Chapter 536: Golden Seven Brothers

Wu An woke up, picked up his phone to check the time—it was already 7:30 a. m., and he still felt a bit groggy, wondering why it was so dark at this hour.

He instinctively pulled open the door, and the blinding sunlight hit his face directly, making his eyes feel as if they were being stabbed.

He quickly shut his eyes to block the light, only then realizing he had been sleeping on the ship.

After a moment to adjust, he got up, crawled out of his sleeping spot, and did a set of stretches.

A Qing came over to greet him.

Wu An saw the sweat on his face and said, "Didn't I tell you to stay in the lounge? Why are you out working and drenched in sweat?"

A Qing pointed to the wound on his forehead: "Brother, it's scabbed over."

"It wasn't a serious wound to begin with; one day of rest is enough."

"Yesterday I just sat around doing nothing, which was awful; today, no matter what, I have to pitch in."

Wu An checked it; the wound had indeed scabbed, but it still didn't look solid, so he said, "You can work, but don't use brute force and reopen the wound."

A Qing chuckled and nodded repeatedly.

He walked out of the lounge.

Outside it wasn't hot; a gentle sea breeze brushed his body, feeling somewhat cool.

The weather felt better than yesterday's; the sky was blue as if a fake backdrop had been spread across it.

The sea water also showed an exceptionally clear blue; looking closely, one could even see schools of fish swimming beneath the surface.

Wu An arrived at the control room and asked, "Has the net been lowered?"

Lao Fu Tou replied, "It's been down for an hour and a half; we just need to trawl a bit more than half an hour before we can haul it up."

Wu An hurried off to wash up and eat.

The meals were pre‑made; Fan Xiao Zhu's cooking was decent. He had a late‑night snack, wasn't very hungry, but still ate a big bowl of rice.

After finishing his meal, while washing dishes, Wu An checked the system.

Luck Value: 1240 (888).

Not bad.

Now the luck value's ceiling keeps rising into the hundreds; although the daily luck isn't maxed out, getting 888 is still fine.

The system is also likable.

The luck value boosted for trawling had somehow been cleared; Wu An stared for a moment, then rushed out of the lounge, calling to haul the net.

Why?

A cleared luck value indicates a huge catch; if the haul exceeds the net's capacity, the only result is a torn net and escaped fish.

Wu An watched as everyone's cooperation grew more seamless, nodding slightly with satisfaction.

They are all willing to work and capable of doing so.

As the crane operated, the over‑inflated net bag slowly emerged from the water.

Seeing such a huge net bag, everyone's eyes widened.

Even Lao Fu Tou in the control room couldn't help but straighten his body at the sight of so bulging a net bag.

The net bag swayed, on the verge of collapsing.

Lao Fu Tou broke into a sweat: "Good thing A An called to haul the net; otherwise, a little more delay and the net bag might burst."

"The net burst!"

"That's great!"

"Goddess Mazu blesses us."

A Qing shouted with joy, leaping about.

Mei Wu went to untie the net; they had agreed the night before while drinking that each person would take a turn untying the net on the ship.

Untying the net is like opening a blind box; everyone remains enthusiastic and quite willing to do it.

Normally opening a blind box worth a few dozen yuan already makes one ecstatic.

But this is a blind box worth tens of thousands or even more—one can imagine the excitement.

"Get rich, get rich!"

Mei Wu shouted loudly, yanking hard on the rope latch; using too much force, he staggered back two steps and plopped onto the deck.

But the moment he saw the catch, he froze, his mouth opening involuntarily.

His face perfectly displayed a look of stunned disbelief.

No one laughed at him.

Because the others on deck showed much the same reaction—all were hard‑controlled by the torrent of golden‑glowing fish pouring out of the net bag.

Wu An was the first to react, his voice trembling as he shouted, "Are those large yellow fish?"

How much could several tons of large yellow fish sell for?

Even though his net worth is already in the eight figures, he still can't hold back his excitement.

This round is going to make us rich.

Upon hearing that, A Qing jumped up happily, shouting, "Large yellow fish, large yellow fish, we've netted large yellow fish!"

Fu Yongning wore a smile but also sounded somewhat annoyed as he shouted, "Enough, enough, don't get wildly excited—these aren't large yellow fish, they're small yellow fish."

Don't think the only difference between large and small yellow fish is the words "large" and "small"; in fact, the difference is huge, especially in price—it's worlds apart.

A Qing shouted, "With such a big size, how could they be small yellow fish?"

Fu Yongning said, "It's not that a large yellow fish must be big; small yellow fish can also be large‑sized, but the small yellow fish we hauled up this time are on the larger side."

That's also normal.

The trawl net Wu An chose has relatively large mesh, so smaller specimens basically slip through.

Normally small yellow fish weigh between two and three taels, but the small yellow fish A Qing is holding now weighs about half a kilogram, and Fu Yongning squatted down, poked it twice, and found an even larger one.

Fan Dali happily said: "Such a big Small Yellow Fish, should be able to fetch a good price."

Fan Xiao Zhu nodded.

Fu Yongning also agreed with that, but, looking at so many Small Yellow Fish, he took a deep breath: "Don't just stand there, quickly cast the net, maybe we can still catch Small Yellow Fish."

Everyone hurriedly got busy.

Wu An saw the Luck Value was high, casually gave it to the Trawler as well; if it's really as Fu Yongning said, there are still schools of Small Yellow Fish in this nearby sea area, then we can definitely Hard Control.

This net alone catches at least three or four tons of Small Yellow Fish; if the price is decent, it could sell for over a hundred thousand, which is already quite good.

He estimated that the net profit from this trip could recoup the cost of this fishing boat.

Still need to recruit Soldier and buy horses.

Then we could order several more larger Trawlers, form a fleet, and at that time we could do double trawling operations, and the profits would be considerably greater.

Of course.

The premise is being able to recruit trustworthy and reliable ship workers.

If we recruit people of bad character, that would be inviting wolves into the house, with unimaginable consequences.

Wu An pondered, watching everyone lower the Trawling, then squatting down to start sorting the Small Yellow Fish; during this sorting, Wu An discovered that besides the Small Yellow Fish, there were also several more of the Golden Seven Brothers.

There are also Chunzi fish, academic name Huanggu fish, also called Huang San, which is more expensive than Small Yellow Fish.

After picking for a while, he also discovered two Mei Tong fish; this is more valuable, and extremely rare, which is normal, as the name suggests, Mei Tong fish are small-headed, and with the Trawling he uses, they are basically impossible to catch.

Those that can be caught are just the big, clumsy individuals among the Mei Tong fish.

He asked: "How should this be divided?"

Fu Yongning hesitated, as sorting them by different specifications would greatly affect the price.

He dared not make the decision himself, so he went to invite Lao Fu Tou.