The fish in the sea also felt the pull and instinctively began to pull on the fishing line to escape.
Ye Lin was no pushover either; he kept pulling the fishing line onto the deck, while Fu Wan and Fu Shi joined in, holding nets ready to help at any moment.
Can you tell what kind of fish it is?
Fang Min handed the flashlight to Fu Wan and asked a question.
Fu Shi, standing to the side, shook his head. "The fish is still deep inside; you can't even see it with a flashlight."
"Ye Lin, if you're tired, just say so. We're always ready!"
Ye Lin nodded slightly, the veins on his forehead bulging, his face showing no signs of fatigue, but rather full of excitement.
Fu Wan kept searching the sea with a flashlight. Following the direction of the fishing line, she could vaguely see a dark shadow more than a meter long.
Strange, what kind of fish is so long and strong?
Could it be another sea snake? No, sea snakes aren't that thick.
Thinking this, Ye Lin gritted his teeth and pulled again, bringing the fish up quite a bit more.
As the distance closed once again, Fu Wan finally saw the true nature of that thing.
"A conger eel! It's a huge conger eel!"
"Get out of the way! Get away from here!"
"Ah Wan, you really saw it clearly, it really is a conger eel?"
Fu Shi asked with some doubt, because he was also leaning against the side of the boat, and even with his eyes wide open like a bull's, the sea was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.
However, Ye Lin was even more excited.
"If Awan says it's a conger eel, then it's a conger eel! Brother, hurry up and get the hooks ready!"
Ye Lin believed Fu Wan's words without a doubt. Fang Min's expression changed when she heard about the sea eel, and she immediately told Fu Qing to retreat five or six meters.
Knowing what it was, Ye Lin became even more motivated. After another five or six minutes, not only Ye Lin, but even Fu Shi, who had previously been skeptical, could see the appearance of the sea eel.
"My God, it's a giant eel!"
The moray eel kept twisting itself into a pretzel shape in the water, trying to break free of the fishhook.
Fu Shi stretched out his fishing hook, intending to scoop it up, but his hand slipped, and the hook almost flew away.
"No, use a hand net!"
Before Fu Wan could finish speaking, Fang Min grabbed the hook that had fallen in front of her and hooked it hard at the eel.
Hooking the fish behind her, she gave it a hard jerk, and Fu Wan hurriedly pulled Fu Qing, who was trying to walk over, back together.
With a loud bang, the eel was also thrown heavily onto the deck by Fang Min.
That strength and those skills are truly worthy of someone who came from a female soldier background!
Hearing the commotion, Boss Fu quickly stood at the cockpit door and shouted back:
"What are you doing? What's that noise?"
"It's alright, I just caught a moray eel!"
Upon hearing Fu Wan's answer, Boss Fu couldn't resist coming over to watch the excitement.
With such a commotion, the eel must weigh several tens of kilograms, right?
And that was indeed the case. Fang Min shook her hand, her face full of joy.
"This eel weighs at least 20 pounds."
Everyone was pleased to hear this, but they all watched from a distance, and no one dared to go forward directly.
Only after the moray eel had been fidgeting on the deck for a while and then stopped moving did Ye Lin and Fu Shi muster up their courage and pick up the knife next to them.
One of them used a hook to hold down the eel's head to prevent it from suddenly lunging and biting, while the other used a knife to cut open the fish's gills to let it bleed out.
Fu Wan looked around and saw that there weren't many fish left to fish in the extended fishing area, so she simply said to Fang Min and Fu Qing:
"We're tired after all that. Let's reel in the rest of the fishing line and get ready to head back to the cabin to rest!"
Fang Min responded and continued working with Fu Qing.
After Fu Wan reeled in all the extended fishing lines, Fu Shi and Ye Lin also cleaned up the moray eels and carried them into the cold storage. (Image of a moray eel, please delete if infringing copyright). These things really bite. After bleeding the moray eels, the deck still needed to be rinsed with water. Seeing Fu Shi and Ye Lin cleaning the deck, Fu Wan washed her hands with soap, smelled them to make sure there was no fishy smell, and then went into the cabin to take off her outer clothes and prepare to sleep.
"Bang..."
The long, drawn-out horn blared loudly in the quiet night. Before Boss Fu's horn had even stopped, two other horns sounded from not far away.
Fu Wan opened the door and looked outside. Sure enough, she saw two dim yellow lights not far away, about a hundred or two meters away.
That was Fu Ming and Fu Liang's boat.
Fu Wan also wanted to know what they had found, so she went to the cockpit again.
Unexpectedly, just as I passed by, the radio horn went off.
"Hey, is anyone there?!"
Fu Ming was so excited that he was shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Hey, someone's here. Dude, keep your voice down, my ears are about to explode."
"Haha, I'm just so happy. Ah Wan, let me tell you, guess how many ribbonfish we caught?"
Fu Wan thought for a moment and guessed a number, "Nine hundred catties?"
"What do you mean 900 jin? It's a full 2,000 jin!"
"So, Wan, do you regret not getting on our ship?"
Upon hearing this number, Boss Fu, who was struggling to stay awake, instantly snapped back to reality.
"Amin, is it true? You got two thousand catties of ribbonfish?"
Upon hearing that Boss Fu was also there, Fu Ming quickly put away his joke.
"Dad, it's true. You remember I went to the small shop and bought a scale, right? We just weighed everything, and it's about two thousand catties."
And we've almost used up all the fish baskets we brought on board! The cold storage is nearly full too!
The fact that the cold storage wasn't full was thanks to Chen Baliang. Fu Ming and Fu Dahai had already filled the cold storage before they finished moving the fish, but when Chen Baliang heard that, he went to the cold storage and organized it, managing to create more space to store the remaining fish.
"Good, good, good! Old Chen is really awesome. We'll see if the cold storage is full and then we'll share some with the other ships to make some room!"
Fu Laoda laughed heartily. Oh dear, he now regretted not poaching Chen Balang sooner.
"Brother Liang, how's the harvest over there?"
After Fu Ming finished speaking, Fu Wan didn't forget Fu Liang either.
"Our gains here are also good. Although we didn't experience a margin call, we didn't have many open positions either."
Uncle, Wan, this voyage was definitely worth it. I reckon it won't be more than seven days; we should be back in the next couple of days!
Hearing the joy in Fu Liang's words, Fu Wan's eyes also crinkled into crescent moons with laughter.
"It's good to go back early. Everyone is exhausted tonight. Let's pack up and rest on the deserted island not far away."
This is also why Boss Fu went to Fu Ming and the others to open a shop there. Fu Wan saw it when she came to the deserted island.
Although it's not as big as Coconut Island or Swallow's Nest Island, you can still moor your boat and rest there.
The main problem is that the sea is a bit windy at night. If we leave the boat at sea, not to mention the danger, everyone will not be able to sleep peacefully.
Chen Balang and the others had no objection to this arrangement. They knew that if the harvest was not good, they would have to change the boatman and keep trawling the nets.
Everyone's about to be liquidated, so it's okay for everyone to take a break.
When she was so tired that she couldn't even dream when she slept, Fu Wan opened her eyes again and the sun had already risen.
She got dressed and walked out of the cabin; Boss Fu and the others had already woken up.
Fu Mingye and a few other male comrades were bolder and took the lead in disembarking from the boat and going to the island.
Although induction cookers can cook, food cooked over a wood fire always tastes better.
Fu Wan disembarked and casually surveyed her surroundings. The island's ecosystem was quite good. She walked around for a while and unexpectedly discovered traces of someone starting a fire.
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