A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

The figure sat there motionless like a stone statue.

Fang Shiqing felt strange, so he planned to go over to see the situation.Suddenly there was a rush of brisk footsteps behind him, and then a clear and clear child's voice sounded not far away: "Oh, it's the big brother of the farm? What are you doing?"

"Hey?"

He turned around in surprise, only to see a cute little girl under ten years old standing behind him, blinking her eyes at him.

He has seen this child more than once.The most recent time was at Zhao Jun's courier site on the day of NO.15. Her mother took her to deliver the courier, and she gave him a rainbow candy at that time.

"It's you," he scratched the back of his head and asked, "Why are you here? Are you here to play? This neighborhood is not suitable for you to play. Be good, stay away from the water."

It's early in the morning now, very few children go out so early, let alone a place so inaccessible.It is so close to the lake, it is by no means a safe place for children to play.

The little girl blinked again: "It's okay, I came with my father."

"--dad?"

"Yeah, he's over there, didn't you see?"

The little girl looked behind him.

He then turned his head, and saw that the figure sitting by the lake just turned around, revealing his face, he was a capable and dark uncle.

He yelled at the little girl softly: "Shh! The fish are scared away by you!"

Only then did Fang Shiqing see that there was a fishing rod made of bamboo on the rock next to the uncle.

It turns out... is he a townsman who came to fish?

That makes sense.I heard that the best time for fishing is early morning and evening. For fishing enthusiasts, getting up early to come to the lake is not a sudden thing.

On the surface, the uncle was scolding his daughter, but in fact he was secretly complaining about him as a stranger.He was so embarrassed that he quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth, nodded apologetically, and then retreated far away with the little girl.

"Father is too much," the little girl complained with a wrinkled face after leaving far enough, "It's obvious that I can't catch it because of my poor skills, but he wants to blame me. He thinks I'm too noisy and won't let me watch from the sidelines." Don’t let me get too close to the water. It’s annoying, I finally begged him to take me to the lake to play, but he didn’t play with me.”

"The waterside is too dangerous, it's really not suitable for children," Fang Shiqing said, "When you grow up, you will be able to fish with your father."

The little girl snorted and said, "Let's forget it. What's the point of fishing? You can sit in one place for an hour, and you may not get one. My brother and his friend went down and caught them directly. You can catch them in a while." Grab half of the basket."

"Catch fish...?"

The previous embarrassment almost subsided, and Fang Shiqing belatedly remembered that "fishing" is actually one of the common money-making routines in simulation business games, and his interest suddenly became high.

He tentatively asked: "Catch the fish, then what? Can these fish be taken back and made into dishes?"

"Of course, on the day they come out to catch fish, we will have fish to eat at night!" The little girl nodded happily, "If you catch more, my brother will take it and sell it when he goes shopping, and then give it to me. Buy nougat and bring it back to eat."

bingo!Fish can be sold for money!

Fang Shiqing was so excited that he decided to inquire about where fishing tackle was sold and try to get a set.

The fishing system in the game is usually a fun little game.When he was still in reality, he had always been very good at this kind of small game and liked it very much.

He wanted to ask the little girl a few more words, but was interrupted.

On the edge of the water, the little girl's father suddenly picked up the fishing rod and stood up. At the same time, he cursed loudly, and then staggered.

"Father!" The little girl was startled, and hurried to the water's edge, Fang Shiqing followed behind her.

The fishing rod in the man's hand was bent sharply, and the fishing line was tightly stretched, moving violently in the water: it looked like it should be a big fish.

The man pressed the fishing rod and kept adjusting the pay-in and take-up of the line, but the force in the water obviously made it difficult for him to resist, so he had to wade into the water.

"Father, I'll help you—" the little girl yelled and was about to rush down, scaring Fang Shiqing and the man at the same time.

"Don't come down!" The man yelled, and at the same time, he was pulled down a few steps by the fish in the water because of distraction, seeing that the water level had reached his waist.

The water here is not too shallow, if the little girl rushed down so recklessly, she might be in danger.Fang Shiqing stopped the little girl and looked at the swaying water. He felt a little guilty, but he still shouted over there: "Um... Uncle, do you need my help?"

The man ignored him, but the little girl glanced at him: "You haven't even touched the fishing rod, how can you help me! At this time, laymen will mess things up, let me go, I know what to do alley!"

Fang Shiqing caught her, dumbfounded, and dragged her to the shore: "How much strength does a little girl like you have? Even your father can't drag a fish, I'm afraid it will drag you away all at once."

The two squatted down on the shore, watching the wrestling between the man and the fish without daring to breathe.

The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and in the end the humans had a slight upper hand. The fish in the water exhausted all their strength and were caught and lifted up.

It was a big blue-black fish more than one meter long, with a row of sharp teeth in its mouth, just looking at it made one's heart palpitate.

The man dragged out a fish basket from under the boulder by the lake and stuffed the fish into it.That basket is only over a foot high, and it’s impossible to hold such a huge fish in terms of its size—it seems that it’s probably a game-specific storage item, just like an item bar, with a row of A grid of props, rather than a fixed-sized space.

"Dad, you are really amazing!"

The man waded to the shore, and the little girl rushed over excitedly and took the fish reel in his hand, "This fish is so big, we can invite our neighbors to eat together tonight—"

The man straightened his face all of a sudden.

"How many times have I told you not to get close to the water, why don't you listen?" He held the little girl's arm with a cold face, "This is too dangerous! If you don't obey next time, I won't take you out to play."

"I just want to help you." The little girl lowered her head lazily, but she didn't dare to talk back because she was wronged.

Holding a fishing rod in one hand and his daughter in the other, the man came to Fang Shiqing: "Thank you, young man, if you hadn't helped me just now, this girl would have jumped into the water."

"Ah, no, you're welcome..."

Fang Shiqing was a little at a loss.

The old man in front of him looked fierce and hard to talk to. However, it was probably because he stopped the little girl from letting him into the water just now, thus saving some favorability, and he was still kind to him.

"You are the new farmer before, right," he said, "I am the firefighter in the town. On the day you got off the train, I also went to pick you up at the station, do you remember?"

"Uh, um." Fang Shiqing replied vaguely. In fact, he had never experienced that incident at all, but only heard it from the little girl.

"It sounds like you are also interested in the fish in this lake?" The other party glanced at the water surface, "The fish here are fresh and tender, taste good, and are worth selling. Young man, if you are interested , You can also try to catch two, but remember, you can’t do anything to this lake after four o’clock in the afternoon, this is the rule of Fengyue Town.”

"Hey?" These words sounded meaningful, Fang Shiqing carefully looked at the uncle's face, and asked cautiously, "Rules mean that if you violate it—"

"Rules are rules," the other party repeated.

Fang Shiqing immediately stopped talking.Judging by the tone, this is probably the same as "close the doors and windows after dark", it is the default rule, and it is likely to involve supernatural events.

"Thank you for your reminder," he rubbed his head and smiled wryly, "but, uh, I can't swim, and I've always been afraid of water. It's okay to watch from afar on the shore, but as for going down to catch fish...it probably won't be possible. of."

This is the truth.If he had longed for the game's fishing system before, after seeing the scene of the man fighting the fish, his anticipation completely turned into a bubble—obviously, the "fishing" in this game is not a game. Something as simple as a small game.

The sun has risen in the air, the sun has completely dispelled the morning fog, and the best time for morning fishing has passed.The little girl took her father's hand and said goodbye to Fang Shiqing, and the father and daughter left the lake along the road.

Fang Shiqing looked at the water, sighed, and felt depressed.

——Are you, or should you learn to swim?After all, fishing is a good business with no capital and huge profits, and it can pass the time. It is really a loss to give up such a good opportunity to make money just because you are afraid of water.

Is there any way to catch fish without going into the water?

In reality, how do people usually get fish?

Fishing probably counts as one, but occasionally when you encounter a big fish like just now, you may be dragged down.Or……

As he thought about it, he set off and walked towards the town.

When he reached the end of the road, he saw You Qingyu walking from the other side.She seemed to have run around the lake for a long time, and her stamina was already empty, and she was walking slowly, waiting for her stamina to recover little by little.

"Why are you slower than me?" She was surprised when she saw Fang Shiqing, "It's past nine o'clock now."

"Something just happened..."

Fang Shiqing told her what happened just now, and said, "I have been thinking just now, is there any safer way to catch fish. For example, how about preparing a fishing net? In reality, fishermen also use nets to catch fish. Bar?"

"I don't know." You Qingyu thought for a while and said, "The aquatic products we eat now, whether it's fish or seafood, are generally farmed."

"—breeding?"

"That's right, it's like this in reality. Wild game is very expensive, and I don't know if it's hygienic, so whether it's animals or aquatic products, they are generally raised... Speaking of which, isn't your farm able to raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep? Can I raise fish?"

Fang Shiqing was stunned for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh hard.

Until entering the gate of the blacksmith's shop, Fang Shiqing was still deeply excited by You Qingyu's unintentional proposal.Yes, why didn't he think of it before?If you want to use fish to generate income, the best way is of course to dig fish ponds and raise them in large quantities, instead of squatting by the lake and fishing one by one!

As for whether fish farming is feasible, you just need to go to the library to check whether there are related books.He barely suppressed the excitement in his heart, and planned to look for it along the way when he planned to take the cinnabar to Xiao Fengdi.

"Brother Fang, are you here?" He Xiangwu basked in the sun in the yard full of energy, jumped up and shouted loudly when he saw him, "Just now I just made a deal and sold the newly made gemstone necklace Go to two, guess how much you earned?"

He stretched out his two hands triumphantly: "Seven thousand six! Seven thousand six! One for four thousand, one for three thousand six! According to this calculation, when I finish and sell this batch of jewelry, I can earn enough money. Hundreds of thousands! Come, come, I will transfer half of the money to you—"

"Why are you giving it to me?" Fang Shiqing immediately refused, "You keep it, I will take care of all of you to borrow it when I am short of money."

"Because the most valuable thing on those jewelry is the raw material." He Xiangwu collected his expression and said sincerely, "Although it has become more valuable after I process it, if you hadn't brought the materials out, the money would have been lost at the beginning. There won't be."

"Anyway, the money earned is calculated together, and it doesn't matter who earns it."

Fang Shiqing felt his scalp tingle when he mentioned what happened in the previous dungeon.He didn't want to get entangled in these matters, so he quickly changed the subject: "Actually, I have something else I want to ask for your help."

"Hey? Brother Fang, are you here to upgrade the equipment?" He Xiangwu looked at him, "My manual says that if you want to upgrade the farmer's equipment, you need not only the corresponding materials, but also the farmer's proficiency ...Has your proficiency reached the standard?"

"No, not to upgrade equipment."

He Xiangwu was a little puzzled.When the two entered the room, Fang Shiqing took out the cinnabar mine and put it on the table: "Can you refine such an ore?"

Seeing the few stones on the table, He Xiangwu's expression suddenly changed.