"Tomorrow," Lu Ao said. "I'm going to the city tomorrow, so I won't be going fishing with you."
"That's fine, go ahead." Tan Junhao smiled. "Once you've bought your boat, we'll get to ride on your big boat too."
"When it'll be ready is still hard to say. The boat I've got my eye on is pretty run-down and needs to be sent to a shipyard for refurbishment."
"Every boat needs repairs. What's there to be afraid of? Oh, Zhang Ge asked me to tell you that the Giant Grouper fry you ordered will be ready soon. He told you not to forget about it."
Lu Ao rubbed between his brows. "Got it."
He had already paid the deposit for the Giant Grouper fry. Now he only needed to pay the remaining fifteen hundred yuan.
But spending money was never pleasant, especially when he was getting poorer and poorer.
That afternoon, Lu Ao specifically went out fishing and caught thirty-seven fish, nearly a hundred jin in total.
After taking those fish into town to sell and deducting the taxes, he earned a little over eighteen hundred yuan.
After setting aside money for groceries, he had earned the remaining payment for the Giant Grouper fry.
When Lu Ao got home, he saw Qi Yan waiting in front of the yard and asked, "Why are you here?"
Qi Yan yawned, looking resentful. "Didn't you tell me to harvest sweet potato leaves?"
After losing their last bet, he had no choice but to come help harvest sweet potato leaves for two hours.
Later, Lu Ao got busy going out to sea and forgot all about it. He only remembered a few days ago and mentioned it in passing.
"You harvested them this afternoon?"
"Yeah." Qi Yan's face was sunburned red. "The sweet potato