Fu Wan breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw the broken end of the net cage, her face immediately darkened again.
The clean break didn't look like it was made by waves; it was clearly cut by someone.
Without time to think, Fu Wan rolled up her sleeves and was about to go into the water when Fu Liang hurriedly shook his head and stopped her, saying, "Wan, there are enough of us to handle this hole, so don't come down!"
Several of them were pulling the fishing nets and using the net shuttles; they were all efficient workers, and the big hole was patched up in less than ten minutes once everyone was in place.
Fortunately, the wind and waves weren't too strong at the moment, otherwise it would have made repairing the net much more difficult.
Fu Wan didn't go into the water, but she wasn't idle either. She rowed the wooden boat that Jiang Wanghai usually used to observe fish and shrimp, circling the aquaculture cages.
Jiang Wanghai on the boat felt a little embarrassed, after all, Fu Wan had asked him to come and take charge of the aquaculture, but now the fish and shrimp hadn't even grown up before the net cages broke.
"I'm sorry, Comrade Xiao Fu, it's my fault for not noticing this in time."
Don't worry, I'll contact my fellow apprentices tomorrow and ask them to send over some more fish and shrimp fry to make up for it.
I'll pay for it later!
Fu Wan waved her hand when she heard this. Jiang Wanghai had two obvious dark circles under his eyes, which showed that he had been worrying a lot lately.
"It's alright, Uncle Jiang. I can afford to lose money on these fish and shrimp."
While offering words of comfort, she quickly changed the subject and immediately inquired about Jiang Wanghai's situation over the past few days.
"Uncle Jiang, have there been any signs of damage to the fish cages at all these days?"
Jiang Wanghai thought hard for a moment, then shook his head.
"No, there really isn't."
As you know, I have to feed the fish and shrimp every day, and I have to walk around the fish tank two or three times a day, but I haven't noticed anything wrong.
This morning I brought Xiao Fang and the others over to feed them, and there were noticeably fewer fish and shrimp. I was wondering why, but when I looked, I saw that there was a big hole in the fishing net.
"These fishing nets are all new ones you bought. There haven't been any typhoons these past few days, so they shouldn't be this fragile!"
"Is there any strange person here?"
When Fu Wan asked this question, Jiang Wanghai subconsciously shook his head. Then he paused, and a possibility emerged in his mind.
Although he was focused on aquaculture, Jiang Wanghai wasn't a fool.
Fu Wan clearly meant that the net cage was damaged, possibly intentionally by someone.
Damn it, how could there be such a despicable person in a fishing village?
Jiang Wanghai's expression immediately turned sour. Fu Wan checked around and found that there were only two damaged areas. The two areas were adjacent to each other and very close to the shore. The one that Boss Fu and his team dealt with was the most damaged.
In addition, she checked the scallop and oyster farming conditions again, and to her relief, the scallops and oysters were growing well and there was no other damage.
After looking around, the overall condition of the aquaculture area is not bad.
Fu Wan was relieved and immediately comforted Jiang Wanghai, who was feeling somewhat guilty.
"Uncle Jiang, you've done a good job raising these farmed seafood. I'll investigate the damaged fishing nets. If you encounter any difficulties, feel free to contact me or my father."
After saying that, she paused and said, "Have someone send over the missing fish and shrimp later. I'll have my brother get you the money later."
This money is for normal wear and tear; we can't let you bear it.
Jiang Wanghai was relieved to see that Fu Wan really didn't blame him.
Just as he was about to say something, Fu Wan suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and quickly jumped off the boat and ran towards a tree not far away.
Jiang Wanghai turned around and saw two people running quickly down the path under the tree. Fu Wan ran very fast, and Bai Qianzhou and Fang Min also chased after them when they saw that something was wrong. They quickly caught up with the two people.
They turned out to be two children who were only a few years older than Fu Ling.
"Whose children are you? Why are you running?"
Fu Wan glanced at the two dark-skinned children. She had just been talking to Jiang Wanghai when she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the two children were hiding under a tree, secretly looking this way.
Although they were more than ten meters apart, Fu Wan could see clearly that the two children were very cunning and were obviously up to no good.
"I...we didn't do anything wrong! Let us go!"
The two children, one big and one small, struggled desperately, but Bai Qianzhou's hands were like iron clamps, and they couldn't break free no matter what they did.
Fang Min was holding the smaller one, and she also looked fearless, clearly having been beaten a lot at home.
Seeing that they wouldn't talk, Fu Wan's eyes darted around, and she took out a White Rabbit candy from her pocket with her left hand.
This is what Fu Ling left in her pocket this morning; she hasn't had time to take it yet.
"Okay, whoever tells me what you're doing here, I'll give them this White Rabbit candy."
"We...we're here beachcombing!"
The older child immediately shouted, but his acting was subpar; his darting eyes clearly indicated he was lying.
Fu Wan chuckled, "Do you think I'm stupid? There's no one around here. What are you two kids doing here, going to collect seafood?"
"Even if you're going to go beachcombing, what tools do you have? You can't just dig with your bare hands, can you?"
"Who says we don't have nets? We do!"
The younger child immediately shouted, and then pointed to the tree not far away.
Fu Wan went over to take a look and immediately laughed in anger.
The net contained several fish and shrimp about the size of a little finger, but these fish and shrimp looked familiar; they were clearly from my own net cage.
Well, she found the guy who damaged the fish cage so easily.
There were actually two children!
"You caught these fish and shrimp from my net cages, didn't you? And you cut that big hole in the fishing net too?"
The older one didn't expect Fu Wan to react so quickly, and immediately shut his mouth and stopped talking.
The smaller one's eye was still stuck to the White Rabbit candy in Fu Wan's hand, so Fu Wan simply waved the candy in front of his eyes.
“Tell me, who sent you here?”
"It's my grandma! My grandma said there are fish and shrimp here!"
Grandma?
Fu Wan was surprised, and then, unexpectedly, the child broke free from Fang Min's hand, snatched the candy from Fu Wan's hand, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Just then, Fu Liang and Fu Ming and the others also walked over quickly.
"Awan, aren't these Fu Dajun and Fu Dajiang's two children? Why are you grabbing them?"
"Fu Dajun and Fu Dajiang?"
Fu Wan thought for half a minute. If she remembered correctly, these two people should be Fu Dazhi's two older brothers.
So, the grandmother of these two children is Yu Guixiang?
A hint of disgust flashed in Fu Wan's eyes. Fu Dazhi had been arrested for so long, and she thought Yu Guixiang had learned her lesson and was planning to keep a low profile.
I never expected that they would secretly instigate the children to destroy the fishing nets?
Although the waves at the beach are not big today, it is still not suitable for going out to sea. Even if you want to go beachcombing, an adult must watch over you.
The aquaculture area is remote. If they hadn't discovered it in time, what if something had happened to the two children here? Wouldn't those two families have been making a huge fuss over it?
As soon as Fu Wan thought about it, a surge of anger welled up inside her.
Everyone in the village knew that Yu Guixiang didn't care much for her grandsons; the old woman only liked Yu Dazhi.
If something happens to the child, she will definitely come out and extort money from him. Even if nothing happens to the child, the aquaculture area will definitely be destroyed by them.
This scheme is utterly disgusting!
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