The man who was stopped had ten fish of various sizes in his bucket. In other words, if he wanted to take the bucket of fish home, he would need to give them at least three medium-sized fish.

He spent ages in this murky water before he finally caught this fish, and he couldn't bear to part with it!

"Hehe, justice, now our Brother Xiong is justice!"

The blond-haired gatekeeper, seeing that this person dared to question the unreasonableness of their boss's demands, raised his head and shouted arrogantly.

Xu Lai and the others were thinking of taking the fish home and then, while it was still early, going to the reservoir to catch fish again.

Ignoring the two thugs guarding the gate, Xu Lai and his companions attempted to force their way in.

These two thugs were probably newcomers and seemed unaware that the Xu family owned guns. Accustomed to their arrogance, they raised their wooden sticks and were about to swing them at Xu Jiangming and Xu Haiguo, who were walking at the front carrying buckets.

Seeing this, Xu Lai, who was in the back row, quickly put down the bucket full of fish in her hand and kicked the blond man in the chest.

Xu Lai had trained his strength and accuracy for more than half a year, and with this kick, he sent the blond-haired man sitting on the ground.

Seeing this, another thug quickly stepped forward, raised a wooden stick, and joined in.

Unfortunately, they were outnumbered and were quickly subdued by Xu Lai's men.

"Let's go upstairs!"

Regardless of the two men who had been beaten black and blue, the seven people from the three families carried the buckets and baskets containing the fish upstairs.

Xu Lai retreated to the speedboat in the water and guarded it.

The residents who were initially blocked in the corridor and forced to pay fish tax happily took their fish and went home.

When the seven men came down from upstairs again carrying empty buckets and baskets, the two thugs who had been beaten up were no longer there.

"Ha, beating up someone like that is the best way to deal with them!"

Even though he was always strict with himself in public, Old Master Xiao couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

The Lu family, father and son, were not powerful and were usually afraid of causing trouble outside and implicating their family.

But thinking about how the two people who had bullied the residents had been beaten, they were also quite happy.

When should the building management staff be fired?

When Xu Lai and his group returned home, many people saw the rubber boat full of fish. When they returned to the reservoir this time, they were followed by many people paddling rubber boats or homemade rafts.

"Why are these people so cunning?"

Xu Chao, who was sitting facing the stern of the assault boat, was quite surprised to see a string of people following behind him.

He remembered that when he was driving the fish home, he hadn't encountered many people on the way.

"Sigh, after more than six months of natural disasters, everyone looks pale, thin, and malnourished. Let them come along, as long as they don't cause any trouble!"

After hearing his grandson's words, Xu Jiangming turned around and looked behind him, letting out a helpless sigh.

He sighed not because he was reluctant to let others discover the fish in the reservoir.

Instead, she thought of what her granddaughter had described before: that this rainstorm disaster would last for another seven or eight months, and that after the rainstorm disaster ended, there would be an extreme heat disaster.

How can ordinary people survive?

Sure enough, when they arrived at the reservoir they had visited that morning, people were already fishing in it.

Most of them didn't have fishing tools and could only jump into the reservoir and dive into the water to feel for fish with their hands.

Fortunately, these people were good swimmers, and every few minutes, someone would emerge from the water carrying a fish.

This made the people following behind Xu Lai's assault boat extremely envious.

Then they rushed to the reservoir dam and started taking off their shirts and jumping into the reservoir.

Xu Haiguo and his friends, who hadn't had enough of fishing in the morning, hurriedly joined in.

Xu Lai picked up Grandpa Lu's net bag, intending to fix it to the gap in the dike from that morning.

This morning, she caught quite a few lobsters in the net. She plans to catch more so she can make a spicy lobster dish tonight.

She had only walked halfway when she was drawn to a conversation between a brother and sister not far away.

"Brother, the water is too deep. You shouldn't go in. It's too dangerous. We'll just scoop it out with bags from the side!"

When Xu Lai and his group brought fishing nets, wooden buckets, and other tools to the reservoir dam, they saw a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old take off his shirt and prepare to jump into the reservoir from the other side of the dam.

On either side of him, a little girl of about ten years old was pulling him along with a worried expression.

"Don't worry, Xiaoyou, I'll jump in and learn first. Maybe I'll learn to swim, and then I can catch fish for you to eat!"

Although the little boy was still a child, he acted like a little adult in front of his sister, gently patting her head.

"Hey, you two kids, what are you doing here? Where are your parents? Kids, you can't go fishing in the water, you might drown!"

Before the boy jumped into the reservoir, Xu Lai deliberately spoke in a very serious tone to stop him.

"Beautiful lady, thank you so much! Luckily you managed to calm my brother down!"

Seeing that her brother hadn't jumped in, the little girl happily took his hand, walked to Xu Lai's side, and thanked him joyfully.

"If I don't jump into the reservoir, I won't be able to catch any fish, and my sister and I will go hungry!"

The boy couldn't go into the water, but he wasn't happy; instead, he looked distressed.

Since their parents passed away, he and his sister have been going hungry, and the feeling of hunger is unbearable.

Looking at the two thin children in front of her, Xu Lai guessed that they must be a brother and sister who depended on each other for survival.

Lu Yongbing and his son, who were carrying a net and preparing to head in that direction, also overheard the conversation between the two children.

It's just fishing, right? That's easy!

Lu Yongbing waved his hand and said to the brother and sister, "Don't worry, I'll help you cast a couple of nets!"

Having said that, he lifted the net with both hands, holding the edge of the net with one hand and throwing it out with the other.

After the net is cast, slowly and evenly pull it back.

Although this net caught fewer fish than the one from the morning, it still yielded a considerable number.

There were several fish that were about a foot long, and one that weighed over ten kilograms.

Did you bring anything to pack?

After helping his father pull up the net, Lu Ping was responsible for taking the fish out of it. Holding up the fish, which weighed about fourteen or fifteen pounds, he asked the brother and sister.

"We brought snakeskin bags!"

When the little boy saw that the grandfather and uncle were really going to give them the fish, he happily picked up the snakeskin bag that was placed not far away.

Lu Yongbing, who always liked children, felt sorry for the brother and sister who had no parents to rely on at such a young age, so he helped them cast several nets.

He stopped when the two burlap sacks were full: "These two sacks of fish are for you. You and your sister must take good care of yourselves!"

"Where do you live? How are you going to get these two bags of fish home?"

Looking at the two large bags of fish and the thin brother and sister, Xu Lai asked with some concern.