Once the water was mostly drained, a fish-catching scene even more raucous than the morning's unfolded, but it was a completely different spectacle.
If catching fish in the morning had been just for fun, it was fun filled with joy. But this afternoon's fish-catching was like a battle, and a very tense one at that.
The people on the bank shouted, cheered, and roared with fervor. Some of the half-grown boys who hadn't gone in at first watched for a while, but couldn't resist any longer and finally charged down. Liu Xiaomei's fourth brother was among them.
