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

Chapter 1574 Missed a Rare Opportunity
Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua immediately drove their speedboat to Ding Dawen's large fishing boat, and soon saw the gangway lowered.

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua parked the speedboat, secured the mooring ropes, and boarded the fishing boat via the ladder.

"Have Zhao Dahai and the others already gone out to sea to fish?"

As soon as Gao Zhicheng saw the gate, he immediately asked. He hadn't seen Zhao Dahai's two speedboats when he and his group arrived, so they must have gone out fishing.

But it's still quite early, and I didn't expect to be out fishing at sea so early.

"They haven't come back yet!"

"I reckon this should be about right!"

Ding Dawen shook his head.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua were very surprised. It was already quite late, and if they hadn't returned by now, there was one possibility: they had caught a lot of fish.

Is it possible that they didn't catch many fish? Or perhaps they didn't catch any at all, which is why they haven't come back so late?
It is possible, but it is only possible for others to have this possibility.

Zhao Dahai?
There's absolutely no way such a thing could happen!
"Is Zhao Dahai going fishing at the artificial reef?"

Gao Zhicheng suddenly became anxious.

If Zhao Dahai really went to the artificial reef today, and if he caught a lot of fish, he would most likely catch big ones.

I, Wu Weimin, Lin Zuhua and I arrived a day late, and missed a great opportunity.

Anyone who fishes knows very well that if you have a great fishing day, the next few days are likely to be less favorable. Even if you do manage to catch something, you won't catch many, and they won't be very big.

Ding Dawen nodded. Recently, Zhao Dahai had been fishing at artificial islands and reefs, rarely going to other places to fish. He had basically been catching groupers of fairly good size.

"Yo!"

"Why are you three here again? Is there really nothing to do at home that you have to go out fishing at sea all day?"

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua turned around and saw Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming walking out of the cabin, each carrying a water pipe and talking as they smoked.

"Hey!"

"Zhao Dahai hasn't come back yet, he must have caught a lot of fish, I reckon he must have caught a lot of big groupers."

"We arrived too late, otherwise we might have made it in time!"

Wu Weimin couldn't help but slap his thigh hard.

Gao Zhicheng was absolutely right. Zhao Dahai hasn't returned yet because he must have caught a lot of fish, and it's very likely that he caught some very large ones.

Unfortunately, we arrived too late and missed this opportunity.

“Zhao Dahai goes out to sea to fish every day. If you want to fish, you have the chance anytime. Why bother about this?”

Zhao Shi walked up to Lin Zuhua and the others, and pointed to the sea, which was now pitch black except for the lights of the fishing boats that could be seen in the stars.

During this period, Zhao Dahai has been going out to sea to fish non-stop, every day. With Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua here, he can go out to sea to fish whenever he wants.

"Can these be the same?"

“If we go out to sea with Zhao Dahai, we can catch fish anytime, and we can catch a lot of fish. But if we want to catch a big fish, we really have to rely on luck or something else.”

"If we miss this opportunity, we'll really have to wait a few more days, or even until we've finished fishing and gone back, by which time Zhao Dahai will have to catch a big fish again."

Wu Weimin sighed.

For people like them, as long as they go out to sea with Zhao Dahai, they are guaranteed to catch fish, and they can catch a lot of them. However, catching big fish is not something that can be done easily; sometimes it really depends on luck.

Or, to put it another way, you need a good opportunity. Once you miss the opportunity, you'll have to wait at least three to five days, or even one or two months, to catch a big-headed fish again.

"what!"

"It's really hard to say. Recently, Zhao Dahai has been fishing at sea, and the grouper he caught was actually quite big."

“They can weigh 30, 40, 50, or even 70 or 80 pounds.”

"But receiving one weighing over 100 kilograms is really rare."

"If you catch a grouper weighing over 100 pounds today, and catch a lot of them, then you're right. It will be really difficult to catch a lot of groupers weighing over 100 pounds in the coming period of time."

Shi Guangming smiled and nodded.

The fish, shrimp, and crabs in the sea come in waves. For a period of time, all kinds of fish, shrimp, and crabs were relatively small, as if all the big ones had suddenly disappeared.

But sometimes the fish, shrimp and crabs in the sea are very big, as if they all suddenly pop out of the water.

There's no logic to this kind of thing.

We can only rely on God, or rather, we can only rely on the Dragon King of the Sea to make arrangements.

The grouper that Zhao Dahai has been catching recently is not small, but it is not really very big, especially those that weigh over 100 pounds, which are really rare.

If we really caught a lot of large groupers weighing over 100 pounds today, it's unlikely we'll see so many fish of that size again in the near future.

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua came fishing, definitely not for the groupers weighing 20 or 30 pounds, but for those weighing over 100 pounds. However, if Zhao Dahai really caught a lot of large groupers, it's unlikely they'll catch any more in a short time.

"Zhao Dahai's speedboat is back!"

Ding Dawen shouted and pointed southeast.

Gao Zhicheng and the others immediately turned their heads and saw two very bright lights rapidly approaching the large fishing boat. In the middle of the night, these must be Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou returning.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, and Lei Dayou had just pulled up to the large fishing boat in their two speedboats when they heard someone shouting above their heads. Looking up, they saw Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua arrive.

"Boss Gao, how did you get here? You're not planning to go fishing at sea again, are you?"

Zhao Dahai climbed the ladder onto the deck of the large fishing boat. Seeing Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua, he immediately knew they were bored at home and had come out fishing again. "Ha!"

"Is there even a need to say that? We're all here to fish."

"correct!"

"Zhao Dahai".

"Did you catch any big fish today?"

As Gao Zhicheng spoke, he couldn't help but tiptoe to look at the two speedboats moored on the sea. However, the fish were all in the live water tanks, so they really couldn't be seen. He could only see that there were many net bags hanging on the side of the speedboats, which definitely contained fish, but he didn't know how big the fish were.

"what?"

"Boss Gao!"

"Haven't seen you for a while. Have you learned some kind of divine ability to predict the future? How did you know we caught a big fish today?"

Zhao Dahai was very surprised. Not only did he catch a big fish today, but almost all of them were big fish.

"We went fishing early this morning."

"I don't know what the situation is like today, but the smallest fish we caught weighed 70 or 80 pounds."

"Most of them are large groupers weighing over 100 pounds."

"I've been fishing for so long and I've never encountered anything like this before. It's really hard to leave. I've been fishing all this time, which is why we're only coming back now!"

"There aren't many groupers weighing seventy or eighty pounds, only about twenty, but there should be fifty or sixty groupers weighing over a hundred pounds."

As Zhao Dahai spoke, he pointed to the two speedboats moored on the sea. He had caught a lot of fish during his long fishing trip, including many large ones, but this scene was truly the first he had ever encountered.

I was planning to come back earlier, but the fish in this sea are just too big.

It's so rare to encounter such a scene, so I decided to fish for an extra half day and only now have I had to come back.

"If the speedboat hadn't been so full, we'd probably still be fishing on the artificial reef right now."

Zhao Dahai felt it was a bit of a pity, as such a fishing situation was truly rare. However, not only was the speedboat's live water tank full of fish, but there were also many net bags hanging on both sides of the speedboat, each containing large grouper weighing over 100 pounds. He had no choice but to return. If he continued fishing like this, even if he caught some fish, they wouldn't survive and would all die, or the speedboat simply wouldn't be able to carry that many. There was nothing he could do.

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua looked at each other and all sighed deeply.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Zhao Dahai was very puzzled, wondering why Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua looked like that.

Zhao Shi smiled and recounted what Gao Zhicheng, Lin Zuhua, and Wu Weimin had just been talking about.

“A few days ago, a few of us were thinking about going out to sea to fish, but some things got in the way, and we only got here today. As a result, we missed such a rare opportunity.”

Gao Zhicheng slapped his thigh hard. Zhao Dahai had just said that he had caught fifty or sixty large groupers weighing over 100 pounds each. It was truly unimaginable how this could happen. He really didn't know how many fish there were in the sea, all of them were so big.

"Ugh!"

"This kind of opportunity, even if it's not once in a century, it's at least once every ten years. If we miss it now, it will be a real problem. I really don't know if we'll have another chance to come across it next time."

Lin Zuhua was extremely annoyed.

Fifty or sixty large groupers weighing over a hundred pounds each—this was truly astonishing. Unfortunately, Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and I were just one day late and missed this opportunity.

Zhao Dahai nodded. Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua had indeed missed a rare opportunity. Anyone who goes out to sea to fish or catch fish knows that such an opportunity is truly rare. Once you miss it, you don't know when you'll be able to encounter it again.

I, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Da, and a few others—one of whom has been fishing at sea for many years, and the other who has been fishing for so long—have never encountered anything like this before.

Gao Zhicheng is a professional fisherman; this is his job, but he has certainly never encountered anything like this before.

Needless to say, Wu Weimin and Lin Zuhua are even less likely to encounter such a thing; fishing is just a hobby for them.

"Ugh!"

"If we hadn't planned to go fishing, then even if we had known about this and missed this opportunity, there wouldn't have been anything to say. But we had planned to go deep-sea fishing, and it's really sad that we missed this opportunity by being a day or two late."

Gao Zhicheng sighed. The current situation was extremely disheartening, but there was nothing he could do.

"Boss Gao."

"Why did you only arrive today? Why did you only arrive now? If you had come earlier, you would have just arrived on the day we were pulling up a giant grouper weighing over 100 pounds."

When Zhong Shizhu boarded the large fishing boat and saw Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua, he immediately knew that they had come out to sea to fish, but they had missed the day of catching big grouper. Instead of offering any consolation, he immediately rubbed salt into the wound, truly bringing up the most sensitive topic.

"That's right, that's exactly it. We caught so many big groupers this time, each one weighing over 70 or 80 pounds, or even over 100 pounds."

Liu Bin nodded immediately. This was an opportunity they absolutely couldn't miss; they had to add fuel to the fire.

Gao Zhicheng, Wu Weimin, and Lin Zuhua looked at each other, already feeling quite depressed, but after hearing what Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin said, they became even more depressed.

"We'll still go out to sea fishing tomorrow night, and see if we can catch any big fish. But I reckon the chances are really slim, or it might be a few more days before we catch any big fish."

"However, since you've come out fishing, you certainly can't go back so early. You can stay with us and go out to sea to fish. You all have a chance to catch a grouper that weighs over 100 pounds."

"Besides, it's enough if you can catch one or two fish, it's not like you have to catch dozens or anything."

"If you go fishing at sea on Zhao Dahai's speedboat, are you still worried about not catching a giant grouper weighing over 100 pounds?"

Lei Dayou couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

His words sounded comforting on the surface, but in fact they were mockery or schadenfreude. Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng, and Lin Zuhua had missed a rare opportunity.

(End of this chapter)