Chapter 136 Big Fish Blows Up the Water
"I don't know how my mother is doing in the village." Zhang Qing lay on the table looking a little bored.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen if you live in the captain's house. And when mom gets angry, ordinary people can't do anything to her." Zhang Ze comforted her softly.
But he hadn't been to the village for two days, so he thought he should go and see her. It was either that Tong Shuyao was pregnant, or he could take a few people back with him.
"I'll go back to see mom later. By the way, you don't have to cook tomorrow night. We'll go to the restaurant to eat after Zhang Wu comes back."
"Why do you suddenly want to go to the restaurant to eat?" Tong Shuyao came out after washing the dishes and just heard his words.
"When I came back from Qinghe Village, I caught a tiger shark with Zhang Qinghe and the others. We sold it for over a hundred yuan. When they refused to accept the money, I offered to treat them to a meal at Weiyou Restaurant."
"I thought since I invited them, I might as well invite them all."
They are either friends or family members. It would be unreasonable to invite Zhang Qinghe and his two brothers without inviting cousin Tong Yuanhang and others.
These people are currently making money for him, so just consider it as employee meals.
"Wow, I can go to a restaurant to eat. I've never been to a restaurant in my life!" Zhang Qing was very excited. Let alone a restaurant, she had never even been to a state-owned restaurant.
"Then I'll let you broaden your horizons this time." Zhang Ze said with a smile.
After chatting with his family for a while, he rode his bike to the pier.
He first set out on a boat to collect the traps. Now he could only pick out sixty to seventy kilograms of blue crabs that met the requirements from five traps.
After taking a look at the blue crab data in the space, it has accumulated to more than 600 kilograms.
When the shop was doing well, he would consume no more than 30 to 50 kilograms of blue crabs a day. Later, when business was bad, he would only sell about 10 to 20 kilograms a day. This led to an increasing number of blue crabs in his space.
Originally, the space of more than ten cubic meters was filled with blue crabs, making it difficult to put other fish in there, especially when there were many groupers during the return voyage. Fortunately, the space was suddenly expanded tenfold after the upgrade, which solved this problem.
Now, let alone hundreds of kilograms, even ten times more can be easily loaded.
In this small woods, the number of blue crabs weighing more than 7 taels is indeed decreasing, but since he has not found a suitable place yet, he can only keep the traps here.
We parked the boat in Yuewan County, bought some things, and took the bus to the village.
Carrying the things, he walked into the captain's house, and then learned from Zhang Qinghe's mother that his grandparents were dying, and Zhang's mother was over there.
Zhang Ze was a little surprised. He thought he could live longer with his mother's care, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.
He hurried to Zhang's house and found that the two families who had been making trouble before had stopped. He didn't see anyone after he walked in, but there was a faint sound of quarreling coming from the next room.
Zhang Ze went straight to the old man's room and saw his mother wiping the old man's face.
Zhang Ding also saw him and opened his mouth, but he could no longer speak.
"Aze, why are you here?" Zhang Huihong was surprised when she saw her son.
"Come and see you." Zhang Ze looked at the two old men who were almost skin and bones and replied.
If he didn't know his mother's character, he would have almost thought that his mother was abusing the elderly. There was such a big change in just two days.
"Where are the others? And what's going on in the next room? Why is it so noisy?"
Zhang Huihong looked at the old man, sighed and did not answer. After wiping the old man's face, she carried the basin and walked out of the house and came to the yard outside.
Zhang Ze followed behind and asked the question in his mind: "Why did the two elderly people suddenly become so bad? Judging from their previous condition, they should be able to live for a while if they are well taken care of."
Zhang Huihong poured some water and said calmly, "When you get old, maybe you don't want to bother others, so you want to leave early!"
She didn't tell the real reason, it was simply that the old man's eldest son and second son ignored her, and instead his youngest daughter-in-law, who had cut off ties with him, came to take care of him. This made them finally realize their mistakes, so he wanted to give them some of the land he had been allocated.
But how could their two sons agree to that? Zhang Huihong didn't know what the two old people had experienced. She only knew that when she came to take care of them the next day, Zhang Ding, who could speak, could no longer make a sound.
We fed them but the two old people refused to eat, so they became like this with hunger after two days.
Even if Zhang Huihong didn't say it, Zhang Ze knew what was going on. He didn't expect that the same thing that happened in his previous life would happen again in this life, but the process was a little different.
"Aze, you should come over here in the next few days. Your grandparents might pass away at any time."
"Okay, I got it!" Zhang Ze nodded. He still had to see the old man off. It would be troublesome to send someone to Wenshui City to notify him. It would be better for him to come and see him when he goes out to sea.
Since his mother was fine, he did not stay long and took the opportunity to return to Yuewan County to go out to sea while there were still buses available.
First go to Lumen Island to get the longline. The second longline was just made this morning.
Originally, the length of the sub-line had little impact, but now that the magic bait has lost its super nesting effect, this longline with a sub-line length of nearly 100 meters is very necessary, and it is an essential equipment for deep-sea fish fishing.
He turned on the radio and found the channel they usually used to communicate: "Ahang, where are you now?"
Perhaps they were busy and no sound came out, but his second cousin's voice came out: "We are here at Nanping Island, and we just arrived not long ago. We didn't get much in the coastal waters this morning because there were too many fishing boats."
"Okay, I'll go there now." Knowing that they were on Nanping Island, Zhang Ze turned around and went straight there.
It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when he arrived at Nanping Island. On the sea, he could see some busy fishing boats with their lights on.
Zhang Ze couldn't find the exact location of Tong Yuanhang and the others for a while.
But it didn't matter. He circled around the sea and finally found a good spot.
After thinking about it, he directly exchanged for one thousand pieces of ordinary fishing bait, spending one thousand experience points.
I poured the bait into the bamboo basket, but to my surprise, the bait turned into the shape of prawns.
If there were no fish bait in reality, ordinary fish bait would basically appear in the shape of shrimp.
To be honest, each prawn is as big as a palm and looks extremely tempting. It's a pity that the magical bait in the space cannot be eaten, otherwise Zhang Ze would have saved some for himself to taste.
After more than an hour, a thousand hooks were filled with bait, and Zhang Ze let down all the longlines.
This longline is thirty meters long and is mainly used to catch grouper in reef areas.
Of course he had to use the longline he had just bought today. A thousand experience points could be exchanged for several thousand. Even if only one-third of the thousand baits were caught and a small part of them were eaten, he would still make a profit.
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The bait can be recovered and reused next time, unlike the longline bait in reality, which is difficult to reuse.
This time it also took an hour and a half to let down the longline, but after the bait lost its effect of attracting fish, Zhang Ze was not sure how much he would catch.
After putting down the longline, Zhang Ze came to the open waters and took out the tiger shark bait that had not been used up to see if there were any tiger sharks here.
But as soon as he took out the bait, he found many small squids appearing on the water surface near the side of the boat.
The price of small squids is very low, only a few cents per pound at the seafood market. And you have to buy the bigger ones, don’t buy the small ones.
But this is a very good all-purpose fish bait. Now that the space has become so large, not only can you raise fish, but you can also store a large amount of fish bait!
The magic bait is effective, but if there are more small squids, you can make a nest. In the end, the fishing effect should not be worse than ordinary bait. Zhang Ze thinks that normal fishing can save some experience points.
So he decisively took back the tiger shark bait and went to get a fishing line. The fish hook he used was the professional squid hook that was provided when the space gave him a fishing rod.
An umbrella-shaped twelve-claw squid hook that can glow at night is quite advanced.
There was no one else on the boat, so he could use it without worry.
If the small squids were not so dense, he would have planned to use a cast net directly.
After tying the fish hook, Zhang Ze stood by the boat and started fishing for small squids.
When the twelve-claw luminous fish hook was placed in the water, several small squids nearby immediately swam towards the small squid.
Zhang Ze stared at the movements of the squid. When the squid touched the hook with its tentacles, he raised his hand and the twelve-claw squid hook immediately lifted the squid up.
He pulled the hook up a little, reached out and touched the squid, and the squid immediately disappeared on the hook.
The barb on the hook was too sharp and had pierced the squid's body, but not too deep.
Zhang Ze was also a little worried about whether the injured squid could survive in the space, but after watching it for a while, he found that although the squid was injured on the outside of its body, it was very energetic and there was no problem for the time being.
[Successfully caught a small squid, weight 107 grams, experience +1. ]
There is a little experience value, which is okay, equivalent to an ordinary bait.
He no longer cared about the life or death of the squid in the space and continued fishing.
For a while, a squid could be caught almost every few seconds, and more and more squids gathered nearby.
In this case, the catch would definitely be more with a casting net, but after considering it, Zhang Ze decided to use fishing. The catch would be lower, but the experience value would be more important.
Anyway, it’s used as bait. If you don’t have enough, you can buy some on the shore. It’s not expensive now.
Just as Zhang Ze was happily fishing for squid, the water surface suddenly exploded, and a big fish suddenly jumped out of the water and swallowed a small squid that was trying to swim towards the fishing boat.
His eyes lit up. The gathered squids attracted nearby schools of fish.
Judging from the appearance of the fish just now, it is most likely bonito, octopus, yellowtail, or something like that, or it could be tuna.
But tuna is not a popular fish in this country these days.
This thing became popular only after people consumed less of it and the cold chain technology matured.
(End of this chapter)
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