Chapter 469: First Outing after New Year

Jiangxia hasn't been out to sea for two months.

The pier was a bit quiet at around three in the morning.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei arrived at the dock, and unexpectedly met Li Xiuxian's eldest brother Li Qingmin and second brother Li Qingjie so early.

Father Li did not go out to sea after the Chinese New Year, and was replaced by Li Qingjie.

Everyone greeted each other.

Jiang Xia: "You guys are here so early?"

Li Qingmin said hurriedly: "It's just early today, not so early usually."

Li Qingjie also hurriedly said: "Yes, it's only a little earlier today. I woke up early today."

Of course it has to be early. My brother-in-law said they go out to sea from 5 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., so they go out to sea at around 3 a.m., and the fish caught between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. belong to them.

They can earn more than ten yuan by dragging a net. I have tried to make more than twenty yuan and more than thirty yuan. At least that time I made seven or eight yuan, not counting the labor cost and the money from selling the fish they caught.

They can earn thirty or forty yuan a day, and the most they have ever earned is more than ten yuan. Of course they are happy to get up early.

After all, they are not towing the net during working hours, so the money earned is theirs.

Anyway, it doesn’t cost them anything, and my sister pays for the gas.

Of course, even though they said so, the two brothers didn't want anyone in the Zhou family to know about this.

Jiang Xia glanced at the two people who were eager to explain and said nothing.

Li Qingmin is now going out to sea and can't wait to save time: "Alei, let's go out to sea first!"

Zhou Chenglei responded without any expression: "Okay."

They waited for Zhou Kangping to come back with the diesel before going out to sea.

So Li Qingmin couldn't wait to sail away.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei were waiting on the boat for Zhou Guoping to come back from buying diesel, and then they saw Zhou Guodong and his three brothers coming over.

This time their boat happened to dock next to Jiangxia's house.

The three brothers greeted each other warmly.

Jiang Xia smiled and responded, "You guys are here so early too?"

Zhou Xingguo: "We can catch more fish earlier."

Now they go out to sea more than an hour earlier than before and return half an hour later in the evening, trying to pull as many nets as possible every day.

Zhou Chenglei: "Take care of yourself. Don't rush to pay back the money."

Zhou Guodong: "Brother Lei, rest assured, we will. By the way, which sea area are you fishing in now? It seems that I haven't seen your boat for a long time."

Zhou Chenglei: “There is no fixed schedule. Sometimes we go to distant sea areas.”

People all like their comfort zone. People in the village are used to a certain sea area and rarely change it.

But Zhou Chenglei is not that kind of person.

Jiang Xia then explained, "It was cold before the New Year and there were no fish in the nearby sea, so we sailed a little further away. Since the New Year, we haven't been out to sea much, and we didn't fish when we went out to sea. We just went to check on the collection of mussels and feed the fish, so you didn't meet us."

"Will there be more fish if we go further away?"

Jiang Xia felt that it didn't matter whether it was near or far. She would never encounter a situation where there were no fish every time she went out to sea.

Zhou Chenglei: “It’s more common when it’s cold, but it also depends on luck.”

Zhou Guodong also knew that fishing at sea depends most on luck, but also on experience: "Then let's go a little further out today and give it a try."

Zhou Chenglei: "Come along. I'll take you to the reef island where mussels grow. You can go there and collect mussel clams by yourselves."

"Okay! Thank you Brother Lei." The three Zhou Guodong brothers were just asking for it.

Zhou Kangping quickly came over with a barrel of diesel. Zhou Chenglei took it, carried it on board and filled it into the fuel tank.

After that, Zhou Kangping started the boat and prepared to go out to sea.

Zhou Guodong asked Zhou Chenglei: "Brother Lei, do you want to go fishing later?"

Zhou Chenglei: "Instead of fishing, I'll try to catch squid."

Zhou Guoxing heard this and said, "We tried it last night, but there weren't many squids. You should try again in a few days!"

Zhou Guodong also said: "Yes! Many people at sea have tried it these past few nights, but there are few squids. Everyone said it would probably take a few more days."

Zhou Chenglei would not be easily shaken by what others said: "Let's try it first! Anyway, I have all the tools ready."

He planned to try to use the light to see if he had caught a lot of squids. If there were a lot, he would go out to sea early in the middle of the night starting tomorrow and start using the light to catch squids.

Zhou Guodong said to his eldest and second brothers, "Brother, I'm going to go fishing with Brother Lei on his boat. I'll be back later."

Zhou Guoxing and Zhou Guoye didn't understand why he wanted to fish on someone else's fishing boat. Couldn't he fish on his own fishing boat?

But two people on the boat were enough, since they had never experienced a situation where the net burst so fast that it could not be towed.

"OK."

"Go ahead!"

Zhou Guodong then went to Jiang Xia's boat and went fishing with Zhou Chenglei.

The boat needs to be sailed at a relatively long distance before starting to photograph squid.

Zhou Chenglei said to Jiang Xia: "Go back to the cabin and continue to sleep."

Jiang Xia shook his head: "No, I want to learn how to photograph a squid."

Zhou Chenglei followed her lead and started taking out tools and preparing lights.

Jiang Xia didn't plan to fish, so she just sat nearby and watched Zhou Chenglei take out batteries, a bamboo pole and a light bulb.

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He first connected the light bulb to electricity and then tied it to the bamboo pole.

Then he lowered a large net into the sea, strung with a long bamboo pole.

Extend the light bulb tied to the bamboo pole to illuminate a section of the sea.

Zhou Chenglei shook the bamboo pole up and down to attract the squid.

Zhou Guodong saw it and asked, "Can't we just fix it? Why do we need to shake it?"

"Yeah." Zhou Chenglei just responded. The reason was simple and he didn't need to explain it.

"Let me do it." Zhou Guodong took the initiative to help hold the bamboo pole and shake it up and down.

Zhou Chenglei asked Jiang Xia: "Do you want to fish for squid?"

"OK!"

The bulb squid is very small, so you don’t need a fishing rod to catch it. You can just tie the squid hook to the fishing line and fish it.

Zhou Chenglei threw the hook into the sea, then shook it up and down: "Just like this, the chances of catching a fish are better. Don't shake it too fast, and don't shake it too much... and don't let the hook show the surface of the water. It's best to keep it at this amplitude."

Jiang Xia followed Zhou Chenglei's instructions and shook the fishing line up and down.

After shaking it about a dozen times, I felt something take the bait.

The fishing line feels a little heavy, just a little, and it feels very light.

Jiang Xia pulled it up and indeed caught a small squid.

Under the light, the pink little body of the squid glowed with star-like light.

Here it comes! Here it comes! The famous scene of fishing until one’s hands are tired is here again! Zhou Guodong said excitedly: “Sister-in-law, you are so lucky! A squid is caught so quickly.”

Zhou Chenglei took it, untied the squid and threw it into the bucket.

Jiang Xia continued fishing.

"It can be fixed now." Zhou Chenglei said to Zhou Guodong, took the bamboo pole and fixed it.

Jiang Xia caught the squid so quickly, so there must be some squid coming.

Zhou Guodong also eagerly took a fishhook and started fishing.

Here in Jiangxia, another squid has been hooked! Zhou Chenglei took it and unhooked it.

Jiang Xia took a look.

It was also a small piece, slightly thicker than Zhou Chenglei's thumb and about the same length as his middle finger.

Zhou Guodong also felt that a squid had been hooked, and said excitedly: "I also have a squid hooked!"

He pulled it up, grasped it, and the squid spurted out a stream of ink.

Fortunately, he was experienced and didn't point it at anyone.

"It's only when I fish with you that I can catch fish so quickly." Zhou Guodong smiled.

The best thing about fishing is that there are always fish to bite.

Jiang Xia smiled, then continued with the fishing hook. Before she threw it into the sea, she paused when she saw the scene on the sea surface! She pulled Zhou Chenglei's clothes excitedly: "Look!"

Zhou Guodong also looked over and was excited: "Oh my God!"

Here we go! This is from last night.

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