After quickly sorting and organizing her morning's beachcombing catch, Chen Zhiyao's stomach started rumbling.
I took out my phone and saw that it was already 12 o'clock.
Lunch was another seafood feast: steamed yellow croaker, steamed sea bass, and stir-fried octopus with bok choy.
Since returning to the village, Chen Zhiyao feels she can save money on groceries.
The fish were all steamed, and Chen Zhiyao simply stir-fried some bok choy. In just half an hour, she was enjoying a delicious seafood feast.
The weather was nice today, and the sea breeze was quite pleasant. Chen Zhiyao leisurely moved a small table onto the deck.
The grandfather and grandson ate lunch while admiring the boundless sea before them.
Grandpa Chen figured he had nothing better to do than go fishing, so he grabbed his fishing rod and started fishing while eating lunch.
Chen Zhiyao felt that her grandfather's fishing addiction was getting bigger and bigger.
However, after mentally complaining about the old man, Chen Zhiyao herself happily grabbed the fishing rod.
Previously, we used the large shrimp from our home to fish, but this morning Grandpa Chen happened to have caught a few octopuses while beachcombing.
Seeing that the octopus was much larger than the shrimp, she thought it might be even more effective, so she took one out and hooked it on the fishing hook.
Chen Zhiyao had only eaten half of her lunch when she noticed that the fishing rod next to her was severely bent and deformed, and the reel was squeaking.
Chen Zhiyao quickly put down the bowl and chopsticks, turned on the drag on the fishing rod, and started playing the fish.
Grandpa Chen glanced at his still fishing rod and felt incredibly envious.
"Could it be that the shrimp I hung up were too small, and not as popular as these octopuses?"
Thinking of this, the old man quickly pulled back the fishing hook and changed the bait to a half-pound octopus.
Meanwhile, Chen Zhiyao had been playing the fish for 10 minutes, and the big guy in the sea was still full of energy and vitality, with the reel still constantly releasing line.
Glancing at the nearly empty fishing line, Chen Zhiyao quickly adjusted the drag to the tightest setting.
Then he turned on his X-ray glasses, ready to fight this giant head-on.
The man and the fish pulled back and forth for several minutes, at which point the large creature in the sea clearly began to tire.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chen Zhiyao frantically spun the fishing reel and quickly reeled in the line.
However, after reeling in about 20 meters of line, the rested giant started thrashing about in the sea again.
Grandpa Chen, who hadn't caught a fish yet, stared longingly at the fishing rod in his granddaughter's hand.
"Tangtang, you must be tired. Let me help you fish." The old man smiled kindly.
Chen Zhiyao glanced at the unfinished meal and readily handed the fishing rod to her grandfather.
We haven't finished eating yet; eating is the most important thing.
Seeing that the old man had finished eating, Chen Zhiyao finished off the remaining sea bass and yellow croaker.
Freshly caught sea fish are so delicious.
Just as Chen Zhiyao finished tidying up the dishes, Grandpa Chen was exhausted from taking the big fish out of the sea.
Seeing his granddaughter coming over, Grandpa Chen quickly asked her to bring the fishing net over.
The fishing line was slowly reeled in, and soon a large sea wolf, over a meter long, appeared on the surface of the sea.
"Tangtang, hurry up! This sea wolf is fierce. Be careful, don't let it get away."
Grandpa Chen was so excited that his face turned red, as if he had caught the fish himself.
Chen Zhiyao, holding a large net, scooped up the sea wolf from the water.
The fish was exhausted and lay obediently on the deck. Chen Zhiyao felt that the fish was almost as tall as her.
Before the fishhook was even removed, the old man simply lay down next to the big fish.
"Tangtang, take a picture for me."
"Oh, here I come."
The old man lay on the ground with a happy smile, changing his pose several times, which amused Chen Zhiyao.
She found it quite fun, and after Grandpa Chen got up, he also lay down next to the big fish.
Then, beaming with joy, he took a photo with the giant creature that was almost as tall as him.
After taking the photos, Chen Zhiyao removed the fishhook and weighed it on the electronic scale on the boat.
"Grandpa, this fish weighs 18 pounds and 8 ounces."
Although the fish wasn't worth much, it was huge! Chen Zhiyao was very excited; she hadn't caught such a big fish in a long time.
Grandpa Chen posted photos in the fishing group, showing off with great satisfaction, before finally returning to the deck to continue fishing.
The old man had just gripped the fishing rod when he suddenly felt a weight on his hand; a fish had taken the bait.
"This fish is quite strong; it must be a big one."
Grandpa Chen quickly activated the deceleration mechanism and started playing the fish, but after a short while, he felt something was wrong.
"Strange, why isn't this fish moving? It's not struggling at all. Could it have caught some trash?"
Hearing the old man's words, Chen Zhiyao's mind started racing, and she suddenly thought of certain dark and stormy movie plots.
"Grandpa, you often go out to sea to fish. Has anyone ever caught a corpse? You mean a murderer who dumped the body?"
"Or it could be a mysterious treasure chest containing gold and silver."
"Yes, of course. Many fishing boats that go out to sea have salvaged all sorts of strange things. Not to mention corpses, even nuclear bombs have been salvaged."
"When I was young, I even salvaged a whole box of guns."
"However, we didn't encounter any unlucky things like corpses. As for the mysterious treasure chest containing gold and silver, that's just because you've watched too many movies. There's no such thing."
"Well, I wonder what we caught this time."
As the grandfather and grandson chatted and laughed, the things in the sea were also pulled up.
It turned out to be a tattered net, and it looked somewhat similar to the small piece we found on the rocky island earlier, so it was probably the same one.
However, the fishing net that Grandpa Chen caught this time was much larger and heavier, probably weighing several dozen kilograms.
After the fishing net was pulled up, the two found many long, golden fish hanging on it.
They are all relatives of the large yellow croaker - the yellow croaker.
Although they weren't big, valuable fish, finding about ten yellow croakers online was still a pretty good haul.
Looking at the golden croakers, Chen Zhiyao couldn't help but think of their relative, the large yellow croaker, and muttered to herself:
"I wish they were all large yellow croakers. I've never seen a live large yellow croaker before."
"Sigh, who wouldn't want that? I've been fishing at sea for decades, and I've only ever caught a few large yellow croakers."
Once the old man started talking about his heroic deeds back then, he couldn't stop.
He talked on and on about how he braved the wind and rain to go out to sea to fish back then, and how he caught those two big yellow croakers weighing seven or eight pounds each.
Chen Zhiyao had heard this story dozens of times since she was a child, and she could practically recite it by heart. Her face was full of pain.
However, the old man was in high spirits at the time, and regardless of whether the audience wanted to listen, he gesticulated wildly as he recounted his heroic deeds from back then.
This tattered net yielded 15 yellow croakers, weighing a total of 22 jin (approximately 11 catties).
This is worth at least 400 yuan, which made the old man extremely happy.
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