Chapter 175

"Ah? Can a stingray do this?"

"Dongzi, are you still on the boat? What should we do?"

Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao had already noticed when they heard that loud bang. Their boat had also been affected just now and swayed violently.

Then they kept staring at the sea surface there. When they saw the big stingray around Ye Yaodong's boat, their hearts were in their throats.

The two boats weren't close, and it would be useless for them to go over, so they could only watch helplessly.

When they saw his boat being dragged by the stingray, their eyes bulged, and their mouths opened into an 'O' shape, unable to close for a long time.

Forgive them for their lack of experience; they had never seen this scene before. It was simply too dreamy. Can a stingray even do this?

They had only heard that it would fly one or two meters above the water surface; they had never heard that it could drag a boat. It was truly hellish.

"What else can we do? We can only wait to fish him out, what else? Anyway, he won't die." Hearing Xiao Xiao spread his hands.

"Alright."

They could hear Ye Yaodong's screams and curses from afar. As they listened, they suddenly felt there was nothing to worry about.

Azheng touched his chin and suddenly blurted out, "It looks quite exciting?"

"Indeed! Feels a bit cool?"

"Definitely not just ordinarily cool!"

"So it's cool to the heavens?"

"Should be!"

If Ye Yaodong heard these two bad friends not worrying about him but thinking about whether he was cool or if he was cool to the heavens, he would probably be so angry he'd vomit blood and rush over to strangle them.

He didn't know how long he had been dragged. By the time Ye Yaodong was almost numb, the boat finally stopped. He turned his head excitedly and looked, only to see a glimpse of the stingray. It dived directly into the water and disappeared without a trace before long.

"Damn~ what is this?"

He lay straight on the boat without moving, panting heavily, needing to slow down.

Seeing that the stingray was gone, Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao hurriedly rowed their boat over.

"Are you still there? We thought we'd have to come over and fish you out."

"How does it feel? Is it cool? Is it exciting?"

Ye Yaodong turned his head and gave them a disdainful side-eye. "You try it? It can send you directly to the heavens!"

"Hehe, we want to too, but unfortunately we don't have this opportunity, nor this fate. I'm really envious of you, you can encounter all the good things!" Azheng said with a giggle.

"Pah! In the future, I'll leave such good things to you."

"Alright, brother, I'll be ready in advance."

He rolled his eyes and stopped bickering with them. He sat up and shook his head; his hair was all wet, shaking off large drops of water, and then he checked the losses on the boat.

The two buckets full of fish had tipped over, and fish were all over the boat. He didn't know if any had been thrown into the sea. He picked the fish back into the buckets. It was troublesome to pick up other shrimp and crabs, so he just left them as they were; it wouldn't be too late to pack them after going ashore.

"Dongzi, why did that stingray suddenly drag your boat?"

"How would I know? Must be haunted, right?" he said while tidying up.

"Did you catch its calf, so that stingray came to retaliate?"

Ye Yaodong stopped what he was doing and said uncertainly, "It's possible. I heard that a stingray can only give birth to one calf at a time."

"Really? How do you know everything?"

"I'm knowledgeable and experienced."

"Tch~ we heard that loud bang on the sea surface earlier, was that also caused by it?" Azheng asked curiously.

They were far away at the time and didn't see the figure, only heard the sound and the waves on the sea surface, which swayed violently.

"Yes, it flew over my head at the time, like a kite, directly impacting the sea surface."

"I've seen it now. I only heard the old people in the village say that stingrays are super large and very scary. If it flaps you, half your life is gone. This is my first time seeing one this big; the ones I've seen before were just ordinary rays."

Azheng asked curiously, "Dongzi, you were closer, how many meters was that fish?"

"The diameter is estimated to be over three meters. It's my first time seeing one this big too, it's a bit shocking."

Not to mention the previous life.

"Awesome, it can actually grow this big?"

"There are even bigger ones. I heard that the huge ones can reach a diameter of seven meters. This one is nothing."

"You know again?"

"Of course, please call me the Encyclopedia of the Sea."

Hearing Xiao Xiao rolled his eyes. "Stop bragging, check if there are any losses to the catch on your boat?"

"I don't know. It was just thrown on the boat anyway, and I can't tell if any are missing. Never mind it. Do you still want to continue collecting?"

"Collect, definitely collect. We had only collected less than half of the fish when we heard the commotion."

"Alright then, you go ahead. I'll continue collecting too." It was a false alarm, so he'd continue working. It was just past 1 o'clock, still very early before evening. He should be able to collect two more times from beginning to end.

"Alright, as long as you're fine, we'll continue collecting."

Ye Yaodong also drove the boat to the sea surface where he had set his longlines. Being dragged by the stingray had run him a long distance away. It was really quite exciting, and he could brag about it when he went back. Fortunately, both he and the boat were fine. If it dragged him further, then so be it.

He resigned himself to slowly rowing back to the original spot. After a delay of more than half an hour, his longlines were ready to be retrieved again.

It's just that the catch this time wasn't very ideal. Basically, they were empty hooks, or the bait was still hanging on them, with no movement.

The best fish he collected might be a 6-jin sea bass. Other fish weren't even half as much as the previous time.

He thought about it; it should be because of the stingray that dragged the boat. Such a huge one, the fish all had to avoid it. They weren't afraid of being eaten, but they had to worry about whether they could survive being flapped.

And the commotion of impacting the sea surface just now was too big. It's estimated that the big and small fish around were all scared away and didn't dare to approach.

After collecting the catch again without any surprises, he felt water droplets falling on his face. He looked up and found that the sky was overcast with dark clouds at some point, feeling like a heavy rain was about to fall.

A few small raindrops fell slowly, with no trend of becoming stronger for the time being. He hesitated and didn't retrieve the longlines; the bait had just been put down.

Thinking about it, he intended to ask if they were going back, so he slowly rowed the boat toward Hearing Xiao Xiao and Azheng. The two boats weren't close, and rowing was relatively slow. After getting closer, the raindrops became a little bigger.

He shouted from not far away, "It's raining, there's no catch right now, I plan to go back. Are you going back early?"

"Hmm, we are also retrieving the lines, just a little left. We'll go back when we're done. Have you finished?"

"I plan to leave them for the night and come back to collect them tomorrow. Anyway, it's not far from the shore, so I'm not afraid of them being gone."

"That's true, anyway there are marks." Azheng nodded, also very tempted, and asked Hearing Xiao Xiao, "Should we just throw them into the sea too, so we can come directly to collect the catch tomorrow?"

Hearing Xiao Xiao said, "We've already collected more than half, there's not much left. Let's just finish collecting. There's no way to re-set them now, the lines are all tangled. Let's see how Dongzi's harvest is tomorrow first?"

"Alright."

Seeing them still busy there, Ye Yaodong shouted directly, "I'll go first, you guys hurry up."

"Got it."

The weather by the sea is sometimes quite fickle, often sunny in the east and raining in the west.

When he rowed the boat to the shore, he found that it wasn't raining, and the soil on the ground by the shore was very dry, with no trace of rain at all.

He felt depressed. It wasted his time. If he had known it wasn't raining on the shore, he would have stayed a little longer. Maybe it wouldn't be raining at sea in a while, and he could have continued collecting.

But since he had already docked, he had no choice but to give up.

After tying up the boat, Ye Yaodong carried the two buckets of fish ashore, then went to A Cai's place to get two large baskets to bring back to the boat to pack the fish.

Incidentally, he called an acquaintance on the shore to help him lift them. Coincidentally, the acquaintance was his father's friend, Lin Shu Jingye. The machine on his boat was broken, so he docked early today.

"Hey~ why is your catch so much today? Aren't you using ground cages? You have several rows, and they are all big fish. I haven't even seen many small fish. Is the harvest this good?"

Lin Jingye said while lifting a basket. He didn't expect that there would be big fish in the basket stacked underneath, and he was stunned.

"Ah!? There's even such a big stingray? Where did it come from?"

"Caught it!"

He wasn't wrong; it was caught by longline fishing.

"Awesome, this stingray is not small. It's very valuable. You've made a lot of money again today." Lin Jingye tsked a few times.

"Good luck. Lin Shu, don't just talk, help me lift them to A Cai's place. There are still several baskets."

"Alright." He walked and lifted while saying, "Adong, heard from your father last night that you want to buy a second-hand iron-hulled boat?"

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"Ah? Lin Shu knows so quickly?"

"Of course, I'm an old friend of your father. He came to my house last night and asked me to help you keep an eye out to see whose boat is for sale."

His father is really efficient. It's estimated that his father went out right after he left.

"Then I'll trouble Lin Shu."

Lin Jingye smiled: "Good boy, it really is you who wants to buy a boat. I thought your father was bragging. It's only been a few months, and you're actually going to change to a big boat. Awesome."

"Hehe, just scraping by. What kind of ability do I have, just muddling through."

"Don't be humble. Your father has praised you a lot these past few months. Last night when I was drinking there, he praised you again for being promising, changing to a big boat so quickly, much more capable than your older brother and second brother. He was so happy he drank two more taels of wine."

He smiled without a word. Where is this going?