Duan Chunsheng and Xiao Hu looked back and could see a light in the distance, which should be the light from the fishing boat.
"Whose boat is this? It's deliberately following us here."
Ye Cheng shook his head.
"I don't know if it was intentional or just passing by. I'll slow down the boat and see."
As he spoke, Ye Cheng slowed the boat down, and Xiao Hu and Duan Chunsheng went up to the deck to prepare to cast the net.
Ye Cheng slowed down, but the ships behind him did not, and soon caught up.
“It’s the Chen family’s ship.” Ye Cheng recognized it at a glance.
Only these two families own such large ships in this area. There are some in the city, but only they can have ships that come directly from the dock.
"Brother, what's the Chen family up to? Are they trying to ambush us?" Little Tiger, being silly, was itching for a fight again.
"It shouldn't be that. One boat isn't enough to block us. I reckon they're trying to take advantage of us," Duan Chunsheng said. "Wang Defa did the same thing before."
Speaking of Wang Defa, it seems he also worked on Ye Cheng's ship, but he wasn't of much use.
Ye Cheng didn't care about following the ship; there was no benefit in doing so many times.
"Uncle Duan, Xiao Hu, let's go to the internet cafe and leave them alone," Ye Cheng called out.
Ye Cheng adjusted his direction and accelerated, while Xiao Hu and Duan Chunsheng lowered the net from behind.
On the boat behind, Chen Jinfa saw Ye Cheng adjust his direction and quickly accelerated to get on board, following Ye Cheng in the same direction.
"Quick, quick, shut down the net! They've shut down the net!" Chen Jinfa shouted to the people behind him.
The Chen family members behind him hurriedly lowered the net.
"Blonde, are you sure you can do this?" Some people began to doubt as they saw the net being lowered.
Chen Jinfa sneered and said smugly,
"Hmph, what do we call this? We call it borrowing luck! They spend tens of thousands every time, right? We'll join them. If they spend tens of thousands, we'll have at least seventy or eighty thousand."
"Yeah, it's definitely better than yesterday's 30 boxes," the person behind me muttered.
These words made Chen Jinfa's face turn black. He was the one who sold the 30 boxes yesterday. It's really like they're bringing up the very thing they don't want to talk about.
Ye Cheng glanced to his side. The Chen family's ship was now sailing alongside him, and he could make out Chen Jinfa's general appearance from a distance, looking at him smugly.
"Hmph, idiot." Ye Cheng was too lazy to pay attention. As long as they didn't bother him, he didn't care.
Xiao Hu and Duan Chunsheng didn't dare go back to sleep either, fearing that they might have some conflict with the Chen family and wouldn't have time to react.
Fortunately, Chen Jinfa simply followed silently, shifting left when Ye Cheng leaned to the left and right when Ye Cheng leaned to the right, mainly acting as a companion.
When Ye Cheng slowed down to close the net, he also slowed down to close the net.
The three women, including Widow Zhang, had already gotten up, and they were all indignant as they looked at the Chen family's large ship.
"Second brother, they're doing this on purpose, trying to take advantage of your luck," Aunt Qian said.
"That's right, Cheng, since he wants to follow you, why don't you find a rock for them to crash into and see if they still follow?" Widow Zhang's tactic was a bit underhanded.
To be honest, it's not impossible; it has happened before.
Some people followed other boats to see where they were fishing, but the person in front deliberately caused trouble, leading the boat behind to crash into the reef.
Of course, Ye Cheng wasn't incapable of doing such a thing.
However, it hasn't come to that yet.
"Alright, ladies, let's make our money and leave the rest to us."
Ye Cheng gave a shout, and everyone returned to their posts to start working.
The net was about 80% full, and a small mountain of saliva piled up on the deck.
This time, no one was in a hurry to pack up; all eyes were on the Chen family's boat next door.
When the net was hoisted up, it was bulging and bulging, which made the crowd a little unhappy. It seemed that the Chen family had gotten the better deal.
However, soon everyone noticed that the Chen family boat had started throwing things into the sea, shovel by shovel.
As an experienced fisherman, he didn't even need to look closely to know that he had definitely caught some worthless stuff.
Chen Jinfa was also frustrated. The moment he stepped onto the platform, the net bulged like the headlights of an Audi A8, making him jump up in excitement.
"It's done! It's done! It exploded, damn it!"
The people on the boat were very excited, but when the net was lowered, they were instantly dumbfounded.
Damn it, what kind of rubbish is this?
tape!
It was all cheap ribbons and big seashells.
There are less than one-tenth of swimming crabs.
Chen Jinfa was getting depressed. He had clearly used a large-diameter trawl net, so how could he have pulled up so many snails? Couldn't they just flow away quietly through the net?
Seeing the scene unfold, Widow Zhang burst into laughter and began to sing at the top of her lungs.
"Whose net hasn't burst? Mine's full of crabs!"
The sound quality isn't great, but it's plentiful and travels far.
Chen Jinfa was furious, but there was nothing he could do but shout angrily.
“You guys, be careful when you set the net. Make sure it’s spread out properly. What kind of crap is this? You’re really something, managing to pull up a snail through a mesh that’s only a few centimeters in diameter.”
To be frank, those men were just hired by their respective families to earn wages, and they weren't very familiar with trawl nets. When they cast the net, they didn't even spread it out properly, which is why they ended up with so many small things.
They didn't care about being told off. Their families had told them that they were here to earn money, and they didn't know when they would be able to get back on the ship.
"Hurry up, catch as many crabs as you can, we still need to wait for the next net."
"Hurry up and tie up the crabs! Why are you all so slow? Other people with so many crabs are faster than you."
Chen Jinfa was furious. What kind of people had he been given? Damn it.
If it weren't for my damn competitive spirit, I would have earned that 1000 yuan myself.
Ye Cheng's team were all skilled workers; after a little tidying up, they started casting the second net.
Chen Jinfa was surprised to see that they had already taken their nets off so quickly, while he hadn't even packed up his own nets yet.
Enraged, he started cursing on the deck and even helped lower the net himself.
Even so, he was still nearly 100 meters behind Ye Cheng.
He was so angry he was speechless.
"Second brother, how many baskets of crabs do you think the Chen family will get today?" Duan Chunsheng was overjoyed.
"They only had 32 baskets yesterday. I bet they won't even get 30 today," Xiao Hu said gleefully.
"Pah! I wish they'd run into the rocks tonight and lose everything," Widow Zhang insisted on her curse.
Han Xiaotao didn't dare to speak; those were the Chen family's people, and she couldn't say anything.
The second haul was also good, yielding 80% of the harvest.
The net from the Chen family's side was flat and flat, which made Chen Jinfa speechless with anger.
Finally, he thought about it and realized that following Ye Cheng didn't seem to bring any benefits. So when Ye Cheng launched his third attack, he simply turned around and went off to play by himself.
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