Chapter 398: with translation of chapter title

Village Committee.

Wu Yingwei hurried back, seeing the already tidied house, a bit surprised, took the tea cup Wu An handed over, and asked: "Where is everyone?"

Wu An told Father to sit down.

He explained the situation in full detail, excluding himself, only saying that Lin Hu discovered he had been cuckolded by Lin Bin, grabbed a kitchen knife, and wanted to hack Lin Bin to death.

Lin Bin fled all the way and ended up at the Village Committee.

Wu Yingwei nodded: "That's right, Chen Gui is here; he might be able to stop Chen Hu."

"But I heard..."

Wu An tried not to laugh, saying: "Chen Gui seems to be one of the participants as well."

Wu Yingwei's eyes widened.

He hastily drank a mouthful of water, suppressing his surprise.

"Is it true or not?"

"Anyway, judging by how Lin Hu and Lin Bin are acting, it's probably about right."

"Alright, I'll go check it out."

Wu Yingwei set down his tea cup, stood up, and headed outside.

He didn't come back just to gossip; he came to prevent the situation from worsening.

Just as he was about to go out.

A Qing came running, his face a mix of anxiety and excitement, shouting: "Brother, something else happened, something else happened!"

Wu Yingwei asked: "What happened?"

A Qing was startled by Wu Yingwei, quickly wiped the schadenfreude off his face, and said: "The Lin family… the Lin family went to Chen Gui's house to ransack through boxes and cabinets; the Chen family wouldn't allow it, and as a result the two groups started fighting in Chen Gui's courtyard."

Upon hearing that, Wu Yingwei took off running.

Wu An furrowed his brow and asked: "Why?"

A Qing whispered: "It seems they were looking for some video..."

Wu An suddenly understood.

Then it was nothing.

It was his doing.

However, he didn't expect that this idle move would actually work.

He also hurried over.

The two groups were in a melee; if anyone wasn't careful, killing someone wouldn't be surprising. At the critical moment, he had to hold Father back, not let him keep charging forward.

A Qing also ran after him, asking: "Brother, are we still going out to sea today?"

Wu An said: "Going out to sea."

"We'll set off after lunch."

"We'll stay out on the sea overnight and return tomorrow."

He had checked the crab pot's status via the system that morning; the Luck Value had already been cleared, and without Luck Value, tossing the crab pot into the sea is pure waste, so it needs to be retrieved and redeployed soon.

Furthermore, today's Luck Value is 333, so we definitely need to go out to sea; wasting it would be too wasteful.

They arrived at Chen Gui's house.

Good grief, thick smoke billowing!

Wu An was startled—how could they have set someone's house on fire? When Chen Gui comes back, where will he sleep? He might have to rely on his son.

The house being on fire also has a silver lining: nobody's fighting anymore; everyone's rushing outside.

Everyone is fleeing outward.

Wu An was watching when he saw Father carrying a person out running; seeing Wu An, he shouted: "Call the police, dial 120, quick!"

Wu An hastily grabbed his phone.

Seeing Father about to run back inside, he shouted: "Father, what are you going back in for?"

Wu Yingwei shouted: "There's still someone inside!"

Upon hearing that, Wu An unlocked his phone, tossed it to A Qing, then also ran inside; there was still a person lying on the ground, and Wu An told Wu Yingwei to get that person out.

He ran into the house!

Because he saw Lin Hu, that guy holding a torch—he was the one who set the fire!

Chen Gui's house is still an old house with wooden beams; with no one fighting the fire, the flames have become extremely fierce.

They entered the house.

Wu An pulled Lin Hu outward.

Lin Hu struggled.

Wu An is no longer the former Wu An; he's been training his strength lately, while Lin Hu, that guy, is barely holding on with sheer breath, having hardly any strength.

"Clang!"

Just as Wu An had pulled Lin Hu out of the house, something burning fell down.

Lin Hu heard the sound and jumped in fright.

Wu An collapsed onto the ground.

He was a bit exhausted.

Lin Hu was both crying and laughing.

Wu Yingwei had the Chen and Lin families stand apart, arranged for militia to keep watch, and after inquiring about the situation, he couldn't help but loudly reprimand them.

Wu Yingwei's seniority is not low; aside from a few elders, he is either a junior or a peer to everyone else.

Now everyone has calmed down, feeling a bit of lingering fear.

Listening to Wu Yingwei's scolding, they all lowered their heads, and nobody talked back.

Wu An lowered his voice and asked: "What's going on?"

Wu Yingwei sighed, said: "The Lin Family came to the Chen Family looking for a USB drive, and happened to catch several good-for-nothings from the Chen Family watching... watching a video."

Lin Hu was provoked and went up to beat him.

After beating someone, they ransacked the place, afraid Chen Gui might still have hidden other USB drives.

When the Chen Family arrived and saw the situation, they weren't happy either.

Both sides started arguing and then came to blows; afterwards Lin Hu set fire.

Wu An thought for a moment and asked: "What will happen to Lin Hu?"

Wu Yingwei watched the burning house, shook his head and said nothing.

The house, although burned.

But fortunately no one was hurt; at worst it's probably just a concussion from the beating. It depends on how the higher-ups want to handle it—could be made a big deal or kept small.

This time it wasn't Yu Kai Lang and Liu Long who came.

After inquiring about the situation, they took Lin Hu and the others away; and Chen Gui's house, too, had the fire put out under Wu Yingwei's direction, but the house was already burned to the point of being uninhabitable.

Just as the police cars left here, people from Wen Feilv's natal family came and took her away.

The villagers mostly dispersed; those who were idle gathered at the entrance of Lao Jiang's little shop and started chatting.

The matter came to a temporary end.

Wu An went home, washed up and changed clothes, greeted Duan Dajie and a few others at the door, then hurried to the dock.

Lao Fu Tou and Mei Wu were already on the boat, ready; they waited for Wu An and A Qing to board, then the fishing boat started up and slowly headed out to sea.

Still Lao Fu Tou was steering the boat.

Mei Wu, upon hearing that Ma Weiqun and the others had been arrested, was very pleased and said: "In that case, his shouting 'catch the thief' while reporting the crime ended up trapping himself."

Wu An said: "I heard from Yu Kai Lang that this kind of behavior is heinous and will lead to a heavier sentence."

Mei Wu clapped and exclaimed: "Most satisfying, most satisfying!"

"I don't know if the losses can be fully made up for."

"And there's that person from your village..."

A Qing chuckled: "Lin Bin being caught is still light; you don't know, my older brother..."

Wu An coughed and said: "A Qing and I only came this late because something happened in the village."

Mei Wu wondered: "What's going on?"

Wu An explained the situation, then A Qing took over, embellishing the story as he retold it, getting worked up and even gesturing wildly.

Just hearing the gossip, Mei Wu couldn't help but slam the table and exclaim: "That Lin Bin from your village sure plays fancy."

"Now he's not only caught, but his reputation is ruined."

"A An, you did this, right?"

Wu An spoke righteously: "None of my business; watch out, I'll sue you for slander."

A Qing also shouted: "A Wu Ge, you can't just spout nonsense."

Mei Wu had just mentioned it offhand, but seeing the two's reactions, he knew the matter was indeed tied to those two brothers; he gave a thumbs up and laughed: "Fine, fine, fine—I won't spout nonsense."

Lao Fu Tou, steering the boat, also laughed along.

He wasn't the least bit surprised.

Earlier, when scheming against the Chen Family, he already knew Wu An had a sharp mind.

Seeing A Qing still chatting about this, he quickly shouted loudly: "A An, what's the plan for today?"

"Are we still stopping at Huo Ming Dao?"

Wu An said: "No. Let's go straight to collect the crab pots."

"Anyway, we're going to spend the night at sea."

"After we haul in the crab pots, we can go farther out and then set the longline and adhesive nets."