Li Long was not the only one who spotted the huge school of common carp. Several people in the river saw it too.
Two of them had been so cold in the water that they were shivering and about to hurry ashore to warm themselves by the fire. But when they saw the school swimming upstream, not breaking the surface but thrashing through the water in a flurry of splashes, they stopped feeling cold and immediately started catching fish.
Those with scoop nets chased the fish through the water, while those holding sticks swung wildly at them. One man, who had been holding a big grass carp weighing four or five kilograms, grabbed it by the tail and used it as a weapon, smashing it down hard at a common carp swimming in the water!
Even Liu Gaolou and Bek on the bank could not resist picking up stones and throwing them into the river. In the shallows near the bank, gray-black fish heads and backs could be seen heading upstream, one after another. It felt as though any stone they threw would hit one!
Of course, it was all an illusion. They seemed to have aimed perfectly, but their stones only sent up splashes, while the fish continued swimming unharmed beneath the surface.
As for the men in the water, only one managed to net a huge common carp weighing a full eight or nine kilograms. The others caught nothing.
Even as Li Long shouted about the school of fish, he had already flung aside his coat and rushed out.
He had been planning to get dressed. Having caught a big common carp, a big grass carp, and a large Kaluga sturgeon that day, he had felt thoroughly satisfied. But the sight of this huge school of common carp