Chapter 382: Intent on Fishing

Arrived at Xuan Ya Dao.

The Fan family father and son were already at work, but the Fan brothers were still particular—they went to the other side of Xuan Ya Dao, not the side where Wu An and his group were lowering the crab pots.

A Qing muttered: "Brother, Fan Dali still follows the rules quite well."

Wu An nodded.

Although the nest doesn't matter, Fan Dali doing this makes people feel comfortable inside.

"Let's also get to work."

He lowered the crab pots, Wu An blessed each pot with 5 Luck Points, consuming a total of 150 Luck Points, and he reserved 60 Luck Points as backup.

Having finished lowering the crab pots on his side, it was also noon.

He stopped the boat.

He cooked.

"The Fan family father and son have come over."

Wu An was cooking when A Qing shouted.

The two boats drew near.

Fan Dali slapped the side of the boat, took a few steps and jumped aboard, saw Wu An cooking, and said: "A An, I thought you would change spots to lower the crab pots."

"Will you still go work elsewhere later?"

Wu An nodded: "I'll run a bit farther out to look around."

Still coming to Xuan Ya Dao to work is just to lay bait.

He needs to leave so that the "fish" can bite the bait conveniently.

Fan Dali twitched the corner of his mouth; these words sounded fresh. While sailing the fishing boat on the sea, if others said this he'd think it's nonsense, but since Wu An said it, he could only compliment: "May you have a big haul."

Wu An glanced at him: "You come with me too."

Fan Dali blinked: "Ah?"

"This... I still want to guard Xuan Ya Dao, in case the ones who steal the crab pots come again..."

Wu An waved his hand: "No problem."

"We'll go out for two or three hours and then come back."

"Will you come with me or not?"

Fan Dali hesitated a moment, then nodded: "Come."

Wu An chuckled: "I see you haven't lit the fire yet; don't bother, I've made plenty—call your younger brother and your father over to eat together."

Fan Dali nodded, not standing on ceremony, he turned around and said: "Your boat is really well stocked—firewood, rice, oil, salt, vegetables, fruit, all there."

Wu An said: "Better safe than sorry."

Fan Dali called Fan Xiao Zhu and Fan Lao Tou over, and also brought several sea fish, yellow-foot cured fish, not large but enough to make a pot.

Fan Dali said: "A An, how do you like to eat it—fried or steamed?"

Wu An nodded: "You're being polite."

"Fried, then."

Fan Dali nodded: "I also like eating it fried."

Wu An said: "Don't say that—eating seafood every day, you claim you're tired of it."

"But if a meal is missing, you really can't get used to it."

Fan Dali laughed heartily: "I knew that."

After eating and drinking.

The two fishing boats started up together and left Xuan Ya Dao.

After traveling for about an hour, the sea was nothing but water as far as the eye could see, not even an uninhabited island in sight, but nobody panicked because the satellite navigation system was on, so they wouldn't lose their way.

Worth mentioning is that their boat is now equipped with the BeiDou-2 satellite navigation system.

Lao Fu Tou asked: "How do we handle it?"

"Are we working here or going back?"

Fan Dali, speaking over the walkie-talkie, was asking whether they should continue to run.

By asking this, he actually already had a hint of wanting to back out.

Wu An was also hesitating, just about to speak, when he heard A Qing shout: "Brother, hurry and look, the sea turtle has come to find us."

Wu An climbed to the boat's edge to look down.

It really was a sea turtle.

It had been a while since they last saw each other; Wu An waved: "Hey turtle, long time no see."

To his surprise, this sea turtle leaning against the fishing boat even lifted its flippers, as if responding to him.

A Qing excitedly shouted: "Brother, it's responding to you."

"I knew it—these sea turtles understand human nature and can comprehend human speech."

"Should we haul him up?"

Wu An looked at the sea turtle's smooth shell, shook his head and said: "No need."

"There's no barnacles on its back either—what would we haul it up for?"

"I guess we just happened to meet; he came just to say hello."

A Qing felt a bit disappointed.

Mei Wu curiously asked: "What is this? Do you know the sea turtle?"

A Qing hehe-ed proudly: "We definitely know it."

"Let me tell you......"

He recounted his previous handling of barnacles on the sea turtle, and finally added: "These sea turtles listen to brother's words; they even saved us before."

Mei Wu clicked his tongue in admiration.

Wu An said goodbye to the sea turtle, saying: "We should go now."

"Stay away."

"Don't let the fishing boat hurt you."

The sea turtle quickly swam away, then Lao Fu Tou shouted: "A An, I've found traces of the fish school."

"Fan Dali, keep up."

Lao Fu Tou adjusted the boat's direction, full throttle.

A Qing held the binoculars: "Where is the fish school?"

The sea surface was calm.

When there were fish schools before, the sea surface was quite turbulent, even more exaggerated than boiling water.

Lao Fu Tou shouted: "Look out to sea."

A Qing lowered his head.

After a while, he shouted excitedly: "Damn, damn, what is that, is it a squid?"

The fishing boat was still moving forward.

Lao Fu Tou had Wu An steer the boat, he himself took a scoop net, scooped directly into the seawater, put his hand into the scoop net, holding up a squid and said: "Great, it's a Big Tail Squid."

A Qing also came over to look, and also caught a squid from the scoop net.

With that scoop net, Lao Fu Tou hauled up several squids, each not small; A Qing compared with his arm, from palm to elbow that long, they looked very meaty.

The Big Tail Squid in his hand was still breathing continuously, appearing as if it couldn't breathe, which was actually the case.

These squids, once out of the water, will die quickly.

If one doesn't live near the coast or close to the sea, it's hard to get fresh squid.

This also counts as one of the benefits of being a fisherman.

A Qing poked the Big Tail Squid's eyeball with his finger, saying: "These eyes are really big."

"A Qing, be careful." Lao Fu Tou, seeing A Qing's fidgety appearance, said: "Watch out not to get bitten; its teeth are formidable."

"Like a parrot's beak, if it bites you it's no joke."

"Your fingers definitely won't be spared."

A Qing jumped in fright and quickly put down the Big Tail Squid.

This kind of Big Tail Squid is considered the most common around here, but before he had only seen dead ones; this was the first time he caught a live one.

From the walkie-talkie came Fan Dali's excited shout: "Lao Fu, A An, the squid school, did you see it?"

Wu An replied: "Yeah, we saw it, our luck is not bad."

"Let's get to work."

Fan Dali didn't respond, obviously already started working.

Wu An stopped the boat; the squids were densely packed, the purchased cast net was put to use; he looked at the caught Big Tail Squids, although the price isn't high, the quantity makes up for it.

The formal name of the Big Tail Squid is Lai's Pseudo Cuttlefish, a large species of cuttlefish,

Someone would ask, isn't cuttlefish the same as squid?

How come this squid is also called cuttlefish?

Actually, taxonomically, cuttlefish is the general term for squid and cuttlefish.

The Big Tail Squid is the most common kind; in his previous life, Wu An often bought it from supermarkets to eat.

It's cheap and good; whether stir-fried or blanched, it's great, sashimi also works, but it must be fresh for good sashimi; Wu An hasn't tried it yet.

Today, however, he can finally indulge.