After checking that he had brought everything he needed, Chen Balang stopped the boat.
Seeing this, Fu Wan waved her hand dismissively.
"Let's go, let's go into the water!"
Fu Wan and Fu Ming, the brother and sister, lowered the rope ladder and climbed down first. After they were down, Fu Liang and Ye Lin lowered the kayak.
Fu Wan and her companion floated on the water and caught the kayak. Then they climbed aboard and took the harpoons and spearguns that Ye Lin and the others handed over.
After making sure everything was loaded onto the kayak, Ye Lin and Fu Liang followed them down.
"beep……"
As soon as the group climbed onto the kayak, the "Riding the Waves" boat behind them sounded its horn. Fu Wan waved towards the wheelhouse, and soon after, the "Riding the Waves" boat restarted and continued trawling.
Seeing the "Riding the Waves" ship sail away, Fu Ming immediately wanted to grab his harpoon and go into the water, but Fu Wan stopped him and then solemnly said:
"Brother, Ah Lin has never caught fish in the sea before. Why don't you go to the shallow water and teach him?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Lin immediately waved his hand.
"It's okay, Wan, I don't need them to watch over me. I can dive by myself!"
Ye Lin wasn't lying, but he had been diving in the river near Qingshan Village before.
What Ye Lin didn't know was that diving in a river was different from diving in the sea, because seawater and river water have different densities and water pressures.
Sometimes, people who are not used to deep-sea diving will experience headaches after diving less than two meters, which is why Fu Wan specifically asked Fu Ming to keep an eye on Ye Lin.
Going into the water to fish is a happy thing, but we can't afford to make any mistakes.
After Fu Wan said that, Ye Lin realized that he was a burden. He felt a little regretful. If he had just stayed on the boat, he would have saved Fu Wan and Fu Ming from taking up their fishing time.
Fu Ming hadn't thought that far ahead.
He chuckled, put his arm around Ye Lin's shoulder and patted him, "Don't worry, Da Linzi, I'll definitely take good care of you."
"Let's go, let's slowly try getting into the water!"
They have to learn it either way, so this is a good opportunity for them to get used to it together.
That was Fu Wan's intention, and Ye Lin, seeing this, didn't stand on ceremony and slowly followed Fu Ming into the water.
Fu Wan also took a speargun and went into the water one after the other with Fu Liang. The water here was about ten meters deep. In order to prevent the kayak from drifting away, Fu Wan simply swam to the seabed and tied the rope of the kayak to a large reef.
After finishing these tasks, Fu Wan began to observe the situation in this sea area from all sides.
The ecology of this sea area is quite good, with clusters of coral reefs everywhere, and many small fish of various colors swimming around.
The arrival of Fu Wan and Fu Liang also disturbed many fish. A wave of six-banded trevally swept towards Fu Wan and her group like a gust of wind, then suddenly dispersed about a meter away, bypassed Fu Wan and her group, and then formed a wave of fish that swam away in another direction.
Fu Ming helped Ye Lin get used to the water at a depth of about five meters. Fu Liang also went over to watch for a while, but seeing that there was nothing he could do to help, he simply took the harpoon and swam back to Fu Wan's side.
"Mmm...mmm..."
In the water, communication relies entirely on gestures. When Fu Liang saw so many fish around him, he immediately became excited.
He gestured to Fu Wan, and she immediately understood what he meant.
The two of them were making too much noise catching fish, so Fu Wan pointed to the other side, and the two of them split up to start looking for their target fish under the coral reef.
Since they're already in the water, we definitely don't want six-banded trevally or anything like that; at the very least, it has to be something like parrotfish or blue grouper.
Because it was broad daylight and the sunlight was good, the visibility underwater was also very high.
Fu Liang first spotted a small parrot-beaked fish, and because he was a little impatient, he immediately stretched out his harpoon.
A cloud of mud and sand rippled up with the seawater. Fu Wan turned her head to look. Perhaps because Fu Liang hadn't gone into the water to hunt fish for a long time, the parrotfish sensed the movement and quickly disappeared. After the mud and sand settled, the fish was gone.
Fu Liang was not discouraged, but he had been too excited when he made the move, which made him feel a little suffocated now.
He quickly swam to the surface to catch his breath, and when he came back down, Fu Wan had already spotted a pufferfish hiding under the coral reef.
The pufferfish family is a large group, and some pufferfish are poisonous but edible, while others are extremely poisonous and cannot be cooked at all.
Fu Wan had her eye on a six-spotted pufferfish, which was very nourishing for making porridge or soup, and also had the most delicious flavor.
The six-spotted pufferfish is one of the most common spiny pufferfish, with six prominent large black spots on its back. They are generally not very large; Fu Wan gestured, and the one in front of her was probably about twenty centimeters long.
Image of the six-spotted two-toothed pufferfish (image removed due to copyright infringement)
The fish was covered in thorns and its internal organs were poisonous. Fu Wan aimed at the fish and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The fishing arrow flew out with a whoosh, and just as it hit the fish, Fu Wan quickly swam forward, grabbed the arrow's fletching, and pulled the fish out of the crevice in the reef.
The moment she dragged it out of the hole, the six-spotted pufferfish instinctively unleashed its barbs, making it impossible to touch.
Six-spotted pufferfish in a berserk state. (Image from the internet, please contact us for removal if it infringes on your rights.)
Even the fish's mouth is constantly opening and closing. This type of fish has always fed on small fish, shrimp, and snails, so its bite force is very strong.
Since she had already pulled it out from the crevice in the reef, Fu Wan thought for a moment and decided to let it struggle. After it got tired of struggling, she took out the small knife she always carried and gave the fish another cut.
Not long after, the fish stopped moving and its spines retracted. Fu Wan then removed the fish from the arrow and put it in the net.
After watching Fu Wan's entire fishing process, Fu Liang couldn't help but give her a thumbs up in his heart.
He was decisive and accurate, practically a model fisherman in their seaside fishing village.
Seeing that Fu Wan had caught a fish, Fu Liang also felt the pressure.
However, perhaps because he hadn't been in the water for too long, a depth of about ten meters was still a bit of a headache for him.
He simply went up to get some fresh air, and then swam towards Fu Ming and the others.
The water there is only five or six meters deep. Although the fish and shrimp are small, they can at least withstand the water pressure.
Fu Wan saw Fu Liang leave, but she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, it was normal to go elsewhere if you couldn't catch fish here.
One pufferfish was definitely not enough, so Fu Wan searched further ahead. Before she could even look for any grouper, a wall of fish in the distance caught her eye.
Calling it a wall of fish is no exaggeration, because countless schools of fish are swimming toward her, and each fish looks to be about the same size, as if each fish has its own place.
It's a pack of sea wolves!
Image of a sea wolf pack (image removed due to copyright infringement).
Thinking that it had been a long time since she had caught a sea wolf in the ocean, Fu Wan suddenly perked up.
She picked up the speargun and quietly swam slowly toward the school of fish.
On the left side of the school of fish was a sea wolf that was at least a meter long. After Fu Wan aimed at it, she quickly pulled the trigger again.
With one shot, the fish were startled and quickly scattered and disappeared. Fu Wanyou stepped forward and retrieved the fishing line from behind the arrow. The sea wolf had its gills pierced by the arrow, and after struggling for a few minutes, Fu Wanyou removed the arrow.
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