1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 440 Discovery in the Sea Map

In the end, the two of them couldn't bear to beat the child, so they talked to Liang Jingcheng about where they could and couldn't draw.

Finally, I remembered that the chalks were all dusty and could easily get into Cheng Cheng's mouth and nose, so I simply put away the remaining ones and hid them.

Chen Xiangbei took off all the quilts and sheets from the bed and washed them, while Liang Ziqiang wet an old cloth and cleaned the wall. When wiping, he even pulled Liang Jingcheng along to wipe with him, so that he could at least remember and not scratch the wall next time.

After finishing his work, Liang Ziqiang went back into the house.

After a while, Chen Xiangbei finished washing the quilt and sheets. When she came over, she saw Liang Ziqiang lying in front of the table. He got a pencil from somewhere and kept drawing on a piece of paper.

"What happened to the two of you today? Your son just finished his painting and you started again. When did you develop a hobby of painting?"

His wife kept muttering behind his back.

"Oh, I found that I am really not cut out for painting!" Liang Ziqiang put down his brush.

When he saw the blueprint on Wei Pan's seafood boat, he thought the lines were too rough and the drawing was too fragmentary. Now that he had started to draw, he found that he was not as good as others.

"Xiangbei, didn't you say that you loved painting when you were in school? Why don't you try it for me?" He changed his mind and found a way to be lazy.

"What is this?" His wife came over and took a look.

"The drawings of the sea were drawn by someone based on experience. They are not complete, but they can serve as a reference!" Liang Ziqiang said.

"Let me try!"

Chen Xiangbei was not modest. He sat down on the chair and started drawing at the table, referring to the original picture.

Not to mention, his wife's hands are much more dexterous than his. She follows his example and draws quite quickly. Her work is pretty much the same as the original picture.

"Not bad. I'll give you a chicken...drumstick as a reward tonight!"

Before his wife was about to twist him, he decisively changed his words and changed the last word to "leg".

Taking the pencil from his wife, he heavily painted two small areas of color on two places on the drawing.

"What are you doing? This is not on the original picture?" the wife asked in confusion.

"It's not on the original picture, but if you look closely, there are two black spots on the paper. I must have pointed at them often. Did you notice?"

"Yes, a little bit. What's the problem?"

"Of course, the places that are frequently ordered are the ones that the captain pays the most attention to. Since that place is so special, but it is not officially marked, it means that the captain does not want too many people to know about it."

"Is that so? Maybe you're overthinking it?"

Liang Ziqiang didn't comment. But he was almost certain that those two places were definitely frequented by that ship. And judging from the fact that it was not marked on the paper, it was at least intended to conceal it from other ships. If there was any place to go, it was only this ship that went there frequently.

He saw the drawing on a seafood boat and proposed to draw a copy because he saw two spots in the vast sea, which were inadvertently left by two gray-black marks due to long-term pressing of their fingers.

What attracted that ship to go there so often? I am afraid there is no way to find out. Because the captains and crews of these ships not only go fishing in the deep sea during the day, but also work as employees of the smuggling organization when they are on the night shift. Therefore, they have all been imprisoned since the incident happened more than five months ago.

Judging from the severity of the case, it is still unknown whether they can be released after twenty years or so.

Anyway, after the winter fishing is over, Liang Ziqiang will usually go to various deep sea areas to carry out trawling operations. When the time comes, he will follow this map and look for these two places. It would be best if he can find them, but if he can't, it won't delay the trawling operations.

The next day, Liang Ziqiang continued to rest and went to the nameless island. He distributed the proceeds from selling grouper to his cousin and his wife according to the agreed proportion.

After coming back, we continued to carry out two fishing trips in the wintering grounds.

As the spring flood gradually begins, some fish and shrimp return to the shallow sea, and the density of fish and shrimp in the wintering fishing grounds gradually decreases.

Compared with ordinary sea areas, there are only slightly more fish and shrimp in the wintering grounds now, and there is not much difference.

Seeing this, Liang Ziqiang thought that he could continue to trawling here for two more times, but there was no need to keep a boat here to guard the night for each trip. So, after five days of trawling, the three boats returned to the shore together and went to the county fishing port to sell fish.

After two days of rest, the three boats arrived at the wintering grounds again. At first, they didn't think anything of it and started trawling and fishing as usual.

When they passed near the atoll, Liang Ziqiang suddenly widened his eyes in disbelief.

First, I saw some broken wooden poles on the sea water, floating and sinking with the waves.

Then he quickly turned his gaze towards the atoll, and what came into view was a mess!
The atoll was still there, but half of the wooden cages placed nearby had been shattered.

There were three cages concentrated in that area, and all three were destroyed, as if they had been struck by lightning.

"Oh my god, what's going on? I haven't been here for two days, why does it look like there was an explosion?!" Lin Liming, who was standing on the bow of Lu Song's boat, obviously saw it and exclaimed.

"I'm afraid it must have been blown up?" Zhou Hui also exclaimed on Liang Ziqiang's boat.

Liang Ziqiang quickly stopped the trawling operation, started the anchor chain, and anchored the Ziqiang close to the atoll.

Several people on their boat got off the boat and walked towards the atoll.

Standing on the atoll and looking closely, everything becomes clearer.

After seeing it clearly, Liang Ziqiang was stunned on the atoll. There was no doubt that it was blown up by explosives!
It seems that the thing I least wanted to happen has happened.

This wintering ground is extremely remote and difficult to find. If it follows the trajectory of the previous life, it would not be discovered until the 21st century using a fish finder.

In other words, according to normal trajectory, the possibility that a fish fryer would naturally find this place while going out to sea is extremely small and almost non-existent.

Then the most likely possibility is that someone started tracking some time ago, and I don’t know which of the three ships they secretly followed, and then finally discovered this atoll.

Afterwards, they chose a day when they were all away and blew up the grouper cages next to the atoll.

But Liang Ziqiang was puzzled as to what the other party wanted to do. Was he trying to destroy his cage farming? If so, why did they only blow up three cages and not touch the remaining half?

"Fuck, what a jerk he is. He went through so much trouble to come all this way to blow up someone's fishing cage. What is he trying to achieve?!"

"Aqiang, are there still many groupers in the cages? It seems that there are not many anymore."

Some of the crew members cursed angrily, while others were concerned about Liang Ziqiang's loss.

In fact, the loss is not the main point. As the crew said, there are actually very few groupers in these cages.

This place is different from the nameless island. The climate is too special. In two months' summer, there will be a high probability that "water dragon sucking" will occur. Grouper can only be raised here in winter and spring, but not in summer.

Therefore, Liang Ziqiang kept a few in each box as a sample, as most of them had been sold to Du Ziteng and Wei Pan last time. Only a handful of them remained in the net cages.

In this case, the three cages that were blown up did not actually result in the loss of many groupers.

As for the empty cages, they are all made of wood, and the cost is not that expensive. Liang Ziqiang originally planned to keep them there all year round as decorations. If they are not blown up, they will most likely be destroyed by the "dragon sucking water" in the summer, and a new batch of cages can be installed in the winter.

So although three cages were blown up, the actual loss did not cause him any serious harm.

The point is, this place was eventually targeted by someone through following.

Of course, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that there are people like "Skinny Monkey" Hou Han, who make a living by blasting reefs and catching groupers and giant clams in the ocean all day long, and then just happened to find this atoll and cause some damage.

He also couldn't guarantee that the trajectory of this life would be 100% the same as the previous life, and it would be until the 21st century that someone would set foot on this atoll.

Liang Ziqiang sniffed carefully and found a very faint smell of explosives near the reef. This meant that it might have been blown up a few hours ago in the early morning, and the people might not have run very far.

Thinking of this, Liang Ziqiang immediately called two other ships to search the sea area near the wintering grounds...

(End of this chapter)