Survival skills maxed out, I feed my wife and daughter by catching fish and shrimp

After some bargaining, they finally agreed on a price of 25 wen per month.

Chen Changfan and Zhang the Butcher signed a document on the spot and paid the rent on the spot.

"Finally, I've rented out this old house. I don't have to be nagged by that woman anymore!"

Butcher Zhang took the money and thought to himself.

He happily handed in the key and went out, trotting back with his short legs as if to show off.

From then on, Chen Erlang and his family finally had their own home and no longer had to live in that dilapidated temple with leaks everywhere.

Shen Cuiyun was wiping back and forth in the room with a rag, and her eyes became red again as she wiped.

Luoluo, who was lying obediently in the cradle, saw that his mother was wronged, so he clenched his little fists and cried, as if he wanted to vent his mother's anger.

"Mother is not wronged, mother is happy, Luoluo, we have a family now!"

Shen Cuiyun picked up the cute little girl and walked around the room, as if she was talking to her daughter, or as if she was talking to herself.

……

Chen Changfan found some straw paper and simply pasted it on the window, making it barely tight.

But the crooked window paper made him feel uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it.

"Straw paper is not waterproof, so it can only be used temporarily. You will have to replace it with oil paper later."

He muttered secretly, but heard Shen Cuiyun whisper:

"I think it's pretty good."

After hearing this, Chen Changfan no longer had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

My wife says it’s great, so it’s great.

"Wife, give me two copper coins."

Chen Changfan wanted to improve his fishing equipment.

With the original owner's broken fishing rod, catching a fish weighing two or three kilograms was already the limit. If the key really caught a big fish weighing five or six kilograms, I'm afraid the rod would break before the fish came up.

Even if he has perfect fishing skills, he can't fish with empty hands, right?

Shen Cuiyun handed all five copper coins in her arms to Chen Changfan without any hesitation.

Chen Changfan, on the other hand, felt a little uncomfortable. Why was he so happy to ask his wife for money today?

He stroked the still-warm copper coin in his hand, the smile on his lips becoming more and more obvious: "Aren't you going to ask me what I need the money for? Aren't you afraid that I'll spend it recklessly or gamble with it?"

"I believe in Erlang! I feel that Erlang has me in his heart... There will be no chaos in our family."

Shen Cuiyun paused when she said this.

She felt that saying "Erlang has me in his heart" was too corny, so she replaced "I" with "our family".

Chen Changfan was always thinking about how to make the biggest upgrade with the least amount of money, so he didn't notice the details in Shen Cuiyun's words.

I bought a good purple bamboo pole to make a fishing rod.

A piece of thin sheep intestine thread as the core, braided with three strands of silk thread twisted together, makes an extremely tough fishing line.

The last remaining fishhook will be commissioned to the village blacksmith to make a bronze fishhook.

After finishing the busy work, Chen Changfan held the brand new fishing rod in his hand, and his confidence instantly doubled.

Even if you encounter a ten-pound catch, this purple bamboo fishing rod will not fail.

"It's just that this money is really hard to spend. He even said he wanted to buy some rice wine as bait. It seems I still have to use earthworms as live bait."

With his last penny, Chen Changfan bought two sturdy large baskets to hold the fish.

After everything was ready, Chen Changfan came to the Chiwei River, chose a good fishing spot, and cast his rod into the water.

With the help of the Spring and Autumn fishing method, the scene in the water immediately appeared in his mind like a mirror.

He shook the rod lightly, controlling the hook to move back and forth in the water. No fish would bite unless it was a big fish weighing more than two kilograms.

Within an hour, fish were caught one after another.

Three-jin silver carp and bighead carp, five-jin black carp, and six- or seven-jin mandarin fish were lining up and hitting Chen Changfan's hook.

The big fish soon filled a basket, but Chen Changfan did not continue fishing. Instead, he walked upstream and continued to cast the hook.

After waiting for a while, he changed to another underground hook.

It’s not that there are no fish, but these fish are not the ones he wants.

This time he was fully prepared, not just for these ordinary small fry, he came for Akao.

A five-jin black carp costs only ten coins, but a palm-sized redtail is worth hundreds of coins.

If you want to accumulate wealth quickly, fishing for redtail is the best way.

Suddenly, there was a familiar vibration coming from the shaft.

In the vision sensed in my mind, a golden fish broke through the waves, and the bright red on its tail was particularly eye-catching.

It's Akao!

After spending an hour here, I finally waited for the real owner!

Chen Changfan was suddenly shocked. This redtail fish was much bigger than the one he had caught before!

When the live bait was shaken, the earthworms tried their best to "swim" as if they had discovered danger, which further stimulated the redtail's desire to eat.

It opened its mouth wide, about to swallow the tempting earthworm, when it suddenly heard unusual movement on the shore. It immediately stopped in alert and was about to turn around and swim away.

How could Chen Changfan just watch Chiwei slip away? He flicked his wrist and the fishhook swung out like a fishbone, accurately hooking the fish's eye, and then pulled it out of the water!

[Obtain Red Tail (Purple Quality), Encounter Point +1]

"This redtail is as long as my arm and probably weighs two or three pounds!"

He had just thrown the redtail into the fish basket when he caught a glimpse of three fishermen walking towards him.

He calmly threw the redtail into the fish basket, covered it with water plants, and continued to bait it as if nothing had happened.

Just now, Akao suddenly became alert, probably because he was startled by the footsteps of these people. Fortunately, he used the Spring and Autumn fishing technique to hook the fish, otherwise all his efforts would have been wasted.

"Little brother, how's the harvest?"

When the three saw Chen Changfan fishing, they came over to ask about the fishing situation.

Then I saw a big basket of fish next to him.

"Brother, how do you catch all these fish?"

The three people's faces were instantly distorted with jealousy, and their tone suddenly became humble.

As for why they suddenly became rude at first and respectful later, Chen Changfan knew it clearly.

If he was willing to teach the three of them the skills of fishing, he would probably make them kneel down and acknowledge him as their father on the spot.

But this skill must never be passed on to outsiders.

There are only so many fish in the river. If everyone can catch a fish, what will he catch in the future?

"Which village are you three from? I often come here to fish, but I've never seen you before."

Chen Changfan did not answer the three people's questions, but asked directly in return.

"Brother, we are from Wujiazhuang. We heard that it's easy to get big goods in Dahe Village, so we thought we'd try our luck here."

The bald man in the lead told everything.

I heard that it’s easy to produce large quantities of goods in Dahe Village?

Who spread it?

Chen Changfan frowned slightly, and immediately thought of two people in his mind.

Wu Laoliu, and that fishmonger.

Wu Laoliu saw with his own eyes that he had caught a redtail fish, and the fishmonger seemed to be paying close attention to him.

No matter who it is, once this news gets out, I'm afraid many anglers will come here to try it.

Then the fishing spots in Dahe Village would not be hidden enough, and he would not be able to make a fortune quietly.

"What a coincidence, isn't it? I came all the way from the county town specifically for this, and you know what, there are quite a lot of big stuff here!"

Chen Changfan pretended to be mysterious and whispered, "I was able to catch this big fish thanks to this magical bait."

He picked up an earthworm and hung it on the fishhook. Sure enough, as soon as he cast the rod, he caught a grass carp weighing more than four kilograms.

"Big brother is amazing!"

"Brother! Dear brother, please teach me!"

“I’m willing to pay to learn!”

Just as Chen Changfan expected, the three of them saw him catch the fish with their own eyes. They were so anxious that they almost knelt down and called him daddy.