The Fisherman Who Never Catches Fish-Chapter 412 - 242: One Plan Fails, Hatch Another! (Please Subscribe)_2

On the way back to the harbor, the ship was stable, with no possible chance of falling apart.

However, to avoid any issues, the staff also reinforced the ship.

After the treasure ship was pulled back to the harbor, a grand return ceremony was held, and the construction of the Great Ming Shipwreck Museum was officially announced.

Things began to get busy here.

The location was specifically chosen by Jinghai after careful selection.

It was the most suitable place to build the shipwreck museum.

The location was convenient and spacious.

It was a very reasonable choice.

Fang Hao also attended the ceremony. He didn’t want to go, but as the main discoverer of the Great Ming Treasure Ship, it was unreasonable for him not to show up.

In the end, he came to the site,

as it was necessary for him to attend.

Fortunately, the ceremony didn’t last too long, and Fang Hao was relieved.

After he was done, he took the opportunity to sneak away while the media personnel weren’t paying attention to him.

By the time the media personnel realized and started looking for Fang Hao, he was already nowhere to be seen.

This almost made a group of media personnel regretfully clap their thighs in frustration.

What an ordeal.

After Fang Hao had slipped away early, the media reporters had no choice but to interview other people.

On Qiao Mei’s side, since they could never manage to arrange a meeting with Fang Hao, their plan couldn’t unfold.

They were very anxious.

Fang Hao was a key part of their plan. If he didn’t show up, their plan couldn’t be implemented.

What they thought was almost certain now seemed extremely difficult.

It appeared that Fang Hao was completely unaffected by Qiao Mei’s beauty, as if he had no interest in women. Normally, any man would have fallen for her.

If that was the case, would they need to change their strategy?

No, they needed to first figure out what was going on.

They couldn’t rest without getting clarity on this issue.

They felt that to win Fang Hao over, they needed to study his habits and interests.

They weren’t sure about his habits yet, but his interests were clear—definitely fishing.

A fisherman’s interest, if not fishing, could it be women?

Right.

Maybe they could start with fishing.

But how should they begin with fishing?

Hold a fishing competition?

That might work, but it might not necessarily attract Fang Hao to participate.

Hmm? The others looked towards Qiao Mei.

Perhaps, Qiao Mei could play a role.

They planned to have Qiao Mei learn fishing so that she could later invite Fang Hao to fish together, which he presumably wouldn’t refuse.

After all, this time, Qiao Mei was inviting him to go fishing.

Fishing should surely attract him.

Thus, they needed to prepare for a fishing competition, and it couldn’t be a small one or else it wouldn’t attract him.

Therefore, they were ready to spend no small amount of money, prepared to spend ten million to hold this big competition.

They believed it would attract many people.

And ten million for them was just a drop in the bucket.

As long as they could win over Fang Hao, let alone ten million, even a hundred million, a billion, they were willing to spend it.

Fang Hao’s value certainly could not be compared to this amount of money.

Before, they thought spending money might win over Fang Hao.

But now it seemed that using money was almost impossible; perhaps the only option was Qiao Mei.

However, because Fang Hao was always out at sea, Qiao Mei had almost no chance to get close to him, so there was hardly any progress.

They planned to train Qiao Mei a bit, mainly teaching her some basic fishing skills.

In this way, she could approach Fang Hao through fishing.

It must be said, their plan changed very quickly.

One strategy failed, they’d come up with another.

Seeing that mere beauty was ineffective, they started targeting Fang Hao’s hobbies.

This time, they even went all out to let Qiao Mei get close to Fang Hao by planning to spend ten million on a big fishing competition.

In fishing, Qiao Mei also had a tough time.

This was her first time trying fishing.

Although she had watched plenty of Fang Hao’s fishing live streams before, watching and actually doing it were somewhat different.

Moreover, she didn’t recognize any of the fishing gear, like what kind of fishing rods or fishing lines to use.

She even had to hire a fishing teacher to cram this knowledge into her.

Luckily, Qiao Mei was quick to learn with good instruction, and soon looked quite professional.

With that, she could participate in the big fishing contest later on.

It was a perfect occasion to invite Fang Hao.

They believed that Fang Hao would definitely not miss this fishing contest.

This time, it was bound to be a success.

News of the fishing contest was quickly released.

The promotional slogan was also rushed out day and night.

Those people even bought prime advertising spots to place their ads, spending money like water.

With ten million in funds for the fishing contest, the budget was certainly ample.

Besides the ten million, there was an additional ten million reserved just in case it wasn’t enough.

With the advertisements out, the first prize of five million quickly attracted many anglers to register.

What a joke, not registering would be a huge loss.

It’s five million, not just five hundred.

Moreover, during the competition, all accommodation and travel expenses were covered by the organizers, costing the participants nothing, so why not register?

Therefore, after hearing this news, many people registered.

Even people who usually didn’t fish much signed up, hoping to try their luck.

The competition was simple, just about catching the highest total value of fish.

That meant, besides catching big fish, catching economically valuable fish would more likely win.

If you only caught common types of fish, you wouldn’t win the championship.

Before Qiao Mei could tell Fang Hao about the fishing contest,

Fang Hao had already received plenty of private messages from online friends.

"Fang bro, Jinghai is hosting a fishing contest, it’s a three-day, two-night event. Just win first place and you get a five million prize, second place gets one million, third place fifty thousand, and fourth to tenth place get one hundred thousand. Other top fifty places get a consolation prize of ten thousand."

"Huh?" Fang Hao was momentarily stunned when he saw the message.

He wasn’t attracted by the prize money, but by...the fishing contest.

He didn’t care about the prize money.

But fishing...hehe, now that was interesting.

Just as those people had guessed, using fishing to lure Fang Hao to participate.

This was the first step forward.

"There really is a fishing contest." Having found out more, Fang Hao was also secretly amazed.

He almost missed such a big fishing contest.

Soon, Fang Hao also received a message from Qiao Mei about the fishing contest.

"Yeah, I just found out too."

Fang Hao replied to her.

"So, Mr. Fang, are you going to register?" Qiao Mei asked.

"I probably should."

He wasn’t busy lately and it was a good opportunity to partake in the fishing contest, meet various experts, and enjoy the experience.

This seemed rather nice.

Not refusing this time,

and upon getting a definite answer from Fang Hao, Qiao Mei could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

With the first step completed, the next thing was to see if an opportunity would arise on the boat...

In any case, Qiao Mei had made all the necessary preparations, and she was also preparing to join the fishing contest.

Frankly, this contest was arranged and paid for by Fang Hao and Qiao Mei.

Only other people didn’t know.

And the only one who knew this was Qiao Mei herself.

You think she would tell others?

Of course not.

"Then, I’ll see you there."

"Okay, see you then...huh?" Fang Hao was a bit puzzled.

What did that mean, was she also going?

Had she become interested in fishing too?