At night, Li Li and Wu Xiang were laying hooks next to the small island in the lake. Because they used to often lay hooks, they were skillful in their movements, but they were still careful and were preventing the hooks from being wrapped around and could no longer be untied.

Li Li had an "adventure" before, so he had to avoid the monthly fishing quota. Now he specialized in catching silver carp (silk and carp), but at night it is not the time to catch silver carp, so he naturally had to do a "part-time job" and set up a hook to fish.

What we are fishing is not small carp or small crucian carp, but the higher value of "yellow buds".

"Huangyazi" is the yellow catfish called later generations. According to different names in different places, it also has the same names as Gayazi, Huanglading, Yellow Bone Fish, and Angsing Fish.

Yellow catfish is similar to catfish, with no scales and yellow all over. The mature individual size is relatively small and the meat is tender. There are many ways to cook. It can be sold in the fish market and can be sold at a good price.

However, it is difficult to catch yellow fish by bamboo 'fish snails' because this fish is a carnivorous fish and is fierce in nature and likes to eat live bait or "meat bait".

Therefore, the hooks that Li Li used this time were different from usual. The end of the sub-line was not made of bamboo "fish clips", but iron fish hooks.

Many sub-string fish hooks are arranged together and can easily entangle each other. Li Li circles the hooks in a basket, and the sub-gate hooks are hooked on the edge of the basket respectively.

When laying out the lines, put them slowly to avoid entanglement of sub-lines.

Fish hooks are very common, but using fish hooks to make hooks is a very luxurious behavior for ordinary fishermen, because hooks are often used for dozens or hundreds of hooks, and fish hooks are not cheap.

If you change the fish clip to an iron hook and change the bait from millet to earthworms, the cost is not low.

Only strong fish owners are willing to give their subordinates a row of hooks that use fish hooks as sub-hooks.

Li Li had to avoid the monthly fishing quota this time, and he had a lot of time, so he had to seize the time to do a big deal and spend a lot of money on it.

The hooks he placed were now more than twenty feet long and four hundred hooks. It cost thousands of money to buy fish hooks.

On a simple and average basis, the price of a fish hook is more than one penny, which is still a discounted price given by a blacksmith.

There are no commercial fish hooks these days. Ordinary people have to find blacksmiths to make them now, but blacksmiths are usually too lazy to deal with such business.

Because making fish hooks is simple but labor-intensive, the cost of materials is there.

If there are fewer fish hooks, the blacksmith would rather not do this business. Only when the "wholesale" is enough for a certain amount of fishing can people be willing to take on the job.

For Wu Xiang, it would be strange if he was not careful when he put a hook worth thousands of documents. Although he has been working with Li Li in recent times and has made "thousands of money" at every turn, his mentality has not changed.

He grew up and probably knew the situation at home. He also knew that the savings he had saved through hard work in previous years would be good enough to have 4,000 yuan.

At present, a pair of hooks is enough to reach his family’s savings before, so how could he be careless?

The twenty-foot hooks were very large. After the two of them put the hooks, they shook the boat to the side of the shore, tied the cables, and spent the night on the boat.

First, it is convenient to start working early the next morning, and secondly, to guard this valuable hook, otherwise if you are pulled away by someone, you will feel so distressed that you will be bleeding.

The weather was warming up, but the lake was still a little cold at night. The two of them pulled up cloth tents, then wrapped them in quilts and sat in the cabin.

The fishing fire was still lit on the bow of the boat. Li Li took the erratic fire and took a hook group called "Water Monster Cage Hook" to explain the key points of fishing silver carp to Wu Xiang.

"Water Monster Cage Hook" is a hook gear specializing in fishing silver carp and bighead fish in later generations. Li Li used materials that could be found in this era. It looks like a lantern with many tentacles.

The cage is like a ping-pong ball in later generations, and can be opened and closed. Outside the cage, there are eight sub-wires tied up and down, and the end of the sub-wires is a fish hook.

When using it, put sour and smelly dough into the cage, and do not hang the iron hook of the sub-line. Then wrap the entire cage and sub-line with the dough, and make a bait.

Wu Xiang had never seen such a strange fishing hook before. The thing in front of him really looked like a monster, so it was worthy of the name of "water monster cage hook".

But he couldn't understand why such a hook bait was used to catch silver carp, because normally, it was basically impossible to catch silver carp.

He has heard people say since he was a child that silver carp is mainly fished. No one dared to pat his chest when fishing, saying that if my bait is in the water, the one that takes the hook must be silver carp.

Now, Li Li wants to let Wu Xiang know what the secret to fishing silver carp is.

The "silk carp" in this era includes silver carp, carp carp, carp carp, carp is called "silk carp" in later generations, while carp carp is "bighead carp". These two types of fish are "brothers" for anglers, with similar habits and similar fishing methods.

Compared with other fish, silver carp and bighead carp have a large head and bighead carp has a larger head, so it is commonly known as "bighead carp".

According to later evolution theory, if silver carp and bighead have such a big head, they must have functional needs. Li Li explained to Wu Xiang: "Big head means big gills, so what does big gills mean for fish?"

Wu Xiang was quite smart, thought for a while, and said, "Could it absorb more water?"

"Well, that's what it means." Li Li nodded and tried to use simple principles to let Wu Xiang understand the living habits of "Silk and Silver" (Silk and Bighead): "The horse has strong limbs, so it runs fast..."

"The bigger the wings of a bird, the higher the flight; the bigger the mouth of a person, the bigger the thing that can swallow, and the bigger the gills of this fish mean what does it mean?"

"It means they mainly rely on sucking small insects and duckweed in water, and make a living by doing so. Look, are fish gills like screens? The larger the screen, the more water it filters out, and naturally the more things it blocks..."

People in this era cannot have an in-depth understanding of fish in the water. Li Li knew that silver carp and bighead carp are filter-feeding fish. The way of eating this fish is different from that of ordinary fish. The food is small zooplankton in the water.

The characteristics of eating are "sucking" or "drinking", while other fish eat "swallowing".

Then, the usual fishing method: hook the bait to attract fish to bite with bait, which is ineffective for silver carp, because the way silver carp eats is to "drink" rather than "bite".

Moreover, silver carp likes sour foods, and bigfish likes smelly foods, and the taste is relatively heavy. Therefore, later generations have special bait formulas and fishing hook combinations for the living habits of silver carp and bigfish.

If you use ordinary fish such as carp to catch silver carp and bighead carp, the hook rate is very low. So now you need to get silver carp, basically you can fish with a net and then see if there are any silver carp on the fish coming online.

Such fishing methods are not targeted and not efficient. They mainly depend on luck. It is very likely that dozens of large fish will be caught in one net, of which the number of silver carp is only a few.

Compared with net catch, targeted fishing is more efficient, low-cost and quick to take effect. If you are lucky, it will not be a problem to catch dozens of kilograms a day.

Li Li and Wu Xiang were shaking their boats to fish for silver carp. They didn’t need a big net or other people’s help. They just needed ordinary fishing rods and special fishing baits, and "make a nest" in advance to achieve this "small goal".

If the bait is suitable, if you find the area for fish movement, it will be no problem to catch dozens of kilograms a day.

This is not a bragging for Li Li. He was a master of silver fishing and bighead fishing in later generations. He could often catch hundreds of kilograms of fish in a suitable water area.

Now, the county government asked him to hand over ten silver carp every three days, and according to the original fishing method, it was a heavy burden.

However, if you fish in a targeted manner, even if you are lucky, you can get the amount of one month in less than ten days.

The silver carp caught is temporarily kept in the fish pond, and it will be handed over to the county party committee when it is time to do your own business.

Li Li was very sarcastic, and Wu Xiang was a little excited as he listened. Although "fishing dozens of kilograms of fish a day" sounded exaggerated, the truth was that:

They had been busy for two or three days and caught more than fifty silver carp.

Each tail weighs more than four kilograms, which is nearly two hundred kilograms in total?

The income from fish in two or three days is equivalent to his income from three months of helping with others.

"Don't underestimate fishing for silver carp. Not only are the baits particular, but the timing of lifting the rods also particular..." Li Li continued to explain the "secret skills" and also demonstrated them with real objects, so that Wu Xiang could be impressed.

"Since the habit of silver carp is to suck, the bait we make must have characteristics. When water is in, it must be melted. You know, the dough melts into water, as if it melts into a ball of fog, which is called atomization."

"The bait atomizes, which will attract silver carp to suck. Then the fish hooks hidden in the bait ball will naturally float away. As the silver carp sucks, it will naturally suck the hook into its mouth."

"The whole process is reflected in the float, which is that the float keeps shaking, but at this time the hook is just sucked to the mouth by the fish, and it has not yet entered, so you must not lift the rod."

"Only when the fish sucks the hook into its mouth, it realizes something is wrong and starts to struggle at this time, so the float will move suddenly... This is the real hook."

"The method of making bait is very important. First, it must be sour and smelly. Secondly, after entering the water to atomize, it cannot be too fast or too slow. If you don't grasp it well, it will be difficult for the fish to suck the hook into your mouth..."

Li Li almost gave Wu Xiang the secret of fishing for silver carp and bighead carp. This approach is risky, that is, if Wu Xiang has a different intention in the future, he will definitely leave him alone.

He probably knew Wu Xiang's character and felt that the other party should not do such a thing. Li Li believed that since he was determined to do something big, he had to be broader.

If a person wants to start a business, except for luck, ability, and the size of his energy determines how far the person can go. This is Li Li's opinion.

It's just a fishing secret, so I don't want to ask if I can ask about this kind of demeanor, how can others follow me sincerely?

Li Li refused to accept his fate and wanted to make a fortune, so that he would need someone to help him to work on the "main business" of Yuliang Li, while squeezing out time to do "part-time jobs", that is, to make money by working in the side job.

Only in this way can you make money quickly and make a fortune.

Only when he has a lot of money can he have the opportunity to make connections, flatter his backers, and change his social status.

When the chaos in the late Liang Dynasty came, I and my family had the ability to protect themselves.

He couldn't remember the name of this chaos recorded in historical books. He only knew that he had about five or six years to prepare, so he had to race against time and not waste time.

At present, Li Li set a "small goal" for himself, which is to buy a decent house in Poyang City for a year.

The location of the house is generally enough, it does not need to be too big. It is surrounded by a courtyard wall, divided into front yards and back yards, with wells, and sufficient rooms, including dormitories for several servants and warehouses for storing daily necessities.

Such an ordinary house in Poyang City is generally not less than 200 guan (200,000 guan).

Two hundred thousand coins, or two hundred coins, what is this?

Taking the rice price as a reference, the current rice price generally fluctuates between 100 cigars per stone (a bumper year) and 100 cigars per stone (a disaster year). Take the average value, that is, the grain price per stone is 500 cigars per stone.

Li Li's "Shi Shu" Liu Decai was a minister of the county magistrate. His annual salary was only more than 100 stones. If 150 stones were converted into money, he would have an annual income of 75,000 coins.

But this is income, and you have to deal with all kinds of expenses at home, not surplus.

Most ordinary families have only three or four thousand yuan in savings. It is difficult to buy an ordinary house worth 200,000 yuan, and it is even difficult to build an ordinary tile house (about 30,000 yuan).

Therefore, 200,000 yuan is a money that many civilian families cannot save in their entire lives, but it is not high in comparison, because the high and low are clear in this era, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge.

Whenever Li Li had time, he would chat with Liu Decai. He heard that the playboys in Jiankang City had endless ways to show off their wealth. A cool coat could be worth millions of dollars, so it would not be an exaggeration for him to set a "small goal" of 200,000 yuan first.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "a family fortune is rich". Li Li feels that if he doesn't even dare to set a goal of 200 coins, how can he cross the threshold of a wealthy family, "10,000 coins"?

Now he has a chance. It would be a pity that he doesn't seize the time to take a few more steps towards the "small goal".

The boy I met in the restaurant that day was confirmed by Liu Decai, the son of Liu Pan, the Poyang Neishi Liu Yan. Perhaps this person wanted to eat silver carp and fish head soup, so he asked Li Li to specifically catch silver carp.

Li Li felt that it was still a question of how long the excitement of such a young playboy would last. Maybe he would not have such a good opportunity next month, so he must hurry up.
Chapter completed!