1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 402: A brand new fleet, sailing for the first time

The orthopedic doctor examined Lizhi in more detail than the emergency department, and seeing that there was no pain when pressing any part of his body, he assured Aqiang that there should be no other problems except for his elbow.

After going to the gastroenterology department, the doctor also thought that Mr. Liang might just have a minor problem, such as ordinary gastritis, and that he had an attack because he forgot to eat dinner yesterday. Now that the pain has stopped, the doctor prescribed some Chinese patent medicine tablets and told him to take them at home.

After leaving the hospital, we sailed home together before it got dark.

It was already dark when they got home. Liang's mother, Chen Xiangbei, and the eldest sister-in-law were getting more and more anxious. They were looking around anxiously at the door when they suddenly heard their footsteps and voices, and they all came to greet them.

Seeing that they were all safe and sound, Liang's mother and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time they were curious as to why they had stayed in the hospital for so long.

Liang Ziqiang explained the whole story, and Liang's mother's first reaction was to rush into the house and grab a bottle of Erguotou to throw:

"Why is he hungry? In my opinion, he just drank too much! Throw it away, and don't touch a drop of it from now on!"

In addition to smoking bamboo tubes, Liang's father also drinks. However, he is very different from Lin Baixian's father. Although he drinks a few sips every day, he is definitely not as addicted to alcohol as Lin's father, who spends his days holding a bottle of wine.

There was still a large bottle of Erguotou left, so Liang's father was reluctant to throw it away, so he stepped forward to take it back: "The doctor said that it was caused by hunger. I usually just drink those two sips, how big a deal can it be? You are so pretentious, you really like to make trouble!"

Liang Ziqiang hurried over and held his father to persuade him, "Dad, you just took the stomach medicine, so you'd better not drink alcohol in the future. Even if you drink less, alcohol will hurt your stomach!"

"Did you hear that? Your son said it! Don't touch it anymore!"

"No, Aqiang, why are you butting in?" The father watched the Erguotou being confiscated and couldn't help but take his anger out on Aqiang.

"From now on, the whole family will keep an eye on him. Anyone who sees him drinking, come and tell me!" Liang's mother declared confidently.

"I do! Grandma, if grandpa drinks, I'll tell you secretly once, and you'll give me a bag of candy!" Liang Xiaohai showed up at some point, and when he saw that Lizhi was fine, he instantly became active again and raised his hand to recommend himself to Liang's mother.

"Where's the stick? How dare you meddle in this! If you hadn't dug up some bird's nest, how could all this happen?!"

Liang's father suddenly thought of the fact that he had gotten to the point where he couldn't drink anymore, and that the source of his misery was all Liang Xiaohai. He suddenly felt a pain in his liver and looked for a stick on the ground.

Liang Xiaohai saw that the situation was not good, so he stopped thinking about the candy and turned around and ran away quickly. On the way, he kicked two hens, which made them cluck and complain.

Although things became noisy as soon as we got back, at least nothing serious happened to anyone, and it was still quite joyous...

The next day, eldest brother Liang Tiancheng came back from his father-in-law's house. When he heard that so many things had happened at home in the past two days, he scolded Xiao Hai with a fierce face and rushed to ask about the situation.

When he learned that a stranger had helped his father at the critical moment, he also sighed that there are many good people in the world after all. Unfortunately, he didn't know the address and couldn't go to the door to express his gratitude.

Liang Ziqiang chatted with his elder brother for a few words, and then hurried to Wuming Island to transport the groupers from yesterday and put them in one of the net cages. When the fry appeared, he could start breeding his first batch of groupers.

In addition to the common blue spot, tiger spot and brown band, the ones he was most looking forward to were the eastern star spot and the sea red spot.

Dongxing and Haihong, which are rarely seen at ordinary times, will be available in large quantities once they are on the market. How exciting!
When we arrived at the island, we saw that our cousin and his wife were not idle. They were driving the lotus-patterned boat that they had left on the island and casting a net near the island.

"Aqiang, you're here? Look, we caught another basket of small fish and shrimp today." His cousin Yuan Bing pointed to the baskets on the boat and said, "I looked at those snappers. We still need to catch some fish and shrimp to feed them. We can't just rely on the small fish and shrimp to get into the net cages by themselves."

In fact, Liang Ziqiang observed on the island a few days ago that due to the abundance of small fish and shrimp in the nearby water bodies, quite a few of them automatically swam into the net cages through the "inverted whisker mouth".

Since my cousin was so concerned, it was a good thing for him to cast a net and catch some fresh fish and shrimp for the snappers in the cages. There were several empty cages in the water. They were originally going to be used after all the snappers were hatched, and now one of them was just freed up to raise groupers.

After checking the condition of the broodstock in the cages, he moved the rice, oil and vegetables purchased yesterday to their boat, and also lifted two large barrels of diesel for them as a backup.

Finally, he pulled out a ship's radio:
"Uncle, I just bought this yesterday. If you two feel bored staying in the house, it's a good idea to listen to the radio. The radio will also report the weather conditions."

After staying here and chatting for a while, he had other things to do, so he returned to the village first.

After another voyage, it was already the end of June and the two new large steel ships were ready for delivery.

Of course Liang Ziqiang couldn't bring back so many boats by himself, so several people went with him, including Zhu Tianpeng, Lu Song, Lin Liming and Liang's father.

After the full balance was paid, three brand new ships set out from the harbor of Fengshou Shipyard and sailed all the way back to Changwang Village.

Two of them were 20-meter gray-blue steel ships, and their appearance was basically the same as Liang Ziqiang’s first steel ship;
There is also an eight-meter wooden boat, which looks similar to the lotus boat except for the different patterns. This boat will be used on Wuming Island in the future to exchange for the lotus boat.

There were two large and one small ships, and although they were of very different sizes, they formed a “品” shape, creating the momentum of a fleet on the sea.

It seemed like three simple geese were flying in a V-shape on the sky.

Who can say that there won’t be a lively formation of geese flying in the future?

The sea was very blue, and the three new ships seemed to be working together to pull up a huge azure cloth, bringing it little by little closer to the shore of Changwang Village.

"Zhongqiang, Boqiang..."

The people on the coast who were looking eagerly read the large white painted characters on the two brand new steel ships that were slowly approaching. Many of these people were crew members who were about to join Liang Ziqiang's team and go out to sea.

Last year, the first steel ship was named "Ziqiang". Now two identical large steel ships have been added at once, so we certainly cannot give them the same name.

Zhongqiang and Boqiang were the names Liang Ziqiang gave to the two new large ships.

It does not have a profound meaning, it simply indicates that from self-reliance to collective strength, it is ready to gather a group of people who can talk and get along well with each other, make things in their own way, and create their own prospects.

As for the brand new eight-meter wooden boat, two big characters "Xiang Qiang" were written on it.

In the following days, Liang Ziqiang registered all the new ships at the Fishery Administration Station, and each ship was given a corresponding number.

The auspicious date for the opening of the new ship is July 7th.

This year's Gregorian calendar is a bit far from the lunar calendar. July 7th is the 5th day of the fifth lunar month, an auspicious day.

A fleet consisting of three large steel ships, the Ziqiang, the Zhongqiang and the Boqiang, unveiled the red cloth and set off towards the sea.

From this day on, the steel "geese formation" with the sea surface as its sky will be unveiled in the vast deep ocean.

Flying in the blue sea, and cultivating the blue sea...

(End of this chapter)