Chapter 99: Maritime Accident

When they first returned, they said the sky was a bit dark, but when they drove halfway, they clearly felt the waves start to roll, the boat shook violently, and the wind on the sea surface became stronger. The weather by the sea was somewhat fickle.

"It's windy again."

"Hmm, it's good I didn't let you drive. You go stay in the cabin, it might rain heavily later."

"Let me drive, give me the compass, I can drive back."

"Go, go, go, don't need you, lest you drive wrong and delay time and get rained on." Ye Fu pushed him away without saying anything, and increased the horsepower.

Ye Yaodong could only helplessly go to the cabin.

Dark clouds covered the sun, and the sky darkened rapidly. At this time, it was only three o'clock, not yet four, but the feeling of darkness was almost six or seven o'clock. A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, brightening it for a moment, and then it darkened again.

Ye Fu was also afraid of sudden heavy rain. The danger factor at sea was high, and he was most afraid of natural disasters. He focused on distinguishing the direction of the return journey, hoping to dock before the heavy rain.

But after flashes of lightning streaked across, accompanied by rumbling thunder, bean-sized raindrops fell down with a patter.

It hadn't rained for more than a month, and he didn't expect a big one as soon as it came.

The rainwater fell on Ye Fu, and after a while, he was wet from head to toe. The rain became heavier and heavier, gradually blurring his vision, but he still stood straight there, controlling the direction of the boat's advance.

Ye Yaodong frowned as he watched in the cabin. His father was too able to hold on, and he didn't trust him, refusing to let him drive. It was really...

Fortunately, the rain was only in bursts. It was relatively heavy when it first fell, but now it has weakened a bit.

At this time, a call for help suddenly came from the sea level. He looked out from the cabin and only saw an iron boat similar to theirs drifting on the gray sea. There was a woman on the boat, waving her arms towards their boat and shouting for help.

The sound of the machine on the boat, mixed with the sound of wind and rain, was a bit noisy. Ye Yaodong was afraid of hearing it wrong, so he carefully distinguished it before realizing he hadn't heard it wrong; it was calling for help.

He immediately walked out and shouted to Ye Fu, who was focused on driving the boat, "Dad, someone on that boat over there is calling for help."

Ye Fu heard his shout and looked at the boat not far away along his finger. Indeed, there was a woman waving her hand. He stood next to the machine, and the noisy sound accompanied by the sound of rain made it impossible to hear at all.

He stopped the boat for a moment, walked towards Ye Yaodong, and only heard the call for help after being a little further away from the machine.

"What's going on?"

"Don't know, I just heard someone calling for help over there in the cabin. It's raining, lightning and thundering now, should we drive over to take a look?"

Ye Fu nodded without hesitation, "Hmm, those working in this sea area are either from our village, or from Dongqiao Village or Xishan Village. Drive over to see what happened. Neighbors, help if you can. It shouldn't take long."

At this time, the folk customs were simple, and everyone was enthusiastic when encountering something. Even in this weather, hearing the call for help, Ye Fu didn't say he would just drive away.

After driving the boat closer, they not only heard the call for help, but also the woman's intermittent crying and howling.

Ye Fu also recognized that this was Ma Lifang, the wife of Lin Yongshou who lived by the road behind the mountain. It should be that the couple came out to trawl together, but why was she the only one?

He drove the boat side by side, leaving less than a meter in between, and frowned at the wailing Ma Lifang, "Why are you alone? Why are you crying? Where is A Shou? Why haven't you gone back in this thunder and rain?"

"He was hooked by the rope and fell into the sea when setting the net," she said while crying, "Just a while before it rained, he said he would drag one last net and go back... Woo woo woo~ Who knew his foot was hooked by the rope, and he fell down together."

Ye Fu and Ye Yaodong, father and son, heard her sobbing and felt shocked. The sweat on their hands couldn't help but stand up. Being hooked by a rope and falling down, there was no way to float up, and it was this kind of lightning and thundering weather. Even if they called them, they couldn't do anything!

Ye Fu didn't know what to say between opening and closing his mouth, only murmuring, "Why... why so careless..."

Lin Yongshou was much younger than Ye Fu, only in his early 40s. The eldest daughter was married, the second daughter was not big, and the two sons were even younger, so they came out to sea as a couple.

Ma Lifang could only cry at this moment. She also knew that falling down like this, no matter how well he could swim, he couldn't float up.

A huge thunder sounded in the sky again. Ye Yaodong frowned and said, "Auntie, can you drive the boat? We need to dock the boat quickly, and then call people for rescue. Alive to see people, dead to see corpses. No matter what, we have to try. Staying on the sea level like this is useless."

Ye Fu also echoed, "Now it's lightning and thundering, we'd better dock first, then we can call people out to salvage."

"Woo woo woo~ I can't drive the boat, fortunately I met you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go back today..."

Ye Yaodong heard this and said to Ye Fu, "Dad, you bring the two boats closer, I'll climb over to drive that boat and follow behind you."

"Okay, then be careful."

"Hmm."

Ye Fu brought the boat closer, threw a small anchor, and pulled the two boats to zero distance, so it was convenient for Ye Yaodong to climb over.

Ye Yaodong nimbly climbed over, looked at Ma Lifang who was still crying, and didn't know how to comfort her, so he had to say, "Auntie, I'll help you drive the boat back first."

She sobbed and said, "Okay."

The father and son braved the rain, one driving one boat, one in front and one behind, and docked in less than half an hour.

Ye Mu, who was waiting in a coir raincoat on the shore, saw the father and son separate the two boats and was surprised, "Dongzi, whose boat are you driving? Ma Lifang's boat? Why is she crying? What happened? Why is she alone?"

Ma Lifang cried all the way back. After arriving at the pier, the crying became louder, and the sound of rain couldn't cover her wailing.

The pier was full of people who had returned urgently from the sea because of the heavy rain, or people who came out to help. Everyone was either unloading goods or waiting to weigh and sell goods. Hearing her loud crying, the surrounding people looked over in surprise, discussing what happened to her?

Ye Fu frowned, and with a regretful expression, explained to everyone, "When Yongshou was setting the net, his foot was hooked by the rope and he fell into the sea. When we came back, we happened to see their boat, so we helped drive it back."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. This was terrible. A living life, and Lin Yongshou was in his prime, still young. Some women went on the boat one after another to comfort Ma Lifang, helped her off the boat, and accompanied her back.

Ye Yaodong also helped tie up her boat at the pier before returning to his own boat.

Although Ye Mu felt very sympathetic in her heart, the goods on their own boat hadn't been unloaded yet. They didn't have a very good relationship usually, just knowing each other in the same village. Seeing that several women accompanied her back, she didn't follow.

When getting on the boat, she said sympathetically, "Only 40 years old, and he fell into the sea and is gone. Too pitiful. There are still several children in their family, and the sons are still half-grown boys, far from getting married. How will these orphans and widows live?"

"Those who work at sea have high risks, but what can be done? Relying on the sea to eat from the sea, you have to do it even if you take risks."

Ye Fu also sighed with a regretful face. Every year or two by the sea, someone would fall into the sea, and the chance of survival after falling in was slim.

"The rain is getting heavier, let's help unload the goods first, talk about anything later."

Ye Mu saw Ye Fu and Ye Yaodong lift a foam box from the cabin, and opened it to take a look, "Ah! Such a big fish! This is... large croaker?"

After she carefully identified it, her pupils shrank, and she said again in surprise and certainty, "It's a large croaker!"

Seeing this fish, Ye Fu's somewhat heavy mood dissipated a little, and a smile appeared on his face, "Yes, it's a large croaker! We're going to make a fortune today."

Ye Mu also happily touched the fish body and fish head, and couldn't rest assured to pry open the fish gills to take a look, and gestured the size, "This is too big? Don't ordinary croakers only weigh a few jin? How much is this one worth?"

"You step aside first, lift it down first."

"Hey, okay, okay."

She went to look at other goods, and also knew the harvest today.

Even without that large croaker, their harvest today was very good. Ye Mu helped move the other lighter and easier-to-take goods down first.

Everyone on the pier was now discussing Lin Yongshou falling into the sea, and had no time to pay attention to how many goods each family caught.

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And their large croaker was packed in a foam box, covered tightly, and no one saw it.

Ye Fu asked Ye Mu to watch from the side, and they continued to move goods on the boat. Because the weather was abnormal, there were too many large and small boats docked here, and the collection point was full of people. They were not at ease to just leave the large croaker there.

Until all the goods were moved off the boat, they didn't shout, but honestly lined up. Their mood had long been affected, and the excitement had already been excited.

When it was their turn to weigh, Ye Fu smiled and lifted the foam box, "Weigh this large croaker first. Let's say it first, how much to collect? If it's too cheap, I won't sell it!"

Acai looked around indifferently at first, but didn't expect that with just one glance, his pupils shrank, and he pounced forward in surprise, "Large croaker? So big?"

The people waiting around were also shocked and surrounded, "My goodness, actually so big?"

"What croaker can actually grow so big?"

"It is indeed a croaker, damn, this one weighs dozens of jin?"

"I've been fishing for 30 years, and I've never seen such a large croaker. Rich, rich..."

"Yes, rich! Ye Lao San, what kind of luck does your family have? Actually caught another large croaker, tsk tsk tsk~ This one is worth a lot of money!"

"This croaker fish glue is not cheap. Such a big one, its piece of fish glue must be several liang?"

The crowd's attention immediately shifted from Lin Yongshou's matter directly to this large croaker, looking even more excited than them.

Ye Fu smiled, "Good luck, when it was caught, it was still eating. It had a seven or eight liang water valley fish in its mouth. This basket of water valley fish was caught in the same net as this large croaker."

"It's really good luck. It seems that changing a homestead didn't affect your family's luck..."

"The relative on Lin Ji bought that piece of land in vain, and also lost a small boat..."

Ye Yaodong hurriedly stopped them from spreading rumors, "Hey, uncle, luck is something, who can say for sure? Our buying and selling of the foundation is also willing, not that we want to sell it to him, it's that he wants to buy ours. People haven't moved in yet, maybe that piece of land is also very prosperous for him, let them make a fortune? How can you say it was in vain and lost a boat?"

After all, in the previous life, the family on Lin Ji really made a fortune relying on his family's relative. Now that they bought it and then started a family, it can be considered that the piece of land is a geomantic treasure, right? Hehe~

"Hehe, also..."

"Everyone, let's make way first, let us lift the fish to the scale, weigh it first to see how heavy it is." Ye Mu was anxious to know how heavy this fish was and how much it could sell for.

Acai also said with a smile, "Right, weigh it first to see how heavy it is, so I can give a price. Such a large croaker is not common."

"Weigh it first, weigh it first..."

Everyone was also very curious about how heavy this fish was.

After the father and son lifted the fish to the scale, Acai first put a 25 kg weight, but saw the scale still lifted high, not falling. He slid the thing on the scale bar to the far right, and the scale still didn't fall.

He added another 1 kg, still no reaction, until he put 2 more, the scale jumped down a bit.

Acai slid the thing on the scale to make the scale bar in a suspended state and swing, then looked at the number above, "55 jin 5 liang! It's really not small, this fish."

The people around were in an uproar.

"Hiss~ ten jin of fish for one liang of glue, this piece of fish glue must be six liang?"

"Hiss~ rich! This croaker fish glue is not cheap, one jin is several hundred, right?"

"More than that! Very expensive, and ordinary croaker glue is not so big. This one is 6 liang per piece, definitely more expensive!"

"Yes, yes..."

After Acai was happy, he also felt a bit tricky. Such a valuable thing, he couldn't offer a price.

The father and son were staring at him like tigers, waiting for him to say the price. If he said too little, he would be scolded by these people. If he said too high, wouldn't he lose a lot? How can a businessman not make money?

He thought about it and said, "Anyway, your fish has already exceeded the weight, so put it here with me first. I'll contact a buyer later to see how much they can offer. I'll charge you a 5% commission, how about it?"

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "You charge both ends, and still want 5%? Who are you slaughtering? 2% at most! This fish is worth several hundred, don't bully us for being country people."

"Uh..." Acai was choked, smiled awkwardly, "Fine, fine, I'll mention it to the buyer later and let him pay me the commission."

Ye Yaodong snorted coldly in his heart. He was pulling strings in the middle, how could the buyer not give him money to earn?

After this large croaker was temporarily settled, they continued to weigh other goods. ===== CHAPTER 100 =====