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

Chapter 946 A Very Confused Person
"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!"

"Big brother, big brother!"

"I caught it! I caught it!"

"We finally caught a grouper."

Xu Xiaochui was very excited. He stood next to Xu Dachui with a fishing line in his hand and stared at the sea with wide eyes. Just two or three minutes ago, his elder brother Xu Dachui pushed the reel-winding switch hard, and then he saw the rod bend down, so there must be a fish taking the bait. Besides, they came here today to fish for grouper, and they just hit the bottom, so it must be a grouper.

"What's the hurry?"

"What are you excited about?"

"The fish hasn't been pulled out of the water yet. Who knows if we can catch it? Who knows if it's a grouper?"

Xu Dachui was very nervous, his eyes widened.

"what!"

"Big brother, big brother."

"Why should we be so nervous? We have been fishing for more than 10 or 20 years. A real veteran should be able to tell whether there is a fish on the rod. It's just that the fish is not too big."

Xu Xiaochui was just as nervous and excited, but he comforted his elder brother Xu Dachui.

"Can this be the same?"

"We used to fish for sea bass, but now we are fishing for grouper. We have tried many times but never caught one. If we can catch this one today, it will be the first grouper that we two brothers have caught."

Xu Dachui was really nervous. Beads of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead, but he didn't bother to wipe them off.

While I was talking, Xu Xiaochui held the scoop net and stared at the sea with wide eyes.

"coming!"

"Big brother, big brother."

"I've seen fish! I've seen fish!"

"That's right! It's a grouper!"

Xu Xiaochui saw a fish wobbling under the clear sea water being pulled up, and he could see clearly that it was indeed a grouper. Not long after he finished speaking, the fish surfaced.

Xu Xiaochui had been waiting for a long time. He stretched out the scoop net and caught the fish in one go.

"what!"

"Big brother, big brother."

"Isn't it true now?"

"We two brothers finally caught our first grouper."

"what!"

"We can get more grouper next!"

“And you can make more money.”

Xu Xiaochui put away the scoop net, pulled the fish onto the deck, and used pliers to remove the hook, which turned out to be a blue snapper weighing about ten pounds.

“I did catch it!”

“I really don’t know if I can catch more groupers next time!”

"One thing is very clear, we won't make any money today!"

At first, Xu Dachui was very happy and excited when he saw the grouper. After trying so many times in so many days, he finally caught the first grouper. It is indeed possible that he will be able to catch more and catch a lot of them in the future. This is just a possibility. It is not known whether he can really catch any. One thing is very clear that he and his brother Xu Xiaochui will definitely not make any money today.

"what?"

"Big brother."

"What do you mean by this?"

"We finally caught our first fish, can't we be a little happier?"

Li Xiaochui was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

Today, my elder brother and I went fishing at the Windmill Foot fishing spot. Each of us caught fish more than 20 times, and we lost a lot of money on our fishing gear.

The grouper caught weighs about ten pounds. Even if one pound can be sold for three hundred yuan, that would be three thousand yuan.

Selling this fish is not as good as the loss of hanging it at the bottom.

Not to mention that we had to travel a long way to fish for grouper here today, and in this place, the speedboat was constantly going back and forth, consuming a lot of fuel.

Xu Xiaochui was very clear that what his elder brother Xu Dachui said was right. Even though he had caught a fish, he would definitely lose money today, and a lot of it.

"Hey!"

"I say, what's going on with you two brothers? Didn't you catch a fish? Shouldn't you be happy?"

Cao Hong and Song Tianping were in the speedboat not far away. When they saw the fish being caught, they came over immediately. However, they soon discovered that the faces of the two brothers Xu Dachui and Xu Xiaochui looked a little ugly, which was very strange.

Xu Xiaochui smiled bitterly and repeated what Xu Dachui had just said.

"Hey!"

"What the hell are you doing? Anyway, I finally caught my first fish."

"Ten pounds of blue spots can be sold for about three thousand yuan."

"It's true that we didn't make any money, but isn't this a smaller loss?"

Song Tianping was very depressed.

The two brothers Xu Dachui and Xu Xiaochui had their fish stuck on the bottom almost the same number of times as I did, but they both caught a grouper weighing over ten kilograms.

"I say, you two brothers are just making things difficult for yourselves by thinking about this. No matter what business you are in, it's always like this at the beginning. We used to fish for sea bass, but now we fish for grouper. This is something we have never done before, so we must pay a price."

Cao Hong shook his head. It was meaningless for Xu Dachui and Xu Xiaochui to settle such an account.

"Hehehe!"

"Cao Hong."

"Who doesn't know the truth you're talking about?"

"At the beginning, we are not familiar with it, so we have to pay a price and a cost. But the most troublesome thing is that when we become more proficient in fishing for grouper, can we really catch a lot of grouper and make a lot of money?"

Xu Dachui pointed at the speedboats around him.

"We've been fishing for grouper at the Windmill Foot fishing spot for quite some time today, right?"

"There are a lot of speedboats that can see giant groupers, right?"

"Many people on speedboats said there were a lot of fish here at Windmill Foot today!"

"But how many speedboats have you seen catching fish?"

"It can be considered that the fish were caught by speedboats. How many speedboats can catch so many fish?"

Xu Dachui's face was full of bitter smile.

Everyone knows that when you start doing something, you must pay the cost and definitely not make money. You have to spend time to learn. I have been fishing for sea bass for more than ten years, and I have never fished for grouper.

It takes time and money to learn.

Today is a big catch, there are not many speedboats around that can catch more fish and make more money. Even if we learn how to catch grouper, is it really useful? Can we really make money?
What really depressed Xu Dachui was this matter. He didn't know whether it was useful for him to spend time and money learning how to catch grouper.

"what?"

"No, right?"

"Xu Dachui."

"According to what you said, then there is no need for us to fish for grouper, right?"

……

"Dry!"

"It's so hard to fish! Even if we learn how to fish, what good will it do? How much more money can we make?"

……

Cao Hong and Song Tianping were dumbfounded.

No matter how difficult a thing is, as long as it can be done, and the most important thing is to be able to make money, it is worth it no matter how much time it takes or what the price is.

But if this thing is extremely difficult and requires the cost of time and money, and in the end you find that you don’t make much money, it’s really a headache.

This is what Xu Dachui is talking about.

Cao Hong and Song Tianping couldn't help but take another look at the speedboats around them.

Gao Da spent half a day here fishing for grouper, and saw countless speedboats coming and going. As Xu Dachui just said, it is rare to see a speedboat that can really catch fish, especially a few fish.

If these speedboats and people, most of whom are experienced fishermen who have been fishing in Shizhu for many years, cannot catch any fish, it is really hard to say whether we, the newbies, should join the industry or when we can join the industry and when we can make money.

Cao Hong and Song Tianping had just seen Xu Dachui catch a blue snapper weighing more than ten kilograms and earn three thousand yuan in one go. They were excited and full of motivation, but now it was like a bucket of cold water was poured down their heads, and they were suddenly very depressed.

"hehe!"

"There's nothing much to say about this matter. It all depends on how everyone views it!"

"If you think you can make money, then you should definitely keep trying. If you think you can't make money or that the effort you put in is not proportional to the income, then you definitely can't do this."

"What I just said is one thing, but don't forget that there are so many speedboats around here fishing. Someone must be able to catch fish and make money. No one would spend time here all the time and not make money, and always lose money, right?"

"No matter what you do, no matter what industry you are in, in the end some people make money and some lose money. It just depends on one's ability!"

Xu Dachui smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Hey!"

"This is a very troublesome matter for us. If we don't catch grouper or other fish and only catch sea bass, our income will be greatly reduced. It's a bit unbearable. But if we catch grouper or other fish, how and when we can make money is really uncertain. There is no 100% certainty."

Xu Xiaochui slapped the back of his head vigorously. He just saw his elder brother, Xu Dachui, catch a blue spot and thought that he would catch one after another. He thought this matter was too simple.

Cao Hong and Song Tianping drove the speedboat a little gloomily to move away and continue bottom fishing for grouper.

"Big brother."

"You're not going to knock the bottom off and drop the grouper next time, are you?"

Xu Xiaochui felt a little worried when he saw Cao Hong and Song Tianping stop about 180 meters away to fish for grouper. He wondered what his elder brother thought about this matter.

"hehe!"

"To be honest, I'm still a little undecided. I don't know whether I should continue to spend so much time and money on this matter."

“I don’t know if we can really make money if we learn how to fish for grouper.”

Xu Dachui was very troubled. During this period of time, he had been trying to catch grouper and had been constantly wondering whether he should really do it.

But you can't make enough money by fishing for sea bass, and learning to fish for grouper takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money. The key is that you don't know if you can make money.

There were a lot of fish at the Windmill Foot fishing spot today, but after careful observation for half a day, I found that very few people were able to catch a lot of fish.

During such special times, fewer people can catch fish and make money. During normal times, even fewer people can catch fish and make money.

There must be someone who can catch a lot of fish and make a lot of money, otherwise there wouldn't be so many speedboats coming here to fish. But there may be only ten such people among a hundred people.

Could my two brothers be one of the ten among these one hundred people?
Xu Dachui was not sure.

"Hey!"

"Big brother."

"How can this matter be clarified? The most important thing now is what are we going to do next?"

"Whenever we have the chance, we should come here and try to learn how to fish for grouper. Or maybe we won't come here for grouper and just fish for sea bass. We can catch as many as we can and make as much money as we can."

Xu Xiaochui was a little anxious.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Why are you talking so loudly? How can this be so easy? If I could figure it out in an instant, wouldn't I have made up my mind long ago?"

Xu Dachui glared at Xu Xiaochui. He had been thinking about this matter recently. Sometimes he felt that there was no need to catch grouper and just fishing for sea bass would be enough. Sometimes, he felt that fishing for sea bass alone was not enough.

Xu Xiaochui opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Dry!"

"What the hell!"

"Hit the bottom again!"

"Can this fish still be caught?"

Cao Hong was very helpless. He just hit the bottom and then fell again.

I have long forgotten how many times I have tried today. I didn't catch any fish and I am very depressed.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter. When fishing for grouper at the bottom, you are bound to encounter such things. Plus, I am a novice, so it is even easier for me to get stuck.

But what Xu Dachui had just said kept circling in his mind.

"Song Tianping."

"Do you think we can really make money?"

Cao Hong really couldn't help it, he turned his head and looked at Song Tianping who was not far away and shouted loudly.

"Who knows?"

“It’s really hard to say whether we can make money, especially when we can make money even if we can.”

Song Tianping was silent for a long time before shaking his head.

"Ugh!"

"It's hard to say whether it's really as good as the sea bass we've been fishing for. Although sometimes we don't catch much, especially when Zhao Dahai comes to compete with us for fish, we catch even fewer fish, but no matter what, we can still catch some fish, and we don't have to spend more time and money."

Song Tianping became more and more depressed as he talked. He had always thought that fishing for grouper could make more money, but now he realized that this was far from being as simple as he had imagined. One was that he didn't know how long it would take to learn, and the other was that no one knew whether they could make money.

Cao Hong and Song Tianping looked at the vast sea in front of them and the speedboats fishing for grouper around them. They were very confused and didn't know what to do next.

(End of this chapter)