The two of them, having nothing to do so early in the morning, actually came to wait for me.
After tidying up, Ye Cheng loaded the ten sets of lines onto the tricycle and then rode off to call Xiao Hu.
Xiao Hu's eyes were also swollen. After Ye Cheng went back last night, he stayed at the dock for more than an hour, adding water, fuel, and ice, etc. He probably didn't sleep for long.
"Brother, are we going again?" Little Tiger yawned.
"If we don't go, money will fall from the sky! Hurry up, let's go buy some miscellaneous fish or chicken and duck innards to use as bait."
"Um."
After getting dressed, Xiao Hu followed Ye Cheng to the dock. As soon as they arrived, they saw Duan Chunsheng coming from the other side of the dock, carrying a bunch of soft things in his hands.
"Well, second brother, I've bought all the fish offal."
"Uncle Duan, you're up early! Xiao Hu and I are so sleepy," Ye Cheng yawned.
"I'm getting old, I'll wake up on time, hurry up and get on the boat."
Ye Cheng checked everything before boarding the ship; everything was there.
"Second brother, I'm telling you, after we finish today, let's go somewhere else. We can't stay in one place forever," Duan Chunsheng suddenly said.
"Ah, why? Are you afraid there won't be any stock left?" Ye Cheng asked.
"One reason is that we're afraid that most of our things over there will be taken away, and another reason is that we're afraid that someone will find out and then vandalize or steal from us."
The theft of fish traps does happen, especially those placed in public waters and left overnight.
There are no cameras on the open sea, so it's really hard to know who did it.
"It can't be that bad. We've been out to sea so many times. Sometimes the boat is just sitting at sea, and we can stay on the island for half a day without any problems."
When I and Xiaohu went to the island before, the boat was parked right next to the island and nothing happened.
"You can't be too careful. You can't assume everyone is like that. Besides, everyone at the dock knows you always have a great catch every time you go out to sea. Do you think no one will have any ideas?"
That makes sense. It's always been this way since ancient times: don't flaunt your wealth. I should try to be more low-key next time.
"Uncle, let's go somewhere else today."
As the three were talking, Xiao Hu had already driven to the corner. Suddenly, Xiao Hu pointed ahead and said,
"There is a boat."
Ye Cheng looked up and saw a fishing boat coming from the side road onto the main channel, heading in the opposite direction.
The two ships slowly approached each other, and gradually the situation on the other side became clearer.
There were four strong young men opposite me. They looked somewhat familiar, but I didn't recognize them.
The four men glanced at Ye Cheng and suddenly burst into smug laughter, which left Ye Cheng somewhat bewildered.
"Brother, I have a feeling they have ill intentions," Xiao Hu said in a deep voice.
"Hmm, and I feel like I've seen these four people before, Uncle Duan, do you know them?"
"I don't know him." Duan Chunsheng shook his head.
"Oh, I remember now," Xiao Hu suddenly exclaimed, then looked at Ye Cheng and said...
"Brother, when we were eating at Fatty's place yesterday, they were at the next table. One of them seemed pretty arrogant, so I took a second look."
When Xiao Hu mentioned it, Ye Cheng remembered that it really was those four people.
Seeing their smug expressions, Ye Cheng was very displeased.
The two ships quickly passed each other. Duan Chunsheng patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder.
"Forget it, Cheng. Some of those who go to sea like to act like that. They take advantage of their numbers and provoke anyone who is outnumbered. They're just bored. Just ignore them."
"Bro, if you're not happy, just beat them up. Why think so much? If you're not satisfied, I'll just ram them with my boat. Who's afraid of who?"
Xiao Hu is truly fearless. If Ye Cheng asked him to crash into the boat, he would definitely do so. Just thinking about the heart-pounding feeling he experienced when he crashed into Da Liu's boat last time is thrilling.
"What nonsense! You think you can just take a beating just because someone laughs at you? If that's the case, we'd all be busy making money, then we could go back and find out who this idiot came from, showing off here. Damn it."
Ye Cheng kept saying "forget it," but he eventually became resentful.
It's just a bit foolish of him to go and do it without even laughing.
We'll talk about everything when we get back.
Seeing that Ye Cheng said he wouldn't do it, Xiao Hu didn't insist. He steered the boat inside and soon arrived at the place where the fish traps were placed, and began to collect them.
When he was in a bad mood, he worked with big, forceful movements. Ye Cheng picked up a cage and lifted it up suddenly.
My intention was just to vent, but I never expected it to actually happen.
This left Ye Cheng somewhat at a loss.
"Acheng, it's empty," Duan Chunsheng reminded him.
Ye Cheng glanced at it and, sure enough, it was an empty cage.
Damn it, how come there's an empty cage? Did my luck stat malfunction today?
He opened the system and checked his luck value: 70. That's alright. What's going on?
Moreover, the special bait in the trap is gone; it feels like a rat came in, ate the food, and then ran away.
Over there, Duan Chunsheng also set up a trap, but it was empty too, with only one small shrimp and no bait left.
"What? Am I having such bad luck today?" Ye Cheng muttered.
"Something's not quite right," Duan Chunsheng shook his head, then pointed to the other fish traps.
"Quickly pull up the others and take a look too."
Three people pulled the fish trap together. One trap was empty, another was empty, and when they pulled them all up, they were mostly empty.
The most common item was two small white shrimp.
Now everyone understands.
Ye Cheng slapped his thigh and said angrily,
"Damn it! It got stolen!"
Xiao Hu looked at Ye Cheng with a gloomy face and said,
"Brother, it must be that ship from earlier. No wonder they were so smug."
Duan Chunsheng's face also looked very ugly.
"This group went too far. Most people would only steal a few things, but they stole everything. They must have gone out to sea a long time ago. This was premeditated."
Ye Cheng suppressed his anger and turned to look at another stretch of sea.
"Little Tiger, go check out the longline fishing."
He's now worried that longline fishing is gone too.
Fortunately, the float was still on when the boat passed by, which at least means it hadn't been damaged. Longline fishing isn't like bottom fishing; it takes time to let the line out. If it had been stolen, the float would definitely be gone.
It seems they haven't stolen anything here yet, or rather, they haven't had time to steal anything.
However, once he got closer, that last bit of hope vanished.
Of the ten longline fishing sets, only five remain. The other five sets, although equipped with floats, have already had their catch taken.
To put it bluntly, that buoy is just a ball of line floating in the sea.
This is a bit too much; someone else took 80% of my catch after a hard day's work.
"Damn it, this is too much!" Duan Chunsheng couldn't take it anymore.
"Brother, stop accepting it. Let's go back and deal with them. If we speed back, we can still catch up with them." Xiao Hu's eyes were red, and the veins on his neck were bulging.
They've always been the ones bullying others, but now they're practically behaving like animals on our heads. If we don't fight back, we won't be able to swallow this insult.
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