I waited for a while.
Ah Qing had just opened her mouth when she said, "Brother, I..."
The tip of the rod dipped.
The fishing line is taut.
Line is fed out using a reel.
"I...I've caught a fish!"
"Yay!"
"Brother, you're amazing."
"This luck is incredible, it catches fish no matter where you point."
He shouted excitedly and quickly reeled in a stone turtle. Although it was only the size of a palm, it was still a broken turtle.
He smugly shouted to the neighbor next door, "Lin Hu, we're the same now."
"..." Lin Hu gave him the middle finger.
Wu An also pulled up a sea bass, not very big. He didn't use a landing net and just flew it onto the reef. Without A Qing's help, he was a bit flustered as he took out the hook, put the fish in the fishing box, and then baited it with rotten shrimp.
The dead fish and rotten shrimps that Lin Hu and the other two had swindled from were almost gone, and they estimated that they could hold on until their luck value was depleted.
He hung up the rotten shrimp, and Aqing had just finished preparing.
The two cast their rods at the same time.
Unsurprisingly, Wu An was the first to catch a fish.
The fish wasn't very big. I thought I had pulled up a rockfish, but when it flew up, I realized it was a small grouper, weighing about a pound.
Ah Qing then pulled up a sea bass. Upon seeing the grouper, she exclaimed, "Wow, it's a grouper! This fish is very valuable!"
"Brother, you're still luckier."
Wu An smiled. In his previous life, he worked away from home, so his memories of the fish in his hometown were a bit blurry, but he knew exactly what a grouper was.
Why?
Because in my previous life I worked as a waiter in a restaurant, and the most expensive dish was steamed grouper.
Sometimes when customers ask questions, he also explains, for example, that grouper has the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, and is low in fat, high in protein, and rich in nutrients.
Its meat is tender and white, similar to chicken, and is known as "sea chicken meat" and "a top-quality delicacy" among other names.
He removed the hook, put the fish in the fishing box, and noticed that his luck value had dropped a little. It seemed that the higher the value of the sea fish he caught, the faster his luck value would drop.
The two of them hung up rotten shrimp at the same time.
Ah Qing shouted, "I feel like we're going to catch fish one after another. Let's have a contest and see who catches the fish first."
Wu An smiled and nodded in agreement.
The two people next door remained motionless.
"Our fishing rods haven't made a single move, while those two are racing to see who can catch a fish first! How infuriating!"
"How about we change our position?"
"I already changed it."
"These two are definitely benefiting from the newbie advantage."
As the two were talking, Wu An and A Qing caught a fish almost at the same time, both pulling up black sea bream. After A Qing pulled it up, he compared them briefly and said, "Brother, yours is bigger."
The two were chatting happily when they cast their lines and caught a fish. Could there be anything more exciting than that?
After reeling in sea bass and black sea bream in succession, Wu An looked at their fishing rods and realized that they only had a little bit of luck left.
Ah Qing threw the fish into the fishing box and shouted, "Brother, the fishing box is almost full!"
Wu An said, "That's good."
"This box of fish can sell for at least six or seven hundred yuan."
"Really?" Aqing was putting rotten shrimp on the bait when she heard Tiya say this. She looked up in shock: "Can it sell for that much money?"
It's 2012 now. If Wu An remembers correctly, working odd jobs at the docks would earn him a little over a thousand a month at most, while working in the county or city would only earn him a little over two thousand a month.
"Of course."
Wu An said with a smile, "This is a whole fishing box full of fish. If you don't believe me, ask Lin Hu and Lin Bin."
Lin Hu and Lin Bin turned their backs without waiting for him to ask.
Ah Qing chuckled: "Brother, what do you think about us selling these fish and using the money to buy a few fishing rods?"
“Let’s learn from Lin Hu and Lin Bin.”
"If we come here to fish every day and have such good luck, the villagers will definitely think highly of us."
Wu An asked in surprise, "You really think so?"
Aqing nodded: "Yes."
"Actually... my mom... has always told me not to play with you, saying you'll lead me astray."
"If we could make money from fishing, my mom definitely wouldn't stop me from playing with you."
Wu An said, "Okay."
"Then let's make something of ourselves."
"Make a lot of money and live a good life."
"We want the villagers to respect us, and our families to be proud of us."
Aqing nodded vigorously.
Before I could even get sentimental, I caught another fish.
The two reeled in their lines together; Wu Anzhong's line was a sea bass, and A Qing's was a black sea bream.
Luck plays a part too.
Wu An estimated that he would lose luck points after catching another one.
Then they saw that there was only one rotten shrimp left in the bucket. They asked Lin Hu and the other man for it, but the two ignored them.
There's no other way.
Wu An gave the rotten shrimp to A Qing.
With the principle of trying his luck one last time, Wu An gritted his teeth, hooked a small rock bream, and cast it into the sea. He cast it very far; the largest black sea bream was caught because of that far cast.
Aqing asked, "Can you catch fish with this?"
Wu An shook his head.
He didn't know either, but he trusted the system. On the other hand, he remembered that in his previous life, a fisherman had caught a giant fish here. If others could catch it, he certainly could too.
Time passed second by second.
Ah Qing had already hooked a fish, but he still wasn't making any move. He had let out quite a bit of line from the reel, while Little Stone Nine was still swimming further out to sea.
Lin Hu and Lin Bin were also secretly watching and whispering among themselves.
"Wu Erzai is trying to catch a big fish."
"It's absolutely hilarious! Using a stone to catch a giant fish, it's just a crazy idea. Ignorance is bliss."
"Let's not talk about others. What's going on between us? There's still no news."
"It's okay. They'll definitely leave when they run out of bait. Let's go over there and fish. If they can catch fish one after another, we can definitely do it too."
...
A large fish was swimming on the seabed when it encountered a small fish that didn't know any better. It would open its mouth and eat it without any reason. Suddenly, a small stone fish appeared in its sight.
I want to eat it.
The big fish approached it willingly.
He took a bite right away.
As soon as it swallowed it, the big fish sensed something was wrong and swam sharply towards the seabed reef area.
On the sea.
The fishing line suddenly flared outwards, and the rod tip bent down. Wu An felt the pull and immediately lifted the rod. The huge pull caused his upper body to lean forward involuntarily.
Aqing noticed and pulled him sharply to steady him. If he were pulled into the sea by the fish and fell off the reef, there would be raging waves and jagged rocks below, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
Lin Hu and Lin Bin stared wide-eyed: "Holy crap, did we just hit a big one?"
"Did they really catch a giant?"
"What kind of luck is this? It's simply unbelievable!"
The two of them were quite exasperated.
"It's a big fish!"
Wu An shouted urgently, "Quickly reel in the line!" The reel creaked, and the rod tip was almost touching the rock face. After less than a minute of pulling, the fishing rod broke.
Wu An was dumbfounded.
Fortunately, the fishing line hadn't broken.
Ah Qing watched with a tense expression, not daring to even breathe loudly, afraid of disturbing Wu An, and also afraid that the noise would break the fishing line.
I finally caught a big fish.
If they run away, I'll be so angry I'll wake up in the middle of the night.
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