Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 360: Building an Island (Part )

When they arrived at the bathhouse, they lay comfortably in the hot pool, and the father and son moaned with satisfaction.

It’s such a pleasure to take a bath in a bathhouse in the middle of winter, much better than at home.

"Dahe, are you busy tomorrow?"

"What's wrong? You've been busy lately."

"Forget it." The old man sighed, "I'm still thinking about getting a driver's license. Sometimes when you don't drive, I'll go to Tongjiang Avenue to hang out."

"Just wait two days. Tomorrow you go out to pick cotton. When I'm done with my work in Dahu, you can go take the test." There is also a driving school in the county, but the conditions are poor and the pass rate is very high.

To put it bluntly, don't even think about getting a driver's license if you don't have enough money.

The city is actually not that good, but Qin Dahe spent money to get through very quickly last time, so it’s better to go to the city.

After soaking for a while, the father and son felt relaxed and comfortable.

I asked someone to rub my body again, and then I felt better.

After a quick shower, they went outside to find some braised dishes and beer, which they had already bought in town. However, Qin Dahe only drank Coke.

Although drunk driving is not checked now, he has set a rule for himself that he will not drive if he has drunk alcohol.

This thing can't be opened at all. If you open it a little bit, you will think it's okay to drink a bottle of beer, but the more you drink, the more you drink.

There were quite a lot of people in the bathhouse at that time. The housing conditions in the town were not very good, and many people were willing to spend two dollars to take a bath.

"Old Yan." Qin Dahe greeted an acquaintance he knew, a fisherman who had gone to the Yangtze River with them last time.

Put the liner on first, otherwise it will be too cold.

"Dahe." Old Yan immediately replied when he saw him. He had just arrived. "By the way, I want to ask you something."

"Tell me." He took a bite of the roast duck and took a sip of Coke, feeling very happy.

"It's not possible to catch silver carp and bighead carp now, so I'm thinking of catching some carp." He talked about the situation he encountered.

It turned out to be the small ditch in front of the middle school. There were a lot of carp, but now they can’t be caught, which makes the fishermen very depressed.

"Do you have any secret bait? Your commercial bait isn't working."

Qin Dahe was a little surprised when he heard this. These guys are really not afraid of the cold. The temperature is already below zero.

"Are you sure there are a lot of carp?"

"Yes, I caught several with my hand-cast net, but I just couldn't catch any."

Carp is now at its most valuable, costing five or six yuan each.

"Well, come to my house tomorrow and I'll give you some Chinese herbal wine to try."

"Chinese medicinal wine?" Old Yan was puzzled. His family was engaged in traditional Chinese medicine. He needed Chinese medicine for fishing?

"Well, I made it myself. You can try it out when the time comes."

Medicinal wine is prepared for carp fishing in autumn. It is made with Chinese herbs such as koji wine, angelica dahurica, cloves, talc and musk.

However, because he was delayed by cotton harvesting and his wife's childbirth, and the weather turned cold early this year, he was unwilling to drink and saved the wine.

This thing gets better with age, and there's no need to worry about it expiring.

"Okay, it will definitely work, right?"

"Wild fishing should be okay." Qin Dahe couldn't say for sure.

This thing is one of his secret medicines. A jar of wine costs more than two hundred yuan excluding the musk, and it costs probably over a thousand yuan with the musk added.

It was very useful for catching carp in black pits in his previous life. He spent 4,000 yuan to learn the recipe from others.

If you are fishing in the wild, it seems that adding two drops will be enough. Let Lao Yan and others try it first.

The reason why fish are difficult to catch in winter is that the water temperature is low and the fish are not active enough, so some special flavors must be added.

If it works, he will just sell the medicinal wine directly. After all, it is for feeding fish and not for human consumption, so no one will check.

After Old Yan went in, the father and son ate and drank for a while, took off their clothes and went to soak in the pool again.

When it comes to taking a bath, you have to soak in it more, only then will the two dollars you spend be worth it.

The next morning, Qin's father drove out on his big tricycle.

It would be difficult for him to harvest cotton by himself, so he had to set off early.

My mother is at home taking care of one adult and two children, and she doesn't want to go out at all.

Her two grandchildren are waiting for her to hold them at home. She probably won’t be able to hold them until the children can walk.

Yanyan had a very comfortable confinement during her confinement period, which was unique in the village.

Apart from breastfeeding the baby, I also play with the baby and ensure his sleep.

As for Qin Dahe, it was even easier for him. He could just help change diapers at night and get a good night's sleep.

In the morning, he led people to insert wooden boards again.

Today we will go straight to the center of the lake to insert the board. Erhu wants to open a road in and dig a hard bottom in the center of the lake.

The weather was also good, and the silt froze solid overnight, so the boards didn't need to be inserted too tightly.

Hanwaer has been working hard during this period. As long as his elder brother calls him, he will immediately put down his work and come over no matter how busy he is.

Baoer is very supportive. His family's good life is all thanks to his eldest brother, and now is the time for him to contribute.

"Kid, the steel bars and stones are coming. Go get someone to pull them over."

"Okay." Upon hearing this, the kid went straight to the shore, got on his bike and went up to the embankment.

Erhu was still digging the silt, and this time he threw it directly outside the wooden board.

A square hole was quickly cleared, not too big, only about ten meters long and wide. If it were too big, Qin Dahe wouldn't be able to build a cement island, and would have needed steel bars to form a formwork.

This island is an artificial island. Unlike natural islands, it does not have slopes, which would take up too much space.

If the water is eight meters deep and the island is piled up with mud, it will cover 100 square meters above water and at least one acre underwater. The cost is too staggering.

Then Erhu began to fill the center with hard soil more than one meter deep, digging it directly from a family's field. After digging, he just backfilled it with silt.

This has been said long ago. Although the land will become hardened after the silt dries, it will need to be plowed again.

It is troublesome, but the fertility is greatly improved.

After working for a while, Erhu couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to let Qin Dahe take over.

I've been sitting on it working since seven in the morning. It's been three hours and the excavator has not stopped. No one can stop it.

"Butter some butter and take a break."

After adding lubricant and filling up the diesel tank, the two of them sat down on the ground to rest, since they were wearing leather pants anyway.

The road leading to the center of the lake has already become hardened, and the excavator has moved back and forth on the hardened ground.

"Dahe, your cost is quite high."

"Just get it done in one go, so it doesn't matter if it costs a little more." He said indifferently.

At this time, a truck drove over. The road was wide enough to accommodate two motorcycle tricycles.

Seeing this, Qin Dahe went to pick up the stone first.

"Just pour it on the ground and we'll fill it in ourselves later." Anyway, there's an excavator here, so there's no waste.

"The steel bars have also arrived. Do you want them delivered as well?" A man got out of the passenger seat. It was Mr. Wang.

He was in the building materials business, and Qin Dahe knew him so he simply bought everything from him.

"Send them all here. Haha, why did you come in person?" He took out the black pine and handed it over.

"Didn't you say you have some secret medicine here? I came by to pick it up."

"Ce, you're not doing business anymore?"

"What the hell, the feed factory is done, and there are no construction sites at the end of the year, so I don't need to keep an eye on the building materials every day." Naturally, I would go fishing when I have free time.

As long as they have solved the material problems of life, the destination of most men is fishing, which is the ultimate hobby of men.

Of course, some people with amazing physical fitness who still like to wash their feet at the age of sixty are excluded.

"Okay, I'll call my mom and ask her to fill a bottle for you."

"This little medicine, you only need to add two drops to the commercial bait, and verify it yourself."

"Okay, if it's useful, get more. It's fun to catch carp too." Mr. Wang asked the driver to start unloading the goods.

After a while, the steel bars came over and started unloading.

Just put these things on other people's land first and repair them later. It's very convenient with an excavator.

In total, we requested two trucks of gravel and one truck of sand, and another truck of gravel and sand will arrive in the afternoon.

These building materials alone cost nearly ten thousand yuan. Now that the Sanchahe sand station has closed down, the price of sand has increased.

The cost of building an artificial island is not low, including the excavator, which costs more than 10,000 yuan.

After delivering the goods, these vehicles cannot turn around and can only continue forward to Xu Village and then go back up the levee.

Qin Dahe made a special phone call and asked his mother to prepare a small bottle of medicinal wine for the person.

You don't have to charge for this thing. First figure out the effect before selling it.

The fishing environment for selling bait should still be mainly wild fishing, and each bait must undergo a series of verifications.

If the black pit market wants to develop, it will take at least ten years.

The time soon came to twelve o'clock. At present, a large artificial ridge and a 10*10 platform of hard soil layer were filled.

This large ridge is convenient for cars to move back and forth. Later, some hard soil will be added to the edge of the platform to completely fill the deep pit in the center of the lake.

It's cold now, so there's no water seeping into the ground. After a few more days of sun exposure, the deep pit will harden a little.

The normal depth in the center of the lake is six meters, and slightly to the edge it is four meters.

He planned to replace the center directly with hard soil, and roll it back and forth repeatedly until it reached a position of six meters.

The marked 10*10 position in the middle will also be filled to six meters. After compaction, stones and cement mortar will be buried, and steel bars will be tied to the formwork to make a platform.

Qin Dahe had considered the cost issue from the beginning. The cost of renovating the lake was about 30,000 yuan. Anyway, the gold was ready to be sold, and the family was not short of money, so he could get it done in one go.

A deep bottom will be artificially created next to his house, and a water plank road will be built.

From now on, this central island and the water boardwalk will be the best fishing spots, specifically used to verify bait.

The central island can also monitor the situation of the entire lake, making it much more convenient to place nets and store fish.

Contracting the big lake requires a lot of effort, but he enjoys it and spending some money is nothing.

In the future, if you go out and catch some substandard black carp, silver carp and bighead carp, you can just throw them in there and raise them. It can even be used as a different black pit.

After a while, huge creatures were everywhere, and fishing for them was a real pleasure.

If the bait factory occupies a sufficient market share, competitions will definitely be held. The large lake will be more than enough to serve as a competition venue if the fish are well-maintained.

Old-fashioned fishing tackle brands like Longwanghen, Laogui, and Huashi hold their own competitions every year to increase their influence. If he becomes bigger, he will naturally follow suit.

Now he just has to wait. When the fishing circle expands and the cake gets bigger, even a small share will be enough for him.

(End of this chapter)