The Top Fishing
Chapter 65 - 064: Delicious Ingredients

Chapter 65: Chapter 064: Delicious Ingredients

Wang Feng was also a foodie, and since those fish weren’t of any use to him and he wasn’t going to sell them, he might as well exchange them for lamb and chicken.

It was after eating the lamb and chicken here that he couldn’t stop thinking about them.

Today, he particularly brought Lin Yang here to eat; as for the expense, it was actually the fish he had just caught.

"Chicken soup is coming! Hurry, take a seat!"

As they sat down, the whole roasted lamb wasn’t ready yet, so first came the roasted chicken that had already been cooked by the family, along with stewed chicken soup.

Hearing the restaurateur’s description, Lin Yang was startled and couldn’t help but think of a certain protected animal.

Fortunately, these chickens were genuine free-range chickens, with robust claws and a thick hard layer that breeding chickens don’t have. They usually eat insects and grass seeds in the mountains, so the taste was quite good.

As soon as the roasted chicken was served, Lin Yang felt he could hardly control himself; his mouth watered.

The dishes might not be as exquisite as those in a hotel, but they were better than what he cooked at home; paired with the setting, it spelled two words: Freshness.

"Come on, Lin Yang my brother, no need to be shy, let’s eat!"

Following Wang Feng’s command, Lin Yang started tearing into the roasted chicken.

Actually, the nutritional content of free-range chickens isn’t as high as that of feed chickens.

Seeing this, many people might be puzzled because it’s always said that free-range chickens far surpass feed chickens, not that feed chickens are actually more nutritious than free-range ones.

Actually, this is true.

Whether it’s traditional chickens or free-range chickens bred in the mountains, the natural food they consume doesn’t provide as many nutrients as prepared feed.

Because the feed is meticulously composed of components like calcium, iron, zinc, tin, vitamins—chickens consume a complete diet, so while free-range chickens might lack calcium, breeding chickens definitely won’t.

Thus, in terms of nutritional content, breeding chickens are actually more comprehensive and balanced than free-range chickens.

But in terms of taste, they are worlds apart.

Breeding chickens spend their whole life confined in coops, and their lifespan is much shorter, starting as chicks in the pen and taken out in just forty-two days.

Of course, this is a typical breeding cycle for chickens.

But actually, depending on the feed, there are also times of thirty-six days, or even twenty-eight days before they are taken out.

Whereas for these free-range chickens, it could be three months, six months, one year, or even two to three years; the varying growing times naturally lead to huge differences in taste.

Just like why wild fish from the North are much more expensive than those from here in the South.

The same carp, wild-caught in the South, costs just a few yuan, ten yuan per pound, while those from the North cost up to eighty, one hundred yuan per pound.

It’s because the same size takes only half a year to grow in the South, but three years in the North.

This three-year growth results in meat that’s firmer, bouncier, and naturally tastier!

It’s the same for these chickens.

Free-range chickens roam the mountains all day in search of food, they have thin subcutaneous fat, but the flavor is intense, something that breeding chickens can never match.

So after eating a large chicken leg, Lin Yang couldn’t help but sigh with regret that he hadn’t discovered such delicious chicken earlier.

Although their family also lived in the countryside, he couldn’t remember how many years it had been since they last had free-range chickens or ducks.

After all, those who have raised them know that chicken and duck droppings are just too dirty, hard to clean, attract flies, stink, and can breed bacteria.

So since their family moved to a two-story courtyard house, they hadn’t raised chickens or ducks anymore.

Lin Yang nibbled on the crispy on the outside, tender on the inside roasted chicken, sipped the perfectly stewed chicken soup, and ate some pure, pollution-free wild vegetables. The taste indeed compared well with that of grand hotels.

And just as they were enjoying the chicken, the whole roasted lamb was ready.

The locals were very enthusiastic in helping them carve the lamb, with tender neck meat, fatty ribs, and lean but not dry legs...

The roasted lamb wasn’t a large sheep but a young lamb. The meat was already tender, and after roasting, the taste was indescribably delicious.

If this were an anime about gourmet food, now would be the time to play BGM, let the ingredients sparkle, turn on the microphone, and start praising the deliciousness of this dish fully.

"Indeed, it’s great. I didn’t expect the chicken, duck, and lamb raised here to be so delicious," Lin Yang said after swallowing a large piece of lamb, unable to stop himself from remarking again.

"This is just the beginning. You should be like me, traveling all over the country, fishing in rivers, lakes, mountains, reservoirs, and by the sea. I’ve been to all these places. Let me tell you, there are plenty of delicious things out there; it’s all about whether or not you can discover them." Hearing Lin Yang’s words, Wang Feng laughed.

Listening to him, Lin Yang alternated between bites of chicken and lamb legs, nodding vigorously.

Indeed, with the country being so large, there are countless delicious foods to find.

As Lin Yang ate happily, Wang Feng hesitated for a moment and remembered what he had originally wanted to ask him.

"Look, Lin Yang, brother, I won’t beat around the bush. I think highly of you. Do you have any plans to join a club? I want to recruit you for our club," Wang Feng asked him directly.

"A club? Is it mainly for competitions?" Upon hearing this, Lin Yang looked at him with some confusion.

As for fishing clubs, he had only heard about them and wasn’t very familiar with them.

"Yes, but not only that. Although our club mainly focuses on competitions, like Master tournaments, there are actually many types, and some people specifically do livestreaming and such..."

Seeing Lin Yang ask this, Wang Feng explained it to him.

How should I put it.

Fishing clubs are actually not much different from fighting clubs or esports clubs.

The main purpose is to train competitors, but apart from competing, they also engage in other jobs, such as exclusively wild fishing, managing reservoirs, managing fishing ponds, livestreaming anglers, or instructors within the club, and so forth.

Of course, different people have different salaries.

Like Wang Feng, he is a professional angler of their club, primarily participating in fishing competitions, and his monthly income is quite substantial.

He’s not livestreaming right now, so Wang Feng just told Lin Yang the truth.

His basic monthly salary is thirty thousand yuan, not including the "five insurances and one fund" provided by the club, and then there’s income from livestreaming, which he can keep over 70% of.

But if the company arranges for him to endorse products, the company takes an additional 20% of the profits. Also, for products like bait branded with his name, he can take a 15% commission.

The bait they were using today was produced by Wang Feng’s company.

The big two-kilogram bag of corn cost sixteen yuan, and the boxed corn cost ten yuan.

It might not look expensive, but you should know that anglers are quite superstitious about bait.

Just like Lin Yang’s livestream channel, although he currently has only sixty to seventy thousand followers, he can still sell over a thousand cans a day.

Of course, his sales are so good mainly because the rice wine bait is effective, with a large part of it being repeat customers. If people find it useful, they naturally buy it repeatedly.

This is also the reason why someone privately messaged Lin Yang last time, wanting to buy his rice wine bait formula.

If his enhanced rice wine bait could actually be produced unlimitedly and he partnered with a big company, the annual sales could potentially exceed a hundred million units!

At thirty yuan per unit, that’s thirty billion yuan a year!

Even if Lin Yang only got a 15% share, that would still be 4.5 billion yuan a year, though all this is hypothetical.

While the baits produced by Wang Feng’s company might not be as miraculous as Lin Yang’s rice wine bait, its sales are quite good, with annual sales reaching millions of bags.

At ten yuan profit per bag, that totals ten million yuan, and with Wang Feng’s 15% share, that’s 1.5 million yuan.

Adding his livestreaming income and income from endorsing other products, he earns at least over two million yuan a year. Even after taxes, he still takes home well over a million yuan annually.

So, after hearing what Wang Feng had said, Lin Yang was indeed a bit confused and shocked.

He hadn’t expected that even an angler like Wang Feng, who wasn’t particularly famous, could earn almost two million yuan a year.

If Lin Yang didn’t sell rice wine, he was actually quite interested in joining their team, where fishing around and competing could earn him millions a year... Such an idea was something he had never dared to dream of before.

Indeed, as people’s economic conditions improve and technology advances, making money seems to have become a not so difficult task.

This is the limitation of people’s vision due to the times.

Just like in the 1990s, when the NBA and European football leagues had not yet entered most people’s radar, the older generation couldn’t understand why playing basketball or football could earn millions or even billions.

In their eyes, wasn’t that just playing? Why would people pay to watch you play?

Then a decade passed, and at the beginning of the 21st century, parents likewise couldn’t understand why playing games or engaging in esports could make money.

They saw it clearly as a distraction, dismissing any claims of talent as nonsense.

Later, like making short videos or livestreaming, the older generation also didn’t understand why playing with these could also make money.

Lin Yang couldn’t help but think about his childhood, listening to elders chatting about how winning an Olympic weightlifting championship earned you fifty thousand yuan, and after retiring, you still had to continue scrubbing backs in a bathhouse.

This wasn’t fake news but indeed a matter of the times.

Because nowadays, if an Olympic weightlifting champion retired, just by becoming a coach in any large gym, not to mention the gym owner welcoming them on their knees, they would certainly be treated with great respect.

This is the disparity brought by the times, and it’s significant, to say the least.

However, it hadn’t reached the point where Lin Yang needed to work for someone else. After all, earning a million or two a year on his own by selling rice wine was feasible, and he wouldn’t have to be constrained by others.

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