1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 434 Father and Big Brother Open an Account

If it weren't for the special sea areas that were contracted for the wintering fishing grounds, the income from the farmed shrimps would not be enough to cover the cost of deep-sea fishing in just a few months.

This time, Liang's father caught about five acres of prawns and sold them for about 9,400 yuan.

Liang Tiancheng was about the same as him, and also got several hundred yuan.

Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng had never come across such a large sum of money suddenly before, and they seemed a little overwhelmed even when they were at the purchasing point.

After finishing the business, Wei Pan invited them to sit down and drink some tea together.

Before leaving, Liang Ziqiang said that he would come back to sell shrimps next time, probably in March after the Spring Festival.

Liang Ziqiang originally planned to let his father-in-law and uncle take his father's gondola back to the village first, while he himself wanted to go to the city to save the more than 30,000 yuan he had just received. As a result, his father and eldest brother each had nearly 10,000 yuan more in their hands, and they were also very nervous, not at ease to keep so much money at home for a long time.

But if they wanted to deposit money, they were in a hurry to go out today and they didn't bring their ID cards in advance. Finally, Liang Ziqiang decided to go back to the village with them first. When they brought their ID cards tomorrow, he would take them to the bank to apply for deposit certificates.

The phoenix-tail boats and lotus-patterned boats sailed all the way back to Changwang Village.

After getting off the boat, Liang Ziqiang asked his father-in-law and uncle to go back to Juzipo together.

Chen Xiangbei had already prepared a table of food. Seeing that Aqiang, her father and brother had returned from selling shrimps, she happily ordered them to eat.

Chen Xiangbei's father and brother, together with Liang Ziqiang's parents and Lychee, made up exactly eight seats at the table.

There was an extra Liang Jingcheng, holding a wooden bowl in his arms, moving from one position to another, making it feel like a revolving lantern.

"Grandpa, Caicai!"

Chen Dagang was eating when he felt something poking his kidney. He turned around and looked behind him. Liang Jingcheng's big dark eyes were looking up at him, and the other end of the iron spoon was poking him.

"Didn't I just pick some food for you?" Chen Xiangbei saw that there was clearly still food in his bowl.

In fact, even though he is one and a half years old, the types of food he can eat are quite limited.

Chen Xiangbei put some carrots and cabbage in his bowl, which were stewed in soup until soft, and also some dragon head fish.

Some fish have many bones and are not suitable for him to eat, but the dragon head fish, known as "tofu fish", is different. Its meat is extremely tender, and it can really be said to be as tender as tofu. The most important thing is that except for a bone in the middle of the body, there are no extra small bones, so there is no need to worry about being choked by bones.

"I want more!" Liang Jingcheng answered his mother frugally and confidently, and took a dragon head fish from his grandfather.

But it only took a moment.

The voices of "Uncle, Caicai", "Grandma, Caicai", and "Grandpa, Caicai" were heard at the table every once in a while.

Going around the table again and again, asking for a little here and a little there.

Liang Ziqiang figured it out. Whether he could eat or not was not important. This guy just wanted to have fun begging for alms...

Normally, it was Duobao who was the one begging for alms around the table. At this moment, Duobao was staring at Cheng Cheng who was running back and forth, looking a little inferior to him.

After dinner, Chen Xiangbei, the head of the family, started calculating again, this time to settle accounts with his father and brother.

The current revenue from selling the first batch of shrimps is 37,275 yuan.

Peanut bran, dragon head fish meal, wages for people to feed the shrimps during the day and those to watch over the shrimps at night, half of these expenses are charged on this batch of prawns, and the other half is charged on the half that continues to be raised in the shrimp pond.

You don't need to calculate too much, just roughly estimate that you will get 30,000.

The three of them were promised a 2% dividend each. They had worked very hard over the past six months and had raised shrimp successfully, so it was only natural that the dividends should be paid in a timely manner.

Each person received 600 yuan. Of course, only half of the shrimps were sold, so they only received half of the dividends. When the half after the Spring Festival was added, each person received about 1,200 yuan in dividends.

Including wages, this means that the father and his two sons have each earned at least 2,300 yuan this year.

But this was only Liang Ziqiang's side. Liang's father also asked them to feed the 10-acre shrimp pond.

Liang's father's shrimp pond is small, so he only pays one person per year. In addition to the fixed salary of about 1,080 yuan a year, he also calculated the accounts and gave Chen Dagang a dividend of 150 yuan. If calculated for the whole year, he should be able to get a dividend of 300 yuan.

Half of the 40 mu of shrimps have been cleared. From today on, my father-in-law and his uncles don't have to do so much in the shrimp pond every day. Every noon, my father-in-law can return to Juzipo a little earlier, take a break, and play with his grandson. Every afternoon, the three of them can finish their work early and go back to Huagu Village.

The next day, Liang Ziqiang asked his father and elder brother to bring their ID cards, then he boarded the boat and took them to the bank in the city.

This time they went to the Construction Bank in Qianluo District. Liang Ziqiang and his two sons set aside a small amount of money to take home for expenses, and planned to put most of the rest into time deposits.

Eldest brother Liang Tiancheng left more than a thousand yuan for his family, and this time he planned to save eight thousand yuan.

When depositing the money, Liang Tiancheng had already handed in eight thousand to the counter, and planned to deposit the total as one large deposit slip.

As a result, after listening to it, I suddenly heard someone next to me saying that I could win a prize by using my deposits, and I regretted it on the spot.

The teller was filling out the deposit slip with a fountain pen when Liang Tiancheng gestured and shouted urgently to stop the teller. He almost squeezed through the iron railing and jumped into the counter:
"Stop, stop, stop. Don't fill it out yet. I heard that this deposit can be split up and exchanged for a lot of prize deposit certificates? What's the minimum amount?"

The teller's pen had already begun to write on the paper. He was startled by his shouting, but considering that he was a big customer with a balance of 8,000, he forced a smile and replied:
"The smallest amount used to be five dollars, but now the five-dollar amount is no longer available. The minimum deposit required to participate in the lottery is a ten-dollar deposit certificate!"

"Ten dollars, right?"

Liang Tiancheng's usually slow brain now miraculously raced at an astonishing speed:

"Then my eight thousand can be used to deposit eight hundred certificates of deposit, am I right? Don't fill out this big one for now, and quickly give me eight hundred small certificates of deposit for ten dollars each!"

"..." The busy tellers at various counters all choked on the spot, as if the non-existent computer of the entire bank had suddenly crashed.

At this moment, even Liang Ziqiang's face had several exclamation marks on it, and he looked at his elder brother in shock.

"What did you say, eight...hundred?" The teller who was filling out the deposit slip trembled and the pen almost broke directly on top of the paper.

"Brother, how long will it take to write 800 sheets? Don't you want to stop?" Liang Ziqiang quickly poked his elder brother.

Are you kidding? How many deposit slips do tellers usually fill out in a whole day?
Now, as soon as you come up, just one depositor asks to fill out 800 deposit slips. Liang Ziqiang thought, if all 800 deposit slips are really filled out today, the teller will almost die on the spot...

Brother, you know how to play. The first time you went to the bank, you ruined the bank’s prize-winning savings.

With this incident, the entire banking industry may stop offering savings rewards starting tomorrow because of you...

But it is obvious that the teller in front of him is not a pushover.

He was stunned for only two seconds, then reacted quickly. Not only did the pen in his hand not stop, but he also wrote a few words on the deposit slip as fast as a cramp.

"Comrade, your idea is fine and feasible in principle. But you see, you spoke too late. I have already filled in the amount of 8,000. Once the deposit slip is filled in, there is no way to rewrite it or cancel it. It can only be deposited as a large sum of money!"

The teller looked apologetic and guilty, and shook the deposit slip he had just written to Liang Tiancheng.

Liang Tiancheng's face was suddenly filled with despair. If he wasn't dazzled, it seemed that when he opened his mouth just now, the teller had only written the two words "Liang Tian" and hadn't even written the full name, and hadn't even started to fill in the amount.

How come in the blink of an eye, a complete large-denomination deposit certificate is shaking in front of me?
Liang Tiancheng suddenly felt that this trip to the bank was a big loss for him...

(End of this chapter)