Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1205 Something Wrong
"How could it possibly have any impact?"

"Aren't there two speedboats here now? If you choose to go fishing with Zhao Dahai's speedboat, can't you just take another speedboat? That way you don't have to squeeze on one speedboat. Isn't it more convenient?"

Zhao Shi pointed to the two speedboats parked next to the fishing boat. One was the largest speedboat that Zhao Dahai was currently using, and the other was a smaller speedboat that Zhao Dahai had bought at the beginning and had just driven over in the past two days.

Ding Chongshan was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten about this matter a long time ago. But it was true. Now there were two speedboats here. If he and Wu Weimin and others really wanted to go fishing with Zhao Dahai, it would be much more convenient to drive this speedboat.

"Don't we have two speedboats now? Then wouldn't this be very easy to do?"

"Tomorrow morning we will go out to sea with Zhao Dahai to visit the artificial islands and reefs."

"We'll fish for grouper for a few hours. If we find a big one, we'll keep fishing. If there's really no big one, we can go to another place and continue fishing for mackerel. Isn't that enough?"

Wu Weimin slapped his thigh and came up with an idea.

"Correct!"

“That’s a really good idea.”

……

"what!"

"Wu Weimin, you're really quick-witted. The idea you came up with is really great. Let's make it happen! Tomorrow we'll follow Zhao Dahai's speedboat to the artificial islands and reefs to see if there are any big ones. If not, we'll go somewhere else to fish for mackerel. If there are, we'll stay and continue fishing for grouper, and we'll fish for the whole day."

……

Ding Chongshan, Gao Zhicheng and others agreed immediately after hearing this. This was the simplest and best way, and it was the best of both worlds.

"I think you guys are thinking too simply."

"When it comes to fishing, no one can predict when they will be able to catch fish, let alone when they will be able to catch a big fish."

"You will go fishing with Zhao Dahai's speedboat tomorrow. You may be able to catch big fish at the beginning, but you may not be able to catch big fish at the beginning. You have to wait until noon or even afternoon to have a chance to catch them."

"If we follow your method, Wu Weimin, and don't see any big groupers after two or three hours of fishing, we can leave and go fishing for mackerel."

“You might also miss a big grouper.”

Zhao Shi shook his head. This method did sound useful, but in fact it was useless.

Ding Congshan, Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, Wu Guodong and Lin Zuhua were all dumbfounded. Zhao Shi was right. No one could predict when they would be able to catch a big grouper.

"never mind!"

"How can you have the best of both worlds?"

"That's all we can do."

"If we can't catch a big grouper in three hours, we'll go fishing for mackerel."

Gao Zhicheng waved his hand and made the decision. There was really nothing to say about this matter. It was impossible to take everything into consideration, so this was the only decision he could make.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin, Wu Guodong and Lin Zuhua did not say anything else. This was indeed the only way to do it. Any other option was impossible and uneconomical.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin, Wu Guodong, Lin Zuhua and others decided to go fishing in the early morning with Zhao Dahai's speedboat. Without wasting any more time, they ate and drank their fill, rested for a while and then went back to the cabin to take a nap.

"Do you think Ding Chongshan and his team will be able to catch grouper tomorrow by following Zhao Dahai?"

Shi Guangming looked at Zhao Shi who was sitting opposite him.

"This is almost impossible!"

"Anyone who fishes knows that if you can catch fish today, you are unlikely to catch fish tomorrow, at least not very many fish."

"If Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu caught so many big groupers today, I think most of them will be small even if they can catch some tomorrow."

"Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng only wanted to follow Zhao's sea fishing for about three hours. If they couldn't catch a big grouper, they would immediately change places to fish for mackerel. In this way, it is almost impossible to catch a big grouper!"

"If you do this, you may not be able to catch big groupers or big mackerels."

Zhao Shi kept shaking his head as he spoke.

If Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng do this, it is very likely that they will lose both ends.

"what!"

"Correct!"

"There's really no benefit for Ding Chongshan and his friends to do this. One is that they will keep following Zhao Dahai's speedboat to fish, and there's a good chance they'll catch a large grouper weighing over 100 kilograms. Another is that they can just fish for mackerel for a few days."

"Ding Chongshan and his friends went fishing with Zhao Dahai yesterday and caught only small groupers. If they didn't go fishing with Zhao Dahai today, they would have missed the opportunity. If they had gone fishing with Zhao Dahai today, wouldn't they have been able to catch a large grouper weighing over 100 kilograms?"

"Tomorrow we will really only fish for grouper for two or three hours. If we go fishing for mackerel, we won't be able to catch big grouper, and we may not be able to catch mackerel either."

"But then again, people like Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng are just fishing for fun. It would be great if they can catch something, but if they can't, it's not a big loss and it won't affect their ability to make money."

"Don't pay any attention to them. They can do whatever they want. They are already in their forties and fifties. Do they really need us to tell them what to do?"

Shi Guangming smiled.

Ding Chongshan and especially Gao Zhicheng have extensive experience in fishing, and they understand the same principle as Zhao Shi and I.

It’s just that Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng went out to sea to fish just for fun and didn’t think about it seriously.

In other words, just do what you want to do and don't worry about too many other things.

"That's actually the case. We don't need to pay attention to them. They can do whatever they want and wait until tomorrow when they can't catch a big grouper or a big mackerel."

"Ding Chongshan and the others will think about this matter and figure out how to do it."

Zhao Shi nodded and that was it.

Zhao Dahai had actually seen through this matter a long time ago, but he would not speak out about it. One reason was that Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng were both older elders, especially Ding Chongshan. However, Ding Xiaoxiang's father was her future father-in-law, so it was not convenient for him to say such things. Another more crucial point was that people like Ding Chongshan and Wu Weimin were really just fishing for fun.

When people like Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng fail to catch any fish, they will think of things like this.

Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming sat for a while, and seeing that it was almost time, the two went back to the cabin to sleep. They planned to go fishing with Zhao Dahai's speedboat tomorrow, so they went to bed early and got enough rest. They knew that even if they were just catching fish on Zhao Dahai's speedboat, they would need enough physical strength.

Ding Dawen waited for Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming to go to bed, packed up all the things, checked the fish caught by Zhao Dahai in the cabin, and found no problems with any of them. He arranged for people to prepare the things needed for fishing tomorrow, especially the live shrimps, octopuses and crabs needed for fishing grouper. He took enough of them and kept them in one net cage after another. When Zhao Dahai and his friends go out to sea to fish tomorrow, they can just carry them onto the speedboat and put them in the live water tank for use.

The night is getting deeper and deeper.

The entire sea surface was calm.

After checking the fish in the live water tank, Ding Dawen returned to the cab, took a cup of water and took a big sip of water.

Ding Dawen raised his head and looked forward. The entire sea was pitch black, but he could see lights moving one after another, either far or near. These were mostly people who set up fishing nets nearby at night.

Ding Dawen suddenly realized that there seemed to be quite a lot of fishing boats setting up fish nets and fishing nearby recently.

Could it be that all the mackerels in this place have been caught by these fishing boats setting out their nets?
Is this the reason why Uncle Ding Chongshan and Boss Wu Weimin can’t catch mackerel?
Ding Dawen suddenly thought of this and couldn't help but scratch the back of his head hard.

In the past two days, I have not been able to catch any mackerel on the fishing boat. I thought it might be due to the influence of the tide and the absence of mackerel in the surrounding area. Now it seems that this may not be the reason, but that there are many more fishing boats around using fish nets to catch fish.

If this is really the case, the chances of Uncle Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng catching mackerel will become very small, or even impossible.

Why are there so many fishing boats around here recently?

Ding Dawen felt very strange and didn't know what was going on.

In the past one or two months, most of my fishing boats have been parked in this place. I have never seen so many fishing boats on the sea.

Ding Dawen made up his mind that he would mention this matter to Zhao Dahai and his companions when they went out to sea in the early morning.

I don't know what's going on, but Zhao Dahai, Zhao Shi, Shi Guangming and others may know what's going on.

Three o'clock in the morning.

The decks of the fishing boats were brightly lit.

Ding Dawen knew that Zhao Dahai, Ding Chongshan and others were going out to sea to fish at four in the morning, so he had already arranged for someone to cook breakfast. As soon as he saw Zhao Dahai and others get up, he immediately brought the breakfast to the deck and placed it on the table.

When Ding Dawen saw Zhao Dahai, he remembered what he had been thinking about last night and immediately said it out.

"No way? Aren't there a lot of fishing boats around with nets?"

When Wu Weimin heard what Ding Dawen said, his eyes widened immediately. If this was really the case, all the swordfish in the surrounding sea might have been caught in one net long ago, or at least the number had become very small, and it would be very difficult for people like them to catch them.

"I just feel like something is not right! Ding Dawen caught so many mackerels here some time ago, so why can't we catch any here?"

"You know, we drove the speedboat around the surrounding sea for most of the day. If there really were swordfish in the sea, we would definitely have a chance to encounter them."

Lin Zuhua slapped his thigh. He, Gao Zhicheng, Ding Chongshan and others had thought about and discussed this matter many times, but they could not figure out what was going on. If Ding Dawen said that there were many fishing boats setting up fishing nets around, then this could explain it clearly.

"Brother Dawen!"

"Are there really a lot more fishing boats on the sea here recently?"

Zhao Dahai really didn't expect such a thing, but Ding Dawen stayed on the fishing boat every day, and would look at the surrounding sea whenever he had nothing to do. He really felt that if there were many more fishing boats, the situation would be almost like this.

"Correct!"

"I can be 100% sure that there are definitely a lot more fishing boats!"

"I didn't notice this at first, but when I looked at the lights on the fishing boats on the sea last night, I suddenly realized that they were becoming more and more numerous."

"If there were only ten ships normally, there must have been at least twenty when I noticed this last night!"

Ding Dawen was very sure that he was not mistaken. There were really a lot of fishing boats he saw on the sea last night, far more than the number he saw when he first came here.

Zhao Dahai looked at the surrounding sea and nodded unconsciously. There were indeed quite a few fishing boats.

"Second Grandpa."

"What's going on? Why are there so many fishing boats here all of a sudden?"

Zhao Dahai thought about it and was a little confused about what was going on. He was a fisherman, and Shi Guangming was also a village boss who took others out to sea to fish. Not to mention people like Ding Chongshan and Gao Zhicheng.

Second Grandfather Zhao Shi is a fisherman, and most of the fishing boats around are fishing boats. You have to ask Second Grandfather Zhao Shi about this matter to find out what's going on.

"There's nothing to say about this! It's certain that a large school of fish will appear in the surrounding sea soon or in the next few days."

"We are not fishermen, we are just fishing and didn't pay attention to this incident, but the surrounding fishing boats must have known about this incident and all of them have gathered here, setting up fishing nets and catching fish."

Zhao Shi knew what was going on without even thinking about it. If the number of fishing boats increased suddenly and they all put their fishing nets in one place, it must be a school of fish that appeared in this place, or there might be a large school of fish appearing in the next day. He didn't know the exact time, so he could only wait here every day and put out fishing nets here every day.

(End of this chapter)