Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1002 It’s not about money but about rarity

Three o'clock in the morning.

The surface of the sea was pitch black, and the sea breeze brought with it moisture and was a little chilly.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Dayou, Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming surrounded a large iron gate. Each of them held a large bowl in their hands and drank porridge quickly one mouthful after another.

"Not bad!"

"The meat of this sea bass is meant to be used to make porridge. It feels so good when it's hot in your stomach."

Zhong Shizhu touched his stomach. Some of his companions started fishing shortly after it got dark last night and fished until three in the morning. They were already very hungry by then and had eaten all the food at dinner. At dinner last night, they used the head of a 20 to 30 kilogram sea bass they caught during the day to cook the remaining fish meat, which they could now cook into porridge with the fatty and greasy pork belly. It was very delicious and filling.

"When you're hungry, anything tastes delicious!"

Liu Bin picked up the spoon and filled another bowl.

"Are you going to continue fishing later?"

Shi Guangming looked at Zhao Dahai and then at Zhongshizhu. Liu Bin and Lei Dayou had caught countless groupers in the past seven or eight hours.

Zhao Dahai looked down and saw a stream of water right next to him. Under the light, he saw groupers of all sizes crowded together in it.

"Fishing!"

"We really need to fish! We need to fish as much as we can until dawn."

Zhao Dahai didn't even think about it.

If I were the only one who knew about this place in front of me, and now that I have caught so many fish, I really might not fish anymore.

The groupers in the live water tank can be sold at a higher price if they are kept alive. If there are too many fish and they are crowded, they will easily die from lack of oxygen.

There are speedboats fishing here during the day, and they catch a lot of fish. At dawn, this speedboat and even this speedboat, as well as the speedboats of his relatives and friends, will definitely come here to fish.

Instead of letting others buy these fish at a low price, it is better to catch as many as possible yourself. Even if these fish die from lack of oxygen and are put in the refrigerator, they can still be sold for money.

"Humph!"

"Shi Guangming!"

"Could it be that you are getting more confused as you get older, or that you are going backwards as you get older?"

"Is there any need to ask such a question? Now we should definitely catch as many as we can!"

Zhao Shi looked at Shi Guangming speechlessly.

If only you know the place, you can do whatever you want. But if other people know the place, people who go out to sea, whether they are fishing or fishing, will try to catch as much fish as possible.

Shi Guangming felt a little embarrassed. This question really didn't make any sense.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou finished their porridge and filled their stomachs. After resting for about twenty minutes, they continued fishing.

"Shi Guangming!"

"Don't you want to catch a couple of fish for fun? I'm so bored right now, there's nothing to do!"

Zhao Shi took a puff of cigarette. Shi Guangming kept looking at Zhong Shizhu, then at Liu Bin and Lei Dayou, and finally at Zhao Dahai. He knew that this man must be very bored and wanted to go fishing.

"what!"

"I've fished too many times, and I always thought fishing was boring. But now seeing Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu catching fish one after another, my hands are itching!"

Shi Guangming rubbed his hands vigorously. He had been running a sea fishing boat for decades, and he spent more than ten months on the sea every year. Others booked fishing spots to fish, and he also fished when he was bored. The fish he caught could not be compared with Zhao Dahai, but he caught a lot.

When Zhao Dahai came here, he asked himself whether he wanted to fish. He said no. However, during the seven or eight hours, he kept seeing Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu catching various large groupers one after another. He really wanted to fish.

"Grandpa Shi."

"If you want to fish, you can go fishing. There are all kinds of fishing rods on this speedboat."

"Not to mention you alone, even if there are five or six more people, this speedboat can accommodate everyone fishing together!"

As Zhao Dahai was talking, he pulled the rod upwards with his right hand, and then immediately turned the spinning wheel hard to reel in another grouper weighing thirty or forty kilograms.

Shi Guangming didn't want to fish at first, but seeing himself and Zhong Shizhu and others fishing for such a long time, and the key point being that they could always catch fish, he would definitely feel itchy.

No matter how many years you have been fishing, when you see others fishing and catch a lot of fish, you will have the idea of ​​fishing yourself.

"Correct!"

"Uncle Shi!"

"Do you want to go fishing? If you want to fish, I'll give you a set of rods. If you can't use a hand-cranked spinning reel and find it too tiring, you can just use an electric reel. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you can catch something or not. But there are still a lot of fish in the sea right now, and the bite is so fierce. You can definitely catch something with just your hands."

Zhong Shizhu lifted the rod in his hand and found that it had just hit the bottom but did not get stuck. He reeled in the line and prepared to pull it about one meter away from the seabed. If there was no fish, he would pull the rod up and down again.

"what!"

"Correct!"

"There are really a lot of fish here now, you can fish however you want. Look, isn't there a fish that has been caught? It's not big though, probably only about 10 pounds. But does a 10-pound grouper still count as a grouper? It can still be sold for a lot of money."

Liu Bin held the rod with both hands and lifted it up with force, then immediately lifted it up again and turned the spinning reel quickly and forcefully. The hooked fish was pulled away from the seabed in an instant, but it was not too heavy and not too big.

Shi Guangming hesitated for a moment and shook his head firmly. He really wanted to fish, but the fish situation in the sea was so good right now. Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou always managed to catch fish every time they cast their rods. If he put one more rod in and interfered, it might affect Zhao Dahai and the others' fishing. Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou went fishing to make money. They could earn a few thousand yuan or even ten thousand yuan by catching one more fish. He was just fishing for fun and to kill time. There was really no need to do such a thing. Another fisherman knew that even if he caught a lot of fish at this moment, he could never tell if there would be no fish biting the hook in the blink of an eye. If he really cast his rod and encountered such a thing, it would be a bit embarrassing. "Forget it!"

"Then don't fish at all."

"It's the same whether you fish or not."

"If you really want to go fishing, won't Shi Jiehua's sea fishing boat go out to sea in a couple of days? You can just go fishing on the sea fishing boat. At that time, you can fish however you want and for as long as you want."

Zhao Shi knew what Shi Guangming was thinking without having to think about it. If he had any ideas in his mind, then he might as well not fish.

"Humph!"

"Why are I and Shi Jiehua's fishing boat going to Shanghai?"

"After so many years, don't you get tired of working? If there is nothing special, I definitely won't watch the sea fishing boat sailing in the deep sea."

"When Zhao Dahai goes out to sea with the sea fishing boat next time, maybe I will go out to sea with the sea fishing boat. I really don't have any such idea now."

Shi Guangming had no intention of going out to sea to fish on Shi Jiehua's sea fishing boat. He had lived this kind of life all his life and had had enough of it.

Shi Jiehua's sea fishing boat is exactly the same as the one he used to go out to sea in previous years, except that the current sea fishing boat is a little bigger. There is no other difference. Zhao Dahai can catch a lot of fish if he goes out to sea with the sea fishing boat, and he is really interested.

"correct!"

"Old man Zhao."

"When Zhao Dahai goes out to sea in the second half of the year, do you want to go with him?"

Shi Guangming smoked a water pipe and exhaled puff after puff of thick white smoke. There was not much wind on the sea, and the smoke disappeared after a while.

Zhao Shi thought about it and nodded. If Zhao Dahai went out to sea, he could go with him. There was nothing to do at home anyway, so going out to sea with the fishing boat could help kill time. At the same time, he could be the first to know how many fish Zhao Dahai had caught on this trip.

"Row!"

"That's settled."

"Wait for Zhao Dahai to go out to sea with the sea fishing boat next time. Let's go out and have some fun together to kill time. A month will pass quickly. Usually, there is really nothing fun to do when Shi Jiehua and his team go out to sea with the sea fishing boat."

Shi Guangming and Zhao Shi agreed on this matter.

"Yo!"

“This is a red spot.”

Zhao Dahai looked at the grouper he had pulled out of the water. Under the light, he could see clearly that it was an old red grouper, a green grouper, or a sesame grouper. He would not take it seriously at all. He had caught so many of them that he was no longer surprised. However, this was a red grouper weighing more than 30 or even 40 kilograms. This was incredible. As long as this fish could survive, it could be sold at a good price when it returned to the dock. Even though he had been catching all kinds of groupers, including a lot of red groupers, this size was still very rare. One less was caught, and he was very excited every time he caught one of this size.

Zhao Dahai was very thankful that now he always instinctively slowed down the speed of reeling in when fishing, so that he could catch any kind of fish. The red spotted fish he just caught was not like ordinary red spotted fish that stayed motionless while being reeled in. On the contrary, it was struggling all the time and was very powerful during the whole process of reeling in. He really didn't notice that it was a red spotted fish and almost capsized in the ditch.

Zhao Dahai looked at Liu Bin who was reeling in the line, and reminded him loudly that he must pay attention to the speed of reeling in the line, as he might find a red spot.

Liu Bin was startled and immediately slowed down the speed of reeling in. The fish on the hook was not too big. If it was another fish, such as sesame spot or oil spot, it would not be worth much. But if it was a red spot, the price would increase several times in an instant.

When Zhao Shi saw that what Zhao Dahai had caught was a red snapper, he immediately came over with a scoop net to help scoop the fish.

"Old man Zhao."

"I think you are really being too aggressive. Even when you caught a blue grouper weighing more than 100 kilograms, you were never so enthusiastic. As soon as you saw it was a red grouper, you immediately grabbed the scoop net."

Shi Guangming couldn't stand it. When Zhao Dahai caught other big groupers throughout the night, especially the blue grouper weighing over 100 kilograms, Zhao Shi didn't even look at it. The price of a 30-kilogram red grouper is indeed very high, but the price of a blue grouper weighing over 100 kilograms is still not low. Zhao Shi is really being partial.

"Can this be the same? How many blue snappers weighing over 100 jin, 90 jin, or even 120 or 130 jin did Zhao Dahai catch?"

"But how many of these old red snappers weighing about 30 jin did Zhao Dahai catch?"

"It's not a question of money, it's a question of rarity."

Zhao Shi caught the red spotted fish that Zhao Dahai had caught. He waited for Zhao Dahai to loosen the line, then immediately pulled it up onto the deck and urged him loudly to deflate it. He had reeled the line in a little too fast and his stomach was bloated.

Zhao Dahai put down the rod in his hand and took off the hook immediately. He pinched the red-spotted belly and found a little bloating, but not very big. He looked inside the fish's mouth carefully and found that the belly had not come out. He was a little worried at first, but when he saw this situation, he immediately felt relieved.

Zhao Dahai took a long deflated needle and inserted it into Red Spot's stomach. He carefully and gently pinched it several times until the stomach was flattened and there was no air left before pulling it out.

Zhao Dahai held the fish in both hands and put it into the live water tank. He did not let go immediately. He grabbed the fish's tail and pushed it forward and pulled it back. At first, Hongban did not move, but after two or three minutes, Hongban shook the fish's tail hard to break free, and the splashing water covered his head and face.

"Alive!"

Zhao Dahai watched the red grouper squeezed under other groupers in the live water tank. Needless to say, the fish was already alive and there was no impact at all. Not to mention bringing it back to the dock alive, there would be no problem even if it was kept for ten days or half a month.

"Zhao Dahai!"

"If Liu Gang and Liu Lei see that you have caught another red snapper this big, they will catch it immediately."

Shi Guangming looked at the 30-pound red snapper that Zhao Dahai had caught. It was not easy. Not to mention the offshore fishing, even deep-sea fishing boats could not catch such a large red snapper. What Zhao Shi said just now was actually not wrong. In terms of the selling price alone, there was not much difference between a 30-pound red snapper and a 100-pound blue snapper, but a 30-pound red snapper was much rarer than a 100-pound blue snapper.

"Speaking of this, I really have to say that there are too many rich people in this world. A fish like this would cost tens of thousands of dollars no matter what."

"Liu Gang and Liu Lei both said that as long as this kind of fish appears in Hongyun Restaurant, someone will buy it immediately. It is never placed in the pond, so other people can't see it. As long as there is a fish like this, you can't grab it even if you make a phone call."

Zhao Dahai washed his hands, picked up the kettle, drank a sip of water, and waited for a while. The fish that Liu Bin pulled out of the water was indeed a red spot.

(End of this chapter)