As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 115: Chapter 112 Peach Blossoms Flowing with Water, the Crucian Carp are Plump [Bonus Chapter for 10,000 Rewards, Part 2]

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“Okay.” Uncle Wei was a big shot, and Chu Mingcheng, unfamiliar with Xia City, still needed to run around with this big shot.

After adding him on Tengxin, he found that Uncle Wei’s Tengxin ID was directly his own name, Wei Jiaguo, a name with the characteristic of that generation.

Back on shore, Chu Mingcheng bid farewell to Uncle Wei and returned the fishing bait to him.

Uncle Wei simply waved his hand as a gesture of giving it to him, and then drove off pulling his boat with style.

Chu Mingcheng also put his fishing rod and fish box in the car and headed back.

There were so many Crucian carps here. Although it was hard to find suitable fishing spots without a boat, he could hunt!

The only trouble was he had to catch them with his hands or a lasso to ensure the Crucian carps were alive.

Unlike deep sea fish, fresh ones could still be sold at a high price even if they were iced.

There was still some time before noon, so he planned to sell the thirteen Crucian carps he’d caught earlier.

He was at the same tourist spot as yesterday, and coincidentally, just as he got out of his car, he ran into the family of three who bought the Stone Fish from him the day before.

“Hey, bro, what a coincidence, are you here to sell fish again?”

“Yeah, I went fishing for some Crucian carps this morning. I thought it was almost noon, so I came over to try selling them.”

“Crucian carps? That’s some good stuff. Let me have a look?”

“Sure.” Chu Mingcheng opened the trunk, took out the fish box, and then opened it.

The man took a look and exclaimed in surprise, “Wow, did you fish these out of someone’s farm pond?”

“Purely wild, caught in the lake,” Chu Mingcheng said as he picked up a Crucian carp. “Don’t be fooled by its size, it’s quite slender. The farmed ones are much fatter.”

As he spoke, he lifted the fish with a fish grip, “Look at this one, its size is definitely not small, right? But it actually weighs just over a pound.”

“If it were farmed, this size would weigh at least two pounds, and wild Crucian carps almost have no black film in their stomachs, and the gall bladder is small too.”

The man fell silent, remembering the good quality of the fish he bought yesterday, and then said, “Weigh the largest one for me, and how much was it again?”

“One-twenty per pound, all of them over a pound, no bargaining.”

“One-twenty is a bit pricey!” the man’s wife said with a frown.

Chu Mingcheng explained with a smile, “That’s the price for wild Crucian carps, and it’s very rare to find any over a pound. I only got these few because my grandpa took me to his secret fishing spot.”

The man, who was a foodie and knew his stuff, nodded and said, “The price is fine. I’m dining at the restaurant next door. Whether this one is wild or not, I’ll know as soon as they slice it up.”

In the end, the man bought the two-pound fish for two hundred and forty yuan.

He took the fish to the neighboring restaurant, asking the owner to kill it on the spot.

Since Chu Mingcheng came here to sell fish, business at the restaurant had improved, and because they didn’t have these kinds of fish on offer, there were naturally no conflicts of interest.

After killing the fish, the owner frankly told the man that the Crucian carp was indeed wild.

The man was relieved and, pleased with the excellent fish he had bought from Chu Mingcheng twice, scampered back.

“Bro, how about we add each other on Tengxin? If you have good stuff in the future, you can directly air freight it to me!”

“Sure, I’ll add you to the group then. I have a customer group. Most of the fish I caught at Xisha were air freighted to them. But you have to pay the shipping cost yourself; I want to make that clear upfront.”

“Hey, as long as the goods are good, what’s the shipping fee?”

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After joining the group, the man discovered there were more than twenty people, and he was instantly amazed by the various fish catch photos in the group album.

“Wow, what a huge Red snapper, and what’s this red fish, it’s also so big? Are these the ones you caught at Xisha?”

“Yeah, the red fish’s scientific name is bin diao, it’s a type of deep sea fish.”

The man wasn’t short on money at home, but living inland meant having to pay a much higher price for seafood, which was quite uneconomical.

Having joined Chu Mingcheng’s group, he felt lucky that he made the right choice.

Feeling elated, he saw a group of people surrounding the fish, skeptical that they were not wild and hesitant to buy, so he immediately started to advertise, “These Crucian carps are all wild; I just bought one and had it butchered at that shop over there.”

“Whether they’re wild, you can tell by looking, or just buy a fish and ask the boss to clean it up so you’ll know, right?”

Spurred by his words, a young man immediately bought a fish from Chu Mingcheng, about one and a half kilograms, for one hundred and fifty-five yuan.

The young man, who had come with his girlfriend to have fun, was about to have lunch, so he took the fish to a nearby restaurant.

A group of people went over to take a look and, realizing the fish were wild, they instantly ran back to make purchases.

After all, there were only about ten fish left, and if they didn’t hurry, all would be sold out.

In a short while, all the remaining Crucian carps were snatched up, and Chu Mingcheng checked his earnings, which just exceeded two thousand yuan.

Thirteen fish totaled about seventeen kilograms, roughly equaling the income of the entire previous day.

This was the advantage of having a local guide; left to his own devices, he would never have known about the small lake with Crucian carps, and such large ones at that!

After selling the fish, Chu Mingcheng packed up his things and headed back, stopping at a noodle shop on the way to deal with lunch.

Then, he went home, put away the fishing rods and such, and took all his freediving equipment, including the speargun, though he wasn’t sure if he would use it.

He didn’t forget things like dry towels either, to avoid making Jiang Luoluo’s car dirty.

With everything prepared, he didn’t rest and drove straight to the place he had visited in the morning.

He changed into a diving suit in the car, donned a weight belt, live fish clip, and lasso, but he left the safety rope float and other items like fins and mask behind.

Mainly because shore diving didn’t require too much equipment, and it would be inconvenient to carry everything, and he didn’t need them.

He found a suitable spot to enter the water and Chu Mingcheng first swam to the spot where he had been fishing in the morning to see if there were any Crucian carps left.

He glided through the water; the surface of the lake looked very clear, but once he was underwater, he found it was a greenish haze with a visibility of about ten meters—not as far as he had initially thought!

However, the fish resources seemed alright. Under some aquatic plants or beneath rock formations, he could spot many small fish.

Occasionally, he encountered one or two Qiao Zui darting swiftly through the water, quite large, each weighing around five or six kilograms.

It took him about fifteen minutes to reach the spot where he had fished in the morning.

Chu Mingcheng approached slowly, but not too close.

One reason was to avoid scaring the fish, and another was the fear of hidden water snakes.

The aquatic life guide gave him the freedom to move effortlessly in the water, but it did not give him resistance to poison.

If he got bitten, would he end up on the news after being fished out by another Fishing Man in a few days?

It was a cloudy day, and the light in the water wasn’t so good. Among two rocks at the bottom of the water, a fairly large Crucian carp was hiding.

Chu Mingcheng almost missed it; it seems he’ll need to get a diving flashlight when he goes back.