At the Start, I Break a Bamboo Raft, I Rely on Catching Turtles to Earn a Hundred Gold Pieces
Lu Qing worked with his cousin and cousin's wife to catch softshell turtles for three years, helping them build their fortune with his family's traditional skills of reading the water and making turtle-attracting mud. Now that they have made enough money, the couple steals his rudimentary formula and kicks him out, giving him only fifty copper coins before driving him off their boat. With his mother seriously ill and in urgent need of money to buy ginseng, Lu Qing has no choice but to purchase an old bamboo raft and a fish basket and venture into the perilous Blackwater Dragon Pool. His true ancestral secret recipe contains ash made from bitter snake grass, which repels venomous snakes and attracts only century-old softshell turtles with golden-edged shells. The bait stolen by his cousin's wife is merely an unfinished version. As night falls, Lu Qing bravely enters the Dragon Pool on his bamboo raft, while his greedy cousin and cousin's wife cast their nets using bloody bait, unaware that they have already attracted venomous river snakes.
Main characters: Lu Qing, Lu Dafu, Cuihua
Also known as: 开局破竹筏，我靠捞鳖赚百金
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Tatlong taon nang magkasamang nanghuhuli ng pagong na malambot ang balat sina Lu Qing, ang pinsan niyang lalaki, at ang asawa nito. Sa pamamagitan ng minanang…
Tatlong taon nang magkasamang nanghuhuli ng pagong na malambot ang balat sina Lu Qing, ang pinsan niyang lalaki, at ang asawa nito. Sa pamamagitan ng minanang kaalaman sa pagbasa ng agos ng tubig at paggawa ng putik na pang-akit sa mga pagong, tinulungan niya silang yumaman. Ngunit nang kumita na sila nang sapat, ninakaw ng mag-asawa ang payak niyang pormula at itinaboy siya, binigyan lamang ng limampung baryang tanso bago siya palayasin sa bangka. Malubha ang sakit ng ina ni Lu Qing at kailangan niya agad ng pera para makabili ng ginseng. Wala siyang nagawa kundi bumili ng lumang balsa na kawayan at basket ng isda, saka makipagsapalaran sa mapanganib na Blackwater Dragon Pool. Ang tunay na lihim na resipe ng kanilang mga ninuno ay naglalaman ng abo ng mapait na halamang ahas, na nagtataboy sa makamandag na ahas at umaakit lamang sa mga pagong na isang daang taong gulang na may gintong gilid ang talukap. Ang pain na ninakaw ng asawa ng pinsan niya ay hindi pa kumpletong timpla. Pagsapit ng gabi, buong tapang na naglayag si Lu Qing sa Dragon Pool sakay ng kaniyang balsa, habang ang sakim na mag-asawang magpinsan ay naglalagay ng lambat gamit ang madugong pain, nang hindi nalalamang nakaakit na sila ng makamandag na ahas sa ilog.
开局破竹筏，我靠捞鳖赚百金 · At the Start, I Break a Bamboo Raft, I Rely on Catching Turtles to Earn a Hundred Gold Pieces