Chapter Thirty-two: The Last Song of Egg's Sorrow (Grand Finale)

  "Zhang Tingting, come back!" Just as Zhang Tingting was covering her forehead and about to faint, Shang Guan Neng's voice entered her ears. She turned her head to see Shang Guan Neng sitting leisurely at the fishing platform, waving at her.

  "But..."

  "Come back!" Shang Guan Neng smiled slightly: "The other side is just reasonably using the rules, don't take it to heart."

  Seeing Shangguan Nengren's calm and composed demeanor, Zhang Tingting's emotions inexplicably calmed down. She glared at Zhang Ranyan, turned around, and walked back to Shangguan Nengren, squatting down: "Can we win?"

  "Don't worry!" Upper official Nengren hung his homemade fish food on the hook, adjusted the position of the float, and cast it into the river with a smile: "As long as he catches a few more big fish, even if he uses ten fishing rods, it's no problem."

  "Really? Don't pretend to be calm, or that stinky girl will become even more lawless in the future." Zhang Tingting was still a bit nervous, from a probability perspective, two fishing rods are better than one.

  Shangguan Neng didn't respond, but Xiang Beibei beside him chuckled and said, "The competition has already begun, instead of worrying, it's better to trust him. If you didn't have confidence in him, you shouldn't have asked for his help in the first place."

  Zhang Tingting knew that Bei Bei was provoking her again, so she glared at her and sat down quietly. As Bei Bei said, since there's no other way, let's just believe in Shangguan's ability. As for the outcome... we'll talk about it later!

  But three minutes later, Zhang Tingting suffered a blow.

  "It's hooked! It's hooked!" Zhang Rangrang's shout suddenly came over, and Zhang Tingting turned her head to see that the young man in the sunlight had his left hand tightly grasping the fishing rod and his right hand quickly shaking the line. A crucian carp weighing over two kilograms broke through the water, with the hook firmly stuck in its gills. No matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't get away.

  Zhang Rangrang excitedly picked up the net and scooped up the crucian carp, while Yang Guang Xiao Shuai caught the fish in his hand, carefully removing the hook from its mouth. He then took the fish out of the net and put it into a fishing basket, which was hung on the shore with the fish still able to supplement water from the surface.

  Looking at the crucian carp still struggling left and right underwater, Zhang Rangrang burst out laughing, turned her head to give Zhang Tingting a domineering look, made a ghost face, and stuck out her tongue.

  Zhang Tingting's chest felt suffocated and her eyes blazed with anger.

  "Hooked again! Hooked again!" One wave has not yet subsided, another wave rises, the second fishing rod of the sunny young man starts to tremble, and another crucian carp over two catties emerges from the water surface. Zhang Ruanruan excitedly jumped up and down, and gave Zhang Tingting a provocative look.

  Zhang Tingting vomited blood.

  "A great capable person..."

  "Here it comes!" Officer Nang's eyes gleamed with a fierce light as he grasped his fishing rod and pulled upwards with force.

  Splash!

  "Ah!"

  Wow!

  Zhang Tingting and Xiang Beibei exclaimed in unison, they saw a huge fish head, the fish mouth was hooked by the fishing hook, but because of its huge body, it struggled violently, causing Officer Neng's fishing rod to be pulled into an arc shape, unable to pull the fish up for the time being, and there was also a risk of breaking the fishing rod.

  "Take that! You dare to resist!" Officer Nengren quickly cast a spell, increasing the toughness of the fishing rod, line and hook by tenfold. As a result, although the fishing rod was still curved, its curvature had decreased.

  With renewed energy, Officer Wang increased his strength: "Come up here for me!"

  "With a splash, a huge grass carp over one meter long broke out of the water, struggling left and right in mid-air, splashing crystal clear water droplets everywhere. Zhang Tingting and Xiang Beibei dodged too late, some water droplets landed on their faces and bodies, causing them to exclaim in surprise."

  Xiang Guan quickly and skillfully flipped the grass carp to the riverbank five meters away, not giving it a chance to escape. He then threw down his fishing rod, rushed forward, stepped on the belly of the grass carp with one foot, and used both hands and feet to press it firmly to the ground.

  "Woohoo——" There were still many anglers and other tourists around Lake Ming, who saw a giant fish being caught and excitedly ran over to watch the commotion.

  "Damn! What a huge grass carp! It's over a meter long!"

  "What's going on? There's actually such a big fish in Ming Water Lake?! Why don't I have such good luck?!"

  "Let's make way for those in front and let's take a look at the excitement!"

  "Don't push! Ah! Who stepped on my foot!"

  "Damn it! It's really huge! This must be over 30 catties!"

  "Over thirty catties? I think it's fifty or sixty catties."

  "It's gone, isn't it? The grass carp has a slender body and is not very heavy. Although this grass carp is quite long, its weight is much lighter than that of the black carp. It's already good if it weighs over 30 catties."

  "Oh, I see!"

  ……

  More and more people gathered around Jian's side, Zhang Ruan's face looked extremely ugly, what made her even angrier was that the sunny little handsome guy actually threw away his fishing rod and ran over to watch the excitement, Zhang Ruan was so angry that she stomped her feet.

  Upper official was able to subdue the grass carp with a few strokes, and the fish hook was pried out of the fish's mouth. However, this time it also caused trouble, the grass carp was too big, and the water bucket couldn't hold it at all.

  Just when it was difficult, the sunny little brother excitedly shouted: "Brother, this fish is too big, your bucket can't hold it, do you want to use my net?"

  "Oh?" Officer Neng Ren didn't expect that sunny little handsome guy to be so kind, and he didn't think much of it: "Then hurry up, this fish is not small."

  "Ah!" The sunny little guy excitedly ran back, took his own big net pocket, and didn't want the two fish that had been caught either. He directly threw them into the lake, making Zhang Ruan's small face turn bright red with anger.

  The net came, and the upper official put the big grass carp into it. With a forceful lift of the net mouth, the big grass carp was lifted up and brought to the shore. One end was tied to the shore and fixed firmly, while the other end let the grass carp slide into the water. However, when the grass carp saw the water again, it began to struggle desperately. The water splashed loudly on the shore, but fortunately, the young man's net bag was high-quality goods that could be trusted, and he wasn't afraid that the grass carp would break through the net bag.

  The onlookers gradually dispersed, and now there were only a few middle-aged and elderly men who particularly liked fishing surrounding Shang Guan Nengren, repeatedly asking him if he was selling or not.

  Ming Shui Lake is public property, so fishing here requires payment by the pound. Currently, grass carp sells for 15-16 yuan per pound on the market, but since we caught it ourselves, the price is much cheaper, only 8-9 yuan per pound. If someone wants to take this fish away, they need at least 300 yuan; otherwise, forget about it. These people probably think that Upper Official Neng is young and lacks financial resources, so they thought of buying the fish from him.

  "Go ahead! But for such a big one, you can't use the market price. How much will you offer?"

  Seeing the official's willingness to sell, the few people showed a joyful expression. A middle-aged man with a flat head stretched out one finger: "No need to say, I'll give you this number, and you don't even need to pay for the weight, how about it?"

  "A thousand?" Magistrate Fang's heart skipped a beat. He was giving away a thousand just like that! It was equivalent to the monthly income of many county towns.

  Several people nearby were dissatisfied.

  "You're not being very reasonable! One thousand? What are you going to use it for when you take it back? It's not even enough to make a living." Obviously, one thousand was an extremely high price, and that didn't even include the weight surcharge, which meant they would have to pay at least thirteen hundred yuan. Those people had originally wanted to see if Officer Wang could be negotiated with to lower the price, but this flat-headed guy had ruined everything.

  "Haha, don't you understand? Do you know what I do? Let me tell you, I'm the owner of Hai Xian City. My customers who love to eat fish have been asking for a big fish, the bigger the better, money is no problem. But such a large grass carp is hard to come by!" Ping Tou said with emotion.

  When Ping Tou said this, several people had nothing to say, feeling that someone else already had a buyer, and there was no way to argue.

  With a sense of regret, the few people dispersed, and Shangguan Neng smiled and said: "One thousand is no problem, but can you wait?"

  "Huh?" Ping Tou was puzzled.

  Shangguan Neng pointed to the young man squatting at the edge of the net, smiling and saying: "I'm competing with someone to see who can catch the most fish in total weight..."

  "No need to compare!" The sunny little guy immediately stood up and said, "I admit defeat."

  "Oh? You're giving up already?" Upper Official Neng smiled: "There's still plenty of time!"

  The young man shook his head: "This one weighs over 30 kilograms, and after struggling for a while, there are only 40 minutes left, it's impossible to catch up."

  The young man was indeed handsome and charming, making Officer Zhang and especially Zhang Tingting take a second look at him. They thought to themselves: It seems this kid is not bad after all, no wonder Ruan Ruan likes him.

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