Chapter 206: Chapter 182: The Little Cutie Rolling in the Torrential Rain (5k) Chapter 206: Chapter 182: The Little Cutie Rolling in the Torrential Rain (5k) Having caught a Pearl Dragon Ginseng Grouper, Chu Mingcheng then hunted two Groupers in the water, and when he surfaced again, he noticed a large patch of dark clouds quickly approaching in the distance.

This was an impending sea storm, and he could distinctly feel that the sea breeze was much stronger than it had been in the morning. Trouble was brewing!

He hurriedly swam back to board the boat, tossed the fish into the foam box to chill on ice, and simultaneously shouted to Chen Yang inside the cockpit, “Ah Yang, go wake up Ah Wei quickly. A downpour’s coming, and we need to retrieve the longlines and the shrimp and crab cages first.”

“A downpour?” Chen Yang looked up at the sky, and upon seeing that mass of dark clouds, he quickly entered the bedroom and flung off the blanket, “Sleep your ass off, hurry up and help out, it’s about to pour!”

Zhang Wei looked groggy as the blanket was taken away, and his body instinctively curled up.

Chen Yang kicked him where his body was the most bouncy, “Stop sleeping, get up quick. We’ll eat once we’ve retrieved the longlines.”

Jolted wide awake by the kick, Zhang Wei, whose brain was now booted up, understood the situation and quickly got dressed and went to the deck without any fuss.

Chu Mingcheng had already steered the boat to the shrimp and crab cages and pulled up several cages.

Pity that they hadn’t been in the water long enough, so the catch was meager.

Not a single crab was caught, but to their surprise, they managed to net about a dozen giant prawns, each nearly the size of a palm.

Just these dozen prawns weighed over three pounds, which could fetch seven to eight hundred or even a thousand.

But considering the sheer quality of these wild prawns, Chu Mingcheng immediately selected six of them for their own lunch, intending to take the rest back for Jiang Luoluo to try.

Afterwards, he steered the boat to the longline area, pulled up the floats, and said to Chen Yang and the others, “You two haul the line, I’ll unhook the fish. Oh, and go slow, the current is a bit strong now, and pulling too fast might snap the line.”

“Got it!”

Zhang Wei and Chen Yang, one in front of the other, began slowly pulling up the longline.

After a little while, the leader line started to slowly surface, and Chu Mingcheng grabbed it to pull. The first hook was empty, without any weight.

Some time passed before they hauled up the leader line, only to find that the shrimp bait on the hook had vanished, clearly indicating fish below. Chu Mingcheng felt a flicker of hope in his heart.

“There’s a fish, on the hook!” Zhang Wei was the first to spot a large silver fish on the second hook, promptly calling out a heads-up.

As the longline was pulled up, Chu Mingcheng immediately identified what fish it was.

A Big Maboy of seventy to eighty centimeters long, also called a noon fish.

“Not bad, it’s a Moyou! I’ve heard it tastes great. Ah Cheng, how much do you think this one’s worth?” Chen Yang also recognized the fish and inquired.

“There are farmed Moyou, but the wild ones still fetch a high price. In the market, they can usually go for sixty to seventy per pound. In some more expensive places, they can sell for one hundred.”

“Like this one of about seven or eight pounds, selling it for a hundred and twenty to thirty shouldn’t be a problem.”

Moyou Fish have rather slender bodies; although the one Chu Mingcheng held was seventy to eighty centimeters, it likely didn’t weigh up to ten pounds.

He had noticed this fish in the market before and had learned about the value of the wild ones.

He just had never encountered them until today, when, on his first time setting out longlines, he happened to catch such fish.

With one fish potentially fetching thousands, Chen Yang and Zhang Wei pulled even harder.

As the longline was gradually retrieved, Moyou fish of various sizes were also pulled aboard.

Chu Mingcheng’s smile was so wide he couldn’t close his mouth; he had merely wanted to catch some Stone Fish, but instead, he got an unexpected haul of Moyou fish.

Fifty hooks, having caught a dozen Groupers would already have been a pretty good catch, but after pulling up all the longlines, they ended up with over thirty Moyou.

Definitely a school of Moyou had been attracted by the shrimp bait on the hooks; otherwise, such a high hooking rate would have been impossible.

By that time, the patch of dark clouds in the sky had already arrived overhead, and after placing all the fish in the foam boxes on ice, the three men immediately returned to the cockpit.

Then they watched as the rain closed in from the distance, eventually enveloping their boat.

The rain was heavy, pelting the glass with a pattering noise.

Fortunately, the wind wasn’t too strong, allowing Chu Mingcheng to temporarily put aside any thoughts of leaving the area.

The storm would make the seawater turbid, eliminating the possibility of fishing in the afternoon.

However, sea storms don’t necessarily last long; after the rain stops in the afternoon, they might still have a chance to fish some more.

He therefore took a shower, changed back into his fishing clothes, and then began preparing lunch.

“Ah Yang, let’s save that Golden Stone Clam for dinner tonight and have a Moyou for lunch!”

With such a fine fish at hand, it would be a waste not to let his girlfriend try some. After seeing the Golden Stone Clam that Chen Yang had already gutted, Chu Mingcheng wrapped it up with cling film and placed it in the fridge.

“Sure, whatever you say, boss!” Chen Yang couldn’t help but laugh and cry. It was already packed and he still asked.

“Holy crap, Golden Stone Clam?” Zhang Wei, late to catch on, finally realized, “You guys are willing to eat this fish?”

“Just tell me if you want to eat it or not?”

“Of course I do!”

“Then why ask?”

“Can’t I just ask?”

Zhang Wei grumbled, suddenly regretting exerting himself too much the night before, which left him lacking energy that morning.

He had planned to fish in the afternoon, but the sudden downpour meant that he was merely there to make up the numbers today, hardly doing anything.

The other two ignored him; since they couldn’t go fishing in the afternoon, Chen Yang went to the bathroom to shower.