Chapter 462: The Picked-Up Lucky Star

Yano repaired the fishing boat so it could travel further, and took several young men from the village out to sea, but they didn't fish at all.

What the sea lacks least is seafood, but it lacks mountain delicacies.

He first collected mountain goods from everyone's homes, as well as easy-to-store agricultural byproducts grown in their gardens, packed them onto the boat until it was full, and then set sail to trade the mountain goods for precious seafood from large fishing vessels.

Some seafood must be caught in the deep sea and is very precious.

Yet, the sailors who catch these precious seafood products often have to stay at sea for months without being able to get off the boat, and they simply cannot get fresh vegetables and fruit.

The feeling of seeing mountain goods at sea is the same as a miser discovering a gold mine.

Thus, Yano and his crew left fully loaded and returned fully loaded!

The precious seafood they traded for was sold to merchants who came to collect seafood, and with one flip, they earned dozens, or even hundreds of times more money than usual.

The boat belonged to the Ya family, and the idea was Yano's, but when it came to splitting the money, he didn't want the lion's share.

Instead, it was divided into two parts: one part was split equally among those who went to sea with him, and the other part was distributed to families in the village who had lost their ability to work, or were elderly, weak, sick, or disabled.

Those who had able-bodied people at home but stood by and watched, thinking his taking mountain goods out to sea was pure nonsense, got nothing!

Those people regretted it, regretting it until their guts turned green.

However, that evening, Yano brought gifts and visited them house by house, telling them that if there is money to be made, they should make it together, and that everyone must pull in the same direction to make a fortune.

The families Yano visited all participated when Yano organized the second trip to sea.

This time, he assigned tasks to everyone: the men went to the deep mountains, and the women picked produce in areas close to the village.

The elderly and children were responsible for sorting and drying.

Those who went to sea were all strong laborers, while two gluttonous and lazy people in the village were left behind; no group wanted them, and they themselves didn't want to do any work!

They saw every task as exhausting.

Yano had a way; he called the two of them over, assigned them a task, and told them that this task was the most important one.

The two beamed with joy and agreed happily.

Yano let the two of them haggle with the merchants and even taught them what to say to get the highest price!

The two gluttonous and lazy people had never felt such a strong sense of accomplishment in their lives.

They succeeded, successfully selling the goods for thirty percent more than the previous price.

This time, everyone received more money, and these two also gained the respect of the villagers.

People who had never been respected before, suddenly being looked at directly by others and praised with thumbs-up, were so moved that they went to Yano's house and wept uncontrollably.

So, Yano struck while the iron was hot and told the two not to be confined to this small place of the Fishing Village.

The merchants coming to the Fishing Village were fixed, and even if they raised the price, it was impossible to raise it often; moreover, although they succeeded in raising the price this time, Yano predicted that in a few days, the merchants would find other reasons to lower the price again.

He had the two of them go separately, one to the south and one to the north.

They were not to promote seafood, nor were they to sell mountain goods.

The task for the two this time was to promote the Small Fishing Village, letting more seafood merchants know about this fishing village and know that there were very good things here that were high-quality and inexpensive.

The expenses for going out were all covered by the village, and their pay was calculated based on the number of merchants they brought back!

If such a thing were handed to others, it really wouldn't work, but letting these two do it was just perfect.

Not two days after the two went out, merchants came to visit this Small Fishing Village in an endless stream.

Yano set up a reception area in the village and found several prestigious and steady elders to negotiate with them.

The merchants who originally intended to drive down prices were now helpless and could only compete with everyone else.

Under Yano's leadership, the Small Fishing Village developed rapidly, and before long, everyone's lives underwent earth-shaking changes.

All the houses were rebuilt.

The original Small Fishing Village had all kinds of houses: thatched huts, wooden houses, stone houses... all built with local materials.

Now, they uniformly bought bricks, cement, and various building materials from outside.

They hired construction teams to build beautiful two-story buildings one after another.

Such houses were earthquake-proof and typhoon-proof, and the villagers no longer had to worry about a typhoon blowing their houses away.

The Old Village Chief stepped down voluntarily, and the villagers unanimously elected Yano as the new Village Chief.

The Ya family also became the most respected family in the Fishing Village.

Once the houses were built, the village began to pave roads, install cables, set up wireless signal towers...

Everyone had a mobile phone in their hands and began to come into contact with the outside world.

Before, the electric lights would cut out from time to time, but now that would never happen again.

Previously, due to inconvenient transportation, very few merchants came to the village.

Now, not only were there more merchants collecting seafood, but peddlers selling various daily necessities could also enter, making the villagers' lives more convenient and efficient.

Now, Yano led the people of the village to buy back a very large fishing boat.

Everyone was boiling with excitement.

"They're back."

"They're back, they're back!"

"Quick, set off the firecrackers."

"Crack! Crack! Crack—"

The sound of firecrackers was incessant, and the bright red fragments almost dyed the ground red.

What a large boat, both beautiful and sturdy.

If they could have owned such a boat earlier, there wouldn't be broken families in the village every year...

After Yano brought the people ashore, he announced a village rule: "From today on, women can board the boat!"

Once this rule was announced, the villagers' attitudes immediately became polarized.

One side was strongly opposed, led by the elderly.

The women, who had never stepped foot on a ship for the open sea, were both overjoyed and eager to try.

Those who opposed it had a solid reason—it had been the rule in the Fishing Village for thousands of years that women were not allowed on ships.

Women boarding a ship would bring bad luck to the men going out to sea!

Yano silenced these people with just one sentence: "Were all the ships that met with disaster in the past because women were on board?"

No one could answer, because that was certainly not the case.

Yano told everyone: "Past shipwrecks were because our ships were not good enough or sturdy enough to withstand the wind and waves at sea, not because of the women."

The Yano family were the first to stand up and support Yano, and then the sailors on the ship also expressed their agreement one after another.

Since the most important people had all agreed, those few stubborn old men had no choice but to follow the crowd.

The women boarded the ship.

It was the first time in the history of the Small Fishing Village.

If he had proposed such a suggestion when he first arrived at the Small Fishing Village, he might have been thrown back into the sea by the villagers to feed the sharks.

But now that Yano had led everyone to do many good and great things, each one being something they wouldn't have dared to dream of before, there were very few voices of opposition when he proposed letting the women board the ship!

With this large ship, the Fishing Village was like a tiger that had grown wings.

It didn't take long for it to become famous in R Country.

……

Jiangzhou, Shi Youxuan's home.

"Ring—"

The cell phone rang.

It was a call from Wang Yong; the moment Shi Youxuan saw the number, her heart began to race uncontrollably.

Wang Yong had been at sea for five months and had not stepped off the ship at all.

He kept his promise that he would never leave until he found his big brother.

He wouldn't call unless something happened; this call was one hundred percent related to Sheng Hanyu, so Shi Youxuan grabbed the phone and clutched it tightly to her chest.

Her fingertips trembled as she swiped twice before she managed to hit the answer button.

Wang Yong's voice came from thousands of miles away: "Sister-in-law, someone on the high seas saw a person who looks very much like Big Brother..."