Chapter 1232

Ye Yaodong just wanted to stay nearby to understand the direction of events more clearly; those two ships hadn't reached a conclusion yet.

If he were driven away, how would he know the outcome?

He told his father to steer the boat and trawl in the surrounding area, as long as they didn't get close to those law enforcement ships.

The other three fishing boats nearby had also started up, but since his boat hadn't moved, they were all waiting there.

Ye Yaodong shouted to the other boats, "It's fine now, go back to what you were doing, resume normal trawling."

After saying that, he turned his head and said to his own crew: "We'll do the same as usual and start working. Those who need to cook, go cook; those who need to organize the nets, go organize them."

"We've been out since the night and haven't cast a single net yet. It's early morning now, so cook some porridge to eat. Those who stayed up all night without sleeping can go rest after breakfast, and come back to take shifts after a good sleep."

He would also go take over for his father after eating, letting his father go to sleep, even though he hadn't slept much at night either, his father had truly stayed up until now.

After everyone responded, they hurried to their respective duties.

The four ships slowly separated, keeping a distance from each other and spreading out across the sea.

Ye Yaodong also went up to the wheelhouse, continuing to hold his binoculars, scanning the surrounding sea in all directions.

When they cast their own nets, the other ships cast theirs at about the same time.

They were spread out on the sea, but in reality, they were surrounding the two detained fishing boats in the center, scattered around them.

Everyone else was probably paying attention to the movements on the sea at the same time.

"Dad, let's steer towards the direction they were chasing. It's too far to see; let's get a little closer, just don't get in the way, and see if those two ships can get away."

"They definitely can't get away; the other ships have freed up their hands now." Although Ye's father said this, he still steered the boat in the direction the law enforcement ships were chasing.

After they caught up and the distance gradually shortened, Ye Yaodong looked through the binoculars and saw that the distance of the fishing boat chase was very short, almost touching; had they been forced to stop?

Ye's father asked: "See anything? I just see a few small dots, they seem very close and aren't moving."

"They're touching; they should have been forced to stop. Look over there, there's only one ship left in that direction; I think the other one must have sunk, leaving only one law enforcement ship."

"Another one sank?"

Ye's father was surprised and hurriedly turned his head to steer in the direction he pointed, and indeed, only a lonely little dot remained.

"How much of a loss is this? Two ships sank, that's a whole ship... looking at the tightly wrapped rain tarps on top, it's probably very valuable."

"It's definitely valuable. If it wasn't valuable, why would they smuggle? Going back and forth, the price of the goods must be at least double. That ship piled high with goods, who knows, one ship might be worth hundreds of thousands."

"Hun... hundreds of thousands..." Ye's father's eyes widened, and his mouth hung open.

"What's there to be surprised about? It might be even more; selling them could potentially be worth over a million."

"Oh my, that must be heartbreaking."

"Heartbreaking for what? Their lives are about to be gone, and you're heartbroken over the goods?"

"I'm talking about those law enforcement ships."

"That's true, they must be heartbroken. A whole ship of goods, isn't everything seized confiscated? Of course, they'd be heartbroken over their own things."

The father and son watched the situation unfold.

After finishing breakfast, they saw those two ships in the distance heading back.

They also watched the situation and moved further away, then circled around and slowly steered towards the two seized ships in the middle to work.

Ye Yaodong thought about letting his father go rest first, but Ye's father couldn't bear to go to sleep at this time; he hadn't seen the outcome yet.

The crew on the deck were also standing there whispering and watching; no one could bear to leave at this time.

Seeing law enforcement ships seize smuggling ships at sea for the first time was a huge event; they would have something to brag about when they went back, how could they go to sleep now?

They had already stayed up all night, what's a little more time?

In the past, they could only hear about it, but now they had seen it with their own eyes and experienced it themselves.

However, they didn't dare to get too close, and they were currently working.

Ye's father didn't have the guts either; if he did, it would be because Ye Yaodong gave it to him.

At this time, he asked Ye Yaodong, and Ye Yaodong only said to watch from the surroundings and not get close.

In the end, they were just ordinary fishermen and fishing boats; others were conducting law enforcement, and getting close repeatedly wasn't appropriate and easily aroused suspicion.

Normal people would usually hide far away when encountering the current situation; no one else would keep crowding forward and asking about the situation like him.

Crowding once out of curiosity was fine, but doing it again and again, who knows if people would think he had ulterior motives.

The other fishing boats were also paying close attention to those law enforcement ships at this time, and Ye's father was connected to others, whispering about what he saw.

The other fishing boats were far away, but they were bold and got a little closer, plus they had binoculars, so they could see a bit more clearly.

After those few law enforcement ships gathered together one after another, they only stayed for a while before moving simultaneously, and all three seized large ships followed them.

"Dongzi, Dongzi, are they heading back to shore now?"

"It should be; they've already seized three large ships and the personnel, so they'll definitely return immediately."

"When we go back, go ask your godfather; he definitely knows the situation, definitely knows what was seized on those three ships, and ask how the people on the ships will be handled; there must be people from our nearby villages."

"Hmm."

He was thinking about whether to return now, but returning now would seem a bit suspicious; others returned first, and he followed them to shore.

Waiting a day or two shouldn't matter much; communication isn't developed, policies aren't perfect, and the maritime police's law enforcement capabilities aren't that strong yet.

"We'll return after we fill the hold. If we can't fill the hold tomorrow, we'll go back tomorrow to sell a batch of goods on shore."

"I'll listen to you."

"There's nothing to do now, they've sailed away, go rest. I'll watch here, and when you wake up, come replace me. This net still needs over half an hour to be hauled in."

Ye's father nodded and said with some regret: "It's a pity, those two sunken ships, do you want to go down and take a look after you've rested enough?"

"Dad, have you tasted the sweetness?"

"Haha, isn't this wanting to try? I see you haven't gone down less, and you often manage to salvage boxes. Anyway, you have those things on the boat to go underwater and see."

Ye Yaodong was actually a bit tempted; those were two large ships of goods, going down to take a look wouldn't be a loss even if he saw nothing.

"A bit later, I can only go underwater after I've rested enough. It's cold at this time, the temperature will rise at noon, let's look when it's warmer."

"Then I'll leave this to you, I'll go rest first. If I wake up... hmm... that'll probably be too late, it'll have to wait until tomorrow."

"Don't hold out hope, this is a deep-water area, they definitely sank straight to the bottom, where could we reach them? We can only treat a dead horse as a living one."

Just not giving up and wanting to take a look, where could he really count on being able to reach those two ships of goods that sank to the bottom.

"Hmm."

Ye's father let him have the wheelhouse and went to rest himself.

Ye Yaodong watched those eight ships gradually leave in one direction, took back his gaze, put down the binoculars, and focused on trawling.

When the time was right, he had people haul in the nets and sort the goods.

Everyone took turns on duty in an orderly manner, and spent the whole day discussing what the fate of the people on those smuggling ships would be.

Each of them was also glad that they were in a legitimate profession; although they didn't earn as much as those smugglers, they were much better off than many people.

Breaking the law and committing crimes is not allowed; you might be happy for a moment, but you could regret it for a lifetime, and even implicate your whole family in worry and fear.

Ye Yaodong and his father took turns resting, and by the time he had rested enough and woken up, it was already the next morning.

When Ye's father went to rest, he had instructed him to go underwater when the sun was high at noon, which happened to be when he would wake up, so he could help keep an eye on things.

Ye Yaodong had no objections.

The harvest for these two days was also quite good; it was spring and warming up, and there were more goods, so another few trawls would probably fill the fish hold almost full.

Yesterday, he had also notified the other few ships in advance, asking them to keep the miscellaneous goods on their boats. He planned to return to shore this evening and bring them back for them, to avoid wasting them by throwing them back into the sea, just in time to sell the goods when they docked at night.

Thinking of this, his mind turned; maybe he could take the opportunity to collect the goods from the three fishing boats and temporarily use the Dongsheng as a fresh-fish collection boat!

Dragging all the goods from the other boats back together to sell for a good price and earn the price difference; anyway, he planned to return early.

Everyone could empty their fish holds and continue loading without returning early with him, and they wouldn't need to find other collection boats to receive the goods, and he could take the opportunity to earn a sum and get familiar with receiving goods.

Perfect!

He suppressed his thoughts for now and would talk about it when moving the miscellaneous goods; he didn't have a scale or a platform scale on his boat, so he had to rely on trust.

There was definitely no problem with A-Guang and his two brothers; he would see if Zhou Da and the others were willing to let him take the goods on the Man-Cang for weighing.

If they didn't, it didn't matter; anyway, there were plenty of his own goods.

Ye Yaodong pondered while working; anyway, the process of working was boring and unchanging.

At noon, after Ye's father woke up, they had a meal, and just as they hauled up the nets cast into the sea, Ye's father steered the boat to a point where a ship had sunk.

He asked Ye Yaodong which point to choose, and Ye Yaodong just told him to do whatever; anyway, he didn't hold out much hope, and at worst, they would go underwater to take a look at both places.

"Adong didn't buy these two things in vain; no one else recognizes this stuff, but he happens to know it and knows how to utilize it."

"Yeah, I've never even seen it before; I didn't expect to be able to rely on this thing to stay underwater for so long."

"It's all about gaining knowledge by following Dongzi..."

Everyone turned to tease Ye's father again, "That's why you couldn't wait to come back from the boats of your other two sons."

"Mixing around, it's still better to follow Adong, hahaha..."

"Isn't it? Everyone has brought glory to their ancestors once by following him, and we were even in the newspaper; I never dared to imagine in this lifetime that I could be in the newspaper..."

"Only by following Adong did we have a moment of success... how could we have this opportunity following others..."

Hearing everyone talk about this again, Ye's father felt depressed, his face turned black, and he had no desire to speak.

Ye Yaodong laughed and interrupted their teasing, otherwise his father would be sulking again.

"Someone come down with me, it's good to have a companion," Ye Yaodong looked at everyone and said, "Whoever is curious about the situation below can come down together."

Chen Shi raised his hand first, "I..."

"Okay, then you. I haven't trained you in vain these two years, keep working hard."

If the stuttering problem could be solved, it wouldn't be bad to hand this boat over to Chen Shi to manage.

Chen Shi smiled honestly and hurriedly took off his clothes to change into equipment.

Ye's father also said: "Stop talking nonsense, this pile of goods is waiting for you to sort, hurry up and work."

"Haha, working with our hands doesn't delay talking, maybe there's still a chance."

"Yeah, everyone says Adong has good luck at sea; although there are more and more boats in our village these two years, who earns money as fast as Adong."

"Talk nonsense, 2/3 of the boats in the village are Adong's."

Everyone talked excitedly, and they were no longer surprised by Ye Yaodong and the others going underwater, and no one surrounded them, everyone hurried to work.

In fact, they didn't hold out hope for being able to see the sunken ship below, and they all felt it was a waste of effort.

Ye Yaodong and Chen Shi warmed up and jumped down.

In other places, the ducks are the first to know when the spring water warms up; today he and Chen Shi could only be ducks for once.

Both of them shivered as soon as they got into the water, and only swam down after adapting.

Just before they reached the bottom, at a position of three or four meters, they saw a huge whale.

Before they had time to be surprised, they saw the whale open its mouth wide, and then spray a pile of long, strip-shaped things from its mouth, and the two of them hurriedly dodged.