1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 416 The truth about my father and brother is not a shipwreck

Gradually, the outline of the floating wooden island appeared in front of him. Liang Ziqiang stopped the wooden boat at the island and went ashore.

At a glance, I saw a tall old man in his fifties walking back from the direction of the oyster farm with a clam rake in his hand. It was Lao Xie.

"A Qiang?! I haven't seen you in more than a year. How come you have time to come to the island today?" Old Xie recognized him at a glance and greeted him.

"Didn't I come to see you two?" Liang Ziqiang walked up to Old Xie and greeted him.

After chatting for a while, Liang Ziqiang took the deep-sea fish and shrimp from the boat and gave it to Old Xie. Old Xie was a little confused:

"You saved me and Lao Qiu, so why are you giving me gifts instead? I don't want this!"

He is still the same old Xie. He remembers everything clearly, whether it is kindness or hatred.

"Besides, I have oysters and abalone here. If I want to eat fish, I can just cast a net in the sea. How can I be short of fish and shrimp?" Old Xie said while refusing.

"It's different. Most of what I have here are deep-sea lobsters. You'll know after you and Lao Qiu eat them!" Liang Ziqiang also told him that he had been doing deep-sea trawling operations in the past year or so.

"By the way, is Lao Qiu on the island?" Liang Ziqiang asked after saying that.

"Are you looking for something with Lao Qiu? What a coincidence. He went to a village to pay respect to an old friend these days. You can tell me what it is."

"The fish maw you gave me last year was really effective after I used it. I have a friend who wants to buy two. I wonder if they are available on the island now?"

Liang Ziqiang did not mention Deng Zhaocai's name. Old Xie holds a grudge, and if he mentions Ah Cai, he will probably take out the worst fish maw. And he actually brought money in his pocket, intending to pay for it.

"That's all?" Old Xie looked a little disapproving after hearing this. "Can this be considered a big deal? Fish maw is a treasure to you, but it's the most common thing to Old Qiu. You don't have to wait for him to reply. I'll get some for you. Since it's your friend who wants it, I'll pick out the best ones for you!"

After Old Xie entered the house, he quickly brought out three golden fish maws.

Liang Ziqiang opened his wallet and took out money.

Old Xie was immediately annoyed: "What the hell are you doing? Are you slapping me in the face? Or are you slapping Old Qiu in the face? If you want to take the money, just leave the things behind!"

Seeing that Old Xie was getting anxious, Liang Ziqiang stopped persuading him, took the money, thanked him several times, and left Piaomu Island.

When he got home, he put the isinglass in a box and locked it up, planning to wait until he finished his next voyage and then go to Binzhou Port to wait for Ah Cai on the agreed date a week later.

Another five days passed in a flash.

During the five days of this trip out to sea, we didn't encounter any particularly valuable fish, but the quantity we caught was very large.

There are several tons of bluefin tuna, known as "fish rice", and there are also a lot of sardines, golden pomfret, peeling fish and hair shrimp.

The income was considerable just due to the large volume. After one trip, the profit was still close to 5,000.

It was already mid-October when we finished this trip to the sea.

The day for meeting Deng Zhaocai arrived. Liang Ziqiang took advantage of the rest time to change to a lotus-patterned wooden boat and sailed to Binzhou Port.

This time he parked the boat in a quiet corner. After a while, Deng Zhaocai recognized his lotus-patterned boat, walked over, and quickly got on the boat.

I don’t know what he was thinking, but Deng Zhaocai frowned as soon as he got on the boat this time.

Liang Ziqiang knew that he was now thinking about revenge for Yan Zi all the time. He used to be such a heartless person, but now he looked so bitter and resentful. Liang Ziqiang felt sad and couldn't bear to see him.

"Fuck, why are you so sullen right now? Are you worried that I didn't bring you the isinglass or something? Three of the best isinglass, Old Xie is very generous!"

Liang Ziqiang said this and reached into his arms to take out the fish maw.

Unexpectedly, Deng Zhaocai stopped him, still with a puzzled expression on his face, and muttered:

"Brother Qiang, don't take the isinglass yet. I have something that has been going on for two days. The more I think about it, the more strange it becomes..."

"What's so brain-intensive? Is it because you don't have enough brains? Otherwise, tell me and I'll explain it to you!" Liang Ziqiang took the opportunity to insult him and said with a smile.

"You really have to figure this out yourself. It's related to you, and it doesn't seem to be a trivial matter!" Deng Zhaocai looked at Liang Ziqiang more seriously.

"What did you say? It's related to me. A big deal?!"

Liang Ziqiang really couldn't think of what big thing he could have done that would make Deng Zhaocai rack his brains...

"Brother Qiang, let me show you something!"

Deng Zhaocai reached into his trouser pocket and took out something.

White plastic, palm-sized. It is the most common cassette.

It looked like a blank tape. There was no song title printed on it, but there were a few lines of crooked words written in ballpoint pen:

If the wine is gone, I will go to Tiger Mountain again, a piece of plum blossoms, pink memories.

Obviously, he used blank tapes to record the songs, and recorded several songs that he personally liked together. Looking at his taste, it's quite colorful, and it's hard to describe...

"What do you mean? Isn't this a blank tape? You copied a few songs on it and are going to give it to me to listen to at home? Is this the big thing about me that you were talking about? Damn it, do you really have to play around like this?!" Liang Ziqiang was completely confused.

Unexpectedly, Deng Zhaocai didn't mean to be joking at all: "Brother Qiang, I didn't copy this tape."

"What does that mean?"

"Don't we all live in the same dormitory? There's a guy called Zhu Yong, the deputy captain. He comes from a well-off family and he always brings a tape recorder with him to play music in the dormitory. I was just lying on my bed and listening to music when I heard the song "The Wine is Gone". Guess what I heard?"

"What did you hear?"

"I heard some noise. When I was recording, maybe someone passed by the door or something, and their voice was recorded. You must understand!"

"I understand!" Of course he understood this. Last time, when he helped Lin Baixian record "Sister Looking for Brother with Tears in Her Eyes" and "Love Across Thousand Mountains and Rivers", he recorded the voices of Chen Xiangbei, his parents, Lizhi and others talking outside the house.

"What noise did you hear?" he asked Acai.

“Maybe because this tape has been re-recorded, the noise is not that loud, but because the names mentioned in it are so familiar to me, I pricked up my ears immediately.

I listened to it over and over again, and the noise went something like this:

That’s right, in Changwang Village, Chaoyang Town, Liang Defu, Liang Tiancheng, Liang Zifeng… Hehe, isn’t it hard to find a place on a windy day in August!

I thought about it for two days, but I still couldn't figure out what this sentence meant, and I couldn't figure out why the names of the three people in your family appeared on the tape? As for the same name, there aren't three names in the world that are exactly the same, right?!"

"What did you say, there's this in the noise?!"

Liang Ziqiang felt as if he was instantly submerged in the harbor. His chest constricted and he instinctively grabbed the tape in Acai's hand.

"When was this tape copied?" he asked anxiously.

However, there is actually no need for Acai to answer.

He saw the ballpoint pen writing on the tape. At the bottom of the crooked song titles were a few numbers:

1983.8
The handwriting is not new, and shows some signs of being old and dirty.

In other words, this tape was copied in August 1983, more than two years ago.

That year and that month were also the months in the previous life when my father, eldest brother and youngest brother were killed in a "shipwreck" during a storm!

"Zhu Yong said that he copied it more than two years ago, when he was not working at the Snow Egret Hotel. Also, I asked a lot of people in the dormitory, and they said that Zhu Yong had brought this tape to the dormitory a long time ago. At least it was not copied recently." Deng Zhaocai revealed the truth, "Tell me, how could such a strange thing happen?"

Deng Zhaocai looked confused. However, after Liang Ziqiang figured out the year and month, his mind started to buzz, as if all the tides on the sea were pouring into his body, rushing and surging.

Ah Cai didn't know why. Only Liang Ziqiang knew what it meant.

This means that more than two years ago in July and August, someone had planned to harm his father and brother and make it look like they died in a strong wind.

In the previous life, this plan was successful.

In this life, it was because of Liang Ziqiang’s own strong intervention that he prevented his father and brother from going out to sea and did not give the other party any chance, so they failed.

But too many problems followed.

Firstly, his father and brother were just three ordinary fishermen in the village, and they usually lived in peace with others. Who on earth would be so determined to kill them?
Why were they only targeted at these three, but Liang Ziqiang was not mentioned at all?

Secondly, if the other party was determined to kill the Liang family's three sons, he should have persisted to the end.

Even if I accidentally prevented my father and brother from going out to sea in August two years ago and did not give the other party a chance, there should have been plenty of opportunities in these two long years. Why didn't the other party take action again?

Could it be that there is a pair of cold eyes still watching over my family?
In other words, until now, the danger is still lurking somewhere, waiting for an opportunity to strike at any time and deal a fatal blow to his family?
With so many mysteries, it seemed that I had no choice but to go home immediately and see if I could get some clues from my father.

Whether it is to avenge his loved ones in the previous life, or to protect his family in the next life, Liang Ziqiang must act against the clock...

(End of this chapter)