Chapter 59. Tuna

    The fans of the modeling boss had no idea that the person they were worried about was chatting with someone at the moment.

     He ran to the railing and was about to reach out to the girl who was quietly listening to the guitarist singing, but he was embarrassed to find that he was still holding a skewer in his hand.

     So he turned around, stuffed the skewers into his mouth and ate them, then threw the bamboo sticks into the trash can, washed his hands, and returned to his original position, politely stretched out his hand and asked: “Hello, are you a staff member of Xingzhou Island?”

     Zheng Xuan looked at the man who suddenly appeared in front of her. She turned her head slightly, looked at him inconspicuously, then stretched out her hand and shook it lightly, and replied: “I am, I don’t know who you are…”

     “My name is Qin Yutang. Last time I thought it was fun, so I built a model for the camping area, and then I was invited to come here to experience camping.” The modeling boss introduced himself, “I am a modeler.”

     “Oh, hello!”

     In order to avoid being regarded as a playboy, Qin Yutang quickly stated his purpose: “I saw you during the day. You were making a hand-made model at that time, right? I want to say that the proportion of the model you made seems to be wrong.”

     He wanted to say it when he saw it during the day, but he was afraid of disturbing the other party, so he was held back. Now when he met the other party again, he finally couldn’t help but say it.

     Zheng Xuan: “…”

     Did she meet an expert?

     She was a little embarrassed and asked: “You can tell the proportions are wrong just by looking at it with your naked eyes?”

     “I have been in this industry for several years. I dare not say I am experienced, but this is our basic skills.” Qin Yutang paused and explained, “I don’t mean to say that your basic skills are not good. I…”

     Zheng Xuan smiled and said: “It doesn’t matter. I am an amateur anyway.”

     Qin Yutang was stunned: “Amateur? I can’t tell. I think the model is still very good.”

     Zheng Xuan thought that the other party was complimenting her against his will in order not to undermine her self-confidence.

     Knowing that Qin Yutang has good strength in this area, Zheng Xuan humbly asked for advice: “Do you teach? Can I ask you some professional questions? Do you want to consider changing jobs?”

    Qin Yutang: “?”

     Zheng Xuan realized, why did she make the same mistake as Sanniang?, digging up everyone she met.

     She smiled and added her self-introduction: “To be honest, I am Zheng Xuan, the leader of the cultural and creative group of Xingzhou Island. I am usually responsible for the design and production of cultural and creative products. Because I have no experience, I have been groping and moving forward. Now our cultural and creative products are pre-selling well, but we still need some professional guidance. After learning your identity, I couldn’t help but want to poach you. Sorry to make you laugh.” 

     Qin Yutang was surprised and said: “So, those pre-sale products on the display pictures were designed by you? It seems that I have to take back what I said before. Those products don’t look amateurish. Each product is very artistic and can reflect the mood and thoughts of the designer when designing them…” 

     Zheng Xuan thought that if she could poach this person to Xingzhou Island, Sanniang would be very happy. 

 

… 

 

     #What happened on Xingzhou Island#

     #Camping on Xingzhou Island# 

 

     Li Yaolin woke up and found that Xingzhou Island was inexplicably on the hot search again: “???” 

     What happened? Could it be that a vicious incident happened in the camping area? Why didn’t the logistics support department notify her? Besides, even if the APP is being updated, it shouldn’t be unable to send reminder notifications, right?

     Li Yaolin couldn’t help but search: What happened on Xingzhou Island?

     As a result, Xingzhou Island was calm and nothing happened!

     All netizens were like her, they clicked in with a confused look on their faces and left with a confused look on their faces.

     In the end, it was Manager Qi who reacted quickly and found out the whole story before going to work. The first thing he did after work was to report the matter to Li Yaolin.

     It turned out that a host suddenly stopped broadcasting while camping for no reason, so everyone thought something had happened.

     It was not until very late that the host posted a V blog and explained in his reply to fans that he hurriedly stopped broadcasting because he had something urgent to do. He didn’t expect netizens to have such a big imagination.

     His fans: “… You idiot, I knew you must have shit in your pants!”

     Surfers: “Bah, waste our traffic!”

     People who have been following Xingzhou Island: “It’s a false alarm/false joy!”

     Li Yaolin felt that this anchor looked familiar. She looked through his V-blog and found that he was a modeling master. He said he had been in the industry for five years, but he was actually exposed to 3D modeling when he was very young. Therefore, he became one of the well-known masters in the industry five years after graduation.

     But he never taught classes. Instead, he would broadcast live in his spare time, modeling and teaching novices for free.

     So he has more than 700,000 fans on V-blog and more than 400,000 fans on the small broken station. Each video has tens of thousands of likes.

     “No wonder the other party’s sudden closure of the live broadcast attracted so many people to guess.” Li Yaolin muttered.

     Although such a mistake was made, it was also a mistake to contribute to the “search” and popularity of Xingzhou Island. Li Yaolin was in a good mood.

     Zheng Xuan was in a good mood as well. “Sanniang, I have something to tell you.”

     “Look at you, did you find money?”

     “If I don’t hand in the money I found, won’t I be blacklisted?” Zheng Xuan said with a smile, “I found a teacher to learn modeling, and hired a part-timer for Xingzhou Island.”

     She told Li Yaolin that she met a modeler last night, got the other party’s guidance, and had mastered the trick of animal model proportions. She also said that she originally wanted to recruit the other party to Xingzhou Island, but seeing that the other party did not seem to plan to change jobs, she had to ask the other party to help adjust the proportions of this batch of pre-sold cultural and creative products to make the products more perfect.

     This is considered a part-time job, and the other party must be paid, so she has to obtain Li Yaolin’s consent in advance.

     Li Yaolin said: “I will give you full responsibility for the cultural and creative work. If you need manpower or find a part-time job, just tell the HR department, no need to ask me specifically.”

     However, Zheng Xuan mentioned modeling, she always felt that it was not a coincidence, so she turned the computer screen and asked: “Is the modeler you met this one?”

     Zheng Xuan saw the enlarged portrait, it was Qin Yutang whom she met last night: “Yes, it’s the modeler who modeled the camping area last time, and you gave him a ticket! I saw that he could see with his naked eyes that the proportions of the model I made were wrong, and I thought he was quite capable, so I asked him to teach me online, and he agreed.”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     Brother Xuan is so lucky, she wanted to improve her ability in this area and met a big boss in this field.

     However, the big boss of modeling who never teaches classes suddenly agreed to teach online, why does it sound a bit like a conspiracy?

     Just when she was about to ask a few more questions, Li Yaolin’s mobile phone suddenly rang. She saw that it was Captain Pan calling, so she went out to answer the phone.

     When she came back, Zheng Xuan saw her frowning and asked, “Why are you frowning on the first day of National Day?”

     Li Yaolin said, “Captain Pan told me just now that someone went to the fishery department early this morning to report that our Xingzhou Island illegally organized ship fishing activities at sea. Fortunately, Captain Pan was on duty today and answered the phone, so he came to ask me if the “Tuna Cup” had relevant procedures.”

     “Report? Was it that Yufan Sea Fishing Club?” Zheng Xuan asked. It was hard for her not to think badly of the club when she received the report at this critical moment.

     National Day happened to be a holiday for many departments, but the law enforcement team of the fishery department would arrange patrol warning tasks, so they directly used the reason that Xingzhou Island illegally organized ship fishing activities to let the law enforcement department ban the “Tuna Cup”, and at the same time prevented Li Yaolin from going to complete the procedures.

     “What should we do?” Zheng Xuan asked. Li Yaolin found the recreation project supervisor and told her about this. Her reaction was the same as Zheng Xuan’s.

    However, she was not very nervous after having experienced many things. She said: “This matter is actually purely their intention to make things difficult for us. It actually has no impact on us. When planning the boat fishing project, we had already studied Yóushì’s management regulations on the safety of marine leisure ship operations. We have obtained all the necessary certificates and procedures. The boat we rented has also been inspected by the fishery ship department. The operation of the boat fishing project is completely legal and compliant.

     “The other party said that we did not apply for approval in advance for this ‘Tuna Cup’, which is actually nonsense. Because our event clearly stated that it is not a competition, it is just a leisure boat fishing activity carried out under the premise of legal operation. There is no competitive nature. It’s just that our Xingzhou Island will reward tourists who catch tuna.

     “All procedures are in line with the standards of the “Regulations on the Management of Offshore Leisure Fishing Vessels in Youshi”, and they can’t ban our activities. There is only one item about personal safety insurance. Because the list of personnel has not been released yet, we haven’t bought insurance for them yet, but the list of personnel participating in today’s event has been determined, so we immediately contacted the insurance company to buy insurance for them.” 

     “It seems that the other party really wants to disrupt our mentality. In addition to insurance, the facilities and equipment on the day of the event must also be checked to ensure that there will be no omissions.” Li Yaolin said. 

     She thought about it and felt that even if it was so, it was still not very safe, so she called Captain Pan again and invited him or someone from the fishery department to attend this event as a guest. 

     Captain Pan said with a smile: “Mr. Li’s response is really quick. Don’t worry, I just checked and found that your island’s procedures are complete. Since it is not a competition, but just a small event, it can be smoothly held if there are no problems with the inspection of our department.”

     Li Yaolin felt that it was not enough. The other party did it on the first day of the month, so she didn’t have to do it on the fifteenth. But if she held this event quietly, wouldn’t the other party think that she was scared?

     The other party wanted to trip up Xingzhou Island, so she held this event in a lively manner. It would be best to improve the reputation of Xingzhou Island in sea fishing activities. When the sea fishing club holds related fishing competitions in the future, others will compare it with this ‘Tuna Cup’ event!

     Li Yaolin also called the leader of the cultural and tourism department and invited him to attend this event. However, the leader of the cultural and tourism department still had to go to investigate and was not free, but he asked the investigators under him, and finally a second-level investigator volunteered to be the guest of this event.

     After the official guests were invited, Li Yaolin naturally had to arrange for the media.

     She had dealt with TV stations and newspapers many times. When they learned that Xingzhou Island was going to make a big news again, how could they miss it?

     All the invitations and notifications had been arranged. After Li Yaolin explained some work matters to the managers of various departments and project supervisors, she changed into sun protection clothes, put on sunglasses, and went out to sea with her fishing gear and bait.

     This time, she would personally participate in the “Tuna Cup”.

     Although she occasionally went to the fishing platform to learn sea fishing with Lao Li when Xingzhou Island was just developed, she had never tried sea fishing on a boat!

     Since she had decided to participate in the event, she still had to spend two more days before the event to get a feel for it.

     Li Yaolin spent 168 yuan and got on a fishing boat with a group of anglers and ordinary tourists. According to the relevant policies of Yóushì, the number of passengers on leisure boats shall not exceed twelve, with one captain and one sea fishing safety officer, and the rest can only carry a maximum of ten tourists.

     Generally, boat fishing projects are not set off until there are ten people, but Xingzhou Island will set off on time at the specified time regardless of whether the boat is full of tourists, so as not to delay the tourists’ time.

     Fortunately, there are many tourists interested in boat fishing, and the boat is fully loaded before departure.

     The fishing boat departs from the pier and has to go around half of the island from the special protection area to the east coast.

     On the way to the boat fishing spot, Li Yaolin saw the shells of two green turtles floating on the sea not far away. They can be distinguished from their shell patterns. They are Yiyi and Nuannuan.

     The tourists on the same boat also saw them and shouted with a little surprise:

      “Look, those are two turtles, right?”

     “Really, which two turtles are they?”

     Li Yaolin replied: “Yiyi and Nuannuan.”

     “How did you recognize them?” The tourists were curious.

     “Yiyi’s tortoise shell is brown with a slight green tint, and the pattern in the middle of the carapace is radial. Nuannuan’s carapace is darker in color.”

     The tourists cast admiring glances at her: “It seems you know them well!”

     Li Yaolin smiled but said nothing.

     Every day, she sees sea turtles coming ashore to bask in the sun and breathe fresh air. Sometimes she would go to watch them lay eggs. After they lay eggs, she would watch their babies being born and watch them crawl across the beach and rush to the sea. After spending a long time with them, of course she understands them.

     “Then will we be able to catch them when we go fishing?” The tourists were worried.

     “No, the place where we fish is far away from the protected area, and they are very smart. When they see the fishing nets and hooks, they run faster than Bolt.”

     Her words amused the tourists, and everyone stopped worrying about the safety of the sea turtles.

     When they arrived at the boat fishing spot, Li Yaolin found a good position and cast her rod. The other anglers were faster than her. Only some tourists needed the guidance of the sea fishing safety officer.

     Li Yaolin’s fishing rod had only been cast for three minutes when a fish bit the hook. Moreover, this fish was particularly fierce and had a strong pulling force in the sea. The boat captain came to help Li Yaolin pull it and successfully put it into the scoop net.

     Before she recognized what kind of fish it was, the boat captain said, “It’s a red grouper, it weighs four pounds!”

     The tourist next to her looked envious: “Your luck is too good, isn’t it?!”

     Poor him, his fishing rod still didn’t move.

Li Yaolin’s mouth curled up, she was indeed lucky.

      She released the fish and continued to fish.

     The tourist was anxious: “Why did you release it?”

     Li Yaolin smiled: “This is not the fish I want to catch.”

     The tourist: “…”

     He muttered: “It’s not the target fish, but it can be sold for money, don’t give it to me!”

     As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yaolin caught another fish!

     This time, Li Yaolin caught a red grouper, and just when the anglers were all looking at her with envy, she released the fish again.

     The tourist: “…”

     So, is his reluctance to release the fish the reason why he couldn’t catch any fish?

     After about half an hour, Li Yaolin had caught four fish, and he finally felt a fish bite the hook, and he was immediately moved to tears.

     He finally caught a fish, but it turned out to be a mudfish, and it was still very small.

    Such a small fish is not worth much!

     The tourists took a group photo as a souvenir and let it go.

     After this comparison, he found that Li Yaolin was particularly popular with fish. Every time he caught a big fish weighing more than a few kilograms, or expensive fish such as red grouper, mudfish and other worthless fish were basically never caught.

     He planned to take a video with his mobile phone out of boredom. He didn’t dare to shoot Li Yaolin’s face. Most of the time, he recorded the scene when he caught the fish. He not only filmed Li Yaolin fishing, but also other anglers, and occasionally came back to check his fishing rod.

     Li Yaolin found out, but she was wearing a fisherman’s hat and covered her face, so she didn’t care about his behavior.

     Another hour and a half later, it was almost time to return, and all the tourists had put away their rods and watched the professional anglers fishing on the boat.

     Li Yaolin was surrounded by the most people because she caught the best fish, but she didn’t keep any and released them all. If someone hadn’t recorded the fish she caught, people who didn’t know would think she caught nothing.

     “Caught a fish!” The tourist who was recording the video suddenly shouted, and everyone’s eyes were instantly focused on Li Yaolin’s fishing rod.

     The fishing rod was pulled down by the fishing line, and the curvature of the rod made everyone worry that it might break.

     Li Yaolin’s strength was relatively weak, and her arms had been sore after fishing for two hours. The captain arrived in time, took the fishing rod, and shouted, “This is a big one, weighing dozens of kilograms!”

     The sea fishing safety officer was worried that the captain would be pulled off the boat by the huge pulling force, so he also came to help. The two big men spent a lot of effort, and the sweat soaked the back of their T-shirts. The captain almost sprained his waist when he was fighting with the fish.

     After more than half an hour of extreme pulling, everyone was able to see the shadow of the fish struggling several meters underwater through the extremely visible sea water.

     “It’s a tuna!”

     Someone shouted, and the whole fishing boat was boiling.