"Captain, I'm telling you right now, I'm not giving you any work points today."
The fifth brother said he felt aggrieved, but Liang Qingyou deliberately avoided the topic, hoping to incite public outrage.
These days, anyone labeled as acting like a landlord or rich man is definitely going to be dealt with.
"Fifth Brother, what do you mean by that? Didn't you see all these villagers here? How could you say you wouldn't give it to us? You don't want to go to sea anymore, do you?"
The production team leader couldn't believe his ears. These outrageous words were clearly directed at him, the team leader, and at the entire village.
Liang Qingyou was startled; he hadn't expected his fifth uncle to say such a thing in front of the whole village.
That's practically a declaration that they're going to break off all relations.
Liang Qingyou's wife was the first to jump up.
"You old fifth uncle, I've always called you uncle, but I never imagined you'd be so greedy."
Seeing that they had caught a good fish, they disregarded the life or death of my husband, and the life or death of our whole family.
How to divide the work on the boat was a rule set by our whole village.
It's broken now that it's here with you!
Our family should work for free. Do you think you're some kind of wealthy landlord?
The captain quickly arrested this person and taught him a good lesson, making sure they were never allowed to go out to sea again.
And confiscate their work points! Divide them all equally among the entire village.
Upon hearing that the items would be confiscated, the crowd immediately became even more agitated, howling and shouting.
"Captain, that's right. We absolutely cannot tolerate these kinds of people. We must confiscate their work points and distribute them equally among everyone."
"Uncle Lao Wu is getting carried away. He's only been fishing for a few days and he already wants to be a landlord."
“If the team leader doesn’t teach this kind of person a lesson, he’ll set a bad example for our village.”
Everyone followed suit. The other villagers all became laborers!
"Yes, wouldn't our village become a model village? How will the people in our village have the face to go out and say that our village is an advanced collective?"
The production team leader had a cold face; this matter was no longer as trivial as fishing.
"Fifth Brother, I'll give you one more chance. You were wrong to do this today. If you just agree to divide the work points equally among everyone, this matter will be over."
You don't need to go against everyone on this matter. Besides, what good would it do you?
"You might get a few hundred more points, but do you think you can live off that for the rest of your life?"
The production team leader felt that what Uncle Wu did was a path that no normal person would choose.
The fifth brother gritted his teeth and said angrily.
"Captain, these work points can't be distributed!"
Why can't we split it?
"Captain, we agreed on the work points at the beginning, and the four of them chose not to go offline."
Therefore, they do not participate in our net-closing or net-removal operations, nor do they participate in any of the work. Apart from the portion they handed over to the collective in lieu of payment, they do not receive any of the remaining points we receive.
This is something we all agreed upon.
The remaining dozen or so people also immediately stepped forward.
"Yes.
The captain said this was agreed upon on the ship. The four of them didn't do anything, so why should we do it?
They've caught the fish, and now they're going to divide it up.
Does that make sense?
"We men who go to sea are true to our word."
"A promise is a promise, so why are they spewing nonsense instead of keeping their word?"
"When it's time to work, they're not there to assign tasks, but when it's time to divide them up, they all jump out. Are they even human? Don't they have any shame?"
“You’re a grown man, and you let your woman jump out like that, Liang Qingyou, you really make us men proud.”
Upon hearing this, the crowd was somewhat surprised, and many people turned to look at the four of them.
These men who went to sea worshipped Mazu, and they believed that one must be honest in one's words; if one was dishonest, there would be retribution after going to sea.
If you stand idly by and do nothing, and someone else catches the fish...
We've already done more than enough by paying your share of the collective contribution, so why should we take a share from others?
Liang Qingyou's face flushed red instantly.
With so many people on the ship as witnesses, I can't just make things up.
He had no choice but to steel himself and slap his wife across the face.
"I told you to stop messing around, stop messing around, what are you doing here?"
"Look at you! I never asked for work points, and you're the one asking for them! Aren't you embarrassing me?"
The woman was stunned by the beating, but upon hearing this, she realized that her husband had lied to her.
I thought my husband was making such a fuss because he didn't get any work points, but it turns out there was something else going on.
But she also knew that she couldn't lose face as a man at this moment, because the villagers still had to make a living!
If I don't make my husband proud this time, their family's integrity will be completely ruined, and who will want to go fishing with them in the future?
The woman swallowed her anger.
Liang Qingyou hurriedly turned to the production team leader and said,
"Captain, fellow villagers, I was a step too late in speaking and didn't explain things clearly. This really isn't Uncle Lao Wu's fault!"
That was something we all made clear at the time.
We don't work or help, so we shouldn't get a share of this.
"It's all my wife's fault for being so unreasonable and causing this misunderstanding. Please don't misunderstand, Uncle Wu and the others have done nothing wrong to us."
The people who were just jumping around happily understood what was going on as soon as they heard this. Who couldn't see the trick?
The production team leader was furious. He thought that Uncle Lao Wu was wrong to him and was trying to uphold justice, but he didn't expect to be humiliated by these people instead.
"Xiao Liang, it's better to clarify these things in the future to avoid misunderstandings among us."
See, you've made everyone misunderstand Uncle Wu! I knew Uncle Wu wasn't that kind of person.
The production team leader said with a smile,
"Alright, alright, everyone disperse. What's the point of watching this? Why are you all jumping around so happily when you don't have to earn work points yourselves?"
The others grumbled, thinking they'd finally gotten a piece of the pie, but ended up with nothing.
Uncle Wu also knew that this kind of thing could only be left unresolved; what else could he do?
Could the production team leader be allowed to punish Liang Qingyou and his group?
He didn't do anything wrong. All he said was that he spoke a couple of sentences too slowly, and that became his excuse.
Actually, who couldn't see that he was two sentences slower?
That was intentional.
But there's just no way to punish the other party.
Liang Qingyou, with a greedy smile, joined the other three people.
"Fifth Uncle, it's all my fault, no matter what."
It's my wife's fault!
That old woman has long hair but short brains; she doesn't know anything and just whines all day long.
"Uncle Lao Wu, let's get on the boat quickly. Don't be angry. We'll do a good job this time."
The fifth brother shoved his hand away.
"Xiao Liang, you don't need to get on the boat."
Liang Qingyou's expression changed.
"Uncle, what do you mean by that?"
"It means exactly what it says. This boat was just a temporary group of people. Our place is too small to accommodate such a large group. You should find another team."
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