The Top Fishing
Chapter 60 - 059: Refusal to Cooperate

Chapter 60: Chapter 059: Refusal to Cooperate

Lin Yang was just added to the WeChat group and showed his face when a string of fellow anglers started to mention him with @ signs.

He faced a barrage of questions about bait and additives, and after a long time of responding, Lin Yang finally managed to answer most of them.

"Here you go, Xiao Yang, 105 pounds of fish, three bucks a pound, that makes 315 in total for the fish you’re bringing back. Count it," Wang Jian Country said generously as he took out the cash from his fanny pack and handed it to Lin Yang.

Looking at the money handed to him, Lin Yang directly gave Wang Jian Country the 15 yuan change back.

He politely said, "We caught quite a few fish today, and you even gave me a discount on the fishing fee. It’s give and take between us, so consider this change my treat for your smokes."

This was the first time Wang Jian Country had encountered a young man handling matters with such a style. He was slightly taken aback by Lin Yang’s gesture of returning the change.

Lin Yang smiled, stuffed the money back into Wang Jian Country’s hand, and said, "Your business isn’t easy either. I’ll need to trouble Brother Wang to look after things in the future. As long as you stock the pond well, I’ll definitely come back if I get the chance."

"You, young man, I’ve been running this fishing site for two years now. Everyone grumbles that I don’t pay enough for the fish, but this is the first time I’ve seen a customer using their change," Wang Jian Country said as he nodded and pocketed the money.

"I’m going to tidy up my gear now and come back another day to play."

With that, Lin Yang turned and walked towards his fishing spot.

As Wang Jian Country watched Lin Yang’s retreating figure, he lit a cigarette and took a drag, silently admiring that despite his youth, Lin Yang dealt with people modestly and conducted himself with principle, a far better man than the likes of Yu Yitong.

Having packed up his fishing equipment, Lin Yang noticed Yang Xincheng also lifting his catch out of the water and into the EVA live fish bucket.

He wasn’t selling his catch today but planned to give it away.

Yang Xincheng said, "All packed up? Let’s take a look at Old Sun’s place before we leave."

Lin Yang nodded: "Sure."

At the south-west corner of the fishing site, the bites had also gradually slowed down.

But Old Sun had a good spot, and his day’s fishing hadn’t been a loss.

After chatting for a while, Lin Yang returned home with Yang Xincheng.

As the car drove onto River Road, Yang Xincheng, who’d held back all morning, could not contain himself any longer.

"Xiao Yang, what’s the deal with your bait? It shocked me today. I didn’t ask you in the fishing site because there were too many people around. Now it’s just us, so tell me what’s going on."

Lin Yang just grinned: "It’s just regular bait mixed with a bit of my secret homemade sake rice. The fish quality was good today, and it happened to work well, so the effect was pretty good."

"You call that ’pretty good’? The whole pond was watching your performance, and the fish went crazy. I’ve been fishing in black pits for so long but have never seen anything like that. Is the sake rice you sell in your livestream the same?"

"Yes, whether it’s for Crucian Carp, Carp, or Catfish, there are targeted sake rice varieties. I had prepared some for you this morning when we started baiting, you didn’t want to use it?"

"Man, had I known it was so effective, I would have tried it no matter what. But your bait opening, I couldn’t quite get it, how was it so dry? It’s tough to bait the hook. How is it possible to catch anything with that?"

Hearing this question, Lin Yang’s interest was piqued, and he saw it as the perfect opportunity to have a good chat with Uncle.

"It’s meant to be dry, not for fishing actually, but for attracting the fish. The conventional soft and sticky bait gets in really bad shape once underwater and takes a long time to dissolve. My bait starts to absorb water and disperse once it hits the middle layer, creating a vaporizing area, like a column of smoke underwater. When the nearby fish smell it, they are drawn into the spot."

Yang Xincheng, who had fished for many years, could understand most of the logic behind the bait upon hearing it. He thought it over with a furrowed brow and then nodded his head.

"I must say, now that you’ve explained it, it makes a lot of sense. It’s a step ahead of our regular method of broadcasting bait and waiting for fish to come to the spot. Whose technique is this? I’ve never seen anyone use something like this."

"I researched it myself. I like to tinker with this kind of stuff in my free time, and judging from practical experience, the effect is really good. I didn’t expect it to be that dramatic in reality. That guy with the surname Yu kept pestering me three or four times, either messing with my baited spot or setting off fish explosions, really got on my nerves."

"Since I was livestreaming, I didn’t want to start a confrontation. Since you all didn’t use the big basin of bait I prepared, I just stubbornly kept going out of spite."

"Yu Yitong is no good guy; every time he comes to fish, he starts a quarrel with someone. If anything like that happens again, you don’t need to bother arguing with him; just go to the owner of the fishing spot. Wang Jian Country is quite fair in these matters. As long as you’re reasonable, he will definitely sort it out for you. Last time, he almost refunded Yu Yitong’s money!"

Lin Yang smiled: "I’m new here and don’t want to cause trouble. If it happens again, I’ll do as you say."

"This fishing event really launched your reputation. Now, everyone in the WeChat group is discussing it. Just wait; in no time, your sake rice is going to sell like hotcakes."

"That’s great, I could definitely earn a bit more."

...

As they chatted away, they arrived home after twenty minutes.

Since it was still early, Yang Xincheng didn’t stay for lunch, as he was in a hurry to deliver the fish.

When leaving, Lin Yang gave him several bottles of sake rice, with varieties for all three types of fish.

Once he had some free time, Lin Yang logged into his account to check his Douyin backend; today’s sake rice sales were still steady.

Because of the morning’s livestream, he had already sold seven to eight hundred orders so far. He estimated that by evening, he should be able to sell over a thousand.

After that, he checked his private messages.

Today’s messages were particularly numerous, with the display already showing 99+.

There were many requests in the messages: several people wanted to be friends, some wished to become his disciple, and others were hoping he would also livestream in the afternoon...

As Lin Yang scrolled down, he was quickly drawn to a user who had sent him four or five consecutive messages.

"Are you there, host? I need to add you as a friend urgently, I have something important to discuss."

This user, who had sent four or five consecutive messages, was named ’Xiao Qian.’ Lin Yang seemed to recall the name; it was one of the top three contributors from this morning’s rewards list.

He didn’t know why the other party had added him on WeChat, but he still accepted the friend request.

Soon after, the friend request was approved.

Lin Yang: "Hello, you added me in such a hurry, what’s up?"

Xiao Qian: "Of course, there’s something."

Xiao Qian: "I bought a few bottles of the rice wine you sell on the little yellow bikes, and after trying it, it’s really good, only..."

Lin Yang: "Is there a problem?"

Xiao Qian: "Looking at your rice wine bottles, there’s no packaging name or anything on them. You filled them yourself, didn’t you?"

Lin Yang: "Yes."

Xiao Qian: "Are you interested in a collaboration? Our company specializes in making fishing products. You sell us the rice wine recipe, and we’ll not only pay you a lump sum for the recipe, but we’ll also give you a share of the profits every year."

When Lin Yang saw this message, his heart skipped a beat: "Damn, this person was in such a hurry to add me because they were eyeing my rice wine recipe."

Thinking, he replied: "Not interested, I’m doing quite well selling it myself."

Xiao Qian: "You’re selling now? I’ve looked at your transaction volume, and at most, it’s just over a thousand bottles a day. Work with us, and the sales will at least increase tenfold!"

Lin Yang: "Sorry, really not interested. If there’s nothing else, then that’s that."

Xiao Qian: "Don’t answer so quickly. Won’t you reconsider?"

Waited more than ten minutes but still received a message.

Xiao Qian: ".....?"

On the other end of the phone, the person with the ID ’Xiao Qian’ was a woman, and she was also a fishing broadcaster, with a million followers on Douyin.

In addition, she had another identity – she was the apprentice of a well-known top competitive fishing master, Master Deng.

The reason why she approached Lin Yang was that a few days ago, a fan had recommended Lin Yang’s secret recipe rice wine to her.

After trying it, she indeed found it to be really good.

So, she thought of buying the rice wine recipe from Lin Yang and then producing it in her master’s factory.

But Lin Yang didn’t even think about it before he rejected her idea.

On this end.

The reason Lin Yang rejected her offer was quite simple.

Not to mention he couldn’t possibly give the recipe to someone else, even if he had the recipe, he wouldn’t cooperate with anyone else.

Working with a big company might bring in more money for a short time, but it also comes with greater risks. Who knows, after cooperating with others, he might be kicked to the curb.

Plus, he was live broadcasting now, and a large part of it relied on his secret recipe rice wine.

If other big broadcasters also had the same secret recipe rice wine as him, it didn’t take much thought to realize that the number of people watching his live broadcasts would dwindle.

Then, trying to increase his popularity would become even more difficult.

After turning off his phone, Lin Yang went to a room on the first floor of the courtyard.

The place had been simply converted into a small processing workshop where his dad and mom were bottling the rice wine.

Although they had bought two small machines, the workload was still not small.

Mixing over a thousand jin of rice every day was already no easy feat.

After mixing the three types of rice wine, his dad was in charge of one machine, filling the bottles. He would put an empty plastic bottle underneath, press a button, and the mixed rice wine would flow out from above. Fill it up, swap in the next bottle, and that’s it.

The bottled rice wine was then handed over to his mom for sealing and packaging.

The two of them worked together efficiently and orderly.

"Dad, I remember buying a fish tank when I first went to college and putting it at home. Did you guys throw it away?"

Lin Yang suddenly remembered the fish tank he bought in the past while standing on the side.

He had always liked keeping fish since he was young. When he was a child, he didn’t have the conditions for it, so he used glass bottles, but he always ended up killing the fish, later finding out it was due to lack of oxygen.

So, after he went to college, he bought a small fish tank with an oxygenator for the home, but after starting work, he gradually forgot about the fish tank.

"What do you want a fish tank for? We don’t keep fish at home," his mom said, glancing at him.

"Who says we don’t? Now that I work from home and have nothing to do, I want to keep fish to pass the time," Lin Yang retorted.

"Who says you have nothing to do? You’re at the age to find a wife quickly. Or do you want me to find one for you again?"

"No, no, no!"

Lin Yang was really scared.

Every time there was something, his mother could always link it back to finding a partner.

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