a shape of "八" (eight characters).

"Don't understand? Then watch me. If you get on the bike the way I do, I guarantee it will be easy and won't cause your sister-in-law to shake at all!" He said and gestured to his wife, "You ride again, and I'll show you the moves!"

Chen Xiangbei was quite cooperative and immediately got on her bike and started riding again. "I'm coming." Liang Ziqiang called out, then caught up with her and sat lightly on the back seat.

The whole action is obviously much more normal than smashing lychees desperately.

then……

Chen Xiangbei's car tilted and fell to the left as if the whole car had lost control...

A helpless scream followed.

If Liang Ziqiang had not quickly stood up and held on to her, his wife would have fallen hard, with skin breaks and bleeding inevitable.

"Don't teach Lizhi a bad lesson. It's much harder when you're at the front than when Lizhi is behind. I can't control the car at all!" Chen Xiangbei was a little annoyed.

"Second brother, you are just good at bragging. You are not even as good as me!" Lizhi did not intend to hide her contempt.

Liang Ziqiang realized that he was careless. How much does a lychee weigh? He weighs much more than her!
"It seems that you still can't carry something a little heavier!" Liang Ziqiang patted the back seat, "Come on, I'll try to carry you!"

Chen Xiangbei's way of getting into the car was much more natural than Lizhi's. He drove her around in circles in the not-so-small open space in front of the door.

Time went by in circles, and the sky darkened. Unconsciously, her right hand was around his waist from behind, probably because she was afraid that he would not be able to ride steadily when the light dimmed.

Some images emerged in his mind.

Every evening, he rode his bicycle with tires covered in cement, and she sat on the back seat, and the two of them returned home tiredly from the construction site together.

The bicycle passed through the crowds in the foreign city, dodging along the way. She held his waist tightly to avoid falling.

All of this was deeply engraved in his mind, but she was completely unaware of it...

They turned around several times. Lizhi, who was watching from the side, was already jealous and rushed over to sit too.

Chen Xiangbei got off and was replaced by Lizhi. Liang Ziqiang rode with her for a few more laps until he could no longer see the road clearly, and then he stopped.

After three days of rest, the sea voyage began again in mid-January. The cold wind was howling, and only Liang Ziqiang's boat sailed against the wind, crossing the sea and heading to the deep sea that ordinary fishing boats could not reach.

The catch remained the same, but when Liang Ziqiang went to the fishing port to sell fish again this time, he found that the atmosphere had obviously changed.

The crews of the big boats that came to sell fish were all discussing the price of the fish, especially the boat owners, who seemed to have found money and could not hide their smiles.

"Aqiang, you know, the purchasing station has raised the price in the past few days. The smallest increase is 5 cents, and the largest increase is 10 or 20 cents!"

"It's not just the purchasing station at the fishing port. Whether it's the ones in the city or the village, all the ones are starting to increase in price now!"

"The Spring Festival is still more than a month away, so the price will definitely go up a bit. I guess by April or May next year, when fish and shrimp will come out in large quantities, the price will go down again!"

The ship owner and crew members had different opinions and were discussing the matter.

"No matter whether it will fall back in the future, it's a good thing that it's rising now. Everyone can make a little more money, and it's not in vain!"

Liang Ziqiang responded to them slowly, but the excitement in his heart was several times greater than that of those people.

Because he knew that this time the price of seafood would never go down again.

The hot trend of seafood in 1985 actually started around the middle of the month just after New Year’s Day.

(End of this chapter)