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Subsequently, Wang Shouzhe fed the creature twice more, each time over a thousand catties of various Spirit Fish.
After consuming all these, the Kunfish cub finally seemed somewhat sated. It lowered its head and affectionately nuzzled both Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan with its forehead before it started playing in Zhuwei Lake.
Over the years, the Wang family had consistently dredged and deepened Zhuwei Lake in order to increase its water storage capacity. This served not only to facilitate freshwater aquaculture and irrigate farmlands but also to enhance Ping'an Town's flood storage capacity during the rainy season.
Decades had passed, and Zhuwei Lake was no longer the shallow lake with thin water layers it once was; its deepest central area had even reached thirty zhang, qualifying it as a large reservoir now. The lake was teeming with fish, some weighing a hundred catties and even several hundred catties.
