As soon as the two came out, they saw Chen Jinhai strolling over leisurely. "Hey, Second Brother, Little Tiger, you're not planning to go into business again, are you? You don't believe what the old man said anymore?"
Seeing his smug old face, Ye Cheng was furious.
He smiled faintly, and deliberately stopped to say to Chen Jinhai, "Last night, I chatted with the Dragon King on QQ. The Dragon King said that he didn't add your old man on QQ at all. Go back and ask him if he made a mistake, or if he's starting to get senile?"
With a "pfft," Xiao Hu, standing to the side, couldn't help but laugh. "Adding the old prince on QQ? Why don't I just go to heaven?"
Chen Jinhai was taken aback. "What QQ?"
"It's just about going online. What level is the Dragon King? He's been working online for ages. The old man wouldn't, would he? How else would he contact him?" Ye Cheng said sarcastically. "I think you should take the old man to see a doctor. Is he a little out of his mind?"
After saying that, Ye Cheng walked straight past Chen Jinhai, but turned back halfway and said,
"By the way, village chief, if the old man wants the Dragon King's QQ number, remember to contact me, I have it."
After saying that, Ye Cheng laughed loudly and led Xiao Hu towards the village entrance.
Chen Jinhai stood there, his face extremely ugly.
I originally came here today to make things difficult for Ye Cheng, but it seems I ended up getting the better of him.
When Ye Cheng passed by the convenience store, he went in and bought a bag of food, as they were running out of food recently.
Li the Cripple, with a gossipy look on his face, leaned closer with a cigarette in his hand. "I heard the old man called you out?"
Ye Cheng rolled his eyes at him. "Next time the village's female dog gives birth, will you know who the father is if we ask you? How do you know everything?"
Li the Cripple said modestly, "Well, I'm just a bit enthusiastic, it's just how I am, there's nothing I can do about it."
"Oh, did you hear anything else?" Ye Cheng pressed.
"Hehe." Li the Cripple looked up, his eyes fixed on the cigarettes on the shelf.
"Damn it, you deserve to make money. Give me a pack of cigarettes." Ye Cheng cursed. This guy should be sent to be an intelligence agent.
"Thank you, boss." Li the Cripple immediately put on a smiling face and handed Ye Cheng a pack of cigarettes.
Then he lowered his voice and said, "It was the village chief who first said that you offended the Dragon King. I guess the old man was just a mouthpiece."
But the villagers are quite superstitious, so they'll probably avoid you, this jinx.
Ye Cheng nodded; it was pretty much what he had guessed.
"Everyone else is avoiding me, this jinx, why aren't you?"
Li the Cripple sat heavily in his chair and said leisurely, "They believe in God, I believe in money. Whoever has money is God."
"Okay, you're amazing!" Ye Cheng nodded admiringly. This guy really knows how to live.
You say you've offended the Dragon King of the Sea? Fine, I'll go to the bottom of the sea today and set up some traps for you, so you can see what a chosen one of destiny really is.
They encountered several people along the way, and upon seeing Ye Cheng and his companion, they instinctively moved to the side. Even when Ye Cheng offered them a cigarette, they looked like they were about to die.
Okay, then I'll save money on cigarettes.
Ye Cheng, with Xiao Hu by his side, followed the path they had taken to fish the day before yesterday. They had only gone halfway when Ye Cheng stopped.
Because there was a person following behind, Widow Zhang.
"Auntie, why are you following us?" Ye Cheng turned his head and asked casually.
Widow Zhang chuckled. "The old man in the village said you've offended the Dragon King of the Sea, and that being with you will bring bad luck. I want to see if someone like me can be any more unlucky."
Widow Zhang spoke casually, but Ye Cheng sensed that she seemed to have something on her mind, and that she was only half telling the truth.
"Go ahead and follow me if you want, but don't blame me if you get into trouble later," Ye Cheng said casually, then continued walking forward with Xiao Hu, ignoring her.
As he walked, Ye Cheng glanced behind him; they were still following.
"Brother, should we let her come along?" Xiao Hu asked.
"Ignore her. She must have something on her mind. If she doesn't tell me, I'll pretend I don't know."
Ye Cheng now has some mixed feelings about the villagers. They're all fellow villagers, but who can like villagers who keep tripping him up?
The two walked to the place where Ye Cheng had gone into the sea the day before yesterday. Xiao Hu sat on the reef, while Ye Cheng went behind the reef to change into a diving suit, put on his goggles, and tucked a short harpoon into his waistband.
"Walk forward a little in a bit, it should be around that spot, I'll find the end of the wire for the trap, and then you can pull it up."
Ye Cheng pointed ahead, saying that if it was in this position, the thread wasn't long enough.
Xiao Hu responded and walked forward for more than 20 meters. Ye Cheng gave an OK sign and then went into the sea.
It was that familiar feeling again, the seawater embracing me, my whole being becoming one with the ocean. And this time, with the wetsuit covering my body, the cold feeling was much less.
Recalling yesterday's route, Ye Cheng turned on the underwater light above his head, spread his arms, and swam forward.
With the lighting, the underwater world became much clearer, and every little creature was clearly visible.
Swimming a little further, he reached the trench where the traps had been set the day before yesterday. After swimming for only a short while, Ye Cheng felt weak in his limbs, a lingering effect of the fever that hadn't fully subsided.
It looks like we'll have to rely on Xiaohu to get the stuff up here today.
The trench hadn't changed much in just one day.
Ye Cheng successfully found the large rock where he had tied the ropes, and the five marked ropes were still firmly tied to it.
Ye Cheng swam down the rope into the trench and opened it. The trap was still there, and he could vaguely see things crawling around inside. "Great, great, it looks like we've had a great haul."
He first dived down into the trench and kicked down several large rocks that were pressing down on the sea cage. He originally intended to move them up and reuse them, but he was too weak today, so he had to resort to this crude method.
After kicking just a few rocks, Ye Cheng felt he had used up all his strength and had to swim to the surface to breathe some fresh air.
I glanced over and saw that Little Tiger was still quite far away. The rope for the trap might not be that long in a while.
"Xiao Hu, go down into the sea and walk a few steps into the water or find a rope so we can pull on it later. I'll go down and pull the rope first."
After instructing Xiao Hu, Ye Cheng dived back underwater, found the rope of the first fish trap, untied it, and swam towards the sea, dragging the rope along.
He also tried to pull the cage, but with little success. He figured that Xiao Hu would have to pull it from above while he supported it from below, especially when pulling it out of the trench.
After emerging from the water, Ye Cheng grabbed the rope and swam towards the shore. When he was about 3 meters away from the shore, the rope ended.
Xiao Hu waded through the water and managed to grab the rope, but with half his body submerged, it was difficult to pull him up without any support.
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