Chapter 10

Three fish baskets full of fish were moved down from the boat, attracting the attention of a group of fishermen, especially when the most eye-catching tiger-head spot appeared, it caused a small-scale discussion.

"Whose boat is this? Did they run into a fish school? The luck is too good. Yo, there's also a tiger-head!"

"Don't recognize him. Looks familiar. There are only a few good hands with names on the port. This boat doesn't look like it?"

"Isn't this A-Shui's small sampan? The one that rascal insisted on exchanging."

"Who is A-Shui?"

"You forgot, Liang Dajiang's kid, the handsome one."

"He's still alive? Isn't he an orphan? I saw him go to borrow grain last time, and he was kicked out."

"Shh, he's living well, what are you talking about?"

Hearing this, the fishermen present were a little surprised. They clearly didn't expect that an orphan could survive on his own, which was really rare.

"Phew, phew, phew, he's also a bitter child. Fortunately, it looks like he can support himself. It's not easy."

"Our port, I'm afraid there will be another good hand! It's a pity, why isn't it my kid, he has no promise."

The fishermen sighed for a while, envied and discussed a few words, and seeing the fish basket moved into the fishing barrier shop, they left one after another.

It's hard for orphans to live. Although it's rare to survive alone, it doesn't concern them, so they just join in the fun. Who knows if he will have great promise in the future?

On the other side, Lin Baosong weighed the fish and calculated the account: "Including the tiger-head, it's one hundred and thirty-two copper coins in total. How about one hundred and thirty-five?"

"Give me a tael of broken silver plus ten wen."

"A tael of broken silver?" Lin Songbao fell into thought.

In recent years, prices have been stable. The price given by the official side is that one tael of silver can be exchanged for about a thousand copper coins. However, silver retains its value, and a thousand copper coins are definitely not enough to exchange for one tael of silver. One thousand one or two hundred is enough.

Exchanging one hundred and thirty-five wen for a tael of broken silver is slightly profitable.

Thinking of this, Lin Songbao agreed, took back the string of copper coins he had taken out, and changed it into a piece of broken silver plus ten copper coins.

"Keep it well."

"Hmm."

Walking out of the fishing shop, Liang Qu went to the foot shop to eat as usual, still the old three items, thinking while eating.

"Already have two taels and three qian, still missing four taels and seven qian, and I can save enough money to go to the martial arts school. If I can save one hundred wen every day, it will only take two months, but it's too conspicuous. I need a process of improvement."

With the help of the Fat Catfish, Liang Qu's daily fish harvest is higher than that of ordinary fishermen, but it was only thirty wen a day a few days ago, and suddenly rising is too weird. It needs some adaptation time.

As for why he suddenly sold more than a hundred wen today, who doesn't have a time when luck is good and they run into a fish school?

Just like catching yellow fish, it doesn't matter once or twice. If the number of times is high, you need a suitable excuse.

"In addition, taxes will be paid at the end of autumn soon, and tax money is also a problem. Two months is not enough at all. If you can't pay taxes, you will be caught for corvee labor. Damn it, the dog-day feudal society."

Liang Qu has a clear plan for his future. He must learn martial arts.

Not only to see how big the world is, but also because there is a Zhao mansion hanging over his head.

Dog-day old bastard, like a Sword of Damocles.

Liang Qu hated and finished the last bite of rice, checked out, returned home, and lay on the bed.

"If only I could catch a treasure fish like the tiger-head spot."

He thought of a five-jin tiger-head spot caught by someone at the neighboring port last month, which was taken away by a martial artist at the market and sold for a sky-high price of three taels and five qian of silver.

This kind of fish has a miraculous effect on tempering the body. One fish can save a martial practitioner more than a month of work, which may be more precious than the treasure plant lotus root he discovered.

Just when Liang Qu was thinking about whether to spend time letting the six-bearded catfish look for it, noise suddenly came from outside the house, but it stopped quickly.

"Hey, someone is arguing again..."

Small places are like this,

whatever family argues loudly, it will be heard clearly by the neighbors.

Liang Qu thought that when he had money in the future, he must buy a big courtyard, ten entrances and ten exits, and then ten beautiful maids, all with thin waists and long legs, fair skin and beautiful appearance, holding tea and asking him to drink it in a coquettish voice, living the life of a master.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The knocking on the door interrupted his fantasy. Liang Qu got up in surprise. It wouldn't be Zheng Xiang again, would it?

"Who is it."

"Me."

The visitor was a bit of nonsense literature, but Liang Qu hurriedly got up to open the door. He remembered this voice too well and couldn't forget it.

Opening the door, Liang Qu only saw Chen Qingjiang stuffing a small cloth bag to him with a dark face, turning around and leaving without even saying a word.

"Uncle Chen! This?"

Liang Qu didn't catch up, and the back had already gone home. He had to open the cloth bag and was surprised to find that it was rice, and the weight was not small.

In an instant, he understood everything.

In order to sell more money, Uncle Chen walked more than ten miles to town to sell fish every day. He was also honest. He probably didn't know that he already had the ability to support himself and only thought his life was still difficult.

"This... not necessary."

Liang Qu sighed, he didn't dare to forget the kindness of a cake.

Without that cake, he might have starved to death at home long ago. Just because of learning martial arts and autumn taxes, he didn't have time to do anything.

Presumably the argument just now was between Uncle Chen and his wife?

Liang Qu was very ashamed.

After Chen Qingjiang sent the rice and returned home, the atmosphere in the house was still silent.

His wife, A-Di, sat in the corner of the wall and sulked alone, not even looking at her husband, just burying her head in sorting out the thread ends. If it were normal, she wouldn't be unwilling to send rice, but her youngest son had been ill a few days ago. The illness was cured, but the savings were gone, and taxes had to be paid after autumn. That was the tax for three people!

Isn't this just puffing up one's face to look fat?

For a time, the two had nothing to say to each other.

The candle in the house flickered, illuminating the wall into a dark red.

After a long time, Chen Qingjiang suddenly got up. The candle was pressed low by the wind, shaking A-Di until she almost pricked her hand. She raised her head angrily, but unexpectedly, her body suddenly became light.

A-Di was confused and extremely ashamed: "What are you doing again?"

Chen Qingjiang hugged his wife, lowered his head and blew out the candle, and said in a muffled voice: "Sleep!"

"The big baby and the second baby are sleeping!"

"Two little pigs, what are you afraid of?"

A-Di's mind was blank, her face flushed, and she no longer had the previous anger.

Dealing with women should be like this.

At the door, hearing the movement from the house, Liang Qu retracted his hand that was trying to knock on the door, his expression embarrassed.

He originally thought that it was not good for the couple to argue because of him, so he wanted to apologize, but he ran into such an embarrassing thing.

Carrying the rice bag in his hand, Liang Qu could only bring it home and wait until later.

For the next half month, Liang Qu sold fish at the port, gradually starting to increase the value of his daily fish harvest.

Gradually increasing from forty wen to eighty wen, he set up a persona of a young and promising fisherman.

The daily income of ordinary fishermen is about sixty or seventy wen. Experienced fishermen like Chen Qingjiang can have eighty wen, and individual good hands can reach one hundred wen.

Liang Qu is only fifteen or sixteen years old and can do this, which is obviously quite powerful. For a time, he became famous on the port.

Everyone was surprised that an orphan could do this.

What was even more unexpected was that in addition to receiving envy and jealousy from other fishermen, Liang Qu also unexpectedly received the favor of a matchmaker...

"I already said I don't have any plans to get married for the time being."

Liang Qu quickly untied the rope and fled the boat in the matchmaker's disappointed eyes.

That back view was quite hurried. The fishermen on the shore only thought Liang Qu was shy and laughed at him one after another.

"Don't make it difficult for A-Shui, he's still a chick!"

"I'm afraid he still doesn't understand the goodness of women!"

"It's a pity, why don't you introduce it to me?"

"You old bachelor, get out of here!"

Liang Qu never expected that after showing his "fishing talent" on the port, he would become a hot commodity in the matchmaking market. He rowed the boat until he couldn't see the port before he breathed a sigh of relief.

Waiting for the lotus root water area, he slapped the water with an oar.

The huge pig-dragon slowly surfaced. After seeing the boat, it wagged its tail, and a pair of claws rested on the edge of the boat.

Seeing no one around, Liang Qu took the fishing net and the pig bladder filled with air and dived into the water.

One person and one beast searched for A-Fei's figure in the water.

Liang Qu's limit fish harvest every day is about one hundred and fifty wen, but he can only show eighty wen on the surface, so the rest of the time is used by him to find treasure fish, and the Fat Catfish is even more unoccupied.

But treasure fish are hard to find. He didn't find any for several days in a row, until just now, the mental link of A-Fei sent news that it had found a treasure fish!