1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 442: Questioning the Box Destroyer

"After knocking them down, Li Liang, I, and Yuan Xiaomei's brother Yuan Lijun, the three of us rushed over together and tied them up tightly with ropes!"

"Li Liang knocked me too hard. He really knocked me unconscious. I didn't move at all when I was tied up, and I didn't move at all when I was searched."

"But it's no use for those two bastards to stay unconscious like this. We have to wake them up. How can we interrogate them if we don't wake them up? Who are these two guys? Why did they drive a metal boat to the deep sea to blow up your fish cages? Li Liang and I are very curious."

"We used buckets to fetch sea water and poured it over their heads. After just a little pouring, they both woke up."

"Li Liang and I stood there and asked them how they found the cage and why they blew it up. We searched them but didn't find anything, so we had to force them to tell us!"

"I don't know if those two bastards were really knocked dumb or were just pretending to be confused. After we woke them up, no matter how we asked them, they just shook their heads and said they didn't know this or that."

"Li Liang didn't have that much patience either. He just continued to use force, hitting them left and right. He couldn't kill them, but they were screaming in pain. Li Liang still knew how to control himself."

Hearing this, Liang Ziqiang really didn't expect that Li Liang and Lin Baixian were looking for him in a hurry because of this matter.

What they didn't expect was that just when they were worried about not being able to find the person who blew up the fish cages, and three steel ships had been searching in the deep sea for a long time without success, the other party unexpectedly fell into the trap and fell into the hands of Lin Baixian and Li Liang.

For this matter, Lin Baixian and Li Liang broke through the barrier that had separated them for many years and joined hands to work together, which was really difficult for Lin Baixian.

"You two did a great job!" Liang Ziqiang praised gratefully, "Did you confess later, those two?"

He really wanted to find out the answer.

"Later, his mouth opened." Lin Baixian continued.

"Unable to bear the pain, the two men admitted that their boat was not sunk by hitting a reef, but was blown up. But why did they blow up the reef? They said that they usually wander around the sea and blow up any grouper they come across. That day, they wandered around and came to a place where they saw a large circle of reefs surrounded by a large circle of fish cages."

"They usually try to save trouble when fishing. They just blow up the fish without saying anything. They don't care if the grouper is in the reef or in the net cage. They just blow up the grouper and take it away. But after just two or three throws, they blew up their own boat. Then they rushed back to the shore!"

"They insisted that they discovered the circle of reefs and fish cages by accident?" Liang Ziqiang asked thoughtfully.

He was wondering how true the other party's statement was.

"Is it true that they can't figure it out? Li Liang even threatened to throw them into the sea, but they still insisted on saying so. Later, Li Liang discussed it with me and decided that we should send you to him so that you can ask the question yourself."

"We sailed back to the village, and when we went to your house to ask, you hadn't returned yet. I know that you usually need to go out to sea for a few days, but this matter is urgent, and I must be counting on you to return to the village as soon as possible! But waiting forever is not a good idea, so Li Liang and I tied up those two bastards and sent them to the police station!"

"If you want to know clearly, you should go to the police station in town and ask them!"

After listening to Lin Baixian's explanation of the whole story, Liang Ziqiang thanked him and quickly ran back to Li Liang's house.

At Li Liang's place, Liang Ziqiang listened to Li Liang's brief explanation of the situation and then thanked Li Liang before returning home.

It's late at night now, it's definitely not appropriate to go to town, we can only wait until tomorrow.

The next day Liang Ziqiang ran to the town police station and found Chief Gong and Lao Xu and others.

Old Xu told him that they had already interrogated the two men, and their statements were basically consistent with what Liang Ziqiang heard from Lin Baixian.

I was just wandering around the sea and randomly found the reef and the fish cages, and then started frying grouper.

In fact, the police station was somewhat skeptical about this statement, but no matter how they interrogated them, the two men refused to change their statements, so they could only believe it with suspicion. After all, apart from the two people in front of them, there was no other evidence or clues.

"Are those two people from our county?" Liang Ziqiang thought about it and could only look at where the other party was from to see if he could figure out what was going on from this angle.

"I have inquired about this clearly. They are from Peng'ao County, but not in our Chaoyang Town. They are from the same place, Tieniu Town, Niujiao Village!"

Tieniu Town?
Liang Ziqiang racked his brains for a long time, but he couldn't think of any connection between him and Tieniu Town. Whether it was direct or indirect, there was no connection at all.

"Where is the person now? Can I go and see him?" Liang Ziqiang asked again.

"He's no longer here. He's been detained in the detention center. If he had just blown up some reefs it wouldn't have been a big deal, but he also blew up the fish cages and destroyed property, which also damaged the aquaculture industry. We can't just let him go like this. He will definitely go to jail!" Old Xu informed him.

Later, Liang Ziqiang went to the detention center according to what Old Xu said. However, he really didn't know those two people. It was absolutely certain that he had never seen them before.

Even so, Liang Ziqiang did not give up completely. He went to Niujiao Village in Tieniu Town and found out that it was just an ordinary fishing village.

After asking around in the village for a long time, I still couldn't find anything special about the two people named Tong Yusheng and Niu Xun. They really liked to rent or borrow boats to go fishing on the sea.

Even if you spend more time searching, there won't be any additional answers.

As for the iron boat that sank in the sea, it would be a very troublesome task to salvage it, and the boat was most likely rented, so it was impossible to find any other clues or breakthroughs from the boat.

In this case, Liang Ziqiang couldn't give up going out to sea and keep wasting time on this matter, so he had to return to Changwang Village.

After returning to the village, he went to Ah Xian and Li Liang's homes again and told them the follow-up of the incident.

During the chat, I asked them about their current fishing situation in the shallow sea. Li Liang and Ah Xian revealed that it was still the same as before, and they could earn tens of dollars a day when they were lucky.

If you are unlucky, you can only catch about 20 or 30 yuan of fish in the shallow sea for the whole day.

But these are not so bad, the most troublesome thing is the whole winter. The off-season starts in November, and the fish and shrimps do not return to the shallow sea until April. For a full five months, Lin Baixian stayed at home without any income.

Li Liang is better than him. In winter, he would secretly go to Longjuling to intercept some winter fish.

As Liang Ziqiang listened, he did a rough calculation for them and came up with a new idea.

He had been thinking that as a fleet, he only had three steel ships, which were really too small in scale.

He wanted to buy more boats, but reliable captains were always a big problem.

Li Liang and A Xian have been friends with him for many years, so there is no doubt that they are not a problem. Moreover, this time they caught the person who blew up the fish cage and did it for him without saying a word, so their loyalty to him is genuine.

If we could invite them both to come and work together and train them as captains, they would definitely be very capable and reliable people in the future.

This is actually a good thing for Li Liang and Ah Xian. In the past, he thought that the two of them had their own boats, so they would not come here to work on their own. But now he has calculated that with the captain's salary he has proposed, if they work as captains here, their income will not only not be lower than now, but will be much higher!
Especially during the winter fishing months, it is undoubtedly better than it is now.

Isn’t this exactly what later generations called a “win-win” situation?

"Liangzi, Ah Xian, are you willing to put your wooden boat aside and come over to my place to work with me?!"

Liang Ziqiang looked at the two of them and asked.

(End of this chapter)