Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 99: Floating

It was not until a little after four o'clock, when everyone in his group had left, that the old man finally arrived.

The four of them got into the car, and Qin Dahe was still complaining that it was so late and the baby was already born.

"Get lost. I won't come to pick you up next time, you little thing from Cenima." As he said that, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed all the way to the entrance of the village.

Qin Dahe: “.”

He was very annoyed. Why could such low-quality parents give birth to a polite person like him? Fuck.

When he got home and saw his mother cleaning the shrimp cages, he knew that he would do it again in the evening.

"Mom, is the meat ready?" He was still thinking about the braised pork, and his mouth was watering at the thought of the taste of the soft pork belly.

"It's cooked, but there shouldn't be any leftovers tonight. You can make some bait in advance to feed the four little ones." The old mother said without even raising her head. When her poor son came home, he only cared about the braised pork, and didn't care whether the couple went out to pick up the goods smoothly.

"What a waste." He curled his lips and went to the utility room to prepare bait.

As usual, he gave them fried noodles first, and then fed the two kittens. The man who stole the cassock had stolen his bait more than once, and even went to the utility room to bite his fishing gear, and was beaten by him several times.

"I asked you to bite my fishing rod, and you dared to fight back." The black bear was a little anxious. Not only did he eat the last one, but the amount was so small that he kept scratching him with his front paws.

Qin Dahe grabbed it and put the dog next to Sang Biao. As expected, he was beaten up. He came back grunting and looked at him resentfully. He knew he was in trouble.

Seeing this, he was in a good mood and added a little more to it.

"Mom, aren't we going to sell the corn first?" He was a little confused when he saw the corn piled up in the corner of the main room.

"Don't sell it for now. Your father called the grain station this morning and asked, and the price of corn has not changed for a long time recently." Qin's mother said proudly.

"Ask Yanyan?"

"Yeah, otherwise no one in our family would work there."

"Hey, you're really not shy."

"Who can compare to you?" Qin's mother looked at her son with disdain. "You went to a carpenter's shop in the middle of the night and worked for several hours, and you even gave them jujube wood."

"." He was embarrassed and didn't say anything. The mother and son were just the same kind of people.

"I've been running around during this period, buying corn whenever I see it's priced low. I won't lose much even if I buy 10,000 kilograms of this stuff." The old man walked in at this time and told him his decision.

"Where are the soybeans?"

"That price is high. If the factory wants it, I have to buy more. But I don't know how long this rain will last."

Qin Dahe was also annoyed by the rain. The autumn rain was too cold, even colder than winter. The cold wind mixed with drizzle made him feel uncomfortable all over.

I can't do any work or receive the goods, and I can't even go out fishing. Fishing in rainy weather is simply fatal.

When his mother brought the food to him, his eyes lit up. It was the greasy braised pork.

"Mom, you are such a great cook." He didn't care whether it tasted good or not, he would praise it first before showing off the meat.

No wonder my mother said there wasn’t enough rice. With the braised pork and the rabbit with pickled vegetables, there was no way the rice would be enough.

"Mom, have you bought all the rabbits?"

"Your second aunt took one, the owner of Limin Supermarket took one, and I bought one too to satisfy my hunger."

We are not at the stage where we eat meat every meal yet. Eating rabbit will make you hungry quickly, so few people eat it. Therefore, the price is quite cheap. A whole rabbit that is a bit bigger is only fifteen yuan.

It’s five or six dollars more expensive in town, but you still have to run back and forth.

The blood from today's rabbit meat was not completely drained, probably because time was too tight, so it tasted fishy, but it was just right with a bite of pickles.

Braised pork is really amazing. The soft pork belly tastes good no matter how it is cooked as long as it is not too salty.

For the first time ever, the old man took out beer and started drinking. This dish is not suitable for drinking with white wine, it is too greasy, and beer is just right.

"Abao, you should have some too."

"Okay." Qin Dahe was not polite.

The father and son clinked their glasses from time to time, drank it in one gulp and continued to pour, and the braised pork in the bowl was quickly eaten up.

"Ce, when we have money in the future, we will eat braised pork every day." Qin Dahe said in a cowardly manner.

When I was doing business in my previous life, I was already very fat, so how could I eat so much meat?

Moreover, I would feel sick when I ate greasy food in a restaurant. It was not like my body now, where my eyes would light up when I saw oil.

"Just do it. You still eat meat every day. Your wife and children will starve to death."

"Hey, find a woman who can stand being hungry."

Qin’s mother: “.”

This son of a bitch is really naughty. Everything he says makes me want to hit him.

The father and son both drank two bottles of beer, which was just enough to cleanse their stomachs, and then had a bowl of rice.

"Mom, is there any work left in the fields?"

"We're going to plant rapeseed flowers soon. Are you coming?"

"Let's give it a try. You have to learn something." He was not opposed to working in the fields. He had to learn some farm work to settle down in the countryside.

"Let's see. If the factory doesn't want the goods, come work in the fields."

I knew that it was not suitable for fishing in the current weather, so I didn't force him to go fishing to make money.

The temporary workers in the flower-making factory are also scheduled to work based on time, and it is considered a lot if they can be scheduled to work ten days a month.

Under normal circumstances, the factory's two permanent teams are more than enough to handle the work.

After eating and drinking, Qin Dahe hummed comfortably and went out with his two dogs.

I'm going to my kid's house today to see if he has tied the line. If he has, I'll call him to make the float together.

This kind of homemade float requires a person with good hands, and he can do it, but it would be boring to do it alone.

The rain was lighter in the evening, so he opened an umbrella and leisurely went out with his dog.

The dog was more excited than usual at night, and ran around him happily. When they got to a place without lights, they could only see the dog, and the black bear could not see it at all.

This dog is completely black except for its teeth. Even its exposed tongue is black. I can't even confirm it with a flashlight.

"Kid." When I pushed open the door of Hanwaer's house, I saw a figure in the main room rolling up wire, probably making rabbit bows.

There were several bamboo sieves hanging on the dilapidated earthen wall. There was a lot of mud stuck on the wall near the corner, probably melon seeds.

"elder brother."

"Come and see, is the 0.4 tied properly?"

"It's tied up." The silly kid took out the set of wires from the cabinet, and the layers of wires were hung neatly.

Qin Dahe took it and looked at it. The tightness of the line group was just right. It seems that the fisherman understands the needs of other fishermen.

Some people don't know how to tie hooks. 0.4 line is very delicate and can't be pulled too tight, otherwise the line will be damaged during the reeling process. If it is too loose, it is easy to get the hook off. At this time, it depends on your own line tying skills.

Tie a multi-layer knot that won't come loose, the kind that gets tighter the more you pull it, and it will be tight after you catch two fish.

"Are you going to release the rabbit bow tomorrow?"

"Fix it." Silly boy looked at him, thinking his elder brother must have something to ask him. "If you're not in a hurry, come to my house and we can make reed floats together."

"Okay." The silly kid's eyes lit up.

He likes it most to follow his elder brother to make fishing gear, because he can make more money from fishing than working in a flower-making factory.

He left some of the 0.4mm leader line for Hanwa. He said casually, "Let's go get those two idiots to help us and split the line."

"Use a knife to trim the serrations, yes, then insert the bamboo or wooden sticks in to close them, and glue them in place." Qin Dahe patiently explained to the three people how to make a stand-up float.

He had never done it himself, but he had watched some videos of reed drifting, so they decided to study it together.

Just now they went to the reed marsh next to their second uncle's house and got a lot of withered reeds. These reeds have cotton-like fillings in the heart, rather than hollow reeds.

Hollow reeds are too difficult to make. If they are not sealed well, water will enter and it will be a waste of time to bleach one.

"Dahe, you learn so much when you go out."

"I'm also forced to do something I'm not prepared for. How can I make money if I have to buy everything?" Qin Dahe sighed.

If a fisherman keeps upgrading his equipment, he won’t make any money even if he catches fish every day. There will always be some advanced equipment waiting for him.

The simplest one is a bench for sitting, which can be upgraded from a stool to a folding stool, and then to a fishing chair, fishing box and fishing platform, all the way to a fishing boat.

"What do you think about us getting another small wooden boat to float on the Yuxi River?" Tiedan suddenly said.

"Why did you remember this?"

"There are two Jiangxin Islands, right? We went fishing on Jiangxin Island. They say you should go fishing on the islands."

"Nonsense, what if the boat is stolen while it's outside?" The Yuxi River is connected to the Yangtze River, so if it's stolen, it's gone.

"We can build a cement boat, which only costs 200 yuan. We can also buy an engine and put it on it. After fishing, we can lock it up next to your water. Who would be so stupid as to come and steal these hundreds of yuan?"

Qin Dahe: “.”

He was just thinking that he couldn't keep upgrading his equipment, and he would soon have to consider buying a boat and adding an engine.

"According to what you said, we can just modify the boat, add a shed on it, and go boating and fishing." He said unhappily.

How much money do people make from fishing? Winter is coming and there are no big fish to catch, so there is no point in investing money.

When the weather warms up, I will definitely focus on fishing for silver carp and bighead carp. If I have time, I will go to the reservoir to catch mandarin fish.

However, several people became interested in the modification he mentioned and offered suggestions.

"It just needs to be modified to put a backup power supply so that we can go fishing at night." Erhu said with shining eyes.

Qin Dahe had aroused the fishing addiction of the three of them, but the weather had cooled down and they were feeling very uncomfortable at the moment, unable to go up or down.

"Do we need to get some glow-in-the-dark floats? And then move a few hundred pounds of corn on top?"

"Yeah, how convenient."

"Put some towels and toothbrushes and stuff, and we'll stay on the boat and mess with him for a few days."

"Get out of here, you only know how to give bad advice. I don't want to go out and be a savage." Qin Dahe looked at the three people with disgust.

Even the silly kid looked at him with burning eyes, thinking that he was sick and didn't want to go fishing during his good days.

"Erhu, when are you getting engaged?"

"By the end of the year, my mom has already agreed." Erhu got a headache when he heard this. What's the point of getting married?

Qin Dahe smiled and thought that this bastard had to be punished like this.

"He got married on the sixth day of the first lunar month. There's no such thing as engagement in the countryside." At this time, my mother came back and said something casually.

Erhu: “.”

How come he doesn’t know as much about his own affairs as Daha’s mother?

"Mom, what did you do?"

"I'm going to talk to Yu's sister-in-law about something, about you."

"Yu family?" Qin Dahe wondered. There was no one around with the surname Yu?
"We are from Jiangxi. Now that we are a family, you can't call them Jiangxi people behind their backs." The mother glared at him.

The four little friends suddenly realized that they didn’t know the old carpenter’s surname was Yu for all these years, and Yanyan had never said her surname was Yu.

That's how it is in the countryside. A nickname makes people ignore the real name. No one except his family members, not even Erhu and the others know Qin Dahe's father's name.

"How did the talk go? When will the person come over?"

"Get lost! You're treating marriage like a game? You haven't even exchanged gifts yet." If there were so many people around, she would have taken action long ago. This was the first time she saw her son being so shameless.

Qin Dahe curled his lips and continued to float.

The light float is done by Hanwa, who is skillful, and the three people here are doing the heavy float.

At least 6 to grams of lead is needed, and the reeds must be long.

"Dahe, does fishing for big crucian carp make less money?" After the old lady left, the four friends started chatting again.

"Of course there are not many. Wild crucian carps are not big now. The maximum weight of a rescue carp is only 20 to 30 kilograms. I haven't tried the bait yet." Crucian carps are not expensive and are small. It is nonsense to think that you can make thousands of dollars at a time.

"Think of a way. It would be good if everyone could get some money to smoke cigarettes." Erhu said with a bitter face. He had handed in all the money he earned from working, and only the few hundred yuan he earned from fishing was still in his hands.

"There's nothing we can do. The water temperature is so low that other fish won't bite except for crucian carp. Even catching carp is a matter of luck."

"Besides, why do you need so much money? Go out and have some fun with your fourth sister." He said the last sentence in a low voice, afraid that his family would hear it.

The fourth sister is the widow who provoked Tiedan. Qin Dahe didn't try to persuade him to keep himself clean, so he never met her. If he had met her, he would have been like Zhao Zilong of Changshan.

"No way, what are you talking about?" Tiedan blushed and wanted to cover Qin Dahe's mouth. "I want to get a tattoo. I heard it costs several hundred yuan."

"Tattoo?" The three of them looked at him in unison. Tattoos are very fashionable nowadays.

"What kind should I make?" Erhu became interested and wanted to make one for fun.

"Get a dragon tattoo over the shoulder. They all appear in Hong Kong movies." Talking about this, Tiedan became excited.

"Rich people." Qin Dahe gave a thumbs-up. "If you want a tattoo like this, don't go for it if you don't have a few thousand dollars. It won't look good."

"And you can't get fat in the future. If you get fat, you'll look different."

The three were shocked when they heard this. A few thousand dollars?
"so much?"

"Yes, a dragon tattoo over the shoulder would take at least six or seven days for a skilled tattoo artist. It takes a lot of energy, and it would be useless if they don't charge a few thousand yuan."

"Forget it, it's cheaper to get a ninja tattoo." Erhu said angrily. It's the most popular tattoo at the moment.

Qin Dahe wanted to laugh when he heard this. How many middle-aged men in later generations wanted to hit themselves when they saw the word "忍" on their arms? His brother-in-law was one of them.

Fortunately, he was more rational and just got a blade tattoo. The pain in the lower part was unbearable and his skin started to swell up, so he didn't continue.

I'm too embarrassed to say it now, I got the tattoo in September when I broke up with my senior.

Although more than 20 years had passed in his mind, he still remembered every detail clearly. After all, that blade had been with him for many years.

He doesn't object to his brothers getting tattoos. His biggest advantage is that he doesn't mind other people's business, and tattoos are not a big deal.

They neither serve in the army nor go to school, so it doesn't matter if they make some money in the countryside. If they have a dragon head, no one will bully them when they go to the town. Now is the time when unedited Hong Kong films are popular.

(End of this chapter)