Two seconds later, a thud and cries for help were heard.
"You vile woman, what have you done to my son?"
"Help! Please save my son! This woman pushed him into the reservoir and he's going to drown!"
When the woman saw her precious son thrashing about in the water, she ran frantically to the reservoir and shouted at the people fishing in the reservoir.
However, most people who have lived in such a natural disaster environment for half a year have long since exhausted their compassion by worrying about how to fill their stomachs every day.
No matter how loudly the woman shouted, no one was willing to save her son.
With no one to help, the woman had no choice but to jump into the water herself and pull her son to the edge of the embankment.
"Cough~ cough~"
Xu Lai had already handed the net back to Old Master Lu. She stood on the embankment with her arms crossed, coldly watching the Crown Prince choke on the water, tears and snot streaming down his face.
As the woman reached out to help her son catch his breath, she scolded the people fishing in the water: "They're all heartless people, refusing to help someone who's dying!"
After cursing the people who stood by and did nothing to save her son in the water, she saw that her son's condition was gradually stabilizing, and she immediately sprang up from the ground.
He started yelling and cursing at Xu Lai, Lu Yongbing, and Lu Ping: "You bastards! This is murder! You're bullying us, a widow and her child! I don't care, you have to pay us two buckets of fish today..."
Lu Yongbing and Lu Ping are men, and their families have a harmonious relationship between the two women in their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. When they saw this woman throwing a tantrum, they didn't know what to do for a moment.
But Xu Lai wasn't going to put up with this shrew.
"If you're talking about murder, then you're the ones who murdered me. Your son tried to steal our net but failed, so he viciously tried to push me into the reservoir. In the end, he accidentally fell in himself. This is your retribution. We'd rather dump the fish than give it to you!"
Xu Lai watched calmly as the woman jumped around in front of her like a monkey.
"You shameless woman, how dare you frame my son!"
Not only did that bitch refuse to compensate them for the fish, but she also dared to curse her son as vicious. Enraged, she reached out and slapped the bitch across the face.
Xu Lai wasn't one to be bullied. She clenched her fists, ready to retaliate, but the woman was stopped by Lu Yongbing and his son.
"Enough! I advise you and your son to quit while you're ahead. There are eight of us here this time. If you don't want to suffer losses, take your son and get out of here!"
After Lu Ping finished shouting, Xu Haiguo and the others, who had already swum over from the other side of the reservoir, asked, "What happened?"
When the woman saw that there were indeed five people looking up at her and her son, she was so frightened that she grabbed her precious son and slunk away to the other side.
After this incident, Xu Lai discovered that there were actually many more people in the reservoir.
"They're all here to catch fish, and over there some people are even fighting over territory!"
Xu Haiguo pointed to a place a little further away and said.
Those who have nets are fortunate, but those without fishing gear have to jump into the water and fish with their bare hands.
The best place to catch fish is along the dikes around the reservoir, where aquatic plants grow and fish like to gather.
Those families, relying on their large numbers, arrogantly seized that side of the dike for themselves.
When Xu Haiguo and his team returned to the dike, it was a team of eight people.
Those who originally intended to come here to claim territory looked them over for a while and then gave up.
"Let's just use nets to catch them, fill the rubber boat, and leave quickly, lest something goes wrong!"
Xu Lai made a decisive decision.
The other seven people nodded in agreement.
After so many people fishing, there are clearly fewer fish in the reservoir than in the morning.
However, Xu Lai and his group had a large net, which allowed them to catch fish over a large area at once, making them much faster at catching fish than others.
Several groups of envious people repeatedly cast jealous and malicious glances at this place.
The eight of them had already put the fish into the rubber boat, and everyone boarded the speedboat, ready to head home.
This time, the group carried the fish upstairs from the apartment building without any problems. Surprisingly, none of the building management staff were at the entrance on the first floor to collect the fish tax.
As usual, Xu Lai took the assault boat to a secluded place, stored it in his spatial storage, and then paddled the fish-smelling rubber boat to the entrance of the apartment building. He then carried the deflated rubber boat home.
As soon as she got home, Xu Lai immediately sent all the more than 200 catties of fish that she had been allocated that afternoon into her space.
Cleaning these fish at home, the fishy smell is so strong, it probably won't dissipate for several days.
Xu Lai brought the whole family into the space, where Song Qiu'e was processing the fish she had brought back that morning.
In just half a day, Song Qiu'e, who is always efficient, had already processed one-third of what she brought back in the morning.
Xu Haiguo and Xu Jiangming took a shower first and then came to help with their knives.
After Xu Lai and Xu Chao finished showering, they started preparing dinner.
"We're having a river seafood feast tonight!"
Today's catch, besides fish, also included a large basin of crayfish, half a basin of small river shrimp, and some snails and crabs.
Xu Chao was in charge of cleaning the river fish, while Xu Lai prepared seasonings such as chives, romaine lettuce, scallions, ginger, and garlic.
For dinner tonight, Xu Lai plans to make a spicy crayfish dish, a garlic crayfish dish, a stir-fried river shrimp dish with chives from her space garden, a spicy crab dish, a snail and chicken stew, a pan-fried crucian carp dish, a stir-fried lettuce dish, and steamed rice as the main dish.
To make spicy crayfish and spicy crab, she even went to the warehouse where kitchen supplies were stored and took out a packet of hot pot base from the box containing hot pot base.
"It smells so good!"
After seven dishes were served, Xu Chao couldn't wait to run to the spatial pool to call everyone to eat.
"So many delicious dishes, Uncle, let's have a good drink together later!"
Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, Xu Haiguo conscientiously went to the warehouse and took out a bottle of his treasured wine.
Xu Lai, Song Qiu'e, and Xu Chao don't drink alcohol, but they went to the warehouse to get their favorite drinks.
After a long day's work, the family enjoyed a hearty and delicious dinner.
Unexpectedly, trouble came knocking again as soon as dinner was over.
While Song Qiu'e and the others were still processing the fish in the space, Xu Lai thought of Wanzi, who was crawling around in the living room outside the space, and hadn't eaten dinner yet.
So she used the space she had left to make a large bottle of goat milk powder for Wanzi.
Just as she was about to pick up Wanzi to feed it, there was another knock on the door.
This time, the voice was noticeably ruder than the last time.
Xu Lai opened the innermost sealed blast door of the house, and a clear voice entered his ears: "Hey Xu, open the door quickly, we're here to collect fish tax, and the Xiao family too!"
Then came a piercing sound, like an axe chopping at a fire door.
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