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

Chapter 917: It's not that the speedboat is big, but it makes big money

"Is Zhao Dahai really that good at fishing?"

Ma Zhizhen didn't know how much he had heard about Zhao Dahai recently.

"Humph!"

"Can something like this be fake?"

"Shi Jiehua's sea fishing boat is fully booked at 200,000 yuan per fishing spot. The key is that those who gambled such a large sum of money came back from the sea with a lot of money. I don't know how many of them made 1.8 million or 800,000 yuan."

"How can someone without any skills do such a thing?"

"Even if you don't believe it without seeing it with your own eyes, are the croakers that the people on Zhao Dahai's speedboat are fishing for fake?"

"Dry!"

"There are either four or five fish in a string, all weighing 30 to 40 kilograms. The head of this one is a little bigger than the ones we caught."

"In just a few hours, we caught more than 2,000 kilograms of croaker."

"How much have you caught? Five hundred kilograms?"

Dong Kaiming lowered his head to look at the fish in the live water tank at his feet.

To be fair, being able to catch a 500-jin croaker is already considered very good. This trip out to sea will surely make a lot of money. However, compared with Zhao Dahai's speedboat on the opposite side, it is not a little bit worse.

There were indeed only two of us, Ma Zhizhen and I, but we had been here since nine in the morning and had been fishing until now.

In the same amount of time, Zhao Dahai and the people on his speedboat probably caught five to six thousand kilograms of croaker.

"Why don't we use a set of five hooks? Wouldn't it be faster to fish that way?"

Ma Zhizhen saw that Zhao Dahai’s speedboat was using five hooks.

"Five hooks?"

"Why don't you use it if you want to?"

Dong Kaiming slapped the pole in front of him hard.

Who doesn't know that a five-hook string has the potential to catch more fish?
But the key point is that using a five-hook string can easily get tangled.

As early as an hour ago, and even when I came here last time to fish for croaker, I had tried using a five-hook string, but the number of fish I caught did not increase, and it became more troublesome.

Just because Zhao Dahai and his crew’s speedboat can use five hooks doesn’t mean he can use five hooks.

Ma Zhizhen sighed. There was really nothing he could say about this matter. Zhao Dahai and the people on his speedboat had no problem using five hooks and were able to catch more fish. But when he and Dong Kaiming tried it, there was really no way.

"Dong Kaiming."

"It's getting late now! What are we going to do?"

Ma Zhizhen pointed to the sun in the distant sky. It was already setting and would soon fall into the deep sea.

At this moment, the sky is a fiery red and the sunset is very beautiful, but for people like me and Dong Kaiming who go fishing so far away from the artificial islands and reefs, this is not good news.

"What else can we do? Hurry up and fish a few more times, we have to go back."

Dong Kaiming was very helpless.

There are fish at the spot where my speedboat is fishing. I caught about 500 kilograms of croaker in a day. If I continue fishing, I will be able to catch a lot more. And from the current situation, the more night it gets, the more fish there are and the more they bite.

Unfortunately, my speedboat is too small and I can't spend the night in a place like this.

The way back is quite long, and after fishing for another half an hour or so, we have to take the speedboat back, otherwise it will be very dangerous.

Dong Kaiming and Ma Zhizhen had been fishing for half an hour when the sky began to slowly darken. They knew they had to go back because there were fish in the sea and the more they fished the better they would catch. However, they could only put away their rods, tidy up, and go back immediately.

Dong Kaiming drove his speedboat less than five meters past Zhao Dahai's speedboat. Looking at the croakers piled on the deck that had not yet been thrown into the live hold or the refrigerator, his face was tense and looked very ugly.

"what!"

"Could it be possible that Zhao Dahai and his crew's speedboat will continue fishing here?"

Ma Zhizhen lit the cigarette in his mouth, took a deep puff, turned around to look at Zhao Dahai's speedboat. The lights were on and all the people on it were fishing non-stop, with no intention of leaving at all.

Dong Kaiming was stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully, he realized that this was most likely the case.

"Dry!"

"Zhao Dahai and his people will definitely fish until tomorrow morning!"

"Otherwise it would be impossible to come here to fish at three or four in the afternoon!"

The more Dong Kaiming thought about it, the more he felt that what Ma Zhizhen said was right. Zhao Dahai’s speedboat must be fishing here until tomorrow.

Zhao Dahai’s speedboat is very large, so there is no problem spending the night in a place like this. It is very safe. Even if the weather suddenly changes, he can still get back.

If Zhao Dahai's speedboat was not planning to fish all night, it would not have arrived here in the afternoon, but must have arrived early in the morning. If it was not planning to fish all night, it would have to leave at this time and return to the dock.

Dong Kaiming's expression became increasingly ugly.

Zhao Dahai's speedboat has caught so many fish in just a few hours. If he continues fishing until tomorrow morning, it will be a remarkable achievement.

Anyone with fishing experience knows very well that fish are easier to catch at night or in the early morning before dawn.

"Dong Kaiming."

"Why don't you buy a big speedboat?"

"Fishing here is safe, and the key is that you can stay overnight. Doesn't that mean you can catch more fish and make more money?"

Ma Zhizhen couldn't help but look back at Zhao Dahai's speedboat which was almost out of sight.

"Ugh!"

"Do you know how much Zhao Dahai's speedboat cost? It's over a million!"

"Who can take out such a large sum of money just by saying so?"

"Don't even mention whether you have the money or not. Even if you really have the money, would you spend it to buy a speedboat like this?"

"We go fishing to make money. If we want to make money, we have to calculate the costs and risks."

"Zhao Dahai has caught a lot of fish, so he doesn't need to worry about buying a one million speedboat or a two million speedboat."

"Where's ours?"

"How much money did you and I make from the fish we caught last year?"

"If I sell them all, it won't be more than 300,000 yuan. After eating, drinking, defecating and various other things, I will have 60,000 or 70,000 yuan left, which is already pretty good!"

"A speedboat worth one million dollars would take more than ten years to earn back the money it paid for."

"Even if the speedboat is bigger, runs faster, travels farther and makes more money, it will take at least seven or eight years, right?"

"No matter how short the time is, it will take at least five years to earn back the money for the speedboat, right?"

"The next step is to make money, but I don't know if I can make money or how much money I can make."

Dong Kaiming sighed. Everyone knows that a big speedboat is better, it can run faster and farther, and it can even stay overnight on artificial islands and reefs to have a chance to catch more fish.

The problem is that I have to spend money to buy a speedboat first, and I don’t know if I can make money.

Dong Kaiming told Ma Zhizhen that if he wanted to go fishing on the artificial island, especially if he wanted to stay overnight, he would have to buy a speedboat worth at least 500,000 or 600,000 yuan. People who go fishing know that big fishing boats and big speedboats have a great chance of making more money, but it is hard to say whether it is really possible to make money just by having a chance.

"What the hell!"

"If you calculate like that, then you can't do anything. How can you buy a big speedboat?"

Ma Zhizhen cursed with a smile.

"Humph!"

"If the bigger the speedboat, the more money you can make, why don't you buy one? Why do you have to go fishing on my speedboat and pay the fishing fee?"

Dong Kaiming cursed back.

Everyone knows that it is more convenient to have your own speedboat. Some people even reserve a fishing spot on their own speedboat and can be assured of receiving the fishing fee regardless of whether they can catch fish or not.

But why do so many people still not buy speedboats?
Can't afford it?
If you can really make money steadily, you can even borrow this little money.

The problem is that buying a speedboat does not necessarily mean you can catch more fish or make more money.

Seeing that others bought speedboats, they can catch more fish and make more money?

That's just someone else, not yourself.

Ma Zhizhen opened his mouth and wanted to refute but didn't know what to say. It is really not that easy to make money by buying a speedboat. Just as Dong Kaiming said, if it was really that easy to make money, he would have bought one long ago. It is impossible for him to pay to book a fishing spot on Dong Kaiming's or someone else's speedboat every time he went out to sea.

Dong Kaiming looked back and saw that the artificial island reef had become completely dark. Zhao Dahai's speedboat was no longer visible. He was very depressed and stepped on the gas hard. The speed of the speedboat suddenly increased.

Who doesn't want a big speedboat?

The problem is that people can’t afford it or they can afford it but don’t dare to buy it.

Artificial islands and reefs.

eight pm.

Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were squatting on the deck, each holding a large bowl of rice in their hands. There were two pots in the middle, one containing cooked fish soup and the other containing large chunks of pork belly fried with garlic sprouts.

"After eating two pieces of pork belly, I feel full immediately and have plenty of energy to work!"

Zhong Shizhu patted his stomach. He didn't eat much, just two pieces of pork belly the size of his palm. He hadn't eaten dinner in the first place, so he was very hungry until now, but he felt full all of a sudden.

"For people who go out to sea, all other dishes are fake. They are just to satisfy your cravings and will not fill you up at all. Only this pork belly is the real good stuff."

Liu Bin picked up the second piece of pork belly and his mouth was full of oil. This kind of meat is the most fragrant when it comes to sea.

"Who cares whether it tastes good or not?"

"We go out to sea to fish and we go out to sea to work!"

"By the way, when you're hungry, anything tastes good. This pork belly is truly the most delicious thing in the world."

"I can't eat anymore after eating two pieces!"

Lei Dayou burped, his mouth full of the taste of pork belly. He picked up the bowl of soup and took a few big gulps.

The fish used to make the soup is black sea bream caught during the day.

I left a dozen of them on the speedboat, thinking of making a pot of soup when I eat.

Although the croaker I just caught is valuable, it is really not as good as the fat and big black sea bream when it comes to making soup.

"Uncle Shizhu."

"The croaker we caught should weigh about 4,000 kilograms, right?"

Zhao Dahai glanced at Zhong Shizhu while eating.

"It must be four thousand kilograms, it's possible that it's already four thousand five hundred kilograms!"

Zhong Shizhu nodded and immediately frowned.

"Zhao Dahai."

"There aren't many croakers left here, right?"

Zhong Shizhu looked at Zhao Dahai and started fishing for croakers as soon as they arrived here. In the beginning, the croakers they caught were very big and their mouths were wide open. As soon as they reached the water layer, they would bite the hook immediately. They would pull up a full string of five or more fish at a time.

The bites were more intense at around five or six o'clock, but around seven o'clock, especially around eight o'clock, the fish bites suddenly became very rare.

Zhao Dahai saw this situation and simply stopped fishing and cooked.

Liu Bin and Lei Dayou didn't pay much attention to this matter. After Zhong Shizhu said this, the two of them immediately turned to look at Zhao Dahai, very worried.

It doesn't matter if the fish just doesn't bite.

If they don't bite today, they may bite tomorrow, or the next time these people come here, they may encounter a school of fish biting their tongues. Even if the fish on the seabed don't bite, Zhao Dahai can find a way to catch them. But if there are really few fish, as Zhao Dahai mentioned before, there are not too many croakers at the spot, which is a troublesome thing.

Zhao Dahai swallowed a piece of pork belly, looked at Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou, and nodded.

"No way?"

"We've only been here twice, and the total amount of croaker we caught is less than 10,000 kilograms, right? How come there aren't that many fish left?"

……

"Hey!"

"Zhao Dahai."

"You're right, we really just need to seize the time and catch more fish!"

……

"Does that mean we have to go to Grouper's tomorrow?"

……

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou saw Zhao Dahai nod and knew that the school of croakers under the speedboat was indeed getting smaller, and it was not just that they were not opening their mouths. There was nothing they could do about it.

"How can we keep fishing like this?"

"No matter what, this is the open sea, not the deep sea. The key is that this is an artificial island reef. Although there are many fish, these fish are relatively scattered. It is very good to be able to get so many croakers at one point!"

Zhao Dahai smiled.

The real deep-sea fishing spots are very large. The fishing spots that Shi Jiehua and I went to on our sea fishing boat some time ago were very large and wide, and we could catch a lot of fish continuously.

There are indeed fish only in the open sea around the artificial islands and reefs, but the spots are very scattered. I and Zhong Shizhu and others have come here twice to fish, and it is already very rare to catch a few thousand kilograms of croaker.

Zhao Dahai told Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayi to take a break after dinner and then try to see if they can catch any croaker. If there are really not many fish, they can change places.

(End of this chapter)