Seeing that the people were basically here, the village chief began to speak: "I called everyone to the meeting this time to talk about two things. It is said that it is two things, but in fact it can be classified as one thing. As for whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, I can't tell the difference, so it's up to you to judge. ”

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding how the village chief could start with such a tone, and for a while they all stopped whispering just now, and the audience was silent. They were all waiting to hear what the village chief would say next. Who said that people in the countryside have no disciplined surnames? That's not meeting someone of prestige to speak. If a young man speaks on the stage, even if you are very rich, the people listening below may whisper to you without selling your face, but if there is a person with great prestige on the stage, even a poor old man can control the atmosphere in the audience. Therefore, in many rural areas, a person's prestige is often more convincing than money.

The village chief glanced at the people present, and then pointed to Zhang Taiping and Wang Gui beside him and said, "The first thing is about the sudden appearance of many big fish in the river a few days ago. ”

Before he finished speaking, Wang Laosan, a well-known anxious son in the village, hurriedly shouted: "Uncle Hanmin, what's going on?" I heard that Old Man Qian said that day that there might be a reservoir leaking in the mountains, if it rains, the cat will do it? My home is at the head of the bridge, and I haven't said I have a good sleep for the past few days, and I'm always worried that there will be water all of a sudden, and I don't know if I will die ambiguously when the time comes. ”

When the crowd heard his words, they began to talk to each other again, and there was a tendency to develop towards the noise.

"What's the noise?" The old village chief shouted, and the audience began to quiet again.

"Wang Laosan, are you in a hurry?"

Wang Laosan heard the village chief's scolding, shrunk his neck and didn't dare to speak again.

The old village chief continued what he didn't finish just now: "There were big fish in the river, and everyone was busy catching fish at that time, only Old Man Qian thought of this matter, maybe it was in the mountains and the reservoir. Generally, big fish can't be raised in small rivers, only in reservoirs can raise such big fish, and why didn't they appear before, but they appeared a few days ago? It could only be that something happened in the reservoir that caused the big fish to escape from the reservoir. ”

After writing it down, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This is a major matter of human life, and you can't be careless." Just as Dashuai and a few friends were about to go into the mountains to play, they walked along the river with Wang Gui and the old man Qian to the reservoir. After some investigation, the reservoir is between two mountains, the mouth of the reservoir is very small, and there is no possibility of breaking the mouth by the two mountains. This time, it was only because a small slope on a hill slipped and the water area became larger, and the big fish escaped. ”

At this time, the villagers were all relieved, and there was no longer the seriousness and quietness of the time, and a group of women chattered.

"I didn't expect there to be a reservoir in the mountains."

"yes, I really didn't expect that there would be such a big fish."

"Didn't you hear? As the village chief said just now, the outlet of the reservoir has opened a big opening, and the big fish can come out, so won't you be able to catch big fish from the river in the future? ”

"That's right."

Another said: "Alas, I still feel that this fish is not delicious, it is not as good as big meat, there is not much meat to say, but there are too many spines, and I dare not eat it." In the end, I ate one of my family's flowers, and the flowers swallowed it in one bite, and finally there were fish bones pierced in the mouth and screamed in pain, or I broke its mouth and pulled it out one by one. ”

"I also pricked my mouth when I ate fish, and I didn't have the patience to pluck the thorns there. It's not that people in the city eat, where do you get so much effort. ”

The village chief didn't pay attention to everyone's speech, and the scene was noisy. Suddenly, a shrill voice came.

"Uncle Hanmin, the reservoir is fine, the river can't flood the house, everyone can rest assured, so what's the second thing?" The voice of Wang Bajin's daughter-in-law, Han Cuihua, immediately quieted down the noisy venue.

The village chief finished smoking the dry tobacco in the dry tobacco pot, knocked the dry tobacco pot, and then said slowly: "I didn't want to tell you about this matter, but after thinking about it, I decided that it would be better to let everyone know. ”

"Old village chief, just say it, it's too uneasy to talk like this." A man just a few years younger than the village chief shouted.

"It's still about the reservoir. This time they went into the mountains and went to the reservoir, and the people in our village didn't know each other, but the friends of Dashuai were all people who had gone to college, and they knew a lot about a fish in the water. ”

"What kind of fish?" Someone shouted again.

The old village chief glanced at the person who spoke and said, "Don't shout, listen to me slowly." There is a kind of fish that is a national first-class protected animal, and it is rare, and there are not many in the world, but I didn't expect to see it in the reservoir in the mountains here. ”

A young man asked, "Are tigers and giant pandas precious?" ”

The old village chief replied, "It is said that the rarity is about the same. ”

The crowd below immediately started talking again: "That's really rare, it's the same as tigers and giant pandas." ”

"Well, what do you mean to protect a fish?"

"Who knows, anyway, the state protects itself." This is a person who is a strong supporter of the country.

"Do you think it's illegal to catch such a fish?" A woman whispered to the people around her.

"I don't know, I heard that it will be a crime, the last time I went to the town, I heard a person say that someone caught a national protected animal and was caught and then sentenced to three years in prison."

The person who asked the question in a whisper turned white after hearing this, and after resigning. A person next to him asked curiously, "You can't have caught one, right?" ”

"No, no, how can it?" The woman quickly denied it again and again.

The village chief added: "This is a national first-class protected animal, and it is illegal to arrest or sell it, and it is not impossible to be sentenced to several years in prison if it is serious." ”

"We still know this, does the state protect animals, they must be used for protection, and no one dares to arrest them."

"That's right, it's going to be a lawsuit." Several people said.

The village chief ignored the noisy crowd and threw another bombshell: "The main thing is that this fish is very expensive, and I heard from those people in the city that one can buy more than a thousand yuan." ”

The few people who had vowed to protect and not break the law just now immediately lost their voices. There was a strange silence for a few minutes, rather a calm, suffocating feeling before the storm, and then the village chief's words were like a stone thrown at the surface of a calm lake, and the crowd was like a pot of boiling water.

"Weng" had a loud bang, and the venue burst into an uproar.

"My good boy, a fish is so valuable."

"More than 1,000 pieces of land, all of which have been harvested in a year."

"If you catch one every day, how much money will you make in that year?"

At this time, there is no concern about any national protected animals, and no one remembers that it is illegal to catch and sell them and will be sentenced, only that this kind of fish is very valuable, and one can buy more than 1,000 yuan. This cannot be blamed on the villagers for being short-sighted and not knowing how to protect animals or species, but only for the villagers who are too poor and afraid. More than 1,000 yuan a piece is comparable to the salary of the main laborer of the family working outside for a month.

Immediately, a young man asked, "Uncle Hanmin, what does this fish look like?" ”

The village chief said angrily: "Do you kid want to catch it?" If you let me know you're going to catch fish, I'll call the police station and take you away. ”

The young man replied, "How can it?" This is not to know what this fish looks like, so that it can be protected in the future. ”

The village chief ignored the young man's oily tone, and still said the appearance of the fish: "This fish is called saber-toothed fish, the head is like an arrow, and the body is like a chopstick, and the whole body is silver. ”

After listening to what the village chief said, someone immediately shouted: "Oh, I caught such a fish at home a few days ago, and I fed it to the cat, and there are more than 1,000 pieces gone, the cat that killed a thousand people." "I really don't know why she scolded the cat when she threw it to the cat herself.

When many people heard the words of the village chief, their eyes immediately lit up, obviously not taking seriously the words of the village chief about breaking the law and protecting them at all, and they were thinking about how to catch a few of them.

The village chief looked at everyone's reactions, and said lightly: "If you want to die, just go." ”

The venue that was noisy just now immediately quieted down again, and they all looked at the village chief with their eyes, not understanding what this had to do with death.

"That reservoir is nearly sixty miles away in the mountains, deep in the mountains, not to mention other animals, first of all, wolves can kill people."

It's the same guy just now: "I haven't seen a pack for many years, where are the wolves?" "The young man is from the north of the village, and his name is Wang Tengfei. Just by listening to the name, you know how much effort your parents have put into it, and you have been hoping that she can go to school and become a talent, but it backfired, this guy is also suitable for the master of mixed time in school, and he didn't learn it, but he learned a lot from the appearance of a fluent meteor.

The old village chief took the wolf skin from Wang Gui's hand, and still said in front of everyone: "Look for yourself, this is the wolf that they slaughtered in the mountain this time, and the skin is here." When they entered the mountain this time, they encountered a pack of wolves, thirteen in all. There were ten of them in total, and they still had shotguns and bows and arrows in their hands, and even the old man Qian's sunspot was bitten to death, so he was killed, but fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the people. ”

Everyone gasped: "Old man Qian's sunspot is dead?" Then there was a sigh, "This is the best mountain guard dog in the village near Zuo, what a pity." "A few people who were eager to try just now immediately died down after hearing the wolves, this fish is valuable, but it also has to be fatal to bring the fish out of the mountains to sell it for money, if you don't get it, it's the fate of the sunspot.

The old village chief didn't say that he killed ten green wolves, which would be too shocking, and if he didn't get it, there would be other causes.

The village chief said: "Now there are both black blind men and wolves in the mountains, and those who go into the mountains to collect medicine or get wild vegetables and fruits had better be careful not to go too far into the mountains." After finishing speaking, he saw that everyone was digesting today's news, and no one spoke anymore for the time being, so he said, "Okay, then today's meeting will be held here, and the meeting will be adjourned." ”