Come on, I'll take you fishing

The Director's voice came through Nan Ye's earpiece:

"Nan Ye, although your task for today is complete and your lunch and dinner are taken care of."

"However, everyone else is still busy, so find something to do this afternoon, anything is fine, just don't let the livestream's popularity drop."

He put a lot of effort into getting these accounts; the higher the popularity, the better, as they'll be useful for future programs.

"Alright, Director!" Nan Ye casually agreed.

At this moment, Li Jiong and Su Wen, who had been fishing for two hours, returned.

Seeing their happy expressions, Nan Ye couldn't help but ask curiously:

"So happy, how many fish did you catch?"

Li Jiong walked up to Nan Ye, opened the bucket, and inside were just two palm-sized Tilapia flopping around.

"How about it, not bad, right? You know they couldn't even catch one before."

River fish really don't bite the hook much, unlike in ponds where fish swim in schools around the bait.

But these two small fish can make you this happy?

"Cough, cough, um, it's not bad!" Nan Ye went along with him and echoed.

Li Jiong and Su Wen had been focused on fishing and didn't know about Nan Ye slaughtering the cow.

"Hey, haven't you found any farm work yet? Come, come, I'll give you these two fishing rods, it's almost 12 o'clock now."

If you're lucky, you might even be able to eat at one o'clock."

Nan Ye took the fishing rod with a confused look, what the heck?

Just how deep is your misunderstanding of me?

Forget it, since the Director said to find something to do, I'll take the fishing rod.

He spoke to the camera: "It's mealtime, everyone eat if you need to eat, sleep if you need to sleep, we'll see each other again at three o'clock, and I'll take everyone fishing then."

Li Jiong had a 'black man asking a question' face at this moment. Aren't we fishing now? We have to wait until three in the afternoon?

Just as he was wondering, Zhao Yong came over: "Young man, the food is ready, let's eat!"

"Alright Uncle Zhao, I'll put down the fishing rod and be right there!"

Hearing this, Li Jiong's question mark face instantly turned into a 'panda man awkward' face.

What, you already have food to eat!

Damn it, I'm the clown?

The viewers who saw this scene could no longer hold back and burst into laughter:

[Hahahahahahaha, Li Jiong is truly the King of Expressions, that expression is rich enough.]

[If I were Li Jiong, I would definitely find a crack to crawl into, this is too awkward.]

[This incident tells us not to make subjective assumptions; understand the full situation before speaking, otherwise you will definitely suffer social death on the spot.]

[Let's go, time to eat, brothers, see you at three...]

Having made up his mind, Nan Ye communicated directly in his mind:

"system, exchange for Fishing Mastery skill."

[Received, Fishing Mastery has been issued, 4 million Emotion Points deducted, the host still has 6,522,009 Emotion Points remaining.]

In an instant, Nan Ye's mind gained knowledge of the preferences of various common fish species, preferred bait, and so on.

This made him look forward to the afternoon livestream...

...

Around three in the afternoon, Nan Ye appeared on the livestream, and soon there were 880,000 people online simultaneously. This start was much better than the morning.

"Let's go, we're going fishing too. Besides earthworms, I also asked Uncle Zhao for some chopped beef liver."

Beef liver is quite effective for fish like catfish, Tilapia, and scorpionfish."

[Whoa, could it be that Xiao Ge also has some research on fishing?]

[Looks like the afternoon will be interesting. Li Jiong and Su Wen in the morning took half a day to put on an earthworm, not much to see. Hope Xiao Ge can bring something worth watching.]

[I have a feeling Xiao Ge is going to derail the show again, hahahahaha!]

[Upstairs, honestly, I feel the same way...]

Nan Ye quickly came to the riverbank and found an area with grass and rocks, where the water flow wasn't too rapid.

This kind of place is easier for fish to hide, and the float won't drift too far.

Originally, fishing was a very enjoyable thing, but Nan Ye was a bit cautious because Fishing Mastery also had side effects.

I don't know what uncontrollable things will happen later, I just hope it's not too outrageous.

Nan Ye spoke while putting on the bait:

"Li Jiong caught two Tilapia in the morning. Our requirements aren't high, catching four or five will be enough."

[Oh ho, is this delivery Xiao Ge getting arrogant? This river is notoriously difficult to fish in. The most caught in the last season was the Song King, who only caught six, and that was fishing for a whole day.]

[Come, come, the streamer is about to show off his special skill again, looking forward to it.]

In fact, it wasn't as simple as Nan Ye thought. If the fish don't bite the hook, your technique is useless no matter how good it is.

Waiting like this, 15 minutes passed, making Nan Ye want to change spots.

Wait, it moved!

The bait was bitten twice, and the float sank a few times, but then became still again.

Suddenly, the entire float was pulled underwater, and Nan Ye flicked towards the right.

Got one!

"Hey, a scorpionfish!"

"Scorpionfish are venomous, but the toxicity isn't high. The venom is mainly in the bone spines at the front end of the dorsal fin and the two pectoral fins."

When removing the hook, Nan Ye didn't forget to popularize knowledge.

[Looks like Xiao Ge still has some skills. He caught something in just over 10 minutes, much better than those two this morning.]

[Have to say, this beef liver as bait is quite effective. No, I'm going to buy some tomorrow and try it.]

[Beef liver with additives, those who know, know...]

After finishing, Nan Ye cast the fishing rod out again.

Waiting like this for another ten minutes, it bit the hook.

"Whoa, a catfish, quite big, must be about 20 centimeters!"

Large catfish usually come out at night; those caught during the day are basically small catfish.

What surprised Nan Ye was that the side effect of Fishing Mastery hadn't appeared yet?

If there really were no side effects, then developing in this direction could be considered.

It was just that Nan Ye soon realized how ridiculous this idea of his was.

The third cast, it bit the hook in less than five minutes.

"Folks, do you think this is metaphysics? The first cast took 15 minutes, the second 10 minutes, the third only 5 minutes. Will it only get more..."

Nan Ye's voice stopped abruptly. He looked at what was on the hook; it wasn't a fish, but a tree branch.

Seeing that Nan Ye couldn't show off, the viewers in the livestream instantly became happy:

[Hahahahahahaha, let you show off, happy now? The branch is also full of love.]

[I think he's a bit like Leap, too Versailles. What's with me feeling inexplicably happy seeing him like this now?]

[Upstairs, I'm the same way. Suddenly I really want to be an anti-fan, I don't know what's going on. I suspect the delivery Xiao Ge was infected by Leap.]

Nan Ye threw away the branch and stared blankly at the comments in the livestream: "No, how could I, such a dedicated person, be like Leap?"