52: Crazy yellow chicken

Bai Xue majored in "Marine Biology" at university. She knew the creatures in the ocean like the back of her hand, a walking encyclopedia of marine life.

"Xiao Xue, I feel like there aren't many fish down here. Let's move to a different spot to fish!"

Yang Qi said to Bai Xue.

"Okay, Yang Qi Ge! From now on, you can just decide on your own! No need to ask me, I trust your ability to find fish."

Bai Xue now had immense faith in Yang Qi's ability to find fish, or rather, his fish sense.

Yang Qi started the fishing boat and began searching for more valuable schools of fish. Bai Xue, meanwhile, sat next to Yang Qi with a bag of snacks, feeding him.

A few minutes later, Yang Qi discovered a relatively large school of Yellow Chicken Fish.

He quickly turned the boat around and sped to the front of the school.

"Xiao Xue, get ready to put antarctic shrimp bricks into the lure cage. I've found a school of fish."

"Ah~! Okay!"

Although Bai Xue was a little surprised, she didn't ask further. She immediately found the lure cage and started putting broken antarctic shrimp bricks into it.

As the stainless steel lure cage, filled with antarctic shrimp bricks, sank into the sea, the fish school began to gather, starting to snatch the antarctic shrimp that had fallen out of the cage.

The two began to bait their hooks and cast their rods. As soon as the bait sank near the fish school, it was immediately snatched.

Setting the hook, reeling in the line, lifting the rod, and unhooking the fish. Yellow Chicken Fish weighing two to three jin were no match for their boat rods; they even skipped the step of playing the fish.

Yang Qi looked at the fish school in the water and then at the live shrimp in the live fish tank. He said to Bai Xue: "Xiao Xue, switch to a string of hooks, and cut the live shrimp in half."

Yes, that's right! Yang Qi was worried there wouldn't be enough bait. After all, the underwater fish school was quite large.

"Okay!"

Bai Xue replied while reeling in a fish. After taking the fish off, she switched to a string of hooks. She cut the live shrimp bait in half and resumed fishing.

As soon as the bait sank into the fish school, it was practically snatched immediately. After waiting a few seconds, she could lift the rod, usually bringing up four or five fish at a time.

When you hit a fish school, it's really as easy as having hands.

When the live shrimp ran out, the two simply put soaked antarctic shrimp on their hooks. Hanging two or three on each hook didn't affect their catch at all.

They fished non-stop for about an hour and a half, which completely exhausted them. By the end, Bai Xue couldn't even lift her rod anymore. Yang Qi himself was also extremely tired.

This made him immensely miss the joy of automatic fishing with an electric reel during his last trip to the Nan You Fishing Grounds.

"That's enough, Xiao Xue, let's stop fishing."

Yang Qi looked at Bai Xue, who was barely holding on, and said with concern.

Bai Xue wiped the sweat from her face and replied, "Okay, Yang Qi Ge, I really am too tired!"

The two could only give up this rare opportunity. Encountering a large fish school is great, but without strong physical stamina, it's no good!

Yang Qi shook his somewhat stiff arm, thinking he must have caught about 100 fish earlier, with an average weight of at least 2 jin per fish.

That's 200 jin. Last time he sold them for 70 yuan a jin. Damn! Didn't he just earn 14,000 yuan in that short period?

Bai Xue must have also caught around 60-70 fish, which would also be close to ten thousand yuan.

Damn! The income from encountering a large fish school is really high!

What if they had used a fishing net in that situation? He dared not think, dared not think!

Originally, Yang Qi had been a bit resistant to using fishing nets. His inner thoughts were:

"Using a fishing rod to fish is, at most, like playfully flirting with Mother Ocean, showcasing one's talent to gain Mother Ocean's reward.

Using a fishing net is like robbing Mother Ocean's embrace; the nature of the two is different.

But if performing still leaves one starving and unable to eat, then the possibility of robbery cannot be ruled out."

Now, watching the vast majority of the fish in the school slowly swim away, he felt helpless!

He couldn't help but feel a little regret.

"Robbery" smells so good!

"A horse doesn't get fat without night grass; a man doesn't get rich without ill-gotten gains!

Murder and arson lead to a golden belt!"

Yang Qi's mind was wandering when he heard Bai Xue's slightly excited voice.

"Yang Qi Ge, I must have caught around sixty-something fish just now. At an average of two jin each, that's about one hundred thirty or forty jin. Didn't you sell them for 70 yuan a jin last time? Isn't that almost ten thousand yuan? Oh my goodness!"

Yang Qi adjusted the bow of the boat and replied, "Yes! Xiao Xue, you pushed yourself too hard. Come over here, I'll give your arm a massage!"

Yang Qi operated the boat with one hand and began to massage Bai Xue's arm with the other, worried she had overexerted herself and would be too sore to lift her arm tomorrow.

By the time the two returned to the town dock, it was already five in the afternoon.

He had already informed Chen Tianming how many fish they had, and that they were mostly live fish.

Upon receiving the call, Chen Tianming had already driven his small truck, bringing several large live fish tanks, to the dock.

As the fishing boat docked, Chen Tianming brought three workers onto the boat. With a wave of his hand, the three workers began to transfer the catch.

After having the workers roughly sort the different fish species, the three decided to settle accounts back at "Tianming Seafood Store." After all, there were many people and prying eyes at the dock, and Yang Qi didn't want to draw attention to himself.

The group returned to Tianming Seafood Store, where they sorted the fish by species, weighed them, and calculated the payment. The price given was very fair, totaling 34,275 yuan.

Chen Tianming rounded up and transferred 34,300 yuan to Yang Qi.

After receiving the payment, the two took four Yellow Chicken Fish, bid farewell to Chen Tianming, and hurried home. On the tricycle, the two were still exclaiming: fish schools are king.

"Yang Qi Ge, the inshore resources are just better than the coast! You can even encounter large fish schools inshore," Bai Xue said happily.

Yang Qi said, "We still need to go to the far sea, the deep sea. There are more and larger fish schools there. My ultimate destination is still the deep sea."

"Okay, Yang Qi Ge! From now on, I'll accompany you to the deep sea. Wherever you go, I'll go!"

"Good! Thank you for your companionship!"

"The boat we rented is still too small! It can't go to the far sea at all! We must buy a boat, a fishing boat that can go to the far sea!"

Yang Qi made up his mind.

"Okay, Yang Qi Ge, I support you. From today onwards, you don't need to give me any money. Let's save up to buy a boat," Bai Xue said.

Yang Qi scratched his head awkwardly and said:

"I'm just setting a goal. There's still quite a distance to go before we can buy a boat that can go to the far sea. We still have to split the money that should be split!"

"Here, today's total harvest is 34,300 yuan. 300 yuan will be kept for buying oil today and tomorrow."

After saying that, he transferred 17,000 yuan to Bai Xue.

"I don't want it. Didn't I just say to save it for buying a boat later? Besides, finding the fish was all your effort. How can we split it evenly?"

Bai Xue said firmly.

After much persuasion, and Yang Qi repeatedly promising to ask her for money when they buy the boat, and that Bai Xue would take 1/3 of future catches, she finally relented.

In the end, Bai Xue took exactly ten thousand yuan, and the remaining 4,300 yuan was considered boat rental fees.

She also suggested that from now on, they shouldn't split the small change, but instead save it for future purchases of oil, bait, ice, etc., as a fund for their fishing business.