Chương 153: Chapter 142 Gluttony

Qili Village received the news a bit late; it was the people who went out to wash clothes in the morning who discovered that the river had suddenly risen, submerging the rocks usually used for laundry, before they realized something was amiss.

Immediately, the village head had people go upstream to ask the villagers there, who were busy fishing with nets. So the messenger quickly returned to report, and the village head then had every household bring out their fishing nets to string them together, creating the big net they now had.

They had already fished a little further upstream earlier and caught several buckets of fish. It was someone who said they saw a lot of fish hiding in the aquatic plants in front of the schoolhouse that led to their moving the spot here.