After failing the college entrance examination, I relied on fishing to reach the top of my life
Chapter 36 Discovering Gold in the Flowing Sea
On the boundless sea, the bright red sun gradually peeked out, and with the roar of the motor, Su Mo slowly drove the fishing boat away from the pier.
This is the first time Su Mo has gone to sea so early.
In order to save fuel and increase mileage, he only started one engine today, and even brought a large barrel of fuel onto the boat before departure.
Sailing a boat is actually a very boring thing, but fortunately, Su Mo has Jiang Wanqing as company, and the two of them chatted without a word, so it was not boring at all.
After nearly two hours of sailing, Su Mo and Jiang Wanqing finally arrived at a sea area that he had never reached before.
This place has long been far away from the coastline. There are no other fishing boats in sight, only the endless sea, as if isolated from the world.
"You wait for me on the boat. I'll go down and take a look first."
Su Mo rubbed his hands excitedly, told Jiang Wanqing, and plunged into the sea without waiting for her to speak.
As soon as he entered the water, he dived quickly and began to explore this unknown underwater world.
This sea area is not like the offshore sea. It is almost impossible to see the bottom at a glance. After a while, even the remaining light will be gone.
However, with the bonus of the secret skill, Su Mo could still clearly see everything around him.
After diving for a while, the system sent a prompt:
"Remind the host that you have dived 100 meters, please pay attention!"
With the system helping to calculate the depth, Su Mo no longer had any worries and continued to dive.
After a few more minutes, Su Mo finally saw the bottom of the sea. By this time, he had dived to 150 meters.
As soon as his feet touched the sand on the seabed, he became excited.
Near the coastline, he could only see scattered schools of fish, and the numbers were not large.
But here, he soon discovered one school after another of fish, such as snapper, red fish, sea carp and so on.
Although the size of these fish schools is not large, there are usually only dozens or hundreds of fish in a group, but the species and quantity are still far better than those near the coastline.
Su Mo explored all the way and even passed a coral area. Many small fish were looking for food near the coral, which was very interesting.
Although the scene was very beautiful, Su Mo didn't see a single valuable fish. He had not forgotten the purpose of sailing so far today.
The trawler will be delivered to him in half a month, and the money will not be less.
So he decided to give up fishing near the coastline and try his luck here.
But the fish he found now were not worth catching at all. Even if he caught a boatload of fish back, it would not be worth much.
Thinking of this, Su Mo dived quickly, and soon he saw the bottom of his boat.
He rushed out of the water and wiped the seawater from his face. As soon as Su Mo climbed onto the fishing boat, Jiang Wanqing rushed over and hugged him.
Su Mo was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the time of his dive this time was indeed far beyond what ordinary people could understand.
This girl is probably worried that something will happen to her.
He patted Jiang Wanqing's back and said, "Don't cry, didn't I come up?"
Hearing Su Mo's words, Jiang Wanqing sniffed and cried, "I thought something happened to you."
Caressing the little girl's hair, Su Mo joked: "I haven't married you yet, how could I die?"
"I'm so anxious and you're still talking nonsense!"
Jiang Wanqing punched Su Mo's shoulder angrily and turned around to ignore him.
Su Mo smiled, knowing that she was not really angry, so he started the engine again and continued to move further to the sea.
After driving forward for another ten minutes, Su Mo stopped the fishing boat again and jumped into the sea.
But after more than ten minutes of exploration, he was disappointed again.
In this sea area, there is also no catch that is particularly worthy of his hook.
"We can only change places."
Su Mo did not lose heart, and immediately dived back to the boat, and continued to drive the fishing boat forward.
that's it.
Su Mo went into the sea six times in the following time, but never found the valuable fish.
Fortunately, the weather was very good today and there were not many waves on the sea, so Su Mo dared to explore the sea with confidence.
At this time, Su Mo was also a little helpless. In fact, as long as he was willing to take the bait in the sea area he had just explored, with the help of the magical bait box, he would definitely return with a full load.
Although these fish are inexpensive, you can still make a small profit.
However, he was still a little unwilling, so he decided to go to sea one last time, and if it was no longer possible, he would take the bait again.
After making up his mind, Su Mo jumped into the sea again.
This time he was very patient and conducted a blanket search on the seabed.
But still failed to find the precious fish.
And just when there was not much time left for the deep dive and Su Mo was about to dive, he suddenly found a big golden fish swimming out of a dense patch of seagrass not far away.
With the appearance of this fish, one school after another of golden fish appeared.
There are not many of them, no more than 100 at most, and they are slowly looking for food in the seagrass.
In just a moment, Su Mo became excited.
He was afraid of scaring away the group of fish, but also didn't want to get into the wrong position, so Su Mo tried his best to control his movements and slowly surfaced.
After a few minutes, Su Mo finally broke out of the sea.
At this time, his position was already far away from the fishing boat, but he couldn't swim over, otherwise he would not be able to remember the location of the fish school in the vast sea.
The excited Su Mo immediately shouted to Jiang Wanqing: "Wanqing, bring the boat over quickly, we are going to make a fortune!"
The reason Su Mo was so excited was of course because these golden fish were precious wild large yellow croakers.
Wild large yellow croaker is also called yellow croaker and golden dragon.
Its meat is tender, delicious and has extremely high nutritional value. In the early years, there were still a lot of large yellow croakers in the sea, but with over-fishing in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer wild large yellow croakers.
As wild large yellow croaker becomes more and more rare, its price has also been rising. For example, in the seafood market in Qinan, large yellow croaker weighing more than 600 grams can already be sold for 1200 per catty.
You must know that in this era, our monthly minimum wage is not yet 1200.
But even if the price is so high, as long as fishermen catch wild large yellow croaker, it will often be sold out as soon as it lands.
Many fishermen have become rich directly from catching large yellow croaker.
Unfortunately, the chances of catching large yellow croaker are too few.
As for the group of large yellow croakers that Su Mo had just discovered, although there were only a few dozen, they were generally quite large in size, and probably about half of them weighed more than a pound.
In the market, the bigger the yellow croaker is, the more expensive it is. One that is less than one pound can usually be sold for more than 500, and one that is more than one pound can be sold for upwards of 1000.
And two or three kilograms can be sold for 2000 to 3000!
If he could catch all these fish, Su Mo would probably be able to earn as much as a trawler on this trip!
This is simply a group of flowing gold in the sea!
If you miss it, you may regret it for the rest of your life!
Seeing the excitement on Su Mo's face, Jiang Wanqing understood that he must have discovered something good, so she quickly started the fishing boat and drove towards Su Mo.
When the fishing boat approached, Su Mo quickly climbed onto the fishing boat and quickly arranged the row of hooks without even having time to dry off the sea water on his body. Jiang Wanqing also hurriedly came over to help hang the bait.
Immediately afterwards, Su Mo threw one row of hooks into the sea.
He believed that under the influence of the magical bait box, these large yellow croakers would definitely come to eat the bait as long as they did not escape.
This is the first time Su Mo has gone to sea so early.
In order to save fuel and increase mileage, he only started one engine today, and even brought a large barrel of fuel onto the boat before departure.
Sailing a boat is actually a very boring thing, but fortunately, Su Mo has Jiang Wanqing as company, and the two of them chatted without a word, so it was not boring at all.
After nearly two hours of sailing, Su Mo and Jiang Wanqing finally arrived at a sea area that he had never reached before.
This place has long been far away from the coastline. There are no other fishing boats in sight, only the endless sea, as if isolated from the world.
"You wait for me on the boat. I'll go down and take a look first."
Su Mo rubbed his hands excitedly, told Jiang Wanqing, and plunged into the sea without waiting for her to speak.
As soon as he entered the water, he dived quickly and began to explore this unknown underwater world.
This sea area is not like the offshore sea. It is almost impossible to see the bottom at a glance. After a while, even the remaining light will be gone.
However, with the bonus of the secret skill, Su Mo could still clearly see everything around him.
After diving for a while, the system sent a prompt:
"Remind the host that you have dived 100 meters, please pay attention!"
With the system helping to calculate the depth, Su Mo no longer had any worries and continued to dive.
After a few more minutes, Su Mo finally saw the bottom of the sea. By this time, he had dived to 150 meters.
As soon as his feet touched the sand on the seabed, he became excited.
Near the coastline, he could only see scattered schools of fish, and the numbers were not large.
But here, he soon discovered one school after another of fish, such as snapper, red fish, sea carp and so on.
Although the size of these fish schools is not large, there are usually only dozens or hundreds of fish in a group, but the species and quantity are still far better than those near the coastline.
Su Mo explored all the way and even passed a coral area. Many small fish were looking for food near the coral, which was very interesting.
Although the scene was very beautiful, Su Mo didn't see a single valuable fish. He had not forgotten the purpose of sailing so far today.
The trawler will be delivered to him in half a month, and the money will not be less.
So he decided to give up fishing near the coastline and try his luck here.
But the fish he found now were not worth catching at all. Even if he caught a boatload of fish back, it would not be worth much.
Thinking of this, Su Mo dived quickly, and soon he saw the bottom of his boat.
He rushed out of the water and wiped the seawater from his face. As soon as Su Mo climbed onto the fishing boat, Jiang Wanqing rushed over and hugged him.
Su Mo was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the time of his dive this time was indeed far beyond what ordinary people could understand.
This girl is probably worried that something will happen to her.
He patted Jiang Wanqing's back and said, "Don't cry, didn't I come up?"
Hearing Su Mo's words, Jiang Wanqing sniffed and cried, "I thought something happened to you."
Caressing the little girl's hair, Su Mo joked: "I haven't married you yet, how could I die?"
"I'm so anxious and you're still talking nonsense!"
Jiang Wanqing punched Su Mo's shoulder angrily and turned around to ignore him.
Su Mo smiled, knowing that she was not really angry, so he started the engine again and continued to move further to the sea.
After driving forward for another ten minutes, Su Mo stopped the fishing boat again and jumped into the sea.
But after more than ten minutes of exploration, he was disappointed again.
In this sea area, there is also no catch that is particularly worthy of his hook.
"We can only change places."
Su Mo did not lose heart, and immediately dived back to the boat, and continued to drive the fishing boat forward.
that's it.
Su Mo went into the sea six times in the following time, but never found the valuable fish.
Fortunately, the weather was very good today and there were not many waves on the sea, so Su Mo dared to explore the sea with confidence.
At this time, Su Mo was also a little helpless. In fact, as long as he was willing to take the bait in the sea area he had just explored, with the help of the magical bait box, he would definitely return with a full load.
Although these fish are inexpensive, you can still make a small profit.
However, he was still a little unwilling, so he decided to go to sea one last time, and if it was no longer possible, he would take the bait again.
After making up his mind, Su Mo jumped into the sea again.
This time he was very patient and conducted a blanket search on the seabed.
But still failed to find the precious fish.
And just when there was not much time left for the deep dive and Su Mo was about to dive, he suddenly found a big golden fish swimming out of a dense patch of seagrass not far away.
With the appearance of this fish, one school after another of golden fish appeared.
There are not many of them, no more than 100 at most, and they are slowly looking for food in the seagrass.
In just a moment, Su Mo became excited.
He was afraid of scaring away the group of fish, but also didn't want to get into the wrong position, so Su Mo tried his best to control his movements and slowly surfaced.
After a few minutes, Su Mo finally broke out of the sea.
At this time, his position was already far away from the fishing boat, but he couldn't swim over, otherwise he would not be able to remember the location of the fish school in the vast sea.
The excited Su Mo immediately shouted to Jiang Wanqing: "Wanqing, bring the boat over quickly, we are going to make a fortune!"
The reason Su Mo was so excited was of course because these golden fish were precious wild large yellow croakers.
Wild large yellow croaker is also called yellow croaker and golden dragon.
Its meat is tender, delicious and has extremely high nutritional value. In the early years, there were still a lot of large yellow croakers in the sea, but with over-fishing in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer wild large yellow croakers.
As wild large yellow croaker becomes more and more rare, its price has also been rising. For example, in the seafood market in Qinan, large yellow croaker weighing more than 600 grams can already be sold for 1200 per catty.
You must know that in this era, our monthly minimum wage is not yet 1200.
But even if the price is so high, as long as fishermen catch wild large yellow croaker, it will often be sold out as soon as it lands.
Many fishermen have become rich directly from catching large yellow croaker.
Unfortunately, the chances of catching large yellow croaker are too few.
As for the group of large yellow croakers that Su Mo had just discovered, although there were only a few dozen, they were generally quite large in size, and probably about half of them weighed more than a pound.
In the market, the bigger the yellow croaker is, the more expensive it is. One that is less than one pound can usually be sold for more than 500, and one that is more than one pound can be sold for upwards of 1000.
And two or three kilograms can be sold for 2000 to 3000!
If he could catch all these fish, Su Mo would probably be able to earn as much as a trawler on this trip!
This is simply a group of flowing gold in the sea!
If you miss it, you may regret it for the rest of your life!
Seeing the excitement on Su Mo's face, Jiang Wanqing understood that he must have discovered something good, so she quickly started the fishing boat and drove towards Su Mo.
When the fishing boat approached, Su Mo quickly climbed onto the fishing boat and quickly arranged the row of hooks without even having time to dry off the sea water on his body. Jiang Wanqing also hurriedly came over to help hang the bait.
Immediately afterwards, Su Mo threw one row of hooks into the sea.
He believed that under the influence of the magical bait box, these large yellow croakers would definitely come to eat the bait as long as they did not escape.
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