Chapter 450: Returning to the Village—News of Chen Jinfa

Returning to the dock, it was almost 5 o'clock; as a star figure of the dock, after such a long time going out to sea and coming back, He Lao Ban rushed over immediately.

Originally other bosses also wanted a share, but Ye Cheng, wanting to thank Lao He for the tip last time, planned to sell everything to Lao He this time, which made him happy.

"Lao Er, got any good ones? Give me the good ones first—I like to eat meat before vegetables."

"Yes, Xiao Hu, bring the groupers up for Lao He to see."

Saying that, Xiao Hu and Duan Chunsheng brought the groupers up.

He Lao Ban saw at a glance that they were caught by longline fishing, with wounds on the fish mouths.

"Not bad, Lao Er—using longline you can catch this many groupers."

"That's right—having an elder at home is like having a treasure; look who's on our boat, this is my Uncle Duan, a veteran of decades at sea."

Duan Chunsheng was initially pleased hearing that, but when Ye Cheng called him an old fogey his face instantly darkened—damn it, this guy, he feels unsatisfied unless he scolds himself a couple times.

"Let me see—wow, there are two mouse groupers, nice."

"There are also red groupers and Eastern star groupers, plus tiger groupers—tsk tsk, Lao Er, you've struck it rich."

Ye Cheng smiled slightly,

"My getting rich is your getting rich—you talk as if I don't make money."

"Sure, I'll take all of these."

"Bring out anything else so we can have a look."

Anyway, it's all going to Lao He, so Ye Cheng had no intention of hiding anything—he just brought everything out.

Mouse grouper: 2

Red grouper: 6

Eastern star grouper: 5

Tiger grouper: 4

Cod: 4

Black seabream: 20

Yellowfoot: 12

Dog shark: 3

Sea eel: 4

Yellow croaker: 50+

Tongue sole: 14.

All together there are over 100 fish; Ye Cheng calculated that the hook-up rate is about 20%, not high but acceptable.

The main issue is that the groupers caught are a bit few; if there were over 100 groupers...

... that would feel great.

Besides these fish, the rest is what was caught in the fish traps.

Sea cucumber: half a basket

Turban snail: 2 baskets

Fragrant snail: 3 baskets

Banded shrimp: 2 baskets

White shrimp: 4 baskets

Pond shrimp: 4 baskets

Plus 3 baskets of octopus and miscellaneous fish, all kinds, dazzling to look at.

Lao He had his workers come over to weigh everything separately by size; after over an hour of busy work they tallied up the money.

Mouse grouper 800 yuan per jin, red grouper 600 yuan per jin, Eastern star and tiger groupers 150 yuan per jin, seabream 20 yuan per jin, cod 15 yuan per jin, sea eel 50 yuan per jin, yellow croaker 10 yuan per jin, dog shark 80 yuan per jin.

Adding it up comes to yuan.

Then the trap catch totals yuan, and altogether they sold for yuan.

Originally Ye Cheng said to split evenly, but Duan Chunsheng said taking 5000 was enough; Xiao Hu didn't mind and also took 5000, leaving Ye Cheng with 20,000—the money was decent, and most importantly the points also went up quite a bit.

Points: 1200

Savings: 420,000; external debt: 10,000; mortgage: 300,000

After finishing business at the dock, Ye Cheng didn't rush home but took Xiao Hu to town to buy longline fishing line.

"Brother, why buy more line? The boat already has line—you're not planning to add more, are you? Six sets are already tiring." Xiao Hu imagined the tangled lines and felt his back ache.

"Damn, you think I'm not tired? I'll buy some line, have someone prepare it and bring it up, then bring the boat's line down—so we don't have to mess with the line ourselves. Brother, smart or not?"

Ye Cheng's idea came from college life, when he lived close to home and was too lazy to wash clothes, so once a week he'd bring his dirty clothes home for his mother to wash, then bring back some clean ones.

Hearing Ye Cheng say that, Xiao Hu instantly became happy,

"Alright, brother, why don't we do a few more sets—then we won't have to spool the line ourselves."

Ye Cheng thought that made sense, so he bought 20 sets of line directly; the current 6 sets belong to Duan Chunsheng and still need to be returned to him.

With these 20 sets, bringing up 10 at a time is just right—as long as we don't have to spool the line ourselves, everything else is fine.

By the time he returned to the village it was dark; as Ye Cheng reached his doorstep he saw Li Quezi already waiting.

"Yo, what's up? You came out on your own."

Li Quezi wore a smile he could hardly contain, then pushed Ye Cheng into the room, closed the door, and began to speak.

"Chen Jinfa got beaten—you know that, right?"

Ye Cheng gave a faint smile: "It wasn't you who hit him—why get so worked up?"

"Damn, even though I didn't hit him, I was the one who posted the contract—so satisfying, hahaha."

"Lao Er, the feeling of doing bad things is too great."

Seeing Li Quezi so excited he could hardly contain himself, Ye Cheng began to wonder if he had done something wrong, as if he had awakened a sleeping demon.

Come on, tell me, what state did you beat him into, to make you this happy?

Oh dear, it was terrible, let me tell you, early this morning the Chen family swarmed over, at first Chen Jinfa tried to argue, but then they just threw the paper in his face.

Li Quezi made a tossing motion, as if he himself had thrown the paper.

He looked at the paper and was dumbfounded, wanted to run, but it wasn't that easy, tsk tsk.

You didn't see it, he was knocked down in one blow, the Chen family really went at it, they beat him until he was out of breath.

Dead? No way! Ye Cheng jumped in fright, he hadn't intended to cause a death.

No, just short of it.

Damn, speak clearly, you're startling me like that.

Li Quezi didn't care at all,

He didn't die, but he was really close, they took him to the city hospital, those who came back said his three ribs were broken, now he can't work for at least two months.

Three broken ribs, that's pretty harsh.

Ye Cheng originally thought a beating would be enough, but it seems the Chen family have been holding in their anger lately, finally finding an outlet, they poured all their fury onto Chen Jinfa.

Is he now hospitalized in the city? Ye Cheng asked.

Hospitalized? He doesn't have the money for that, they just patched him up and sent him back, then hurriedly refunded the money, now he's lying at home recuperating.

His wife is blaming him to death, saying they didn't get any money, ended up getting beaten, and now they can't even ask for medical fees.

Well, saying it out loud, it's a bit miserable, but this kind of person needs a lesson, otherwise he'll keep doing bad deeds.

By the way, no one guessed it was you who did it, right?

No. Li Quezi waved his hand proudly,

How could they guess it was me? I was pretending to be clueless outside.