1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 371 I brought you the gold ornaments
When I came back from the shrimp pond and was walking in the village, I saw a group of children blowing battery covers on the steps of the old house.

A big boy named Cockroach passed by and the other kids called him, "Cockroach, come over and play with the flip-top lid. Do you have any with you? If you don't have any, we can lend you a lid to play with!"

Liang Ziqiang took a look and saw that the so-called "blowing the cover" was to take out the plastic cover on the top of the battery and spread it on the ground as a toy. Everyone was blowing air into the battery cover with their cheeks puffed out. Whoever could blow the cover on the ground over would get the cover.

As they were talking, a boy won. He blew over three or four battery covers in one breath and successfully took all the covers for himself.

Unexpectedly, Yan Xia was not moved at all and said disdainfully: "You are too uninformed. You are lying on the ground bragging. You didn't know that Zhong Ming's family bought a TV? It's playing Huo Yuanjia. The martial arts are much better than the movie shown in the village last year. I'm afraid you are the only ones in the village who haven't heard about it?!"

Cockroach's tone was very arrogant, as if the TV belonged to him instead of Zhong Yongrui.

The children on the ground heard the deep contempt in his words and were a little angry, but they obviously couldn't resist the great attraction revealed in his words.

"Is this true? It's better than the movie? Stop bragging, you bastard!"

Although they said so, it did not stop them from getting up from the ground. Without even shaking off the dust, they followed Cockroach and ran towards the village party secretary's house.

Looking at the group of children jumping for joy and running away, Liang Ziqiang could easily imagine the grand scene at Zhong Yongrui's house. It was estimated that every family had brought their own stools and surrounded his house in three layers.

He actually felt somewhat fortunate. If Zhong Yongrui's family had not just bought a black-and-white TV yesterday, then his house would have been the one that became the center of the downtown area.

Zhong Yongrui lived in Dawuchang, while Liang Ziqiang lived in Juzipo, which was relatively far from the villagers. Now there were two TVs to choose from, so the villagers naturally followed the principle of proximity and went to Zhong Yongrui's house, whichever was more convenient.

Otherwise, Cheng Cheng would probably be unable to sleep because of the noise. Chen Xiangbei is not the kind of person who likes to make noise, but she would probably also be annoyed by the noise.

After returning home and telling his wife that he would steam prawns in the evening, Liang Ziqiang ran to the village. He also had to go to Zhong Yongrui's house for something.

When we arrived at the Zhong family's house, we saw at a glance that the main hall was so big that it was packed with people.

It was quite cold outside because of the north wind. But once I entered the inner room, the temperature suddenly rose by several degrees, and the air was filled with the warm scent of people.

Most of the villagers were staring at the black and white screen with piercing eyes, as if they themselves were experiencing a life-and-death ordeal with punches and kicks, and someone pushing the door in would not attract their attention at all.

But two or three villagers turned around and saw Liang Ziqiang coming in. Some of them asked in surprise:

"Aqiang, why did you come over to join in? Didn't I hear that your family also bought a TV? What's wrong? Is your TV not good?"

Liang Ziqiang actually came here to use the phone. Hearing what people said, he did not refute and smiled and said:

"You're right. The quality of my radio isn't as good as this one. It's not as clear as this one, and I can't receive as many channels. If it wasn't a bit far away, I would come here every day to watch it!"

"You too, didn't ask around before buying, and ended up buying something that was a hassle! I was thinking about going to your house to take a look, but luckily I didn't. Look at this TV, it's so cool!"

The man said a few more words, but was immediately stopped by several older villagers:
"Can you please keep your voice down? Should we listen to you or the people on TV? If you keep talking, open the door and go outside to talk!"

The man was afraid of being chased away, so he immediately turned his head back, faced the TV, sat upright, and worked meticulously.

Liang Ziqiang greeted Zhong Yongrui and Xu Ping and went into the room where the telephone was.

Those who scolded others not to make noise actually couldn't help making noise themselves. Liang Ziqiang had just stood by the phone when he heard a wave of noise outside.

Maybe it was because the scene was about to make people angry, there were sighs, cursing, and more than one or two sounds of people hitting stools and chairs with crutches or cigarette holders.

The call couldn't be made, Liang Ziqiang quickly closed the door on the phone side. In fact, he still couldn't suppress it, so he had to make do with it for a while, because the New Year was coming soon, and he had to contact Pang Jiahui in the next few days.

Finally the call was connected, Liang Ziqiang said: "Brother Hui, this is Ah Qiang, are you back in Yanghai?"

"Who? Oh, Aqiang, right? I..."

Liang Ziqiang didn't hear a single word of what was said afterwards, because suddenly there was another louder wave of noise coming from his side, this time it sounded like cheers, it seemed that the protagonist of the TV series had miraculously turned defeat into victory and came back to life in just a few minutes.

Liang Ziqiang was emotionally disconnected. He guessed the general meaning of what Pang Jiahui said, and recomposed his emotions and said:

"You just came back from Hong Kong Island recently, right? I think you have bought everything I asked you to buy, right?"

"I bought it. I've brought it back to Yanghai for a few days. I wanted to ask Du Ziteng to contact you. Now it's best if you call me yourself. I'll take a look... I'm going to Yuehai for lunch tomorrow at noon. I should be there when you come over after 79 o'clock. As for the money, there are prices on it. It's yuan per gram in mainland money. The total weight of the three items is..."

Just when he heard the key point, Liang Ziqiang heard another sigh, drowning out the voice on the other end of the phone.

Pang Jiahui also obviously heard it and asked, "Are you holding a meeting over there?"

"There is only one telephone in the village, and everyone is watching TV outside the door..."

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of the ending theme came. Unexpectedly, Pang Jiahui heard it clearly: "Are you watching Huo Yuanjia?"

After hearing the affirmative answer, Pang Jiahui laughed: "Don't tell me, I also like this movie, but I watched it when I was in Hong Kong Island, which was much earlier than it was broadcast in Yanghai!"

Why are we discussing TV dramas?

Pang Jiahui was afraid that he didn't hear clearly, so he repeated the story about the jewelry. This time Liang Ziqiang heard it clearly, the three pieces of gold together weighed 19 grams, yuan.

After ending the call, I put some money on the table as payment for the call.

To be honest, when he came out of the Zhong family, he still admired Zhong Yongrui very much. He accommodated a room full of people, one left and another came in, and they gathered together to watch TV like a buffet, without even a moment of peace and quiet.

Zhong Yongrui and Xu Ping were not bothered, but Liang Ziqiang could not do that. So they were suitable to be branch secretaries, but Liang Ziqiang felt that he was only suitable to quietly make money...

After chatting with the people in the room for a while, he went home.

After a while, Chen Xiangbei had prepared the meal and the family sat down to have dinner.

The steamed prawns are specially made so that you can fully taste the flavor of the prawns themselves.

Father Liang tasted it very carefully, and his brows relaxed as he finished tasting:
"How is this worse than the prawns caught at sea? The chewiness and freshness are just as good as wild prawns, and even better!"

"So sweet!" Litchi exclaimed after taking two bites. She would not elaborate, but she would simplify delicious things and just say "so sweet".

After tasting one, Liang's mother and Chen Xiangbei also said it was delicious.

After listening to the "market feedback", Liang Ziqiang started to try it himself.

He picked one up and took two bites.

At this moment, the sales and prices of those prawns in the ponds suddenly became clear...

(End of this chapter)