1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 377: Do You Want to Make a Fait accompli?

"On the way, I passed by the tidal ditch of Xianggu Village, and I saw her squatting alone beside the tidal ditch, staring at the sea in a daze. I hurried over to her, and when she saw me, she stood up and called me with a smile. I asked her why she was squatting alone in the cold wind in the middle of winter, and she said that I had made an appointment to visit her on the eighth day of the first lunar month, so she was squatting there waiting for me!" Deng Zhaocai recalled.

"That's nothing, right?" Liang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief. "That only means that she really cares about you, likes you, and is eagerly looking forward to you going to find her!"

"So when I heard her say that, I was so happy!" Deng Zhaocai continued, "But she suddenly asked me another question out of the blue. She said, "Acai, is the sea water very cold now? Will it be so cold that it will pierce my bones and cause a headache?"

"The sea water must be cold in winter! Why did she suddenly ask this..." Liang Ziqiang frowned and thought for a while, "Maybe she just knew that you were going to deep-sea fishing and wanted to ask you if it's cold to go out to sea in this season?"

"How should I know? I wanted to ask her more questions, but she changed the subject and said nothing." Deng Zhaocai said worriedly, "Anyway, I think she looks like she's worried, but she becomes happy when she sees me. I went to her house on the eighth day of the first lunar month to pay New Year's greetings, and I didn't expect her to come to my house at first. I just mentioned to her that my mother wanted to see her, and she told her grandmother a few times, and then came to my house..."

The more Liang Ziqiang listened, the more confused he became. Guessing a girl's thoughts was not something he was good at.

Even if he spent two lifetimes together, he had only guessed the mind of one woman, and that was Chen Xiangbei.

"I think it goes without saying that Yan Zi has definitely fallen for a blockhead like you. It's possible that the typhoon had already started six months ago. There's no doubt about that. Otherwise, she wouldn't be so happy to see you. Her grandmother also likes you, there's no doubt about that, otherwise she wouldn't have allowed Yan Zi to stay at your house for so long." Liang Ziqiang analyzed for him, "Now the key is that as soon as you mentioned meeting her parents, they changed the subject, right? From this point of view, she probably thinks that her parents will never agree to you two. It's very likely that this is why she is worried!"

"Maybe, I think so too." Deng Zhaocai sighed, "To be honest, I have mentioned to them that I want to meet Yan Zi's parents three or four times in the past six months, so it must have happened, right? Her grandmother always changed the subject. Once she even shook her head and said that it would be great if Yan Zi didn't have parents, but only had her as her grandmother! When I asked more, she wouldn't say anything."

"You've been to Xianggu Village so many times, but you never met her parents once?"

"No." Deng Zhaocai shook his head.

"Why do I feel like Yan Zi has been living at her grandmother's house, as if she's hiding from something? But if you really want to marry her, you'll have to get her household registration book. Ah Cai, you should find a way to ask for her home address and meet her parents. That's the only way. Of course, if that doesn't work, there's another way..."

"What method?!" Deng Zhaocai had little hope for the previous suggestion and asked immediately.

"It's a done deal. Her parents have to agree to it even if they don't agree. You should understand this, right?"

"Ah? Will it harm Yan Zi?" Deng Zhaocai was shocked.

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and it seemed to be true. This was not the future, and if things got done, it might really harm Yao Yanlei.

But now that everyone has come home, it is hard for Deng Zhaocai to bear it...

"Forget it, this is indeed a bad idea, just pretend I didn't say anything! You should try to ask her what's on her mind. Also, no matter how difficult it is, you should get her parents' address and try to impress them!"

Liang Ziqiang felt that he was not doing a very good job as a military strategist. After thinking for a long time, he could not come up with any really useful advice. Finally, he suggested that it was time for him to go home.

After taking a few steps, he looked back and saw Deng Zhaocai still scratching his head, walking absent-mindedly.

I remember that a year ago, Deng Zhaocai always loved to mock Li Liang, saying that Li Liang was like a different person after getting married. But how was he different now? Once he got involved in love, a rough man could become unrecognizable.

Soon, the 18th day of the first lunar month arrived. Fortunately, the weather was good, the sun came out, and the north wind subsided a little. Although there were some waves, for a steel ship like Liang Ziqiang, these waves were just a spring treat.

Other small fishing boats in the village were unable to go out to sea at this time of year, and everyone was staying at home. Liang Ziqiang went to the temple with the crew to worship Mazu, and then went to the beach to light a plate of red earth.

After getting on board, the first thing was to give red envelopes to Zhu Tianpeng and the other three. They call it "lucky money for starting work", which every boss must give out when they start work after the holidays.

The profit Liang Ziqiang gave was twenty yuan per person, which was a lot in those days, equivalent to a week's wages for an ordinary worker.

As they chatted and laughed, the big ship set sail, cutting through the layers of spring tide and heading into the distance.

A little further away, you can occasionally see one or two large steel ships, one of which seems to be a large fishing boat belonging to villagers from another town, and the other is a large government fishing boat.

The three ships had no intersection, and each went in a different direction. Anyway, as long as you go to the deep sea, the sea is vast and there are fish to be caught everywhere.

Of course, Liang Ziqiang did not drive casually. He relied on the precise angle calculations of the nautical compass to repeatedly find the wintering ground that was discovered by fish finders in later generations.

On the first day of opening in the new year, the types of fish caught were quite rich. In addition to the common hairtail, horsehead fish, golden pomfret, herring, small yellow croaker, as well as the larger swordfish and bonito, a lot of sea wolf fish were also caught this time.

Sea wolf fish are actually a little special. When it is not too cold, they are too lazy to travel long distances, so they hide in the bottom of the deeper bay to survive the cold winter. But when it gets cold enough, most of the sea wolf fish will run to the deep sea to find a warm place.

The north winds this winter are relatively cold, which is probably one of the reasons why a large number of sea wolf fish come to this place.

On the third day, a lot of pomfret were hauled onto the boat as usual. In addition to the golden pomfret and swallowtail pomfret, there was also a larger pomfret that looked somewhat similar to the silver pomfret.

But ordinary silver pomfret usually cannot grow so big, and the color of this fish is silver with gray-black, which is obviously darker than that of silver pomfret.

"No way, eagle pomfret?! Even eagle pomfret have come to this place?" Two crew members took a closer look and recognized it immediately.

Now Liang Ziqiang would often let Zhu Tianpeng and Lu Song try to drive the boat in the cab, while he would follow the others in sorting the fish.

"It's the eagle pomfret!" He beamed with joy. "I'll have to carefully pick them all out and put them in baskets separately. The price is so different from other pomfret!"

Eagle pomfret is also known as fighting pomfret and fighting bottom pomfret. It is considered to be very large among all kinds of pomfret. It is common to see one weighing two or three kilograms, and it is not surprising to see one weighing seven or eight kilograms.

Not only is it big, the meat of this pomfret is also very special, thick and tender, which is not comparable to other pomfret. Moreover, golden pomfret and silver pomfret can be found in large numbers in shallow waters, but eagle pomfret rarely appears in shallow waters, and can only be found in deep waters.

For this reason, the price of eagle pomfret has always been different from that of other pomfret.

It's very simple. Even silver pomfret and swallowtail pomfret can only be transported to large docks or fishing ports to be sold, but eagle pomfret is a seafood that Yuehai Restaurant is interested in.

The existence of eagle pomfret finally means that the entire pomfret world has a luxury species.

More importantly, Liang Ziqiang and the crew members searched through the net and found that there were not just a few eagle pomfret in the net, but quite a lot of them!
(End of this chapter)