After hearing this, the villagers looked at each other in shock. Although they did not approve of Jiang Xiaofan's fish farming, they would not persuade him if it was related to their own income.
Zhao Fugui took a deep breath from his pipe and frowned: "Xiao Fan, I can understand what you said, but..."
Jiang Xiaofan smiled and said, "What's wrong, Uncle Fugui? If you have anything to do, just tell me."
"Xiaofan, I guess the village chief wants to say that the Baimuba Reservoir is not clean." A villager said bluntly.
"Not clean?"
Jiang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment: "Is there a problem with the water quality, making it unsuitable for fish farming?"
"It's not a question of water quality."
Wang Yang, the secretary, shook his head and said with lingering fear: "There are unclean things in the reservoir. They specialize in eating fish. You can eat as many as you keep."
Jiang Xiaofan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Does anyone believe this?”
Seeing that Jiang Xiaofan didn't believe it, Wang Yang, the secretary, said with a serious face: "Xiaofan, this matter is no joke. Someone in Baihe Village used to be contracted to raise fish in the reservoir, but then the fish disappeared mysteriously, as if they had evaporated from the reservoir.
Same. Except for some small fish and shrimps, no big fish could be found. Later, everyone said that there was a water monster in the reservoir that specialized in eating big fish."
"Could it have been stolen?"
Zhao Fugui shook his head and continued: "There was someone who was as determined as you, and later took over the contract. As a result, the fish disappeared as soon as they were raised. Even if they patrolled the reservoir with a boat, they could not find the reason, and slowly they disappeared.
Abandoned."
Do all the fish disappear as soon as they are raised?
Jiang Xiaofan frowned slightly, is there such a bizarre thing?
Suddenly Jiang Xiaofan thought of a possibility.
Two days ago, he and Bai Susu escaped along the underground river and happened to appear at Baimuba Reservoir.
This shows that the Baimuba Reservoir and the underground river are connected.
The underground river near the bottom of the Black Dragon Pond is the underground cave where the Dragon Vein Stone is located. The cave will continuously produce earth marrow milk, which is super delicious for fish.
Once the water level in the underground river rises, it will flow into the underground cave...
"I see."
Jiang Xiaofan's eyes lit up. He connected all the clues and instantly understood the reason for the disappearance of the fish in the reservoir.
The Baimuba Reservoir is connected to the underground river. Whenever the underground river water overflows into the underground cave, the earth marrow inside will be diluted by the water and spread to the Baimuba Reservoir.
When the fish in the reservoir taste the taste, they will swim upstream into the underground river.
Jiang Xiaofan's eyes were intense. If his calculation was correct, the fish raised in the several contracted reservoirs in Baihe Village were all in the Black Dragon Pond and the underground river.
Because as long as fish have tasted earth marrow milk, they will stay nearby by instinct.
It is actually very simple to verify. Just dilute the earth marrow milk into the river and see how many fish emerge...
Jiang Xiaofan suppressed his excitement and said, "Uncle Fugui, I still want to contract the reservoir."
Seeing this, Zhao Fugui blew his pipe and said, "Xiaofan, I won't advise you on other matters. You must be cautious about the reservoir. This is different from the situation in Longtoushan."
"I know, I know it well." Jiang Xiaofan said firmly.
Zhao Fugui frowned. He knew Jiang Xiaofan's temper and style of doing things, and he would not change his mind easily once he decided on something.
He filled a pot of tobacco leaves again, took a few puffs, and sighed: "Xiaofan, this matter is a bit difficult to handle. The Baimuba Reservoir does not belong to our village."
Jiang Xiaofan felt nervous: "Does the reservoir belong to Baihe Village?"
Accountant Wang Yang shook his head: "It's not from Baihe Village. It was built by the town and is under the management of the town's water affairs office."
"As long as he's not from Baihe Village." Jiang Xiaofan breathed a sigh of relief.
Baihe Village has always looked down on Laowan Village. If they knew that Jiang Xiaofan wanted to contract the reservoir, the people in Baihe Village would definitely come to stop it.
Zhao Fugui exhaled a puff of smoke and squinted his eyes as he recalled: "The town built this reservoir firstly for flood control and discharge of Baihe River, and secondly for irrigation of nearby villages. Now the upper reaches of Baihe River are well managed, and various villages have
All of them had mechanical wells, so the Baimuba Reservoir fell into disuse.”
Jiang Xiaofan asked curiously: "If I want to contract, can I just apply to the town?"
Zhao Fugui nodded, sighed and said, "That's right, but the director of the town water affairs office is a person who came out of Baihe Village."
Jiang Xiaofan immediately fell silent upon hearing this. He was afraid that the people in Baihe Village would cause trouble.
The feud between Laowan Village and Baihe Village has a long history, and it is said that it can be traced back to the Republic of China.
At that time, there were frequent droughts in this area, and even the water in the Baihe River was almost dry. The two villages fought every year because of the water source. Because whichever village had water for irrigation would starve to death in that village.
However, these sesame seeds and rotten millet matters are the matters of Jiang Xiaofan’s grandfather’s grandfather’s generation.
There are two fundamental reasons why the two villages cannot deal with each other now.
First, Laowan Village was wealthy a few decades ago, and Baihe Village came to ask for advice at that time. Later, Longtoushan was placed in a Feng Shui dilemma of resentment and dragon lock, and Laowan Village was affected and became devastated. Baihe Village has a kind of twisted revenge.
In my heart, I looked down upon and ridiculed Laowan Village.
Erlao Laowan Village is a poor village in the county. According to the policy promulgated by Shiwa Town, wealthy villages must help poor villages every year.
Therefore, a large part of the money from Baihe Village will be distributed to Laowan Village as poverty subsidies, which makes the people of Baihe Village very unconvinced.
Based on these messy factors, some wealthy people in Baihe Village are very unfriendly to Laowan Village.
Zhao Fugui saw Jiang Xiaofan's worry and said: "Xiaofan, there are a handful of people in Baihe Village who are bastards, but most of them are pretty good. Now that the Baimuba Reservoir has been abandoned, they may not cause trouble. I will
Ask the Huizhen Tax Office to see how much it costs to contract the reservoir and what the conditions are."
"Okay, Uncle Fugui, I'll trouble you." Jiang Xiaofan smiled and nodded, and then left the village committee.
Regarding the specific matters concerning the contracting of the Baimuba Reservoir, the village chief can only ask the town water affairs office first.
What he needed to do was to verify his suspicion, whether the missing fish in the reservoir were attracted to the Black Dragon Pond and the underground river by the Earth's Marrow Milk.
"But there's no need to worry now. Last time I was in the underground cave with Bai Susu, he had just used up the earth marrow milk he had accumulated, and the underground river water from the upstream rainfall had also flooded in. It is unlikely that he would be able to praise much earth marrow milk in a short period of time." Jiang Xiaofan thought while thinking.
While walking towards home.
As soon as he walked to the door of his house, he saw many villagers coming out with disappointed faces.
The villagers noticed Jiang Xiaofan and hurried over and asked, "Xiaofan, when will the next batch of native chicken cubs be available?"
When Jiang Xiaofan asked, he found out that they had arrived late to pick wild mushrooms and had not managed to get the chicken cubs.
Jiang Xiaofan smiled and said: "If it's fast, it's a week, if it's slow, it's ten days."
"Oh, their hands were too fast. I went down the mountain after receiving the call, but they still robbed everything... Ten days is not bad, at least I can make the money of a local chicken for ten days." The villager nagged unwillingly.