Mullet is a relatively common wild fish in freshwater waters, also known as black fish. Unlike other fish, this fish mates and raises its own offspring, living in shallow water with abundant aquatic plants from late spring to late summer, and sinking to the bottom of the water in winter.

This fish is a ferocious carnivore, with fast growth and a high weight ceiling, weighing three or five catties, which is not uncommon for this fish.

Because of its low spines and delicious meat, the price of this fish is not low.

There is a fisherman in Tang Mingyao's village, who usually buys this fish from the villagers for five yuan a catty. He sold it at the village market for eight yuan.

People who can catch this kind of fish are normal to run a few times by the river and catch three or five big ones.

Tang Mingyao conservatively calculated, he fished two a day, each mullet averaged two catties, and the buyer could sell it for 20 yuan, and he could sell it for 32 yuan when he went to the market.

In two or three days at most, you will be able to catch enough money to buy philatelic tools.

So, after some careful calculations, he immediately decided to switch to fishing for this mullet.

The tools used to fish for mullet are completely different from those used for crucian carp and barracuda.

First of all, the fishing rod must be larger and thicker, otherwise the heavy fish will be pulled violently, and the thin spotted bamboo will be torn off directly.

Secondly, the fishing line should also be replaced with a special thick fishing line, as well as a fishing hook, which should be an enlarged size the size of an adult's big finger.

The fishing rod is easy to do, Tang Mingyao has a bamboo forest at his own house, drill into it and cut a suitable one, shave off the branches, roast a little bent bamboo with fire, straighten it, and discard the thinnest part of the tip, leaving a length of three to four meters, which is a qualified fishing rod.

As for the line and hook, you'll have to pay for it.

Tang Mingyao's township market is every 3, 6, and 9. When he got his fishing rod ready, it was already the morning of the 27th, and he had just missed the previous day's fair. If you go to the market to buy it, you have to wait for another two days.

Tang Mingyao didn't have the patience to wait for the past two days now, he went back to the house and secretly took out his private money, counted more than a dozen tickets, large and small, and collected a total of six dimes and four cents!

It's shabby!

Tang Mingyao couldn't imagine that it had been twenty years since the change, and he was still so poor, and all his property added up to no more than one dollar.

The poor mountainous areas can't afford to hurt.

He remembered that before he was reborn, he also saw a propaganda advertisement in the next county on CCTV, and the advertising slogan was roughly like this: XX's hometown, a national-level poor county, or something.

His own county isn't much better.

Therefore, it is not your fault that you are poor, but the geographical location is not good.

Therefore, the adults in the mountains are working hard to send their children to school, just so that the next generation will no longer have to dig in the poor ravines.

Let's get back to business.

Tang Mingyao took all his savings and thought that he would probably be able to buy a few meters of fishing line and a fish hook, so he closed the door and took his brother down the mountain road to the river and came to a neighbor's house.

"Li Bingbing!"

"Li Bingbing is not here?"

Tang Mingyao shouted the names of his elementary school classmates in shame.

Soon two teenagers about his age jumped out of the room, the one in front was Li Bingbing, and the one behind was his younger brother Li Pingping.

These two brothers are his primary school classmates, because they live close to the river, his father fishes in the river all the year round to support the family, the two boys have been exposed to it since childhood, and they have also learned the skills of fishing.

Tang Mingyao came here to buy some fishing lines and hooks from them.

As for borrowing, or directly asking for it based on relationships, as an uncle with vicissitudes in his heart, he doesn't have that cheek.

What's more, Tang Mingyao still remembered that the two brothers once caught a hare cub and persuaded him to spend the New Year's money to buy it back. Later, the rabbit ran away after taking it home and raising it for less than an hour, which made him complain for a long time.

Well, although it's only a dollar in total.

"Chicken, what are you doing? Do you go to the river to take a bath? Li Bingbing happily shouted Tang Mingyao's nickname and said.

"No, I'm here to ask, do you have any extra fishing lines and hooks here, if you fish for mullet, sell me a set, and I'll give you five cents."

"Yes, you wait, I'll get it for you."

Li Bingbing said and went back to the house to pull a few meters of line, took a fish hook to him, and happily took the money handed over by Tang Mingyao, not embarrassed at all.

In just a few moments, he made two cents.

Tang Mingyao didn't care, and made an appointment with the two brothers to go down to the river to take a bath together in a few days, and went straight home to get fishing tackle.

On this day, he read books at home for three hours, completed his writing task, and set off for fishing at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Mullets like to eat meat, so Tang Mingyao caught a half-sized frog in the grass by the river, first "bia" and fell to death on the ground, then hung on the hook and swept along the river.

Fishing for mullet is different from crucian carp, carnivores are territorial, and you can wait until the daylilies are cold and you can't see a single mullet appear.

Only by walking along the river, keeping your eyes on the gaps in the aquatic plants, and seeing the mullet rising, you throw the frog to its mouth and wait for it to bite the hook to catch the fish.

It's a personal effort.

It's perfectly normal to walk for miles in an hour.

Tang Mingyao has adapted to rural life in the past two days, and the young man's body burst out with enthusiasm, and he doesn't feel tired at all.

However, his younger brother Tang Lingfeng followed him behind him in order to see the sour plum cake that could not see the shadow, and it was very hard.

After walking for half an hour, Tang Mingyao finally found the figure of the first big mullet.

It is black and mixed with aquatic plants, and it is difficult to find its traces without paying attention.

Tang Mingyao quietly approached the water's edge, raised the fishing rod, and gently dropped the bait near the mullet.

Boom!

The strength was not grasped well, the sound of the frog falling into the water was a little louder, and the mullet was suddenly frightened, and the fish's tail swung up, and a whirlpool was set up on the surface of the water, and it disappeared into the aquatic plants.

Tang Mingyao was slightly annoyed, but not discouraged.

Reel in the rod, re-throw the bait into the edge of the aquatic weeds, and wait quietly.

Sure enough, in less than two minutes, the mullet came out again, less than a meter away from the bait.

Tang Mingyao waited patiently for a while, but the guy didn't move, so he had no choice but to put away the rod and re-bait.

This time the movement was relatively small, and it did not scare the fish away, but the slight noise still attracted the attention of the fish.

I saw it swing its tail and approach slowly, as if it was recognizing what it was making noise, and then without hesitation, swallowed the frog into its mouth.

Boom!

On the calm water, you can even hear it swallowing something.

There were several bubbles on the surface of the water in a row, Tang Mingyao felt that the heat was almost over, and he grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and lifted it violently.

For a moment, I only felt that the other end of the fishing rod seemed to be tied to a big stone, heavy.

But fortunately, the rod was strong enough and all the preparations were complete, so although he was surprised by the weight of the fish, he still took advantage of the excellent toughness and elasticity of Banzhu to successfully pull this stupid guy up.

Syllable!

The big mullet made a crisp sound on the solid ground, and Tang Mingyao threw the fishing rod at the first time and pounced.

The younger brother Tang Lingfeng was not slow, and the two rushed to the mullet almost at the same time, leaning down and pressing down.

As a result, the fish was choked, and the heads of the two of them also "banged" together, causing the two of them to have gold stars in their eyes.

But the brothers didn't care about this at all, and shouted together.

"It's caught!"

"My sour plum cake!"