Chapter 171: A new ship, the Duoyu!
"What the hell?"
There was a sudden strong force coming from the fishing rod, which surprised Zhang Ze a little.
This force is not small, and the medium-soft fishing rod is directly pulled into a big bow.
But despite being surprised, Zhang Ze reacted quickly and lifted the rod and stabbed the fish in time to keep the greedy fish.
"Brother, did you catch a big fish?" Zhang Wu, who noticed the movement, immediately turned around and asked curiously.
"It shouldn't be that big, and it should be quite strong." After all, a small pond is a small pond. It is impossible for a particularly large fish to appear there, let alone ten kilograms, even five kilograms.
The bigger the fish, the more it eats. This small pond cannot support any big fish.
This fish has strong explosive power and is very aggressive when it takes the hook. When Zhang Ze first took the hook, he did misjudge it and thought it was a big one.
However, the subsequent sustained pulling force was just so-so, no different from when he usually caught a two or three pound fish.
"My uncle is really amazing. If he doesn't take action, it's fine. But when he does, he will make a big splash." Tong Yuanhang's eldest son laughed.
"My nephew speaks so nicely. If you can talk, please say more." Zhang Ze pulled the fish closer with ease and made a joke.
His straightforward words made the nephew blush and feel a little shy. Because it made everyone think that he was trying to flatter, and although he did, could he be more subtle?
The fish struggled a bit, but was quickly caught by Zhang Ze.
A large fish appeared, and the three young men stopped fishing and came over.
"Brother, what kind of fish is this?"
“It looks weird.”
"Your mouth is so big, can you eat it?"
Zhang Ze's mouth twitched. He couldn't believe the fish in front of him. His first reaction was - what a big tiger!
"This is called a ground tiger, also known as a sand snakehead. It usually doesn't grow very big, so this one is a surprise. As for whether it tastes good or not, I can't say for sure, but the small ones taste good anyway."
He didn't know how to introduce it. In his decades of fishing career, this was the first time he caught such an outrageous ground tiger. If it wasn't the 1980s, he would have suspected that this fish was an alien species.
Zhang Ze put the fish into the bucket, and the three little ones watched curiously.
The three little ones had their first taste of the joy of fishing today, and they immediately fell in love with this recreational activity.
Everyone was fishing for small fish just now, but the sudden appearance of a big fish made them feel a little eager.
Zhang Ze saw through their thoughts at a glance and immediately warned them sternly: "You are not allowed to go fishing by the river. You can only come here if you want to fish in the future. If I find out that you don't obey, I will break your fishing rods and confiscate your fishing lines and hooks."
"Why?" Zhang Wu was not convinced when his little plan was discovered.
"The fish here in the pond are small, so it's safe for you to fish. If you go fishing by the river, you might get a really big fish. That fish is definitely stronger than you, and it will pull you into the river and you'll be finished." Zhang Ze touched his brother's head, and this time his voice was much softer than when he gave advice just now.
Everyone has a rebellious mentality, and a bad attitude and tone will only provoke others.
Speak nicely and gently, and they will naturally listen.
As a result, Zhang Wu’s rebellious psychology was immediately extinguished, and his two nephews also nodded seriously to show that they understood.
"Brother, is it true that a big fish is so strong that it can drag a person into the water?"
"I won't lie to you. You are still young and lack strength now. When you grow up and have enough strength, you can go fishing for bigger fish."
Although if they catch a big fish, there is a high probability that the fish will be unhooked or the rod will break, but Zhang Ze still wants to be prepared for the worst.
Aren't many fishermen in later generations dragged into the water by big fish and drowned? The three little ones continued to go back to their own positions to fish. Zhang Ze reached out and touched the ground tiger in the bucket and put it into the space.
[Successfully caught a sand snakehead, weighing 3.86 catties, experience (fish king) +100. ]
As expected by Zhang Ze, this is indeed a king fish, but the experience value is too low. An ordinary sand snakehead has one experience value, even if the king fish is multiplied by a hundred times, it is only a hundred experience points, which is tasteless and a pity to throw away.
Time passed slowly, and after the sun rose high in the sky, the few people had caught a lot of small fish and decided to go back.
Zhang Ze and Zhang Wu did catch a lot of stream fish together. When they took them home, Zhang's mother looked at them and immediately rolled her eyes in disdain: "It's troublesome to kill them when there's only a few pounds of meat. If you want to eat them, kill them yourself."
The two brothers really wanted to eat the stream fish, so they sat in the yard and killed the small fish one by one.
"Ah Qian, Ah Qing, come and help me kill the fish."
"Brother, we still have clothes to dry!" The two girls refused without hesitation.
Zhang Ze looked at his wife again. Tong Shuyao, who was wearing maternity clothes, smiled gently and patted her belly gently at him.
“.”
In the end, the two brothers spent most of the day killing the fish in tears, and then Zhang's mother cooked the fish in a pot in a short time.
As the days passed in Nanfang, Zhang Ze's family spoke Cantonese more and more fluently, and now they can communicate normally.
In this environment where everyone speaks Cantonese, and with their neighbors often talking to them, they learn very quickly.
In addition, southern dialects all have some similarities, and northerners learn them much faster when they come to the south.
After spending so much time in Nanfang, and with the fishing boat about to be renovated, Zhang Ze and Tong Shuyao are finally going to set off for Hong Kong Island.
The speed of processing the documents was not that slow. The main reason was that they all did not speak Cantonese, so Lu Wenbin specifically asked them to familiarize themselves with Cantonese first so that they would not understand anything when they arrived in Hong Kong Island.
Zhang Ze is very interested in going to Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong Island is developing rapidly, and he can take a good look here to see if there are any relatively advanced fishing rods, and also get a VCR to play movies.
In those days, there was basically no entertainment for him except fishing. He bought a color TV and a VCR in Hong Kong Island and brought them back so that he could watch movies when he had nothing to do.
Zhang Ze watched a lot of Hong Kong movies from the 1990s, but he didn’t watch many from the 1980s.
When I arrived in Hong Kong Island, I went to see my grandparents first. When the relatives saw each other, they burst into tears.
Lu Man hugged her father and mother and cried for a long time. Almost all the women in the Lu family shed tears.
After crying, there was the joy of reunion. Zhang Ze was surprised that the Lu family was quite close to him.
Perhaps it is because of the hardships they have experienced that this family is extremely cohesive. The younger generations are also very polite and well educated.
His grandparents even specially gave him a big red envelope. Zhang Ze was originally worrying about getting more Hong Kong dollars to buy things, but now he doesn't have to.
They stayed in Hong Kong Island for half a month.
Zhang Ze followed Lu Wenbin and met several big stars in Hong Kong Island, as well as goddess Lin.
But for a fisherman like him, seeing these stars only made him slightly excited, and he felt nothing afterwards.
Then he started looking for fishing gear in Hong Kong Island and bought a lure rod and a hand rod, both of which were made of fiberglass. Carbon ones were not available now.
When going for sea fishing, Zhang Ze will still use the fishing rod that he got as a space reward. He plans to use these two fiberglass ones for daily entertainment.
The water system near the fishing village is well developed, making fishing very convenient, and different fishing rods naturally have different ways of fishing.
After buying the fishing rod, he went on to buy a color TV and a VCR.
The speed of film production in Hong Kong is fast. There are many good films but even more bad ones. However, they are good for killing time, so Zhang Ze packed a small box directly.
After buying the things, he spent half of the red envelope given by his grandmother, and gave the remaining half to Tong Shuyao, asking her to keep it.
During this period, Zhang Ze also saw many gang fights and hacking people.
Hong Kong Island is really chaotic these days.
So they basically don't go out at night, because who knows if they will encounter some ignorant thugs causing trouble.
Half a month passed quickly, and we were reluctant to leave.
Lu Wenbin still went back to Nanfang with them. He opened a factory in Nanfang and would stay here most of the time in the future. He even brought his wife and children here.
"The ship can finally be launched!" After returning home, Zhang Ze installed the TV and played movies for his family, and he couldn't wait to run to the shipyard.
This is the boat he has been longing for for a long time. He has not been out to sea since he came to Nanfang, which makes him very depressed.
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Because the space was a secret, it was not easy for him to go on the boat often, so when others asked him to go, he simply refused.
"Wow, your boat is really nice. But I don't understand why you don't get a trawler. We made much more money from trawling last month than in Wenshui City." Tong Yuanhang knew that he was here to pick up the boat, so he followed him.
"There are quite a few fish caught with longline fishing, and quite a few people involved in trawling. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well at night if I let people I'm not familiar with get on my boat." Zhang Ze shook his head and smiled.
He would not choose a trawler even if there was no space.
The main reason for the depletion of domestic resources is the family nets and trawling nets. Secondly, as he said, he simply cannot fall asleep on a boat with unfamiliar people.
It is not like the future now. Killing someone secretly is common.
Tong Yuanhang actually didn't quite believe this explanation. He had a pretty good relationship with Jin Sanbao and the others. On the contrary, he felt that Zhang Ze preferred to be alone.
The 24-meter ship looked twice as big as the previous 15-meter ship just by looking at it straight on.
Maybe not in terms of length, but a 24-meter ship is taller, so there is this illusion.
Being alone on a large ship like this at sea at night is actually quite scary, especially for a timid person.
Zhang Ze didn't originally want to buy such a big one, but nowadays all kinds of equipment are large in size, so he had no choice.
The fishing boat was sent into the water, and he and Tong Yuanhang boarded the boat and came to the cockpit.
The interface is somewhat different from the previous ones, the navigation equipment is more advanced, and there is a fish finder screen next to it, but this is still a single-person boat.
Zhang Ze did not visit other places, but drove the boat back to the fishing village first.
He estimated that when he returned, many acquaintances would come to visit, so he decided to go with them.
“Beep~~”
A loud whistle sounded, and the fishing boat named Duoyu by Zhang Ze slowly sailed out of the shipyard dock and headed towards the mouth of the Pearl River.
As for why the fishing boat is named Duoyu, it is self-evident to the fisherman. It is already subtle enough that he did not use a margin call number.
“Here it comes!”
Knowing that her son was going to drive a new boat, Zhang Huihong and her group could not continue watching the movie. After a while, they brought the whole family to the dock to wait.
Jin Sanbao, who was standing next to him, knew that Zhang Ze was going to get a new boat, so he followed him. He was quite curious about what the fishing boat he had been waiting for a month would look like.
This news soon spread throughout the village, so more and more people gathered at the dock, and Jin Fan and Chen Xudong naturally followed.
"Here it comes!" When the Duoyu went upstream and gradually approached the village, someone immediately noticed the national flag flying on the top of the fishing boat.
When the fishing boat approached, the villagers all gasped when they suddenly saw such a big ship.
"Oh my, what a big ship."
"It's much bigger than Ah Hang's trawler!"
"Aze is the only one driving such a big boat?"
"How much does this boat cost and how far can it travel? I want to get one too."
"Aze has money, do you have money?"
The fishing village has a pier, which is occupied by the village’s fishing boats. Under normal circumstances, boats from outsiders are not allowed to dock here.
But Zhang Ze is not an outsider now. After moving here for more than a month, his family has basically integrated into the village. They have a good relationship with their neighbors and even established personal relationships, although they are the ones who are paid now.
However, the village’s pier is small, and such a large ship cannot dock directly and has to be parked in deep water.
But Zhang Ze had already made preparations. There was a rubber boat on the side of the stern deck of the Duoyu, which could be put into the water and paddled to the shore, and then taken home after being deflated. The shipyard specially equipped it with an air pump.
Rubber boats appeared as early as World War II. They are rarely seen in China now, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. After all, this thing is just a waste for fishermen.
Zhang Ze dropped the anchor and stopped the boat. As soon as he came to the stern, he saw several small wooden boats approaching him. Knowing this would happen, he opened the back door immediately.
Jin Sanbao arrived first with Zhang's mother and the others, and the others fell behind tacitly.
"That's amazing, Aze. The ship I waited for over a month is really extraordinary."
"Which fisherman doesn't have a dream of having a big boat!" Zhang Ze laughed and reached out to help Zhang's mother, daughter-in-law, sister and others onto the boat one by one. Then Jin Sanbao tied the small boat to the stern of the Duoyu and followed.
The others parked their boat next to his small wooden boat, but there were not many people, and they were all Zhang Ze's acquaintances.
Seeing that no one continued to come, Zhang Ze took the group to visit his fishing boat.
The building on this side of the deck has two floors, and the cab is on the second floor. The higher you stand, the farther you can see.
However, the building is in the middle, so the rear deck is much larger than the front deck.
The front deck is relatively spacious, and the live water tank and live bait tank are both in the front. These were all Zhang Ze’s own requests.
He can store live fish into the space at any time without having to carry them. It doesn't matter whether the live water tank is in the front or the back, but in order to leave enough space on the rear deck, the live water tank can only be placed in the front, including the air-conditioning outdoor unit.
There is a crane on the rear deck, a refrigerated compartment and a longline winch on the right side of the ship to facilitate the lowering of the longline. These are some simple external plans.
Walking into the cabin, there is a toilet, living room, tool room and kitchen on the first floor. The second floor is the cab and a sleeping room. The room is not small and has a bathroom. This is Zhang Ze’s master bedroom.
There is another floor below the cabin with three large rooms, each of which can sleep four people and has three bathrooms and toilets.
If it were in the future, this extra space could be used to make an entertainment room, but there is no such concept now, so the extra space was all renovated into a sleeping room. In case someone wants to come to the ship one day, at least there is a place to live. However, Zhang Ze estimated that it would most likely be empty for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
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