1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 400 Lizhi is admitted to the hospital
As for the groupers that were caught last night, Liang Ziqiang kept all the intact and energetic ones in basins filled with seawater on the boat. The remaining injured or even broken ones were taken to Yuehai Restaurant.

"I don't know how long it's been since you brought me any grouper," Du Ziteng complained. "But after more than a year, all you bring me are these ugly ones?"

To be honest, ever since a group of cat sharks appeared on the Nameless Island and caused trouble two years ago, and wiped out all the groupers there, Liang Ziqiang has not found any groupers to bring to the Yuehai Restaurant.

By this calculation, it has indeed been more than a year.

"It's not easy to snatch food from a shark's mouth!" Liang Ziqiang said with a chuckle.

Jokes aside, the miserable grouper definitely cannot be sold at the usual price. The eight-dollar fish became six dollars, and the four-dollar fish that usually cost four dollars was reduced to two dollars and fifty cents after some bargaining.

Even with a discount, Liang Ziqiang still got a pretty good amount, since the price of grouper is so high!

I sold several types of grouper, including brown-banded, blue-spotted, tiger, and honeycomb, and the total profit was $436!
Adding the money from the lamprey and the more than 9,000 kilograms of fish and shrimp from the county fishing port, after deducting the expenses, this time they actually made a net profit of more than 2,400 yuan, which is undoubtedly a new ceiling in ordinary sea areas!

He went to the department store and bought a lot of rice and noodles. Recently, buying rice, noodles and vegetables can be regarded as a major expense besides diesel and labor costs. First, he hired a large number of people to dig the foundation and build the pond. Now he has to consider the food and drink of a large group of crew members going out to sea, as well as the food and drink of his cousin and his wife on the nameless island.

Then I went back to the place where I bought the "marine radio" last time and bought another one.

They sailed all the way back to the village and decided to rest for three days. Then they each took some fish and shrimp and went home.

Of course, the groupers that Liang Ziqiang kept in the basins were still kept on the boat for the time being.

He planned to go back to Juzipo, meet his wife, have a hot meal, then bring a load of drinking spring water from home and return to the boat immediately.

He had to go to the nameless island as soon as possible to bring the spawning grouper fish on the boat to the island, and at the same time send some rice, flour and drinking water to his cousin and his wife.

As soon as he reached Orange Hill, he saw two figures standing on the side of the road, stretching their necks and looking towards him like two giraffes.

It’s my mother and wife.

He was a little surprised. Why did these two people run to the road and look around today? He never saw them like this when they came back from going out to sea.

As she approached with the small fish and shrimp in the bucket, before Chen Xiangbei could speak, Liang's mother took two or three steps forward and shouted anxiously:

"Aqiang, you're back!"

"What's wrong? What happened at home?"

Liang Ziqiang noticed that his mother and wife both had frowns on their faces, looking anxious and worried, so he stopped and asked.

"I'm afraid something bad has happened!" The mother stamped her feet, tears streaming down her face. "This silly girl, can't she just be at peace and stay by my side for the rest of her life without any illness or disaster?"

Liang Ziqiang's heart skipped a beat. The more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong:
"Lizhi? What happened to her? Where is she? Is she at home or somewhere else? Let me go and see what happened!"

He ran towards home carrying the bucket, but tripped as he took a step.

Seeing his anxious and flustered look, Chen Xiangbei felt distressed and quickly pulled her man back:

"She's not at home for a long time. Dad sent her to the county hospital yesterday, but after a night, she still hasn't come back. Mom is getting more and more anxious and has cried several times!"

"Did she go to the county hospital? Did she fall ill suddenly? Do you know what illness she had?" Liang Ziqiang asked anxiously again.

"It's not a disease at all. It's all caused by that troublesome Xiaohai!" Liang's mother wiped her tears again and said unhappily.

Liang Ziqiang raised his head and looked into the distance, just in time to see his nephew Liang Xiaohai coming out of his newly built house, with his back hunched like a sinner. He glanced in his direction and then shrank back, not daring to look again.

Liang Ziqiang finally understood what had happened from his mother and daughter-in-law.

It turned out that after lunch yesterday, Liang Xiaohai forced Lizhi to go out and play. Lizhi had nothing to do at that time, so she followed him out.

When we got to the hill behind the house, we found out that Liang Xiaohai had set his sights on a bird's nest on a tree. The tree was probably shorter than the adobe house, and there was a large bird's nest in the tree fork. Liang Xiaohai asserted that there was a nest of bird eggs in the nest.

He was too short and had no strength, and he failed to climb up after trying several times. So he wanted to ask Lizhi to help him climb up to take out bird eggs or catch baby birds.

Lizhi didn't want to climb the tree and didn't agree. Xiaohai kept begging her and later just continued to climb up by himself.

After climbing up twice, he slipped and fell down from the tree trunk before he got halfway up. Lizhi was probably afraid that he would get hurt, so she finally agreed to help him.

She was an adult after all, so she slowly climbed up, holding the tree trunk with her legs and reaching into the bird's nest with her hands.

As a result, when she reached out her hand, she didn't know whether there were eggs or chicks in the nest, but a snake poked its head in. Xiao Hai heard her scream "Oh my God" and her whole body fell from the tree.

Xiao Hai was also panicked. Seeing Lizhi lying under the tree, unable to move and only crying and screaming in pain, he was scared and started crying too.

Fortunately, a villager was passing by at the foot of the mountain. When he heard the noise, he quickly ran over.

According to the villager, when he saw Litchi, his face turned pale and he could only cry but could not say anything.

The villagers carried the lychees back. When Liang's mother heard that the baby had fallen from the tree, she quickly called Liang's father back from the vegetable field.

The two of them gathered around and asked, and Lizhi finally spoke up, saying that her left elbow hurt as if she was filing it with a knife, and she couldn't touch it. It was probably her left hand that hit the ground first when she landed.

Liang's father originally wanted to send her to the town clinic, but when he saw that her elbows were swollen and her condition was serious, he hesitated.

When I looked at her right hand again, I found blood spots on the back of her hand, and I became even more panicked.

At that time, Chen Xiangbei and the others surrounded her and asked her to recall whether the snake that came out of the bird's nest had bitten her. But after asking her again and again, how could she explain what happened in that moment of panic?
Whether it was lychee or xiaohai, I had no idea whether I had bitten it or not.

Seeing this, Liang's father did not dare to delay. Liang Tiancheng had to go to his father-in-law's house for something these two days, so Liang's father had to put money in his pocket, carry the lychees on his back, drive the gondola parked at the small pier, and go to the county hospital.

Then, my mother and Xiangbei sat at home and waited until a whole day and night had passed, but they still hadn't seen the two people come back from the hospital. The longer they waited, the more anxious they became, until they saw Ah Qiang coming back on the road in front of the door.

"Mom, when you looked at the blood spots on the back of Lizhi's hand, were they two small, deep blood holes, or a row of fine tooth marks?"

After listening to the whole process, Liang Ziqiang went straight to the point and asked anxiously.

After all, people who have lived for sixty years have more experience in various aspects. If a poisonous snake bites a person, the wound is usually two small and deep blood holes, because the poisonous snake has two fangs. On the other hand, a non-venomous snake usually leaves a row of fine tooth marks.

"I looked carefully at that time. There were not one row, nor two, but three small wounds!" Seeing that her mother-in-law's recollection was not clear, Chen Xiangbei continued and told her affirmatively.

"Three?"

Liang Ziqiang was also confused. Now all possibilities are possible.

In the worst-case scenario, two of the bloody eyes were caused by the fangs of a venomous snake, and the other mark next to it was probably caused by a thorn from the bushes on the ground.

The best possibility is that the three small wounds were all caused by thorns when she fell to the ground. In this case, the snake in the bird's nest should not have bitten her at all.

But I went to the hospital yesterday evening, and it’s already afternoon today and I still haven’t seen him. This in itself doesn’t make me feel relaxed…

"Mom, Xiangbei, don't worry, I'll go to the hospital right away to see what's going on!"

He quickly carried the bucket of small fish and shrimps back home, put it down, and ran out.

"Wait a minute! You haven't even had a sip of water or a meal. You can't do this even if you're in a hurry, right?" His wife had already packed the meal and quickly pulled him back, "Finish your meal so you have the energy to run those errands!"

Liang Ziqiang realized that he was indeed hungry, so he sat down to eat and drink some water. His wife went to the inner room to get money again: "I don't know what's going on with Litchi. Is the money Dad brought enough? Don't rush over like that. You should bring some money with you first!"

"I have a lot of money on me, don't worry!" Liang Ziqiang ran out like a gust of wind.

I just sold some fish and had more than 2,000 yuan in my pocket. How could I be short of money?
He definitely didn’t want to think about going to the nameless island for the time being, so he immediately went to the beach and boarded the boat.

There are two wooden boats in the family now. The lotus-patterned boat is left on Wuming Island for my cousin and his wife to use, and the gondola was driven to the county hospital by my father. I can only drive this big steel boat to the county town, and I no longer think about the problem of excessive fuel consumption.

He also temporarily called Lu Song, who had just returned home, to help him keep lookout, and then they rushed back to the county town together.

After arriving, the boat stopped and Lu Song waited for him on the boat while he hurried to the county hospital.

I walked quickly and soon arrived at the county hospital. After asking the hospital staff, I finally found the person in one of a row of old rooms.

When he entered the room, he was a little dumbfounded.

Lizhi was sitting on a stool. Apart from the two wooden boards clamped between his left elbow, he looked normal otherwise, as if nothing was wrong.

On the contrary, it was his father who was leaning on the hospital bed, his face was not looking good at all...

(End of this chapter)