Ch 156: Woke Up Now?
Cao Zhiqiang didn’t dwell on it, simply thinking Wu An was showing off, and silently cursed the guy for his good luck.
Mai Hangyu shouted from the puddle he was drawing water from: “Brother, the water level here has dropped a lot. Let me go down and play later, okay?”
Wu An went over to take a look. After fishing for half an hour, the water level in the puddle had already dropped by two-thirds.
He nodded: “Okay, but be careful.”
The pit wasn’t even, and bumps and bruises were common, especially injuries that broke the skin and bled, which were quite troublesome, because the environment was easily prone to infection.
Mai Hangyu excitedly agreed.
Wu An and A Qing sorted the seafood a little, throwing the fish keeper into a nearby puddle to keep them alive.
After finishing their work, Mai Hangyu and Cao Zhiqiang started shouting on the other side.
Wu An hurried over and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Mai Hangyu pointed at Cao Zhiqiang and sneered: “Brother, is your classmate crazy?”
“He actually asked me if I was a plant you hired.”
“Who is he? Why would I show off for him?”
Wu An smiled: “Alright, don’t bother with him.”
Subtext: This guy is truly crazy.
Cao Zhiqiang’s face turned red and his neck thickened, whether from anger or frustration.
Whatever he did, no one cared.
Wu An, A Qing, and Mai Hangyu saw the bottom of the pit and successively entered the puddle.
The woman didn’t say anything, looking at the seafood flopping in the sack, only muttering to herself, “So this really does make money,” and quickly went to the edge of the puddle to watch them catch fish.
Mai Hangyu had just gotten down when he saw a big fish in front of him. He quickly reached out to grab it, caught it, and happily held it up, only to be hit hard in the face by its tail.
“Ouch, my face!”
Mai Hangyu screamed, fell into the water, and angrily slapped the sea bass several times, causing the sea bass to thrash even more violently.
A man and a fish fought in the water.
Wu An and A Qing found it extremely amusing. Sometimes, a man’s happiness is that simple.
“Hey, there’s movement under this stone.” Wu An muttered, quickly went over, reached under the stone, and felt a crevice. It was quite large, and as soon as he put his hand in, he touched a fish.
It was quite smooth, and in a blink of an eye, he couldn’t feel it anymore.
But the crevice under the stone was a separate small puddle. Wu An quickly called for A Qing to help, and the two of them worked together to move the stone.
“Pappappa.”
The stone was moved, and the fish in the small puddle seemed to realize they had been exposed and thrashed wildly.
A Qing caught one and looked at it in his hand.
Wu An also reached out with both hands and directly pressed down on the largest one.
“It’s a Black Hair Fish.”
The two shouted in unison, both seeing the smiles on each other’s faces.
The woman at the edge of the pit excitedly shouted: “I know this fish! It’s very expensive, two or three hundred yuan a catty!”
Cao Zhiqiang was shocked.
He had never seen this fish before and didn’t expect it to be so expensive.
He saw several in the puddle, so wouldn’t that add up to six or seven hundred yuan? That’s much more than his daily wages!
Mai Hangyu was also surprised and asked, “Brother, is this fish that expensive?”
Wu An nodded: “It’s quite expensive, delicious, has high nutritional value, and is quite rare. It seems to only exist in the wild.”
Actually, from Mai Hangyu’s question, it can be seen that this fish is rare, even locals are not very familiar with it.
The price of any seafood is affected by region, season, and market environment. The price fluctuates. They occasionally catch or fish Black Hair Fish here, and the price is actually okay.
In other coastal areas, it can sell for a higher price.
If it were sold inland, the price would be even higher.
Mai Hangyu asked, “How delicious is it?”
Wu An said, “Let’s go to your house tonight, we’ll steam one and try it.”
Mai Hangyu hesitated: “You’re going to sell these for money, it doesn’t seem right for us to eat it.”
Wu An waved his hand without saying anything.
Whether it’s appropriate or not, it’s up to him to decide.
The puddle was full of Black Hair Fish, probably a whole family, and now they were all neatly in Wu An’s bucket, big and small. The one he caught was the biggest, about two or three catties.
The smaller ones were about half a catty, which wasn’t small either.
He didn’t count the even smaller ones, just casually picked them up and threw them into another nearby puddle.
No wonder it’s a puddle that can drain your luck value completely, all these Black Hair Fish alone made the trip worthwhile.
Continue fishing.
Water splashed everywhere in the puddle, making people’s hearts bloom with joy.
A Qing took two steps and stepped on a green crab.
Although there was too much seafood to catch, Wu An still reminded, “You two still need to be careful, set the clamp first, or make sure what it is before you grab it with your hands.”
The two answered without looking up.
Wu An continued to move stones. It was like opening blind boxes, you never know if it’s a surprise or a fright under the stones. Thankfully, he was lucky.
Basically, there was always a harvest.
“Yo, another nest of Black Hair Fish.” Wu An moved a stone and happily shouted. This nest alone weighed four or five catties.
That’s about a thousand yuan.
The woman on the shore watched clearly and enviously said, “Zhiqiang, your classmate is really lucky.”
Cao Zhiqiang snorted twice.
Fishing is fun.
The three of them groped around in the puddle, chasing the fish in the puddle, splashing water everywhere, until finally, none escaped their “lethal hands”.
Mai Hangyu shouted, “Brother, this is so much fun.”
“Let’s do another puddle.”
Catching fish and shrimp is addictive, and he was already addicted.
Wu An looked at the time and said, “No, the tide is about to come in. Don’t let the water rise halfway through, that would be annoying.”
“Next time.”
Mai Hangyu gave up.
Unknowingly, the bucket at hand was full. A Qing brought over a sack, poured everything into it first, then searched for more than half an hour, moved several stones, but found nothing, so Wu An stopped.
He slowly straightened up, his bones cracking.
A Qing asked, “Brother, no more?”
Wu An nodded.
A Qing also stopped and said, “We’ve been fishing for more than an hour, hehehe.”
Mai Hangyu called out, “I feel like my waist is about to break.”
Wu An smiled.
Although tiring, it was very satisfying.
Especially when catching fish, fully immersed, one could forget all worries.
He was still feeling mentally tired from discussing cooperation with Old Tan and plotting against Guang Liangjun, but after all this busy work, he felt much better.
He really wasn’t suited for doing bad things.
The three climbed out of the pit.
“The tide is coming in.”
“Let’s go up quickly.”
There were a total of four buckets, all filled with seafood, still kept alive in the seawater. The three first carried the buckets up, then came back together to carry the sacks.
A total of two large sacks, mainly containing shrimp and crab, which were less prone to dying.
A Qing was in a difficult position, shouting, “Brother, the motorcycle can’t hold them all.”
Wu An looked at Mai Hangyu.
Mai Hangyu hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, “I can carry one sack.”
Wu An said, “I’ll get your motorcycle washed.”
Mai Hangyu chuckled wryly. His Harley hadn’t been sold for long. A woman hadn’t even ridden it yet, and now it was carrying a sack of seafood.
The seafood couldn’t be delayed; it had to be sent to the market quickly.
Wu An waved goodbye to Cao Zhiqiang, signaling that they were leaving. Seeing Cao Zhiqiang’s dazed look, he laughed.
He should be shocked now.
