"Swoosh!" With a gentle cast from Xiang Ye, the fishing rod carried the bait into the water, and the float flipped, standing upright with exactly four marks left above the water surface.
As the bait entered the water, Xiang Ye's two Buff began to take effect.
Xiang Ye could feel that there were fish inside his baited area, and probably quite a few of them.
Because his float was being bumped and moved around wildly.
This meant the fish were in the shallow layer. If he was fishing in a deep area, now would be the time to pull the hook shallower and start Float fishing.
But here, the bottom was only about half a meter deep, so there was no need to pull the hook up—the fish would go down to look for food.
Sure enough, about a minute after casting the bait, the float began to shake, then suddenly sank.
Xiang Ye immediately lifted the rod and knew he had a bite.
The rod he bought was 28 tuning and relatively stiff!
With a lift of the rod, Xiang Ye pulled up a small Crucian Carp.
Seeing this, Ai Bai beside him looked quite envious.
"You've got quite the fishing luck, huh? I won't even mention how fast you got the Bai Tiao yesterday, but today you're catching Crucian Carp just as fast?" Ai Bai said, a little confused watching Xiang Ye's moves.
"Just lucky, I guess!" Xiang Ye smiled at Ai Bai, then looked at the small Crucian Carp in front of him.
This Crucian Carp was about the length of two index fingers, not big, but probably over two taels in weight.
Sure enough, when he threw the Crucian Carp into the Keepnet, the system notification popped up.
"Ding, congratulations host, obtained Crucian Carp x1 (87 grams), reward 200 yuan, claim now?"
"Not yet, wait to claim all at once later," Xiang Ye muttered in his mind, tossing the Crucian Carp into the Keepnet.
Having caught one target fish made things much easier.
He rebaited, re-cast, and this time didn't wait long—just as the float stood upright, it already had movement.
This is called a 'Intercept bite'.
Meaning the bait was eaten by the fish before it fully sank to the bottom.
Seeing this, Xiang Ye didn't hesitate and lifted the rod again—another fish!
With a splash, yet another small Crucian Carp was pulled to the shore.
Watching Xiang Ye catching fish one after another, Ai Bai was a bit speechless.
Xiang Ye was using the bait he himself prepared—the Classic Trio of Baits.
So why was Xiang Ye's bait working while Ai Bai, using a similar 3.6-meter rod and the same bait, wasn't catching anything?
If Xiang Ye knew Ai Bai's frustrated thoughts, he might have told him, "Check out the Buff!"
Just as Ai Bai was still a little frustrated, Xiang Ye's third fish also bit!
Again, a small Crucian Carp weighing just over a tael.
Though not very valuable, Xiang Ye was very happy.
Not only had he earned 200 yuan, but he had also completed one-tenth of the task!
At that moment, Xiang Ye became the brightest star on this street.
Two minutes after the third fish, Xiang Ye took a moment, then caught the fourth Crucian Carp, followed by a fifth on a Intercept bite just half a minute later!
Xiang Ye had been wondering whether catching ten Crucian Carp would take half a day if luck was good, or if he could even finish the task if luck was bad.
But clearly, the place Ai Bai brought him to was very reliable!
At least there were enough fish, so Xiang Ye couldn't fail to catch any.
They arrived here at 9:30. Counting baiting the spot, casting, and adjusting the line, he probably fished for less than twenty minutes.
By 11 o'clock, Xiang Ye had already completed today's task!
"Ding, congratulations host, caught Crucian Carp x1 (76 grams), reward 200 yuan."
"Ding, congratulations host for completing the daily task: catch ten Crucian Carp. Reward: Ownership of Longteng Garden Residences, Building 7, Unit 2902."
As the last Common Carp entered the Keepnet, the system's notification sounded in Xiang Ye's mind—the first was the cash reward, and the second was for the daily task!
"Longteng Garden Residences? Building 7, Unit 2902? Isn't that the house Ai Bai and I are currently renting?"
Hearing the system prompt, Xiang Ye was stunned, then his eyes lit up, and his hands started trembling.
Good grief, Xiang Ye had been worrying that with Ai Bai and his wife gone, he would have to bear the rent alone.
Now it was great—no more rent to pay because the house was officially his!
Thinking of this, Xiang Ye couldn't help but smile.
The house he was living in wasn't the best in the area, but definitely not bad either, because it was close to the city center.
There was a subway station not far downstairs, so in this city where the average price was around 40,000 yuan per square meter, the house could sell for as high as 55,000 yuan per square meter.
The apartment Ai Bai and Xiang Ye rented wasn't large—a two-bedroom, one living room unit, with a construction area of seventy square meters and a usable area of over forty square meters.
That meant buying this house would cost a full 3.85 million yuan!
3.85 million... yuan!
Even if Xiang Ye earned fifteen thousand yuan a month without spending anything, it would take 257 months—more than twenty-one years.
But now, after catching ten small Crucian Carp, this house was his!
Thinking about this, Xiang Ye smiled again.
Indeed, a true protagonist must have a golden finger; relying on just one person's hard work, it would be really hard to earn this much money!
"All right, task completed. Next is to make some extra cash. Hopefully today won't be worse than yesterday—I at least want to make back what I spent on fishing gear yesterday!"
Xiang Ye didn't rush to take out the property ownership certificate because he had nowhere to put it now.
Better to keep fishing.
But he had a lot on his mind because Crucian Carp were clearly not like Bai Tiao.
Fishing Bai Tiao was so fast that you could catch one every few seconds—sometimes you didn't even need to wait for the float to flip; just seeing it move horizontally on the water surface was enough to strike.
But Crucian Carp weren't so easy to catch.
The reason Xiang Ye was catching fast now was that it was noon and the water temperature was high.
Once the water cooled, even having the bait BUFF wouldn't help much.
It was like putting a very delicious dish in front of someone who was hungry—the temptation was huge.
But for someone who wasn't hungry, no matter how fragrant the dish was, it had no effect.
Fishing was the same!
From 11 o'clock after getting the ownership certificate, Xiang Ye had kept catching fish almost continuously for about an hour and a half.
He had caught over forty small Crucian Carp, the most in the entire area.
Ai Bai had only caught five or six Crucian Carp so far...
Though Xiang Ye caught nearly one hundred fewer fish than yesterday, the total weight was not much different.
Because he had caught several fish close to three taels.
According to the system's income, Xiang Ye's earnings for today had already exceeded ten thousand yuan.
A house worth 3.85 million yuan, plus over ten thousand yuan in cash income—how much more could one want?
Xiang Ye was quite satisfied now.
So, when the fish stopped biting much, he calmly put on bait and cast the line directly into the water.
He also started eating steamed buns.
He had almost starved yesterday, so he deliberately bought two baskets of steamed buns when coming downstairs today to have something to eat when the fish weren't biting.
But maybe heaven didn't want him to be too happy.
At that moment, suddenly his float sank instantly!
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