Carry an aquarium with you

Chapter 196 Surprised by the Lake Monster

The makeup was done in the makeup shop next door, and the clothes and styling cost more than 2000 yuan.

After spending so much money, Qin Feng immediately asked the makeup teacher to take some nice photos of the two of them, and then went out with Li Xinyue to swim in Taihu Lake.

The clothes of the two are full of immortality, and the rate of turning heads on the road has reached [-]%.

Come to the cruise ship site, there are speedboats and painting boats.

Since the two were wearing Hanfu, they naturally chose to paint a boat.There are large and small painting boats, the big one can carry 50 people, and the small one can only carry eight people.

Qin Feng looked around and saw that there were not many people on the boat today.

After looking at the appearance of the painting boat, he found that there was also a small painting boat where you could sit and drink tea, so he resolutely booked one and took Li Xinyue on board.

The owner of the ship turned on the propeller and slowly left the pier. Li Xinyue enjoyed the beautiful scenery through the open window, and Qin Feng started to make tea.

When people are in a spacious place, their depressed mood and tension will generally be relieved slowly.Li Xinyue and Qin Feng are in a good mood, but they are more relaxed at this meeting.

After the painting boat left the pier for a while, the owner turned off the propeller and began to row slowly with the sculls.

Without the noise of propellers, it is more comfortable in this environment of clear water and blue sky.

Qin Feng didn't know much about tea, but after brewing it, he smelled the aroma of the tea, tasted it, and couldn't help but nodded: "Babaihua's is not bad, this Biluochun tastes rich and sweet, fresh and refreshing. , with a lingering aftertaste, it is a high-end Biluochun."

Poor Biluochun tastes dry and astringent, he knows this.

Just as he was about to take his second sip, the boat seemed to hit, slammed, and shook.

This also caused some of the tea in Qin Feng's teacup to spill out, which immediately wetted his clothes.

Before he had time to inquire about the situation, he heard the captain's exclamation: "What a big fish!"

Qin Feng and Li Xinyue looked at each other, quickly got up and went to the window, and immediately saw a big fish that was only a little shorter than this small painting boat.

The fish floated quietly beside the boat, slowly flicking its tail.

"My Cao!" Qin Feng couldn't help but swear, this painting boat is more than six meters long, and this fish is only about one meter shorter, so that means this fish is more than five meters long?

Li Xinyue quickly picked up her phone and clicked to take a picture of this fish, and then started to record: "Husband, do you think this is a Chinese sturgeon?"

"It should be!" Qin Feng nodded and said.

The Chinese sturgeon is a first-class protected animal in the country. It can grow up to five meters in length. At present, the wild population is extremely rare, and it is even rare to meet such a big one.

However, there is a breeding base for Chinese sturgeon in Taihu Lake. It is hard to say whether this one is wild or escaped.

It is rare to encounter such a large sturgeon, and the owner took out his mobile phone to take a few photos.

After a while, the sturgeon, suspected to be Chinese sturgeon, slowly sank to the bottom of the water and disappeared.

After swimming in the lake for an afternoon, I met Qin Lei and the others in the evening, and then found a restaurant with a high rating to eat three whites in Taihu Lake, one of which was caught by Qin Feng himself.

Li Xinyue shared with them the huge sturgeon filmed in the afternoon, processed the video and posted it to her video account.

But what they didn't know was that the owner of the previous painting boat also sent the photo to Moments.

He has been working here all year round, and he basically knows the boat owners and some fishermen who live by chartering boats here.

Fishermen who have been fishing in Taihu Lake all year round have a better understanding of sturgeon, especially when the flood occurred in the northwest in 16, [-] tons of farmed hybrid sturgeon escaped into the Yangtze River.

Local fishery administrations have issued urgent notices, asking all fishing boats to go to the fishery administration for identification if they catch sturgeon. If they are breeding hybrid sturgeon, they can be taken away for sale.

If it is wild Yangtze River sturgeon, it must be released.

This is to prevent farmed hybrid sturgeon from further endangering the living space of the endangered wild Chinese sturgeon.

The [-]-ton farmed hybrid sturgeon naturally entered Taihu Lake in large numbers, and fishermen have caught these farmed hybrid sturgeon from time to time over the years.

And the appearance of this five-meter-long sturgeon is very similar to those of those farmed hybrid sturgeons, but it is somewhat different from the purebred wild Chinese sturgeon.

These differences are difficult for people who do not often deal with sturgeon, so it is not surprising that Qin Feng and Li Xinyue did not recognize them.

That night, many fishing boats immediately lowered their nets overnight, trying to catch this unknown five-meter-long sturgeon. If it was really a bred hybrid sturgeon, they would have made a fortune.

The price of farmed sturgeon is not expensive, basically about 20 yuan per catty, but the five-meter-long sturgeon is likely to cost more than [-] catties, and that one is [-] yuan.

But the price of a five-meter-long sturgeon is not calculated according to the price of those small sturgeon, so the selling price is naturally higher.

But this kind of news is not so easy to hide. When Qin Feng swiped his phone the next day, he saw a news about the Taihu Lake Monster.

When he saw the photo of the so-called water monster, he couldn't help but become a little weird. Isn't this the one he met?

However, the content of the news let him know that what he saw yesterday was probably a farmed hybrid sturgeon that slipped through the net, which immediately aroused his interest.

As a professional fisherman, he is naturally interested in this rare five-meter fish.

Since it is legal, you must go fishing. After all, you have an attribute fishing rod, and your chances of catching it will be much higher than others.

Without disturbing Li Xinyue who was still sleeping, Qin Feng got up to wash up, went to wake up Qin Lei and Lin Qi first, and told them about Sturgeon.

As soon as the three of them came together, they immediately changed their plan to set off today, and decided to go fishing for a day first.

Regardless of whether you can catch it or not, you will leave on time tomorrow for the next stop.

So the three of them worked together. Qin Lei and Lin Qi went directly to charter a boat because they didn't bring a fishing rod capable of catching this sturgeon.

Originally they planned to charter a fishing boat about ten meters long, but Taihu Lake has small waves, so most people use smaller fishing boats.

Secondly, people with slightly larger fishing boats basically do not lack the money, and the news of the sturgeon has spread, so everyone called their friends and ran to fish for the sturgeon.

After searching for a while, they found a fishing boat for rent.

The owner of the ship also knew the current situation, so he opened his mouth directly and asked for a charter price of [-] a day.

Qin Lei and Lin Qi directly agreed that what they needed now was not money, but a boat, which made the owner feel annoyed for a while, wondering if the asking price was too low.

Qin Feng went to the fishing tackle store and bought a bracket that can be installed on the side of the boat, as well as some fresh white fish as bait.

Even if the five-meter-long sturgeon is not as ferocious as a sea fish of the same size, its strength cannot be underestimated.

If you hold the fishing rod with both hands, you may be dragged into the water immediately when you catch the fish, so the first point of force should be transferred to the boat.

Although the attribute fishing rod has not caught such a big fish, it does not mean that it cannot be caught.

Usually, when encountering big fish, the hook will be unhooked because the hook is too small. In fact, both the fishing line and the fishing rod are very strong, and they will not even break at all.

So Qin Feng took out the large hook he usually used to catch tuna, and then woke up Li Xinyue, who was in a daze, and asked her to get up and wash up, and wait to go on the boat.

They brought their daughter-in-law and Qin Lei to meet, and after breakfast, the group boarded the rented fishing boat.

The owner of the boat sat in the cab and drove the boat. Qin Feng installed a bracket on the side of the boat to fix the fishing rod on it.

Today, the number of boats on the lake has more than doubled than usual, and all the fishermen living nearby are dispatched as long as they have the conditions.

Among them, there are many fishermen who lower their nets, and the boats stop beside the fishing nets to prevent other boats from approaching.

According to Qin Feng's instructions, the boat owner came to the waters where he encountered the sturgeon last night.

There are also quite a few boats here, and he also saw the owner of the small painting boat last night, who was bringing tourists here, and he didn't know if he was looking for fish.

Qin Feng picked up a [-]cm live white fish, pierced its back with a hook, and then threw the hook into the water.

The [-]-centimeter white fish obviously couldn't carry the big hook. After entering the water, it could only struggle with its body. After swimming a little distance of one meter, it couldn't swim anymore, and slowly began to sink.

After sinking to a depth of about ten meters, Qin Feng adjusted the unloading force to the maximum, and then chatted with Qin Lei and the others to pass the time.

So far, no one has caught the five-meter-long sturgeon. Obviously, this fish is not so easy to catch, so there is no need to stand by the fishing rod and wait.

We talked about some money-making things in the sea, and rare fish in some places.

Anna seemed to have thought of something, and asked suddenly: "Brother Feng, the king crab has already been caught, are you interested in trying Atlantic bluefin tuna next year?"

Qin Feng waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about it next year. I just became a father by then, so I may not go abroad. Maybe I won't participate in the crabbing season next year, and you will have to rent out the boat and quota for me then."

Li Xinyue's due date is June No. 18 next year, and the baby will only be a few months old in the crab fishing season. He will not leave if necessary.

After the child is weaned and can fly, he will consider going abroad to do business.

"That's right!" Anna looked at Li Xinyue's stomach and nodded.

After more than half an hour, there was still no movement from the fishing rod. Qin Feng frowned, took back the fishing line, took down the dead white fish with some wounds on his body, and asked the boat owner to change his position.

There was no movement for half an hour, which meant that the sturgeon was not around here.

Otherwise, according to the effect of the attribute fishing rod, the fish would have been hooked long ago.

And his fishing rod didn't hit the fish because all the fish were attracted nearby, and there were no big fish, so he couldn't swallow the bait in one bite.

Changed the place, and it didn't take long before the fish was caught. Only through the image, what Qin Feng saw was a big herring, and the length had reached 1.5 meters.

So he turned to Qin Lei and said, "Qin Lei, do you want to try it? You should have caught a big fish, but not the sturgeon."

"Okay!" Qin Lei readily agreed, and stepped forward to take the fishing rod.

And Qin Feng was recharging his energy by the side to ensure that he could use his best state to face the huge sturgeon.

Qin Lei is also a tiger. When the fish is full of energy, he takes the fishing rod off the support, and then grabs the fishing rod with both hands to fight with the big herring.

After only 3 minutes, his face turned red. Not only did the fish not pull back, but it ran away a lot.

"It's okay, it's okay, Lynch hastened to accept it."

"Haha, Qin Lei, you can't do it, it's only been 3 minutes." Lynch laughed and went over to take over, and after the same 3 minutes, "I'll go, it's the first time I catch such a big fish, I didn't expect the fish to be so powerful, Qin Lei, Hurry up and help."

Immediately, several women who watched the fun bent over laughing.

In the end, it took more than 40 minutes in the rotation between the two to successfully catch the big herring.

The owner of the boat has been looking at them expectantly. When the big herring was caught, his eyes lit up immediately, and he came out from the cab and asked, "Boss, do you sell this big herring? I will charge you 30 yuan per catty."

The market price of wild herring is about 12 yuan per catty, but the boat owner offered it at 30 yuan per catty because the bigger the herring, the more valuable it is.

A large wild herring of about 50 catties can be sold for 1.5 yuan per catty, and the fish that Qin Lei and Lin Qi caught together was about 130 meters long and weighed more than [-] catties, so the price was naturally higher.

Another reason for the high price is that there is a stone in the throat of the herring, which is called the herring stone.

The market price is 25 to 40 yuan per gram. Generally speaking, the larger the herring, the larger the herring stones will be taken out of the body. It is obviously not worthwhile to sell it for 30 yuan per catty.

"I'm sorry, boss, we don't sell this fish!" Seeing Qin Lei and Lin Qi looking at him, Qin Feng just rejected the boat boss with a wry smile.

The owner of the boat increased the price twice. Seeing that several people really didn't want to sell fish, he had to return to the cab angrily.

Qin Feng continued to change the bait to fish, but unfortunately there was no movement in the next half an hour, so he had to continue to change places.

When they passed a long and narrow waterway, a fisherman holding a big rod on the bank suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "My Cao, I caught a big fish, with great strength."

But the excitement turned into panic before it lasted for a few seconds. He couldn't resist the strength of the fish at all, and his body was constantly pulled into the water.

If this person doesn't let go, he will be pulled into the water in the next moment, and it will be dangerous at that time.

But at the critical moment, the fishing rod exploded into several sections with a bang, and the big fish was unhooked directly, which also saved the fisherman from falling into the water or throwing the rod.

Unlike the annoyed fisherman on the shore, the eyes of the people on the boat lit up.

Without saying a word, Qin Feng immediately asked the boat owner to stop the boat, then put bait on the hook and threw it into the water.

A huge creature at the bottom of the water was shaking its head constantly, and after a while, a small metal fish ditch was spit out of its mouth.

Originally, it was going to leave here, but for some reason, it felt that something nearby was attracting itself.

So it turned around and swam in that direction.

After a while, when it found out that it was a white fish, it realized that what was fatally attractive to itself was just a food that it usually ate.

With its limited brain capacity, it can't figure out why it doesn't feel much attraction at ordinary times, and why it does so now.

But the food is right next to his mouth, so it has no reason not to eat it.

So he leaned forward and swallowed the white fish into his stomach with one mouthful.

But the next moment, a familiar sharp pain came from his mouth, making him realize that he had been fooled again, so he started to struggle hard just like before.

"I hit it, and the fishing rod was bent into a U shape. This is definitely the five-meter sturgeon." All the people on the boat were very excited, and Qiqi came to the side of the boat to observe the situation.

Qin Feng held the fishing rod with both hands and lifted it upwards with all his strength, and the fishing line was released quickly, making a "squeaky" sound.

The image in his mind made him sure that he had caught the target.

Now that the fish is full of strength, he can only try his best to hold on to the fishing rod and survive the period when the fish first broke out.

But he hadn't stabbed the fish yet, and the hook probably wasn't deep enough, so he temporarily freed his right hand, grabbed the handle and turned it sharply.

The fishhook that had been a little loose suddenly pierced firmly into the flesh of the fish's lip. Now no matter how the sturgeon washes its gills, the fishhook will not fall off easily.

Then Qin Feng grabbed the pole with both hands again, waiting for the first wave of sturgeon to erupt.

The sting made the sturgeon struggle more and swim farther away. Just now, it clearly remembered that after eating the food, it also had a force to pull it, but as it continued to swim, that force suddenly disappeared.

So now it is doing the same, hoping that after Youyuan can get rid of this force that pulls itself.

But it never expected that Qin Feng's fishing rod has a line of 3000 meters, and it is on a boat. It will not be as long as the fishing line like that big rod, and the rod will explode if its strength exceeds the critical point.

As it continued to swim out, it found that not only did it not get rid of it, but the force would pull it from time to time, making it unable to swim as smoothly as before, and it also consumed more energy.

It is really not easy to catch a five-meter sturgeon. Unlike tuna, it can swim at high speed. Qin Feng only needs to pull the reeling line.

The strength of the sturgeon far exceeds him. Qin Feng can pull it, but he can't take it back. This feeling is like fishing a boulder that keeps sinking to the bottom.

Now he just watched the fishing line keep being released, and when he noticed that the sturgeon stopped to rest, he stimulated it by pulling it, and waited until it was tired from swimming.

One hour passed during this swim, and the fishing line was released more than 1000 meters.

That is to say, the sturgeon swims slowly. If it was a tuna, Qin Feng would have let the boat drive to chase it.

This will be pulled two or three times in a row, seeing that the fishing line has not continued to be released, Qin Feng began to reel in the line.

After collecting about 100 meters, the sturgeon seemed to regain some strength and began to struggle again, but now its strength was not as strong as before. Qin Feng grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and pulled it back, and found that he could fight it.

Seeing this, he immediately took the fishing rod off the bracket and put it on his stomach.

When the fishing rod is placed on the bracket, although it can guarantee that the fish will not be pulled into the water, the movement of the fish is not easy to control.

After taking it off, he can grasp the movement of the fish at any time, and it is easier to pull it.

The fishing line on the surface of the water is tense, and as time goes by, the position of the fish is getting closer and closer.

The movement here has already attracted the attention of some people nearby. Some fishing guys deliberately drove their boats nearby to watch, with no concealment of envy on their faces.

(End of this chapter)