1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 490 Litchi got married after recovery
The voyage started again. After a morning of trawling, we parked the boat near a small island that didn't look that special at noon, and several captains came over.

"A Qiang, you would never guess what kind of fish we caught this morning. It was a humphead wrasse! It's much more expensive than bluefin mullet, grouper and the like!" Lin Baixian told him happily as he came over.

"What's more expensive than Oriental Grouper? Even Humphead browband is more expensive than Mouse Grouper!" Lu Song refuted him and then asked, "You only have one? I have two on my boat!"

"What a coincidence! I also caught one. It must be around 70 or 80 kilograms!"

Li Liang pretended to be calm when he interrupted, but as soon as the words came out, everyone exploded.

"My two fish only weigh about ten pounds each, but yours weighs seventy or eighty pounds? Are they that big, King Sumei?!" Lu Song immediately calculated, "Wouldn't that one fish alone be worth two or three thousand yuan? With this net, you can get more than two hundred yuan just from this fish!

As they were talking, Zhu Tianpeng popped up again and added in a muffled voice:
"Mine wasn't that big, maybe 50 or 60 kilograms! The rest were all swimming crabs."

His nonchalant expression made Lu Song and Lin Baixian want to kick him.

Liang Ziqiang was just surprised at first, but he felt something was wrong after hearing the following:
"Normally there aren't any Humphead wrasse here, but today there are so many Humphead wrasse? Can't you tell? Humphead wrasse are found near this island!"

He remembered that in the news reports of his previous life, one of the deep-sea islands that was later developed attracted attention because of its abundance of rare humphead wrasse.

It seems that this is the one in front of us?
Humpback wrasse usually likes to live under reef shelves. Although a few of them will swim out from the reef shelves during the day, most of them are still very home-bound.

Now, every boat that is trawling on the sea surface has caught at least one humphead wrasse. What does this mean?
This means that there are more humphead wrasses hiding under the reef islands, and definitely not just the few that appear in the trawl net!

If you want to get more humphead wrasse, there is only one way, of course, fishing. Humphead wrasse love to eat crabs, so if you get more crabs in the future, you can keep fishing for humphead wrasse hidden deep under the reef islands.

Of course, fishing as a way of catching fish has another advantage. It does not catch all the big and small fish in one net, which would result in all the humphead wrasse in this area being caught out in a short time.

In order to play the long game and catch big fish, you still have to keep more small fish and continue to reproduce them, so that the humphead wrasse here can be caught for a long time.

Another month passed, around mid-June, Liang Ziqiang's fleet made another new discovery.

Near another slightly larger island, schools of yellow croaker were found!

Normally, fishermen would be overjoyed when they find hairtail or rice fish, because the fish glue in their stomachs is very valuable.

But in fact, the most authentic and precious fish maw does not come from these two types of fish, but from the yellow croaker.

Liang Ziqiang had caught catfish and rice fish before, but it was very difficult for him to encounter the more valuable yellow croaker. This time, the fleet encountered a large group of them.

He soon discovered that this island, like the Sumei Island, had a very special environment and was one of the islands reported in the news in later generations.

After returning from this voyage, Zhu Tianpeng told Liang Ziqiang a piece of news: someone from Xiaolang Village had introduced him to a young girl from Dayu Village.

Zhu Tianpeng didn't have many relatives at home, and his only uncle was not close to him. So Zhu Tianpeng asked Liang Ziqiang to take some time off to accompany him on the blind date.

Actually, Zhu Tianpeng is not young anymore. He has been with Liang Ziqiang for a year and is already 25 years old. In the past, he had not taken care of it because there were no elders in his family to take care of it for him. In recent years, Zhu Tianpeng has made a lot of money and built a house. People in Xiaolang Village have seen it, so naturally some people came to introduce him to good girls.

Liang Ziqiang agreed and went along. Both parties were quite satisfied with the blind date and it progressed very quickly, and they got married three months later.

In early July, my younger brother Liang Zifeng came back from the capital. He said he was not back to spend the summer vacation, but to pick lychees.

Liang's father and mother both thought that he was as crazy as Lizhi. Where could Lizhi go with this?
Liang Zifeng revealed in detail that Professor Wu, who specializes in neurology at the school, has invented a new treatment method that targets patients with symptoms similar to those of Litchi, and is currently recruiting volunteers to participate in the free treatment.

After hearing Liang Zifeng's story about his sister's condition, Professor Wu believed that there was great hope for recovery, so Liang Zifeng signed up Lizhi for voluntary treatment.

Liang Zifeng took Lizhi to the capital, and his mother followed him.

The treatment lasted for more than a month, and at the end of the summer vacation, Liang Zifeng and other two returned from the capital.

Lizhi had indeed changed a lot. His speech and thinking were much clearer, and he even began to pester his second sister-in-law Chen Xiangbei to teach him how to read and write.

Even the villagers could feel an obvious change, that is, Lizhi rarely exhibited strange behaviors and no longer made all kinds of ridiculous jokes in front of the villagers.

Of course, Professor Wu did not think that her treatment could be completed overnight, so when she returned from the capital, he still asked her to bring back a lot of medicine.

Oral medicines are relatively easy to take and can be taken at home, but some of the injections require Lizhi to go to the hospital regularly for injections.

Liang Ziqiang and his family were still worried about her running away alone. If they happened to go to the market in the town, they would take Litchi to the town health center for injections. If Liang Ziqiang happened to go to the county town to sell fish and shrimp, they would take Litchi on the boat and take her to the county town hospital for injections.

For some reason, Liang Ziqiang had a feeling that Lizhi was reluctant to go to the town health center and preferred to go to the county hospital for injection. Every time she arrived at the county hospital, she couldn't help looking around, and no one knew what she was looking at.

This time, Liang Ziqiang went to the county town to sell grouper, so he accompanied Lizhi to the hospital.

Lizhi was about to get the injection when she saw a woman about the same age as Liang's mother in the corridor, holding a glass bottle high in one hand and moving her feet slowly forward. A long yellow rubber hose was dragged under the glass bottle.

Needless to say, he was receiving an IV drip and halfway through he couldn't hold it anymore and had to pee, so he held the bottle and went to find the toilet.

Liang Ziqiang took a look and saw that this middle-aged woman had a bandage on one of her feet. It was obvious that she had injured her leg while doing farm work or something like that and was receiving an IV drip.

He was a little anxious. Even patients with no leg injuries usually need another person to help them hold the IV bottle and walk to the toilet.

Her leg was wrapped in a bandage and she was holding a glass bottle in her hand. How could it be convenient? Was she seeing a doctor alone in the hospital?
As I was thinking about it, the thing I was worried about happened. The yellow hose was dragged on the ground, and in a moment of carelessness, it tripped over the middle-aged woman's other unbandaged foot.

By the time the middle-aged woman realized what was happening, it was already too late. She screamed and fell to the ground.

Lizhi was also startled, and she screamed and ran over to grab her. But Liang Ziqiang was faster and grabbed the middle-aged woman who was about to fall to the ground.

More importantly, the other hand held the IV bottle in her hand and prevented the glass bottle from falling to the ground.

The frightened middle-aged village woman thanked them both four or five times, and then went on to the toilet.

"Brother, it's inconvenient for you to follow. Wait here for me, I'll take her to the toilet!"

Lizhi was not in a hurry to get the injection. She said something to Liang Ziqiang, then helped the middle-aged woman hold the bottle and supported her to the toilet.

Liang Ziqiang stood in the corridor waiting for four or five minutes, and suddenly heard someone running from the infusion room, shouting:

"Mom! Where are you?!"

Liang Ziqiang turned around and saw a young man in his early twenties. He was considered tall for the South, not as stocky as Deng Zhaocai and Zhu Tianpeng. He was thinner than Liang Ziqiang, and his facial features were similar to Liang Zifeng's, a little more delicate.

But overall he is not frail, and you can tell that he is someone who works regularly.

At this moment, the young man was holding an aluminum lunch box in his hand. He must have just gone out to get food with the aluminum lunch box he brought from home.

"Big brother, have you seen my mom? Oh, yes, her leg is wrapped in bandages and she's on an IV drip!"

Seeing Liang Ziqiang in the corridor, the young man came over and asked a question.

Hearing him ask this, Liang Ziqiang naturally knew who he was looking for, and raised his arm and pointed in the direction of the toilet.

"exist……"

However, he had just uttered a word when he saw Lizhi already supporting the woman who was receiving an IV drip and coming out of the bathroom door. Lizhi was about to take a step forward when she suddenly stopped there.

Not only did his steps stop, but even the expression on his face froze suddenly, as if he had been suddenly acupunctured by Liang Ziqiang's raised arm.

The young man froze for a moment, his voice full of surprise, yet also a hint of unconcealed joy, he shouted out:

"Liang... Lychee?!"

Liang Ziqiang was stunned by what he heard. Lizhi usually stayed at home and didn't go anywhere. He had never met this guy before, so how could he call out Lizhi's name?

Until Lizhi came to her senses, the surprise on her face was very different from her usual look. Anyway, Liang Ziqiang, as her brother, rarely saw her like this.

Instantly, a hint of shyness seeped out from her small round face, dyeing her face apple red. She seemed to be replying to his words:
"Xiao He?!"

When Liang Ziqiang heard the name "Xiao He" and saw his sister's unusual expression, he understood many things in the blink of an eye.

More than two years ago, when Lizhi fell from a tree while trying to dig out a bird's nest, Liang's father accompanied her to the hospital. However, he himself suddenly had a stomachache, and it was Xiao He who brought him food and ran to help call a doctor.

Later, after my father was injected with the 654-2 shot, he developed urinary retention, and it was Xiao He who helped him with hot compresses to relieve the symptoms.

It turned out to be the guy in front of me!
At the same time, Liang Ziqiang suddenly realized the lines that Lizhi had drawn at home. It was clearly a man, and he was a little thin.

Now, it all fits!
It turns out that the silly girl had already set her eyes on the boy since then. No wonder she just shook her head and refused to marry even though many people in the village tried to matchmake her.

The middle-aged woman came over and kept praising Lizhi to Xiao He, saying that this girl had a really good heart and was pretty. Lizhi blushed the whole time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang Ziqiang asked Xiao He where his family lived. Xiao He was somewhat shy in front of the girl, so he asked Liang Ziqiang instead. From Liang Ziqiang he learned that they lived in Changwang Village, Chaoyang Town.

Three days later, Xiao He and his mother came to Changwang Village to see the lychees, carrying some things, saying that they wanted to express their gratitude for what happened three days ago.

Later, Liang Ziqiang also went to Hexi Village, Tieniu Town to learn about the situation of Xiao He's family.

It was in the village that he realized that Xiao He was not only enthusiastic that time in the hospital, but was a very nice person in the village at ordinary times, and the villagers always praised him a lot.

But the family conditions were not very good, his father passed away early, and he was the one who took on the responsibility of supporting the family.

In the past two years, he has started raising pigs and rented two or three acres of fish ponds, and his family financial situation has gradually improved.

Seeing that Xiao He liked lychees and Li Zhi was also interested, almost no one in the Liang family objected. Of course, it was mainly Liang's father who had a very good impression of Xiao He from the beginning. Naturally, he was very happy to have such a son-in-law.

After Lizhi got married, Liang Ziqiang suggested that Xiao He contract a few more acres of ponds. He then taught him his own shrimp farming techniques and provided him with Artemia and arowana powder so that he could switch to shrimp farming.

Of course, Xiao He kept his mouth shut and never revealed any technical secrets of shrimp farming to any outsiders.

Two years later, Liang Ziqiang heard a piece of news from Wei Pan at the county fishing port: the fish pond in Haoliu Village was contracted by other villagers to raise freshwater fish, and sometimes the fish would be transported to Wei Pan to sell.

Wei Pan heard from the villagers that Tong Shichai in the village owed a lot of debts. When he fell ill, he had no money to treat himself and no relatives to take care of him. Later, he pulled a rope and hanged himself in the woodshed. He was the one with the worst fate in the whole Haoliu Village.

In fact, Tong Wen'an's death, leaving behind a lot of debts, had already doomed Tong Shichai to be miserable. Living in misery is not necessarily easier than dying. But unexpectedly, in just two years, Tong Shichai could not endure it, and his final destination was still in that woodshed, and he did not disappoint the rope that was originally used for pretense.

……

As the size of the fleet expanded and his core team was built up, Liang Ziqiang went out to sea less frequently.

Sometimes, Chen Xiangbei is even busier than him.

There is a row of buildings in Juzipo, with a plaque hanging in front of the gate:

"Fuqiang Marine Industrial Co., Ltd."

In the room, Chen Xiangbei rubbed her forehead, glanced at him, and pushed the plan in front of him:
"You do the math yourself! Counting for you is more tiring than earning the money yourself!"

"That won't work. You said yourself that you love counting money!" Liang Ziqiang ignored it.

"I didn't expect you to make so much money at that time!"

That still fair, oval face was full of grievances.

"Then forget it. Money is worthless. Let's go to the beach and catch some seafood!"

There are things in this world that you never get tired of seeing.

For example, the sea outside the door, and the person walking barefoot on the beach slowly beside him.

There are flowing clouds in the sky, and a sun is hidden in the clouds.

The sun turned sideways and emerged from between the clouds.

Shining on the sea, it turns the blue sea into orange honey.

The light shone on the pair walking side by side on the beach, as if filling up all the footprints they left along the way.

"A Qiang, I have something to tell you. I seem... not to have come..." Chen Xiangbei looked up at him and told him in an uncertain tone.

"What? Not coming?"

"It's possible! It's all your fault. You acted like a madman last month!"

"You mean..." Liang Ziqiang finally understood. Seeing that there was no one around, he picked her up and said, "Isn't that good? Give birth to the baby! I've wanted to have a daughter for a long time!"

"You're crazy again, put me down!" She punched him several times, her eyes rolling over, "How do you know it's my daughter?"

"I guessed it," he smiled, "but I'm sure I won't be wrong!"

He knew, and of course he would not be wrong, because the second child in the previous life was a girl.

In this life, all the regrets and misfortunes were rewritten, but he also discovered that the best parts of his previous life were preserved intact.

A daughter's name does not necessarily have to be the same as her previous life.

Let him think about it.

I was reborn on the mudflats of this coast, in a pitch-dark night.

That was probably the darkest night in his life.

I stubbornly endured that dark night, and every year since then, there have been endless sunny days along the way.

Now that we have it, we can call:
Liang Yueqing.

(End of this chapter)