Chapter 101: 101st Chapter: Navigating Back
The fish was quickly pulled onto the Sky, and they measured its size and weighed it.
This Red Snapper was a full two meters and twenty-three centimeters long, and weighed one hundred and thirteen kilograms, or two hundred and twenty-six jin.
This was the largest Red Snapper caught in recent years.
Six years ago, someone in the East Sea caught a Red Snapper weighing one hundred and forty-eight jin; four years ago, someone in the Taiwan Sea caught a Red Snapper that was nearly two meters long and weighed one hundred and eighty jin.
And now, Chu Mingcheng had become famous again.
It was said that someone once caught a three-meter-long Red Snapper weighing three hundred and eighty jin at the Southern Oil Well.
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If that was true, then Chu Mingcheng’s catch was the second largest on record; if not, his was the biggest and could be recorded.
Two hundred and twenty-six jin, sold at sixty-one jin per market price, this fish could fetch more than thirteen thousand.
The actual price, selling for twenty thousand wouldn’t be a problem, maybe even thirty thousand if someone was interested, another lucrative day.
They took a group photo for a keepsake, and today they had Jiang Yuqi joining in.
After the photo was taken, the deckhands boxed up the fish.
Chu Mingcheng said to Jiang Yuqi, “Brother Fei treated us to troll fishing today, let’s go, let’s continue!”
“Sure!” Jiang Yuqi was no longer being polite at this point and happily agreed.
In the following two hours, they played but didn’t encounter any particularly large fish again; what they caught were mostly Mackerel, followed by some Ghost Head Knives.
The small ones were five or six jin, the large ones over twenty jin.
They didn’t catch a large number of fish, but Chu Mingcheng still ended up with seven himself, while Jiang Yuqi caught two more than he did this time.
Mainly because the deckhands helped net the fish, and with the electric winch, they could quickly reel in a fish whenever one took the bait.
However, with her catch, the likelihood of earning back the cost of this fishing trip was still somewhat difficult.
After the troll fishing ended, all the fishing enthusiasts slept well that night. The Sky set off in the night towards the final fishing spot.
But in reality, the Sky had already traveled back a distance that night.
The day after tomorrow morning, they would set off directly back to port, and are expected to return to the dock around two o’clock in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow.
On his last day, Chu Mingcheng didn’t have any special catches, only Red Friends, Stone Fish, and some Red Snapper—not big, averaging around seven or eight jin each.
At this final fishing spot, the fish resources were quite average. All day until midnight, only twenty-two fish were caught, adding up to more than one hundred and fifty jin.
Through these days of fishing experience, Chu Mingcheng noticed a situation.
Most of the people on the boat were there just for fun; fishing was just entertainment, a side activity to tourism.
Whenever he fished until the early hours of the morning, there were usually only a dozen or so enthusiasts still striving.
As a result, there were very few who could actually earn back the cost of their boat ticket, like Jiang Yuqi.
If it weren’t for Chu Mingcheng leading her, it would have been questionable whether she could have caught ten fish on this trip.
At the moment, she was sorting the fish she had caught. She didn’t plan to sell them; she was simply categorizing them to give them away.
She planned to give some to her family and friends so that everyone could taste the genuine wild seafood.
After all, the seafood market is fraught with issues—some with added water, some misrepresenting the freshness to dupe customers wasn’t the worst of it.
The most feared were those who took advantage of others’ ignorance by substituting cheap seafood for expensive ones to deceive customers.
Fortunately, nowadays with information so accessible and many mobile apps featuring scan functions, it’s fairly easy to identify different types, as long as one is vigilant enough to avoid being cheated.
Fish caught with one’s own hands can be safely eaten, as long as they’re not from near some island in Japan.
The Sky had officially set sail for the return trip, and at this moment, the crew took out everyone’s catch, allowing the customers to sort through their haul at their leisure.
Some people had caught quite a lot and sold directly to the boat’s owner.
Others packed up their catch, ready to ship it once they were ashore.
But the most eye-catching guy on this boat was Chu Mingcheng.
The mere sight of his two large boxes drew everyone in for a closer look.
Chu Mingcheng first packed up the Mimao lobsters; he had caught thirteen in all, sold two to Jiang Yuqi, ate one himself yesterday, leaving ten, which he then divided into two portions.
One portion, eight in total, was sent home for his parents and Chen Yang to try.
The other portion was to be sent to Xia City, and he would ask for Jiang Luoluo’s home address once he had a signal.
Having made a killing on this fishing trip, Chu Mingcheng didn’t mind the expense of these lobsters, which cost a few thousand yuan.
He then picked out the two biggest stone fish and sent them home, selling off the rest of his seafood haul.
After tallying up his catch, Chu Mingcheng borrowed paper and a pen from Jiang Yuqi.
Once he had a cell signal, he first received her thirty thousand yuan, then posted a message in the group chat saying he would start selling the fish in half an hour, and made a video call to Jiang Luoluo.
It only rang twice before the video connected.
Upon seeing the beautiful black hair on the screen, Chu Mingcheng was surprised, “You dyed your hair again?”
“Yeah, I went back to my natural color after we finished recording the collaboration song,” Jiang Luoluo nodded and flashed a playful smile, “Doesn’t black hair look more natural?”
“All looks are nice. Black hair has its own style, and this color doesn’t clash with your dancing,” Chu Mingcheng indeed preferred her with black hair, but he wasn’t about to say that outright.
“Really…” Jiang Luoluo didn’t dwell on the matter and instead asked, “Are you back from Xisha?”
Before departing for Xisha, Chu Mingcheng had informed his parents and friends, to avoid them worrying during the days he’d be out of signal, so it wasn’t strange for Jiang Luoluo to ask.
“Still on the way to the dock, I’ll be ashore around two in the afternoon. Oh, and send me your home address, I have something to send you.”
“No need, I don’t really like seafood.”
“…” Chu Mingcheng was speechless at Jiang Luoluo’s disingenuous tone.
He didn’t know who had enjoyed the seafood so much at his place previously, but he got her message, so he went to the two big boxes, lifted the lid, and showed her the fish covered in ice.
“Look, these two big fish are the pride of my catch this trip, worth tens of thousands.”
Without a reference for scale and due to the camera’s distance, Jiang Luoluo couldn’t appreciate the actual size of the fish.
But the idea that the two fish were worth tens of thousands scared her quite a bit; she hadn’t realized the fish were that valuable.
Seeing her seemingly stunned, Chu Mingcheng shifted his camera to show her the two lobsters he was sending her.
“These are the South Sea’s special Mimao lobsters, much tastier than the Green Lobster. I caught quite a few and sent some to family and friends.”
“You’re my friend, too, so of course, I couldn’t forget you!”
Hearing Chu Mingcheng say he couldn’t forget her, Jiang Luoluo came back to her senses and flashed a radiant smile, “Well, since you’re being so polite, I’ll accept them!”
“When I have time, I’ll come over to visit you and treat you to a meal.”
“That sounds great!” Chu Mingcheng agreed immediately, but laughed to himself, thinking the meal would come sooner than later.
He was about to head to Xia City, and when he called her to pick him up from the airport, she would likely be bewildered!
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