Golden Fishing Village

Soon after, there was only a splashing sound, and a big fish jumped out of the sea under the pull of the fishing line. As soon as it came out of the water, it shook its head and tail violently, trying to jump to another sea with the momentum.

In the blink of an eye, Ao Muyang held the handle and turned the net into a super-large tennis racket, and swung it at the big fish.

The big fish crashed into the dip net. This was a standard self-casting trap. It struggled violently and was useless. Ao Muyang grabbed the handle of the dip net and dragged it to the reef.

A good start. This fish is eighty centimeters long and has smooth body lines. It is definitely a good fish.

When making fish tattoos, you must be careful not to hurt the fish, otherwise even if a fish scale is removed, its value will be greatly reduced. So Ao Muyang took out the fish killing knife prepared in advance, opened the gills of the fish and inserted it straight into the back of the head. , destroying its brain immediately.

The strength of the sea bass's struggle suddenly became much smaller. He opened the foam box and placed it flatly inside. The box was full of ice cubes. Under the low temperature, the sea bass completely calmed down.

He felt that the fish was enough, so he stopped working and paddled a raft to Yan Wenzi's side.

Except for Yan Wenzi, who was lucky enough to encounter a sea bass at the beginning, he didn't encounter any other fish for the next half hour.

Night fishing at sea is not that easy. After a long time without harvest, Yan Wenzi became tired and became less and less interested in fishing.

Ao Muyang gave him the prawns in his bucket. The golden drops were extremely tempting. This time Yan Wenzi put down the fishing rod again. After a while, the luminous float on the fishing line began to sway.

Yan Wenzi calmed down this time. He was about to let go of the fishing line and engage in a protracted battle with the underwater fish, but he frowned after testing his strength: "Hey, you're not very powerful?"

Ao Muyang took the fishing rod and tried it, and said: "Well, it's not a big fish, just close the rod."

This way he didn't even need to lift the net. He quickly turned the wheel base and a fish was pulled out of the water.

The fish emerging from the water is not a small fish either. It is more than 20 centimeters long, with a plump body and a bulging back. The overall shape is slightly arc-shaped, and the abdomen is wide arc-shaped. Its head is pointed forward, its mouth is short and blunt, and its body is covered with light yellow scales. Under the light, its entire body looks golden.

After seeing this fish, Yan Wenzi took a sharp breath and exclaimed in surprise: "Good luck, good luck, this is a large yellow croaker? That's great, the large yellow croaker is even more precious when used as a fish tattoo!"

Ao Muyang glanced at him with pity. He didn't want to disturb the artist's dream, so he didn't say anything and let him be happy for a while.

When he was overjoyed, Ao Muyang coughed and said, "Mr. Yan, I'm sorry, this is not a big yellow croaker, this is a yellow croaker."

Yan Wenzi asked in confusion: "What kind of fish is Huanggu fish?"

Ao Muyang said: "It can be regarded as the cousin of the big yellow croaker. They are both from the Huang family, and they are all kingfish, but they are not as precious as the big yellow croaker."

"How's the output?"

Ao Muyang said cautiously: "It's very big."

Yan Wenzi suddenly lost interest: "Hi!"

He asked if he wanted to stay and make fish tattoos. Yan Wenzi shook his head without interest, so Ao Muyang took the fish off the hook and threw it back into the sea.

There were still more shrimps, and they finally harvested sea bass later on, but the largest one was the one Ao Muyang fished before, which was a full eighty-four centimeters.

They fished for most of the night until two o'clock in the morning, and harvested a lot of fish. They caught more than 20 sea bass alone, as well as Spanish mackerel, large hairtail, etc. scattered here and there. There are more than fifty pieces in total.

Ao Muyang sailed to take them back to the village. He asked Ao Mupeng to arrange a room for the father and daughter so that they could rest first.

It turned out that Yan Wenzi was a serious artist with an unusual passion for artistic creation. Although he had stayed up late all night, he was not sleepy and made sure to make fish drawings directly after returning to the village.

Ao Muyang understands this very well. Making gyoto has strict requirements on the fish itself. The fresher the fish, the more suitable it is for making gyoto.

Since Yan Wenzi requested it, he nodded to Ao Mupeng and said, "Then go and open the village committee office. There is good lighting and a wide table there. Let Mr. Yan go and create there."

When entering the office, the first thing to do is naturally the sea bass.

Yan Xiaotu used her unparalleled ability to grab the bass with one hand and was about to lift it up.

Ao Mupeng said hurriedly: "No, Xiaotu, please let me go."

Yan Xiaotu smiled heartily and said: "It's okay, I'm a female man and I'm very strong, oh my!"

She held up the fish's gills and tried to catch it, but when she rubbed her palm upwards, she gasped in pain: a scar appeared on her palm, dripping with blood.

Ao Mupeng hurriedly took a clean towel to stop her bleeding, and stamped his feet and said: "Hey, you have to be careful. The gill cover of this sea bass near the pectoral fin is sharp and pointed. We call it a bass knife. If you are not careful, it will Cut your hand, look, look, I told you not to move, I’ll do it!”

Yan Xiaotu had a bad temper, but she was not violent. After listening to Ao Mupeng's words, she showed a shy smile and whispered: "So that's how it is."

Yan Wenzi didn't care at all about his daughter's injury. He was holding a large piece of foam in one hand and digging holes in it with a sharp carving knife in the other.

Yan Xiaotu was injured, and Ao Mupeng was helping her stop the bleeding and disinfect it, so the job of cooperating with Yan Wenzi fell on Ao Muyang.

Yan Wenzi asked for tools while digging a hole in the foam. He had to use a tape measure to measure the size of the sea bass, such as how long the mouth was, how wide the head was, and what the specifications of the fins were. Everything was measured very accurately.

The hole he dug in the foam was based on these dimensions. In the end, a concave hole with the same shape as the sea bass appeared on the foam, like an oversized fish print.

After digging, he stretched out his hand and said, "Give me a newspaper."

Ao Muyang handed him the newspaper. He patiently laid the newspaper flat against the concave hole, and finally put the fish in it, which was perfectly embedded in it.

The next step was to color it. Ao Muyang thought he would not need to do it, but he had more work to do at this time.

The fish body itself has mucus, which must be wiped off before coloring, but it cannot be wiped off in advance, otherwise the fish scales will crack slightly due to drying.

In this way, Lao Ao slowly wiped the mucus from the fish body under Yan Wenzi's command. He had to cooperate with Yan Wenzi's coloring process. Yan Wenzi first mixed the color, and while he was mixing the color, Ao Muyang wiped off the mucus on the part he was about to color.

The whole process had to be fast, the coloring had to be fast, the wiping had to be fast, and the coloring had to be fast, otherwise once the paint dried up, there would be no way to copy it.

Among them, coloring is the most important link, which has to be based on the original color of the fish body, and paint it layer by layer. If the original color of the fish body is darker, then the color of the paint should also be darker. If the color of some places is lighter, the added paint should also be light.