Xiang Yang and Zhang Qicheng picked up a few fishing rods and drove a modified fishing boat rented from the villagers towards the deep waters of Qinglong Bay.
The person driving the boat was He Mingde. He held the steering wheel and shouted, "Haha, the person who modified this boat must be a genius. A fishing boat worth a few thousand dollars is equipped with an engine worth a few thousand dollars, and it feels like a speedboat worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "This was remodeled by an old boatman in Huhai Town. He has been doing this professionally for decades. How could he not do it well?"
"It's indeed a good skill, but I'm afraid it won't be long before this skill becomes obsolete." Zhang Qicheng, who was standing at the bow wearing a windbreaker, suddenly turned around and said meaningfully.
Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes, "Yes, I'm afraid that in a few years, this kind of boat will be hard to see in Huhai Town."
Xiang Yang has felt that the whole Yanlong Village is swept by a wave of big ships recently. Fishermen and ordinary villagers alike always talk about big ships after dinner. Moreover, this wave is getting stronger and stronger, and is gradually spreading to other villages.
Although up to now everyone's enthusiasm for the big ship is still at the stage of discussion and no one has actually taken action to purchase a big ship, Xiang Yang has heard that someone in the village has already taken the lead in raising funds.
"This is inevitable." Zhang Qicheng was still unsure of Xiang Yang's attitude towards other fishermen buying fishing boats. After pondering for a moment, he said, "I once heard a story about two busy roads. A Chinese businessman and a Jewish businessman set up gas stations on the two roads respectively..."
"A few years later, a bunch of gas stations were built where the Chinese businessman built the gas station, and a complete industrial chain was formed where the Jewish businessman built the gas station." Xiang Yang interrupted Zhang Qicheng with a smile, "I know this story, but what I want to say is that the ocean is not a busy road. Even if the villagers in our Yanlong Village don't build gas stations, fishermen from other places or even other countries will take the lead in building more gas stations."
Zhang Qicheng's eyes lit up slightly, "So you support the villagers of Yanlong Village to buy a big ship?"
Xiang Yang smiled, shook his head and said nothing.
Zhang Qicheng also tactfully stopped asking questions.
Xiang Yang certainly supported the villagers of Yanlong Village to buy large boats to go fishing in the open sea, but he couldn't say this openly.
For fishermen who make a living by fishing, every trip out to sea is an adventure. Whether or not they can gain something is secondary. The most important thing is that it is difficult to guard against unpredictable sea conditions. Compared with Xiang Yang, other fishermen who make a living by fishing really rely on God for their livelihood at sea.
In recent years, more and more people have gone out to work, and the secondary and tertiary industries have become increasingly developed. Many fishermen on the coast may have forgotten the difficulties of living by the sea.
In the early years, Huhai Town was not called Huhai Town. The reason why it was renamed Huhai Town was because in the dialect of Huhai Town, the word "hu" and the word "ku" are homophones. Fishermen could not catch any fish and could only cry while looking at the sea. Over time, it was renamed Huhai Town.
The fishing boat was thousands of meters away from the shore.
He Mingde slowly slowed down the speed of the fishing boat and said, "Xiang Yang? Mr. Zhang? If we go a little further, we will be out of the Qinglong Bay area. Let's fish here, shall we?"
"This place is near the coast, right? We came here specially by boat, why don't we go to the open sea to have a look?" Zhang Qicheng asked.
Xiang Yang smiled. No wonder Zhang Qicheng said that. It was a well-known fact that there were no fish near the coast. However, Xiang Yang knew that there were fish in this sea area. In Yanlong Village, where most fishermen still used paddle boats to fish, fishing boats equipped with engines were considered very advanced fishing boats. Several thousand meters away from the shore were already considered high seas for most fishermen in Yanlong Village.
"Let's fish here." Xiang Yang said, "If it's farther, it won't be so convenient when we go back."
Zhang Qicheng looked around and said, "Since you all say this is the right place, let's fish here!"
Xiang Yang waited for the fishing boat to shut down and handed Zhang Qicheng a fishing rod.
Is this a real sea fishing rod? Xiang Yang borrowed it from a fellow villager in the village before setting off.
Zhang Qicheng first took off his black windbreaker, then took the fishing rod. He squeezed it tightly, then swung his arm and threw the fishing rod out.
At this time, He Mingde took out bags of fragrant fish food, including live earthworms. He laid out all the fish food neatly, and then said, "Pick what you want. There should be a lot of horsehead fish in this sea area. Here is a special bait for horsehead fish."
"A lot of horsehead fish?" Zhang Qicheng immediately went to get the bottle of special bait for horsehead fish.
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head, hanging a dead shrimp on his hook. Horsehead fish are gregarious fish? If you have prepared a nest a day in advance, tonight is a good night to catch horsehead fish, but if you don't prepare a nest in advance and fish directly? You may be empty-handed the whole night.
Zhang Qicheng saw it and asked immediately, "Brother Xiang, your uncle said there are a lot of hatchet fish here, why don't you use the hatchet fish feed to hang a shrimp?"
Xiang Yang smiled, told Zhang Qicheng the reason, and then said: "When fishing in the sea without bait, it is better to use fish and shrimp than feed. Most feeds are specially formulated for a certain type of fish, but shrimp are different. There is almost no fish in the entire ocean that does not eat shrimp."
He Mingde smiled and said, "Then you should at least get a live shrimp. What's the use of getting a dead shrimp?"
Xiang Yang looked at Zhang Qicheng and He Mingde respectively, "Do you rarely go fishing?"
He Mingde was embarrassed, "Why do you ask that? I grew up by the sea."
"Whether you fish often or not has nothing to do with whether you grew up by the sea." Xiang Yang gave them some scientific knowledge: "I have loved fishing since I was a child. Based on my more than ten years of sea fishing experience, dead shrimp meat is often more suitable for fishing than live shrimp, because dead shrimp has a stronger fishy smell than live shrimp, which can easily attract some big fish to take the bait."
"So that's how it is." Zhang Qicheng immediately twisted a live shrimp out of a bucket, crushed it and hung it on the hook, then laughed and said, "I really like fishing, but I'm usually very busy with work, especially with some trivial things, so I rarely have the opportunity to fish."
He Mingde laughed and said, "I am a professional fisherman. I think it is faster to catch fish with a net than with a hook." The implication is that he really rarely goes fishing.
Xiang Yang smiled, and gently tossed the baited fishing rod, and the fishhook was thrown far away. Through the water, Xiang Yang used the mysterious jade shell to clearly see a group of groupers swimming leisurely there, and the baited fishhook was almost at the mouth of a half-meter-long grouper.