Chapter 83 - 083: Fishing for Crawfish
After dividing the fish,
just as the village head was about to leave, Lin Yang suddenly asked him, "Village head, wasn’t there a reservoir up on the hill in our village before? Are there still fish in it?"
The village head paused, then shook his head and said, "That reservoir, there are hardly any fish left in it now."
"Huh? I remember the reservoir was contracted out to the neighboring village, wasn’t it? There should be quite a lot of fish, right?"
Lin Yang and the others used to run to the reservoir up in the mountains often as kids, especially when the sluice gate was opened.
When the sluice opened, fish would always leap from the discharge outlet and all they had to do was pick up the fish and take them home.
The village head said, "That was in the past. Starting from the year before last, there have been no fish in the reservoir, and nobody has taken a contract for it. People from Zhu Family Village like to fish with electricity, and they do it every few days. Who the hell can stand that?"
Lin Yang frowned and said, "Fishing with electricity is illegal."
The village head laughed and said, "You kid, have you gotten daft from fishing? What kind of place do you think this is? Do you think the people from Zhu Family Village do less illegal stuff?"
"Electrofishing, net fishing, stealing fruit, using nets to catch birds—what haven’t they done?"
"That reservoir up in the mountains, we used to count on it to raise fish and make some money each year, but because of that bunch of turtle bastards, we can’t even make that bit of money anymore."