Chapter 063: Lifting Fish Grass to Fly
The reaction speed of fish is about three times that of ordinary humans.
Most people who go fishing in rivers and streams will usually come up empty-handed, just like fishing with bare hands. Unless they are lucky or have mastered the fishing skills, they will be able to catch a few.
Even fishermen who make a living by fishing need to use fishing tools, which shows that this fish is not so easy to catch!
However, Chen Jue's martial arts had greatly improved, and his speed and explosive power had reached the top level among humans. With a hidden force from his feet, he could move so fast at a distance of three or four meters that fish could not react even underwater.
When he grabbed the tail of the largest yellow croaker, the remaining two small ones finally reacted, turned around and swam more than ten meters away.
In fact, if Chen Jue had used one more trick, he could have caught the second one, but considering that he didn't want to kill them all, he was already satisfied with catching the biggest one.
This big wild yellow croaker kept bouncing and shaking in his hands. The power from the fish's tail was extremely strong. An ordinary person would probably let go and break free after a little struggle.
However, Chen Jue's strength increased greatly, and with the addition of two horizontal training skills, the skin on the palms of his hands was no longer afraid of ordinary friction and pain. Even thorns would find it difficult to penetrate, let alone the scales and tail fins of a fish.
Dragging the golden yellow croaker all the way back, when passing by the stone ball, Chen Jue thought for a moment and decided to throw the stone ball to the bottom of the sea.
Anyway, no one is diving down to cause trouble underwater, so I can just find it back next time I practice.
However, before leaving for the shore , Chen Jue deliberately used his foot to draw a deep circular mark on the edge of the stone ball to prevent it from being washed away by the undercurrent. This way, he would be able to see it at a glance the next time he practiced diving.
Catching the more than one-meter-long golden fish in one hand, Chen Jue quickly climbed onto the shore. This yellow croaker is a deep-sea fish that lives 40 to 60 meters deep in water all year round. It was barely alive when it was dragged to a shallower water just now, but once it was dragged ashore by Chen Jue, it died immediately after struggling for a few times due to the change in its living environment.
Chen Jue knew that this kind of precious wild fish must be kept in a chilled state as soon as possible. After getting ashore, he immediately ran as fast as he could, holding the yellow croaker in both hands, and walked barefoot along the steep cliff path through the grass as if he were walking on flat ground. He did not care whether the pebbles and debris under his feet would prick his feet or not. The whole process took less than two minutes and he ran into the villa. He felt like he was flying on the grass in a martial arts novel.
I found a bucket in the house, put the fish in it first, and then took out all the ice chips in the freezer of the refrigerator and poured them into the bucket.
After doing this, Chen Jue didn't care that his body was sticky from soaking in sea water. He took off his swimming trunks, wiped it clean with a towel, changed into sportswear, and ran to the first villa with an ice bucket to find the landlord of the B&B.
"Uncle!"
"I just caught a big yellow croaker!"
"Do you have any way to sell it?"
Because the landlord of the B&B runs a B&B and a seaside farm stay, the door of his house is rarely closed, and both husband and wife get up very early, which is obviously a habit they developed from their early years of fishing.
Chen Jue walked into the house carrying the bucket and saw the male landlord sitting at the wooden tea table in the living room, smoking, drinking tea and browsing his phone, looking very comfortable.
"Ahem...what? Big yellow croaker!" The male landlord looked to be in his fifties, and there was nothing wrong with Chen Jue calling him uncle.
The cigarette butt in his hand shook. He didn't even bother to make tea or check his phone. He quickly jumped up from the tea table and leaned over to look into the red plastic bucket in Chen Jue's hand.
The yellow croaker, which is more than one meter long, has most of its body outside the bucket and is very conspicuous.
“ Wow !”
"Young man, you are going to get rich!" The uncle raised his voice even more excitedly than Chen Jue. He took the plastic bucket in Chen Jue's hand and looked at it for a few seconds. He was immediately shocked and said, "Wait a minute!" Then he ran to the backyard of his house and made a few clanging sounds. He took out a square white plastic box from somewhere.
"You can't put it in a plastic bucket, it will go bad. We have to put it in this insulated box!" The uncle took two steps at a time and very gently removed the ice debris from the fish in the bucket, obviously afraid that brute force would tear the surface of the fish.
If the appearance is not good, the fish will not be sold at a high price. He is worthy of being an experienced fisherman!
I saw him put the fish flat into the insulated box, then took a bucket and spread the ice chips in the bucket under the fish body little by little. Then, feeling that there was not enough ice, he went to his own freezer and chiseled out a big bucket, then filled the gaps around the fish body, and finally covered the fish body and closed the insulated box.
After completing this step, he got a foam box from somewhere and put it on the outside.
At this time, the landlady who was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen also heard the noise. She came out to take a look, watching the whole process with her teeth bared, and chatted excitedly with the uncle in the local dialect of Dongdao County.
Their accents were a mixture of Minnan dialect and the unpopular Wu dialect, which was very different from the traditional Wenzhou dialect, so much so that even Chen Jue couldn't understand what they were talking about.
Seeing Chen Jue standing there with his eyes wide open, the uncle quickly spoke in Mandarin with a thick accent, "I know a fish dealer! Do you want to go over now? Fish won't be fresh if they're left out for too long, so it's best to go over and sell them as soon as possible."
"Then please help me introduce it to someone else!"
Chen Jue nodded when he heard that, then reached out and picked up the foam box weighing dozens of kilograms.
The landlord went to get the car keys, and without even bothering to eat breakfast, he went out and started the Great Wall pickup truck in the yard.
As for the foam box in Chen Jue's hand, the uncle did not let him put it in the pickup truck bed at the back of the car, but placed it horizontally on the back seat. He said that if it was placed outside, it would be easily exposed to the sun and the ice inside would melt quickly.
Chen Jue did not delay. He put down the foam box and took a heavy object from the armrest box to lock the box to prevent the seat from falling off during sudden braking. He then sat in the front passenger seat.
After the car started, it quickly drove out of the courtyard of the B&B, went down to the road at the foot of the mountain, and then stepped on the accelerator all the way towards the county town.
On the way, the uncle also chatted with Chen Jue about the price of wild yellow croaker, saying that if this thing was caught during the Chinese New Year, it would definitely be sold at a sky-high price several times higher than usual!
Because during festivals, the big bosses in the cities are willing to spend money to entertain their families or guests, and it is even more difficult to go fishing during the New Year period.
The weather is freezing cold, and the sea is extremely cold. The wages of fishermen on the boats are shockingly high. Labor costs and material costs are all rising, which leads to the situation that big fish are hard to find during the New Year.
During the off-season, wild yellow croaker costs only a few thousand yuan per pound at most.
However, Chen Jue's fish is big enough, over one meter long, and it has been growing for at least ten years. It is extremely rare, and the price fluctuates greatly, so you have to ask the fishmonger who buys the fish.
As for the larger seafood restaurants on the island, although they also sell this kind of precious fish, the price they offer is not as high as that of the fishmongers.
According to the uncle, these fishmongers have supply channels to many wealthy gourmets, star-rated hotels, and Black Pearl Restaurants, and the prices they offer are much higher than those of local seafood restaurants.
Of course, there are many kinds of fishmongers. Some go to the docks to wait for fishing boats to collect fish, some drive their own transfer boats and go to the sea to intercept goods, and there are also some wealthy fishermen who become fishmongers when they are free and not fishing.
The owner of the B&B has been a fisherman for half his life and has a wide range of experience. He talked endlessly about these topics, which made Chen Jue marvel. He didn't expect that there were so many tricks in selling fish.
