Chapter 391: Comrade Liberation Army

Ye Yaodong beat them to the punch and settled the bill, and also packed up 6 pan-fried buns and 8 oil pancakes. Since it was a rare trip to town, he couldn't forget his wife and children back home.

Who would have thought that just as he walked out the door, he would run head-on into a group of people? They seemed to be cursing and swearing about something, saying their knees were bruised from falling, wondering which coffin-bound bastard had tripped them on purpose, and saying that after they had a snack, they would call people to block them at the open space by the skating rink, and so on...

"Holy crap... damn it, this brat is right here..."

"Damn, what a narrow road for enemies... drag him into the alley..."

"Charge~"

Ye Yaodong looked on, dumbfounded, as the group of people aggressively rushed forward, reaching out to grab his collar. Before he could even react, Captain Chen had already grabbed that person's fist and pushed him, making him stumble back a few steps.

The people behind who were about to rush up were also pushed back by this move and couldn't advance.

"Who are you people?"

"Who? Your granddaddy. Even if you were turned to ash, I'd still recognize you."

"I don't know you if you're turned to ash."

"Screw your mother, you're the one who's turned to ash! Brothers, charge, drag all of them into the alley, and settle the score from last year."

Settle the score from last year?

Did he have a grudge from last year?

Did he seem to have a grudge?

"Holy crap, are you that bunch of white-skinned chickens?"

"Screw your mother, you're the white-skinned chicken... Ah~" Before the words were even finished, a miserable scream rang out. His wrist was gently snapped by Captain Chen, bending at an unnatural angle, and with a follow-up kick to his knee, he knelt down directly.

The remaining few little thugs were wailing as they rushed up, but before their fists were even clenched, they had already been knocked down with a punch to the left and a punch to the right. In less than two minutes, seven or eight people were already lying on the floor, wailing.

Ye Yaodong was stunned, "Is it that straightforward?"

"Otherwise? I just happened to be too full, so I'm stretching my muscles and bones."

Ye Yaodong gave him a thumbs up, then kicked the few lying on the ground twice, "Do you know who the one turned to ash is now?"

"I, I, I..."

"Keep your eyes open in the future. Remember to take a detour when you see me, otherwise, I'll finish you off."

"I won't dare to anymore, I won't dare to anymore..."

"Call me Big Brother!"

"Big Brother!"

"Call me Granddaddy!"

"Granddaddy!"

Captain Chen and his men listened with black lines on their foreheads. Passersby also kept staring at them, and even after walking far away, they were still craning their necks.

Ye Yaodong, however, was very satisfied, "Swear to me, swear on your whole family, that you won't look for trouble with me again in the future, otherwise next time it won't be this easy. I'll strip you naked and parade you through the streets in broad daylight."

"I won't dare to, I won't dare to, I'll swear right now..."

One by one, they hurriedly swore oaths. Some didn't just swear on their whole family; they even took the initiative to drag their ancestors out to be paraded around.

He didn't know if it would work, but he couldn't be bothered to manage them anyway. This place was far from the Border Defense Station, and he was too lazy to send them off; it was just a chance encounter.

"Get lost quickly!"

This interlude made Ye Yaodong even more welcoming of these soldiers staying at his house.

"Is your daily training bitter? Are you tired? How many years have you been soldiers? Is every soldier's skill this good?"

The few of them turned their heads to look at him together, "What are you trying to do?"

"In a few years, I'll send my eldest nephew over to hang out with you guys, is that okay? He's 12 this year, no, he's 13. Eh~ is it okay to report his age a few years older? I also have a nephew-in-law who is 15."

Anyway, neither of them could study, no matter how he pushed them, it was useless. Working as an apprentice for someone else was not as good as being a soldier; being a soldier had a future.

Captain Chen looked at him helplessly and said, "If you want to be a soldier, you need a political background check..."

"My ancestors are glorious, eight generations of poor peasants... no, it's five generations of poor peasants, three generations of fishermen..."

"For rural areas, you need to have graduated from junior high school now. You'd better wait until your eldest nephew graduates from junior high school before talking about it. He's too young, reporting an older age won't work, everything requires a political background check. Also, married people can't do it either..."

Ye Yaodong was surprised, you need to graduate from junior high school? He thought that now you only needed to graduate from elementary school and know a few words. Then wouldn't Lin Guangyuan be out? That kid stopped studying after graduating from the fifth grade of elementary school and had already been doing farm work at home for more than a year.

"Is that so? Then let's talk about it in a few years."

After returning to the village all the way, Ye Yaodong went to the Village Committee with them first to show his face and prove that he had treated the four Liberation Army soldiers well.

It was just that after the village head and others expressed their condolences, they started lecturing him.

"What was going on with you at noon? People were working seriously, why did you cast your net? When could you not cast your net, why did you have to cast it at that time? Look at you, you directly delayed the leaders' work for half a day."

"Why couldn't I cast the net? I'm a fisherman. If I don't cast the net, should I cast beans? I even deliberately avoided them. Besides, they didn't say anything."

He was just afraid of this kind of thing, where the leaders didn't say anything, but the people below speculated secretly, thinking they understood the situation.

"They just didn't want to criticize you..."

"Then you want to represent them? Act on their behalf? Village Head, you can't misinterpret the leaders' intentions. They didn't think about lecturing me. Maybe they were secretly happy in their hearts that my stroke of genius allowed them to go back to eat earlier."

"Nonsense... they went out to sea specifically to salvage these cultural relics..."

The village head was blowing his beard and staring, and Chen Shuji was still winking at him from the side, signaling him to argue less.

Ye Yaodong ignored it directly. He felt that what he said was quite reasonable. Could he not even speak? He wasn't arguing with the village head; he was just talking normally.

"This is correct, but salvaging those cultural relics is also the job of the Cultural Center, right? It shouldn't be within the scope of the County Committee's responsibilities, right? They can only be considered as accompanying, right? After all, it's within their jurisdiction."

The village head thought about it and felt it seemed to be the case.

"You tell me, it's one thing to be tired for half a day on the boat, but they also vomited for half a day. The key is that there was no food to eat, they were hungry, and those soups and waters they drank weren't even enough to pee out. The people from the Cultural Center don't care, but the county leaders must have been hoping to go back early, they just couldn't say it clearly."

That makes sense!

"Hehe, are you also hoping to go ashore early to eat? These people have no experience, and they shouted to go out to sea without preparation. Isn't this making things difficult for everyone? It's good to come back early!"

"What's more, this salvage work should be done by a professional salvage team. The four Liberation Army soldiers can only explore the path first and figure out if there is still cargo on the seabed. How can they really be asked to salvage for a whole day? Are they not risking their lives?"

The village head originally wanted to lecture and criticize him a few times, but now he didn't say anything, feeling that what he said was too reasonable! He also wanted to go ashore early to eat!

"With that mouth of yours, you could talk the dead back to life."

"Where, where..." Ye Yaodong smiled slightly proudly and took two of the pan-fried buns and oil pancakes he was carrying and gave them to them, "Come, come... everyone eat one, don't be polite..."

The village head only took the oil pancake and didn't want the pan-fried bun he handed over. He took a bite and said, "Don't be too proud. It's just that this Captain Chen is easygoing, otherwise you'd be in big trouble."

"That's true, so I apologized to Captain Chen again and again. It was also because Captain Chen reacted quickly and didn't struggle anymore, otherwise, if we had dragged on for a few more minutes, it would have been really over."

Captain Chen smiled and said, "I'm not stupid. At first, I was just caught off guard. The assumption won't hold."

Chen Shuji was also gnawing on an oil pancake, and while eating, he said, "It's good that nothing happened. Anyway, the higher-ups didn't say anything. Didn't they all say that going back early would give them time to write a report and apply? Vomiting to death, they must have been hoping to go back early. How could they stand it on the sea for a whole day? Tomorrow, it's estimated that it will be arranged more properly. Maybe the salvage team will come in these two days."

"I hope so. Anyway, it doesn't matter to me. I'm used to drifting on the sea. Tomorrow I'll bring my own dry food, I won't count on them."

"If you go out to sea again tomorrow, you are not allowed to cast the net again. Alright, you should take the Liberation Army comrades back to your old house to rest early. After being in the water for half a day and using oxygen, they must be tired. By the way, let your mother prepare something for them to eat."

"Many thanks, Comrade Ye Yaodong has already taken us to eat in town."

"Adong is generous. Then you go and rest, or let him take you around the village for a walk."

After the few of them said a few more polite words, they came out of the Village Committee.

Ye Yaodong led them to the old house first. The villagers along the way kept staring curiously after seeing them. Walking with these few people, he couldn't help but hold his head high and chest out.

When they walked to the front of a family's house, bursts of crying made him a little puzzled. Didn't they already have a cenotaph buried last month? Why were they crying and setting up a mourning hall again?

This was the family of the boatman who fell into the water when the rainy season came.

He pricked up his ears and listened to the surrounding villagers chatting while walking, only to find out that it turned out that their family had hired a boat to go to the boatman's drowning spot at sea this afternoon, and specifically invited a fellow worker who ran the boat together to lead the way. They waited for a whole afternoon before waiting for the two corpses to float up.

Captain Chen was a little puzzled, "Didn't those people say they had been in the water for a month? Can this still be predicted in advance to wait?"

Ye Yaodong sighed and said, "You don't know about this, right? Some things on the sea are very evil. Your navy might not know, but fishermen all know."

"If a person falls into the water and drowns, if they are not found and salvaged immediately, they can only wait until a full month later to reach the same spot and wait for them to float up. If a full month passes and they don't float up, then it is possible that they will sink to the seabed forever."

"It's very evil, but this is a real existence. If they float up after a full month and no one salvages them, they will drift on the sea for a few days. If they don't run into a boat, they will sink to the seabed forever."

Ye Yaodong said it until his own hair stood on end, and instinctively looked up at the sun in the sky. Fortunately, the scorching sun was in the sky, and it was only 4 o'clock, the sun hadn't set yet.

The few Liberation Army soldiers were silent after listening, "Fishermen are too hard."

"So, those nephews and sons of mine are not material for studying. If there are no changes in the future, they will also be doing sea work. The older generation had no choice for a bite to eat. If it's possible for the young ones, it's better not to do sea work. Like you guys, being a soldier is quite good. You can transfer to civilian work in the future, the work is stable, an iron rice bowl."

"Hmm... how old is your son?"

"One is six, one is three."

Captain Chen: "?"

"They haven't even gone to school yet, and you know they won't study?"

"Like father, like son!"

Captain Chen said with a wry smile, "Alright!"

"But my daughter will definitely study."

"You still have a daughter? You don't look old, but you have quite a lot of children."

"No choice, I looked too handsome, so I got married a bit early."

All four of them couldn't help but turn their heads to look at his face carefully.

"Don't look at me being a bit dark now, I was quite fair before last year, a proper pretty boy, and very popular."

Hehe...

"How old is your daughter?"

"She is growing quite fast, three months old."

"Ah?" ===== CHAPTER 392 =====