I slept until I naturally woke up.
The next morning around 8 a.m., Bai Yu walked out of the crew room and sat down in the ship's living room.
"Second Uncle, you're up pretty early! How long have we been gone? Where are we going fishing?"
That's right. After waking up, Bai Yu and his crew had already started their fishing boat and were looking for new fishing spots.
"I'm not too sure either. I just got up not long ago. The ship was already moving when I got up. You should go to the bridge and ask Tianyu for details."
After listening to what her second uncle said, Bai Yu was about to go to the driver's seat to take a look when her younger uncle suddenly came out of the kitchen.
"Old Bai, go wake Xiaoyu and the others up. I've already made breakfast here, and they've all eaten... Oh, Xiaoyu's already up. Well, I'll leave this task to you. Go wake Yueyue and the others up."
"Let's eat breakfast early, so that once Tianyu finds a fishing spot, we can go fishing right away, right?"
Before his uncle could finish speaking, he saw Bai Yu, handed the task over to her, and then turned back to the kitchen to get back to work.
The second uncle shrugged at Bai Yu, as if to say that this matter was arranged for you by your uncle and had nothing to do with him.
Since that was the case, Bai Yu had no choice but to go back to the crew quarters to call for help. First, he woke up Wang Hai, and then he knocked on the doors of Bai Yue and Li Xue's crew quarters. After receiving a response, he returned to the front cabin to wait.
Soon, my uncle brought out the breakfast he had made. Breakfast was, of course, porridge, and as a fisherman by the sea, his specialty was seafood porridge.
My uncle made seafood porridge. The seafood used was blue crab, which they bought before they set off. There were five blue crabs in one pot of seafood porridge.
In addition, pairing it with salted duck eggs, pickled vegetables, and fried eggs makes for a regular breakfast.
After a quick breakfast, Bai Yu finally had time to go to the driver's seat and find Liu Tianyu to ask about the current situation.
"Brother Tianyu, where are we headed now? Keep an eye on the fuel level in the tank while you're sailing, or we'll run out of fuel on our return trip, that would be a real joke."
"Don't worry, I've been keeping an eye on the fuel level; it's enough for our return trip. As for where we're headed now, there's a fishing ground ahead, and we'll be there in about an hour. We can spend the rest of the time fishing there."
Since their fishing boat didn't have any fish-finding equipment, Liu Tianyu mainly relied on luck and chance when looking for fishing spots.
Or they'll go wherever there are a lot of fishing boats and dinghies, or they'll go to well-known fishing grounds. These are the only ways they can find fishing spots.
As for Bai Yu's concern about the amount of fuel needed for the return voyage, this is also something they need to pay attention to. After all, the fishing boat they are on is a small boat, and its fuel tank capacity is limited.
If they run out of fuel on the return voyage, they can call a refueling ship, but that will cost much more than refueling normally.
In other words, it's not cost-effective to refuel by a refueling ship. It's better to pay more attention to the fuel level while the ship is sailing and avoid this situation altogether.
An hour later, Liu Tianyu drove his fishing boat to the fishing ground he had mentioned, and a few scattered boats appeared in their field of vision.
I don't know if it's because it's still before the end of the first lunar month, or for some other reason, but there aren't many boats fishing at this fishing ground.
However, Bai Yu and his group didn't care how many fishing boats there were. In fact, it was a good thing for them, since it meant they wouldn't have many competitors.
As the fishing boat slowly came to a stop, Bai Yu and the others had already taken their fishing rods and were ready to cast their first line of the day at any time.
However, considering that today is already their fourth day at sea, they will have to head back by tomorrow night at the latest.
So when fishing today, Bai Yu took out several boxes of frozen bait from the fish hold; if he didn't use it now, he wouldn't be able to use it all up.
After all, this stuff is different from other recyclable materials; there's no reason for sellers to recycle unused frozen bait.
If Bai Yu and his crew return with frozen bait, the final result will be either selling it at a loss to fish dealers, or taking it home and sharing it among several families.
After careful consideration, Bai Yu and his team decided to use the remaining frozen bait on it during the last two days.
This fishing ground is now a very good place to use frozen bait.
In any case, this is a fishing ground, so there should be big fish here, right? Even if there aren't many, it would be good if we could attract one or two with frozen bait. They're not greedy; as long as they have a catch, that's enough.
Another reason Bai Yu used frozen bait was that his luck was pretty good today.
Although it didn't reach the maximum value of 100 points, it still had a luck value of over 70 points. With such a high luck value, when else would he use the frozen bait?
After the fishing boat came to a stop, Bai Yu first baited his hook with a mackerel, then cast his line before chopping up the frozen bait.
There are still six boxes of frozen bait left. This time, Bai Yu took out three boxes, chopped them into fish pieces of different sizes, and then threw them around the fishing boat.
The three boxes of frozen bait were used at seven fishing spots, averaging less than half a box per spot. This amount of frozen bait is negligible in the vast ocean and cannot cause any waves.
Now all we have to do is wait and see if their catch today is worth the three boxes of frozen bait, which cost 600 yuan.
After checking his luck stats for the day, Bai Yu was naturally full of confidence and was just waiting for a big fish to bite the hook.
However, a sudden scene on the sea disrupted his sense of reality, leaving him unable to discern whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Brother, brother, look over there! Isn't that a whale spouting water? My goodness, it's huge! What a huge fish!"
Just as Bai Yu cast the frozen bait into the sea, less than two minutes later, about forty or fifty meters in front of their fishing boat...
Suddenly a jet of water shot out, and then a huge creature swam out of the sea, followed by a second, a third, a fourth...
The creatures spouting these water jets were none other than four whales, and one that Bai Yu was very familiar with: sperm whales.
At Bai Yue's shout, everyone on the fishing boat noticed the scene ahead, and they all stared in amazement at the several enormous creatures.
Immediately, everyone moved in unison, reaching into their pockets to pull out their phones and start filming the massive machines in front of them.
These four sperm whales are truly enormous. They are different from the one Bai Yu encountered around the school before. These sperm whales are all adults, each measuring over ten meters in length.
Let alone Bai Yu and his group, even the fishing boat they're on is no match for these sperm whales; they're much bigger than the fishing boat!
The only thing that puzzled them was why these sperm whales were at the fishing grounds. Were they there to feed?
Thinking of this, Bai Yu suddenly remembered something: judging from the direction these sperm whales were heading, they had just come downstream from the fishing boat.
Bai Yu had just finished chopping up the frozen bait and thrown it in when these sperm whales came over. Will they affect the bait that was just thrown in?
As Bai Yu drifted off into thought, the sperm whales gradually moved away from the area. They were probably just passing by and had no interest whatsoever in the fishing boat that Bai Yu and his companions were on.
"Brother, brother, we saw whales! And there was a whole pod of whales! They're huge, bigger than our boat!"
As soon as the sperm whales left, Bai Yue, who was standing nearby, excitedly shouted while holding Bai Yu's arm.
"Okay, Yueyue, stop rocking me! I'm not usually seasick, but you're making me seasick!"
"They're just a few sperm whales. You only saw them passing by. Once they're back on shore, go to my short video account and you'll see videos of me touching sperm whales up close, and they're even juveniles!"
"Touching a sperm whale? When did that happen, bro? I've never heard you mention it before!"
"It wasn't just me, your sister Xue'er and brother Ahai also touched it. It was a sperm whale that I encountered near the school last year when I was in school."
While Bai Yu and Bai Yue were chatting, someone else served fish first. This person was Bai Yu's second uncle, who was sitting on the other side of her.
Perhaps the frozen bait that was thrown in earlier worked, because Uncle Er got a bite from a fish, and judging from how bent his fishing rod was, the fish that took the bite this time seemed to be quite big.
"Second Uncle, you're really lucky! There are seven of us on the boat, and you've already caught a fish. You're a seasoned angler, after all. We young folks can't compare to you!"
Seeing her second uncle fishing alone, Bai Yu came to his side with a hint of envy.
As a fisherman, and one who can only fish at sea, Bai Yu's greatest envy is that others can fish.
He feels very envious when others catch fish while he's not catching any himself, but that's all he feels—only envy, not jealousy.
In summary, Bai Yu has a lot of energy and always wants to find something to do, even if it's just helping others fish.
"Little Yu, just go back to your fishing spot and wait patiently. Maybe you'll be the next one to catch a fish."
While operating the fishing rod, the second uncle chatted with Bai Yu.
Right after his second uncle finished speaking, Bai Yu suddenly heard a swishing sound, and the source of the sound was his own fishing spot!
"Damn, Uncle, is your mouth blessed? You just said I'd be the next one to catch a fish, and here I am catching one?"
Second Uncle, please help me! Tell them this fish that took the bait is huge, at least a hundred pounds! Please, Second Uncle!!!
Bai Yu turned to look in the direction the sound came from, and saw that the fishing rod, which had been hanging properly on the railing, was now bent into a semi-circle, and the fishing line was rapidly extending outwards.
It's obvious that a fish has taken the bait, and judging from the reaction of the fishing rod, the fish seems to be quite large.
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