After catching this thing, everyone lost interest in continuing the fishing operation. Boss Fu told Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan to quickly sort out the fish on the deck, while he steered the boat to the dock.
It's already past 3 a.m., and I estimate we'll reach the pier in less than two hours.
Fu Ming also hauled up the fishing net, which was full of common sea bream, shrimp and crabs. Fu Ming, Ye Lin and Ye Jianguo sorted the catch, while Fu Liang steered the boat closely behind Fu Ming's boat.
The sea was actually quite lively in the early morning. Along the way, Boss Fu and his crew encountered many fishing boats operating at sea.
Many villagers from Fujia Village saw Boss Fu and his crew's boat heading towards the dock and were discussing it amongst themselves.
"Why did Boss Fu and his family go back at this time? The cargo hold is full of fish baskets?"
"Who would have thought? Their shipping is truly enviable!"
The people working next door were also villagers from Shenjia Village. They hadn't kept Fu Wan's divorce a secret, so the villagers from Fujia Village couldn't help but make a few sarcastic remarks.
“Your Shenjia Village is really short-sighted. Fu Wan has been married for so long, and her child is already five years old, but Shen Dongsheng still hasn’t let her go to sea. Now that she’s back, the shipping business in Old Master Fu’s family is booming.”
"Your Shenjia Village is truly unlucky."
The villagers of Shenjia Village were not to be trifled with either, and they retorted directly, "If you're going to talk about Old Lady Shen, then talk about Old Lady Shen's family. Don't say our village is unlucky!"
The man frowned in disgust. "Fu Wan didn't marry into our family. If she were in our family, I would treat her like royalty. What can that short-sighted old lady Shen's family possibly see?"
Last time, the police came to the village and searched Shen Guoliang's room in Old Lady Shen's house. They also questioned the whole village to see if they had found any strangers Shen Guoliang had brought back to the village.
The villagers later learned that Shen Guoliang, that damned beast, had actually kidnapped his own niece. They were all filled with righteous indignation and wished they could drive the old lady Shen and her family out of Shenjia Village.
If it weren't for the village chief's repeated assurances, everyone would have driven Old Lady Shen and her family out of Shenjia Village long ago, along with their bedding.
Not to mention that no one dared to let the children play too far from home. With their freedom restricted, the children would bully Shen Guangzong every day, and it was common for them to throw stones at Old Lady Shen's house.
Seeing that she couldn't stay in the village any longer, Xu Zhaolan took her son and Shen Qiusheng back to her parents' home. They hadn't returned to Shenjia Village for several days. As for Old Lady Shen, they couldn't care less about her life or death.
The villagers of Fujia Village had no idea that so much would happen afterward, and they were all ears, afraid of missing a single piece of gossip.
When we go back to the village and talk about it, everyone will have something to gossip about under the tree again!
"You bunch of chatterboxes, hurry up and cast your nets to catch fish! At this rate, you'll be left starving!"
The boats were close together and moving slowly. The boats coming from behind saw that these people still had the energy to chat and thought they were crazy.
Why can't we chat on land? Why do we have to sit at sea with diesel fuel burning? Is the atmosphere better that way?
"What are you yelling about? You're like Boss Fu's family, with shipping so good, you think you can just fill up all the warehouses!"
"Let me tell you..."
So another boat was added to the chat, until a few people were scolded by their wives, and only then did they obediently go to retrieve their fishing nets.
As soon as Boss Fu's ship approached the dock, Fu Shi, who was waiting by the dock, spotted the familiar red flag.
He quickly rubbed his face, and the drowsiness immediately disappeared. After confirming that he hadn't seen things wrong, he hurriedly ran towards the deck of Boss Fu's ship.
He and Fu San took turns keeping watch for a day and a night. This was the downside of not having communication equipment. Whether they could catch Fu Laoda's boat returning depended entirely on fate.
And so, this time, fate brought us together with the talisman.
Fu San's tricycle was parked by the dock. It was just getting light, and Fu Wan glanced at her watch; it was only a little before five o'clock.
Moving the fish was naturally a man's job. When Old Li, who lived in the small house at the dock, saw Fu Laoda's family return, he quickly ran over to call Fu San.
Fu San switched shifts with Fu Shi at midnight. In fact, not only did they keep watch over Fu Lao's fishing boat, but occasionally fishermen would also come back in the middle of the night.
He now has a tricycle, which makes it easy for fishermen to load their catch directly onto the vehicle. In addition, his prices are fair, so even though several other people run their own fish collection stations at home, none of them collect as much fish as he does.
Because he was afraid of disturbing his wife's sleep if he didn't get home until after midnight, Fu San simply spread out a straw mat on the small wooden frame bed in his living room and fell asleep immediately.
Old Li walked to Fu San's house and pounded on the gate latch several times.
"Fu San, Fu San? Your older brother is back!"
Fu San was startled by Old Li's rough voice and almost fell off the wooden bed.
"Coming, coming!"
He wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and after running out the door, he thought about it and came back to pull the family's cart out as well.
His older brother's family always has a lot of fish. If his tricycle can't carry them all, he still has a handcart to use!
Fu San, you truly live up to your reputation!
Fu San, pleased with his own cleverness, ran at lightning speed and reached the dock in just a few minutes.
As soon as he arrived at the dock, he saw Boss Fu and Fu Ming and others loading fish onto the truck, and a big smile spread across his face.
"Big brother, you're finally back!"
Fu Laoda was just wondering how to get that big thing on the boat home when he saw the cart that Fu San was pulling and he immediately had an idea.
"Third, you're really something! This cart will come in very handy for me!"
He then took the cart from Fu San and called on Fu Ming, Fu Liang, Ye Jianguo and others to load the torpedoes, which were covered with snakeskin bags, onto the cart.
There weren't many people at the dock at that time, so it was the perfect opportunity to take this thing home!
"Big brother, what's that thing?"
Fu San felt that what they were moving didn't look like fish. Fu Laoda whispered two words in his ear, which startled him and made him lose his relaxed expression.
He wasn't particularly curious about it, so he just glanced at what it looked like and went to move the fish.
This thing is neither edible nor can it be sold for money. To Fu San, isn't it just a pile of scrap metal?
The onlookers were also curious about what it was, but Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan just laughed it off, saying, "It's a broken machine that we fished out of the sea. We don't know which heartless person threw it in. We just picked it up to see if we could dismantle it and sell it for scrap metal."
People didn't care to look at the fish, so they gathered around Old Fu's baskets of fish and marveled at the family's good fortune.
"These baskets of bamboo shad look so plump, we've already made back the cost of this trip, right?"
"Wow, such a big mackerel! Was it caught or caught?"
"What is this? Black-eyed ribbonfish! So many black-eyed ribbonfish! My goodness, Boss Fu, tell me honestly, did your family give a lot of incense money to the Goddess Mazu?"
How can shipping be so good!
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