Chapter Twenty-Five: Fishing at Sea (Seeking Follow-up)
When Tong Yuanhang returned home, he told his parents about the second dog.
The child's father was furious after hearing this, and the child's mother scolded Mrs. Zhang for being unreliable.
The marriage of the daughter was naturally put on hold, and the next time the princess came to talk about the engagement, they would definitely be rejected.
But knowing that Zhang Cuifen, who couldn't say it, should say hello to that side in advance, and then look for others.
Tong Yuanhang also took the opportunity to mention Zhang Ze, but Tong's father and mother have some scruples now, and plan to inquire in private before talking.
can raise their daughters so well, obviously they are not parents who sell their daughters.
I was fooled by the matchmaker before, and I didn't expect to understand the man's personality and character in the village, and now they naturally won't make this mistake again.
Tong Yuanhang had a simple meal at noon, then brought a fishing line and a hook, as well as two fish guards, bamboo baskets and rod scales, and hurried to the dock.
The small fishing boat does not have a living water tank, and if you really want to catch lobster and grouper, they are kept in their homemade fish guards.
As soon as he came to the dock, he saw Zhang Ze squatting on the side, and there were two small piles of unknown things in front of him.
When I got closer, it turned out to be a bunch of small squid and shrimp.
"Aze, I'm here, where did these things come from?"
"You also need bait for fishing, so I wanted to pick up some conch shells and knock some oysters, and then a small fishing boat happened to come back, so I bought some with someone."
"But the people on your island are so polite, I give them money, but they won't take it."
When Zhang Ze saw him coming, he got up and explained.
Tong Yuanhang smiled when he heard this: "This little thing is not valuable, no matter who asks for it, I will give some." ”
"That's it!" Zhang Ze nodded clearly, these little squid and shrimp are indeed not very valuable, even if the price is not high in the later life.
Tong Yuanhang happened to come over with a bamboo basket, and the two of them put these baits into the bamboo basket.
The things were loaded onto the small fishing boat, and he swung the oars to the fishing spot.
Although the fishing boats at the wharf are all collective, the villagers can use them individually.
In the past, several families had a small fishing boat, and they had to negotiate the time to use it.
Although the island is still very poor, these small fishing boats can be built in the village, so the number of them is increasing, and the people on the island can basically use the boats at will without going out to sea to collect nets.
The location that Tong Yuanhang said was not very far, and when he left the pier and turned a corner, he came to the southeast side of the island and saw his destination.
A group of rocks outcropping from the water, not too small.
"This place is nice, how do you usually fish for groupers?" Zhang Ze is naturally very familiar with this reef group, and he has come to fish many times in later generations.
The resources here are really good, even in later generations, he can catch a few big fish from time to time, which is the favorite habitat of fish.
"Who of us usually fishes!" Tong Yuanhang smiled bitterly, "Grouper lobsters are worthless when they die, and it is difficult to survive if they want to sell them on the black market." ”
"When you go to the buying station, it's all collected, and if you sell it privately, it's called speculation. So after collecting the net at night, everyone went home to sleep during the day, and when they woke up, they bullied and bullied their mother-in-law, and when it was their turn to go to sea, they had dinner and came to the dock to gather. ”
"If you hadn't had a way, I would have gone back to sleep in the afternoon."
"Alas, it's not easy for everyone!" Zhang Ze sighed lightly, thinking of his experience of selling mandarin fish, it was really difficult!
He also has a good relationship with his peers in the village, but why he fishes for mandarin fish secretly, isn't it because the fish in the river are actually public.
There is a little meat at home and some people are gagged, and you have to find all kinds of excuses, there is no formal job in this era, and it is really not easy to make some money.
The reef looks close, but it has actually taken more than half an hour to come here.
Finding a good position, Tong Yuanhang tied the rope to a raised reef and prepared to fish.
But before that, he took some fishing lines and hooks to Zhang Ze: "Aze, since you take me to make money, then I can't trap you." You have these fishing lines and hooks, and you were charged a little more last time, so don't mind. ”
"That's a serious business, how can there be a pit, but I won't be polite if you give it away for nothing." The last time he bought fishing line, Zhang Ze certainly knew that he had made a lot of money.
But that's what the market is, and it's normal to buy things that are hard to buy at a high price.
Seeing that he had received these things, Tong Yuanhang felt a little more relaxed, so he threw some shrimp into the water with him to make a nest and began to sort out the fishing line.
"Aze, if you really marry my sister, you don't have to spend money to buy crab and shrimp pots in the future, my sister will do them."
"Yo he, it seems that your sister still has a pair of skillful hands!" Speaking of Tong Shuyao, Zhang Ze was indeed a little interested, "You told your family about the second dog?" ”
"I have to say, they're angry. But then again, since you have a crush on my sister-in-law, do you have to tell me about your family's situation? ”
"My family..."Zhang Ze wants to marry someone else's daughter, of course, he has to tell the other party his family background.
So as he spoke, he straightened out the line and tied it to the boat.
It stands to reason that grouper fishing is the most efficient with a row hook, and the harvest of carnivorous fish such as grouper will definitely not be bad at that time.
But because the small fishermen here have no additional opportunities to make money, they usually live a mess, and the fishing nets can be collected when the time comes, and no one will engage in these troublesome hooks.
This also led to Tong Yuanhang's family not making row hooks, so Zhang Ze could only get three fishing lines tied to the side of the boat, so that three hooks could be laid at a time to increase the hit rate.
When there is a reaction to which fishing line, pull which.
No matter how much it is, the line is too close and easy to get entangled.
When Tong Yuanhang saw him doing this, he imitated it on the other side of the boat, and also put several hooks.
After getting it done, he also had a general understanding of Zhang Ze's identity and background.
Knowing that he lost his father ten years ago, Tong Yuanhang also had some sympathy in his heart, and he knew very well how sad his life was after the family lost his father.
But because of this, now seeing Zhang Ze's efforts to make his family live a good life, he has some appreciation in his heart, and feels that such a person is a real man.
If she can really make money in the afternoon, the girl will not have a hard time marrying him.
Of course, if he can't make money, Tong Yuanhang's attitude towards him will naturally change.
In the afternoon, when the weather was hot, and the shrimp nested the small squid as bait, the two sat on the boat for most of the time and did not see any movement in the fishing line.
Just when Tong Yuanhang was a little impatient, Zhang Ze suddenly moved.
He quickly grabbed the rightmost fishing line, which was tight and ran back and forth.
Zhang Ze naturally won't let the fish run around, especially on the left, which will get entangled with the fishing line in the middle.
Fortunately, the water near the reef was not deep, and there would be no particularly large fish, so he easily pulled the fish up.
"Parrotfish, it's a pity!" What he brought up was a parrotfish of about two catties, and he was a little sorry that it was not the target fish, but he still unhooked the hook and put the fish into the fish guard on his side.
"Aze, isn't this a miscellaneous fish, do you want it too?"
"The taste of this fish is still okay, I'll take it back and give it to my family to taste."
Of course, it is an excuse to give your family a taste, and your family may not like to eat it, if it is Tsing Yi, it will be fine.
He didn't release it because he wanted to get more experience points in the fishing space when he went ashore.
There are still a lot of fish in the fishing space, and if it is empty, it is empty.