My fishing raft will ask for help.

Three years is a short lease term, but that's not a problem. You can simply renew the lease with the local fisheries management department when the time is up.

She put the documents away in her room and waited in the living room for about ten minutes before returning with a new rental contract.

After signing the contract, I watched the landlord leave.

Zhou Miao first changed the electronic lock password, registered his own fingerprint, and then deleted the landlord's fingerprint.

Then I went downstairs to the electric vehicle shop and bought an electric tricycle for five thousand yuan.

From now on, whether it's selling fish or transporting goods and moving, we'll need a vehicle like this.

Moreover, they don't regulate tricycles in Nanzhen; they can drive them freely.

The only downside is that charging isn't very convenient; you have to go to a charging station.

This was Zhou Miao's first time riding a tricycle, but he could ride both quadricycles and two-wheelers, so he could ride the tricycle after just a few laps.

Driving along the seaside road, if it weren't for the high temperature, it would have felt like a scenic drive.

I went to the fish farm to pack my belongings. I didn't bring much, so I could take everything with me in one go.

The fishing rods will remain on the fishing raft, and the houses here will continue to be used as storage.

Back at my rented room, I first charged my headlamp, phone, and power bank.

If he doesn't find a place to rent today, he'll have to go eat at a cheap restaurant to get electricity.

Then it's time to tidy up the house and clean.

After working up a sweat, I turned on the air conditioner before taking a shower.

After washing up, Zhou Miao lay down on the bed, not wanting to move anymore.

I ordered takeout for dinner, ate, scrolled through my phone, and then closed my eyes to sleep at nine o'clock at night.

......

At 6:30 a.m. sharp, the alarm clock rang, waking Zhou Miao from her deep sleep.

I groped around the headboard with my eyes closed, but even with my arms outstretched, I couldn't touch it. Why is this bed so big?

I barely managed to open my eyes a crack, rolled over, and managed to get my phone to turn off the alarm. Then I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

This was the most comfortable sleep he had had since arriving in Nanzhen.

Besides, what young person doesn't want to stay in bed longer? Even after sleeping for almost ten hours, he still wasn't enough sleep.

However, five words suddenly flashed through my subconscious mind—"Little red fish."

Zhou Miao suddenly opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.

Oh right, I'm going fishing for small red fish this morning.

The fish rafts had given a heads-up: those little red fish like to come out to forage in the morning.

This means that although fishing is possible at other times, the catch will be far less than in the morning, so he can no longer sleep in.

We also need to keep checking to see if we can trigger other help requests.

This system doesn't automatically send help requests to your door; there seems to be a distance limit, and you have to be very close to trigger it.

After going downstairs for breakfast, I rode my tricycle to the dock charging station to charge it, with the charger placed under the seat.

Afterwards, I went to a fishing tackle shop and bought two boxes of special-recipe Antarctic krill, two shrimp bricks, and a bait cage.

Fish that prefer to hide in reefs and only come out to feed in the morning are unlikely to follow the tide like black sea bream.

Therefore, Zhou Miao guessed that this time they might need to fish at the bottom, so that they wouldn't need flour.

The four items cost exactly one hundred yuan, making him lament once again that without a systematic approach, sea fishing is unaffordable.

They boarded the boat with their belongings and set off, first arriving at their own fishing raft.

The moment Zhou Miao stepped onto the platform, he felt a little expectant. However, after waiting for a long time without any response from the system, he had no choice but to go inside to get his fishing rod and head to the reef that the fishing raft had mentioned.

About 60 or 70 meters to the southeast, he navigated by boat and arrived at roughly the same spot, guided by his sense of direction.

First, drop the anchor. It's a good day, but the waves were bigger this morning than yesterday. If we don't drop the anchor, the boat will be pushed away very quickly.

His anchor rope is long enough, fifty meters long.

Seeing that the rope stopped going down about halfway down surprised Zhou Miao.

Unexpectedly, the water was about 20 meters deep, even though it was only a few dozen meters away from the fish rafts.

Zhou Miao took out a short-section surfcasting rod and changed the line setup.

Since they are small fish, let's use 0.8 PE as the main line and a similar carbon line for the leader.

After setting up the fishing line, hook, and sinker, open the shrimp brick and stuff it into the bait cage. Finally, hook on a specially prepared Antarctic shrimp and start fishing.

As the sinker touched the bottom, Zhou Miao retrieved about thirty centimeters of fishing line, felt the current at the bottom, and, finding no immediate danger, simply waited.

The worst thing for a fisherman is not finding a place with fish, but as long as there is a good fishing spot, fishing becomes easy and he can catch fish easily.

The smell of the shrimp bricks spreads quickly underwater, and with the fish biting well at this spot, Zhou Miao felt a pull even before two minutes had passed after casting his bait.

That fish was eaten really fiercely, gulped down in one go!

Zhou Miao immediately lifted the rod, thinking that such a fierce bite would mean a good fish, but it turned out to be light and nimble.

He frowned as he looked at the fishing rod, feeling that it wasn't working well for catching small fish.

If he hadn't been eating fish so voraciously, he probably wouldn't have noticed if it were a sea bream of similar size.

After fishing in the morning, I went back to buy a raft rod, specifically for catching small fish.

Zhou Miao quickly reeled in the line; it would take some time to reel in nearly twenty meters of fishing line.

Unlike float fishing, where the fish comes out of the water as soon as you lift the rod, this method is different.

But when this light, floating little fish appeared on the surface of the water, it gave Zhou Miao quite a pleasant surprise.

The fish is very common; it's a rockfish, which does indeed match the description of the small red fish mentioned by the fish farm.

But this stone is quite large, weighing about three or four ounces.

Those in the know understand that this fish doesn't grow very big; three or four ounces is already a very good size.

Zhou Miao hadn't had a chance to inquire about the market price of Shi Jiu Gong (a type of stone gourd) here, but he had some understanding from watching fishing videos before. One or two ounces of Shi Jiu Gong would cost about thirty or forty yuan.

However, the price of three or four ounces skyrocketed, reaching over eighty.

The price of black sea bream in Nanzhen is about the same as what he found online, so the price of stone bream should be about the same.

Zhou Miao grabbed the fishing line and carefully removed the hook from Shi Jiugong's mouth to avoid being pricked by the fish's dorsal fin.

If I get pricked like that, I'll be in for a nasty day.

After successfully catching a stone cichlid, Zhou Miao's enthusiasm for fishing immediately soared.

He wasn't greedy; he only needed to catch seven or eight jin of this size of stone.

The specially prepared Antarctic shrimp had already been bitten into pieces, so Zhou Miao replaced it with a new one and cast his line again.

swoosh~

The fish took the bait as soon as it reached the bottom. He wouldn't have noticed it if the float hadn't been shaking a bit and he hadn't tried lifting the hook.

After removing the hook from Shi Jiugong's mouth, the fish he caught was different. This time, he was very disappointed with the fish, which was a small black sea bream weighing only two or three ounces.

Zhou Miao unhooked the fish and clapped his hands lightly twice.

"What are you doing here? Let your mother come!"

After saying that, he threw the fish back.

Fortunately, on my third cast this morning, I caught another rock bream weighing three or four ounces. It was clear that the small black sea bream was just an accident, and the main fish in the water were still rock bream.

The stone goby was formerly known as the "fool's fish" because it bites any hook it can get its paws on, and it bites fiercely, making them very easy to catch.

But for anglers, aside from the surprise of selling their catch and taking it home to cook tofu, there's really nothing else to feel.

Before long, Zhou Miao's fish bucket already contained more than a dozen Shi Jiugong fish of similar size.

If we calculate it as three per jin, then he has about four or five jin here.

But these dozen or so fish seem to have drained the bottom of the water.

After that, no more rock bream took the bait; instead, they caught either small snapper or pufferfish.

Zhou Miao was taken aback: "No way, there are only a dozen or so small red fish in the mouth of the fishing raft?"