"Look, what's that?"
After dinner, there was still some time before the nets were hauled in. Fu Wan had nothing to do, so she thought she would take out her fishing rod and cast a couple of times. But as soon as she got to the side of the boat, she was attracted by the commotion in the distance.
Under the bright moonlight, many seabirds circled on the sea, but what attracted them were the dolphins that kept leaping and twirling out of the water.
"Oh my god, we've run into a pod of dolphins again!"
Fu Ming was overjoyed. He couldn't even count the dolphins jumping out of the water, let alone how many were still in the sea.
"Wait, with so many seabirds, there must be a school of fish down there!"
Seeing the movements of the seabirds, Fu Wan immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Dolphins love to perform, but seabirds don't have that kind of leisure.
As soon as the words were spoken, many seabirds seized the opportunity and plunged into the water. When they flapped their wings and took flight again, they clearly had a fish in their beaks.
There really are schools of fish!
At the same time, Boss Fu in the cockpit also saw this scene and began to steer the boat closer to the dolphins.
Unlike killer whales, dolphin pods are not very powerful and can pose little threat to ships.
Not only that, they also like to chase after ships.
But if it's an orca, these guys are strong, and they only need to slightly bump into a boat, and there's always the risk of capsizing.
"Hand-throw net. Get the hand-throw net ready!"
Fu Ming shouted as he ran toward the place where the hand-cast net was placed, and the fishing rod he had been holding was quickly thrown aside.
Fu Wan leaned against the side of the boat, casually looking at the rolling waves.
Surprisingly, she actually spotted quite a few schools of fish that had been scattered by dolphins and seabirds.
"It's mackerel!"
"What, mackerel?"
"Ah Wan, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"
Fu Ming handed the hand net to Fu Wan, and upon hearing this, he also leaned against the side of the boat and looked out to sea.
In the end, he just watched something that turned out to be meaningless.
The sea was pitch black, and apart from the splashes of water as the ship moved, he couldn't see a single fish.
"I'm sure, bro. I'll show you the way; you throw in the fishing net!"
Seeing the gloom on Fu Ming's face, Fu Wan immediately spoke up.
They can't see what's happening in the sea, but aren't they still there?
"Okay, wherever you say, I'll go!"
Fu Ming agreed to Fu Wan's request almost instinctively.
The foreground of the deck was still covered with fishing lines, so Fu Wan and the others could only cast their nets from the area near the cabin.
"Brother Liang, go and talk to my dad, and ask him to slow the boat down!"
When casting the net, the boat was going too fast and it was easy to lose aim, so Fu Wan quickly shouted to Fu Liang.
Fu Liang immediately agreed and then ran quickly toward the cockpit without looking back.
As the boat's speed gradually decreased, Fu Wan quickly instructed Fu Ming to cast the net after spotting a school of fish.
"Brother, over there! Throw it 5 meters forward in that direction!"
In fact, there were no fish five meters away in the direction Fu Wan was pointing. But judging from the direction the fish were moving, and considering that it would take time to cast the net, Fu Wan predicted where the fish should appear in half a minute.
Sure enough, as soon as the hand-thrown net was thrown, Fu Ming exclaimed in surprise.
"There are fish, lots of fish!"
As the tension in the rope in his hand increased, Fu Ming gritted his teeth and began to pull the throwing net back.
Ye Lin, who was standing nearby, was worried that Fu Ming wouldn't be able to pull him up, so he immediately ran over to help.
“Amin, I’ll pull with you.”
Just as Fu Ming was about to speak through gritted teeth, Fu Wan spotted another school of fish.
She picked up the hand-throwing net and was about to throw it when Fu Liang, who had just returned from Boss Fu's place, quickly stepped forward.
"Ah Wan, let me do it. Tell me the direction."
It was pitch black, and they couldn't see anything, but Fu Wan could. So Fu Liang and the others wished they didn't have to let Fu Wan do anything; she could just use her eyes and speak to give instructions.
With the fish right in front of her, Fu Wan didn't care about anything else. Before Fu Liang could even finish speaking, she threw her hand net out.
However, this did not stop Fu Liang from coming up to help. By the time Fu Liang had taken over the rope of the hand-thrown net, Fu Ming's fishing net had also been pulled up.
"Wow, these are all mackerel, and they're all so fat!"
Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan had been waiting with their fish baskets and stools. When they saw the fishing net being pulled up, they quickly went up to prepare to unload the fish.
Seeing this, Fu Ming immediately picked up the fishing net and started dumping the fish into the basket until only the fish hanging on the net remained. Only then did Ye Xiaocui and the other person take them down.
As for Fu Ming and Ye Lin, they each took a net and kept pulling at Fu Wan.
"Ah Wan, quickly point it out to us, where are the other fish?"
Ye Lin didn't believe in superstitions either, so he leaned against the side of the boat and tried his best to search the sea with his eyes wide open. Even with his eyes wide open, he still couldn't see a fish.
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This made him admire Fu Wan, and he obediently held the fishing net and waited for Fu Wan's instructions.
It was excellent that she didn't have to cast the net herself. Fu Wan quickly searched the sea and then pointed out the direction to her two elder brothers.
"Big brother, throw it about two meters to your right!"
"Brother Lin, throw it to your left, about six meters from the boat!"
As soon as Fu Wan finished speaking, the two brothers hurriedly threw their nets out, while Fu Liang pulled up his own net and went to find an empty net to search for Fu Wan.
"Ah Wan, come quick, see if there are any other fish!"
Fu Liang is now as energetic as if he's been injected with chicken blood, wishing he could catch all the fish in the sea in one fell swoop.
Fu Wan wasn't idle either; she immediately started looking for fish again. Before long, she discovered a small group of fish on the other side of the boat.
"Brother Liang, over here!"
Upon hearing the call, Fu Liang quickly ran over.
After casting the net, Fu Wan could no longer see any fish.
However, at this time there were already two or three fishing nets piled up on the deck that had not yet been sorted or cleaned.
Looking at the mountain of mackerel on the deck, Fu Ming and Ye Lin exclaimed how satisfying it was.
"That was so much fun! Absolutely so much fun!"
"Haha, I haven't felt this good in days!"
Fu Mingle spoke up, and Fu Liang also had a big smile on his face. A few days ago, he went out to sea with Boss Fu, but they didn't even need to use the hand-cast net and didn't see any fish at all.
"These mackerel are all good. I'll pick some up and stew them later; they'll definitely go well with rice!"
Fu Wan did not object to Fu Ming's words. Mackerel and Spanish mackerel look somewhat alike, but mackerel are generally much smaller than Spanish mackerel.
Mackerel only grows to about half a meter in length. This fish has a spindle-shaped body, a bluish-black back with many irregular dark blue stripes, resembling blue and white brocade, hence its name "blue and white mackerel." (Image of mackerel from a net, please delete if infringing copyright). Mackerel is highly nutritious, so its price is not bad. These nets combined yield at least two to three hundred kilograms.
Even at one yuan per kilogram, that's nearly three hundred yuan, so I've recouped my investment on this trip to sea!
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