1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 482 The Mastermind Behind the Destruction of the Cage

"Let's go, let's go now! Isn't Boss Ruan still waiting for you to go to the city for dinner today? Forget about dinner, hurry over now, maybe you can even make it in time for lunch! The sooner you go, the sooner you can recognize your father!"

Tong Shichai's tone sounded quite intense, and his expression was equally intense. As he said this, he stood on a small wooden stool and was about to put his head into the noose dangling in the air.

"Dad! Can't you just listen to me?"

Tong Wen'an's voice also became more excited. He rushed over and once again struggled to pull his father away from the noose. He also picked up the small wooden stool and threw it aside.

Tong Shichai refused to give in and tried to pounce towards the noose again.

The noise made by the father and son was quite loud. Fortunately, they did not live in a large house, but in a new red brick house built by themselves in a slightly remote place, otherwise the noise would have alarmed the neighbors.

"I can't stop you anyway. Raising you for more than 20 years is not as good as having a rich father suddenly appear. I don't even have someone to take care of me in my old age. What's the point of living? You might as well go see your mother earlier!"

Tong Shichai was fiddling with the rope while complaining angrily.

Tong Wen'an finally gave up trying to persuade her, shook his arms, and walked out of the woodshed:

"It's up to you! I've tried to persuade you. You can't stop me with this. Even if the sky falls today, no one can stop me from going to the city to recognize my relatives!"

Liang Ziqiang was stunned when he heard this, because it turned out to be the opposite of his initial understanding.

It was Tong Shichai who had been obstructing the process. He was afraid of losing the son who had taken care of him in his old age, so he threatened to hang himself to prevent Tong Wen'an from going to Ruan Jingcheng.

Tong Wen'an, on the other hand, made up his mind to go to the Ruan family to meet her no matter what.

Hearing his son's tough attitude, it was Tong Shichai's turn to soften. He choked and did not really hang himself, but asked feebly:

"Are you so cruel?!"

Tong Wen'an stopped moving forward, turned around and looked at his father and said:

"It's not that I'm cruel, but what other options do I have now? Dad, you know, I could make some money raising grouper at the beginning, but now I'm losing money in the past year!
That guy named Liang in Chaoyang Town is my nemesis! In the past, there were still some people who bought my grouper, but after his grouper came out, everyone looked at my grouper as if it were dog shit. I now owe a large sum of money, all because of that scourge Liang Ziqiang!"

Liang Ziqiang, the "disaster star" who was hiding outside the house, was caught off guard and his neck stiffened when he was scolded. He was just lying here to listen to other people's drama, but he didn't expect that he would be scolded before he could finish talking!
He really didn't expect that he would bring such a huge blow to others without realizing it. He became a disaster...

Tong Wen'an seemed to hate him because of the grouper incident and even found out his name. On the other hand, Liang Ziqiang didn't know Tong Wen'an's name until today.

Looking back at the firewood room, Tong Shichai did not seem to agree with his son's words and retorted:
"If the people you hired to do the job were more capable, things wouldn't have turned out like this! I said Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng are unreliable!"

Niu Xun, Tong Yusheng?

Liang Ziqiang was stunned for a moment.

Inside the house, Tong Wen'an looked at his father and argued:
"If not them, who else should I look for? They have been good friends since they were young. At that time, we lived in Niujiao Village. The kids my age all called me a bastard they picked up, but they treated me as a friend. They didn't call me that and even played with me.

Besides, they live in Niujiao Village, dozens of miles away from our Jinhao Town. If they are caught by accident, no one will think of me! These two are stupid. They can blow up their boats by blowing up a net cage, but at least they are in jail now and have not confessed me! For this reason, I was right about them!"

Outside the house, Liang Ziqiang only heard his head "buzzing" twice. So that's what happened!
When his own fish cages were blown up last year, he went to Niujiao Village on purpose, but in the end he was unable to find any clues. Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng also insisted that there was no one instigating them and that they had just barged into the vicinity of the atoll and wanted to fry grouper and sell them.

It turned out that the person who really wanted to destroy his deep-sea cages was Tong Wen'an. It seemed that since Tong Wen'an's business was taken away by him, he must have secretly followed him in a boat and found the atoll in the deep sea.

Fortunately, Tong Wen'an did not find the real base camp where Liang Ziqiang raised grouper. Otherwise, the nameless island might have been blown up by Tong Wen'an.

Because their own products cannot compete with others, instead of thinking about how to improve their own grouper farming technology and breeding methods, they only consider destroying their competitors.

This thought suddenly made Liang Ziqiang feel chilled.

In the woodshed, Tong Wen'an continued:

"Besides, even if I didn't ask Niu to teach them a lesson, what would it matter if I asked someone else to blow up the cages? Later, they went to jail, but I didn't give up. Last summer, I rented a large steel ship at a high price and asked several of my farmers to blow up the cages again. What happened in the end? Neither the ship nor the people came back! Do you think Liang Ziqiang is evil? Do you think he is not a disaster?

I had to pay for the steel ship and the lives of the farmers. Otherwise, it wouldn't have turned out like this, and I would have lost everything!"

Hearing this, Liang Ziqiang recalled that in November last year, when a new round of winter fishing had just begun, he and Lu Song and others stood on the atoll and saw steel blocks, broken glass, masts and other objects scattered on the reef.

When their fleet was standing on the atoll, they speculated for a while about who could have headed near the atoll, ignoring the warnings carved by Liang Ziqiang.

Now I understand that the steel ship was also sent by Tong Wen'an. The purpose, of course, was that Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng only blew up three net cages and failed to complete the task, so Tong Wen'an insisted on completely destroying all the net cages, so he sent another person to blow them up a second time.

However, the second time they went was not at the right time, in midsummer, and Tong Wen'an and his fellow breeders encountered a "water dragon", and both the boat and the people sank to the bottom of the wintering ground.

Listening to the current conversation, Tong Wen'an just kept blaming Liang Ziqiang for being a "disaster star", and it was obvious that he still didn't understand how those breeders died.

Tong Wen'an still doesn't understand the peculiarities of that wintering ground, such as the large number of fish and shrimp in winter and the extreme disaster of "dragon sucking water" in summer...

Squatting beside the brick wall outside the house, Liang Ziqiang's eyes gradually grew cold.

He traveled a long way and took a lot of effort to get the news, and came here excitedly to find Tong Wen'an.

Unexpectedly, Tong Wen'an, who was found, regarded him as a "disaster star" and destroyed his fish cages twice in a row.

Yes, in fact, with his usual attentiveness, he should have thought of something when he heard the old farmer on the roadside talking about Tong Wen'an being a grouper farmer.

Niu Xun and Tong Yusheng blew up the fish cages; they were from Niujiao Village; Tong Wen'an also grew up in Niujiao Village when he was a child; his deep-sea grouper impacted Tong Wen'an's business...

However, I was running as fast as I could at that time, and my only thought was to save every second to save Lao Qiu's only biological child. I didn't have any extra thoughts to think about other things, so I didn't connect the dots mentioned above.

Now think about it again. Old Qiu's great kindness must be repaid.

He would still stop Tong Wen'an from going into the city to die, and would still find a way to bring Tong Wen'an to Piaomu Island to meet his biological father, but that was all.

He had originally thought of helping Tong Wen'an with grouper farming in the future, but now it seemed that this was no longer necessary.

(End of this chapter)