Chapter 7: Qualifiers and Reunions

This "Thousand Lakes Cup" Fishing Challenge is much more formal than the last time Yang Zi and the two participated, not only have clear regulations on fish species and bait, but even the length of the rod is set in great detail. It is also a two-day competition, and the organizers have arranged it more carefully and reasonably.

The competition is divided into five games, and today's four qualifying matches are two crucian carp number competitions, each 70 minutes, and the fishing rod is limited to 3.6 meters. There are two mixed fish weight competitions, each 70 minutes long, and the fishing rod is limited to 4.5 meters. The top 30 finishers in the four competitions will be able to compete in the final tomorrow at Liangzi Lake, also in mixed weight, with a duration of 150 minutes and a limit of 5.4 meters with a limited rod of 5.4 meters at a designated fishing position on the shore of Liangzi Lake.

Yang Zi, who arrived here before six o'clock, went to the referee first to make relevant preparations such as registration, lottery, and fishing tackle inspection, because the number of people was as high as nearly two hundred, and the time was close to half past seven after these trivial matters were completed. After the organizer made some regular speeches and introductions at the opening ceremony, the referee and the staff began to take everyone into the fishing position for final preparations.

Walking to his fishing position to clean everything up, Yang Zi, who was waiting for the start of the game, glanced left and right at today's fishing position and venue. This time, the fish pond is much larger than that of the Huangshi Reservoir, more than 100 meters long, and the two ponds of nearly 200 contestants were arranged. I'm in a pretty good position, right in the middle of the side.

As the referee announced the official start of the game, a signal gun sounded, and everyone who had been prepared for a long time pulled the bait and rod to draw the nest. Yang Zi's super high fishing rate allowed him to draw a few rods and then go directly to the fish, after experiencing yesterday's half-dead fish situation and then returning to the high-density waters such as the fish pond, the system that has been held back has not broken out gave Yang Zi a lot of surprises. At the beginning of a long time, there were basically rods, and there were a lot of double tails. This made Yang Zi full of joy and at the same time packed up his mood, put on the hat of the sunscreen suit, and concentrated on fishing without listening to the outside of the window.

I don't know how long time has passed, Yang Zi, who was immersed in the fun of fishing, was fishing coolly, and suddenly heard a familiar voice in his ears. "Brother Yang Zi, is it you? I'm Qiaoqiao!" he turned his head to look, and saw that Liu Qiaoqiao, the little beautiful host who hadn't been in touch since the last dinner, was standing next to him at this moment, and greeted him with a smile.

"Qiaoqiao, why are you? Why are you coming here again?" Yang Zi, who was a little surprised, didn't even look at the fishing rod, and asked after saying hello to Liu Qiaoqiao very happily. "Hee-hee, why can't it be me? That's my job, as long as there is a fishing tournament, there may be me." It's Brother Yang Zi, I still can't believe your name I saw on the entry list earlier, until I saw Uncle Fat's name with you, I didn't decide to come over, so I took the time to come and see you. With my cheers, you must qualify today, and I hope you will continue to treat me to a big meal!"

Qiaoqiao explained to Yang Zi as a matter of course, and when it was over, she didn't forget to give herself a share of the credit, so that she could come to eat when the time came. Yang Zi smiled at her a little dotingly: "You still don't believe in my skills, don't worry, whether you win the game or not, I will invite you to eat, after all, it is a kind of fate that we can meet here unexpectedly." I'll finish the game first, how about I talk about it later. "Uh-huh, by the way, I forgot that the staff can't disturb your players' games. Go ahead and go fishing, don't affect your results. We'll see you later!" Qiaoqiao seemed to remember the rules of the game at this time, stuck out her tongue, nodded obediently, said hello, and ran back to the film crew.

Yang Zi looked at her departing back and smiled, I don't know why, every time I see this elf-like girl, I feel very happy, this may be an instinct in people's hearts to like beautiful things. The rest of the day he collected his mood and returned to his previous state of concentration, and he didn't stop until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Although there was a short delay in chatting with Qiaoqiao in the middle, he estimated that his results should still be very good, after all, today's odds of winning fish and double tails were better than the last competition.

After standing aside and waiting for a while, the staff of the competition came over one by one to calculate the results for everyone. After counting, Yang Zi's first game in the morning was as high as 158, which is already a relatively amazing number. The others were basically hovering around a hundred, and the more ones were around 130, feeling that there should be no problem in winning the first game, Yang Zi packed up his things and followed everyone back to the waiting area of the game.

At this time, Qian Gang was already waiting on the side, and when he saw Yang Zi, he kept saying hello and waving. After the two met, Yang Zi was so happy to see him and thought that his results today were also very good, but this product was actually happy for the news that Qiaoqiao was also here, and at this time he kept telling Yang Zi about some personal information that he had spent a lot of fishing time and heard from Qiaoqiao.

He actually inquired about Liu Qiaoqiao's age, birthday, address and the situation of not having a boyfriend, and he was excitedly inviting Yang Zi to take credit. Yang Zi couldn't help but hold his forehead and was a little moved at the same time, after all, people are also thinking about themselves. Fortunately, although he was delayed a lot, his results were not bad, and the mantissa of 119 should be in the top 20.

Sure enough, after the results of the first game were announced, Yang Zi's results hung high in the first place, and Qian Gang tied for the eleventh place with another player. After a little small talk, the second game began, and after the draw, the two men separated and found their own fishing spots, and then started a new round of fighting.

Due to the dazzling results in the first game, Yang Zi received more attention after the opening of the second game, and several cooperative TV stations took turns to come and conduct a brief interview with him without interfering with his fishing. Yang Zidu calmly coped with them one by one, and did not appear stage frightened at all. However, when the film crew of Happy Fishing came over, Qiaoqiao and Yang Zi had some interesting questions and answers, and Yang Zi also deliberately amused Qiaoqiao who was a little cute in front of her, which made her laugh happily and keep jumping at the same time.

For the contestants, the time of the mantissa game passes very quickly, because they are very attentive in the process, and many will not withdraw from this state until the referee's whistle blows if no one disturbs. Yang Zi is one of them, and the 70-minute game can be said to have passed in a flash. When the referee finished the game, he just counted the number 165 in his mouth, which was seven higher than the previous game. With such good grades, he stood aside easily and waited for the staff to record the results, and then returned to the rest area leisurely with his things.

After meeting with Qian Gang, the two exchanged their respective results, and Qian Gang's second performance was also very stable, and the number of 136 tails was much higher than the previous game. They chatted while waiting for the organizers to announce the rankings, and after the final results were released, Yang Zi unexpectedly won the first place, and Qian Gang ranked sixth, and the two entered the second qualifying match in the afternoon with two and seventeen points respectively.

At this time, it was close to twelve o'clock at noon, Yang Zi and they walked around the rest area and didn't find Qiaoqiao, so they found a place to settle their lunch, and then sat there to recharge their energy and prepare to participate in the mixed fish fishing requalification tournament that was about to start in the afternoon.

Not long after lunch, the organizers and players who took a break started a new round of battle after the lottery. After changing the fish pond in the polyculture pond, the players also took out their 4.5-meter rods again to prepare for the fishing position, and when everyone was in place, the referee rang the flare gun for the first game of the afternoon.

Yang Zi, who strengthened the line set and the fishing hook No. 1, lowered the fishing rod and set it up on the turret after drawing two rod nests, and then quietly watched the fish float in the water. Although the weather was much hotter than in the morning, the air did not become very hot due to a cool breeze blowing from time to time, and the fish that had been hungry in the water for a few days were quite active. It didn't take long for Yang Zi to catch a small black drift floating fish floating in the water, and caught a carp weighing more than half a catty, which was a good start.

After catching a few good catches in a row, he was subjected to another round of expected interviews after winning two consecutive firsts in the morning. Because it is no longer a mantissa number, he is more relaxed, and he also introduced himself to them in a little detail. He feels that it should not be a bad thing to increase his exposure and popularity now, after all, if he wants to get sponsorship and signing in the future, the impact of fame is still great.

In the afternoon, most of the game in the first game slowly passed under the calm interview, and Yang Zi, who had more than three catties of fish, did not hurry to maintain his frequency. In the end, after catching a carp of about one and a half catties before the end of the competition, the first game ended with a score of five and a half catties.

Back in the rest area, he sat with Qian Gang and chatted about the results just now, and after learning that he also got a good score of about five catties with a carp that was close to two catties, both of them seemed very relaxed. Because even if they don't do very well in the last game, there will be basically no problem in reaching tomorrow's final.

What is the biggest advantage that the system has brought to Yang Zi? The answer is stability. It allows Yang Zi to ignore luck and maintain a high rate of hitting fish all the way, unless there are no fish in the nearby water. This can be seen in Yang Zi's total score of 3 points after the organizers announced the results of today's third game, and even those referees who often participate in various competitions expressed a little surprise at his record. After all, there are so many uncontrollable factors in such a thing as fishing, and it is extremely rare for a player to play so well in multiple tournaments on the same day.

Yang Zi naturally didn't care what they thought in their hearts, as long as everything was in line with the regulations, wouldn't he be allowed to get better grades than others? So after the start of today's last game, he continued to go all out, and he didn't even say much to Qiaoqiao, who was bored and came to chat with him.

With the blessing of the system and his own efforts, Yang Zi basically fished with a continuous rod rhythm until the end of the game, and the results were more than two catties more than the previous game. When the results were announced, there was an uproar, and everyone didn't expect that such an unknown young man would win the first place in today's four competitions by himself. Although it is only a promotion tournament and there are no prizes to be won, it also shows that the strength of the people is really extraordinary.

Qian Gang happily joined Yang Zi and 28 other finalists on stage to accept the congratulations of the organizers, and Yang Zi was also taken out separately to express his feelings of winning four firsts in a row. In front of so many people, he didn't dare to learn from Qian Gang like that, so he modestly found a few reasons to push it over, which made Qian Gang on the side red-eyed, but in any case, Yang Zi is famous enough today.

Next, the two of them didn't stay after getting tomorrow's qualification certificate from the organizer, but found Qiaoqiao and asked her if she wanted to eat something together after she was busy with things. After seeing Yang Zi and them agree, she cheered happily, and after making an appointment to meet, she ran to the side and packed up her equipment with the staff.

Yang Zi and the two drove back to the hotel to wash up for a while, chatting about today's game while waiting for news from Qiaoqiao.