Chapter 2

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Come, Mr. Liao, I’ll bring this urn closer to you so that you can get some added auspicious energy.”

“Cough, cough.” Ye Chen’s words made Mr. Liao cough.

“Forget it. I haven’t lived long enough to do this!” He waved his hand.

Ye Chen clicked his tongue and said in a regretful tone, “Sigh, then forget it. Mr. Liao, look at those old men over there. They’ve been eyeing my fishing bait box since this afternoon.”

The next second, a wave of curses came from all around.

“What do you mean by ‘eyeing’? We think it’s bad luck, but we weren’t sure whether to say it!”

“That’s right, that’s right. You’ve always been skunked, so we thought there’d be no use in asking you to keep it away.”

While it was commonly said that one’s senses deteriorated with age, that didn’t seem to apply to the group of fishermen.

Ye Chen, who was originally grinning, was immediately disgruntled when he heard them comment on his fruitless fishing.

“What Skunked King? I’m not what you’re calling me!”

Hearing Ye Chen’s words, the old men around him spared him his last shred of dignity.

“Ah, yes, yes, yes. Skunked King is a mismatched nickname for Mr. Ye!”

“Didn’t Mr. Ye catch a boot from the river yesterday?”

“Don’t say that. Mr. Ye has fished for living creatures before. I personally saw Mr. Ye catch one in the river last week. A toad, that is!”

…

The old men on the shore teased Ye Chen with all their might.

Although Ye Chen could not catch any fish, he could always catch some strange things.

Ye Chen pursed his lips, then said to the old men, “Just watch. I’m going to get a huge catch tonight!”

With that, Ye Chen retracted his fishing rod. The bait was gone again.

After hanging up the bait, Ye Chen cast the rod.

As for the urn at his feet, Ye Chen counted on it to help him change his luck for the day.

In Ye Chen’s eyes, fishing was like metaphysics.

Although Ye Chen was proficient in the theory and practice of fishing, he still couldn’t catch any fish.

In truth, Ye Chen was a transmigrator.

Two months ago, he had somehow transmigrated to this parallel world.

In his previous life, Ye Chen could be said to be a fishing fanatic and a fishing pro.

After coming to this world, he found out that he was an orphan, and at the same time, he had a lot of savings.

The carefree Ye Chen would not give up on his hobby.

Ye Chen used his own savings to buy a few sets of professional fishing gear and began to prepare to become a happy fishing pro.

What Ye Chen could not figure out was that in the days after that, he did not catch a single fish.

However, he did catch a lot of outrageous things.

At the side, Mr. Liao had already settled down. He sat on a folding stool and set up his fishing rod.

Turning to look at the urn at Ye Chen’s feet, Mr. Liao leaned forward and said in a deep voice, “Mr. Ye, why don’t you just give up? I heard that someone jumped into the river from the bridge a few days ago.”

He continued, “It’s so late at night, and you’re messing around with an urn. No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t feel right.”

Ye Chen scratched his head and slapped his thigh in realization. “Mr. Liao, don’t you think the urn belongs to that person?”

The corner of Mr. Liao’s eyes twitched. “That… How is that possible?”

“It’s been a few days, and the salvage team hasn’t managed to find the body. The family has a monetary reward of 200,000!”

As a cold wind blew through the night, Mr. Liao shivered and said, “I’ve lived my whole life and I’ve been fishing a lot. Night fishing is very risky. After a long time of doing it, who can guarantee that we won’t encounter anything non-human?”

He continued, “Besides, why do you have to be so inauspicious in the middle of the night? It’s so unlucky to have a urn by your feet. Hurry up and put it away!”

Ye Chen rolled his eyes at Mr. Liao. In fact, he did not care whether the old man accepted it or not.

Ye Chen thought, “I can bear even your constant teasing about me being skunked. What else can’t I tolerate?”

“I won’t keep it away!” Ye Chen’s mouth twitched. He made up his mind to place the urn, which he thought was lucky, by his feet until dawn.

Mr. Liao sighed. Just as he was about to continue to persuade Ye Chen, he heard someone shout from the side.

“F*ck, Mr. Liao, you’ve got a big bite! D*ng, that’s awesome!”

Mr. Liao, who was still trying to persuade Ye Chen a second ago, immediately became excited and ran back to his fishing spot.

At that moment, Ye Chen looked at his still fishing float and then at Mr. Liao’s pole. He could not help but feel bitter.

A big bite referred to a fish sucking the hook into its mouth and eating the bait while swimming. Generally, such fish were bigger or more aggressive, for example, carps, catfish, black carp, grass carp, and so on.

Simply put, with a big bite, the fishing float would completely submerge underwater.

For the fishermen, there was nothing more exciting than a big bite.

Despite his ripe old age of over 70 years, Mr. Liao could still contend against a big fish.

With the crisp sound of a fishing line being pulled, the fishing rod in Mr. Liao’s hand seemed to have turned into a divine weapon.

“Snap the rod, snap the rod!” Ye Chen’s face turned green with anger.

In fishing terminology, snapping a rod meant that a fishing rod breaking in the process of fishing.

At that moment, Ye Chen could only hope that the old man’s fishing rod broke.

Unfortunately, Ye Chen did not get what he wanted.

After contesting the giant in the water for 3 minutes, Mr. Liao pulled a pitch-black grass carp out of the river.

“Weigh it, weigh it!”

“F*ck, it’s 2.82 kilograms!”

“Awesome!” thought Mr. Liao. He had thought of catching a few carps to make soup, but he wasn’t expecting a giant grass carp.

When his wife came back tomorrow, he’d ask her to whip up a spicy dish out of the carp.

“Hahaha! Hahaha!” At the moment, Mr. Liao was as happy as a child as he looked at the grass carp in the keepnet.

Then, he turned to look at Ye Chen, who had a bitter expression on his face.

Patting Ye Chen’s shoulder in excitement, Mr. Liao smiled. “Chen, this thing that you’ve placed here is really quite useful!”

He continued, “To express my gratitude, I’ll catch a few crucian carps for you later. That way, you won’t have to be skunked today. Hahahahaha!”

“F*ck you!” Ye Chen internally cursed, almost exploding in anger. “You used to treat me as an equal and call me Mr. Ye, but now you’re calling me Chen.”

Ye Chen placed the fishing rod in his hand on the rod holder and walked toward Mr. Liao.

At that moment, the viewers in the live stream room thought that Ye Chen was going to reason with Mr. Liao.

But who knew…

“Mr. Liao, what bait did you use?” Ye Chen asked friendlily. “Can you share some with me and let me try?”