The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 288 - 267: Shock, Concealment, Catching Fish (1880-1900+) _3

Chapter 288: Chapter 267: Shock, Concealment, Catching Fish (1880-1900+) _3

However, the current here is a bit strong, and there are fish inside, but they are all small.

"Master, let me go down, I’ll drive the big fish out from the bottom of the Dark River," Little Rotating Turtle said. The master wanted to eat, so it, as a little follower, naturally had to contribute its effort.

Huo Yingjie hadn’t even responded when Little Rotating Turtle had already jumped into the water, swimming upstream and entered the Dark River through the cave.

With its spiritual intelligence, Little Rotating Turtle regained its true form and became the overlord of the waters. Once at the riverbed, it stirred things up and drove out a lot of big fish.

These fish had all flowed in from a big river dozens of miles away on the other side of the mountain, and unable to get out, they had lived there year after year, each growing very large.

Huo Yingjie had people quickly set up the fishing nets, occasionally catching small fish in them.

Zhang Aijun and Li Yunzhong didn’t see Little Rotating Turtle, but He Tiantian did.

So, Zhang Aijun and Li Yunzhong weren’t optimistic about Huo Yingjie’s method, but He Tiantian wasn’t worried at all, just waiting to eat fish at noon.

Soon, unusual sounds came from the cave, but mixed with the splashing water, they weren’t jarring.

The others didn’t notice, but He Tiantian did.

It was then that a lot of dark things started to swim out from under the water.

Her fishing net was in the narrowest part downstream, which was also three meters wide. With so many fish hitting the net, Zhang Aijun and Li Yunzhong were almost pulled into the river.

He Tiantian and Huo Yingjie each supported one side and finally managed to hold onto the fishing net.

"How do we pull the net now?" He Tiantian asked, "Look at them jumping around, so many fish!"

There were already dozens in the net, and dozens more were swimming over.

"Li Yunzhong, hold on, just for two minutes, and I’ll call people over," He Tiantian said. There were too many fish for the four of them to handle on their own.

Li Yunzhong bit down hard, "Okay, I can hold on."

Once Li Yunzhong was prepared, He Tiantian ran, shouting, "Come on, everybody, there are so many fish in the river, hurry up and grab tools to catch them."

The creek wasn’t far from the livestock team’s grounds, so when He Tiantian got to the door, she ran into a group of people who had just come back from cutting grass on the mountain.

"Hurry up, there are lots of fish in the river, we can’t handle them with just a few people, call others, grab tools." After saying that, He Tiantian quickly ran back, as Comrade Li Yunzhong was still holding on desperately!

He Tiantian ran back and quickly helped to pull the fishing net.

Li Yunzhong’s forehead was covered in sweat. If He Tiantian didn’t come back soon, he thought he wouldn’t be able to hold on much longer.

After a short while, Xiang Rong, Zuo Li, and Aunt Liu hurried over, bringing baskets to help.

Zuo Li was very skillful. He made a scoop net out of an old fishing net, tied it to a bamboo pole, and with each dip, he was able to catch several fish.

They didn’t have time to pick them up and just directly dumped them on a nearby patch of ground. The fish out of water couldn’t jump around for long.

With the fishing nets hindering them, most of the fish were caught within half an hour.

The last drawn net also contained dozens of fish.

Everyone was busy and hadn’t paid attention before.

Now they could catch their breath and saw clearly that most of the fish on the ground were black carp and carp, the small ones weighing four or five pounds, the big ones seven or eight pounds, and there were even some weighing over ten pounds.

The fish that were caught first were already no longer jumping, while those that had just been brought up were full of life, jumping around.

"What do we do with so many fish?" He Tiantian asked. Looking around, she estimated there were over a hundred.

If they were to be distributed to other villagers, it wouldn’t be enough.

It was not good to keep them without distributing, but they wouldn’t dare to keep them for themselves.

Zuo Li thought for a moment and said, "Let’s call Village Chief Qi to make the decision. Since we caught the fish, we’ll get more."

"That works," He Tiantian agreed.

"Then I’ll go and call Village Chief Qi to come over," He Tiantian said with a smile, she was not worried about these fish; Li Yunzhong had already loaded several big fish into his carrying basket.

Aunt Liu took two, the livestock team kept ten, and the rest were distributed to the villagers, who would probably still be able to get some more.

Everyone benefited, so nobody would speak out about it.

Time after time, it had been proven that Aunt Liu would definitely not speak about these benefits, so everyone was very reassured.

When Village Chief Qi arrived, he had people haul the fish to the village committee’s gateway. After doing a count, they distributed one fish to each household; larger ones went to households with more people and smaller ones to those with fewer. Every family got something, and no villager had any complaints!

Village Chief Qi publicly praised those who caught the fish, putting them first in line for this year’s recognition.

Seeing that there were fish to be caught, villagers often went there, but without Little Rotating Turtle, they could only catch small fish.