Chapter 142 Takeaway from the Storm
"Fuck, it smells so good. What are you cooking, Aze?" At this time, Tong Yuanhang's voice sounded at the kitchen door.
"I'm hungry, so I made a midnight snack. Why are you here?" Zhang Ze was a little surprised by his arrival. He thought that Zhang Qinghe would be the first one to arrive.
"What are you cooking? It smells so good." Tong Yuanhang did not answer his question, but came closer, opened the lid of the pot and looked at what was inside.
The ingredients inside surprised him: "Pork, eggs, silver pomfret, prawns, blue crabs, and small yellow croaker? You're really generous with this midnight snack!"
"Apart from pork and eggs, aren't the others very common to us fishermen?" Seeing that they were familiar with each other, Zhang Ze brought over a large soup bowl.
Pour the vermicelli from the pot into the soup bowl, the amount is controlled very well, just enough to fill it up.
Tong Yuanhang swallowed his saliva with a gulp.
He had been busy all night and was already hungry at this late hour.
It was just that he was used to it, so it was okay if he didn't eat it, but once he was tempted by the aroma, he couldn't help himself.
He went to get the bowl and chopsticks and said, "Aze, you can't eat so much. I'll share some with you."
"Go away, don't think that you can eat my midnight snack just because you are my brother-in-law. If you want to eat it, make it yourself. If you don't have pork, I have some here." Zhang Ze hurriedly protected his food.
He suspected that other people would come over later, and if they saw Tong Yuanhang having a midnight snack with him, they would definitely want to have a bite too, and then he might not be able to keep a single bite.
"Fuck, so stingy, be careful or I'll tell Shuyao when I get back."
"Haven't you heard that a daughter who is married off is like water spilled? I know I'm hungry because of you, so be careful that she gets angry with you!"
Tong Yuanhang held the bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right hand, his expression full of helplessness: "If you don't give me food, then you have to tell me how to cook it, right? I can only stew a bunch of things, but I can't cook it as deliciously as you do."
If he could teach him, there would be no problem. Zhang Ze told him the steps of making three-fresh noodles. It was actually very simple. Even though Tong Yuanhang rarely went into the kitchen, he understood it as soon as he was told.
"By the way, do you still have any blue crabs here? I think the blue crabs you cook will taste really good."
"No, I just happened to catch one. You can use swimming crab instead, it will be the same."
After Zhang Ze finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and reminded again: "By the way, the freshly caught swimming crabs need to be soaked in sea water to let them spit out the sand in their bodies, otherwise they will have a mouthful of sand in their mouths."
Tong Yuanhang nodded, put down his bowl and chopsticks, and went back impatiently, completely forgetting that he came here to discuss something important.
Just as Zhang Ze expected, when it was time for supper, several people from other boats came to him one after another. No one knew why they liked to come to him so much, and they all wanted to have his supper. In the end, he sent them all to Tong Yuanhang's boat.
By the time he finished his midnight snack and washed the dishes, the wind and waves on the sea were getting stronger and stronger.
Zhang Ze came from the cabin to the cockpit and looked into the distance through the window.
It was raining heavily outside, and it was night so he couldn't see anything.
This storm came suddenly, and he didn't know whether any fishermen would die at sea.
There were flashing lights of a large ship on the sea in the distance. Zhang Ze suspected that it was a military ship patrolling or even searching and rescuing on the sea. After all, there was a navy stationed on the island.
His cousin's husband in the army will probably be very busy tonight, but it has nothing to do with him.
He is just an ordinary fisherman. Because of his rebirth, he even cherishes his life more. If he happens to pass by someone who is boat capsized and drowning, he will definitely help.
Fishermen at sea help each other. No one knows whether they will encounter a shipwreck in the future, so they will try their best to help.
But it is unrealistic to ask him to drive a boat specifically to help with patrol and search and rescue.
Back in the cabin bedroom, Zhang Ze prepared to go to bed.
He didn't know how long he had been in a daze, when the fishing boat suddenly shook with a bang, as if it had been hit by something, and he was immediately awakened.
He put on his clothes and raincoat and went outside the cabin to look around. Their larger ships were not crowded at the dock like the small wooden boats, but were parked on the sea near the dock.
The bows and sterns of the four boats are tied together, so there is no need to worry about the boats capsizing when parked on the sea.
After the loud bang just now, Zhang Ze thought that a small boat had hit him. He went to the cabin and turned on a light on the corridor on the left side of the ship. He came out and found nothing.
When he came to the side of the ship and looked at the sea, he saw a swordfish stunned by the waves beside the boat. How could such a big storm deliver goods to his door?
Zhang Ze immediately went to get the javelin and wanted to kill the swordfish, but in just a short while, the swordfish, which was still dizzy, sank into the water and disappeared. It was estimated that it had run away.
"Damn, he runs really fast!"
He was very upset that the fish had escaped, but there was nothing he could do.
At this time, although the big guy that annoyed him sank into the water, it was hit by the waves and hit the fishing boat, making its head still dizzy.
Fighting the waves just now had consumed a lot of its energy, and the dizziness made it unable to control its body well, so it floated to the surface again.
Zhang Ze had not gone back yet. He was holding the side of the boat and observing the situation on the sea. When he saw the big swordfish, his eyes suddenly lit up.
There is still a chance!
He quickly took out the fishing rod and adjusted it to the hardest state, replaced it with the largest drum reel and installed the fishing rod on the side of the boat.
Then he spent two hundred experience points from the space to exchange for ten exclusive swordfish baits.
This swordfish is about three and a half meters long. It is not a king fish, but it should be able to be sold for a few hundred dollars.
But the swordfish was not in a good state at the moment, and Zhang Ze didn't know whether it would still eat the bait. There was no harm in giving it a try anyway.
After putting the bait on the hook and throwing it into the water, Zhang Ze found a rope and tied it around the side of the boat and his waist, so that fishing would be safer on stormy days.
It was pitch black in the night and Zhang Ze could only vaguely see the swordfish occasionally emerging from the water with the help of the light.
Perhaps the attraction of the exclusive bait was too strong, and the swordfish moved.
After stabilizing its body and recovering some strength, it immediately swam towards the location that had a fatal attraction to it.
When the swordfish discovered that what attracted it was food, it bit it completely out of control.
The instant sting in its mouth made it sober up immediately. Recalling its behavior just now, the swordfish was a little surprised. How could it still eat in such a stormy weather? But no matter what, it was already a fact that it had bitten the hook.
Zhang Ze on the boat didn't expect that the special bait was so effective. In this case, the swordfish would come up to eat the bait.
As soon as he stabbed the fish, he felt a huge force coming from his hand before he had time to be happy.
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The fishing rod that was originally raised suddenly bent down sharply, and the amplitude was almost the same as when fishing for tiger sharks before.
The drum with the unloading force set to the maximum was simply unable to stop the pulling of the half-crippled swordfish. The spool kept making a "squeak, squeak, squeak" sound, quickly releasing the line.
Zhang Ze never expected that the swordfish that was floating on the water with the waves just now could burst out with such powerful strength and speed. He thought he could easily take advantage of the situation this time!
He grabbed the crank and tried to reel in the line, but he couldn't turn it. It was obvious that the fish was resisting with more force than he could handle.
Then all he could do was wait. No matter how hard the swordfish tried, it couldn't escape the fact that most of its strength had been consumed.
He grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and pulled it back, which accelerated the swordfish's energy consumption. At the same time, he could also find out in time when the swordfish was cleaning its gills, and then continue to stab the fish.
“Boom~Boom!”
The sea water hits the rocks, making roars.
“Da da da~”
Zhang Ze had just taken a short nap, but the rain did not decrease with time, and it still hit various parts of the fishing boat like bullets.
The sea breeze was even stronger. He suspected that the wind speed was at least level 10 at the moment, but it did not reach the level of a typhoon.
If there is a typhoon at sea, the fishery administration will definitely issue a notice prohibiting fishermen from going out to sea.
Obviously, the storm came suddenly and no one was prepared.
Zhang Ze lowered his head slightly and gritted his teeth to resist the sea breeze while trying hard to shake the fishing rod. Although he couldn't shake it, it further consumed the little remaining strength of the swordfish, slowing down the speed at which the spool released the line.
Otherwise, if you let it go again, the swordfish will run too far away and it will be more difficult to catch it.
But after all, the swordfish had already consumed a lot of physical strength before, and after resisting for a while, it could no longer hold on, and the fishing line in the spool stopped flowing out.
Zhang Ze began to turn the crank vigorously, reeling the fishing line in circles.
In such rough sea conditions, although the swordfish leapt for a while, it did not run very far and was only about 130 meters away from the fishing boat.
But even with just over 130 meters, it still took Zhang Ze about 20 minutes to pull the fish close, which was only about 6 or 7 meters away from the fishing boat.
It turned out that the swordfish was surprisingly resilient. It was almost dragged to the side of the boat, but it just didn't want to come up.
The fishing rod was pulled into a big bow again, and the fishing line was sliding left and right tautly. Zhang Ze tried hard to turn the crank, but it wouldn't turn.
This made him laugh a little angrily: "You can't escape anyway, so why not just be straightforward?"
As if hearing his words, the swordfish suddenly moved.
"Woo woo woo~" The fishing line vibrated at a high frequency, drawing a semicircular oblique line on the sea surface, and then rushed directly towards the fishing boat.
The target is either him on the boat or under the boat.
Zhang Ze didn't believe that the swordfish had the strength to jump onto the boat. It was not realistic for a fish of this size.
Those that can hit the boat are usually only about 1.5 to 2 meters long. The particularly large ones are too heavy to jump, so the swordfish must run to the bottom of the boat.
Zhang Ze knew that the swordfish was making its final resistance, so he shook the crank very quickly to reel in the fishing line to prevent it from rushing under the boat.
Although there is no need to worry about the fishing line being cut if it touches the fishing boat, it is not so easy to catch the fish.
Just as the swordfish approached the side of the boat, Zhang Ze lifted the fishing rod with force.
“Crack, crack~”
Under the huge reaction force, the swordfish's huge head was inevitably pulled up by Zhang Ze.
(End of this chapter)
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