Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 81 Magazine
"Grandpa, I've got something for you."

When the old carpenter saw him coming, he stopped his work.

"Dahe is here. Yanyan is reading in the room. I called her over." As he said that, he was about to go next door to call someone.

"Don't bother, grandpa. They're just small fish. I caught quite a few from the outer river these past two days and brought them here for you to try. I used to eat a lot of your things when we were little." He chuckled and looked at these carpentry tools and felt the urge to try them out.

The old carpenter took the bag and opened it. Inside were small onion, ground tiger, a few river shrimp and crabs, which were the best small fish. This bag was full of good stuff.

"Thank you very much. Come and take a look at this skeleton." As he said that, he pulled Qin Dahe over to see what he was busy with.

The spliced double keels show that it is a medium-sized wooden boat, at least the kind that can carry several tons.

In their area with a well-developed water system, every family needs a boat. Boats are more convenient than cars to transport cotton, fertilizers, and manure. After all, cars cannot enter the fields.

"this?"

"Well, your father ordered it. I took out all the old wood in stock." The old carpenter said meaningfully.

It takes a long time to order a wooden boat here. The wood cannot be used immediately after it is cut down. It takes a long time to process it.

"Thank you, Grandpa. I'll send you some more tomorrow if I get some small fish." Qin Dahe heard the hidden meaning and said, "I'll go talk to Yanyan."

As he said that, he went to the main room next door. Yanyan was reading a book and was called out by her.

"Where's your aunt?"

"My mother is playing mahjong on the other side of the river. Brother, don't you go fishing every day?" Yanyan looked at the tanned Qin Dahe and felt a little funny.

Although the weather is not very hot, the skin color of the four people has started to darken in the past two days due to the sun.

"Yes, I'll send you some small fish to eat." Qin Dahe saw the book in the other person's hand and asked, "Are you still reading these magazines?"

Qin Dahe was somewhat displeased when he saw some toxic chicken soup magazines, as these magazines had led many of the post-80s generation astray.

Looking back at those who have been published, most of them are born in the 80s, but there are very few people born in the s who read these magazines more. I have to say that this generation is really good.

"Look, I submitted my manuscript before, but they just didn't accept it." Yanyan said a little sadly. She thought that what she wrote was good and much better than those anonymous writers.

"Would you like to experience receiving your manuscripts in seconds?" He became interested and prepared to save the lost girl.

"What's wrong?" She looked at Qin Dahe in confusion, not knowing what he meant.

"Submissions should be kept within 700 to 800 words. Write a short story about a foreign country, or make it up as you like, and show the superiority of capitalist society. The royalties will come quickly."

"Go away, you're making trouble again." Yanyan said unhappily.

"Don't disbelieve me, I'll give you a manuscript to try later." Anyway, he just did it for fun.

"Anything else? If not, I'll continue watching for a while." Yanyan didn't want to pay attention to him. It was obvious that he was just trying to find a topic to talk about. It wouldn't be nice if someone saw him in the middle of the night.

"No, come and go fishing with us one day when you're on vacation." He leaned against the door frame and refused to leave, mainly to express an attitude, an attitude that others could see.

"No, it's too sunny when fishing." Thinking of how she got tanned when she went out to play with them as a child, Yanyan was definitely unwilling to go.

"Then I'll call you when it's cloudy. You guys have a lot of holidays at the end of the year, right?"

"Okay, go home if you have nothing to do. My mother will be back soon." Yanyan was reluctant to answer this question. There were some things she had not thought about yet.

"Okay, let's go." Qin Dahe said hello and turned to leave.

This agility made Yanyan start to doubt whether this guy was pretending just now.

Back in her room, she felt a sudden inspiration and began to take out the old issues of the magazine. She was immediately shocked by the large number of glorified articles, many of which were anonymous or excerpted.

She had watched it for several years and didn't feel anything, but when Qin Dahe reminded her today, she immediately discovered the problem.

On the other side, Qin Dahe went to carry the river shrimps to Qin Laosan's fish farm.

"Third Master."

"The river is here, sit down." He was making a fishing hook with mud.

"This is river shrimp. My dad said he'd send it over if you wanted it."

"Wait a minute, I'll weigh you right away."

"No rush, I'll learn something." He chuckled and watched the Third Master busy sorting out the lines and tying hooks.

There are several baskets next to it, and one person is expected to catch several.

"Uncle San, you have your own fish pond, so why do you need to use row hooks?" He was quite confused. No matter whether it was Uncle San or Uncle Wu in the town, they had to use row hooks to catch mandarin fish, which was very expensive.

"If you don't use the hook, you can only wait for the pond to be cleaned before you can catch the mandarin fish. By then, they will be too big and worthless." Uncle San explained with a wry smile.

For such a large pond, it would be cost-effective to clean it at least once every five years. By then, the mandarin fish will have grown to three or four kilograms, and the price will have dropped a lot.

"Besides, the bigger the fish get, the slower they grow and the more they eat. These mandarin fish only eat live bait. I have to isolate the fry before releasing them. I only dare to release them after they grow a little bigger."

"No wonder, but you have a lot to do on your own. Let me help you."

"Okay, you try it." Qin Laosan was not polite. The two families were relatives, and his family could get two more fish when cleaning the pond every year.

The fishing line used here is braided line, which is much better than that broken nylon line. Qin Dahe is very skilled at tying it.

Branch lines are hung under a main line, and then the branch lines are tied and pressed into the mud.

"Look, after tying it up at night, you have to put a wet cloth on it to prevent the mud from hardening." Uncle San did not hide anything. Most people know this knowledge, so he just taught them by the way.

After finishing the box of shrimp fillets, I weighed the river shrimps and paid him with a painful heart.

"There are a lot of goods from the Yuxi River, but unfortunately I don't have time to get them." Having said that, Qin Laosan sighed.

He knew there were goods in the Yuxi River and he had plenty of fishing gear at home, but a big lake was enough to overwhelm him.

"Ask for help. You can't handle this huge lake by yourself."

"It's usually fine, let's leave it this way for now." He smiled bitterly. How could he feel at ease asking for help when there were hundreds of thousands of fish in the pond.

Knowing the bait and location for feeding the fish, he could catch hundreds of kilograms of grass carp with a hand-cast net while he was away, earning him thousands of dollars.

Crabs are even more valuable now. His pond is full of collected crabs, which are surrounded by plastic film and are waiting to be sold together at the end of the year.

These crabs come ashore and stroll around at night. People passing by can easily pick them up and make away with thousands of dollars worth of goods. You have to keep one eye open when sleeping at night.

"Okay, I'm going home."

After putting the money away, Qin Dahe went back to sleep because he had to get up early to go fishing tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)