As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: 30,000

“That’s fantastic, I didn’t expect to encounter you here. By the way, do you sell that fish?” Jiang Yuqi was very happy to have the VIP appear before her.

If the price was right, she was determined to buy that fish.

As for the reason to buy the fish, it was because the fish was large enough to be a great gimmick.

Chu Mingcheng was slightly speechless at the girl’s reaction. A handsome man standing right in front of her, and all she could think about was food?

Her mind must be filled with nothing but food! @@novelbin@@

He grumbled a bit in his heart, but when it came to selling the fish, he was rather reluctant.

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The reason was that the bin diao was too rare, and bringing it back to shore could fetch a very good price from the wealthy bosses eager to buy it.

But coming up with his own price, he really didn’t know how much to ask for.

Ask too much, and it would be too expensive for others; he still wanted to make Jiang Yuqi into his client, after all, and through her, get to know other gourmet food YouTubers!

Ask too little, and he would feel like he was in for a loss!

High-quality clients or making more money for the moment, he wanted both!

After thinking it over, Chu Mingcheng still decided to test the waters, hoping Jiang Yuqi would back off.

“The price for that fish is rather high, quite a bit above market price. It has considerable commercial value, which raises its price. Are you sure you want to buy it?”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuqi immediately held up three fingers, “Thirty thousand, how about selling it to me? The main reason I’m buying this fish is to collaborate with a food YouTuber who has tens of millions of followers.”

“He’s very interested in peculiar or particularly large seafood. How about I introduce him to you when the time comes?”

“Deal!” Chu Mingcheng decisively shook her hand, not caring whether it was soft or not, but this girl was truly generous.

Perhaps she was a rich and beautiful woman experiencing life?

But who cared? As long as she was willing to spend money, she was the most dazzling fairy in Chu Mingcheng’s eyes!

The thirty thousand was five thousand more than he had anticipated, and with Jiang Yuqi’s promise to introduce a food YouTuber with ten million followers, he had nothing to hesitate about.

Girls like her, who were generous and straightforward, usually knew people who weren’t too fussy either.

If someone was wishy-washy, Jiang Yuqi probably wouldn’t enjoy interacting with them, a personality mismatch.

Through her, Chu Mingcheng could meet a big internet celebrity, and if he could turn the celebrity into his client, he might also tap into the celebrity’s network.

Networking radiates outward like this. The more high-quality bosses he knew, the more successful he could be with his strategy of selling high-quality aquatic products.

Having reached an agreement, they arranged to make the trade when they returned to shore.

Afterward, Jiang Yuqi, like an inquisitive kid, started to pester him with questions about fishing.

She didn’t fish last night, and having tried this morning, ended up as an air force for a whole morning.

With too many questions, Chu Mingcheng didn’t know how to teach this newbie. He simply asked her to come find him at the next fishing spot and planned to take her fishing with him.

The afternoon passed quickly, and after dinner, the Sky set sail once again.

The next fishing spot would be reached by ten o’clock at night, still night fishing.

The crew said the Sky would stay at the next spot for one night plus a day, and then there would still be time to enjoy trolling the next afternoon.

Therefore, Chu Mingcheng told Jiang Yuqi to go back and get a good sleep, waking up at nine-thirty.

However, he set his alarm for eight-thirty in the evening, so that he could secure two good spots and rent the fishing gear and get the tackle ready for her.

For a high-quality customer, providing some thoughtful service was the right thing to do.

When the time reached half-past eight in the evening, Chu Mingcheng washed his face to refresh himself.

When he came to the deck with his own fishing gear, he found that the good spots were mostly taken.

He was slightly surprised, thinking that the dozen or so Fishing Men who played troll fishing in the afternoon would be exhausted by now, but it turned out they were still as lively at night.

Eventually, he found two spots where the foredeck meets the corridor, which were also pretty good, guessing that even these would be gone if he arrived any later.

Chu Mingcheng first called over a deckhand and inquired about the target fish and their size for the fishing spot, then he rented a suitable set of fishing gear from him.

Jiang Yuqi would pay for the fishing gear herself; he was just helping her rent it.

Today’s target fish weighed around ten pounds, mostly ruby fish according to the deckhand, followed by some Deep Sea Groupers.

Chu Mingcheng was not a local here and did not know what he meant by ruby fish, but he guessed it might be some kind of red fish from the Clupeidae or a related family.

For a fish of around ten pounds, an 8-strand PE line number 8 would suffice, and as for the leader line, a 20-pound carbon line or steel wire leader would both do, especially since Groupers have rather sharp teeth.

This was the setup for Jiang Yuqi; he stuck with his usual one, only downsizing the leader line and fish hook a bit.

It was just nine o’clock and the boat hadn’t stopped when Jiang Yuqi had already come down.

She was very thankful to Chu Mingcheng for holding the spot and renting a fishing rod: “Thanks! If I catch any fish tonight, I’ll make you a midnight snack!”

But Chu Mingcheng looked at her skeptically, “Midnight snack or not doesn’t matter, the key question is whether your culinary skills are up to par?”

Earlier, although Jiang Yuqi had cooked lobster, and her assistant had enjoyed it eagerly, lobster is good even if you just boil it—it doesn’t require much cooking skill.

Raised by Mr. Chu’s excellent culinary skills, he had a baseline for how food should taste.

How did things end with his former girlfriend?

Wasn’t it because she lacked self-awareness and insisted on cooking when asked not to?

She cooked, insisting he eat first even if she didn’t, treating him like a guinea pig, saying that if he didn’t eat, it meant he didn’t love her.

Did she not have a clue when the food came out burnt whether it tasted good or not?

And then she had the nerve to test him with it.

How could Chu Mingcheng put up with that?

He promptly sent her packing, saying goodbye!

Since then, he harbored some doubt about the culinary skills of women he didn’t know well, unless they were professional chefs.

“Are you joking? You actually doubt my cooking? I’m a gourmet vlogger, you know, I always make my own delicious food!” Jiang Yuqi immediately bristled when her cooking was questioned.

“Sorry, it’s not about you. Perhaps because my dad is an old chef, I have higher expectations for food.”

Hearing that Chu Mingcheng’s father was a chef, Jiang Yuqi felt both envious and a little anxious, and she was also a bit upset because she had simply wanted to express her gratitude.

She was confident in her own skills, but it also depended on whom she was being compared with!

“Well, I think my cooking is pretty good. If you’re not willing to eat it, then let’s just forget it!”

Watching Jiang Yuqi back away, Chu Mingcheng felt inexplicably soft-hearted: “When I get hungry later, I’ll cook. My culinary skills are pretty decent!”

He found the girl quite amusing, plus she was petite.

As an only child, he used to envy others who had cute little sisters and wished for one too.

But his mom had health issues when she was young, and combined with the one-child policy, they decided not to have a second child.

Later, with Chen Yang and Zhang Wei as companions, he stopped thinking about having a sister.

Now, seeing the slight despondence in Jiang Yuqi, he unexpectedly felt a bit protective.