I'm a junior in college this year, and I've linked my fishing check-in system.

"This one is big!"

Jiang Qian did not choose to force the game with Rambo, but instead followed the direction of the fish for a few steps, while controlling the speed of the line release, so as not to let the fishing line slack, nor to let the tension exceed the fishing rod's limit.

Then, not long after!

The fish finally flipped over, revealing half of its body.

It has a dark green back, a thick belly, and a broad, powerful tail fin.

It's another grass carp, and it looks bigger than all the others.

Jiang Qian squatted down, dipped the net into the water, and steadily scooped up the fish.

The weight of the item pressed heavily on his hand, giving him a rough idea of ​​its weight.

[Fishing/Catching Proficiency +1!]

[Grass carp weight increased by 8.3 jin!]

Eight catties and three ounces.

After the fifth fish was stuffed into the fish basket, it thrashed about even more violently in the water, making a loud banging sound that could be clearly heard even on the shore. All the large fish were crammed inside, their scales rubbing against the netting of the fish basket, jumping and wriggling about.

After removing the hook, Jiang Qian shook the water off his hands. "Judging by the time, it should be about time..."

Sure enough, a "ding" sounded in my ear: [Congratulations, host, you have successfully checked in!]

[Next, please...]

As the system's capabilities improved, Jiang Qian increasingly felt that rewarding himself should be done in a more private place...

After all, this is a very private matter!

Jiang Qian finally noticed the two people behind him and asked with a smile:

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Of course, he couldn't have genuinely not noticed, it's just...

If you're going to be cool, do it subtly...

Li Shanliang hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Brother, are you going to eat this fish yourself or... sell it?"

Jiang Qian thought for a moment and decided to keep one crucian carp for soup, and the grass carp...

He really doesn't like grass carp.

Li Shanliang walked to his side, stood there for a while, rubbed his hands together, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

"Brother, are you going to eat this fish yourself or... sell it?"

Jiang Qian thought for a moment. He didn't even have a stove in his dormitory. He could keep one crucian carp and make soup with it later. It would be a waste to leave the other four grass carp there.

"Sell them, we can't keep so many."

Do you have any connections?

Jiang Qian shook his head.

Zhang Shunhua chimed in from behind, "Behind the vegetable market on the north side of the riverbank, there's a dealer who specializes in buying wild river fish. Old Zhou, go find him."

Is the price fair?

"He's fair. We usually fish there too, and that's how we sell our catches." Zhang Shunhua patted his chest confidently. "Just say you were recommended by a fellow angler on this side of the riverbank, and he won't rip you off."

Li Shanliang added from the side, "As for grass carp, wild ones, he can offer 12 or 13 yuan per catty, which is much more expensive than farmed ones in the market."

"Okay, thanks."

Jiang Qian pulled the fish basket out of the water, and water splashed down, with five fish thrashing around inside, making his wrists ache from the weight.

He picked out the big crucian carp, put it in a plastic bag, tied it up, and stuffed it into the side pocket of his fishing box.

Then, carrying the fish basket in one hand and dragging the fishing box in the other, he walked towards the north side of the riverbank.

Li Shanliang and Zhang Shunhua had returned to their fishing spots, sitting on either side of each other with two empty fish baskets between them, and neither of them spoke.

The two of them haven't even resolved their own conflicts yet...

As an elder, Zhang Shunhua naturally had to break the deadlock, cursing, "Damn it, I came here for nothing today."

Li Shanliang ignored this brother who had inexplicably been promoted to a higher generation and kept his head down, disassembling his wiring harness.

"Kind Brother, you know, the two of us fished for three hours together and didn't catch a single decent one, while other people sat down for less than an hour and caught five, the biggest of which weighed over eight pounds."

"Stop talking."

"I just don't understand it. This isn't fair. It's the same river, at the same time of year, so why is it different?"

"Try saying one more word."

Zhang Shunhua shut up.

……

Hearing the sound from a distance, Jiang Qian smiled, turned around, and continued walking.

"There are still many wonderful people who enjoy fishing..."

He soon arrived at the fish market and called out:

"Old Zhou?"

The middle-aged man looked up. "Who are you?"

"A fellow angler from the riverbank recommended you; they said you collect wild river fish."

"What kind of fish? Where did you catch it?"

Jiang Qian placed the fish basket on the ground, and the four grass carp bounced and thrashed about, their tails slapping against the concrete floor and splashing water onto Lao Zhou's trouser legs.

Old Zhou paused noticeably for a moment, then reached out and picked up the largest grass carp, weighed it in his hand, and asked, "Wild?"

"Just caught it from the southern section of the river."

Old Zhou flipped open the fish's gills and looked at them. The bright red gill filaments were neatly arranged one by one. He then ran his hand along the scales on the fish's body and finally looked at its body color. The bluish-gray base color with dark green undertones was completely different from the grayish-white grass carp from the breeding pond.

"I want all four grass carp, thirteen yuan a pound."

He paused for a moment and then said, "Keep the crucian carp, you can make a soup when you get home. I won't take the other one, crucian carp isn't worth much."

"OK."

Old Zhou turned around and dragged an electronic scale from the corner of the shed. He weighed the four grass carp one by one, counting them as he went.

"Five jin and two jin, six jin and one jin, four jin and eight jin, eight jin and three jin... a total of twenty-two jin. Wow, you've had quite a haul this time."

He took out his phone from his fanny pack, opened the payment code and handed it over, "Twenty-two times thirteen, two hundred and eighty-six, scan it."

Jiang Qian took out his phone and scanned the QR code. His phone vibrated, and 286 yuan was credited to his account.

"That's a bit too little..."

Jiang Qian smiled slightly as he thought about it.

I never imagined I'd ever complain about not having enough...

He arrived at his dormitory quickly, around noon.

"Crucian carp... I'll take it to Dai Zhenli later and cook it into a dish."

He was preparing to reward himself before taking the crucian carp to Dai Zhenli's house.

But just then, a message came through on WeChat.

"Zhao Sirui? Teacher Zhao?"

Jiang Qian was puzzled. Hadn't Teacher Zhao only added him to her contacts not long ago?

【111】: Are you free?

"Hey, teacher, are you asking me out? If you are, your teaching qualification might be in jeopardy..." Jiang Qian thought to himself, before quickly seeing the next message:

[111]: One of the teachers had some health issues, so the project was assigned to me... But I'm a new mentor and haven't been added to the teacher homepage yet. You are my first batch of students.

【111】: Could you please...?

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I'm very busy, thank you teacher... Jiang Qian has a natural PTSD when the teacher asks him for a favor. It was from this point that Yang Kai first exploited him, and from then on, he became an unpaid nuclear-powered donkey.

Although Zhao Sirui is much prettier than Yang Kai, a beautiful and youthful girl, only three years older than Jiang Qian, she is the kind of older sister that Jiang Qian likes the most...

But he's not brain-dead. His own labor is the most valuable asset. Why would he give up his labor just because the other person is pretty?

As Jiang Qian thought about it, his impression of the teacher dropped even further, but after seeing the next sentence, he raised the score back up.

I can promise you that at the end of this partnership, you will receive 30% of my earnings.