Chapter 108: You have to take advantage of what comes to you
Seeing that he had successfully shaken off those little followers, Liang Ziqiang slowed down the boat again.
After a while, he felt a little hungry, so he picked up the steamed buns made by Chen Xiangbei, handed one to Liang Zifeng, and they both started to eat them.
Liang Zifeng ate and habitually glanced at the side of the boat again, wondering:
"Hey, are you following me again? Are you still pursuing me?"
Upon hearing this, Liang Ziqiang also took a look with the help of the sidelight and found that it was obviously not a bamboo swordfish because its shape was wrong.
When he looked at the patterns on the fish carefully, he became interested: "How can this be a saury? The price of this fish could be three or four times that of a saury!"
Liang Zifeng was holding up a steamed bun that he had almost finished eating. With the help of the light, he finally saw it clearly: "Look at the stripes on its body, it looks like a wild boar. Could it be a spotted hogfish? But spotted hogfish can sing, why is it so silent?"
Liang Ziqiang rolled his eyes at him: "The boat is running, the diesel engine is clattering, are you sure you can hear it singing?"
The spotted pigfish not only has a unique appearance and a special call, but also has a characteristic similar to the bamboo swordfish: it is also a type of "phototactic" fish, and will run towards it when it sees light.
Liang Zifeng said "oh", stuffed the last bite of the steamed bun into his mouth, and clapped his hands:
"Let's go, second brother. We're done eating. Let's drive the boat faster!"
Liang Ziqiang did not speed up, but replied: "Wait, stop the boat for a while, it's a good thing that comes to your door, if you don't pick it up, it's a waste if you pick it up!"
As he spoke, the boat really slowed down to the point of almost coming to a stop.
The last bite of Liang Zifeng's steamed bun got stuck in his throat.
Who said that we should rush back and resist temptation on the road and turn a blind eye? "No, second brother, you just said that we should not pick up gold on the road!"
Liang Ziqiang had already gone to the cabin to get tools, and his voice floated over:
"After all, this isn't gold, right? Just grab it and it's easy!"
Liang Zifeng seemed to be choked by the steamed bun and was unable to speak for a long time.
Fortunately, Liang Ziqiang did not take out the fishing net, but only took out a hand net. Moreover, the fish caught this time were not many, only a few.
Liang Ziqiang aimed at the spotted pigfish and grabbed them quickly and accurately.
Then he lifted it up and dumped it onto the deck. There were five spotted hogfish! It only took a few seconds. In terms of time, it didn't take much time. After all, it wasn't as time-consuming as casting a net.
"This thing is good. It can be sold for 70 or 80 cents a pound. The key is that it tastes delicious! One time, your second sister-in-law came to our house to play, and I took her and lychees to the beach to catch lychees. I picked up two on the beach, and your second sister-in-law was so happy to eat them!"
Liang Zifeng finally understood why spotted pigfish received a completely different "treatment" from bamboo saury. It turned out that the key point was that his second sister-in-law loved to eat it.
The boat started moving again, carrying a few spotted pigfish that were singing in the cabin and a dozen sauries that came to the boat on their own, and sailed straight forward.
After arriving at the shore, he parked the boat at the small pier, carried the spotted pigfish, bamboo saury, and a few capelins that he had left in the boat in a bucket, and quickly returned home.
From a distance, he saw Chen Xiangbei and Duobao sitting at the door, eagerly waiting for him to come back.
The man and the dog heard Liang Ziqiang's voice one after another and stood up happily.
Although Liang Ziqiang told her at the pier that he would be back later, she was still nervous after waiting for such a while.
Seeing that he had returned, she did not say anything more, but only asked him: "You must be starving, right? I'll heat up some food for you right away!"
Liang Ziqiang pointed at the bucket:
"See what's in the water?"
Chen Xiangbei looked into the bucket and found that in addition to the two long and thin fish, there was also a flat fish swimming in the sea with three wild boar-like stripes on its body.
She remembered immediately: "The squeaking spotted hogfish? This fish is delicious."
"So you're in luck, right? I picked these up on the way back. Five of them are enough to last us two or three days!"
Tonight, the whole family was still awake. My father's boat had earned more than 400 yuan from several hundred kilograms of sardines and some golden pomfret.
The two families divided it equally, with my father and Liang Tiancheng each getting more than 200 yuan.
For Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng, such a large income was a rare opportunity, except for the day when they happened to encounter a large group of red snappers on the opening day of the gondola.
This time each of them received more than 200 yuan, so you can imagine how they felt.
Not only the adults were happy, Xiao Hai was also overjoyed. Liang Ziqiang saw him somersaulting on the ground, from the front door to the inner room, and then from the inner room back again.
Kuang Haixia was in such a good mood that she didn't even go to beat him up.
Liang Ziqiang just felt strange. How could this three-year-old child feel this way about money? Two hundred yuan made him so excited that he did somersaults all night? Then he saw Xiao Hai tumbling to his feet, got up and shouted to him: "Uncle, I'm so happy today! Grandpa and Dad brought back two big bass from the sea. During dinner, the adults were busy counting money, and I ate most of them by myself!"
It turns out that the motivation for somersaults lies here! Liang Xiaohai knew that he liked to eat steamed sea bass, but he didn't expect that he loved it so much.
Liang Ziqiang was eating the food that his wife had just heated up. At the same time, Liang's mother's food was ready and Liang Zifeng was also eating.
Before taking a shower, Liang Ziqiang went into his inner room and took out the wad of money from his pocket:
"Let's count the income from today's trip to the sea!"
"So much? It looks like this amount is almost catching up with the last time!"
The last time she was talking about was when Liang Ziqiang went to Wuming Island to fish for grouper and chicken claw snails. That time, all the high-end seafood was worth a lot of money, so he sold more than 900 yuan, and later used most of it to buy this lotus pattern boat.
"That's not so much."
"How many, you say?"
"Count it yourself. You like counting money anyway."
"Just count!"
Seeing that the door was closed, Chen Xiangbei immediately sat on the bed and started counting money.
"Six hundred and eighty-two?" After counting, she confirmed it again.
"Six hundred and eighty-eight to be exact. Ah Feng has already been paid."
"Let me think about it. Your new boat is seven hundred. Are you basically going to recover the cost of the boat?" She couldn't help but be happy.
“That seems to be correct.”
"It's just over 600 a day. In a year, it would be more than 100,000?!" She didn't know until she did the math and scared herself.
These days, except for some villages that secretly engage in smuggling, even households with an income of 10,000 yuan are rare in the whole town. What does a hundred thousand yuan mean? "You can count! It's just that I think too much. Why did I make so much money today? It's because I encountered a super large school of sardines, which caught nearly 900 kilograms directly! It's lucky to encounter such a large school of fish a few times a year. How can you encounter it every day? Usually, you are lucky enough to encounter some small schools of fish. Most of the time, you just catch a few kilograms here and there. Many fishermen are just trying to make a living!"
"Of course I know. This is just a fantasy, for fun!" Chen Xiangbei pouted, "Okay, should we just keep the money in the old place?"
With the remaining money from buying a boat and household items last time, plus this new money of over 600 yuan, there was now more than 800 yuan in the box.
"Tell me, if you keep saving day by day and really save several thousand one day, what will you do? I heard you keep saying that you want a trawler. When that time comes, do you want to buy a better boat first, or build a house first?" Chen Xiangbei was very curious about what he would choose.
Liang Ziqiang actually desires these two things very much.
With a trawler, you may no longer have to rely on luck to encounter a large school of fish as mentioned above, but you can drag it all the way through the upper, middle and lower layers of the sea water and collect all the seafood. Although you still can't make a net income of 600 or 700 yuan a day, your income will become much more stable.
But building a house is even more urgent.
Of course, building a house is more urgent. At present, I have this eight-meter wooden boat. I will slowly earn money first. After building the house, if I can save several thousand yuan, I will consider selling the wooden boat and buying a trawler.
"Let's save money and build a house first. There aren't enough rooms now, so my parents have to sleep separately. This is really not a solution!"
"Well, then build a house. I will save the money for you little by little!" Chen Xiangbei nodded in agreement.
"Don't just talk about money! I noticed that the idea of having a baby seems to have been neglected in the past two days?" Liang Ziqiang just talked about business, looking at Chen Xiangbei's fair and clean face, his eyes slowly changed.
"No, the night before last..."
Her face turned slightly red, but she couldn't continue the rest of the sentence. She let him hug her, tilted her head and leaned it into his arms.
The atmosphere gradually began to get better.
Liang Ziqiang couldn't control himself anymore and was about to kiss her pretty face.
With a "bang", the door suddenly opened.
Liang Xiaohai somersaulted directly into the house! Both of them were shocked.
Chen Xiangbei even jumped up directly from his arms. Her reaction was extremely quick. She grabbed half of the baby sweater next to her and started knitting...
Liang Ziqiang thought the door was locked, but it turned out that he just closed it without locking it.
It was really too careless! Liang Xiaohai got up from the ground, looked at the two adults who were still in shock beside the bed, blinked his eyes and asked: "Uncle and Aunt, can I go to your bed and play somersaults?!"
Liang Ziqiang was speechless for a while, and the two of them couldn't find a suitable excuse to refuse!
Fortunately, Liang Lizhi also ran over at this time and taught Liang Xiaohai:
"Why are you joining in the fun? That's the bed that my second brother and his wife used for somersaults together! On their wedding night, I secretly lay by the door and listened. They could hear the somersaults on the bed making loud thumping noises!"
Liang Ziqiang: “!!!”
Chen Xiangbei: “Woo woo woo…”
When Liang Xiaohai was dragged away by Lizhi, Chen Xiangbei was about to cry. She punched him with her little fist: "It's all your fault! Are you going to let me live? I told you to be gentler!"
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and said with gritted teeth:
"We must go out to sea as much as possible and save more money. Build a house, build a house immediately!"
(End of this chapter)
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