Chapter 471 Liang's father suddenly fell ill at sea

The fleet’s winter fishing begins in November and lasts for two months, until January 22 of the new year, when it stops on New Year’s Eve.

When he went to Yuehai Restaurant to sell grouper before the New Year, Du Ziteng said he had movie tickets for Saturday and gave Liang Ziqiang two. So, Liang Ziqiang took his wife and son to watch a movie in the cinema in the reception area on the day after the Little New Year.

After coming out, I took advantage of the fact that my wife and son were in good spirits and went to the zoo to buy tickets, and accompanied them to see tigers, lions and monkeys.

I don't know what Liang Jingcheng was thinking, but when he saw others riding horses, he actually asked to ride one too. A two-and-a-half-year-old kid definitely wouldn't be allowed to get on a horse, so in the end they just supported him and let him get hit on the horse's back.

After the Spring Festival and until the Lantern Festival, the fleet would choose an auspicious day according to local customs and continue its winter fishing in the deep sea.

Winter fishing lasts until early April. With the arrival of spring floods, the number of fish and shrimp in the wintering fishing grounds decreases, and the winter fishing is declared over.

For Liang Ziqiang's fleet of more than 40 crew members, the winter and spring off-seasons are the most profitable but also the most tiring months. After finishing the winter fishing, Liang Ziqiang gave them a half-month long vacation, and told them to wait for his notice when to go to the ordinary deep sea areas to carry out operations.

But Liang Ziqiang himself was not idle. After resting for two days, he boarded the lotus-patterned wooden boat and went to the shallow sea with his father and elder brother to look for shrimps.

While catching broodstock, we also look for blue clams, thin shells and sea centipedes in the shallow sea to add to the shrimp pond as natural bait.

After finishing all these, they went to the Snapper Island. This island was revealed to Liang Ziqiang by Old Xie in order to thank him for saving him. For three consecutive years, Liang Ziqiang not only occasionally came here to fish for snappers, but also took time from April to June every year to come here to look for snapper broodstock and hatch fry.

After stopping the wooden boat near the island, the father and his two sons began to fish for broodstock. They could still tell whether the snapper they caught was broodstock by the state of the fish, especially the belly.

The three of them sat down, put on the bait, threw the fishing line into the water between the reefs, and began to wait for a fish to bite.

A group of small "doctor fish" swam out. Doctor fish like to live with snappers. This at least shows that there are still many wild snappers here. Although fishing is done every year, new ones are reproduced every year.

The long and narrow doctor fish had just swam away when Liang Tiancheng suddenly couldn't help but said:

"Dad, Aqiang, look at this strange crab that popped out from nowhere. It's holding a flower in each of its claws, like it's putting on a show!"

Liang Ziqiang looked in the direction of his eldest brother, and sure enough, there were more than one crab. Three crabs, each as big as a kid's fist, emerged from somewhere on the reef.

To be honest, although this crab is not big, it is still quite eye-catching.

Other crabs turn red when cooked, but this crab is naturally red all over when it is alive and kicking.

Not only is it bright red, but its entire body is translucent, with orange-red patches on the surface of its carapace, and transparent, slender crab legs with dark-brown rings on them.

The bright red color and cool shape are not the most eye-catching things.

The most eye-catching thing is that the crab's front pair of claws actually hold a small white flower on each side. The two small white flowers sway in the water as they dance and sway, as if swaying in the wind.

It wasn't just one crab, but three crabs that showed up, each holding two white flowers in its claws, no one was empty-handed. It was as if this was standard, and if you go out without flowers, you're too embarrassed to continue hanging around.

"This kind of crab? This crab is called a refueling crab, and the two things in its hand are sea anemones!"

Liang Ziqiang told his elder brother.

In fact, the crabs were later called "cheerleader crabs" or "refueling crabs". The reason for this name is, of course, that they keep waving two small white flowers in their hands, as if they are cheering for others.

The cheerleader crabs have very fragile limbs and weak fighting ability, so they have very creative ideas to protect themselves. They will find sea anemones, tear them off, hold them tightly in their claws, and will never let go for the rest of their lives.

Whenever a strong enemy attacks, the cheerleader crab will desperately wave the anemone to scare off the enemy with its poisonous tentacles. However, because it has a crab shell, it will not be poisoned by the anemone.

Sometimes cheerleaders fight among themselves to get the anemones. The final solution is usually to give up one of the anemones in your hand to the other party, and then tear the anemone in two with both hands, so that you have two more...

This is why every cheerleader crab must have two anemones. Behind all this is the pain of the anemones being torn apart in an infinite loop...

Liang Tiancheng had obviously never heard of the bizarre story behind the cheerleader crab. After hearing what Liang Ziqiang said, he shook his head and said:

"Don't be fooled by its small size, it has a pretty smart brain!"

The two brothers kept talking, but Liang's father next to them didn't say a word. I guess Liang's father didn't want to disturb them while fishing.

Thinking of this, Liang Ziqiang quickly stopped talking and planned to concentrate on fishing for snapper broodstock.

I had just sat up straight when I heard my father gasping for breath and then coughing violently.

The two brothers quickly turned their heads to look at their father, only to see that their father was holding a bamboo tube and his face was a little pale.

"Dad, what's wrong with you? Why are you coughing all of a sudden? You don't look right. Are you feeling unwell?!"

Liang Ziqiang quickly put the fishing rod on the ground, ran to his father, squatted down and asked.

After Liang's father finished coughing, he took two breaths, then picked up the bamboo tube and started to smoke again.

Frightened, Liang Ziqiang quickly snatched it away and handed it to Liang Tiancheng to take away, saying, "Father:

"You're already panting and you still dare to smoke? Ah Feng told you before that you'd better stop smoking, but you haven't stopped for even one day!"

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Father Liang glared at him and waved his hand, "Listen to him! If I don't smoke for a day, my left chest will feel stuffy. I have to smoke to feel comfortable!"

"Left chest? How about now? Are you feeling stuffy in your left chest as well?" Liang Ziqiang asked quickly.

"I'm not feeling stuffy now, I don't know what's wrong, I was just sitting here listening to you guys talking, and suddenly, it hurts, it feels like something's been stabbed in the left side of my chest!"

"It hurts so much?" Liang Ziqiang quickly rubbed his father's left chest twice, but he couldn't tell where the problem was.

The left lung, heart, or stomach are all possible.

"Put away your fishing rod quickly. We are not going to fish for brooding fish today. I will take you to the county hospital in a boat right now!"

Liang Ziqiang made the decision promptly.

After saying this, he put his father down and went to collect his fishing rod. Liang Tiancheng also went to collect his fishing rod.

The two fishing rods were being reeled in, but unexpectedly, at this critical moment, Liang's father's fishing rod sank and a fish was hooked.

Liang's father endured the pain and picked up the fishing rod. A smile appeared on his pale and green face: "It's a stone clam. This is the king of snappers. Come on, come and pull it. It's so big... It's a stone clam. My hands are weak!"

"What's the use of stone clams now?" Liang Ziqiang was anxious, "Even gold and silver are gone!"

As he said this, he quickly stuffed the fishing rod he had put away into his eldest brother's hand, then ran forward and took the fishing rod with the stone clam hanging on it from his father's hand.

This stone clam is really big, probably weighing 5-6 jin. It is amazing that the expensive stone clam can grow to such a large size.

Despite this, Liang Ziqiang didn't care how valuable the stone clam was at this time, and wanted to grab the fishing rod and throw it away.

But when I thought about this, my father would definitely fight and go to get the stone clams back, which would only delay my father's rush to the hospital.

He had no choice but to listen to his father, lift the big stone clam up, bring it back and throw it into the bucket.

There is no way, the older generation is still very stubborn when it comes to valuable good things...

(End of this chapter)