At his command, several men immediately went back to the cabin and brought out a few sticks. Zhu Liwen himself held a harpoon, looking as if he was about to throw it over.
The other side had taken out weapons, so we couldn't show weakness either. Ye Cheng and his two companions each took out a weapon, and the two sides started hurling insults at each other.
"You're stealing fish, that's illegal," Ye Cheng shouted.
Zhu Liwen was very disdainful.
"You've broken the law? Do you have any evidence? And let me tell you, even if you call the police and we go in, we'll still kill you when we get out."
"That's right, just the three of you, you think you can fight against the four of us brothers? Go eat shit."
"Hahaha, we brothers can take whose fish we want, so why don't you try to stop us from finding them?"
"If you're not happy, come over here and let's fight."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The four laughed extremely arrogantly. Xiao Hu was furious and took two steps back, wanting to throw the stick in his hand and hit as many as he could.
However, Ye Cheng stopped him. That was enough; he had already asked for enough.
He wasn't trying to argue with them; he just wanted to give them one last chance.
"Xiao Hu, Uncle Duan, forget it, let's go."
Looking at the arrogant Zhu brothers, Ye Cheng said calmly.
"No, brother, are we just going to let it go like this?"
"Yeah, Cheng, damn it, this is too much! There are four of them and only three of us. It's not like we can't beat them. Let's take them down!" This made Duan Chunsheng so angry that he couldn't hold back his anger.
Ye Cheng gave the two a wink, and they paused for a moment before remembering what he meant.
Holy crap, yeah.
Ye Cheng dug a pit for himself today.
Thinking about how they would fall into the pit later, the two of them suddenly calmed down.
Seeing that Ye Cheng had stopped cursing, the Zhu brothers thought they were scared.
Ye Cheng told Xiao Hu to turn around again, then pointed at them and said,
“Let me tell you, if you steal our traps again, I will call the police immediately, and you will face the consequences.”
Zhu Liwen was speechless. How could Ye Cheng be so silly? He was adorably silly.
Who do you think your four brothers are? They even called the police to threaten us. Who's afraid of us?
"Big brother, they got scared and ran away, hahahaha."
"Big brother is right. As long as we are tough enough, they will be afraid. Look at them, there are three of them, one less than us, but they still ran away."
"Brother, do you think they might stop using the fish traps?"
If they don't put out the traps, they'll lose out.
Zhu Liwen pondered for a while, then steered the boat away without following Ye Cheng and the others inside.
...
Meanwhile, Ye Cheng and his group looked back after sailing for a while and found that the boats behind them had disappeared. Now it was their turn to worry.
"Brother, they weren't really scared away, were they?"
"If they can scare them away, then they still have some conscience, and they won't suffer too much loss in a short time."
The three of them found a spot to moor the boat as planned and prepared to set up the fish trap.
"Ah Cheng, this is a setup, so do I need to skip putting out the bait?" Duan Chunsheng said, holding the bag of bait.
"Let it go! If you're going to put on an act, then why would anyone walk in?"
"Alright, I'll link up with Xiaohu. You handle the placement, and you can stay in the shadows."
Ye Cheng's face darkened.
"Oh my god, if I were alone, I'd be dead! Xiao Hu and I will each take half, and you can hang the hooks up there."
"Okay, okay, you guys put the fish traps in first, I'll hook them up first. We don't need that many, six sets of lines will be enough, any more would be a waste."
After saying that, Duan Chunsheng started to put the hooks on. Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu put bait on 20 fish traps, tied on the floats, and then jumped into the sea with the fish traps.
More than an hour later, Ye Cheng and his group sailed back.
No sooner had they left than the ship that had already departed returned and sailed to the spot where they had set the traps.
The four Zhu brothers were standing on the boat.
"Big brother, they let them go again. Aren't they really afraid we'll steal them again?"
"They probably thought that we would be scared after they said a few harsh words."
"A bunch of idiots, they don't know the saying 'the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.'"
Zhu Liwen looked smugly at the fish trap in front of him.
“If they dare to release it, we dare to take it. Even if they guess it afterward, so what? They have no evidence, and the police won’t pay any attention to them if they call the police.”
"Get up early tomorrow morning and come over to collect all of these. We left some behind last time, but not this time."
After saying that, the four brothers steered the boat straight away.
......
After a peaceful night, at four o'clock in the morning, the sound of a motor rose on the sea, and a fishing boat appeared like a ghost at the place where Ye Cheng and his men had set the fish trap.
Zhu Liwen moored the boat, went over and kicked his younger brothers awake.
"Get up, get to work. Be quick and efficient, get back to work as soon as possible, and try not to run into anyone."
"Got it, big brother." The group yawned and got up, starting to collect the ground cage.
The first trap came up and dumped out 8 swimming crabs and 4 pounds of white shrimp.
"Brother, this guy, Ye Cheng, is really lucky. He got so many things from just one cage."
"Exactly, if we put a trap, we're lucky to get two crabs, but this kid always manages to fill the trap to overflowing."
Zhu Liwen gazed greedily at the fish trap on this side and urged,
"Stop counting, there are still so many left."
He steered the boat slowly toward the direction the fish trap was pointing.
"Why do these guys line up the traps in a row? Couldn't they have arranged them closer together? It would be easier to pack them up then," the third brother complained.
"Hey, third brother, you're lucky you even have hands. It's free, why are you complaining? There must be a reason why they do it this way. Next time we set up the traps ourselves, we'll do it the same way."
The group excitedly pulled the fish traps one by one, and the catch on the deck kept increasing, with two baskets full of crabs alone.
Even after they had collected all the traps, the group was still not satisfied.
"Gone? The fish trap is gone?"
"Why are there so few? Last time there were 50 traps!"
Zhu Liwen frowned.
"I guess they were afraid someone would steal it again, so they deliberately released fewer. Never mind, go and collect the longline fishing."
Let's see how many sets of longline fishing are available.
The group steered the boat forward for a while, and the sky gradually began to lighten, making the buoys on the sea surface clearly visible.
"Brother, I counted, it should be 6 sets."
"Last time it was 10 sets, this time it's 6 sets. Damn it, they're cutting corners."
Despite their words, the group quickly extended their hooks and hooked up the first set of ropes.
"Wow, brother, grouper! There are several grouper!"
"Damn, their hook-up rate is too high. There must be 50 fish on this line already."
"Big brother, we've struck it rich again."
Looking at the fish all over the ground, Zhu Liwen was overjoyed. Stealing those fish traps before was like being a penniless wretch; stealing from Ye Cheng's place was much more satisfying.
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