Chen Hong first picked out all the pregnant female fish on the deck and threw them back into the sea. "Dragon Prince, quickly bring your concubines and children home to take care of them. Don't let them wander around with their babies. It's very dangerous out there!"

Chen Hong didn't care about the value of the female fish; she treated all pregnant fish equally and released them all back into the wild.

After selecting the female fish, Chen Hong sorted the catch, storing the fish that needed to be stored in space, placing the fish in the live water tanks, and discarding the fish that needed to be discarded into the refrigerated tanks.

Now that Chen Hong is rich, she has filled most of the refrigerated cargo hold with ice, and it won't all melt by the time they return to port that night. The preservation function is excellent.

After hauling in the net, tidying it up, and rinsing the deck clean, Chen Hong prepared to find another school of fish and cast another net.

While slowly drifting on the sea, Chen Hong spotted a school of more than a dozen small, golden fish. It wasn't worth casting a net on them, but after sailing a dozen meters past them, Chen Hong suddenly realized that they were large yellow croakers!

Oh my god, I almost missed it! At first I thought it was a little yellow flower!

Quickly turn around and head towards it, then start scattering bait. No matter what kind of fish it is, once it tastes the water in the space, it won't be able to escape.

Chen Hong cast her net with unprecedented speed. After watching closely as most of the large yellow croakers were caught, she immediately began hauling it in. For these precious fish, Chen Hong had used two nets to intercept them.

Unexpectedly, the effect of the water in the space was so great that even large fish from more than 100 meters away quickly came to snatch the food.

Besides eleven large yellow croakers, the two nets also pulled up more than 200 kilograms of other large fish. Chen Hong first picked out the large yellow croakers and put them in a separate plastic box, then covered the box with a thick layer of crushed ice and closed the lid.

Looking at the box of yellow croakers, Chen Hong suddenly thought of the scene of the village elders being buried at the beginning of the year. These big yellow croakers were treated similarly, except they weren't dressed and were placed in different boxes. The treatment they received was truly exceptional!

They found another large school of fish. Chen Hong set six nets, scattering bait into the ambush area while observing the fish. Half of the fish had already been caught in the nets. This school of fish consisted mostly of common sea fish such as anchovies, golden pomfret, skipjack tuna, mackerel, and sea bass, which are inexpensive.

Fortunately, Chen Hong's net has large mesh, so it catches only slightly larger fish. Otherwise, the smaller, less valuable fish would have been even more undesirable to Chen Hong.

Once most of the fish were in the net, Chen Hong began to haul it in. As she untangled the fish, Chen Hong recalled something. She seemed to remember seeing in a video from her previous life that large-scale deep-sea fishing vessels abroad didn't use manual methods to untangle the fish.

What tools did they use? What's the working principle? How did they manage to automatically process the fish without harming them? How can I learn from their experience and modify a small machine for my fishing boat?

Chen Hong kept working, her mind swirling with questions. If she could solve the problem of understanding the fish, it would be perfect for her to go out to sea to fish alone.

This net hauled up an incredible amount of fish, totaling 1,700 jin (850 catties). It also included blue crabs, swimming crabs, mantis shrimp, prawns, and squid—a truly diverse and abundant catch.

Chen Hong, who hadn't fished seriously for several days, was unusually patient today, cleaning the fish while storing some in her spatial storage. She worked happily, humming her favorite song, "Has Anyone Ever Told You," though she figured the song hadn't been released yet; she'd just keep humming it to herself!

After sorting and packing the fish, Chen Hong rinsed the deck clean. It was lunchtime, and as she ate instant noodles and two boiled eggs, she felt like crying.

I'm getting worse and worse at life; I don't even dare to cook meat and steam buns in a big pot and store them in my spatial storage anymore. I wonder if my father's health will be fully recovered by the Spring Festival? I hope he gets better soon so I can send him away, a hundred miles away!

I can finally relax a bit, and avoid constantly racking my brains for excuses to lie to him. I've used up all the lies I told in my entire past life in these last few months. I'm really worried that one day I might accidentally slip up and say something I can't hide—that would be the end of me.

Chen Hong, who had just washed the dishes and was drinking tea with her eyes half-closed in rest, suddenly heard a commotion. Opening her eyes, she saw a luxury fishing boat heading towards the coral reef area.

The fishing boat was about 40 feet long, and there were probably only seven or eight people on board. From a distance, only three men and four young girls could be seen. The high temperature at noon today was 18 degrees Celsius. These girls were truly beautiful but freezing! Seeing them wearing bikinis, Chen Hong felt cold for them.

Even though I'm in such good health now, I still need to wear a jacket in the mornings and evenings, and I also wear long sleeves and pants at midday. Of course, Chen Hong dresses like this in the summer too!

Chen Hong felt sorry for these girls. They had sacrificed so much, and only one middle-aged man and two young men could see it. What was the point? They weren't worth it on the boat!

Chen Hong just kept an eye on their fishing boats, making sure they didn't get tangled in her crab traps; she didn't care what they did. It wasn't her business. However, she couldn't go diving at noon today; she didn't want these idle people to see her diving.

The fish aren't biting well right now, and with an unfamiliar boat nearby, I'd better try fishing myself! It's been a long time since I've fished; the live bait in my space was all fed to the fish in the breeding tank by Chen Hong. So I had to fish out a large squid from my space, carefully cut it into thin strips about the thickness of a finger, and use it as temporary bait.

Taking out her usual casting rod from her storage space, adjusting the float, attaching the hook and sinker, and baiting the hook with squid strips, Chen Hong began her sea fishing again. She had already spotted plenty of expensive grouper in the coral reef below.

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