The first net was practically packed with fish-at least ten kilograms!
The mesh on this net was fairly large, four fingers wide, and the fish caught in it were all slab crucian carp, long grass carp, and common carp. There were very few five-stripe perch, and some silver carp.
Most weighed over a kilogram. A few small fish had been caught too, but as Li Long hauled in the net, they slipped loose and jumped away.
Even so, once he had gathered this net into the sack, Li Long distinctly felt the tire sink lower.
He had thought this was just a lucky start and the remaining nets might not hold as many fish, but who could have expected the second net to be just as full?
As Li Long hauled it in, he looked ahead along the net line. Wherever nets lay in this channel, he could clearly see occasional splashes-obviously, these were live fish still struggling in the nets.
With two nets stuffed into the Urea Sack, Li Long felt that more than half the tire was already underwater-there seemed to be at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight kilograms in those two nets.
After gathering one more net, Li Long dared not collect any more and turned to paddle back. Even hauling in half of the ten nets might overturn the tire, he thought.
Watching from shore, Tao Daqiang was a little bewildered. Why was he coming back already?
"Daqiang, run home now and ask my brother to hitch up the cart and bring it over. There are too many fish. We can't get them all back!"
"What?" Tao Daqiang sounded doubtful. "How could we not get them back?"
"Look, these three nets have filled a sack and a half, almost two sacks." The tire had already touched bottom