Chapter 174 Bribery
After autumn, the sky is getting darker and earlier every day. When Ah Guang was beaten up for a while, there was still a faint light in the sky, but now it is completely dark. Walking on the road, you can stretch out your hand to see No fingers.
In order to save some electricity bills, every household is reluctant to turn on the lights for nothing. It looks dark everywhere, and only a few households have lights in their houses.
The roads in the countryside are not smooth, and in some places, there are too many people walking on them, so they become roads. Ye Yaodong tried his best to take the big roads, and slowed down his walking speed.
However, when he passed an intersection, he heard noisy voices in the distance. He was a little surprised. There didn't seem to be any happy or funeral events in the village today. Where did the noise come from?
He walked towards the source of the sound curiously, only to find out that it was his uncle's house, which is no wonder.
His uncle’s family has two sons and four daughters. After the daughters are all married off, they will have enough room to live in. When the family is divided, the family will occupy two rooms, start a new stove, and live on the same land.
After getting closer, I saw half of the villagers gathered in front of their house, men, women, young and old, all surrounded there, eating melon seeds and discussing when can I watch TV? How long will it take to arrive...
It happened that I didn’t come to watch the fun yesterday, but when I passed by today, he also had time to stand in the crowd, listening to everyone talking about how capable Ye Yaohong is, and how good-for-nothing his son is...
The children of their family sat in front of the TV beamingly, waiting for the later news broadcast, while the adults greeted the folks there, listening to the compliments, Ye Yaodong saw that they were all in a trance.
He pursed his mouth, and was quite curious at first, but after standing for a long time, he heard those words over and over again, and found it quite boring.
If he didn't want to wait to watch the news broadcast, he would have turned his head and left. At this time, current affairs and politics can only be understood by newspapers and news, but he can't read, and there are piles of old newspapers in front of him, and he can't figure it out. , can only wait to hear the news.
At this time, the news broadcast is also at seven o'clock, and it is all about the central work of the stage, important strategic planning, and major events.
After hearing that he would continue to strengthen the crackdown on illegal smuggling and crimes in coastal areas, Ye Yaodong kicked the melon seed shell on the upper of the shoe, and left contentedly.
The villagers all wanted to continue watching the TV and did not leave.
He felt the darkness and walked towards the beach, but saw another group of people approaching in the distance, he stopped, and it was Lin Jishang who was the leader.
Lin Jishang saw him when he approached, and his eyes flickered for a while, then he stopped and greeted him with a smile, "Have you not returned so late?"
"The village had its first TV, and the whole village was a sensation. It was still early at this time, and everyone was watching TV to watch the excitement."
"Oh? The first TV? I haven't heard of it since I was away for two days." Lin Jishang was surprised.
Ye Yaodong saw that his expression didn't look like a fake, and thought that Brother Datang should have nothing to do with him.
"You guys have another ship coming in tonight? Are you going to unload again? It seems a little frequent recently?"
Lin Ji frowned, "How do you know?"
They usually enter the village after dark and leave early in the morning. They rarely stay in the village during the day. After all, unfamiliar faces are more eye-catching in the village. Although they can be said to be boatmen, they should appear less often.
"I live by the beach."
After Ye Yaodong reminded him, he left Lin Jishang with a troubled expression on his face, and left directly.
If it wasn't for thinking that this person seemed to be the little smuggling leader of their line, if I really needed something in the future, it would be more convenient to ask him to take it with me, so I reminded him and hoped that they would restrain themselves a little. Things are different.
Lin Jishang is a bit similar to a purchasing agent in his eyes? Keep the spare ones.
Ye Yaodong walked directly to the house briskly, temporarily forgetting the matter, but he didn't expect that Lin Jishang would suddenly come to the door the next morning when their family was still having breakfast, which was beyond his expectation.
He couldn't figure it out, and they didn't have friendship, so he stood up, "What's the matter?"
"I'm having breakfast, I'm bothering you."
"It's okay, you have something to say."
Lin Jishang smiled and took out a small box similar to jewelry from his arms, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of him.
"Recently, our boats have been arriving at night, and the movement of fish seems to be a bit loud. It disturbed you, so I came here to apologize."
"Huh?" Ye Yaodong was taken aback for a moment, and then instantly understood what he meant. Is this to gag him and bribe him? Tell him not to report?
And this surprise?
Lin Ji said with a smile again: "We will try to be quiet in the future, or arrange to dock during the day, so as not to disturb the people and everyone."
Tsk tsk tsk, he seems to be the only two in the village who graduated from junior high school. A cultural person speaks well. I was confused.
For example, his wife, who was so dazed when she heard it, didn't dare to intervene to ask.
"They're all from the same village. You're welcome. You're quiet and won't disturb the people. I just saw it a few times when I went to the toilet at night."
"It's good if it doesn't disturb everyone, then I won't disturb your breakfast."
"Hehe, okay, walk slowly."
Lin Xiuqing was confused, and as soon as the person left, she immediately asked, "Why is he here? Why can't I understand? Is there any movement at night? Except for the sound of the waves, how can there be any sound? The pier moved No matter how big the movement of the goods is, how could it possibly reach us?"
Ye Yaodong picked up the small box on the table and opened it for a look.
"Watch?" Lin Xiuqing exclaimed directly.
"Shh~ Keep your voice down."
Ye Yaodong didn't expect him to be so generous. This mechanical watch costs one or two hundred, right?
Lin Xiuqing was completely confused, what kind of riddles were they playing, why did they send a watch to their family for no reason.
"I found out something, and he gagged me, so he sent a watch."
"Did something happen to the pier at night?"
Ye Yaodong was taken aback for a moment, is his wife so perceptive? Responding so fast?
"Shhh, don't ask, we're just ordinary fishermen anyway, we don't know anything, it's just a watch, just accept it."
When he is at sea, he can also check the time. Otherwise, he often does not know what time it is, and can only see where the sun sets.
Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "You can say that."
This person probably made a lot of money long ago, but he was just low-key, without publicity, just a watch, which was nothing to him.
Lin Xiuqing didn't mind seeing him, she looked big-hearted. Thinking about it, he didn't seem to ask them to do anything, but just said a few vague words and left, so why don't you do it for nothing?
"Eat first, don't think about it, it has nothing to do with us."
"Then do you put this watch on directly? Or put it away first?"
"Take it with you, you can watch the time at sea."
After the watch strap was put on, Ye Yaodong turned his wrist, and then pulled down his sleeve to cover it, so as not to be too eye-catching.
Lin Xiuqing still felt very puzzled, and didn't know what it was, but he didn't intend to talk about it, so she had no choice but to stop asking. There were a lot of housework at home, and she turned around and left it behind.
After eating, Ye Yaodong went to get the row hooks made by someone. He made three baskets in one day. The threads were all coiled in the baskets, and the hooks were neatly hung all over the edges of the bamboo baskets, just waiting for the bait.
He was very satisfied, and it saved him a lot of trouble. After a while, he went to sea to collect the goods in the ground cage, and directly used the ready-made bait to release.
The same is true for Xiaoxiao and Ah Zheng, but their number of cages is relatively small, and they collect them faster than him. After collecting them, they row the boat to a distant place first, and find a piece of sea.
Two people do it much faster than one person, one drives the boat and the other hangs bait there.
When Ye Yaodong finished collecting the ground cages and passed by them, seeing that they were all baited and ready to hook, he felt a little depressed, and hurried up.
He didn't hang all of them with shrimps as bait, he used a small portion of the fish, and Xiaoguan also took three as bait to try, but he didn't know what he could catch. A catty of fish can't be swallowed.
Anyway, it’s worth trying to see if you can catch a big fish.
It is not as convenient for two people to set the row hook by one person, because it needs to be opened and released at the same time. Ye Yaodong is in a hurry to open and release for a while.
After the first basket of trunk line has been lowered, the end of the trunk line of this basket is connected with the head end of the second basket trunk line, the buoy rope and the sinker rope and thrown into the water, then the second basket of trunk line is thrown in, and the third basket is cast after casting.
After he was sweating profusely, he was relieved.
But step by step, slow step by step, when he finished all the fishing, Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao had nothing to do to catch several rods of fish, and now they were ready to pull the bait from a distance.
He was depressed again. After changing the iron boat, he had to hire someone. The lack of one person would really delay things.
Watching them keep catching big fish in the distance, Ye Yaodong also pulled the rope like Ah Zheng did yesterday to make the bait move.
After waiting for a long time, seeing more than two hours passed, Ye Yaodong looked at his watch and felt that the time was almost up, so he started to move.
Row the boat to the very end and start to pull the anchor. When you are about to take up the line, you see a sudden turbulence on the sea level, and a big guy swims quickly on the water.
"Dolphin? No, it's a sea pig."
The sea pig looks like a dolphin, except that it has no dorsal fin and is light blue all over.
He was pleasantly surprised, but saw that it suddenly stopped on the surface of the water again, shaking its body from side to side, as if it lost its balance.
"Dongzi? Have you pulled the string yet?"
He turned his head and glanced at them who were coming towards him, and threw the anchor back into the sea by the way, preparing to take up the line later.
"No, there is a strange sea pig in the sea on my side, have you brought your hands to throw the net?"
The fishing boat gradually approached, and they also saw the strange sea pig that swam sharply on the sea level for a while, and rolled over for a while.
Ah Zheng said regretfully: "I didn't bring it with me. It's too inefficient to start throwing the net by hand. Since I already have a raft hook for longline fishing, it's useless to bring it with me. I didn't bring it today."
"Huh?" Ye Yaodong looked regretful, he couldn't catch it without a fishing net.
The three of them could only watch it roll from time to time, swim rapidly from time to time, and make occasional calls. They couldn't tell the difference, and felt that some sounded like sheep, and some sounded like birdsong.
"What is it doing? Why is it so strange?"
"I don't know, is it playing there?"
"It's just one, what does it play? It doesn't look like it."
"I used to bring a net every day, but I didn't bring it today. It's a pity. I knew it and put it on the boat for backup. This one looks 1.5 meters, and it's an adult."
"Look first."
The three of them stared at it for a while, and Ah Zheng inadvertently said, "It's not giving birth, is it?"
"Huh? It's possible!"
"It seems to be, it seems to have a big belly!" Ye Yaodong's eyes lit up, no wonder he was tossing and turning on the sea like this, it turned out he was laying cubs.
"It looks like it hurts?"
"It feels more painful than my wife's childbirth, and she can still toss, and it all comes here from over there."
"It's the first time I've seen a sea pig give birth."
After a while, the thumping on the surface of the sea became more violent, and suddenly stopped again. A cub was swimming up to the surface of the sea with all its strength, and the sea pig turned its belly up.
"Huh? Give birth?"
"It was born, it was born..."
"Why are you so excited? It's not your cub."
"What are you talking about? I'm happy for you, there is a successor!"
"Roll on the grass..."
Ye Yaodong heard the two laughing, and saw that the big big pig not far away was swimming in the opposite direction to the cub, as if trying to break the umbilical cord.
Sure enough, the moment the umbilical cord was severed, the cub rushed out of the water and breathed air.
(end of this chapter)