Chapter 177: Continuous Red Conger Eels

Early the next morning, Ye Yaodong got up and pushed open the window to check the weather.

Overcast, no wind, the ground was dry, and it hadn't rained during the night. It was possible to go to sea.

He rustled as he put on his clothes. The two children on the bed were sleeping in a mess. He casually took the sheet and covered them. It was especially cool in the morning and evening now, so they shouldn't catch a cold.

He had originally set up a small bed in the room, but the eldest refused to sleep there and insisted on squeezing in with them. He was looking for an auspicious day to give him a beating and make him move over.

He was so big, yet still clung to his mother to sleep all day. Too shameless.

After a simple wash, porridge with pickles and dried fish, he filled his stomach. He poured the bowl of sea centipedes he had left yesterday into a bucket, greeted his wife, listened to her instructions, took the two large pieces of rice cake she had fried for him, brought two baskets of coiled fishing lines, and went to sea.

The ground cages had just been harvested yesterday, so there was no need to harvest them today. He just harvested one casually, but there wasn't much in it. It was mainly to be used as bait. Sea centipedes were a bit luxurious as bait, so he didn't take many. He still needed some small fish and shrimp.

After harvesting, he rowed the boat to the position where the gang hooks were set. The surrounding sea area was only so big, so he wasn't afraid of not finding it.

After finding the familiar buoy, he stopped the boat and started to pull the line. He didn't know what good goods he could get today after leaving the gang hooks in the sea for a night.

This was only possible because it was close to the shore. If it were far away, he would still have to pull the line back every day.

He started pulling the line full of expectation, and the first fish surprised him: a grouper!

Looking at the blue spots exposed on the water surface, he instantly beamed. It was a blue-spotted grouper.

When it was pulled ashore, he was even happier. This fish was estimated to weigh 8 jin.

The blue-spotted grouper is a fine-spotted grouper, with a laterally compressed body, like a melon seed. The body color is mostly light blue, sometimes whitish and sometimes blackish. Some fish have light brown spots on their bodies, while others do not.

Common sizes are around two or three jin, but there are also individuals exceeding four or five jin, or even ten or more jin. This one was already quite good in size. This variety of grouper tends to be large and is the tycoon among groupers, with the reputation of "sea chicken meat."

Ye Yaodong muttered to himself, "The head and fish belly can be steamed, the fish meat can be stir-fried, and the fish bones can be used to make soup... Forget it, just thinking about it is enough."

Although this fish was valuable, its weight was there, and it was already dead, not comparable to the devil ray yesterday. This one was worth about 20 yuan, which could be considered a good start!

When he pulled up the first fish, he also saw a small boat sailing towards this sea area from afar. It was A Zheng and Xiao Xiao coming over.

After one glance, he pulled his own line. As a result, the next 3 fish were all croakers weighing about 2 jin. He had a premonition that there wouldn't be few croakers coming up next. These fish were active in schools.

"Dong Zi, you came so early?"

"Mm, I didn't pull the line back yesterday, so I came out early to pull it because I was worried."

"How is it?"

Ye Yaodong smiled and let go of the main line in his hand, picking up the blue-spotted grouper to show them.

"Holy shit!" The two said in unison, their catchphrase!

"What kind of dog shit luck do you have?" A Zheng stared.

"It's alright. You have to grab either quality or weight, right? A good start is here, luck shouldn't be bad today."

Xiao Xiao said sourly, "If I had known, I wouldn't have come over to say hello. It's an eyesore early in the morning! Let's go, let's hurry up and set the gang hooks too."

After they left, Ye Yaodong continued to pull the line. Suddenly, he felt that the main line couldn't be pulled at all. His heart was overjoyed. Could there be big goods? It couldn't even be pulled.

He continued to exert force, but still couldn't pull it. He couldn't help but be puzzled. How big must this fish be?

After thinking about it, he rowed the boat forward for a distance and continued to pull the line. Unexpectedly, he saw a ball of tangled and messy lines!

It turned out that the main line and the line hanging the fish hooks were completely tangled together, a big ball. Ye Yaodong was so angry he vomited blood. He was happy for nothing.

"Grass, I thought there was a big fish, it couldn't even be pulled. Son of a bitch, I was played."

He cursed and pulled the rope up, wanting to untie it, but found it hard to untie, which was a bit time-consuming. Now he had to be busy pulling the line, so he could only wait until he went home in the evening to untie it slowly.

Skipping that section of tangled line, he continued to pull along the rope. This time, a large red conger eel came up, estimated to weigh seven jin. Looking at the figure of this large red conger, the depression in his heart was instantly smoothed out.

This was a large red conger eel that had strangled itself!

After the conger eel bites the hook, it likes to curl its body. In the crazy twisting, it and the fishing line become tighter and tighter, entering a dead loop that cannot be jumped out of, and finally, it strangles itself to death.

He cut this limp red conger eel off the hook, threw it into the bucket, and continued to pull the line.

Immediately after, there was another seven or eight-jin red conger. At this time, the bait was still hanging on the fish hook. This bait was a small fish Ye Yaodong had casually hung yesterday because there were no more small tubes, so he just hung it to try his luck. This unlucky red conger eel couldn't escape after taking one bite.

Life is truly unpredictable, big intestines wrap small intestines!

I don't know why, but there were suddenly many large red congers today.

Unexpectedly, another one came up immediately. This one was larger than the previous two. This time, the fish hook was hung very deeply. Maybe the fish hook was too small and the conger eel was too big, directly swallowing the fish hook and piercing its lower jaw.

The conger eel's appearance was already terrifying, and now it was opening its giant mouth, revealing its sharp teeth that had never been brushed, as if it were roaring in defiance.

Ye Yaodong had to pick up a small knife to perform a small operation on it, take out the fish hook and throw it on the boat, wait until he took it back in the evening to repair it, and throw the fish back into the bucket by the way.

He harvested three large conger eels in one go, and Ye Yaodong's confidence increased again. He pulled several in a row without any empty tubes. Except for the main line that was tangled by the fish hook in the front section, the next ones shouldn't be bad. After all, they had been hanging in the sea for a night, unless the bait was eaten and the big fish ran away.

He continued to harvest happily. Sure enough, there were no empty hooks next. The worst was a 5-jin stupid fish. As he expected, croakers were the most caught.

Fortunately, as long as it wasn't the cheap-as-dirt stupid fish, croakers were worth 20 cents per jin. If the quality wasn't good, at least there was weight and quantity.

Goods came up one after another. When he reached the junction of the two baskets of fishing lines, he looked forward to it again. Good guy, another large red conger, and it was still alive.

After Ye Yaodong dragged it up, he pinched its head, took off his rain boots, and forcefully patted it unconscious before taking the hook. With such a large size, if it bit him, he would lose a large piece of meat.

It's not easy to gain some meat these days.