Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 67 Collecting the Ground Trap

"Brother, why don't you study anymore?" After a little psychological preparation, Yanyan spoke.

When she was little, she called Qin Dahe and the other three brothers "brothers". This was meant to please them and wanted them to take her out to play all the time. It was also the verbal habit here that the older one among children is called brother.

"It's meaningless. It's a waste of youth to go to a crappy junior college." He said with a toothache.

In fact, the private colleges nowadays are not that bad, but the business administration program is a complete scam, and the atmosphere of this major is also bad.

There is no business at home, so let alone a college degree in business administration, even a bachelor's degree in business administration is of no use.

"What a waste of money." Yanyan muttered softly.

"Just make the money back. It's just over 60,000 yuan." His annual living expenses plus tuition are nearly 30,000 yuan. He has also paid the tuition for the first half of his junior year, and has already spent more than 60,000 yuan.

Only because the Qin family is wealthy and the old man is capable, ordinary families really can't afford it.

Hearing Qin Dahe's arrogant words, Yanyan curled her lips.

She studied at a teachers' college, where not only was tuition low, but she also received a scholarship.

"Girl, the last time I whistled was really an accident. I didn't recognize you for a while. Can we let that matter go?" he said tentatively.

"I haven't worried about that matter for a long time." Yanyan said lightly. Was she angry about the whistle?
"Can I just blow it with other pretty women?"

Qin Dahe smiled awkwardly. It was just a bad habit he had developed in his previous life after decades of wandering around. Besides, it was not a big deal.

It's the new century now, and whistling won't hurt you.

The car quickly arrived at the gate, and two more people got in. Qin Dahe skillfully put the money into his pocket.

"Brother, will you live in the countryside from now on?" Yanyan asked curiously.

"Well, there's nothing good outside. It's good enough to live an honest life in the countryside." His eyes were full of hope for future life.

Seeing that we had arrived at the grain station, I parked the car and went down to help Yanyan move the bicycle down.

"Thank you, brother. I'm going to work." Yanyan waved her hand coquettishly and pushed her bicycle into the office.

Although Qin Dahe's apology was not on point, he still sent it back and forth three times. She was a big person and did not bear grudges.

After returning home, Qin Dahe counted the money happily.

I went back and forth three times today and it was full every time, and I made more than 70 yuan.

He didn’t give it to me, he was the one who always filled the car with gas.

The sky was overcast again and the wind was a bit cold. He tightened his coat and prepared to take people to collect the traps.

"Son, didn't you go to see your dad?" Mom just came back from outside. She went out for a walk from time to time this morning.

"No, he's already brought the recliner." Thinking of this, Qin Dahe was a little confused: "Mom, were you the one who moved the recliner yesterday?"

"How could I help him with this? It was your sixth uncle who helped him move it, saying that he could use this fishing spot in the future."

"I told you, you're such a worry!" As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was slapped by his mother. How could she talk to him like that?

Qin Dahe took a transfer box and put it on the cart, then went to call Hanwaer, and then called Erhu and the others to start closing the net.

It's been at least twelve hours since last night, so there should be quite a lot of goods.

All three of them brought small red buckets, which made it easier to divide the fish later.

Several people started to set up the first net next to the clinic. There are few people using electricity here, and except for the eel cages in summer, few people use ground traps here.

Because there are so many people coming and going, it is easy to be stolen.

Fortunately, no one stole it this time, and I caught a lot of whitebait and ground tiger in the first net. There were also small crucian carp seeds, but not many, as the crucian carp have entered a rapid growth stage.

There was actually a crucian carp weighing more than three taels in the second net, and Erhu started to collect it with a smile.

"There are quite a few ground tigers and some big river shrimps." The small river shrimps all ran through the mesh of the net.

"This thing is so annoying. I'm afraid of it even if I hang earthworms."

"Yeah!" The silly kid nodded heavily. He suffered a lot from it.

I received the fifteenth ground trap along the way, and finally got a lot of crucian carp seeds. There were at least 100 of them in the transfer box.

We caught eight large crucian carps weighing more than 300 grams, which together weighed about 3 kilograms.

There are a lot of other miscellaneous fish and shrimps, such as yellow croaker, whitebait, ground tiger and many large river shrimps.

Mix these things together to make a mixed fish pot, and add some edamame to it, it tastes amazing.

"There are no snakes." The silly kid helped collect them for a long time and smiled. It was much better than if he had gone alone.

"It's getting colder, and the snakes are too lazy to move."

Tiedan picked up a net, which was obviously full of small fish and had burst.

It took a long time to shake off the catch, and it took two times to pour out all the fish.

The goods are collected by shaking the trap from the beginning to the end, shaking the goods over, then opening the tail knot and pouring them into the bucket, and then folding the trap. It takes one person half a day to collect the goods with 29 traps.

"There is also a small willow-leaf bream, Dahe, do you want to raise it?" Erhu picked up a small bream and looked at him.

"No, I don't raise any fish other than auxiliary fish in a crucian carp pond." If you don't even know how to raise crucian carp, how can you raise bream?

"When can we go fishing in our nest? There is only a little malt left." Erhu said with a bitter face.

If he soaks malt again, his father will definitely beat him.

"Just leave half a pound for fishing. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll pick you up at four in the morning. Is everything ready?"

Qin Dahe put away the net and hammered his waist. It was really tiring to set up the ground trap. He had to bend down all the time to pull the net.

"So early?" The three were a little shocked. Going fishing so early?
"We still have to cast so many nets, it will take at least half an hour, and then adjust the fishing spots and so on. It has to be early."

The three of them nodded when they saw this. Going off the internet did waste time, but it was very uncomfortable to get up at this time.

"I'm going to pick the pumpkin vine tips this afternoon. It rained yesterday so I didn't dare pick them because I was afraid they would wilt."

"Grasshoppers, lots of them." The silly kid answered concisely.

"Okay, take out the shrimp cages and ground cages at home to dry them in the sun tonight, and I'll go back to prepare the bait packets."

This time, the bait in the large ground cage and shrimp cage must be a little fishy, as small fish and shrimp like to eat it.

"By the way, Tiedan, could you dig some earthworms this afternoon and bring them to me? I'll chop them up and put them in the bait tomorrow."

"Leave it to me!" Tiedan made an OK gesture. It would be much easier this time as there was no need to expose it to the sun.

He collected water traps all the way to his second uncle's house, and the twenty-nine traps were finally ready.

"There are so many big crucian carps, Dahe, why don't you get some to take back and eat?" There are at least six or seven pounds in the transfer box, and twenty-nine ground traps are no joke.

"No, I'll just make a pot of mixed fish. It's too troublesome to raise crucian carp." He shook his head, obviously having no love for crucian carp.

Unless it is a top-quality freshwater fish like mandarin fish, fish like crucian carp and grass carp that have just been caught from the river must be kept in clean water for two days so that there will be no earthy smell when cooked.

(End of this chapter)