Wu An planned to ask Fan Dali to help him find the person.
With more people coming for interviews, there will be more room for selection.
This is his base.
He will definitely be strict in his selection process and absolutely will not allow unreliable people to board the ship, in order to prevent the situation from "one bad apple spoiling the whole bunch".
I had dinner.
Pan-fried pomfret, steamed hermit crab, spicy stir-fried flower crab, braised bigeye chicken, stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar, stir-fried greens, seaweed and egg soup – six dishes and a soup, a very sumptuous meal.
The only thing that Wu An was somewhat dissatisfied with was that it was all seafood.
The preparations for this trip were a bit rushed, and we didn't prepare too much meat and fatty food, which we ate yesterday.
First, serve a separate portion to Old Fu.
After eating and drinking their fill, and with the trawl net already in the sea for two hours, Old Fu came to ask if they should pull it up. Wu An thought for a moment and said, "Let's drag it for another hour."
"If this drags on, then we'll stop."
"We can log off earlier the next morning."
Old Fu nodded, having no objection.
At exactly 8 p.m., the net, which had been dragged for three and a half hours, was brought up at Fu Yongning's whistle, and the crane was used to pull the net bag up.
"It's quite bulging."
"Then this haul should be quite good."
"Great, we've made up for the losses from the last online scam."
Fu Yongning went to pull the rope and untangle the net.
He was all smiles at first, but when the net was opened and the catch, along with a lot of garbage, poured out, his smile vanished.
Wu An was not surprised and said, "The catch is quite good, roughly a thousand catties."
"It's not bad."
"Everyone should first pick out the trash and throw it aside, and then pick out the catch last."
Everyone responded.
The trash was a mixed bag, all sorts of random things: tattered nets, plastic bags, bottles, and even a slipper—who knows which unlucky thing fell into the sea.
Wu An also took a closer look and found that not only were there domestic ones, but some bags also had writing from Southeast Asia on them.
First, pile them up in the corner of the deck, and finally collect them into burlap sacks.
Suddenly, Aqing excitedly shouted, "Brother, brother, come quick! I've found a swordfish over here!"
Wu An hurried over.
It really was a swordfish, much bigger than the previous one, weighing two or three hundred pounds. It was completely dead; it had been covered in garbage before, and Aqing only saw it while cleaning up the trash.
Everyone was very happy.
A swordfish like this is worth tens of thousands of dollars. So, even though there was a lot of trash in this net, the harvest was still quite good.
Fu Yongning said cheerfully, "This one was probably quite greedy, chasing after a school of pomfret, but ended up alone and got caught in the net."
Wu An nodded with a smile.
Without using any cheats, relying purely on luck, the haul from this net was quite good.
It's like a student who has been cheating all along suddenly getting good grades by relying on their real talent.
This feels pretty good.
Mei Wu was more concerned about the trawling situation and said, "This one is broken too."
Fu Yongning glanced at it and said, "It's alright, this is easy to repair."
Although there are spare trawl nets, replacing one is too troublesome, so repairing fishing nets is an essential skill for fishermen.
Compared to everyone else's cheerful mood, Wu An couldn't help but feel a little worried.
It was lucky to catch a swordfish in this net, but it also shows that the school of swordfish has not gone far away, and may even be lingering near the fishing boat.
This is not good.
It doesn't matter now that there's no luck bonus.
But if he boosts his luck in the early morning and attracts a school of fish, and then a school of swordfish, that would be troublesome.
Mei Wu had prepared several trawl nets, but they couldn't withstand such damage.
The main problem is that damaging a trawl net results in the loss of tens or even hundreds of luck points, which is equivalent to throwing tens of thousands of dollars into the sea.
He felt heartbroken just thinking about it.
He could only hope that the swordfish would go elsewhere to forage; given their speed, once they left, they would actually swim quite far away very quickly.
Alternatively, he might not add any luck bonus to the trawl net, but instead directly add luck bonus to the swordfish.
That's too dangerous.
If luck doesn't come through and the swordfish retaliates, it could potentially cause casualties.
Wu An was reluctant to take that risk.
Actually, there is another way.
That means Tiger brought the pod of orcas.
Once the orca pods arrive, the swordfish pods are unlikely to approach easily.
"Why isn't Tiger here yet?"
While picking up trash, Wu An was absentmindedly lost in thought.
...
At this moment, Tiger is surrounded by a pod of killer whales and is being beaten by the lead whale.
After receiving a message from the dolphins, Tiger quietly left the orca pod.
Given that Tiger often strayed from the group, the orca pod was already quite vigilant and constantly on guard for his movements. They quickly discovered that this troublesome creature had run away.
The lead whale took the lead and gave chase.
Tiger was still young, and he swam and played at the same time. When he got hungry, he would look for fish to eat. Soon he was caught up by the orca pod.
Then.
It got a good beating from the lead whale.
Tiger was completely helpless and could only follow the orca pod to forage.
No.
Night fell.
Time for bed.
Tiger then quietly left the whale pod, found his way, and set off again on the road to find his good friend.
What do parents and ancestors matter?
If you get hit, you get hit.
That didn't stop him from going out to play.
...
On a trawler.
In less than an hour, the catch had been cleaned up. Now everyone is cleaning up the trash, sorting it a bit, rinsing off some of the mud with seawater, and finally stuffing it into snakeskin bags.
Keep busy.
Old Fu also anchored the boat.
The fishing boats stopped operating before 9 p.m.
Even though it was his second time going out to sea, Fu Yongning still wasn't used to it. Who goes out to sea to fish so comfortably? On Boss Chen's boat, they worked day and night. Every time they went out to sea, they would come back several pounds thin and look haggard.
But now, I eat three meals a day on time, and I sleep almost the same way I do at home.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they're here on vacation.
Old Fu nodded with a smile as he smoked his cigarette.
There's not much to say about that.
Fu Yongning is also an old boatman. If he's not used to it, he'll get used to it slowly.
It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance.
Life is comfortable, it's a good habit.
Let's have some late-night snacks!
The food was pomfret that Fu Yongning had prepared beforehand. A barbecue grill was set up on the deck, and everyone sat around it. Drinks were poured, and Fu Yongning grilled the pomfret and immediately distributed it to everyone.
They ate and drank at the same time.
Besides pomfret, there are other seafood such as squid and octopus.
If it weren't for the lack of a teppanyaki grill, Wu An would have planned to demonstrate the charm of teppanyaki squid to them. He really knew how to do it; he had done it before when he was running a stall.
Old Fu would occasionally go around the fishing boat to check the situation, and he would return looking rather grim.
Wu An asked, "Old Fu, are you alright?"
Old Fu said, "It's nothing."
"The lights attracted a school of fish, and I think I saw a swordfish."
Wu An was taken aback, then looked up: "Really?"
Fu Yongning nodded.
He took Wu An to see it, adjusted the lights, and aimed them at the distance. Sure enough, they saw a large dark shadow on the sea.
It flashed by in an instant.
It's very fast.
Wu An nodded and returned with Old Fu.
"Is it really a swordfish?" Ah Qing cursed, "Damn it, why didn't the swordfish leave?"
"Are you trying to cling to us now?"
"Could it be that I was right and they're going to get revenge on us?"
After saying that.
He spat a few times, slapped his own mouth, and cursed himself for being a jinx.
Wu An's heart sank, but he smiled on the surface and said, "You're overthinking it."
"Alright."
"They grilled everything we needed to eat all at once, and we went to the lounge to continue eating and drinking."
"Even if the swordfish wanted to cause us trouble, we could only watch helplessly."
"Come on, let's have a drink and wish each other a smooth journey tomorrow."
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