Chapter Fifteen: On the Eve of the Grand Opening

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Seeing that Du Yu approved of her, Ma Yue was delighted and continued, “Now that we have a van, we’ll need to arrange people to make deliveries and people to move the goods. At present, the only person who might be stationed at the shop is probably Wang Xiaowei. The two of us can’t stay there around the clock, so hiring more staff for the shop is very important…”

Ma Yue spoke at length in one breath.

Du Yu was once again impressed by her ability to see the whole picture. There were so many details she could think of; she was truly no ordinary girl. It also made him curious about her family background once more.

“Hiring people will be easy enough. We can simply look in the village. But I won’t get involved in that. You can set the standards for selecting them.”

Du Yu clearly intended to be a hands-off proprietor.

Ma Yue did not object. She nodded seriously in agreement.

“As for the publicity and related matters, I’ll leave those to you as well. I’m counting on you, Miss Ma!”

Ma Yue naturally agreed. These matters were nothing difficult for her.

By the time the two of them had finished discussing the details, it was nearly noon. At Wang Xiaowei’s insistence, Du Yu treated them both to a sumptuous lunch.

This time, it was Ma Yue’s turn to pretend she did not know Wang Xiaowei. The fellow had nearly carried off the central hotpot and licked it clean. Ma Yue’s attitude was clear: if you have no shame, that is your business, but I still have mine.

After their lavish and plentiful lunch, Du Yu and Wang Xiaowei temporarily bade farewell to Ma Yue. She still had plenty of work to do, while Du Yu needed to go home and catch more sea fish—and increase his luck value. After all, he still had a decent chance of obtaining something good.

More importantly, the Luck Value Shop was about to refresh with a new batch of items!!!

Du Yu could now see his progress toward the next refresh!

[Host: Du Yu]

[Luck Value: 440]

[Only 300 points remain until the next Luck Value Shop refresh.]

…

Three hundred!

That goal was not far away. Du Yu might even reach it that very afternoon!

When he returned home, Du Yu did not linger. He bought two buckets and one hundred pieces of bait from the Luck Value Shop. The one hundred pieces of bait yielded eight pieces of Premium Fish Bait, while the two buckets were merely ordinary models.

What a joke. With a probability of only 0.000001%, Du Yu was not even sure he would survive the year if he managed to draw one of those.

After all, that sort of thing consumed one’s life expectancy.

If buying those two buckets resulted in even one MAX-grade bucket, Du Yu might as well start arranging his funeral.

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Carrying the two buckets and one hundred pieces of bait, Du Yu set out for the seaside once again with Wang Xiaowei.

Time to comb the shore for treasures!!!

Several fishermen by the sea had seen Du Yu and Wang Xiaowei before, so they considered themselves acquainted and came forward to greet them—especially Wang Xiaowei. Several of them even said they wanted to take him as their master and asked him to explain how they could catch such large fish.

The fellow cleared his throat twice with exaggerated solemnity and was just about to speak when Du Yu smacked him hard on the head.

“Sorry, everyone. My brother and I have something to take care of today. I’ll personally teach you another day. Heh heh.”

Wang Xiaowei rolled his eyes.

I thought you were going to do something useful. So you just wanted to show off by yourself, huh?

Ah, well. Who could blame him? He was Brother Yu.

Looking aggrieved, Wang Xiaowei rubbed his bald head, picked up his bucket, and hurried after Du Yu.

Having fished in these waters many times, the two of them were already perfectly familiar with the routine. The only difference this time was that Du Yu kept all the Premium Fish Bait for himself and gave Wang Xiaowei forty ordinary pieces.

Wang Xiaowei knew nothing of this. He could never have imagined that even his oversized bucket—so capable of holding a ridiculous amount—would still lose out to Du Yu.

Du Yu was not a bucket.

He was an entire fishpond, with an absurd capacity for holding things.

The people nearby had long since formed a circle around them. Some of those who had come fishing for the first time did not understand what was happening, but they crowded around anyway to watch the pair.

Wang Xiaowei was overjoyed. He would have another perfect opportunity to show off.

The afternoon remained scorching. The spectators fanned themselves with palm-leaf fans while the fishermen, speaking in the accent of the southeastern coast, stared intently at the surface of the sea.

“It’s out, it’s out! A ribbonfish!”

Less than five minutes later, Wang Xiaowei shouted excitedly.

“Wow! Another large yellow croaker!”

Wang Xiaowei was beside himself with excitement, his bald head gleaming especially brightly beneath the sunlight.

Before long, however, he sensed that something was wrong.

Where did everyone around me go? I’ve caught so many fish so quickly—why isn’t anyone watching me?

Wang Xiaowei looked toward Du Yu and was instantly dumbfounded.

Du Yu was almost completely surrounded by fishermen.

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Wang Xiaowei felt bitter. Heaven alone knew how it had happened, but Brother Yu had stolen all the limelight. He decided to go over and find out what was going on.

Meanwhile, Du Yu was extremely pleased as he looked at the dense crowd around him. The fishermen’s praises rose and fell in an endless chorus.

Wang Xiaowei glanced into one of the buckets Du Yu had brought and could not help sucking in a cold breath.

Good heavens—there were already three red-spotted groupers in there!

So while I wasn’t looking, you went all the way out to the deep sea and invited three red-spotted groupers back to your bucket as guests?

Was that even reasonable, Brother Yu?!

Wang Xiaowei was on the verge of tears when Du Yu suddenly jerked up his fishing rod and brought in another fish!

Everyone focused their eyes on it.

A large yellow croaker!

That was incredible!!!!

Quite a few people nearly dropped to their knees on the spot and begged to become Du Yu’s disciples.

As for Du Yu, he was already grinning from ear to ear.

“Host has obtained a red-spotted grouper. Luck Value reward: +40.”

“Host has obtained a large yellow croaker. Luck Value reward: +30.”

Another thirty points of Luck Value!!!

Those four fish alone had brought him a total of 150 Luck Value points. Half the required progress was already complete!

Before long, all eight pieces of Premium Fish Bait he had brought were used up. He left one piece for Xiaowei, and in total had caught three red-spotted groupers and three large yellow croakers. It was a little unfortunate that the six fish had consumed seven pieces of bait, but it was still more than enough.

There were fifty-eight pieces of ordinary bait left. Du Yu decided to reserve thirty of them to feed the precious sea fish. As for the remaining twenty-eight…

Let’s get to work!!!

Seeing Wang Xiaowei’s dejected expression, Du Yu could barely keep the corners of his mouth from rising.

Go ahead and show off all you like.

Your brother here is a whole fishpond!