78: Fishing for Earth Dragon

"Brother Jun, last night I got some Three-spined swimming crabs and a few Groupers. I'm going to send them over to you; please help me distribute them to Long Ge and the others."

"This morning at the pier, I also got a few Mud Eels for you to make wine with!" Yang Qi said.

That's right, Yang Qi had thought of it last night while catching crabs. Zhang Jun had helped him so much, and he didn't have any other skills for now, so he could only try his best with seafood.

"Oh! Three-spined swimming crabs! You set crab traps!" Zhang Jun on the other end immediately raised his voice to ask.

"How could I! Brother Jun, it's the fishing ban now, I know that, and I definitely wouldn't break the law. Don't worry, I caught them all by hand diving myself!"

Yang Qi knew what Zhang Jun meant and immediately explained the situation.

"Oh! That's good! Those Three-spined swimming crabs, they're expensive now, you should sell them!" Zhang Jun finally relaxed.

"Wait! What else did you just say? Mud Eel, you said you have Mud Eel, is that right? This is good, I want this." "I'll send you my location, I'll be waiting for you at home!" As soon as he heard about the Mud Eel, Zhang Jun also couldn't stay calm; this thing is a rare find.

After the serious business was done, Yang Qi started to quip again, "Speaking of which, Brother Jun! I advise you, as a rich second generation, not to neglect your proper duties!"

"You should live a life of decadence, extravagance, and corruption. Getting up early and working late, striving hard, is what ordinary people like us should do."

"You absolutely cannot get involved in the circles of us ordinary people!"

Zhang Jun laughed and scolded on the other end of the phone: "You kid, what do you know. I'm not used to those decadent days, I haven't received that kind of education since I was a child."

Yang Qi looked at the location, chuckled, "Alright, Brother Jun, as long as you're happy. I'll send it over to you right away, it'll be there in half an hour at most."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Qi restarted the car and drove towards the location Zhang Jun had sent.

Along the way, Yang Qi hummed a tune, feeling exceptionally relaxed.

Arriving at Zhang Jun's house, it was a large villa. The first impression it gave Yang Qi was one word: "big." A large villa, a large yard.

Zhang Jun was already waiting at the door. After letting Yang Qi's car into the yard, he eagerly opened the trunk and saw the Three-spined swimming crabs kept in the large live fish tank.

"So many Three-spined swimming crabs! There must be dozens of pounds! How am I going to distribute them!"

"Well, I don't care about that. Just leave a few for me later, I'll take them back to taste, and the rest are all up to you!" Yang Qi replied.

Zhang Jun asked Yang Qi, "Where are the Mud Eels you mentioned?"

Yang Qi took down his live fish tank and opened it for him to see.

Zhang Jun reached in and scooped around: "There are so many Groupers! Holy cow, this Mud Eel is a pound, good stuff!"

"Yang Qi, you're amazing! This Mud Eel is really rare." Zhang Jun said as he carried the box into the house.

"I'll find someone to buy some Chinese medicine, and we'll make wine together. It'll be ready to drink in three months."

Yang Qi quickly said, "When it's ready, let me try some. I've heard about Mud Eel wine for a long time, but I've never had it."

"You're a young, vigorous lad, why would you drink Mud Eel wine! Don't waste good stuff." Zhang Jun retorted.

"Then Brother Jun, you..."

"Get lost! I'm going to give it to someone, do you understand!"

Zhang Jun immediately denied it.

He had an expression like, "I didn't, it wasn't me, don't wrongly accuse me."

"My house doesn't have a large container to keep these crabs. Give me your minivan keys, I'll drive your car to deliver them."

"Aunt Chen, this is my friend Yang Qi. Please entertain him, I'll be back in a bit!" Zhang Jun said to a woman in her 40s who had just entered the living room.

"Brother! Sit down and have some seafood congee. Aunt Chen's seafood congee tastes excellent. I'll go deal with these things first."

Zhang Jun transferred the three Mud Eels to his small fishing box. Then, taking the Groupers, he left.

Yang Qi drank the seafood congee Aunt Chen brought him and looked around the living room.

It wasn't opulent, but every detail of the decor, every ornament and display, reflected the owner's pursuit of quality and taste in life.

High-end, grand, and classy.

About an hour later, Zhang Jun returned.

"I sent some to my elder brother and Zhang Fei. They asked me to thank you on their behalf. They also brought you some things."

"Oh! Why did they bring me things? That's too much!" Yang Qi felt a bit uneasy.

"Hey! Just take what's given to you. Come give me a hand, let's take down what's for me. I'll send some to my dad later."

Since Yang Qi had already delivered them, Zhang Jun didn't stand on ceremony with him. Their relationship, after all, was not ordinary.

"Leaving five or six for me is enough!" Yang Qi said.

"Alright! I got it! You haven't slept all night, go back and get some rest early!"

Bidding farewell to Zhang Jun, Yang Qi drove back to the courtyard in the village. He took out the two packs of Huanghelou 1916 cigarettes that Zhang Jun had given him with the crabs.

Yang Qi shook his head helplessly.

He sent a message to Bai Xue and learned that her family wouldn't return to the village until the afternoon, and the electric scooter was parked in town, so there was no need to pick it up.

Yang Qi's drowsiness finally caught up to him, so he immediately fell asleep.

It wasn't until Bai Xue called him that Yang Qi woke up, and he saw it was already four in the afternoon.

Carrying those few Three-spined swimming crabs, he leisurely arrived at Bai Xue's house.

Bai's mother was already preparing dinner, and the aroma of beef wafted from the "sizzle, sizzle, sizzle" of the pressure cooker.

Yang Qi knew she must be stewing steak; he knew he liked steak, and basically every time he came for dinner, this dish was on the menu.

Yang Qi and Bai Xue had agreed to go look at boats tomorrow morning, and then go for their driving license practical test.

After bidding farewell to Bai Xue's family, Yang Qi drove his minivan to town.

He bought a scoop net head, two proper net bags, and a live bait box. Then he bought three pounds of Shrimp.

When it got dark, Yang Qi planned to go look for Mud Eels.

There was a big tide tonight, and he wanted to fish for Mud Eels while the tide was rising.

That's right, fishing.

He didn't know how to catch Mud Eels properly. But using his golden finger to cheat and be cunning, wasn't that what he was best at?

Yang Qi drove his boat to the mudflats north of the mangrove forest, which the dark-faced man mentioned earlier in the day.

The water depth here was still about two to three meters. The water was a bit murky, and visibility was very low.

But this water depth was nothing to Yang Qi; with his ability activated, the bottom of the sea was clear and visible at a glance.

"Sure enough, there are quite a few Mud Eels." He saw small halves of Mud Eels sticking out of the mud at the bottom of the sea, pecking at small fish, shrimp, and various insects swimming by.

Yang Qi stopped the boat, took out his fishing rod, hooked a Shrimp, and cast it in front of a Mud Eel. He reeled in gently, trying to get the shrimp as close to the Mud Eel as possible.

Just as the Mud Eel darted out to bite the hook and was about to escape back into its hole, Yang Qi raised his rod and set the hook. Success.

The Mud Eel, weighing about a pound, hadn't even reacted. It was pulled straight out of its hole.

Looking at the Mud Eel wriggling its long body on the boat, Yang Qi felt a mix of excitement and a slight aversion.

"Hehehe! Even though you're ugly, you're valuable!"