Chapter 417 Asking his father
"Acai, what kind of person is Zhu Yong in your dormitory like?" Liang Ziqiang gathered his thoughts temporarily, looked at Deng Zhaocai and asked.
"He? He's a nice guy, kind and righteous, and we get along well. By the way, I asked him about the tape. Of course, I couldn't tell him where I was from, so I just asked him why there was so much noise on the tape."
"What did he say?"
"He said that in July two years ago, the song 'Gone Dry' was extremely popular, and the few tapes in the store were not enough to buy. Many people loved to listen to it, so they bought blank tapes and tried to record the song with a tape recorder. In August, he also went to record it, but he couldn't borrow the original tape. The borrowed tape was also copied and had noise in it. There was nothing he could do..."
Liang Ziqiang understood. This meant that this tape was copied again based on the original copy, and no one knew in which round of copying the noise was accidentally recorded.
So, it sounds so vague...
If it weren’t for the three names being put together, Deng Zhaocai would definitely not have paid much attention to it.
"Acai, if it's convenient, see if you can get him to recall all the way and look up the past. Who lent him the master tape, and who lent the master tape of the master tape? Of course, you have to think of a good explanation and don't let him suspect that you are from Chaoyang Town. If you don't have a good explanation, don't ask first!"
Liang Ziqiang knew that it would be too difficult to trace back to find out who said the noise.
After all, the other party might just be passing by the door when someone was recording.
Moreover, Ah Cai couldn't ask too obviously. The hotel now thought Ah Cai was from western Guangdong. If he asked too obviously, it would reveal that he was from Chaoyang Town, Peng'ao County, which might put him in danger.
"Forget it, you'd better not ask for now!" After thinking about it carefully, for the sake of Acai's safety, Liang Ziqiang gave up the idea and told him not to ask for now.
I should go back to the village and ask my father and elder brother first. Maybe this method will be more effective.
"Is there something bad going on? It's been two years and nothing has happened. Could it be that someone your family knows wants to do something with your dad or meet him?"
Seeing that Liang Ziqiang could not explain it, Deng Zhaocai started to speculate on his own.
In this life, the Liang family's father and sons did not die in the sea, and no major disasters occurred in the past two years, so Deng Zhaocai thought about it and made such a guess.
After all, Acai didn't know what really happened in his previous life.
"Maybe. Don't think about it for now. I'll ask my dad and brother when I get home. Go back to the dormitory and do what you need to do. Don't let people think you're familiar with Chaoyang Town."
Speaking of this, I just remembered that the main business of today's meeting has not been done yet.
"Here, these are the three fish maws given by Old Xie. They are all the best. Just one is enough to stop bleeding," Liang Ziqiang handed the three fish maws to Deng Zhaocai, "but I still hope you don't need these things. I can't stop you from seeking justice for Yan Zi, I just hope that after you get your job done, you can live a complete and complete life..."
"I will!" Deng Zhaocai thanked him and took out another box from his trouser pocket. "By the way, Brother Qiang, I have to return that tape to the dormitory right away, but I have copied another one with a blank tape. Here it is, you can take it home and listen to it slowly!"
Unexpectedly, Deng Zhaocai has become much more meticulous in his work now. He knew that it was not convenient to lend Zhu Yong's tape to Liang Ziqiang for too long, so he copied a tape for him.
After Deng Zhaocai left, Liang Ziqiang immediately sailed back to the village.
When I got home, I put the tape into the tape recorder and started listening to the song immediately.
"If the wine is gone, there will be no more to sell. If the wine is gone, there will be no more to sell..."
"You raised me and said my first words to me..."
The song is very moving. Even after being re-recorded, the nostalgia and deep affection flowing in the voice cannot be erased.
Some faint noises were always mixed in, flowing along with the singing.
Gradually, the song came to this point: "Although you can't say a word,
But I can better understand the black and white and the truth and falsehood in the world..."
At this point, a not particularly clear noise floated in the air:
"That's right, Chaoyang Town, Yingwang Village, Liang Defu, Liang Tiancheng, Liang Zifeng... Hehe, isn't it hard to find them on a windy day in August?"
It was a man's voice.
Based on the voice alone, Liang Ziqiang even found it difficult to guess the speaker's age.
There seemed to be another man making a "hmm" sound next to him, which sounded like he was nodding in response. Apart from this part, there were no more voices from these two people in the subsequent noise, nor was there any content related to Liang's father.
It really looked like someone just happened to pass by the window, and the voice was caught on the tape. As they walked away, the voice disappeared completely.
Liang Ziqiang rewound the tape over and over again and listened to it over and over again.
Although he had heard it from Deng Zhaocai a long time ago, Liang Ziqiang still felt dizzy when he heard the voice on the tape as it was.
It's like a small boat in the ocean, surrounded by huge waves, crashing against the waves, and it's confusing.
"Aqiang, did you buy another tape?" Chen Xiangbei came in from outside and asked curiously, "Even if this song is good, you don't have to listen to it over and over again, right?"
Chen Xiangbei didn't know the reason and didn't listen carefully, so naturally she didn't notice the "noise" hidden in the singing.
She just thought that her man particularly liked this song, so she played it over and over again and listened to it again and again.
"Yeah, when this song first came out, I heard that it made a lot of people cry!"
Liang Ziqiang didn't want to explain the details to his wife for the time being, so he smiled and said vaguely.
"Is this a song from a certain movie? Why haven't I seen it?" The daughter-in-law asked as she walked in, putting the dried clothes into the house.
"It's a movie song. I guess the projection team hasn't shown it in the villages in our town." He answered casually.
"Wine Gone Dry" is indeed a movie song. The movie "The Wrong Car" was released in Taiwan in 1983, and many people cried when watching it, and many people cried when listening to the theme song. That year, the song crossed the Taiwan Strait and became popular in Fujian, Guangdong and other places. Many young people in Yanghai City rushed to buy it, and even copied it with blank tapes.
"Well, it sounds pretty nice!"
The daughter-in-law listened again and nodded in agreement. Her smile was so gentle and warm, as if the song was just a song without any hidden noises.
Liang's father is also resting today.
Liang's father didn't feel much about these songs. He preferred to listen to the Cantonese opera tape. In this regard, Liang's father and Liang's mother were in agreement.
Seeing his father coming back from a walk in the shrimp pond, Liang Ziqiang immediately pulled him to sit on the bench near the door.
"Dad, I want to ask you something. Please think about it carefully."
The matter was so important that Liang Ziqiang went straight to the point and asked about his father.
"The year before last, that is, in 1983, July or August, or five or six months before that would be fine. Think back, did you meet anyone special or anything special happen during those months?"
"What's wrong?" Liang's father was puzzled by Liang Ziqiang's serious expression and tone. He thought hard and said in surprise, "Nothing. In May, June and July of that year, didn't he just drive the oldest and most dilapidated boat in the family, repair it from time to time, and go out to sea to fish every few days after it was repaired?"
"Nothing happened?"
"No, it's been more than two years. Why are you suddenly asking about this? It's nothing. If you're worried that I can't remember it clearly, you can ask your eldest brother if you don't believe me. Are there really nothing wrong with those months?!"
Hearing his father thinking for a while and still shaking his head, Liang Ziqiang felt even more confused...
(End of this chapter)
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