Chapter 74 The New Boat is Bought
The next morning, the grass tips by the roadside were still covered with dewdrops, and Liang Ziqiang was already walking on the path.
Today he came to Huagu Village to talk to the Chen family about the good days suitable for proposing marriage and asking for them to choose and set one of them.
This time, in front of the house, not only Dawang, but also its litter of cubs ran out from the nest, sticking to Dawang, performing a large-scale parent-child show.
Liang Ziqiang only saw a bunch of furry, round little things rolling around on the ground in front of the door, and from time to time one or two would roll to his feet.
It made him itchy, and he really wanted to pick up one or two balls from the ground and take them away in his arms.
Dahuang was originally wagging his tail to greet them, but when he saw them, he couldn't help but stretch out his hands to the little fur balls, and he was unhappy on the spot.
The increasingly well-mannered Dahuang didn't bark at him or bite him, but raised his front legs and blocked his hand with his paws.
Then he took the little fur balls and disappeared like a whirlwind, moving to another position.
Because they arrived early, when Liang Ziqiang entered the house, he found that Chen Xiangbei's parents were still at home.
After a few polite greetings, Liang Ziqiang got straight to the point:
"Dad, I came here today mainly to discuss with you the date for the proposal and engagement. I have been preparing for these days and have almost finished it recently. Now I am waiting for the date to be confirmed, and then I will come here to formally propose."
In fact, Chen Xiangbei had already briefly mentioned to her parents the possibility of proposing marriage recently as he instructed last time.
The Chen couple were quite surprised at Liang Ziqiang's sudden acceleration of the process, but now they are mentally prepared and their reaction is relatively calm.
Old Chen looked at him and said:
"I heard from Xiang Bei that you have been working hard to make money recently? I believe that you are a capable young man and you definitely have the ability to make money, but don't be in a hurry. Just start a family and live a comfortable life slowly!"
After saying this, he asked, "As for the date, how did your parents arrange it?"
Liang Ziqiang quickly mentioned September 1 to September 3, three relatively suitable auspicious days, and of course especially emphasized September 2.
Old Chen asked Li Jinju again and replied:
"Then let's go to September 2nd! Our family will not go to the orchard that day. We will all wait at home."
After setting the date, Mr. and Mrs. Chen went out to work and asked Liang Ziqiang to stay at home for a while and come back after lunch.
Seeing Chen Xiangbei squatting on the side washing dishes, Liang Ziqiang came over and whispered, "Let me tell you something. I've already sold the clam you picked up. Guess how much it cost?"
Chen Xiangbei also became interested and thought for a while:
"How much? Fifty? Sixty? Not eighty, right? Oh, I won't guess anymore. Why are you so annoying? You know the answer but you still don't say it!"
Liang Ziqiang took out the wad of money from his pocket:
"Count them yourself. One hundred and fifty are from the clams, and more than twenty are from the barnacles!"
"How much did you say?"
Chen Xiangbei suspected that she had heard it wrong, so she immediately put the washed dishes on the table, wiped her hands with a cloth, and took the stack of money from him and started counting it.
"How can it be so valuable? I thought it was only around seventy or eighty at most!"
"Really? Then you have to keep it well."
"Me? Why should I accept it?"
"Isn't this just the money you picked up by sheer luck?"
"No! You need the money right now. Besides, I don't need the money for anything else."
"Are you sure you don't want to keep some money in your pocket? You see, you're getting married soon, and in the blink of an eye, the baby is born. When the baby calls you, 'Mom, I want to eat this, I want to play that, will you buy it for me? It's much more convenient to have money in your pocket, isn't it?"
"How can you think so far?" Chen Xiangbei's thoughts were carried away by him. After a while of daydreaming, her face turned red again.
"Not far, not far. As long as the seeds are good, the melons will be ripe in just ten months!"
"You! If you keep talking nonsense... I'll beat you to pieces!"
He noticed that even her little fists were blood red, as if she was embarrassed.
Before she clenched her fist to hit him, he dodged swiftly.
"Then you shouldn't give me the money for the barnacles!" Chen Xiangbei chased after him and stuffed more than twenty of them back to him, which meant that he finally compromised obediently.
"Well, that's fine. This is the twenty-odd bucks that Da Huang earned, you can give it back to me. You're married now, and we're sisters, so it's normal for him to give me some money as a gift!"
"Who is sister to whom? I think you deserve a beating!"
This time her pink fist finally hit him, landing softly on his arm.
"Well, let me tell you something else. I just saw Da Huang's puppies, and they look a bit like puppies. How about getting one for me while he's not paying attention?"
Liang Ziqiang is really jealous now, the key is that it is so cute. It would be great if he could take one home, raise it and then go outside to set up a trap and fish or something.
"Is this also considered as its share of the money?"
"No, this is the dowry given in advance as a member of her family!"
"I've never seen anyone like this, catching a dog and pulling it hard!" Chen Xiangbei pouted, rolled her eyes at him and ran away.
I don't know what trick she used, but after a while, I saw her coming over with a little ball of fur in her arms.
Coincidentally, he recognized it at a glance from its fur color. It was the one that rolled over to hug his thigh.
Chen Xiangbei planned to lock the puppy in the inner room alone and take it away when he finished lunch and left.
Liang Ziqiang had no time to eat lunch. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, Dahuang would come to settle the score, so he quickly hugged the puppy, covered it with clothes, and left in a hurry.
When he got home, he deliberately avoided the eyes and ears of Liang Lizhi and Xiao Hai, and went straight into the woodshed with the puppy in his arms.
Those two evildoers rarely went to the woodshed, so it was relatively safe for the little furball to stay there. As for drinking water and eating food, he could just take them to the woodshed himself.
If it fell into the hands of Lizhi and Xiaohai, the puppy is too stupid and too small, it would be strange if they didn't play with it to death.
Fortunately, there are a lot of entertainment activities at home recently. There is a turtle in the house and an old boat outside. The attention of the two guys has been diverted, and they haven't harmed the little fur ball for the time being...
Another day passed in a flash. The next day was the day when the new ship was officially delivered.
It was almost eleven o'clock in the morning, and thinking that the new ship would soon arrive, the whole family stopped what they were doing and ran to the small pier at the seaside to welcome the arrival of the new ship.
As his father had instructed, Liang Ziqiang was holding firecrackers and matches in his hands.
Standing on the shore, everyone stretched their necks like giraffes, staring eagerly at the ships passing by on the sea.
Just when their eyes were about to become blurry, two bright figures appeared among the gray old ships on the sea.
The figures of the two new fishing boats came closer and closer, creating two focal points in the originally loose picture.
The side of the ship shone in the bright morning sun, and the hull was covered with bright red cloth, just like a bride wearing a red veil.
Amid the blue sky and blue sea, it is like a flower suddenly blooming among thousands of leaves!
Closer and closer.
After reaching the shore, instead of staying in the shallow water, Liang's father and Lin's father jumped off the boat and pushed the new boat to the beach together with their relatives waiting on the shore.
Now it must be parked on the beach and wait until the day of official opening and launching, and then it will be pushed back into the sea.
Some fishermen who happened to be nearby also gathered together. Some lent a hand to help push the boat, while others asked questions and started talking.
There was a lot of noise, and Liang Ziqiang quickly lit the match in his hand at this moment.
He quickly lit the firecracker in his hand, and the long firecrackers suddenly burst out with dense sound and light.
Watching the firecrackers bursting violently, Liang Ziqiang said in his heart:
That’s great! The earth is indeed red!
(P.S.: Dadihong is the name of a common firecracker among the people.) (At 6 a.m., I revised and improved the small details of this chapter to make it more rigorous, so the second update may be at 8 a.m. By the way, after the revision, the corresponding comments from book friends in this chapter seemed to disappear automatically, probably because the content changed. One book friend left a message saying that the local area also has Dadihong firecrackers, haha childhood memories!)
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