My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 15: The fishing rafts are pretty cool, and another request for help has been posted.

On the dimly lit street, Lu Xiaoxiao stared at her phone screen with a complicated expression. She really needed help at this moment, but she was too embarrassed to trouble Zhou Miao.

She also knew some things about investing in fish rafts.

Her brother's disappearance directly caused Zhou Miao to lose 200,000 yuan, and she was too embarrassed to bother him about it.

After running away from home, Lu Xiaoxiao went to the police station to inquire about the investigation into her brother's disappearance.

It was later learned that he had bought a speedboat before he disappeared, and that in his last moments, he was driving the speedboat towards the open sea, seemingly with some purpose in mind.

Lu Xiaoxiao is a little lost now; she doesn't know where to go.

What she needs to do now is to go to work and earn money to support herself, and then wait for news from her brother.

Since that's the case, why don't we go to South Town?

It doesn't matter where she works; who knows when her brother might suddenly come back, so she can see him right away.

Secondly, she had another task to do: find her brother's bank card, find a way to withdraw the money, and return the portion that belonged to Zhou Miao to him.

Having made up her mind, Lu Xiaoxiao booked the tickets online.

Nanzhen is not far away; it only takes an hour by high-speed train.

Lu Xiaoxiao checked the time, booked a train ticket for 8:10 pm, and then headed towards the station.

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"Phew~ That was so refreshing!" Zhou Miao was delighted with the fish soup.

This was Shi Jiugong's first time eating fish, but he didn't expect it to be more tender than any fish he had ever eaten. It was far superior to the five-ounce small red snapper that was cooked together with it.

There may be many fish that are just as good as Shi Jiugong, but Zhou Miao doesn't eat much seafood, so he can't make a comparison for the time being.

He felt a bit full after eating tonight, so he sat on the sofa to digest his food before going out for a walk and buying what he needed.

In addition to the fish basket, Zhou Miao plans to buy a set of raft rods.

Raft rods are suitable for catching small fish on fishing rafts to sell for money, and can also be used to pass the time when there are no system tasks.

If they can't be sold, they can eat them themselves, which is a way of achieving seafood freedom.

However, Zhou Miao felt that he would spend more time fishing on a small sampan, so he needed to buy a fishing rod that was more suited to boat fishing.

After a little research, he figured out what style he needed to buy.

After sitting for more than half an hour, when her stomach wasn't so full anymore, Zhou Miao washed the dishes and chopsticks first, then took her headlamp and went out to the fishing tackle shop.

He chose the cheapest raft rod set, plus a fish basket and beachcombing tongs, for less than 300 yuan in total.

As a true fishing enthusiast, Zhou Miao wanted to buy all the fishing gear displayed on the wall of the tackle shop.

Unfortunately, he was short of money, so for the time being he could only buy some cheap toys to play with.

With his new equipment in hand, Zhou Miao couldn't resist the urge to try it out. He boarded the boat and went to the fishing raft to test the feel of his new raft rod.

He opened the door, took out the fishing line and other equipment, and after tying the line up, he suddenly realized that he hadn't bought any bait or groundbait.

Forget it, let's use oysters instead!

Zhou Miao took a knife and started prying open the oysters. The fishing raft wasn't all oysters; there were also some barnacles, but they were all very small.

However, he pried them all off, without specifically picking out the larger oysters.

After a while, seeing that he had enough, he smashed two-thirds of them and threw them into the water to create a feeding area, and used the remaining meat as bait.

The oyster and barnacle meat he had just baited should have sunk to the bottom, so he put his hook and bait down to the bottom, stopping at a depth of about eight meters, and then waited for the fish to bite.

The tip of the raft rod is very sensitive; you can immediately sense when a fish takes the bait.

If you have a raft rod, the feel will be much better than a surf rod when fishing for rock jujubes in the morning.

This way, there won't be situations where small fish bite the bait and the fish are unsure of what to do.

Believe it or not, big fish may not be common here, but there are plenty of small fish.

The rod tip started nodding shortly after the bait was in the water.

"Whoosh~"

Zhou Miao decisively lifted the rod and successfully hooked the fish.

Perhaps because the fishing rod had been changed, he could clearly feel a pulling force coming from the bottom of the water, which bent the tip of the fishing rod into an arc shape, but in reality, the force was not great, and could even be described as light.

Zhou Miao quickly cranked the raft wheel, and a small fish soon flew out of the water.

"Quack~ Quack~"

"Huh, it can actually make a sound." Zhou Miao grabbed the fishing line and looked at the small yellow fish with curiosity.

It looks a bit like a small yellow croaker, but the difference is quite obvious.

He put the fish on the boat, scanned it with his phone, and the AI ​​quickly concluded that there was a greater than 70% chance it was a yellow croaker.

It turned out to be Huang San, but he was too young for Zhou Miao to recognize at first.

He occasionally eats this fish at home, and he would definitely recognize it if it weighed more than half a pound.

"Call your grandfather!"

Zhou Miao threw the fish back into the water and continued fishing.

"Whoosh~"

This second cast was good; the pulling power was comparable to the red sea bream I caught this morning, most likely weighing over half a pound.

He was surprised to find that he could catch fish weighing more than half a pound at the fishing raft, which shattered his preconceived notions.

However, his stereotypes returned in the next half hour.

The fish were biting very well, but none of them weighed more than three ounces.

They were all kinds of small, miscellaneous fish. The slightly better ones were mudskippers, and he even threw several small pufferfish away.

However, two baby squids arrived, each about ten centimeters long. They looked delicious, so he kept them.

Just as Zhou Miao ran out of bait and was about to finish his last fishing cast and head back, the rod suddenly sank, and a slightly larger fish took the bait.

Pull the rod upwards and then quickly reel in the line.

He caught a pearl grouper; it wasn't big, weighing about six or seven ounces.

But this made Zhou Miao hesitate again. Why did he feel like he was being fished out? If he wanted to leave, a bigger fish would come along?

I checked the time and realized it was still early, so I decided to continue fishing; who knows, there might be a pleasant surprise.

When he ran out of oyster meat, he continued to pry it open with a knife.

Then, just like before, smash some of the meat and throw it into the water to create a feeding area, and take out the meat from the rest to use as bait.

Before they knew it, an hour had passed, and Zhou Miao had three more fish in his fish bucket.

The new members are two mudskippers weighing about five ounces each and a squid weighing about one pound.

We caught a lot of different kinds of fish tonight, but nothing particularly valuable.

Looking at the time, it was almost 9:30, so Zhou Miao put the fishing rods back inside, but took the fish bucket and oxygenator home with him.

If these few things die, he'll just put them in the refrigerator. If he doesn't catch any fish tomorrow, he won't bother selling them.

Just as Zhou Miao boarded the ship, preparing to return, the system suddenly appeared.

[Have you checked the request for help from the fish farm?]

Huh?

So suddenly?

Zhou Miao was extremely surprised. He thought the fishing raft wouldn't trigger any missions today, but he didn't expect this to happen tonight.

He chose to check, but after seeing the latest request for help from the fish farm, his expression gradually became strange.

[A plea for help from a fish farm: Every time you pluck an oyster, the fish farm owner feels a little satisfaction. Your technique is just right, not too light, not too heavy, making the experience very pleasant, unlike that grouper who only felt pain. These oysters growing on his body are actually one of the fish farm owner's problems. He just originally thought it would be very painful, so he didn't dare to ask you for help. Today, your technique made him determined to ask you to help him solve his oyster problem.]

"I'm stuck in a 'glass' fishing raft, and I'm asking for help, but can you at least describe it in a more serious way?"

Zhou Miao was both amused and exasperated. Perhaps he should try his hand at being a masseur?

So whales and sea turtles like to hire people to pry barnacles because it's fun?

Shaking his head, he began to observe the situation of the fish rafts.

Oysters mostly grow at the bottom of fish rafts, so they're difficult to get on a boat.

Secondly, there are also many oysters growing on the cable, which are the "legs" of the fish raft, buried deep on the seabed.

If the oysters on these surfaces also need to be processed, then we'll need to dive down.

The way fish rafts are anchored at sea is the same as that of large ships: they are secured by throwing heavy anchors into the water.

And there are quite a few of them, at least eight large anchors.

There are four fish rafts at each of the four corners, and one fish is thrown down from the middle of the two corners.

The number and location of anchors are arranged according to the shape and size of the fish raft.

This is the most basic and simplest one; some will have a fixed stake driven into the seabed.

However, considering typhoons, and the fact that fishing rafts usually move further offshore when the sea is calm, using a large anchor is the best option.

But now, these things have become trouble for Zhou Miao.