Chapter 331: The Most Prosperous Battle

Lao Jiang was somewhat surprised: "You're preparing this much food?"

Wu An nodded: "There are also more people on the boat today."

"Yo, are you going all out?"

"We haven't gone out to sea for several days; if we don't do something big, we won't have anything to eat."

"You little brat... fine, fine, fine, I'll give you a discount."

"Hehe."

"Settle the accounts."

The group hurried again toward the dock.

Not long after arriving at the dock, Lao Fu Tou and Mei Wu came one after another.

"They're all acquaintances."

Mei Wu saw Lao Fu Tou and called him 'Grandpa' repeatedly; the two families are on good terms. Last time Wu An visited the Mei family as a guest, they had originally intended to invite Lao Fu Tou, but he refused to come no matter what.

After chatting a few sentences, they boarded the ship.

Father, sister-in-law, and Li Juan still came to the dock; everyone stood at the ship's side and waved to them.

"Safe and sound."

"Return smoothly."

"All smooth and prosperous."

"Return with a full load."

Everyone said various auspicious phrases; good words can never be too many, for fear that one of them might be heard by Goddess Mazu.

After the boat had gone far away.

Everyone then went about their own tasks.

Wu An and A Qing prepared the longline; when they reached the target sea area, the first thing was to deploy the longline, after deploying the longline, they would then retrieve the crab pots and lower them.

It would probably be around noon by then.

Next, they would retrieve the longline again and process the catch.

The schedule was packed tightly.

The work intensity was very high; he worried not only about whether everyone could handle it, but also whether, even with such busyness, they could exhaust the luck value completely.

Originally, he also wanted to call his sister-in-law.

But his sister-in-law had stacked a 'bleeding buff', so she couldn't go out to sea.

Nowadays, although the taboo against women going out to sea on a boat is not so strictly observed, there are still some particular customs and sayings at times.

Regarding that.

Wu Ping was also quite depressed.

This month has been so hard, yet it was all for nothing.

He had already planned to go to the county hospital next month for both of them to get a thorough check-up.

Everyone had things to keep them busy.

As for Mei Wu, he was somewhat at a loss, not knowing what to do.

When he was young, he used to go out to sea fishing with the fishing boats, but after going to school and starting work, he hasn't been out to sea for several years.

Wu An saw Mei Wu looking around left and right and asked, "A Wu Ge, do you get seasick?"

Mei Wu shook his head and asked, "What can I do to help?"

Wu An pointed at the fish baskets nearby and said, "Please tidy up these frames."

Before, there weren't enough fish baskets; this time Wu An bought many more at the dock, and these baskets are still semi-finished products, needing simple assembly.

Mei Wu nodded, walked over, squatted down, and began to work on them.

The fishing boat rose and fell on the sea surface.

There were still wind and waves.

Everyone was busy; before reaching the target sea area, they all came over to bait the longline in advance, so that later they could simply cast it into the sea, which would be much more convenient.

Lao Fu Tou steered the boat, while Wu An and the other three sat together, working while chatting idly.

Mei Wu, who hadn't been out to sea for a long time, felt fresh and showed some excitement.

Wu An was also quite pleased, with so many people on board.

It was quite lively.

Moreover, they were all family, so speaking and doing anything felt relaxed.

They arrived near Huo Ming Dao.

A Qing said, "Brother, should we deploy the longline here? Yesterday I and Lao Fu set it out in this spot, and the catch was quite good."

Wu An nodded.

The sea conditions around Huo Ming Dao are complex, resources abundant, and fish schools plentiful; furthermore, since they are not bottom fishing, the catch is generally not poor.

Moreover, with the luck value boosting them, the catch can be easily imagined.

However.

This area counts as their exclusive fishing ground.

At this moment the wind and waves had eased somewhat; the four of them worked in succession, two sets of longlines stretching over a thousand meters, which seemed long but was nothing compared to the vast ocean.

They deployed the longline.

The luck value decreased by 38 points.

The longline made by the sister-in-law isn't that long, so the luck value boost isn't that great either.

They deployed the longline.

Lao Fu Tou went full throttle again, quickly arriving at the spot to lower the crab pots.

It was Xuan Ya Dao.

This island is hard to land on; after coming here several times, Wu An and the others have never once set foot on the island, and they don't know the situation on the island, but they saw many seabirds circling.

Before, they were longline fishing near this island.

You can't keep shearing wool.

Now it's reversed: we lower crab pots at Xuan Ya Dao and longline fish at Huo Ming Dao.

Found the float.

Winch operation.

With a creaking sound, the crab pots slowly rose; when the first row of pots was all up, A Qing looked disappointed.

An entire row of crab pots yielded only a few small fry and some sea snails.

Not a single shrimp or crab was seen.

This surprised both A Qing and Lao Fu Tou; after several trips out to sea, it was the first time the crab pots came up with hardly any catch.

A Qing was even more shocked.

This isn't right.

Wait a moment.

Right, right, right.

"Lao Fu, that makes sense, totally makes sense. Yesterday when we lowered the crab pots, big brother wasn't on the boat." A Qing said this, then burst out laughing: "I was wondering why the catch was so poor."

"Hahaha."

Lao Fu Tou looked speechless.

Is this really something to be happy about?

Besides.

The place is still the same place; does Wu An not being on the boat really have such a big effect?

He didn't say a word.

But he still had doubts in his heart.

Continue.

The winch pulled up the second row of crab pots.

The haul was slightly better than the first row, but still quite limited.

A Qing could handle it by himself.

Wu Ping and Mei Wu stood aside watching, helping to pull the pots, feeling a bit uneasy.

We can't have just come out here for a leisurely cruise, can we?

The crab pots came up.

Although there wasn't much catch, there was also a lot of mud and garbage, and I don't know how it got into the pots.

We didn't bother with the mud, but we cleared out the garbage, found a bucket and threw it in.

Lao Fu watched, somewhat unconvinced.

Wu An still said to bring it back and throw it in the trash bin.

Although his doing this alone is just a drop in the bucket for the ocean, if he saw something and did nothing, he couldn't convince himself.

The crab pots came up one by one.

Then, when the third-from-last pot was being raised, a problem occurred: A Qing found the winch hard to pull, immediately pressed the emergency stop button, and said, "Trouble, the crab pot might be stuck."

Wu An stepped in.

He tried pulling it.

Indeed.

It was stuck.

This is also normal.

The seabed situation is complex; anything could happen.

Having boosted the Luck Value, it's likely to avoid getting stuck.

A Qing said, "How about I go down to take a look?"

Wu An shook his head, saying, "Don't take risks; we also don't have time to waste that long."

"Forget it."

"Pull up as much as you can."

Finally.

The winch operation pulled up a small section of the crab pot, which was severely deformed, and naturally there was hardly any catch inside.

After all the crab pots were hauled up, Wu An reapplied the Luck Boost.

This time he directly filled the Luck Value to full.

Consumed 190 points of Luck Value.

After finding a new spot near Xuan Ya Dao, Wu An watched as the crab pots were lowered one by one, and couldn't help but pat the boat's side with some excitement.

This is still the first time we've fought such a prosperous battle!