1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 474 Like a thunderclap

After all, Qiu Dongzhi was too eager to return to the city. He hesitated for a long time, but still couldn't bear to give up this opportunity. Tian Suqin not only didn't stop him, but also comforted him and supported him to go back to the city to work.

Tian's father slammed the table and refused to let him go back to Shanghai. As for Tian Suqin's brother and sister-in-law, they treated Tian Suqin the same and didn't say anything.

In the end, Qiu Dongzhi swore again and again that once he settled down in the city, he would return to Yanghai as soon as possible and bring Tian Suqin to Shanghai.

He really intended to do so, and after returning to Shanghai, this plan has never changed.

During the year he worked as a handyman in the hospital, he not only saved every penny he earned, but also tried every possible way to ensure that Tian Suqin would have some work to do after she came to Shanghai.

However, when he had barely made some preparations and returned to Yanghai City a year later, everything had changed in the Tian family of the former Sheng Brigade.

He never expected that Tian Suqin would get pregnant in the same month of their marriage. In 1962, during childbirth in the village, Tian Suqin died of heavy bleeding. The baby had no milk to drink and was weak, so he died a few days later.

Tian's father passed away in a production accident just a few months after Qiu Dongzhi returned to Shanghai. Not to mention Tian's mother, who died when Tian Suqin was young and whom Qiu Dongzhi had never seen.

When Qiu Dongzhi returned to Qiansheng Brigade in 1962 and excitedly wanted to take Tian Suqin to Shanghai, the only people left in the Tian family were Tian Suqin's brother and sister-in-law.

His brother and sister-in-law had always been unfriendly to him, so it was impossible for them to be polite to him now. After scolding him angrily, they chased him away with a stick.

That night Qiu Dongzhi slept at the graves of his wife and son. After crying for two days, he returned to Shanghai like a wooden man.

In the following ten years, Qiu Dongzhi was content to be a handyman and did not seek advancement, but he was particularly fascinated by reading and studying various medical books. In the eyes of everyone in the hospital, he was like a monster.

Only Qiu Dongzhi himself knew that he had been trapped in a fantasy. He imagined that if he was not in Shanghai on the day his lover gave birth, he would be by her side; if he had medicine in his hand, a bowl of medicine would immediately stop his lover's postpartum bleeding...

He had a grandfather who was an expert in medicine, so they could be considered a family of medicine. In addition, he had been devoted to studying the classics on hemostasis for so many years, so it was not easy for him not to come up with some results.

It was also when he was in Shanghai that he met Lao Xie. At that time, Lao Xie had just retired from security work. He was injured and bleeding because of his bravery. Qiu Dongzhi tried to use the method he had studied to save Lao Xie's life in a critical situation.

Later, in 1980, when Qiu Dongzhi continued to come to Yanghai City to pay tribute to his wife and children, he found that Yanghai City had already implemented the contract responsibility system among fishermen and began to encourage aquaculture. So he simply contracted Diaomu Island and cultivated oysters and abalone.

Old Xie was worried that he was too weak and unsafe, so out of gratitude he took the initiative to follow him to Driftwood Island.

Of course, the most important reason why Qiu Dongzhi chose to settle down on Piaomu Island was not to make money or make a living by raising oysters.

The real purpose is that this place is located in Pengao County after all, which is not too far from the resting place of lovers and children. There is no need to rush from Shanghai to pay homage every year as before.

The second reason is that, according to the results of more than ten years of research, isinglass is one of the important ingredients for treating postpartum hemorrhage, and there are many fish in the South China Sea that can produce good isinglass.

Although he said he was raising oysters and abalone, in fact, he spent more time on preparing fish maw and improving its hemostatic effect.

His lover's life could never be saved, and he only had one crazy idea left.

That is, to develop a fish glue formula that doubles the hemostatic effect, so that one day, no woman in the world will die from heavy bleeding after giving birth!
This became his lifelong obsession, as if Tian Suqin would be able to survive if he could do this. Usually, the oyster farm and abalone farm were basically managed by Lao Xie, and Qiu Dongzhi himself, apart from persuading hospitals to gradually try to use his fish maw, usually stayed indoors most of the time and continued to study fish maw.

Of course, there is another place he must go, that is to Qiansheng Brigade, now Qiansheng Village, to worship his lover and children.

Last year, Liang Ziqiang came to ask for some fish maws on behalf of Deng Zhaocai. At that time, Lao Xie said that Lao Qiu was not at home and had gone to a village to pay respects to a friend, which was actually to pay respects to his wife and children.

Just over two months ago, Lao Qiu went to Qiansheng Village in Changpu Town again. However, when he was paying homage to his wife and children this time, he suddenly heard someone say something in his ear, like a thunderclap out of nowhere.

It was an old lady whom he called "Aunt Qin", who was over seventy years old. When she met Qiu Dongzhi, she said to him:

"You can just worship Xiaoqin. How can you worship your own son? Besides, your son is not dead, he is still alive!"

Old Qiu was stunned for a moment, and quickly grabbed Aunt Qin to ask what was going on. The old woman wanted to continue talking, but Tian Suqin's brother and sister-in-law came over, picked up a stick and chased Old Qiu away.

From then on, whenever Lao Qiu appeared in the village and was spotted, the Tian family's brother and sister-in-law would come over and curse him and chase him away.

In fact, in the past, when Lao Qiu went to the cemetery to pay respects every year, he would be scolded and chased away by the Tian family brothers and sisters-in-law, but it was not like now, where he was not allowed to stay in the village for almost a second. I don’t know what bad things they made up about Lao Qiu, but from then on, the villagers would chase Lao Qiu away when they saw him.

Old Qiu's face has long been familiar to the villagers. If he continues like this, he will definitely have no chance to get close to Aunt Qin to inquire about the situation.

So he thought of Lao Xie. He often went to the village, but Lao Xie had rarely been to Qiansheng Village, and the villagers hardly recognized him.

After hearing what he said, Old Xie was also very excited and took the initiative to say that he would leave the matter to him and would definitely ask for the truth for Old Qiu. If Old Qiu really had a son still alive, he would guarantee to bring him back to the island.

About two months ago, Lao Xie made some necessary preparations and left the island for Changpu Town.

Lao Qiu originally thought that with Lao Xie's vigorous and decisive work style, he should be able to get to the bottom of the matter in three or four days at the shortest, or one or two weeks at the longest, and then return to the island to give him a result.

Unexpectedly, two months passed in a flash, and Lao Xie never returned to Driftwood Island. He just disappeared as if he had evaporated...

At first, Qiu Dongzhi was not particularly worried. After all, Lao Xie was different from him. Although he had a lot of old injuries and pains, he had worked as a security guard in an important place. If he got into a fight, five or six men might not be his match.

What could possibly happen to a person like this?

However, as time went on, there was no news for two whole months, and Qiu Dongzhi finally felt that something was wrong.

In recent days, Qiu Dongzhi has also tried to leave Piaomu Island and look for Lao Xie's whereabouts outside.

However, the same old problem still remained. Old Xie had disappeared in order to help him find out about his son, so he must have been to Qiansheng Village. If he wanted to find Old Xie now, he had to go to Qiansheng Village first. However, he couldn't go to Qiansheng Village at all, and he couldn't stay there. He would be driven away at any minute, so how could he find out about the matter?

What did Aunt Qin mean when she said, "Your son is not dead, he is still alive"?
Where did Lao Xie go and what happened?
One problem has no solution, and another one has appeared. These days, Old Qiu is so troubled that he can’t breathe...

(End of this chapter)