289: Just arrived

When I arrived at my mom's place, they were all waiting to go to grandpa's house.

Seeing that my mom and the others had prepared many gifts, a group of them got into two cars and headed towards Chenjiaping.

Bai Xue's maternal grandfather and his two brothers were already waiting at home; it seemed Chen Lanying had called them last night.

Finally, the matter was quickly settled. The free-range chickens would be raised by the three brothers, and the feed, such as grains, small fish, and shrimp, would be provided by Yang Qi.

They would only be responsible for raising them, and after they were out of the coop, all of them would be sold to Yang Qi at 150 yuan per jin.

Yang Qi also knew that when the time came, Bai Xue's several uncles would definitely participate.

To avoid good intentions leading to bad results, he simply wrote a contract and took out 50,000 yuan as start-up capital.

It was truly ridiculous; wasn't it just about wanting to eat free-range chicken? In the end, it turned into an aquaculture business, which left Bai Xue speechless.

After returning from Chenjiaping, Bai Xue took Yao Shanshan to the The City for shopping.

Yang Qi was happy that someone was accompanying her shopping, so he returned to the sea view villa, grabbed a fishing box, and went down to the bay to fish.

Several old men were sitting there fishing.

"Old sirs, how is it? Any bites?"

Yang Qi saw that these were the four heavenly kings of the sea view villa, so he greeted them.

"Just got here!"

The impatient old man said without turning his head.

"Oh, what about you other old sirs?"

Yang Qi glanced around; none of them had even put their fish keepers in the water.

"Just got here!"

It was the unified response of Anglers nationwide when they were having a bad day.

Yang Qi saw that there were several large reefs underwater nearby, which were clearly good places for fish to hide.

Not to mention big fish, there were still many palm-sized Sea Bream and Balang Fish.

Perhaps it was because they usually used too much chum, these fish were not biting much.

Yang Qi hooked a Shrimp and cast his rod towards the large reef ahead. He saw a Green Grouper of about three jin in the crevice of that reef.

As the Shrimp sank, only a group of finger-length Balang Fish and Sea Bream came to snatch at it, but their mouths were too small, and they were willing but unable.

Several slightly larger Sea Bream nearby just took a few glances, then turned and swam away, showing no desire to bite.

The Green Grouper stared blankly at the Shrimp that had descended from the sky in front of it, without the slightest desire to bite.

Yang Qi helplessly reeled in the line a bit, hoping that the Green Grouper would see it more directly.

However, the Green Grouper's eyes seemed fake, as if it hadn't seen anything, and it showed no reaction at all.

After waiting for a while, the fish still didn't react, so Yang Qi had to reel in the line.

At this moment, the old men all turned their heads to look at the fishing line Yang Qi was reeling in from the tip of his rod.

Finally, when they saw only the Shrimp used as bait on the hook, Yang Qi clearly felt that they seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Yang Qi cast the fishing line towards the Green Grouper again, but it still didn't bite.

He repeated this three times, casting and reeling in, but Yang Qi caught nothing.

"Damn it, are you trying to deliberately make me lose face?"

Yang Qi felt his reputation as a fishing master was being tarnished, completely losing face.

So he simply changed to a larger hook, cast it to the other side of the Green Grouper's body, gently shook the reel, and pulled the hook close to the fish's body.

Then he locked the switch, pulled the fishing rod hard, and the hook firmly pierced into the Green Grouper's body.

Disregarding martial ethics, he even snagged the fish for the sake of face!

Yang Qi didn't care about that; he absolutely could not lose face as a fishing master in front of these old men.

The commotion here was quickly noticed by the old men, who all craned their necks to look at the fishing spot in front of Yang Qi.

They wanted to see what kind of fish Yang Qi had caught and how big it was.

Listening to the "woo woo woo" sound of the fishing line cutting through the water, they were all dying of envy, wishing they were the ones who had hooked a fish.

Yang Qi deliberately controlled the fishing rod, playing the fish for two minutes. It was also fortunate that the hook was snagged on the fish's body; otherwise, it wouldn't have put up much of a fight.

When he saw that if he didn't lift it out of the water soon, the fish wouldn't be able to keep up the act.

He picked up the landing net with one hand and scooped the less than four-jin Green Grouper onto the shore.

Yang Qi, with the swiftness of a lightning strike, removed the hook from the fish's body.

"Not bad, a little over five jin of Grouper. Old sirs, you all keep fishing; I'm leaving."

Just as the old men were about to come over and look, Yang Qi threw the fish into the live fish box, closed the lid, stood up, and left.

"As expected of a fishing master, he arrived last but caught a fish first."

One of the old men said, full of admiration, as he watched Yang Qi's departing back.

"This place, I should come here less often in the future. I don't know how these old men usually chum, but they've made the fish stop biting. If I come too often, it's easy to lose face."

Yang Qi mumbled as he closed the door. As he was mumbling, his phone suddenly rang.

"Brother Jun!"

"Yang Qi, what are you doing? Do you have time?"

Zhang Jun's tone was a bit hurried.

"Brother Jun, I'm at home, not doing anything!"

Yang Qi said.

"If you're not doing anything, hurry over and help me save some face."

Zhang Jun's mood immediately improved when he heard Yang Qi was free.

"What's going on?"

"It's like this, today..."

Zhang Jun explained everything in detail.

"A black pit? Okay, I'll be right over. Send me the location."

Yang Qi became a little interested when he heard it was a black pit fishing spot. Since Zhang Jun and the others were all there, it wouldn't hurt to go and play.

He took out his phone to call Bai Xue and ask her if she wanted to go.

"A reservoir boss? Like that master on TikTok, winning big geese? Of course! Why wouldn't I go?"

"Send me the address. Shanshan and I will leave from the The City, and we'll meet at the highway exit there."

Two hours later, the three arrived at the address Zhang Jun sent and found it was a mountain reservoir of about thirty mu.

After being contracted out, it had been stocked with many large fish and converted into a black pit for people to fish.

The fee was 400 yuan per hour, with a minimum of four hours. Rods were limited to 7.2 meters, with a line length of 15 meters.

The price for returning carp and grass carp was eight yuan per jin. For black carp, it was 100 yuan per fish, and 200 yuan per fish for those over 15 jin.

After listening to Zhang Jun's introduction, Yang Qi bared his teeth and asked:

"In that case, it's a bit difficult to get to shore, isn't it? Can I fish for silver carp and bighead carp?"

He had just seen many large silver carp and bighead carp exceeding 20 jin. There were also many black carp, so it seemed that although this boss's fees were not low, there were quite a lot of fish in the reservoir.

"It used to be possible, but not today. Today is a black carp field. Two thousand jin of black carp were released yesterday morning. However, no one has made it to shore this morning yet."

Liu Yao introduced. It was evident that he was a regular here.

"Oh, in that case, Brother Yao, could you ask how much it costs if I fish for silver carp and bighead carp?"

Yang Qi said to Liu Yao.

"Alright, I'll go ask."