Just now, Xiaomeng possessed the fish in the sea, which not only exhausted her own energy, but Chen Zhiyao also felt tired and hungry.
After placing the grouper in her hand into the live water tank, Chen Zhiyao quickly scooped up some other small seafood to prepare lunch.
She spent the whole morning going beachcombing and fishing, and then spent a lot of energy exploring the ocean depths. Now she's so hungry her legs are weak.
Time was tight, so Chen Zhiyao didn't make anything too complicated for lunch. She just scooped up some clams, shrimp, squid, and octopus to make seafood noodles.
The village is right by the sea, and she learned how to handle seafood when she was in elementary school. She can prepare all kinds of fresh ingredients in just a few minutes.
Various kinds of fresh seafood that can even squirt water, along with bright green vegetables and scallions, make a delicious bowl of seafood noodles.
Seafood noodles
After a mouthful of seafood noodles, Chen Zhiyao felt completely refreshed. She even felt her cooking skills had improved.
But that makes sense, these seafood were caught just this morning, and they were still lively and jumping around before they were put into the pot.
She's been cooking every day these past few days, and her culinary skills have improved.
Grandpa Chen was very supportive, showering praise upon praise as if it were free.
The grandfather and grandson ate a whole pot of seafood noodles, finishing every last drop, even drinking the broth.
Grandpa Chen got up, tidied up the dishes and chopsticks, and then took them to the small kitchen to wash.
After eating and drinking her fill, Chen Zhiyao lazily let out a burp, feeling a little sleepy.
When Grandpa Chen finished tidying up the kitchen and came out, he saw his granddaughter asleep on the table.
The old man stepped forward, gently patted his granddaughter's shoulder, and whispered a suggestion:
"Tangtang, it's windy here. Why don't you go to the rest room and take a nap? You must be tired from getting up early every day lately."
Chen Zhiyao yawned, "Okay, then I'll take a nap first. Grandpa, you should rest for a while too."
"I don't need to. I'm getting old and don't need much sleep. I'll go fishing for a while longer. The fishing is pretty good today."
Grandpa Chen was telling the truth. Besides catching a lot of rock bream at the beginning, he also caught a lot of butterflyfish and scorpionfish. The fishing was indeed quite good.
For a fisherman, nothing could make him happier than this; the old man simply couldn't sleep at this moment.
He then excitedly picked up his prized fishing rod and went fishing.
Seeing her grandfather looking so energetic, Chen Zhiyao didn't say anything more and turned to lie down on the bed in the lounge for a nap.
The sound of the waves was like a lullaby, and I slept very soundly.
After an unknown amount of time, in a daze, Chen Zhiyao heard her grandfather's hearty laughter coming from outside.
Immediately afterwards, the alarm clock on my phone went off.
She went to bed at 1 a.m., but unexpectedly slept for two hours.
As soon as Chen Zhiyao came out of the lounge, she went up to the old man and asked, "You seem to be in a good mood. What good thing did you catch this time?"
"It's such a shame you didn't come fishing earlier. The fishing was really good this afternoon. You caught half a bucket of black sea bream and several wrasse in just two hours."
"Then why didn't you call me, Grandpa?"
Looking at the half-full bucket of black sea bream and wrasse, Chen Zhiyao felt a pang of sadness. The fish were thriving, so why wasn't she there?
Seeing his granddaughter's annoyed expression, Grandpa Chen couldn't help but tease her:
"You can never earn all the money in the world. You must have made at least 80,000 or 90,000 yuan in the month you rented the boat. Young man, don't be too greedy."
Since returning home, his granddaughter has been going out to sea every day without rest, and the old man feels sorry for her.
The grandfather and grandson exchanged a few playful banter before getting into the driver's seat together, preparing to head back to Danshui Island to collect their fishing nets.
Fishing boats at work
As the fishing boat approached Danshui Island, Chen Zhiyao looked out to sea and saw fishing boats operating on Dolphin Island in the distance.
And the more I looked at the boat, the more familiar it seemed. Wasn't that my uncle's fishing boat?
However, everyone was busy, so she didn't disturb them and quickly pulled up all the fishing nets and traps that had been set up in the morning.
Today's two gillnets had a pretty good catch, and the variety of fish inside was quite good.
There were several of almost every kind of fish, including barracuda, cuttlefish, white pomfret, small sea bass, black sea bream, red sea bream, wrasse, and rockfish.
As for the crab traps, the harvest wasn't great; they mostly yielded mud crabs and blue crabs weighing five or six ounces each.
However, the harvest from those five fish traps still did not disappoint Chen Zhiyao.
Three small green lobsters, three large sea bass weighing around 10 pounds each, two conger eels weighing six or seven pounds each, two pearl groupers weighing over seven pounds each, and one green grouper weighing eight pounds each.
In addition, there was a whole bucket full of various small fish and crabs.
After collecting the goods, the grandfather and grandson sailed back home.
On the way back, Chen Zhiyao informed Boss Yang early on that he would come to the dock to transport the fish later.
Although there were no three-knife fish or red-spotted fish today, these expensive fish cost several hundred yuan per kilogram.
However, the grandfather and grandson caught quite a few rock bream today, which are still quite valuable.
36 jin of sea bass, 38 yuan per jin, totaling 1368 yuan. 15 jin of conger eel, 58 yuan per jin, totaling 870 yuan.
7 jin of mud crabs, 50 yuan per jin, totaling 350 yuan. 6 jin of blue crabs, 48 yuan per jin, totaling 288 yuan.
8 jin of baby lobster, 196 yuan per jin, totaling 1568 yuan. 4 jin of abalone, 82 yuan per jin, totaling 328 yuan.
Large blue-green lilies: 5 jin, 120 yuan per jin, total 600 yuan. Small blue-green lilies: 6 jin, 65 yuan per jin, total 390 yuan.
Pearl grouper, 15 jin, 45 yuan per jin, total 675 yuan. Green grouper, 14 jin, 60 yuan per jin, total 840 yuan.
Red sea bream, 21 jin, 56 yuan per jin, total 1176 yuan. Black sea bream, 19 jin, 57 yuan per jin, total 1083 yuan.
Peppered snapper, 15 jin, 65 yuan per jin, totaling 975 yuan. Other sea snails and a small quantity of other seafood, totaling 400 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao actually earned over 10,000 yuan today, totaling [amount missing].
Today is the last day of the rental period for this fishing boat, bringing it to a perfect end.
Chen Zhiyao even considered renewing her contract.
It only costs 4,000 yuan a month. The money you earn from a day's trip at sea is enough to rent a boat for two months.
Since we haven't bought a fishing boat yet, renting one for another month as a temporary measure isn't a bad idea.
While Chen Zhiyao was thinking about the fishing boat, Grandpa Chen had already settled his catch for the day with Yang Jiajun.
The old man caught quite a few rock bream and several bluefin bream today, bringing in a new high of 6,180 yuan.
When the grandfather and grandson came out of the recycling station, they saw that the sky was full of beautiful fiery clouds.
Fiery Clouds
However, at this moment, Grandpa Chen frowned and muttered to himself:
"It looks like it's going to rain for the next few days."
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