Chapter 901: Inspection

The village cadres also came very quickly. Ye Chenghe ran to call them, and in a short while, a large group of people came over, with a bunch of villagers following behind.

Originally, when the motorcycle entered the village, some people weaving nets at the doorway saw it, but they didn't react in time, and in the blink of an eye, they couldn't see the shadow.

They only knew it was heading towards the beach. The active ones immediately dropped the work in their hands and walked towards the beach. Everyone knew that the leaders from above were coming to deal with the stranded basking shark on the beach.

However, they didn't know that the motorcycle had stopped at Ye Yaodong's house, only the neighbors on the left and right knew, and then they all ran to the courtyard to wait and watch the fun.

Most of the villagers didn't hear the motorcycle's commotion, but just happened to see the large group of village cadres, and one by one they hurriedly followed.

It was said in the morning that people would come in the afternoon, and everyone in the village guessed that they must have arrived by now.

It had been a long time since Ye Yaodong's doorway had been so lively. Even under such a big sun, there were still people surrounding it, which showed that everyone really wanted to watch the fun.

Once the village cadres arrived, they exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then everyone collectively walked towards the outside of the pier. However, just as they walked out of the courtyard gate, Ye Yaodong called out to Director Chen.

"The motorcycle is parked at the doorway, which is a bit unsafe. People come and go, and maybe someone who wants money but not their life will ride it away, or the children in the village don't know their own strength, touching it here and there, and accidentally knocking the car over. It wouldn't be good if something got broken."

Director Chen also saw a bunch of children at the doorway surrounding the motorcycle, "That's right, then drive it into your courtyard and keep it. You have people at home, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's what I meant too. It's safer to ride it into the courtyard and keep it, to avoid any child accidentally knocking it over."

"Alright."

A group of children stretched their necks and looked with regret. Only the few children of the Ye family held their heads high, full of pride, looking as if they shared the honor.

At the doorway, Ye Yaodong casually gave the two brothers Ye Chenghai and Ye Chenghe a slap each on the back of their heads, and looked at them with a warning glance.

"You two behave yourselves. You are the most dishonest and the most troublesome. If there is any scratch on the motorcycle, I won't just break your legs, I'll break your hands too."

The two dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak. At the same time, they touched the back of their heads and said in unison with low spirits, "Understood."

"Watch the house well for me. When the adults are not at home, don't let anyone in."

"Understood."

After the two sidecars were parked, the three of Director Chen came out of the courtyard.

He only brought two people to take a look first. If they really wanted to transport it away, they would have to contact other vehicles. Having too many people wouldn't be of any use, and transporting it back wasn't for them anyway; they were just in charge of these matters.

The villagers were in high spirits. In the short time they walked along the beach towards the pier, the team behind them grew larger and larger, all of them idle men, women, and children from the village who had heard the news.

A large group of people came. By the time they walked to the outside of the pier, they had almost occupied the entire open space outside the pier. Fortunately, the weather was good today. At this time, there were no fishing boats docking, and the view by the shore was still quite empty.

Director Chen and the others also saw the basking shark stranded on the beach at a glance. After being sun-baked for a whole day, it was already a bit dying. Not to mention its fish tail, even its fins were hard to shake even once.

From the rising tide at night to the receding tide at dawn, then to the rising tide in the morning, and then to the receding tide in the afternoon, the tide rose and fell all day. At this moment, the tide hadn't receded to the bottom yet, it was still receding.

The sun in the sky was still scorching. At this time, it was considered the hottest time of the year. Standing outside for a while made one feel like they could get heatstroke and peel off a layer of skin, not to mention the basking shark that had been stranded and sun-baked on the beach for a day.

"Dead?"

"It seems not yet. It moved a bit when we just came over."

"Even if it's not dead, it's almost sun-baked, right? There's only such a shallow layer of water underneath, what use can it be?"

"Director, this size is also big enough... Last time there was a great white shark that was 6.5 meters long and over five tons. This one looks bigger and longer..."

Director Chen nodded and turned to everyone, "Whoever is brave enough, go down and take a look. Is this fish dead or alive? It's just right that the tide is receding now and it's not deep."

For a while, no one dared to make a sound. Who knew if this fish would be alive and if it would bite people?

Ye Yaodong saw everyone looking at him, touched his nose, and responded, "Alright then, I'll go if I have to."

"Hehe, I heard that you went down in the morning to catch the lampreys and such on this basking shark's body, so you shouldn't be afraid."

"What lampreys?" Director Chen asked curiously.

Others hurriedly explained to him in a fawning manner, and asked A Cai to take out the sea lampreys that Ye Yaodong had taken home in the morning and later put at A Cai's place to raise, for everyone to see.

Ye Yaodong didn't care. Anyway, with everyone explaining to the leader, he saved himself from telling it over and over again. His father was also there, and his father knew everything.

He rolled up his trouser legs and went into the water, first walking to the basking shark's mouth, looking at its slightly closed small eyes. He didn't know when, but they looked a bit slightly moist, half-open and half-closed.

And that huge body, the fish skin on it had been sun-baked for a day, a bit dry, and glowing purple.

The few fish fins on its body, as well as that big fish tail, were all hanging there motionless, looking really dying, life passing away, feeling like it was nearing its end.

He slapped its back hard, but there was no reaction. He had the heart to go and slap its tail hard, but was afraid of being slapped away by a tail flick.

Just when he was circling this female shark, he discovered that its pectoral fin moved, and immediately after, a sea lamprey drilled out from under its wide pectoral fin.

"Damn, there's more!"

It was still drilling in from under the pectoral fin close to the abdomen. No wonder it looked like it was about to hang up. It turned out it still couldn't defeat these "vampires".

This position was almost under the abdomen. There was no way to ignore it. No one knew if there were any wounds under the belly, or if it had been drilled.

Ye Yaodong pinched the head of this lamprey with quick eyes and fast hands, controlled it, and pulled it out of the meat hole. A circular opening five centimeters wide was exposed to his eyes.

"Damn it..."

He glanced at the hole and cursed. It could only pull out one. Who knew how many were still in the belly? No wonder it was half-dead after being sun-baked for a day. It turned out it wasn't just because the water level was shallow, there were blood-suckers in its belly.

This is fate, destined to die. No matter how others pull and drag, it's useless.

After having a count in his heart, he grabbed the lamprey with one hand and went ashore directly.

People on the shore saw him holding a fish like an eel in his hand. They had just learned about the habits of lampreys from others' mouths.

"Caught from this big shark? Didn't you say you already caught them all in the morning?"

"In the morning, we only caught the ones we could see on its body. If some drilled deeper, we couldn't see them. The hole was only about 5 centimeters wide."

He shook the lamprey in his hand, "There's another one, under the belly. I don't know if there are any wounds. Stranded there, such a big guy, no one can move it."

"This one is a fish that slipped through the net. I don't know if there are any more. I think there must be. If there's one, there must be a second and a third."

"When I went down just now, this fish could still move a few times. It probably won't live for long. If Director Chen wants to take it back, it's best to take it back today."

"The temperature is so high now, it's easy to stink if it's dead for too long. And I don't know where you are going to pull it to. Even if you add ice cubes, it won't last long, not to mention such a big size, there's nothing to hold it."

Director Chen nodded upon hearing this, "After receiving the call in the morning, I had to finish the work at hand before I could come out in the afternoon. I also had to check it myself before I could make arrangements. It looks like I have to go make a call now."

The village chief hurriedly took over the conversation, "There is a phone at the village committee, the director can call at any time."

"Then let's go in first. The sun is so big, everyone standing in the sun can't stand it either. Let's all go in together, and I'll go make a call to arrange it."

They had only walked a short distance and stood for a while, and they were already sweating profusely. The handkerchiefs in their hands were wiped again and again on their faces. No one could stand being sun-baked in the sun all the time.

"Go, go, go, let's all go in first. After everything is arranged, we'll come out. It should be evening by then and it shouldn't be so hot."

"Go to the village committee or go to Adong's house..."

"Don't you need to make a call? Of course, you go to the village committee to make a call. If it's too late to go back later, we'll go to Comrade Ye Yaodong's house for dinner." Director Chen didn't treat them as outsiders and said with a smile.

Ye Yaodong responded happily, "Alright, I'll let my wife prepare early in a while, can't delay the leaders' big affairs."

Ye's father was also full of smiles, "Good, good, good, just go to our house for dinner. I'll let my other two sons keep some good goods."

"No need to be too troublesome, just home-cooked food is fine. The dried fish and dried squid you sent last time were very good, and the shrimp meat was also very good. It's very fresh to cook soup."

"Hehe, we don't have anything else by the seaside, just these..."

They exchanged pleasantries as they walked, and anyone could feel that their relationship was familiar.

If the relationship wasn't familiar, they wouldn't have opened their mouths to eat at someone's house, especially leaders who would pay more attention to the influence.

The cadres surrounding them listened and were extremely envious. Who among them could be short of a bite to eat?

Everyone wished they could invite the leader home for dinner to build a relationship, but every time the leader came, he went to Ye Yaodong's house for dinner. Even the village chief and village secretary couldn't invite him back.

I don't know what kind of dog shit luck he had, when did he get to know him?

Ye Yaodong was also very good at speaking, and took the opportunity to invite the village cadres walking with him to eat at his house in the evening.

Anyway, it wasn't the first time, and they were familiar with each other. Everyone smiled and agreed.

However, they raised Ye Yaodong's weight in their hearts again.

No one is a fool. His family hadn't been drying dried squid and shrimp meat for long. The last time the leader came to the village was already a few months ago, which shows that this guy has been secretly in contact with the leader, and even sent him dried squid and shrimp meat!

Really damn cunning!

I guess he has already smoothed out the path, right?

The village chief also paid more attention to Ye Yaodong in his heart. Originally, when the village secretary said two days ago that Ye Yaodong wanted the 56-semi in the warehouse, he was still a bit hesitant and didn't nod. It seems that now he has to give up two for him.

In fact, Ye Yaodong didn't know at all that there were 56-semis in the village. It had been so many years, he had long forgotten, only remembering there were earth guns.

It was only two days ago that he went to find Chen Shuji and mentioned it, always wanting to ask to buy two earth guns from the village. Chen Shuji understood that he wanted to prepare in advance to go to Zhejiang Province to catch jellyfish, so he gave him the bottom line and revealed that there were a few 56-semis in the village.

Since there was a choice, he definitely chose the 56-semi!

So he directly troubled Chen Shuji to help him negotiate and get two, seeing how much money he could buy them for.

However, the village chief was a bit reluctant. There were only five or six in total, and the price wasn't cheap when they were bought at that time, so he had been hesitant and didn't agree.

Now he was willing to give them up.

The old guys were turning over in their hearts, no one was a muddle-headed egg.

Ye Yaodong didn't expect such an unexpected joy. He wasn't in a hurry originally, so he wasn't in a hurry to ask for the result, planning to wait a few days and see.

However, this is a later story.

A large group of people came out and went in, without seeing any results, and were sun-baked for a while, sweating all over. Those walking in front didn't hear anything, but those in the back were all cursing and complaining about the tossing in the hot weather.

Ye Yaodong went home first to tell Lin Xiuqing to cook more for dinner, then ran to the village committee again, and had been accompanying them there ever since.

He didn't know how many calls Director Chen made. Anyway, since entering the village committee, everyone hadn't seen him, only knowing he had been making calls.

It wasn't until half an hour later that he appeared, and then they exchanged pleasantries and chatted. All the village cadres were basically accompanying him, sitting or standing on the side, but the phone in the village committee was also ringing frequently.

Ye Yaodong had been watching the time. When it was 5 o'clock and the village committee hadn't finished work yet, he started to invite people home first.

Who knew how long they would be busy later? Eat early, entertain the leaders well. Anyway, sitting here is just sitting, it's better to go to his house to eat and chat, his house is also cooler.

Everyone had no opinion. Anyway, there was nothing to do in the village committee, it was very leisurely.

A large group of people transferred their positions again and walked towards Ye Yaodong's house.

Ye Yaodong's house was also incomparably lively at this time. The doorway was full of a group of children. Regardless of whether they were boys or girls, they were all holding sticks and acting as door gods at the doorway, putting on airs.

Some were even dancing blindly with sticks at the doorway, shouting "hey hey ha ha" here, making everyone feel a bit dumbfounded.

"What are you doing?"

"Third Uncle, we are protecting your house, to avoid being invaded by the enemy."

"We want to defeat the little Japanese devils, can't let them enter your house!"

"Right, no one can go in."

"Whoever wants to go in, we'll beat them to death."

"Go, go, go, all go play on the side, don't get in the way here."

The adults all laughed and went inside.