1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 384: Leaving Shenpeng City

Deng Zhaocai showed a look of embarrassment on his face and opened his mouth:

"Brother Qiang, I still can't go on the next sea voyage."

After a pause, he continued, "I guess I won't be able to go with you to the ship to help you when you go out to sea in the future!"

When he heard the first half of the sentence, Liang Ziqiang thought it was nothing, probably because his mother had passed away and he had to stay at home for a few more days. But when he heard the second half of the sentence, Deng Zhaocai said that it was unlikely that he would go out to sea with him in the future, Liang Ziqiang was stunned.

"what happened?"

Liang Ziqiang asked instinctively. Then he changed his mind and thought of a possibility, so he asked:

"Now Yan Zi will live with you. If you save some money, you should buy a boat for yourself. This is a great thing. Do you have enough money?"

If Deng Zhaocai really wanted to buy a wooden boat or something and was short of money, Liang Ziqiang would definitely be able to help him. Given his current situation, this little favor wouldn't be a big deal.

Although Deng Zhaocai was already a capable assistant on his big steel ship, he was definitely reluctant to let Deng Zhaocai go and do it himself when he needed help. But from Deng Zhaocai's point of view, this was undoubtedly a good thing.

However, what surprised Liang Ziqiang again was that Deng Zhaocai shook his head, and a trace of reluctance that he had never seen before appeared on his rough face:

"If I were still a fisherman, would I buy a boat myself? Then I would definitely stay on your boat all the time. It would be so worry-free and comfortable. I may not stay in Pomfret Village for much longer. I have to take Yan Zi with me and go out..."

"You want to leave our village?!" Liang Ziqiang thought he had misheard and for a moment felt that the matter was so sudden.

"Is it because of Yan Zi?" Liang Ziqiang thought about it and realized that the only reason that could make Deng Zhaocai suddenly make such an important decision in such a short period of time was probably Yan Zi.

After all, he had heard from Deng Zhaocai that there must be something unusual between Yan Zi's parents and Yan Zi. It can be seen that Yan Zi is determined to be with Ah Cai, but Liang Ziqiang has no idea how Yan Zi's parents will react.

"It's because of Yan Zi." Acai nodded directly.

"Yanzi and his parents had a little trouble. I don't know what happened, and Yanzi never said anything. It was because of that reason that Yanzi went to live with her grandmother in Xianggu Village last year!"

Deng Zhaocai didn't have any reservations about Liang Ziqiang and told him everything he knew.

"Her grandmother's nets are the best in the nearby villages, and she can make a living by making nets for people. After Yan Zi ran to her grandmother's house last year, she also learned to make nets to make money. Later, because of the typhoon, Yan Zi and I started to get along, and she took the initiative to tell her grandmother that she liked me, and her grandmother also had a good impression of me. She told me all these in the past few days."

"Her parents have never met me, and they don't really know that she likes me. But for some reason, Yan Zi is certain that her parents will never agree to let me be with her. Her grandmother seems to be very sure of this as well."

"Last Chinese New Year, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, I went to Xianggu Village to see her. Her grandmother suddenly agreed to let her come to my house. I was quite surprised at the time because I had never expected it. Yan Zi only told me these few days that her grandmother had made up her mind during the Chinese New Year to let her follow me directly, leave here, and go as far away as possible..."

"Her grandmother's idea is that we shouldn't expect Yan Zi's parents to produce the household registration booklet to allow Yan Zi and me to marry. On the contrary, if Yan Zi's parents knew that she married me, they would definitely come to Pomfret Village and quarrel every few days, and would tear us apart. Grandma said that we should just not stay in our county. Now many villages have young people going out to work, and there is no shortage of work outside. Yan Zi and I can find jobs outside and hide for ten or eight years before we think about it."

After hearing what Ah Cai said, Liang Ziqiang understood a little.

After all, isn't this a done deal? If you can't get married without a household registration, then just stay together outside. After many years, when the baby is grown up, Yanzi's parents will have to accept it even if they don't want to. In fact, even among those who got married in recent years, some couples secretly went out and had several children before coming back. But after hearing this, Liang Ziqiang was still puzzled.

That was Yan Zi's grandmother! Looking around the world, how could a woman's grandmother suggest that she elope with a man? If they didn't get the marriage certificate, it wasn't Ah Cai who was wronged, but Yan Zi!

Seeing that Yan Zi's grandmother clearly loved Yan Zi very much, how could she be willing to do such a thing and let her granddaughter run outside with Ah Cai like this? He was still thinking about it, and Deng Zhaocai had already spoken and continued.

"Swallow's grandmother also knew that I still had a mother. She and Swallow originally wanted to either let my mother live with my brother and his wife, or for Swallow and I to take my mother out of town. But on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Swallow came to my house and stayed with my mother for a few days before she discovered that my mother's health was even worse than I had said, and she couldn't go out of town at all."

"Yanzi heard from my mother that my brother and sister-in-law could never support my mother. As a result, she kept her decision to run away with me to another place to her own, and never spoke it out. No wonder during the New Year holidays, I saw Yanzi always shut up halfway through her words, because she didn't know how to start the conversation with me!"

"Brother Qiang, you know everything that happened later. My mother passed away a while ago. Yan Zi waited a few days after she sent my mother to the mountain before she told me the idea her grandmother had proposed."

"To be honest, I was also shocked when I heard it, even more shocked than you were just now. I didn't expect Yan Zi to be so determined to be with me. If we can't get married, she would rather run away and live with me..."

"Brother Qiang, do you know that since I was a child, besides having good friends like you and Li Liang, the most important people in my life are two women. My mother gave birth to me and raised me, and Yan Zi was desperate to be with a poor guy like me. In my opinion, this is probably the blessing I earned in my previous life..."

"She is a girl who has made such a big decision, why should I hesitate? Last time you mentioned that I should find a way to meet Yan Zi's parents, but looking at the current situation, Yan Zi has made this decision, so I still won't go to her parents' house..."

After listening to what Deng Zhaocai said, Liang Ziqiang couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought.

Ah Cai's decision should be the most normal reaction. If I were in his place, and things developed to such a special point, the most correct thing to do would probably be to decisively take my wife and run away, instead of rashly looking for her parents.

Liang Ziqiang was just curious about what was going on with Yan Zi's parents that made Yan Zi's grandmother make up her mind to support her granddaughter to elope with Ah Cai. And Yan Zi also followed Ah Cai and ran away so resolutely...

Yan Zi was unwilling to tell Acai about this, and Liang Ziqiang, as an outsider, was even more reluctant to ask more.

Whether he was puzzled or feeling emotional, Liang Ziqiang didn't think too much about it. He looked at Deng Zhaocai:
"Are you going to go somewhere outside? Do you have any idea?"

"I have a distant relative working in Shenpeng City. Although the work is a bit tiring and hard, it is still okay to make a living. But I don't know exactly where Shenpeng is. I will prepare in the next two days and will go to visit my relatives soon. It would be best if I could go to Shenpeng again. Once I have figured out the place and settled on it, I will leave our village and take Yan Zi with me to Shenpeng..."

Looking at the place under the palm tree where they had fought before, and then looking at Liang Ziqiang in front of him, Deng Zhaocai's expression became a little reluctant again:
"After I run away this time, I don't know when I will see you and Liangzi again. Brother Qiang, my mother has not passed away for a month. When I come back from Shenpeng to visit my relatives, I will probably stay at home for another ten days, until my mother is one month old, and then I will leave. During those ten days, I will go to the deep sea with you, accompany you to sail, catch big fish, and help you make a few more nets..."

He was obviously a rough man with a gruff voice, but Liang Ziqiang felt uncomfortable when he heard these words. Especially when he heard Ah Cai say that he wanted to go out to sea with him one last time before leaving the village, Liang Ziqiang felt that his eyes were a little dry.

Blinked his eyelids hard.

"He brewed it, why should I accompany him? Go to hell with Shen Peng! You really become fussy after having a woman. You used to laugh at Li Liang for being like this, but now you are even more fussy than him!"

What came out of Liang Ziqiang's mouth was a harsh word of blame. While saying it, he even pretended to kick Ah Cai.

When Ah Cai saw him like this, he suddenly felt relieved. He stretched out his arm to block his kick, then punched him back.

It was as if time had gone back to many years ago, when they had fought to the death under this tree...

At the same time, Ah Cai also screamed:

"He brewed it. You need to build more ships and do things on a bigger scale! Many years later, let me see your Ziqiang in Shenpeng Bay!"

(End of this chapter)