"Don't ...... Other...... Don't, don't do it, daughter-in-law, listen to me, these fishing gear are not actually fishing gear, but our tickets and travel checks to go on vacation, you tell me, if you are given half a month vacation, where do you want to go the most? Anywhere in the world! Hong Tao hurriedly hugged Erin, snatched a fishing rod from her hand, and then asked with a wicked smile.

"Are you so sure you can win Paul? Thomas told me that Paul didn't tell the truth last night, that not only did he finish third and fourth, he was in the top 20 of the year-end rankings every year, and he had a large group of friends in the FLW who he knew well from the organizing committee. And aren't you unfamiliar with this bait fishing method? Do you think we're going to win? If it's our own money to play, I'd rather not go! "Erin said for a long time that she still felt sorry for money, this is a standard miser, according to the traditional Chinese saying, it is a loss of pixiu, just eat and not pull.

"Don't worry, I have a way to deal with him, but I still have to make some preparations, so you can't make trouble for me, go to my bag and take a map of the world, go and choose a satisfactory place, and when I win him, I will play there, stay in a hotel with a swimming pool, bask in the sun and eat French food every day!" Hong Tao didn't hate Erin's habit of picking on the door, on the contrary, he was very satisfied, because this woman had been pulling from the outside to the inside for a long time, and she never slammed the door on Hong Tao, which was already rare.

"Really!" When Erin heard that Hong Tao was sure to win Paul, a smile finally appeared on her face.

"That's a must, do you have a drill here?" Hong Tao patted his chest and made a guarantee. Then get down to business.

"Electric drills? No, there is a porter downstairs, usually if something is broken in the resident's house, he is called to fix it, he is a Mexican immigrant, called Santiago, I can ask him. Erin thought for two seconds to make sure she didn't have such advanced tools in her room, then picked up the phone and dialed a number.

“@￥#@%！！ ……！ Santiago immediately brought the drill. Erin babbled on the phone. Then put down the phone.

"Do you still speak Spanish?" This was the first time Hong Tao had heard Erin speak a language other than English or Chinese. I was surprised.

"Well, I learned it when I came to New York, and I had to deal with immigrants a lot of the time, and most of them spoke Spanish but not English. So naturally I learned it! Erin glanced at Hong Tao very proudly. Then turn around. Squirmed back into the bedroom.

Santiago was a short, stocky, middle-aged man with curly hair on his head, curlers more curly than the one he had just permed. His arms are full of muscles, although he is not as tall as Schwarzenegger, but he is also a small governor, if Hong Tao meets him outside, he will never dare to get close to him, the whole image of an underworld thug.

Although his appearance is very unbearable, Santiago's personality is diametrically opposed to his appearance, he also knows a little English, and he can say a few words when he stammers, and he can probably express his meaning clearly. When he saw Hong Tao pressing the bait with his hand and planning to drill holes on it, he immediately snatched the electric drill over, and even told Hong Tao that the electric drill could not be played like this, it was not safe.

In the end, through Erin's translation, Hong Tao figured out what this Santiago meant, it turned out that he saw Hong Tao use an electric drill to drill those smooth bait, afraid that the drill bit would slip and touch Hong Tao's hand, so he suggested that Hong Tao go to his workshop and use a vice to clamp the bait and drill again, otherwise he would not lend the electric drill to Hong Tao, he was afraid that Hong Tao would rely on him after being injured and let him pay for the medical expenses.

Since the people were well-intentioned, Hong Tao couldn't refuse, so he had to pick out 20 of the baits he thought were more pleasing to the eye, and then followed Santiago downstairs to drill holes. Not to mention Santiago's transitional security awareness, the quality of this bait made by the United States is much better than that sold in China, the material is very sufficient, and the texture is exceptionally strong, without the help of Santiago's vice, Hong Tao would have to drill Erin's floor even if he didn't get his fingers.

After a busy morning, Hong Tao finally drilled three 0.2-inch holes in all of these lures, which were almost equal to 5 mm in diameter, and then asked Santiago to help find a very fine artificial sponge, and then returned to the apartment satisfied. As for the kind-hearted Santiago, Hong Tao didn't take advantage of him in vain, and invited him to come up at lunch to taste the pure Chinese food he made together, with enough beer and enough cigars!

After lunch, Hong Tao began to deploy his secret weapon, fish scale water. He diluted a small bottle of fish scale water into five different proportions, and then soaked the sponge cut into small strips. According to his plan, the baits will be divided into five categories according to color, four pieces of each type, each with different sponge strips, and then wait until the fishing ground to do experiments while fishing, to see which dilution ratio of fish scale water works best, and then replace all the bait with this sponge strip.

In fact, Hong Tao still has a lot of time to go to the waters near New York to do field experiments, and he really plans to do so, but Erin vetoes his idea. The reason is very simple, fishing in the United States is to apply for a fishing license, although it is not very difficult to apply, but you also have to go through the application, examination, issuance process, plus Hong Tao is a foreigner, I am afraid that the application procedures are more troublesome.

Even if the fishing license is applied, it is estimated that it will be several days later, and the time is a bit unrushed. They have to start from New York next Wednesday because the race takes place in Florida, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away. According to Paul's plan, they were to leave three days in advance and drive all the way there by themselves. It's not that Paul likes to drive, but he also has to pull his beloved fishing boat, for an old angler like him who pursues it, the fishing boat distributed by the tournament cannot reflect his identity, as long as there are conditions, most of those professional players use their own fishing boats, according to the Chinese words, two words: thing B!

Can't test for Hong Tao, a cheating master, is not a fatal problem, he put those soaked sponge strips all in 5 sealed vials, each of which has dozens of sticks, and take it with him during the game, it's a big deal to spend half a day to test, Hong Tao believes that as long as this kind of fish scale water works, then his results can't be wrong, and it is estimated that he can successfully pass the qualifying tournament in the first two days after fishing for 2 hours.

However, Hong Tao is not completely without trouble, now his biggest trouble is that there is no suitable assistant, according to the requirements of the FLW competition, each fishing boat must be two people, a professional angler and an amateur angler, now the professional angler has it, that is, Hong Tao himself, where to find the amateur angler?

The FLW tournament could have randomly paired Hong Tao with an amateur angler, but Hong Tao didn't want it! The fishing boat is such a big place, Hong Tao has nowhere to hide, and some cheating methods will definitely be discovered by the amateur angler, although he is an amateur, but he is also a fisherman, as long as he is not stupid, he will definitely be able to doubt Hong Tao's abnormal performance, so this assistant must not be an outsider.

But Hong Tao has nowhere to find his own people now, and this secret cannot be known by others, and the only exception is only one person, and that is his daughter-in-law, Erin.

"What? You're asking me to go to a race with you? I...... I don't know how to fish! Erin didn't refuse Hong Tao's proposal, she is not afraid of the sun, let alone tanning, if she can tan, at least 80% of women in the United States will go fishing, but she really can't fish, not at all.

"It doesn't matter, you're just my assistant, I'll take care of fishing, you just play and bask in the sun, there is a saying in China, called: fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers!" Do you understand the meaning of this sentence? Hong Tao fooled Erin with a handle in his hand, and he could get involved with world peace in such small things as whoever pays for dinner.

"If you lose the game, you can't blame me!" Erin was said to be tempted, just waiting for Hong Tao to give her another reassuring pill to eat.

"It's my responsibility to lose, the money for the treat comes out of my little coffer, and do you think I can lose? Do you see me lose in fishing? Hong Tao threw the reassuring pill over without hesitation.

"Alright then, buy me the same fishing suit as you! Let's put on a couple's outfit! Erin thought about it for a long time, and could only think of such a way to boost morale.

Early in the morning of October 7, 2008, Hong Tao, Erin, Paul and his hapless driver drove two cars from Kenny Street into the Holland Tunnel, across the Hudson River, to Jersey Creek, New Jersey, and then along Highway 78 through Jersey City and Newark Bridge, then to Highway 95, and then turned south to Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia, referred to as Philadelphia, although the name is not as eye-catching as New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc., but in the eyes of Americans, Philadelphia is the United States, and the United States is Philadelphia.

Why? Because it was here that the United States was founded, it was the capital of the United States in the 18th century. During the Revolutionary War, the First Continental Congress was held here, where elites from all over the United States discussed how to confront the British, and it was also a strategic point, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States being drafted and signed in Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

The first Star-Spangled Banner in the United States of America was also sewn by Ms. Ross, a native of Philadelphia, and there is still Ms. Rose's former home here, when she was commissioned by Washington in her kitchen to make the first Star-Spangled Banner with a sewing machine, but there were only 13 stars on the Star-Spangled Banner at that time, because there were only 13 states in the United States at that time. (To be continued......)

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