As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Let the Line Out to Catch Yellowfin Snapper

Seeing Chu Mingcheng delivering breakfast, Zhang Ruomei was very astonished. She hadn’t expected that just two days of not showing up would result in her place being “stolen”!

When she learned he lived right next door, her feelings were a bit complicated. It seemed her “little white cabbage” was inevitably going to be picked!

However, she was just a photographer and also a part-time one at that, so she couldn’t manage too much.

Chu Mingcheng handed breakfast to Jiang Luoluo and took the car keys from her before he left directly.

Originally, he had bought breakfast for two, intending to eat with her, but he hadn’t expected Zhang Ruomei to show up today, so he could only go to the restaurant to eat.

Today was November 10, the seventeenth day of the lunar month, and it was also a day of high tide, which just happened to be suitable for fishing.

He returned home and took out both his rock fishing and lure rods, along with his tackle box.

Today, he planned to scout out nearby areas first to find a few spots suitable for fishing.

If there were no suitable spots nearby, then he would only be able to go to the dock or the Wave Breaker to fish for Black Sea Bream.

Chu Mingcheng drove around the neighborhood first and discovered there weren’t many great fishing spots nearby; it was either beaches or rocky shores.

In that case, perhaps going to the Wave Breaker might be better, at least it would be easier to catch Black Sea Bream.

Chu Mingcheng knew where the Wave Breaker was because he had seen it before while on his way to buy a boat.

While Chu Mingcheng drove off to fish, Jiang Luoluo and a stunned Zhang Ruomei went grocery shopping.

Once the song was decided upon, it would be necessary to contact the singer’s company to purchase the rights to the song and to contact the clothing supplier to design two to three suitable outfits.

But she had never needed to worry about these things, all she had to do was choreograph the dance and film the video when the time came.

“Luoluo, you’re buying groceries, are you planning to cook yourself?”

Since graduating, Zhang Ruomei had been busy with work, and though she was married, the cooking at home was always done by her mother-in-law.

Her mother-in-law lived right below her apartment, which made it extremely convenient for free meals.

For lunch, she usually solved it with takeout at Jiang Luoluo’s place.

But today, the young boss was uncharacteristically off buying groceries, and that tipped Zhang Ruomei off that something wasn’t simple.

“Hmm, the vegetables are fresh in the morning, so I bought some to have on hand,” said Jiang Luoluo without directly mentioning that she would often freeload at Chu Mingcheng’s place from now on.

But freeloading was one thing; she couldn’t really just eat and drink for free without contributing anything, so buying some groceries was necessary.

The two went downstairs, and since Jiang Luoluo’s car had been taken by Chu Mingcheng, she had no choice but to ride in Zhang Ruomei’s car to the nearby supermarket.

On the way, Jiang Luoluo remembered something and asked, “Sister Mei, do you know how to make ‘Braised Duck with Earth Dragon’ soup?”

Zhang Ruomei felt a bit embarrassed upon hearing this; after all, she was the kind of woman whose hands had never been sullied by spring water!

“Well, you know, I’m quite busy with work and hardly step into the kitchen… Why do you ask? Do you want to make it yourself?”

“Right! The price of wild Earth Dragon is so high now, I don’t know how much it would cost in a restaurant, so I’m planning to learn myself and surprise my parents over the New Year,” she said.

Beautiful women are born actresses. Jiang Luoluo spoke half-truths, but despite Zhang Ruomei’s suspicious glances, she couldn’t spot any issues.

“You can find tutorials online, or maybe you could start practicing with some cheaper ingredients?”

Jiang Luoluo nodded, thinking the suggestion wasn’t bad.

So, she bought a regular duck at the supermarket, and only a half at that. She substituted the Earth Dragon with common farmed sea eel, which only needed a few dozen yuan per half kilo.

If the flavor turned out fine with these ingredients, then it would definitely taste good when made with top-grade ingredients.

After shopping, she went back home to study how to make ‘Braised Duck with Earth Dragon’ soup, even pushing back her dance choreography for later.

Meanwhile, Chu Mingcheng had already bought Sand Worm and Shrimp Brick for bait-making, as well as a 45-liter fish box at the tackle shop.

This fish box came with four ice packs for keeping fish alive, as well as a pair of double-tube oxygen pumps.

The ice packs would need to be filled with water and frozen in the fridge, so they couldn’t be used today, but the oxygen pumps could still be used, and the batteries were fully charged.

It was an external double-tube oxygen pump, and the shop owner had installed it for him; it had a battery life of ten hours.

Normally, carrying this fish box while fishing would almost guarantee the fish stayed alive for ten hours.

However, this fish box wasn’t cheap, costing seven hundred yuan.

A 120-liter one would cost one thousand two hundred yuan, but he didn’t need a large fish box for the moment.

In the future, when going out to sea, there would be a live fish box on the boat, so all he would need then were a few ordinary boxes that could keep the catch insulated.

After the purchase, he arrived at the Wave Breaker.

After parking, he brought his fishing gear and tackle box only to find that there were already two anglers fishing at the Wave Breaker.

He had arrived not a minute too late; it was still only 8:30 in the morning.

The tide was at seven o’clock, and by 8:30, it was almost at its calmest, so the fish were no longer biting as fiercely.

However, just as Chu Mingcheng approached the shore, he noticed that the water seemed unusually clear today.

When fishing from the shore, two conditions often led to no catch.

One was when the water was too clear, a situation rarely seen along China’s coast, but not impossible.

In clear water, there are no fish. At such times, fish become more cautious and are reluctant to come out to feed.

Especially intelligent species like Black Sea Bream, which surely wouldn’t approach the shore when the water was clear.

So, under these circumstances, one would need to find a relatively murky area to have a chance of catching anything.

The reverse was also true; if the water was too muddy, fish wouldn’t be caught either.

When fish move in the water, 20% of their navigation relies on vision. When the water is too muddy, they become alert and remain stationary.