As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 238: Chapter 206: Two Feet Floating in the River

Chapter 238 -206: Two Feet Floating in the River

As Chu Mingcheng took the fishing rod, the man surnamed Li also looked on with interest.

He baited the hook with a river shrimp and then swung it out with force.

“Whoosh~” the bait flew out and landed in the water about seventy to eighty meters from the shore.

“Beautiful!” the man surnamed Li immediately praised. A sea rod can cast quite far and he could do it too, but definitely not as effortlessly as Chu Mingcheng.

Casting further doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll catch bigger fish, but the odds of catching bigger ones farther from the shore are still higher.

Yet, the man surnamed Li still didn’t expect to catch a big bluefish, as it was purely luck.

But to their surprise, in the next moment, Chu Mingcheng’s fishing rod suddenly tightened, bending into a big arc.

He was even pulled several steps towards the shore by the fish, a phenomenon that clearly indicated a big catch on the line.

“Ei, ei, ei, got one, got one, Ah Cheng be careful!” Jiang Bo quickly came up behind Chu Mingcheng and grabbed his clothes, looking pretty nervous.

“Uncle, I’m fine, this fish isn’t that big!” Chu Mingcheng had merely been caught off guard and had been pulled a few steps by the fish.

But now he steadied his center of gravity, braced the fishing rod against his stomach, and immediately stabilized.

“Pretty impressive, young man, do you have any techniques for catching big fish?” The man surnamed Li also put down his rod and moved closer.

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“There’s no technique, just a bit of luck.” Chu Mingcheng kept pulling on the fish, yet still had the energy to reply.

A sea rod can be easier because of its reel, making the hauling a lot more relaxed.

A twenty-pound fish feels entirely different whether caught with a sea rod or a hand pole.

“Can you guess how big the fish is?”

“Probably around twenty to thirty pounds!”

Chu Mingcheng replied somewhat uncertainly. He wasn’t used to freshwater fish which don’t pull as fiercely as sea fish, so he really wasn’t sure.

But the man surnamed Li was very satisfied with this estimate. This weight perfectly matched his expectations. If it were a bluefish, then his trip today would not have been in vain.

The West Lake had many visitors during the New Year, and fishing here had already drawn some onlookers.

Now that Chu Mingcheng seemed to have hooked a big one, it immediately sparked curiosity among the nearby crowd.

Someone next to them couldn’t help but ask, “Bro, can you just fish freely in West Lake?”

Chu Mingcheng had no time to reply, but there was always someone knowledgeable around to enlighten others.

“You need a fishing license for fishing in West Lake, and even if you have a license, you can only purchase two fish tickets. There’s a daily limit to the number of fish you can catch.”

“Just forget about the fishing license. I’ve heard there are only a little over two hundred of them issued so far.”

The moment these words were uttered, the looks in the surrounding crowd all changed, especially from some pretty young girls who eyed Chu Mingcheng, now fishing, with unusual interest.

A handsome guy with a presumably extraordinary family background…

Clearly, just one fishing license had given Chu Mingcheng a head start in the dating game.

Any charmer could only dream of how many houses they could view freely, brazenly opening doors and visiting each room.

What a pity they had set their sights on the wrong target. Chu Mingcheng himself hadn’t even entered his own luxurious homes, let alone have interest in any others’ modest flats.

The fish seemed to have very good stamina and it took more than an hour of his maneuvering to finally pull it to the shore.

When the man surnamed Li saw a bluish stone-colored fish struggling on the water’s surface, he was overjoyed: “It’s really a bluefish, Mr. Jiang, you must let me have this fish your son-in-law caught!”

Jiang Bo also completely relaxed at this point, his goal for the day fully achieved. He believed that Chu Mingcheng wouldn’t mind giving away this bluefish.

After all, if he was generous enough to give a six- or seven-pound yellow croaker to him, then asking his son-in-law for a bluefish was naturally no big deal.

Shortly after, the bluefish was scooped up with a net.

Chu Mingcheng, looking at the size of the fish, was slightly surprised. It seemed larger than he had thought. It could even weigh around forty pounds, no wonder it had taken him more than an hour.

“Mr. Li, what do you think of this fish? Are you satisfied?”

“Satisfied, indeed very satisfied!”

Chu Mingcheng’s initiative in speaking up immediately put a smile on the man surnamed Li’s face, because he knew the fish was his.

He had come prepared today with a large fish cooler in his car.

The three of them filled the cooler with lake water, placed the fish inside it, and supplied it with oxygen.

A roughly forty-pound big bluefish barely fit into the cooler, hardly having any space to move, indicating from another aspect just how big the fish was.

Finally, the man surnamed Li left satisfied, and Jiang Bo and Chu Mingcheng also packed up their fishing gear and left.

“Ah Cheng, thanks for today!”

“Uncle, we’re family, no need for thanks.”

“Right, right, we’re all family.”

At this point, Jiang Bo was growing more and more fond of his son-in-law. At first, it was just because he was handsome.

But at this year’s family gathering, the yellow croaker had earned him praise from all his relatives, giving him a great deal of face.

Today, Chu Mingcheng had even helped maintain his relationship with a customer, which would be a great help to his future business.

A son-in-law who could only fish turned out to be unexpectedly reliable, something that Jiang Bo would never have imagined before.

At that time, he even thought that his daughter was marrying beneath her by choosing this boyfriend.

But now, it seemed that his son-in-law was not as simple as he appeared.

Jiang Bo planned to discuss with his wife the arrangements for their children’s engagement as soon as he got back, not in a hurry to have them marry, but scheduling the engagement was an option to consider first.

Chu Mingcheng had originally intended to stay in Hang City for only two days, but after his father-in-law’s attitude underwent a warm change, he ended up staying for several more days.

It wasn’t until the eighth day of the first lunar month that he reluctantly left with Jiang Luoluo, packed their luggage, and took a plane to Qiongzhou with Zhang Wei and the others.

Whether it was Wen City or Hang City, it was deep winter at this time, and one had to dress warmly before stepping out lest the icy attack was too much for most to bear.

But upon arriving in Qiongzhou, the attire of the four of them immediately changed to spring clothing.

The current temperature here was between eighteen and twenty-four degrees Celsius, where beautiful girls could show off their legs all year round, only needing to apply more sunscreen in the summer.

Chu Mingcheng and his group checked into a hotel, and considering his current relationship with Jiang Luoluo, he only booked two double rooms.

Jiang Luoluo, seeing this, shyly averted her gaze, pretending not to notice the situation as a tacit acceptance.

Chen Yang glanced at Zhang Wei beside him, showing a disgusted expression, and said to the receptionist, “Beauty, could you open another room for me, please?”

Zhang Wei immediately wrapped his arms around him, his expression woeful, “Ah Yang, don’t you love me anymore?”

“I…,” Chen Yang noticed the strange glances from the receptionist and his face darkened instantly, “stop messing around, aren’t you going to the club to find your sweetie tonight?”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei lamented, “Ah, don’t mention it. Last time we went diving, she kept calling me ‘daddy’. Today after getting off the plane, I tried to contact her and she blocked me!”

“Pfft~”

The company of Chu Mingcheng and the others burst into laughter upon hearing this; with Zhang Wei, the joker, on the trip, the journey was certainly much more relaxed and amusing.

After putting their luggage in their rooms, they gathered in the lobby and went out to hunt for food.

Although he was in Qiongzhou, Chu Mingcheng did not plan to meet up with Lu Zheqiang this time.

Mainly because he had also returned to his hometown and had not yet come back.

After dinner, Chen Yang returned to the hotel first to make a phone call to Zhou Jiayi.

Zhang Wei also disappeared, no one knew if he found another sweetie here.

Chu Mingcheng was happy with this situation and wandered the streets of Qiongzhou hand in hand with Jiang Luoluo.

“Ah Cheng, I think spending the New Year here in winter is actually quite comfortable, with suitable weather and a lively atmosphere.”

“Many people come here for a New Year’s vacation. How about we also buy a house here? Every year during the New Year’s, we can invite our parents over?”

He and Jiang Luoluo were both only children, and they would have to look after their parents as they aged.

So, coming to the climate-comfortable Qiongzhou during winter was indeed a great idea.

“Let’s talk about this later. My parents probably won’t agree for the next few years,” Jiang Luoluo laughed and shook her head, rejecting the suggestion.

Getting through the New Year as an adult was full of social niceties, not so simple.

Chu Mingcheng didn’t mind either; it was just a spontaneous idea that he casually mentioned.

As the two walked slowly along the river, suddenly, not far ahead, a fishing man started crying and wailing out of the blue, throwing his fishing rod aside and bolting.

Curious, they went to have a look, and Jiang Luoluo shivered, quickly stepping aside and tremblingly pointed to the river: “Ah… Ah Cheng, this…”

“Hiss~” Chu Mingcheng naturally saw the scene in the water, and his heart skipped a beat, followed by a chill running down his scalp.

There were two legs floating in the river, a person had died.

“Luoluo, call the police quickly, I’ll pull the person ashore,” Chu Mingcheng was, after all, a man, and he had a bit more courage.

After all, the fishing man didn’t want to abandon his freshly baited spot and let the body continue to float in the water.

He, too, was a fishing man, not so frightened by a corpse that he couldn’t move.

Well, the guy who ran away in a panic just now had also returned and was hiding on the sidelines, too scared to approach; such a person was probably a rookie and couldn’t be counted as a real fishing man.

Frankly, the two legs floating in the water were slender and white, indicating that it was probably a woman.

Jiang Luoluo quickly ran to the side to call the police, while Chu Mingcheng picked up the fishing rod on the ground and pulled the female corpse to the bank.

Just beside the small river was a road with quite a number of pedestrians.

A situation like this naturally drew the curiosity of passersby.

But when they saw the legs in the water, some bystanders who had no particular business stopped in their tracks.

Then within a short time, the news of a female body found in the water spread and became known to nearby people.

The woman’s body was originally in the middle of the river, likely entangled by fishing line at the ankles, which is why the fishing man had pulled it above the water earlier.

Now, having been pulled to the bank by Chu Mingcheng, he hesitated for a long time before deciding not to move the body further, opting to wait for the police to arrive.

The nearby police station responded quickly, and in just a little while, two police cars parked by the roadside.

The police cordoned off the scene, not allowing anyone to get close.

Then two officers put on masks and gloves and prepared to pull the person from the water ashore.