Suijun starts with the principle of rewarding diligence.

Bu Qu followed the same method and had Yan Song drowned as well.

Since he wants to be a godfather so badly, let him sit at the same table as Li Xian.

Buqu emerged from the water, climbed onto the boat, and muttered, "Don't they know being a godfather is a high-risk profession? What are they all thinking?"

He was just about to take off his coarse linen clothes and wring them out.

A sudden inspiration struck me.

"Can I control the flow of water on my clothes? If I could control the water on my clothes, it would save me a lot of trouble."

Buqu concentrated his mind and covered the area of ​​water control within his own clothes.

With a thought, a puddle of water separated from the clothes, splashing across the lake.

"Invincible!"

Bu Qu thought to himself, "If I had this ability in my past life, I would have opened a laundry room. Clothes would dry instantly without needing to be hung up!"

He took the money pouch from his waist and began to tally his spoils.

"Hey, it's back to its rightful owner! The five taels of silver are back!"

Bu Qu put the silver ingots into his own money bag and continued to count Yan Song's money bag: "These loose silver and copper coins, all put together, are about one tael. Consider it interest."

He stretched and chuckled, "No wonder so many people like to lend money at exorbitant interest rates. Five taels of silver are lent out in just an hour or two, and the interest is already a tael. The money comes in too fast."

If it were the same line used in my past life: "Lend me five thousand dollars, interest is only five hundred per hour! Come and borrow it now!"

Bu Qu pocketed all the loose silver and copper coins.

With this money, he could sell his small sampan and buy a covered boat.

If he had a covered boat, he could even live on Blackwater Lake and not go ashore for ten days or half a month.

In this way, he can maintain his home-field advantage for a long time.

If any fishing tyrant dares to cause trouble, sink them all.

I looked up at the sky; it was almost dusk.

Dark clouds are pressing in from the west; heavy rain is likely to fall tonight.

"I was hoping to catch another treasure fish, but given the current situation, it seems unlikely."

Buqu was not annoyed.

He sank Yan Song's grave and got six taels of silver, which was no different from catching a treasure fish.

You have to find the treasure fish yourself, but the fishing bully will swim up to you on its own, saving you the trouble.

"Maybe I should just change careers. Why be a fisherman? Isn't being a water monkey better?"

Bu Qu smiled, not taking it to heart. After all, if you do this kind of thing too often, no one will want to come back.

Fishermen make a living by fishing, while fishing tyrants make a living by exploiting fishermen.

The higher up the food chain a food chain is, the fewer there are.

If he makes a living by exploiting fishing tyrants, it won't be long before fishing tyrants disappear altogether.

However, Buqu could not be a fisherman for his entire life.

As long as the fish farms exist, there will be a breeding ground for fishing bullies.

Even if he sinks all the fishing tyrants in Blackwater Lake, once he leaves, the fish farm will raise new fishing tyrants to take their place.

His gaze fell on the murky lake water: "At least while I'm here, let's try to find a way to restore Blackwater Lake to its former clear state."

Unfortunately, the weather turned bad, and Buqu prepared to return to port.

The waters here are quite far from the lakeshore, and by the time we got home, it was already dark.

He gazed at the approaching dark clouds, thinking to himself, "The weather was fine at noon, how come it changes so drastically at night? If I turn back now, it might start raining soon, and then it'll be pitch black again, I won't be able to tell which way to go!"

After hesitating for a moment, Buqu decided not to return.

This is the same waterway where the Concentrated Bass was previously discovered.

If it rains heavily tonight, wouldn't it be easy to catch a calming perch tomorrow morning?

Let's take this opportunity to verify it again.

"If I can successfully catch the Concentrated Bass tomorrow, I'll be able to confirm that the Treasure Fish's activity patterns are related to weather, time, and water conditions. From now on, catching Treasure Fish will be much easier; I can simply follow their activity patterns and save a lot of time searching for them."

Buqu anchored on the spot and took a short rest.

By late at night, dark clouds had completely covered Blackwater Lake.

Raindrops fell on the lake surface, creating ripples.

Before long, a torrential downpour began.

Bu Qu jumped into the water and hid under the sampan that Yan Song had rowed.

The night is long, and I can't sleep. Well, it's not that I can't sleep, it's just that I'm afraid to.

"If only I had a covered boat, I wouldn't have to suffer through these grueling all-nighters..."

Finally, the rain stopped and the sky brightened, but Buqu was both tired and hungry.

He hasn't eaten anything since he ate five steamed buns yesterday at noon.

As dawn broke in the east, Buqu climbed onto the small sampan, forcing himself to stay alert, and began to observe the lake.

If he can't catch the Concentrated Bass, then all that all-nighter will be a huge waste.

After waiting for a while, the morning light had already brightened, but there was still no sign of the Ning Shen Ba.

Undeterred, Bu Qu jumped into the water to search.

As soon as we entered the water, we spotted a red bass with golden stripes on its head swimming around.

Sensing the ripples in the water, the red bass turned and fled, whipping its tail wildly.

"It would be one thing if it didn't obediently swim to the surface of the lake. But seeing me come into the water, it still tried to run away?"

With a thought, Bu Qu transformed into a water fish and charged forward, like a big fish eating a small one. In the blink of an eye, he had captured the Ning Shen Bass in the fishing net.

Back in the small boat, he tossed the sedative perch into the wooden barrel.

"If I remember correctly, the Zhong family's list of treasured fish doesn't seem to include the Spirit-Concentrating Bass. If sold to a fish market, it would only fetch one tael."

Bu Qu shook his head: "No, it might not even sell for a tael of silver. Xu Kezhou doesn't like me these days, so he might not be willing to buy it. The fishmongers in the market are all in cahoots; if he won't buy it, the other fishmongers probably won't either."

He gazed at the stagnation bass in the wooden tub, pondered for a moment, and muttered to himself, "They won't take it, huh? Fine, I'll eat it myself!"

Bu Qu clearly remembers that the effect of the calming perch was equivalent to a large Red Bull.

Now that we've caught one, it's time to try it out.

He fished the bass out of the wooden tub, held it in his palm, took a small bite, and chewed it.

"Hmm? It tastes like beef!"

Different types of croaker have very different tastes.

The flesh of the sea bass is as tender as beef; one bite and its aroma is irresistible.

After finishing the fish, Bu Qu had a skeleton of a deep-sea perch in his hand.

"Is this thing edible?"

He tried taking a bite; it was very chewy, like a beef strip.

"The sea bass tastes like beef, and it's completely red. Yeah, that's Red Bull for you, no doubt about it."

Buqu scooped up some lake water to wash his face, then used his water-controlling technique to flick all the water back into the lake. He didn't even need a towel.

As the morning sun shone on my face, my delicate skin was bathed in a golden glow.

He felt refreshed, his fatigue vanished, as if he had just woken up from a good night's sleep.

Bu Qu lazily lay down on the sampan, a bold idea surging in his mind: 'If I ate a Mind-Concentrating Bass every day, could I never sleep again? This Mind-Concentrating Bass is practically a magic weapon for cultivating immortality!'

Check the panel; the progress of all three items has increased to 138!

Now that the habits of the giant water bream have been confirmed, making money from it is not difficult.

After saving up some more money in the next few days and upgrading all three water control abilities to level two, I can prepare to enter the city.

Should I learn martial arts to achieve divine power, or cultivate magic to become an immortal?