Chapter 12: Big Sea Bass Appears
After eating a delicious meal of rice and pork, my stomach was satisfied for a short time, but then I felt sleepy.
Zhang Ze covered his mouth and yawned, then said, "Mom, I'll take a shower and go to bed later. I'll go fishing tonight and sell it tomorrow."
"Awu, catch more loaches this afternoon and I'll bring you some candy tomorrow."
"Really? Don't worry, brother. I will definitely help you catch lots of loaches." Zhang Wu was surprised. Sugar, he almost forgot the taste.
Zhang Ze nodded, then looked at his two sisters: "Ah Qian, A Qing, is there anything you want? I'll bring it to you tomorrow."
Zhang Qian shook her head and said sensibly, "I don't want anything."
Zhang Qing hesitated for a moment, then glanced at her mother. Seeing that she had no intention of stopping him, she boldly said, "Brother, I want to eat candied haws!"
"Okay, no problem!" Zhang Ze naturally agreed to his sister's small request.
Then his two sisters took the initiative to fetch him some water. He took the water to the yard to take a bath and then went back to the house to sleep.
Zhang Wu went to catch loaches excitedly, and he also wanted to tell his friends about the taste of oil residue and braised pork.
When I woke up, it was already evening. Zhang Huihong was doing needlework with her two daughters.
The main thing was to sew a pocket inside several of Zhang Ze’s clothes so he could put money in it.
It is the slack season now and the production team does not have much to do. We will have to go to work every day when the busy farming season comes.
So the village was quite chaotic during these times, and the men, with nothing to do, would go around hooking up with other people's wives.
Zhang Ze knew a lot of interesting things, but these had nothing to do with him, so he naturally wouldn't talk about them casually.
"Brother, I caught a lot of loaches, look!" Just then, Zhang Wu came back with a bucket of water, struggling to carry it. When he saw him, he immediately came over to take credit.
Zhang Ze took a look at the half bucket of loaches and praised him with satisfaction.
Nowadays, the fields are full of loaches and eels. It is not an exaggeration for a child to catch so many in an afternoon.
Two years later, the number of eels and loaches decreased rapidly after pesticides were used in the fields.
Seeing that her youngest son had also returned, Zhang Huihong got up to prepare dinner.
Zhang Ze carried a bucket and went to the yard to fetch water from the well to wash the mud off the loaches to reduce the weight.
The only good thing his father left behind was this well, otherwise their family would not have been able to use water so conveniently.
"Brother, can you take me fishing tonight?" Zhang Wu asked tentatively, squatting beside him and watching him wash loaches.
"Not these days. I'm busy for a while. I'll take you to the beach when the time comes." Zhang Ze shook his head and refused.
His fish selling business had just started, and he didn't want to bring anyone to cause trouble for himself.
Once he has some regular customers, he may be able to arrange for door-to-door delivery directly, and then he may get some seafood as gifts to maintain customer relationships.
After dinner, Zhang Ze carried a bucket and some equipment to the place where he had caught the mandarin fish before. Then he grabbed some loaches and started making a nest.
"Little cuties, it's time to eat!"
I came here to fish at about the same time last night, and today as well. If I keep doing this, I will slowly develop this fishing spot.
Unfortunately, he will soon move to another battlefield. Even though the mandarin fish is very valuable, his target is still the sea of stars.
After throwing some loaches, Zhang Ze took out his fishing tools, let out the fishing line, and then hung a loach on it and threw it into the water.
But this time he used a new fishhook he made tonight, which was one size smaller than yesterday's.
His experience of selling fish during the day taught him that fish weighing about two kilograms are the best-selling, neither too big nor too small, just enough for a family to eat.
Of course, it can be more than three pounds. Some families have large populations, so bigger fish are more suitable for them to eat.
The loach was thrown into the water and quickly sank to the bottom along with the small stones tied together.
The next moment, before Zhang Ze could react, the fishing line suddenly tightened and a strong force came over him.
"Oh my god, you're using such a big hook when you've already changed to a smaller one?"
Zhang Ze felt a little helpless as he grabbed the fishing line. The force was similar to that of the four or five kilograms mandarin fish he caught last night.
Catching a fish is a happy thing, but if the fishhook is too small, it will be easily straightened and become unhooked.
Sure enough, after being pulled a few times, the taut fishing line suddenly bounced back a little, then loosened, and the fish ran away.
Zhang Ze reeled in the line and picked up the fishhook. It had indeed been straightened. It seemed that he still had to use a bigger one.
At the same time, this incident also reminded him that there are many big fish in this era. Fish weighing four or five kilograms are common, and even fish weighing dozens of kilograms are not uncommon. He still has to buy professional fish hooks and fishing lines.
After that, he changed to a big fish hook and the fish never came off the hook again.
But occasionally a particularly large fish would pull the hook straight out, so he would have to replace it with a new one.
Now that the second-level fishing space has a much larger capacity, he can catch more fish and put them in.
Even if they cannot be sold at once, they can be kept and sold next time. After all, the fish can always live in the space.
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Time passed slowly, and Zhang Ze didn't know how long he had been fishing. In short, three of the five big fish hooks he brought had been straightened by fish.
However, we caught 33 fish, all weighing between two and five kilograms.
This time the types of fish are richer. There are not only mandarin fish, but also several black carp and black bass, all of which are ferocious carnivorous fish.
The latter two types of fish are not popular in this era, and no one is willing to eat them even if they are given away for free.
In an era with abundant fish resources, people can be so willful.
Zhang Ze kept two of the two kinds of fish, weighing about three pounds, in his fishing space. He didn't want to sell them, but to cook them for himself.
As for grass carp, there was not a single one. However, a big silver carp was caught, but the fish was so big that it pulled the hook and ran away.
Zhang Ze planned to use up the last two fish hooks before going home, mainly because he still had some loaches.
Throwing out the bait again, he was always ready.
As expected, after only waiting for a few seconds, the bait was snatched up by a fish before it even sank to the bottom.
"Damn, with this speed of catching fish, wouldn't Xiao Liu and the other turtle hunters be drooling with envy? By the way, that kid should still be nursing now, right?"
Zhang Ze felt a fierce force again and couldn't help but sigh.
The Xiao Liu he mentioned was a fishing buddy he met in his previous life. He was much younger than him. Like him, he had no soldiers seven days out of ten, so they had a good relationship.
Accustomed to the days of being in the air force, Zhang Ze felt like he was dreaming when he now caught fish as soon as he cast the hook.
This was another big fish, and he pulled it back and forth for two or three minutes before he finally pulled the fish to the water's edge.
At first glance, he thought it was a blackfin croaker. After all, it was late at night and there was only a little moonlight, so it was not very clear.
When he caught the fish and put it into the fishing space, a prompt message suddenly appeared.
[Successfully caught a seven-spotted perch, weighing 3.83 catties, experience +5. ]
"Oh, sea bass have appeared?" Zhang Ze was not surprised that sea bass appeared here, because sea bass would naturally run into freshwater rivers.
It’s just that the sea bass that has stayed in the freshwater river for a long time has a stronger earthy smell than the sea bass in the sea, and the taste is slightly worse.
At least that's what Zhang Ze thinks, but everyone has different tastes, and maybe some people prefer this kind of sea bass.
The experience value is five points, which is two points less than that of mandarin fish, but two points more than that of black fish and river bass, which is not bad.
Having caught a lot of fish today, Zhang Ze looked at the panel and found that his experience value had already exceeded 200, so he could level up again.
(End of this chapter)
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