The manta rays I caught before didn't like to move around much, but they would still put up some resistance.
The fish caught this time was completely still, consisting only of its own weight.
Chen Zhiyao deliberately didn't turn on her X-ray glasses, and curiously reeled in the fishing line.
"What could it be? Garbage, fragments of people's lives, or a priceless, mysterious treasure?"
Yan Shuting couldn't help but laugh after hearing her daughter's rambling:
"You little rascal, you've been watching too many movies. How could there be fragments of people and treasures? It's probably just a bad website or garbage."
"Who knows, maybe it will happen." Chen Zhiyao looked at her with an expression that said, "I won't listen, I won't listen."
The seawater below the reef was only seven or eight meters deep. The mother and daughter worked together and pulled the mysterious object to the surface in just a few minutes.
It was an enormous fish trap, one meter wide, and the rope connecting it to the trap had long been cut by something.
When you catch a fish trap that's already taken, you usually put it back in its original spot.
However, for unclaimed cages like these with broken ropes, they naturally belong to whoever sees them.
Chen Zhiyao chuckled and quickly pulled up the heavy fish trap:
"It's actually a fish trap, and there are quite a few things inside."
The mother and daughter happily went over and were even happier to see that there were two large blue crabs, three orchid crabs, and two small blue lobsters inside.
Chen Zhiyao happily emptied everything out, and as for the cage, she casually tossed it aside.
The person who threw the cage will probably come looking for it, but who ends up picking it up is none of her business.
Yan Shuting originally wanted to take the cage home, but Chen Zhiyao was afraid that the owner of the cage would come looking for her and didn't want to get into trouble.
The contents of the cage alone are worth several hundred yuan, and being so wealthy, she no longer cares about the cage.
After packing her things, Chen Zhiyao drove her tricycle home in a hurry.
The mother and daughter originally planned to sell their fish directly at the village's purchasing station.
While cleaning up their catch, the two were pleasantly surprised to find that their total catch for the day amounted to two or three hundred pounds.
After thinking about it for a moment, the two decided that it would be more profitable to sell their catch in town.
Halfway back, Chen Weiqiang called to urge the mother and daughter to go home for dinner.
"Okay, okay, I'm on my way, I'll be home soon." Yan Shuting said only one sentence before hanging up the phone.
Chen Weiqiang wanted to ask how the day's harvest went, but before he could say anything, the call was disconnected.
"Really, what's the rush?"
Chen Zhiyao drove back with a smug look on her face. As soon as the tricycle entered the house, Yan Shuting immediately closed the gate and even locked it.
"So mysterious, what good thing did you catch?"
Chen Weiqiang, who was originally playing with Xue Tuan and Ah Huang in the yard, immediately went over when he saw this.
Upon seeing those two grouper weighing over 20 pounds each, I couldn't help but slap my thigh hard.
"If I had known the fishing was going to be this good, I wouldn't have gone to the fishing tackle shop." Chen Weiqiang felt like he had lost a fortune.
When they saw the two buckets behind them filled with blue crabs, orchid crabs, small lobsters, and a large octopus, their eyes widened in astonishment.
"Weren't you going fishing? Where did all this stuff come from? Did you go and steal fish traps?"
Yan Shuting glared at him and said irritably:
"Get lost, you can't expect anything good to come out of a dog's mouth. These things were all caught by Tangtang and me."
"I don't believe it. How did you catch those crabs and little green dragons?" Chen Weiqiang looked at him like he was talking nonsense.
Yan Shuting was too lazy to even talk to him. "Just because you're not good at fishing doesn't mean others can't catch fish."
"You..." Chen Weiqiang felt he was being looked down upon and was furious.
Then Chen Zhiyao, that leaky little cotton-padded jacket, added insult to injury:
"There's nothing a fisherman can't catch. I actually just caught an abandoned fish trap."
Now Chen Weiqiang was even more heartbroken. Why hadn't he encountered such a good thing?
I should have known he went fishing too.
Grandma Chen stood at the kitchen doorway, smiling as she called out:
"Dinner's ready! Come and eat!"
Chen Zhiyao immediately ran over with cheerful little steps:
"Let's eat, let's eat. We still need to go to town to sell fish later."
While the mother and daughter were fishing, Grandma Chen prepared a delicious meal.
Steamed yellow-footed eel, braised sea eel, stir-fried chicken with shiitake mushrooms, stir-fried eggs with chives, stir-fried cabbage, and Shi Jiugong tofu soup.
Grandma Chen fed Chen Zhiyao until she was full, and the greedy Ah Huang and Xiao Xue Tuan were stuffed.
When Snowball first arrived home, it just looked chubby. After a bath, its fluffy fur disappeared, and it became a skinny little ball.
It's only been a few days since it arrived home, and thanks to Grandma Chen's enthusiastic feeding, it has already gained quite a bit of weight.
After eating and drinking their fill, Chen Zhiyao and Chen Weiqiang prepared to go out to sell their catch.
Before leaving, she made a point of picking out some smaller sea fish, and she left all the eels and sea bream at home.
Just as she loaded her things into the car, Chen Zhiyao looked up and saw two familiar figures under the streetlights.
My aunt was carrying a large bag of things, while my second cousin was carrying a bucket.
Chen Hu also saw the two of them and came forward with a simple and honest look on his face:
"Uncle, Tangtang, where are you going so late at night?"
Chen Zhiyao quickly stepped forward to help her aunt carry her things. "I caught some fish before dinner and I'm going to sell them in town."
Aunt laughed heartily, "Your second brother caught several silver carp and barracuda today, and made a lot of fish balls at home. I'll bring some over for you to try."
Speaking of fishing, Chen Hu said with a smug look on his face:
"I even encountered a school of stonefish today, and I caught quite a few."
Chen Zhiyao went over to take a look and saw that there were indeed several rock bream in the bucket, as well as two turbot that were not small.
After chatting for a few minutes, the aunt urged the two of them to hurry up and go to town, and also told Chen Weiqiang to drive carefully.
The two arrived at Yangjiagou Station at almost 9 o'clock, and only Yang Jiajun and his wife were in the store.
Yang Jiajun was a little surprised to see the father and daughter.
"Uncle Chen, Tangtang, what brings you here at this hour?"
Chen Zhiyao came to sell her fish in the evening. The couple didn't expect her to come back so soon and thought something had happened.
"You little rascal, you're here at the purchasing station to sell fish, of course. Hurry up and come with me to unload your catch."
The two had a good relationship, and Chen Weiqiang casually ordered his boss to help move things.
With business coming his way, Yang Jiajun happily went out to help move things.
"Coming over so late at night, looks like you've got some good stuff again."
Chen Zhiyao nodded mysteriously:
"There are indeed some good things."
Upon seeing the two grouper and more than a dozen small green dragonfish on the car, Mr. Yang was overjoyed.
"Not bad, not bad, it's quite big."
"Brother Yang, these grouper from the suspension bridge are much bigger than the ones we had today. Shouldn't the price go up too?"
The Chen family's fish catch was not only large in quantity but also very stable, so Yang Jiajun wanted to keep them and continue the cooperation in the long term.
Seeing that the catch wasn't much this time, they deliberately set a high price:
"These two grouper from the suspension bridge are of good size and quite lively. They'll be priced at 210 yuan per jin."
"Small green dragon, more than one jin, 160 yuan per jin, less than one jin, 140 yuan per jin."
"Okay, then let's do it the way you said, Brother Yang." Chen Zhiyao was very satisfied; the price was much higher than she had expected.
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