Chapter 37： continue fishing for turtles

Chapter 37 Continue to catch soft-shelled turtles

Leaving home, went to the car wash to pick up the car.

Chu Mingcheng returned to his hometown on Yanmen Island, went into the house and moved out the fishing tackle and put them into the car.

All the snakehead fish that had been raised overnight were caught in the fish box and loaded into the car, but he left the smallest snakehead fish for Xiaomi.

Yesterday's cocked mouth disappeared, I don't know if it was hidden by it.

Driving to the vegetable market in the town, today he plans to try to sell it by himself first. If it sells well, he can also sell the fish caught in the sea in the future. If it doesn’t sell well, he can only find a small stall owner to sell it at a low price.

Chu Mingcheng went to buy some bags, then took the fish box and electronic scales, and went to the small road next to the back door of the vegetable market to set up a stall.

The front door is strictly controlled, and no one is allowed to set up stalls to occupy the road. The back door is fine, and some people will sell their own goods here.

There are many people who come to buy vegetables in the early morning, and the traffic at the back door is not low.

Seeing him selling black fish, scattered people came to ask, but when they heard forty yuan a catty, they basically left without looking back, because they all thought it was expensive.

That's right, a three-jin black fish costs 120 yuan, which can buy as much pork.

After selling it for a while, Chu Mingcheng felt that the black fish was not very easy to sell, so he planned to take it to the vegetable market and ask the owner of the fish stall if he wanted it, and gave it to him at a lower price.

At this moment, a passing middle-aged man came up to look curiously, and asked, "Brother, how do you sell this fish?"

"Thirty-five catties, wild." Fish was said to be expensive by more than a dozen people, and Chu Mingcheng felt a little guilty, thinking about it, he decided to lower the price to see the situation.

"Can I see it?"

"of course can."

The middle-aged man squatted down, reached out and grabbed a black fish and looked at it.

However, Heiyu struggled very hard, not only broke free from his hand, but also splashed water everywhere, Chu Mingcheng dodged far away when he was catching the fish.

Last night and morning, he had experienced this scene, and he knew that the black fish would resist very fiercely once it caught it.

The middle-aged man also dodged for a while when the fish was released from his hand, but he was still splashed a little, but he didn't care.

He already knew that these black fish were indeed wild and were caught with a fishing rod, so he asked again: "Brother, where did you catch this fish?"

"It was fished in a deserted pond. It was raised overnight yesterday. The water is quite clean, so you can eat it with peace of mind." Through Chu Yongxin's reminder yesterday, he also knew what the middle-aged man was worried about, so he was telling the truth. .

"Okay, give me the biggest one." The middle-aged man pointed to your biggest one in the fish box and said, then he took out his mobile phone and started calling.

"Ah Hai, I met some wild snakeheaded fish in the vegetable market. They are very clean. Do you want them? If you want, I will bring you one."

"Yes, how big is it? The smallest one on his side looks like three catties."

"Okay, okay, I see."

After one phone call, he made two more calls one after another. Then he hung up the phone and put away his mobile phone and asked Chu Mingcheng, "Can you help me weigh three more weights of about three catties."

"Okay!" Finally opened the store, and sold four at a time, Chu Mingcheng finally got some motivation.

In addition to the five catties and three taels just now, the remaining three are two catties and nine taels, three catties and three taels, and three catties and six taels, a total of 528.5 yuan, and Chu Mingcheng received 525.

Selling things is so strange, as long as someone takes the lead in buying and opening, business will come naturally later.

After the middle-aged man left with the fish, a young couple came again not long after.

The main reason was that the young woman wanted to eat pickled cabbage fish. When she heard that it was wild black fish, she immediately ordered one.

But when all the fish were sold out, it was already nine o'clock in the morning, and it took more than two hours.

Chu Mingcheng calculated the account, the total was forty-six catties and six taels, the money received was 1610, and he wiped off the change, 21 yuan was missing.

If you count thirty-one catties and sell it to the fish stall owner, it will be 1398 yuan, a difference of 212 yuan.

More than 200 yuan more in more than two hours, it is worth setting up a stall.

Packed up his belongings and returned to the car, Chu Mingcheng went to the vegetable market and bought another five catties of pork liver.

Now that he knows that wild soft-shelled turtles are so expensive and easy to sell, he has no reason to do other things!

After finishing fishing in the deserted pond, he can still go fishing in the reservoir. It is hard to believe that there are no soft-shelled turtles in such a large reservoir.

But the apple snails still have to be burned. There is not much wood to burn in the deserted pond. The good ones were basically burnt yesterday. Today he bought some charcoal and put it in the car.

Came to the deserted pond again, Chu Mingcheng first threw two catties of pig liver to make a nest, then tied a fishhook to hang bait to set up a support, and after he was done, he left it for the time being, and first took a net to catch the apple snails.

He caught almost all the apple snails by the pond yesterday, but after one night, some apple snails appeared by the pond again, but not as many as yesterday.

While fishing and picking, after half an hour, the nest made should be effective. Then Chu Mingcheng picked up the fishing rod and put the bait into the water to start fishing for soft-shelled turtles.

The pond is so big, where there is food, the organisms in the water will naturally gather there. The effect of making nests is much better than that of the reservoir, after all, it is small.

Yesterday morning, in just two hours, five soft-shelled turtles were caught. It was already ten o'clock when fishing started today, and Chu Mingcheng only caught one big soft-shelled turtle weighing about four catties, one black fish and three catfish.

Wait until the temperature drops in the afternoon and then check the situation. If there is no harvest, then the pond will not need to come again next time.

At noon, I still solve it outside by myself, and continue to burn the apple snails in the afternoon.

This time, Chu Mingcheng waited until three o'clock to nest the remaining two catties of pork liver, and then put out the fire with water.

The number of apple snails burned today was much less than yesterday, the total number came to 343, and there were three life transformations.

The fishing time in the afternoon was relatively long, until after 7 o'clock in the evening, and the harvest was gratifying again.

The wild soft-shelled turtles are the smallest two catties, and the big ones are five catties. Including the morning ones, there are seven in total, one more than yesterday.

It’s right to think about it, this pond is not too small, and yesterday I caught a fish weighing more than ten kilograms.

Wild soft-shelled turtles have to grow to more than ten catties, and must be at least ten years old. This is one of the reasons why they can be sold at a high price of 8,000 yuan. It is too rare.

If it is farmed, it is estimated that it will grow to ten catties in two or three years.

If there is a soft-shelled turtle that is more than ten years old, it means that the soft-shelled turtle in the pond has been multiplying.

Even if there is a lack of food in the pond, it is not enough to catch all six or seven.

However, he caught a lot of catfish today, and he released them all.

He only caught five black fishes in total. For the time being, he doesn't plan to sell the fish. He will keep them at home and then sell them when he has time.

Packed up his things and went back, tonight he returned to his hometown on Yanmen Island again.

Put the soft-shelled turtle in a fish box, pour clean water into it, and pour the black fish into another fish box.

Chu Mingcheng went to see Xiao Mi again. Now that Xiao Mi saw him behaving very well, she would take the initiative to approach him immediately.

After petting the cat for a while, he went to take a shower, and lay down on the bed in the attic. Chu Mingcheng stretched comfortably, and it was still comfortable to sleep here.

(end of this chapter)