1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 59 News
Father Liang hadn’t finished yet:

“As for the old boat at home, since Mazu said it is a messenger, we should keep it well. Not only my generation will keep it well, but also the generations to come!
In such a big village, whose boat is so lucky? This will be our Liang family's heirloom from now on!"

Liang Ziqiang was stunned when he heard this.

He came up with that explanation in order to stop his father and his two brothers from going out to sea tomorrow. He was eager to save their lives. He even created a "family heirloom" out of this, but he didn't think much about it.

But think about it, I met that old boat when I was most desperate, and it saved me from danger. From the trajectory of this life, isn't this a real "heirloom"?
While thinking about it, Father Liang frowned and said with some worry:

"The difficulty now is that the old boat is no longer in use. What will we use to go out to sea to fish after five days?"

Liang Ziqiang groaned:
"How come you forgot about the pile of conches and abalones at home? Once you go back and sell those goods, the shortage of buying a ship will be completely solved, right?"

Lin Baixian also said after hearing this:

"My family has been saving money for years to buy a boat, but we've been saving and spending it all over again. We can never save enough. Now, once I sell those conches and abalone, I think I'll have enough to buy a boat. Then our two families can go together to buy one!"

After this reminder, Liang's father remembered the valuables in the house and his confusion was suddenly dispelled.

"Come here, come here. Mazu saved both of your lives this time and also helped our family a lot. I think we should kowtow to her and express our gratitude now!"

Liang's father didn't say anything and pulled the two men to kneel on the beach.

Liang's father himself was the most pious one. He knelt on the beach, muttering to himself, using all the words of praise he could think of.

Liang Ziqiang's heart was beating fast, and he kept repeating to himself:

"Don't blame me, Mazu! I didn't mean to deliberately make up the dream about you. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening, I can only say this. Thank you very much, thank you very much for the kind and compassionate Mazu who saves people from suffering!"

This time, Liang Ziqiang really banged his head on the beach, making a loud noise.

He cannot be insincere at all. He is really afraid that Mazu will blame him this time!

Then, the three of them did not dare to delay any longer. After all, this place was not close to the fishing village, and it would take at least half a day.

It's already afternoon now, and it will definitely be dark when you get home, but try not to get home too late.

Liang Ziqiang walked under the palm tree and untied the rope of the faulty boat.

"Come on, come here, let's push it together!" Liang's father called to Lin Baixian.

The three people supported the hull and pushed the stern, slowly pushing the faulty boat from the beach into the shallow water.

The three of them worked together, which was much more effective than last time. In the blink of an eye, the disabled boat was pushed back into the shallow water.

Liang Ziqiang immediately ran to the boat carrying Jinsheng's family.

The large bottle of diesel that my father brought was placed on Jinsheng’s boat.

After bringing it over, Liang's father took it from him, then walked into the cabin of the faulty ship and refueled the diesel engine.

Last time, in order to ensure the old ship's oil supply, the fuel tank of this faulty ship had been emptied, not even a drop of oil was left.

Fortunately, we brought enough oil this time and filled up the faulty ship directly.

After refueling, we started connecting the anchor chain and cable.

The anchor chain was extended from the two good ships and the other end was tied to the faulty ship. At the same time, cables were used to reinforce the connection between the good ship and the faulty ship as a double insurance.

After doing all this and checking that everything is safe, we set off.

Liang Ziqiang drove the big ship of Yongrui's family, and Liang's father drove the one of Jinsheng's family.

As for Lin Baixian, he stayed on the broken-down boat.

He was the one who pushed Liang Ziqiang aside and took the initiative to drive the broken boat. The main reason was that he himself knew that among the three people, his level was relatively low.

The two large ships were used as the main tugboats, so they would definitely be better operated by people with stronger skills. Lin Baixian stayed on the broken ship, and except for turning the diesel engine on and off, he didn't have to do anything else for the time being.

Three boats were making waves on the sea.

Large ships sail on the west side because the ocean current itself is eastward and large ships can provide more westward pull.

Liang's father drove Jinsheng's boat on the east side and also provided pulling force.

The faulty ship was in the middle position behind the two ships, following slowly.

In fact, if we follow the strict operation of later generations, it is best to have a professional tugboat to tow the broken ship. But in this era, it is obviously not so particular, and whether a professional tugboat can be found is a problem.

Moreover, the faulty ship only lost direction, but it still had power, and did not need to rely on the other two ships to provide much power.

It's not that hard for the two boats to just lead the direction, as long as they cooperate well with each other.

The three ships looked close, but they actually kept a large distance on the sea. After all, the most feared thing when the ships are sailing is that they are running side by side close to each other. In that case, due to the frequency of the waves, the two ships are very likely to collide with each other.

The current way these two boats cooperate is more like a method commonly used by fishermen: double towing.

The so-called double trawling is further developed on the basis of single trawling.

Single trawling is a boat dragging a net behind the stern, catching fish as it goes;
Double tug means two boats jointly tow a large net, traveling at a distance from each other and working together to catch fish.

When they were approaching the sea area where the villagers were fishing, the three boats no longer continued to sail in a northwest direction, but instead went west for a short distance, and then headed north towards the coast.

In this way, even if they encounter other fishing boats on the road, the other party will only think that they are really returning from the direction of "Chengpan Island".

It was already dark when we approached the shore.

Fortunately, today is the seventeenth day of the lunar calendar, and the moon is only a little smaller than yesterday, but the moonlight is still as bright.

Liang Ziqiang was actually very puzzled. There would be a storm at sea tomorrow, so it was supposed that there would be some dark clouds covering the moon tonight, but the moonlight was so bright.

Perhaps it was precisely because there were no signs that my father misjudged the weather in his previous life!
Under the moonlight, three boats slowly sailed into the dock and stopped at the shore.

After the boat was safely docked, before going home, Liang's father decided to visit Zhong Yongrui and Cai Jinsheng's homes to say hello and inform them that the boat had docked.

Since it was on the way, Lin Baixian followed and walked towards the home of the branch secretary Zhong Yongrui.

When they arrived at the Zhong family's house, Zhong Yongrui was still busy outside and had not returned yet. Liang's father thanked Yongrui's wife Xu Ping, and then took out five yuan and gave it to her as a day's rent.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Ping took the money, she saw Lin Baixian was also present.

She immediately called Lin Baixian:

"Isn't this Ah Xian? I was just looking for you!"

Lin Baixian asked in surprise: "Looking for me? What's the matter?"

Xu Ping said loudly:

"What else could it be? I'm just the guy guarding the phone. Don't you have a cousin in the city? Just now, your cousin called the village and said that someone named Lu Feng has something to tell you, and he will call back later!"

The only telephone in the village is in the party secretary’s house, so the party secretary’s wife jokingly calls herself “the telephone guard.”

"Lu Feng?"

Upon hearing the name, Liang Ziqiang and Lin Baixian's eyes lit up at the same time.

I was just thinking about finding a market for the good stuff at home, and I got news from Lu Feng?

Last time, Liang Ziqiang specifically asked Lu Feng to help contact his friends in the restaurant. This time, the other party took the initiative to call him. Liang Ziqiang felt that it was probably related to the restaurant's sales!
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