Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 159: Town Bathhouse

In the morning, the young couple got up early, which was rare for them. Mother Qin was a little surprised to see them.

"Don't you want to sleep a little longer?"

"No need to sleep. I'm going to drive later. Let's eat first."

Yanyan cooked another egg and put it in his bowl. I knew what was going on at a glance. My son must have been exerting too much effort recently.

After dinner, when he was about to go ride the bike, he saw the silly kid coming down the road carrying a bucket.

"elder brother."

"what happened?"

"Small crucian carp, do you want some?" When he heard that Qin Dahe sold a batch of crucian carp last night, he immediately thought of giving some to his elder brother. After all, there were no big fish in the ground trap, but small fish could be caught every day.

"Haha, brothers are still reliable." He said with a smile and called Yanyan out from behind.

"Pour the crucian carp in and make sure to note how many there are. I'll catch them again in a few days."

"I understand, brother."

"Everything for bathing is ready."

"Go drive and make some money, stop talking nonsense." Yanyan waved her hand. She still had to feed the chickens and the four little ones with Qin's mother, so she had no time to waste.

Qin Dahe nodded, said hello to the kid and went to drive. There were many customers now, and time is money.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, the tricycles that we usually see are no longer there, and there are still three guests waiting.

As soon as his car stopped, he started picking up passengers, which was much better than usual.

"Uncle Huang, would you like a cigarette?" Seeing the owner of Liming Supermarket here, he greeted him and passed him a cigarette.

"You're driving a sports car right after getting married. Why don't you let your dad do it?" Grandpa Huang smiled and lit a cigarette.

"How can I rest? I'll be short of money after I get married."

Light a cigarette, take a deep breath, and gently exhale the smoke. It feels very comfortable.

After a while, a man came. Qin Dahe saw that there was no car waiting nearby, so he took the man and drove over quickly.

It costs one dollar and fifty cents per person to get on the bus here, and it costs more than twenty dollars if you take a full load.

I rubbed my hands to warm them up, started the car, and set off.

This time we didn’t have to stop on the way. We drove straight to the town at lightning speed and then waited for customers at my sister’s place.

The old man said that there are so many people coming back from the first trip, so just take them with you.

In this way, he went back with a full group of people and brought another group of people over. By the time he went back for the last trip, he had made a hundred dollars. It was really nice to make that money.

"Mom, this is for you." After entering the house, he handed the money directly to his mother.

"Just take it yourself." I glanced at him but didn't move my hand.

"Don't be polite, my mother and I. The money for this tricycle is yours. You have spent so much on your wedding." He said with a smile and waved to Yanyan who was already ready.

Although his parents didn't say it, he knew that they had probably emptied their family savings to get married for him.

He also had some shame, so he gave all the gift money to the young couple. They were short of money at that time, so how could he ask for money for driving?

If you live your life again, your parents will still feel sad, so wouldn't it be a waste of your life?

Yanyan said goodbye to her mother and left with him. They had agreed to go to the bathhouse in town to take a bath together today.

She has no problem with the money issue. Her parents treat her very well and the family doesn't have any differences.

Sitting next to her brother, she was in a good mood. It was much more comfortable to take a bath on the street than at home, and there was also a shower.

Qin Dahe led his men to the main road, and there were actually people waiting at Liming Supermarket.

He didn't mind wasting time and went to pick up two people. When he arrived in the town, there were already six people in the car, which was a pleasant surprise.

"Yan'er, I have money for taking a bath today, hey!" He waved the banknotes in his hand as if showing off.

"Give it to me, save it up."

"Go buy some drinks and bring them in. It's nice to drink after a shower."

The little girl frowned and thought about it for a while, then thought that it was indeed comfortable to drink a beverage after taking a shower, so she nodded in agreement.

"I want to drink Coke, it's very expensive."

"Don't be afraid, I'll drink too, haha." He knew what the little girl was thinking.

Both of them drink Coke, so no one gets wasted.

By the way, I also bought some snacks for the girl and gave them to my elder sister. After taking a shower, we will meet at my elder sister's store.

Men and women take showers at different speeds. Men take showers faster at home, but they take longer in the bathhouse.

He entered the men's bathhouse, took off his clothes, and then walked into the hot tub with his arms swollen.

It was so smoky here that you couldn't see people more than two meters away. The water was a little hot when I entered it, so I slowly adjusted myself before burying my neck down in the hot water.

She let out a comfortable moan, it felt so good.

It is so comfortable to soak in this kind of boiling hot water, and it feels like every part of your body is melting.

After soaking for ten minutes, I started sweating on my head.

It suddenly rushed out, splashing water everywhere, and everything turned red.

"How much for a bath?" he shouted.

"Three, and there's another one in front."

"Okay, I'll wait." I can't wash my hair now, otherwise the shampoo will flow onto my body and I won't be able to scrub it clean even if I take a shower later.

I took a couple of showers and went back to soaking.

Amidst the smoke, there was one more person beside me. At this time, there were still very few people in the pool because the water was too hot.

"Grandpa, are you here too?" It was another acquaintance, Li Shimin, who drove a tricycle.

"Yeah, racing drivers are making a lot of money these days, hey."

"I made a hundred bucks today. How about you?"

"120, I made an extra trip."

The two of them were chatting by the pool. It was quite comfortable to chat in such a frank environment, as long as they didn't compare size.

Nowadays, people who drive three-wheeled vehicles are considered wealthy people, but not everyone can afford to buy one.

Those who can afford this money may have other things to do, so the competition among them is not that great.

"By the way, Grandpa, how much is iron now?" Qin Dahe remembered that he had a large iron felt at home, so he asked the price first.

People who often drive tricycles have a wider range of information. He drives less often and asked about the iron prices at the junk collector before the New Year.

"One dollar and thirty-five cents, it's gone up quite a bit since the beginning of the year."

"Damn, it's so expensive?" Qin Dahe was surprised. The New Year's money was only one yuan and one yuan and two yuan.

"Yeah, now a new big tricycle costs 11,000 yuan."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

The more expensive the better. If no one can afford it, they will lose their business. "I just called for the bath scrubbers. It's your turn," the master called out.

Qin Dahe hurried over. The bathhouse was so arrogant that it would not wait for anyone who was late.

The old man who was scrubbing my body was very strong and rubbed off a lot of dirt on both sides of my body. After he was done, I took a shower and felt very comfortable.

Men's bathhouses usually have a resting area with a small wooden bed and a cabinet underneath to lock things.

When we got to the lounge, the smoke was no less than that in the bathhouse. Everyone here was smoking and bragging.

We may not know each other, but that doesn’t stop us from walking our birds and bragging together.

I took a sip of ice-cold Coke and lit a cigarette, feeling refreshed.

The people next door are discussing something about the cotton-picking factory. They say a new cotton-picking factory has opened on Tongjiang Avenue, so there will be more places to harvest cotton next year.

It's so exciting that he can even predict the price of cotton next year.

"There are so many factories this year, the price of cotton must have risen to four yuan."

"If it could go up to four, we'd be comfortable."

Qin Dahe thought about it and it seemed that 3.9 yuan last year was the peak price of cotton. Only first-grade cotton could be sold for more money.

There is also a group of people discussing news, talking about various policies at will, and knowing the international situation well.

Even the leadership team of the county could tell him everything, and Qin Dahe listened with great interest.

If today's men's bathhouses were placed in ancient times, even the owner would be chopped to death. The chat was too exciting.

"Aren't you the fishmonger?"

Someone called him, and he turned around to look. A dark-faced man? He had no impression of him.

"I'm Gu Qiang. I bought fish from you last year and we were chatting about fishing."

"Oh, it's you. My name is Qin Dahe, nice to meet you." He greeted with a smile.

He sells fish and drives a tricycle, and he knows a lot of people. But now he can't remember a single customer who wants to buy fish.

"Have you caught any fish recently?" The other person came and sat on the bed next to him. They were chatting animatedly over there, and he didn't care.

"Haha, I just drained a fish pond and caught 700 kilograms of fish."

"Really? What kind of fish are there?"

Qin Dahe told about his group's actions, especially the few soft-shelled turtles they caught, and Gu Qiang listened with great interest.

"What a pity! I wish I were there." Gu Qiang said enviously.

"Another cigarette, here." Qin Dahe handed over Shuangxi. He now carried two packs of cigarettes with him, and Shuangxi was for socializing.

The two men lit up another cigarette with the unextinguished cigarette butt and started chatting with their guns facing each other.

"I see you work at the pumping station, don't you? You have so much free time, I'm sure you have time for fishing."

"Who says it's not? Looking at the water pump station, it's idle all year round. I've almost caught all the fish in the station, haha."

"That's fine. You can just plant some seedlings yourself. It's your job to manage it anyway."

"Yes, I put all the small fish I caught in the wild in it. I also spent money to fence off the area, but I still couldn't catch any big fish."

"What fish?" Qin Dahe became interested. If he couldn't catch it, he could find another one.

"There are all kinds of fish in there now. There are about seven acres of deep water, but I usually only catch crucian carp and angding with earthworms. If I use corn, they are too slow to bite."

Qin Dahe knew as soon as he heard it that this was because the density was not enough.

If the density is high enough, corn and earthworms can catch most common fish, including silver carp.

Silver carp definitely won’t work, as this fish is too timid to eat live bait.

"There are relatively few black carp. I've only seen one big one. There are more silver carp, many of which are bighead carp. I tried several times but failed to catch any." He said with a wry smile.

"There are a lot of big crucian carp there, but they don't bite very well. I caught five or six in one day before the holiday. What can you do about it?"

"Haha, it's a perfect match for my major."

He did not hide anything and shared his fishing experience.

"Flour bait is better for catching silver carp. Bighead carp are more aggressive. You can catch them with live bait or flour bait. Just go to the fishing tackle store and get some."

"No, I went to Jiuzi and asked. The bait used there for silver carp and bighead carp is ordinary wet flour bait. You bring a bucket of dry flour with you when you go fishing, and then you have to coat the bait with flour every time you go fishing."

Thinking of the troublesome silver carp and bighead carp bait, Gu Qiang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. It was troublesome, but the fishing was not very good either, as it was too slow to catch fish.

"I'll give you some homemade ones later. I can pull out hundreds of pounds a day, which is just enough to feed the dog and leave some." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

"It's actually hard to catch big crucian carp in winter. You need to use a thin-tailed float with a small lead weight, and at least have one hook touch the bottom and another hook wander around the bottom. This will make it easier to catch, but the key also depends on the resources."

The last time they went fishing in Sancha River, they didn't pay much attention to adjusting the float. They had so many resources that it would be a waste of time to study this.

Through chatting with Gu Qiang, he found that the other party was considered a relatively senior fisherman of this era, so he was willing to talk more.

Of course, this level of experience is not enough in the era of information explosion in the future.

"Okay, give me your home address and I'll pick it up this afternoon. I have to go back to work right after the Lantern Festival."

When Gu Qiang heard that there was a homemade secret bait, he was very happy. Silver carp is worth a lot of money. Catching a big fish can be equivalent to a day's salary.

The civil servants working at the water pumping station should be the ones with the least stress. They don't have to stay there during the dry season, and the water level can be as deep as they want.

When it comes to the flood season, we just need to follow the instructions of the higher-level water affairs department on when to store water and when to release water.

Qin Dahe was too lazy to make friends with ordinary civil servants, but he looked up to people who liked fishing, regardless of whether they were civil servants or not.

"If the bait works, come visit me sometime and we'll have some fun fishing."

"Haha, let's talk about it when the time comes." Don't take temporary polite remarks seriously unless the other party actually extends an invitation.

After resting in the bathhouse for a while, he felt a little cold, so he went in again to soak for a few minutes, then washed his body with a shower, dried himself, and came out.

The cold wind outside makes people feel like they are floating in the air.

If he comes here alone to take a shower, he will definitely need to take a nap to feel refreshed.

When we arrived at our eldest sister's house, Yanyan was drying her hair with a towel.

Qin Dahe thought about it and felt that it would not be difficult to get a hot air gun himself, as both his mother and his mother at home could use it.

This thing is very simple, just nickel-chromium wire wrapped around a porcelain or mica bracket, and a small fan is installed at the back to blow it. If you make it yourself, you have to adjust the temperature and wind speed, which he can't do.

I'll just go to Jiuzi and buy one next time. I'm too lazy to bother with this.

"Yan'er, when did you come out?"

"It's been a while. My hair is too long and it's hard to dry." The little girl frowned and looked at her hair in distress.

Qin Dahe stepped forward to help and twisted the hair and towel together. It worked, but it was just average.

"Abao, have lunch here with me." When the elder sister saw her younger brother coming, she immediately went to the front to greet him.

"Forget it. I guess my wife is bored at lunch. If I don't go back, I should tell her in advance, otherwise she will definitely scold me." He is self-aware and knows that his wife will not be scolded.

"Okay, I bought some snacks for you to take back and eat together."

"Sister bought a lot." Yanyan happily pointed to the plastic bag beside her. Sister is so nice, just as nice as brother.

(End of this chapter)