After eating and drinking.
Old Mai is a man who can't sit still. After calling out to everyone, Wu An and A Qing said they needed to take a break because they had to collect the fish traps and longline fishing rods in the afternoon, which was a time-consuming task.
After hesitating for a while, Mai Hangyu decided to take a break.
Old Mai shook his head and went fishing by himself.
After resting for more than an hour, Wu An was woken up by the alarm clock he had set. He took his phone out of his pocket, turned off the alarm, and A Qing and Mai Hangyu also woke up.
Ah Qing asked, "Brother, shall we go fishing with a longline?"
Wu An nodded.
In just a few hours, the longline fishing was ready to be done.
They were talking.
Old Mai walked in, and Wu An asked, "Old Mai, how's the fishing?"
"Not so good." Old Mai shook his head and said, "It's strange, without you guys around, there are hardly any fish biting."
Ah Qing comforted her, "That's good, it saves us the effort of driving the boat."
Old Mai said irritably, "Are you trying to comfort me or are you trying to insult me?"
Headed straight to the longline fishing area.
This time, with Lao Mai at the helm, Ah Qing and Mai Hangyu had Wu An retrieve the buoy, and they got cargo on the very first hook.
"In stock, in stock."
"It's out of the water! Holy crap, it's a tiger grouper!"
"Brother, it has to be you! The first hook is a good one."
"If the rest of the grouper are all grouper, then we'll be rich!"
Hearing Ah Qing and Mai Hangyu shouting and yelling, Old Mai, who was steering the boat, couldn't help but marvel at Wu An's good luck; he was simply the darling of the sea.
Wu An was also very happy, as he hooked a tiger grouper on the first try, which was definitely a great start.
After bringing it ashore, Aqing took over, holding a syringe in his hand, covering the fish's eyes with one hand, and using the syringe to prick the fish to release air with the other.
Mai Hangyu looked on curiously and said, "My mom would cover my eyes like this when I got injections as a child."
Amai explained, "It's a similar principle."
"If you cover their eyes like that, the fish won't struggle much."
"You could knock it unconscious, but I'm afraid I might accidentally hurt the fish. It's more valuable to sell such an expensive fish alive."
The next few hooks also caught fish, but they were all sea bass, yellowtail abalone, black sea bream, and two relatively common rockfish.
Wu An was pleased that no conger eels were found.
Without the moray eels causing trouble, the longline fishing was neatly retrieved, requiring little effort before it could be launched back into the sea.
Wu An was slightly out of breath.
Longline fishing is really tiring.
"Brother, are you tired?"
"It's really tiring, there's just too much stock to handle."
"Yeah, how come there are so many fish? Why don't you let me try?"
"No need, I can still do it for a while, then it'll be your turn."
Old Mai's lips twitched as he listened to the conversation between Wu An and A Qing. These two brothers were complaining about having too much stock. If others heard them, they would probably curse them for being pretentious.
Even if the fish caught are not valuable, they still cost money.
Anyone would be willing to work themselves to death in this situation.
Just as he was thinking about crickets, he heard his beloved grandson say, "Brother, this yellow-legged wax apple is a bit small, should we keep it?"
"No, let's not."
"Okay, then I'll throw them away, so we don't run out of live fish storage space."
Old Mai's lips twitched; he was too lazy to think about it anymore.
The next moment, his heart jumped again, because he heard Ah Qing shout, "Brother, it looks like a big yellow croaker, all golden yellow."
"Hangyu, what do you think?"
"It looks like it to me too."
Old Mai's hand trembled. "Really?"
Did you catch a big yellow croaker with a longline?
If he didn't have to steer the ship, he would have loved to go and see for himself.
Wu An naturally saw it too. He didn't say anything, but he became more careful and slowed down the speed of pulling the line. He didn't dare to pull too hard. He could see that the golden sea fish was still moving. If it got off the hook, he would definitely not be able to sleep well for several days.
Soon, the fish was pulled out of the water, and Aqing and Mai Hangyu both poked their heads out to look. They both sighed in unison, and Wu An couldn't help but frown.
"It's not a large yellow croaker."
"I don't think so either."
"It's springfish, isn't it? Yes, it is."
Wu An pulled Chun Ziyu up, and A Qing and Mai Hangyu chatted as they looked at her, their voices slightly low. Seeing their disappointed expressions, Wu An smiled and said, "You don't even think much of Chun Ziyu?"
"It costs several tens of yuan per kilogram."
"This one probably weighs two or three pounds, and it can sell for at least a hundred yuan."
Hearing him say that, Aqing suddenly realized what was going on, took the Chunzi fish, and put it in the live fish container.
Wu An continued reeling in the line, and after reeling in about a third of it, he was too tired to continue, so he handed it over to A Qing. Later, his luck points ran out, and he started to miss some hooks.
But it's not bad either.
Aqing even pulled up a red spot, which made him extremely happy.
Wu An was also very happy. If nothing unexpected happened, this red-spotted fish should be the most valuable catch from this longline fishing trip.
It turns out that his better luck was just an illusion; it mainly depends on luck.
In this way...
That's actually a good thing. As long as he boosts his luck stat, his income won't be affected even if he doesn't do anything himself.
Once the company grows bigger and stronger in the future, he won't be able to do everything so personally anymore.
It's not that I'm trying to be lazy.
If he builds a fleet in the future, he will no longer be able to go to sea with them.
Wu An's heart was already pounding with excitement just from imagining it.
Just as he was lost in thought, he heard Mai Hangyu shout, "Brother, look, look! It looks like a sea turtle!"
Wu An looked in the direction Mai Hangyu was pointing and saw turtle shells bobbing up and down on the sea. He nodded and said, "Yes, they are green sea turtles, the same species as the ones we helped remove barnacles from before."
Back in the village, he searched on his phone.
The sea turtle that was rescued was a common green sea turtle, which is the most numerous sea turtle in the ocean, and not a special species.
It's amazing that an ordinary sea turtle can be so intelligent.
Mai Hangyu said, "This group of green sea turtles is heading straight for us."
"Look!"
"They swim pretty fast."
"Oh no, they haven't finished reeling in the longline fish yet, they might run into the longline fish."
Wu An looked at A Qing.
Aqing shook her head: "Brother, there's still a third left, we definitely won't have time to finish collecting them."
Mai Hangyu said anxiously, "That's troublesome."
"Not to mention they'll ruin longline fishing, if someone gets tangled or hooked by a longline, that's a problem too."
Aqing curled her lip: "They were asking for it, so they can't blame us."
Mai Hangyu sighed: "That's what they say..."
Wu An got up and walked to the side of the boat, then raised his hand, waved it vigorously, and shouted, "Hey, sea turtles!"
"Stop right now!"
"Don't come any closer! We're working here, and we might hurt you!"
He repeated it twice.
He didn't know if the sea turtle could understand, but he hoped that the intelligent sea turtle could.
"Don't come any closer!"
"Turn around right now!"
Aqing and Mai Hangyu were dumbfounded, not understanding what their brother was up to. Could these sea turtles understand human language?
Old Mai was both amused and exasperated, feeling that Wu An was being far too unrealistic.
He also heard from Aqing and Mai Hangyu that they had rescued a sea turtle with a spiritual nature, but no matter how spiritual a turtle is, it can't possibly understand human speech.
really.
The sea turtles continued to emerge in rhythm with the rising and falling waves, each time approaching the fishing boat.
In the ocean, sea turtles actually swim quite fast.
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