Chapter 520

In those years, there were too many reports, and the people who were reported were all too miserable.

Everyone still had lingering fears when looking back now. Upon hearing the word "report," they were all a bit terrified.

"I don't know which black-hearted, wicked ghost it is who actually reported our family for smuggling. We are decent fishermen who have always gone out early and returned late to fish. This is something the whole village has seen with their own eyes and can testify to..."

"A few days ago, those goods were all said to be pulled up by the way. Everyone could see that the fabric was wet and parts of the clothes were also wet, so they were sold cheaply. We have always been decent fishermen. Which rotten-gutted person is talking nonsense and actually went to report..."

Ye Ersao cursed as she helped Ye Mu explain to everyone.

Ye Dasao also followed along and cursed from the side.

"Oh my, reporting is a big deal! Who is so wicked to actually do such a thing? Although it's not as exaggerated as before, it's still very serious..."

"You must have made someone jealous, right?"

"Yeah, it's rumored in the village that you've made a lot of money during this period. Someone must not be able to stand seeing you do well, so they black-heartedly went to report you, right?"

Ye Yaopeng was also so angry that he was cursing there, "Motherfucker, don't let us catch which wicked person it is..."

"Damn those jealous people. Does my making money bother him? Did I block his path to wealth?"

"Then what should we do now? Has it actually been reported successfully?" Ye Yaohua looked at Ye Yaodong with some panic, as if he were the backbone.

Ye Yaodong rarely had a serious face, frowning, "I'll go find out. You all go do what you need to do. Since we already know about it, it should have been intercepted, right? I'll go ask."

"Right, right, go ask more carefully."

"I don't know which dog thing actually reported..."

After Ye Yaodong left, the people behind him continued to curse and discuss there.

He went straight to Chen Shuji's house.

Chen Shuji probably guessed he would come over, so he was sitting at the entrance enjoying the cool air with his legs crossed. After seeing him come, he stood up and went into the house first.

Ye Yaodong smiled and greeted the people sitting at the entrance enjoying the cool air, then hurriedly followed into the house.

"Chen Shuji..."

"Hmm."

Chen Shuji took a folded letter out of his pants pocket, "The postman is on holiday today. When I went to the village committee to get the private seal this afternoon, I happened to see someone standing sneakily next to the village committee's mailbox, looking left and right. Before I could even get close, that person ran away."

"Then I was puzzled, so I went to the office to get the spare key to open the mailbox and found an anonymous letter inside. The return address was the X Committee in the county."

"When I saw the address on the letter, my heart skipped a beat. I opened it and took a look; sure enough, it wasn't a good thing. If it were according to the atmosphere of a few years ago, that would be a fatal blow."

"Although things have gotten better in recent years, smuggling is against the law, and it's being cracked down on very strictly now. It's a good thing I discovered it."

Ye Yaodong took the letter and hurriedly thanked him, "Nowadays, they won't act without distinguishing right from wrong. Besides, there were many people present when I was salvaging. Whether I am a decent fisherman or not, the whole village can testify. But it's better to avoid trouble than to have it. Who knows if we might run into a muddled official."

"Hmm, anyway, this letter has been intercepted. Whether that person ran to another place to mail it again, I don't know. Anyway, you should be careful. Just be a decent person yourself. In case anything happens, the fellow villagers can all testify."

"Thank you very much."

Chen Shuji waved his hand, "No need to thank me. Whether you are a smuggler or not, don't I know? It's all jealousy at work. I also hope that there won't be such things in the village that harm others without benefiting oneself. Reporting someone doesn't benefit our village. If this atmosphere starts, the village will be in a foul atmosphere in the future. We are just an ordinary small fishing village; it's better not to have this kind of atmosphere."

Ye Yaodong nodded, feeling very grateful. He also just wanted to make money honestly and didn't want to take any shortcuts. He was a person afraid of death and didn't have any desire for sudden wealth. Being able to live again and have his current life, he was already very satisfied.

"Alright, go back and do what you need to do. Celebrate the festival, eat mooncakes, don't have any worries."

"Okay, thank you, Chen Shuji."

"Hmm, go ahead."

Ye Yaodong walked out with his hands in his pockets, one hand holding the envelope the whole time. His expression didn't show anything unusual. At this time, the sky was already completely dark. People looked at him curiously, but couldn't see anything.

Although the moon on the fifteenth wasn't as round as on the sixteenth, it was still a full moon and bright, so the road wasn't that dim.

He walked under the window of a house and, borrowing the faint yellow light coming from inside, opened the envelope and took a look.

He had been talking to Chen Shuji earlier, so he hadn't opened it in front of him. Anyway, since it had already been given to him, it made no difference when he looked at it.

But what he didn't expect was that the envelope also had Lin Jishang's name written on it, saying that the two of them were smuggling together. Even the time and place were written clearly—it was the time they came back a few nights ago when they ran into Lin Jishang at the pier!

Grass!

Was he seen by someone that night?

He didn't know if it was because there were too many lights at the pier that attracted people? However, even with clairvoyance, one couldn't see the people on that side; at most, one could only see the lights of many flashlights.

Or perhaps it was possible that Lin Jishang was accidentally seen by someone when he went to the pier? And he also happened to dock at that time and sold a large batch of goods the next day?

This could explain why the person who reported them could point out both of their names.

Then did this count as Lin Jishang implicating him, or him implicating Lin Jishang?

He carefully identified the dog-scrawled handwriting on it again, but couldn't make anything out. Everyone's handwriting was about the same. Being able to write it out and let people recognize what the characters were was already quite good.

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With no results, he folded the letter again, put it back into the envelope, tucked it into his pocket, and prepared to go home.

But when he walked to the fork in the road, he thought for a moment and then abruptly turned onto another path.

He couldn't be the only one feeling anxious!

The person who should really be feeling anxious and panicked shouldn't be him! He was walking straight and sitting upright.

As he walked, he thought to himself, did Chen Shuji know about Lin Jishang's smuggling? Or was the village turning a blind eye, as long as no trouble was caused?

Then why give the letter to him and not to Lin Jishang?

Was it because it wasn't easy to find Lin Jishang, while he went there and it was given to him directly?

Headache!

He couldn't figure it out.

He simply decided to treat it as if he had come to the door first.

When he walked to Lin Jishang's door, his two children were squatting in front of the mooncakes blowing incense. The two children were about the same age as his youngest son. It was said they were the same age at the beginning and end of the year; that was also awesome.

He looked at the door a few times but didn't see anyone, so he walked towards the house. Just as his wife was holding an old loofah to scrub the pot, he stood at the door and knocked.

"Is Lin Jishang at home?"

"Ah?"

Lin Jishang's wife was startled, then patted her chest, instantly returned to normal, and said with a smile, "He just finished eating and went out for a stroll. He's not here."

A guilty conscience is just like this.

Ye Yaodong thought for a moment. Giving it to his wife was the same; how could the person sharing the pillow not know about her own man's affairs? She would definitely give it to him.

"Then I won't wait for him. Help me give this letter to him and just say I also got it by accident." Ye Yaodong placed the letter directly on a dry spot by the stove.

"Ah? Oh, okay. I'll give it to him when he comes back later."

Ye Yaodong nodded and left directly.

Giving the letter to Lin Jishang could also serve as a warning. Anyway, he had already read it, and it was useless to him. He was an honest and decent person.

If you do no evil during the day, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking at the door at midnight.

Who knew that just as he walked to the fork in the road, he happened to run into Lin Jishang again. It was truly a case of "the iron shoes were worn out in the search, but it was found without any effort." It was just that he had already handed the letter to his wife.

"What a coincidence?"

"Quite a fate. There's a letter for you. I just gave it to your wife. Remember to take a look when you go back."

"What letter?" Lin Jishang frowned.

Ye Yaodong looked at the pitch-black surroundings; there was no one around, so he said in a low voice, "A report letter."

Lin Jishang was surprised, "Where did it come from?"

"Taken from the village committee's mailbox."

Lin Jishang frowned tightly, felt his pocket, and also took a letter out of his bosom, reading it in front of him.

Who knew that upon seeing the content of the letter, he was suddenly amused.

Ye Yaodong watched the change in his expression and was curious for a moment. Why did he also have a letter in his pocket?

"The letter you got at my house, was it given to you by Chen Shuji?"

"You know?"

Lin Jishang handed the letter in his hand directly to him, "Chen Shuji mixed up our report letters. This one is yours. The one you got at my house is mine, right?"

"Ah?"

He had another one?

A letter reporting him alone?

He could have this kind of treatment?

Ye Yaodong hurriedly took it and glanced at it. The handwriting on this letter was even uglier, every stroke had a lot of personality, and the content was also very concise. It was just that the characters were written very large, making it barely recognizable what they were.

The letter reported him for speculation, participating in smuggling, and reselling smuggled goods, and also thoughtfully added a time and place.

After reading it, he was also amused.

He had said it, hadn't he? He was an honest person. Lin Jishang was the habitual offender in smuggling. Since both of them appeared on the list, why would the letter be given to him anyway?

It turned out that the two letters were mixed up.

This one reporting him alone was the one Chen Shuji intended to give him. Although both letters reported smuggling, the primary and secondary were different.

This letter was clearly written by someone jealous of him.

The previous one must have been written by someone who saw the scene that day with their own eyes, which was why it could be described so clearly.

"I didn't expect there to be two report letters reporting us at the same time."

"This Mid-Autumn Festival, the postman went on holiday two days early and stopped collecting mail. It just so happened that the letter wasn't taken away. What was written on my report letter?"

"What else could be written? Don't you have an idea? It wrote about the scene when I came back and docked a few days ago, and then it wrote about me pushing several flatbed carts of goods home in the middle of the night, and the three brothers selling a lot of goods at the door the next day, reporting that the two of us were smuggling together."

Lin Jishang gave a light chuckle, "So you occupied one and a half of the two letters, and I occupied half."

"Hey? You're wrong. This one of mine is completely groundless. I'm walking straight and sitting upright. It's you who needs to be careful."

"Got it, I have an idea in my mind."

"Hmm, it's good that it was intercepted. Let's go, each back to our own home, each looking for our own wife."

Ye Yaodong crumpled the letter into a ball, stuffed it into his pocket, and planned to burn it when he got back later.