1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 478 Seeking the Truth
"Brother Qiang, I know what you mean, but I can't care about that anymore. I didn't harm anyone else, but Ruan Jingcheng and his son are dead. If anyone is to blame, it's only because he went too far. This is the retribution that he deserves for being named Ruan!"

Hearing Liang Ziqiang's sigh, Ah Cai said hatefully.

"I understand." Liang Ziqiang nodded silently.

If the one who was forced to this point by Ah Cai was not someone else but Liang Ziqiang himself, he probably would not be merciful for fear of implicating Ruan Jingcheng's son, right? In this situation, he might be even more ruthless than Ah Cai.

"I have already caught the Aijie crabs in that sea, and I have also set my sights on the ships that are heading to other countries. When Ruan Jingcheng and his son die the day after tomorrow, I have already secretly boarded a large cargo ship. I will be the country that the cargo ship is heading to."

Speaking of this, Deng Zhaocai, who had never shed tears because of Yan Zi, let out a long breath and blinked his eyelids hard to prevent the tears from falling.

"Brother Qiang, having good friends like you and Liangzi, my life is not lived in vain!" Deng Zhaocai's tears did not fall after all. Instead, he smiled and punched Liang Ziqiang's arm.

"You fucking bastard..." Liang Ziqiang wanted to punch back and hit him one last time, but the scars on his front and back flashed before his eyes, and he finally let his arms go limp.

"When you have taken revenge the day after tomorrow, the matter of Yan Zi will be over." Liang Ziqiang looked at him and said, "When you go out, just forget about that matter completely. You can't think about Yan Zi all your life, right? Leave everything behind, live a good life over there, work hard, and make a name for yourself one day. Maybe when I go to Southeast Asia and run into you, you can brag about it in front of me. Got it?"

"What the hell, I'm just waiting for you to grow your business and expand it to Southeast Asia! There's no point in me bragging. I'm waiting to meet you in Southeast Asia one day and listen to you bragging. Then I'll tell those outsiders, look, this Boss Liang is my buddy!"

"Then you'll have to wait. My stalls are all in Changwang Village!" This time Liang Ziqiang really couldn't help but kick him.

Deng Zhaocai dodged for a moment, then spoke in a serious tone:

"Brother Qiang, thank you so much! As for Old Qiu and Old Xie, I can only repay this kindness in the next life. Before I get on the boat the day after tomorrow, I will kowtow in the direction of Pomfret Village for my mother. I will also kowtow in the direction of Piaomu Island to thank Old Qiu for this kindness!"

After saying this, he stood up from the sand, prepared to pick up the basket and say goodbye.

"Fuck, just leaving like that?" Liang Ziqiang opened his waist bag. He always carried some money in his waist bag out of habit, not to mention that he had just sold grouper.

"I don't know if this money can be used outside, so I'll just take it with me first!"

He stuffed the money into Deng Zhaocai's pocket.

Ah Cai pushed twice, but Liang Ziqiang was so angry that he wanted to curse, so Ah Cai stopped pushing.

After walking a few steps, Ah Cai, who was carrying the basket, suddenly turned back, as if he had used all his strength in his eyes, and looked at Liang Ziqiang carefully and hard:

"Let's go! In this life, if I'm lucky, maybe I can still live to see you and Liangzi!"

He turned his head, walked out of the shadow of the wrecked ship, and headed towards the swaying figure in the fishing harbor, without looking back this time.

Liang Ziqiang still stood silently behind the wrecked ship, watching the figure gradually walk away. It seemed as if he had been watching for two or three years.

He waited until the back figure completely disappeared before he withdrew his gaze. The wreck beside him was just dotted with patches of rust a moment ago, but now it has become a reddish brown color.

Liang Ziqiang silently boarded his lotus-patterned boat and returned to the village. He saw Li Liang and the two talked about the next round of voyage.

While talking, Li Liang also mentioned Deng Zhaocai, saying that he didn't know where Acai had gone and had not returned to the village for a long time.

Of course, Liang Ziqiang did not mention a word about what Deng Zhaocai had experienced over the past two years.

After returning home, Liang Ziqiang sat for a while, and after dinner he went to Lin Quansheng's house.

In the past, every time I went to see Lin Quansheng in the village, it was to look for a date, either to buy a boat, launch a boat, or to get married, start a construction, or build a house.

This time it was not about choosing an auspicious day, but to ask Lin Quansheng for another favor.

Liang Ziqiang had been thinking about the matter entrusted by Old Qiu of Piaomu Island for several days. After thinking about it, he couldn't come up with any special solution. Aunt Qin from Qiansheng Village was already in her seventies and believed in superstition to some extent, so he could only try this approach.

Although this method is not smart at all, it might work for an elderly village woman.

After sitting in Lin Quansheng's house and chatting for a while, his idea was to ask Lin Quansheng to pretend to be a fortune teller and go to Qiansheng Village to try to get some information out of Aunt Qin.

Although Lin Quansheng now makes a living by choosing auspicious days and looking at feng shui, fortune-telling can be considered a family tradition. His father had fortune-telling before he got married, and his uncle had been doing it for half his life. If he hadn't been banned later, Lin Quansheng would probably have been a fortune-teller.

After Liang Ziqiang expressed his thoughts, he asked Lin Quansheng to do him a favor and accompany him on the trip because of their past friendship.

Lin Quansheng was quite hesitant, but later when he saw Liang Ziqiang pay seven or eight times the usual salary, Lin Quansheng realized the value of friendship.

He couldn't let Old Qiu wait for news, so Liang Ziqiang said hello to his family and took Lin Quansheng to Qiansheng Village in Changpu Town the next day.

No, Lin Quansheng was the protagonist, and Liang Ziqiang was just a follower, supporting him from behind. Strictly speaking, it was Lin Quansheng who led Liang Ziqiang, and Liang Ziqiang had a knife in his pocket.

Although he really couldn't see where the danger of this trip to Qiansheng Village could be, Lao Qiu's reminder was still in his ears, and there was no news from Lao Xie, so he still made some preparations for self-protection.

After arriving at Changpu Town, they found Qiansheng Village. They were not Lao Qiu, so when they entered the village, no one came out to chase them away. On the contrary, some people actually came forward to ask them to read their palms and calculate their fortunes.

Lin Quansheng was absent-minded and went to two households perfunctorily before finally finding Aunt Qin's house.

Lin Quansheng was very good at fortune-telling. He first praised Aunt Qin's good fortune, and then briefly mentioned some of Aunt Qin's current illnesses.

Everything seemed so predictable and divinely-aided that Aunt Qin was stunned.

In fact, most of these were learned indirectly from the other two families, and a small part was what Old Qiu told Liang Ziqiang that day.

After calculating for half, Lin Quansheng started to act mysterious. He asked everyone else to leave and eliminate all distractions so that he could calculate the old lady's number carefully in the room alone.

Only Lin Quansheng, Aunt Qin, and Liang Ziqiang were left in the room. Lin Quansheng asked them to keep quiet, then muttered something and suddenly opened his eyes:

"I've found the cause. All your illnesses and pains are caused by the same thing!"

"What?!" The old lady was frightened, but couldn't wait to know the answer.

Lin Quansheng pointed in the direction of the mountains behind the village without saying anything. After the old lady was puzzled for a while, he uttered two words:
"Mandrill."

"This mandrill is not the first time to come out and harm people." Lin Quansheng reminded, "Every 25 years, it will come down the mountain and come to the village to harm people. It said that 25 years ago, it harmed the Tian family in your village!"

"Could it be..." The old lady began to speculate.

"That time, a total of three people were killed. The head of the Tian family, Tian Zengshou, and his daughter, Tian Suqin. The worst was the baby, who was also killed by a mandrill just a few days after birth. Tian Zengshou was lucky, but Tian Suqin and her baby didn't live long enough to be buried in the Longevity Mountain, so they were buried randomly in the wilderness. This mandrill killed three people, and your village was like having a big dream, and no one could see it!"

At this point, Lin Quansheng and Liang Ziqiang were both paying attention to the old lady's expression.

It was fine at first. As expected, when she mentioned Tian Suqin's child, the old lady became excited. As soon as Lin Quansheng finished speaking, she waved her hands and said:
"No, no, you must have made a mistake! Miss Suqin's child is still alive today, and she is already 25 years old. How could she be taken away by a mandrill?!"

"Absolutely impossible!" Lin Quansheng pinched his fingers twice again, "I have calculated the fortunes of thousands of people, if not tens of thousands, and I have never made a mistake. I don't believe that I will fall flat on my face today! You must have made a mistake!"

He pinched it patiently a few more times, and his confidence grew a little more:
"It can't be wrong. If I really made a mistake, I won't take a penny of the money I gave you for fortune-telling today. I will help you get rid of the disaster for free and even compensate you with some money!"

"Just pay the money!" The old lady was very kind in front of them. "Your calculations were all correct. You are really a very capable person. But you really miscalculated this Suqin kid!"

At this point, the old lady hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't help herself and told the whole story:

"The old man in my family was relieving himself in the woods at the foot of the mountain 25 years ago. He happened to see Suqin's eldest brother selling a baby to someone else, counting money with his hands. My old man also hid in the woods and didn't say anything. At that time, Suqin had just died of a heavy hemorrhage a few days ago. The brother was so cruel that he sold his nephew and told the villagers that he didn't keep the baby and buried it.

Later, my old man went to another town to buy something. He met the man who bought the baby again on the street. He also asked others where the man was from.

But my old man is a good man and never told anyone about this. It was only two years ago, when he was about to die, that he told me this story that had been in his heart for more than 20 years while lying in bed. Otherwise, I would not have known that Tian Bayou could do such a thing and sell his own sister's flesh and blood!"

"Is this true?" Lin Quansheng and Liang Ziqiang both looked disbelieving.

"Isn't that a mistake? Where is that man from?" Lin Quansheng asked casually.

(End of this chapter)