"Bandit!" Ye Chengyang also called out in a baby voice, which sounded a bit cute.
Ye Yaodong stretched out his hand and pinched his cheek, "This is not called a bandit, this is called a locust. When a locust passes through a border, nothing is left. Do you understand?"
"Uncle, I know, I know, it's grasshoppers. We used to roast grasshoppers and they were delicious, just like shrimps."
"Let's go catch some grasshoppers..."
Mrs. Ye slapped Ye Chenghai on the back of his head without any hesitation. "Lin Mu, there is a lot of work waiting for you to do, and you dare to run away? I will break your legs. You run around all day long, and you don't even help with the work. You are always with your brothers and sisters, and you are as black as coal. I will chop your legs off."
"You are my mother..."
Ye Chenghai rubbed the back of his head and submitted to his mother's tyranny. He only dared to mutter softly and weakly.
Mrs. Ye has very sharp ears!
With a glare, Ye Chenghai immediately became cowardly and ran into the house faster than a rabbit. "I'll go get a stool to help."
With Ye Chenghai's previous experience as a lesson, no one dared to move rashly at this moment. They could only stand still and stay where they were, not daring to go anywhere.
In order to make it more lively and easier to talk with more people, they piled all the goods in front of Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, but they piled them in different corners to avoid mixing them up. Now that they have divided the goods, it would be fair for each family to pick their own goods.
The goods of Ye's father and mother were mixed with Ye Yaodong's, so of course they sat around him, and the old lady also brought a stool over to help.
Ye Yaodong pointed to the half bag leaning against his courtyard wall in the corner and said, "That half bag is full of scallops. I caught them alive in the sea. Don't dump those out. I'll send them to the dock with the fish and sell them first."
Father Ye said quickly, "Let's send it now. The fish has been left out all night without ice. We're afraid it won't be fresh if it's left out for too long. We should have sent it early in the morning, but we were delayed by picking up shells."
"Wait a minute, I'll go collect the two nets in the sea and see how many scallops are in them to sell together."
All the shells on the shore had been swept away, so there was not much point in spreading the two nets there. Moreover, the nets were pulled higher towards the sea to prevent the scallops from escaping. After the typhoon, it would not be easy for the waves outside to blow the seafood in.
Moreover, the fishing nets have to be collected and returned to the owners as they are not their own. The traps can be left out until the tide goes out and there are no waves before being collected.
"I'll go with you to collect them. Pour a bag on the ground first and let them pick them out first."
After Ye's father poured a sack of shells onto the ground, he clapped his hands and followed Ye Yaodong, who was pushing the cart, towards the beach.
The beach was still full of people at this time. Every household had several bags of shells and had to go back and push a cart or borrow a cart from others to push them back. Everyone gathered in groups of three or four to talk, waiting for their family members to push the cart over and take them back.
Only a few of their households lived close to the beach and were able to return home so quickly.
As Ye Yaodong walked, he asked his father, "How much is a pound of scallops now?"
"I don't know. This thing is on the seabed and hard to catch. There is no fish in our area. It is rare. I have to go to the dock to ask. I don't know where they came from. There are so many of them, and many of them are quite big."
"If there are fewer fish caught, that means they have been growing for a long time, so they are bigger, right?"
"These guys are really amazing. In just two or three hours, they emptied the beach."
"No matter how much money you make, it's never enough..."
The father and son were walking and chatting, and just as they reached the beach, they saw a man standing next to their spread out fishing net.
Ye Yaodong felt that something was wrong, so he quickly walked over and found that the man had put the winnowing ball into his fishing net and was holding the fishing net to shake the scallops into the winnowing ball.
Grass!
How dare you pluck hair from a tiger's head
Ye Yaodong stepped forward and grabbed him by the back of his collar, then punched him in the face, causing him to fall directly into the water.
"Damn it! You're right outside my house, and you dare to steal my net? Are you tired of living?"
"Ah, what a misunderstanding. I just came to see how much the fishing net can catch..."
This was a middle-aged man about the same age as his father, an ordinary person, and also from their village. Due to the age difference, Ye Yaodong didn't know who he was, but his father knew him.
"Just look at a few handfuls of hair. You put them all in my fishing net and still ask for a look? Shameless old man, still trying to quibble..." Ye Yaodong said as he went up and planned to kick him a few times.
The middle-aged man was soaked from head to toe by the seawater, and he rolled and crawled in the sea to dodge, "Don't hit me, don't hit me... We are all family, I really just want to see... Don't hit me... Ye Lao San... We are family..."
"You're one of us? I don't even know you." When he said he was one of us, he wanted to fight even more.
Seeing Ye Yaodong raise his fist again, the middle-aged man shouted to Ye's father in panic, "Ye Lao San, Ye Lao San, we are family, I am Ye Lao Er's relative..."
Father Ye then slowly pulled Ye Yaodong aside and said, "He is the father of the woman who is your second uncle's cousin, Asheng, and has not yet married."
So complicated? Ye Yaodong went through the relatives in his mind and realized that it was the father of the woman just now.
Yarn's own people
What does it have to do with him
They haven't even gotten married yet, and even if they do, they're not his relatives.
If we really calculate it this way, then everyone who is related to him, then the entire village, is his relative.
"What does it have to do with me? He is not my father or my father-in-law." Ye Yaodong grabbed his clothes on his chest and lifted him out of the water.
Although he is a short guy, his arm strength has greatly increased and he can easily lift the old man up.
"If you don't want to be punched again, tell me the truth, how many scallops did you steal from me?"
Some people on the shore noticed the conflict here, and some of them ran over out of curiosity to watch the fun.
"What's going on?"
"It seems that Lao Wang stole the scallops from Ye Laosan's house?"
"Hey, you deserve it. There were so many fish on the shore just now. Who didn't row a few hundred kilograms back? And you still go to steal?"
"Who knows?"
"I'm jealous. There are people like this everywhere..."
Lao Wang grabbed Ye Yaodong's arm in panic, "No, really, I just came here, I just took a look, I didn't steal anything..."
"I don't believe you. If I just want to take a look, why do I have to bring it here?"
"Really, no, I didn't steal anything..."
Several of Old Wang's children immediately gathered around, as did many of the Ye family's relatives and friends, and the scene suddenly became chaotic again.
"Everyone is on the shore, and you, an old man, ran to my fishing net and poured the fish in my net into your winnowing basket. And you still say you didn't steal it? Do you think I'm blind? Or do you think my father is blind?"
Being surrounded by so many people, Lao Wang almost cried out, "I really didn't steal..."
"Did he really not steal it, or did he not have enough time to steal it?" Being watched by so many people, Ye's father asked depressedly.
Now, Lao Wang was silent too!
His son said, "If you didn't have time to steal, then you didn't steal. You didn't lose anything anyway, so forget it. My father is old, don't bother with him..."
Ye Yaodong was speechless. If the attempt to rape a woman failed, it would not count as rape? If she kissed, looked, and touched, it would not count
Don't worry about it? Just because you are pitiful, you can use public opinion to seize other people's fish. Just because you are old, you can steal other people's things
What kind of bullshit logic is this
This is how bad people are spoiled.
"Who said I didn't suffer any loss? Who knows how long he has been lingering here, and how much he has scooped up before leaving? What he scooped up is all money. Whose money comes from the wind?"
Just by talking to him, you can use your age to make him suffer in silence
Besides, how can 40 or 50 years old be considered old? You are not even 70 or 80 years old yet, and you want to take advantage of your age
"So what do you want? I said I didn't steal it, but you just said it without hesitation. Where's the evidence..."
Ye Yaodong let the man go and went to take out the winnowing basket from the fishing net. Oh my god, it was actually full of fish.
What a cruel heart!
He did not pour out the goods, but carried them to the Wang family, found the mark, and pointed it out to them, "I can read, isn't this red Wang on it yours?"
In the countryside, people usually mark all their belongings to avoid mixing them up with other people's, or losing them if they are borrowed.
"That doesn't mean anything."
Ye Yaodong almost laughed out loud, "Your brains are full of shit, right? Don't tell me that all the scallops in there are from your family. Your old man picked out a handful of scallops from a pile of shells and put them in my net, intending to give them to me?"
The villagers around also echoed, "Did your brain get stuck in the door? Who would believe that?"
"That's right. We just put the shells into bags. Don't we have to take them back to choose?"
"These are obviously caught in the fishing net. A lot of them escaped just now, so they must have been caught in the fishing net."
"Just admit it if you stole someone's things. It's hard to argue even if you've been caught."
Ye Yaodong showed the basket he was holding to the villagers on the shore, "Look everyone, this is a basket full of scallops. If I had come a little later, they would have been stolen. This basket can be sold for several yuan, which is not a small amount of money."
"That's a lot..."
"They were all full, and you said you didn't steal..."
…
The villagers were talking about it, and Lao Wang blushed, "I didn't succeed in stealing, and I'm still..."
"If the rape failed, then it doesn't count if they stripped her naked and pressed her against the door, right? Anyway, since it didn't work, they should be let go?" Ah Zheng came late, pushed through the crowd, and taunted them with dirty words.
"If he says he failed to steal the fish, then he failed? He might have tried several times to steal it." A Guang also went into the water.
They were all quite far away, and only came over out of curiosity to watch the fun when they saw a lot of people gathered here.
"No… "
Lao Wang quickly waved his hands to refute, and his son also said: "The things are still there, and you also beat someone up, so it's even."
"I can make up for the fact that you stole my things, but what about my losses? You have to return what you stole from me, right?"
"I told you that you didn't steal it, but you're still..."
"That's what you said, too. I also said you scooped up quite a few buckets."
"what do you want?"
"You need to pack up two baskets of shells to compensate me. What I have here are all real scallops. It's hard to say how many scallops are in your shells. I'm at a disadvantage."
It's not that he wants to care about this. If he just lets it go, people might think he is so soft and easy to talk to.
They knew it was he who set the trap, but it still caught him, but he just brushed it off lightly. What if some petty thieves thought that if they were caught stealing his things, it was no big deal, and they broke into his house and came every few days? What should he do
A good man is often bullied, and a good horse is often ridden.
When Lao Wang heard that he had to pay two dou of money, he widened his eyes and shouted, "I didn't steal successfully, why should I pay? If not, let's go..."
Ye Yaodong grabbed him and wouldn't let him leave. Other relatives and friends also helped to stop him. "It's only natural to pay back debts. If you don't compensate me for stealing my things, don't even think about leaving."
The two parties immediately pushed, pulled and cursed each other.
The peacemakers in the village all intervened, asking them not to be impulsive and to talk things over in a proper manner...
Ye Yaosheng was also pulled in by Wang Lizhen at this time. He frowned as he looked at the two families who were arguing. He helplessly grabbed Ye Yaodong's arm and said loudly to everyone, "Everyone, stop arguing. If you have anything to say, we can talk it out. We are all from the same village..."
Then he looked at Ye Yaodong again, "Ah Dong, look, it's not good to see so many people watching. For my sake, can you all take a step back? It won't look good if there's a fight. We're all from the same village, and we'll see each other sooner or later..."
Ye Yaodong looked at this cousin who had an average relationship with him. There was a big age gap between them. They moved out when he was very young and they didn't interact much with each other.
But they are cousins after all, so there is no conflict. He slowed down his tone and said, "The old man in their family stole my scallops. Do you think he should compensate me?"
"As you should. Petty theft is wrong."
"Ye Yaosheng, who are you helping?" Wang Lizhen said unhappily.
Ye Yaosheng also looked down on petty thefts. Although he was forced to be a peacemaker, it did not mean that he would be biased.
He said to Lao Wang's family unhappily, "I heard that the crackdown is very severe now. Stealing a tire will result in a ten-year sentence. Stealing is wrong in the first place. If you don't want to compensate, then you can do it yourself."
"Ten...ten years..."
Lao Wang was trembling as he spoke. If he was sentenced to ten years, he might not even be able to get out of prison alive...
"Who... who are you trying to fool? You are all family, you will definitely speak for them." Wang Lizhen was also scared. They were all country folks, who wouldn't be afraid of going to the police station
"I'm telling the truth. You stole Adong's things, so you should compensate him."
"But my father was also beaten..."
"If I get caught stealing, won't I be beaten?" Ye Yaosheng was still able to distinguish right from wrong.
"That's it..." The surrounding villagers also echoed.
The Wang family was speechless and looked at Ye Yaosheng with some dissatisfaction.
Ye Yaosheng sighed in his heart. He also sided with the right side instead of the relative side. He looked at Ye Yaodong and asked, "How are you going to compensate me?"
"I wonder how much he stole from me? I asked him to compensate me with two swipes of scallop shells. That's not much, right? I just gave him some comfort. I didn't even ask him to compensate me with two swipes of real scallops."
"You wish..."
"I really didn't steal it. I didn't have time..." Lao Wang was angry and embarrassed.
"Even if I really stole it, you wouldn't admit it."
Ye Yaosheng said: "Whether it was stolen or not, two sacks is not much..."
The villagers also chimed in, "Pay the compensation..."
"Just take it as a lesson..."
"Yeah, who made me have such evil thoughts?"
"Who knows if there was any theft? No one saw it. They were just happily chatting there and didn't pay attention to this side..."
Wang Lizhen heard her brothers and sisters saying that two buckets were too much, and she glared at Ye Yaosheng, "Less. You didn't succeed in stealing in the first place, and you got beaten just now."
Ye Yaosheng looked at Ye Yaodong in embarrassment, "Ah Dong..."
Feeling that he was difficult to talk to, Ye Yaosheng looked at his father again without waiting for Ye Yaodong to respond, "Third Uncle..."
Father Ye also felt a headache when he saw the crowd making a fuss. He waved his hands and said, "Well, forget it. Just pay a small amount of money as a token of your appreciation. It's not a good idea to keep standing there like this. Don't do such petty thefts in the future. You're already old. It would be embarrassing if you get caught..."
"Yes Yes Yes… "
Ye Yaodong also said: "Since my father said so, I will suffer a little for your sake, just to show my appreciation."
“Okay…” Ye Yaosheng heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly urged Lao Wang’s people to install it.
The Wang family members stiffened their necks and glared at him, "Give it back to us."
Who cares
Ye Yaodong poured all the shells back into the fishing net and then gave them to Ye Yaosheng.
They then took the dustpan and reluctantly returned to the shore to load it.
Who knew that this family still wanted to get rid of him and waited for a while before sending him over.
Before Ye Yaodong could even take it, he saw that the winnowing basket was covered with shells. It was obvious that they had just picked some and gave them to him.
He snorted coldly, "Do you think I'm blind?"
Ye Yaosheng also felt that they were going too far. They had already made concessions and agreed to it, but they were still teasing others.
Ah Zheng rolled up his sleeves with a sense of righteousness and took the dustpan away, "You don't know how to pretend, so I'll do it."
Others also followed them ashore, and the enthusiastic villagers pointed out to them the bags of shells piled on the shore and showed them which part belonged to their Wang family.
Now the people in Lao Wang's family were also anxious, and they hurriedly followed, "Don't mess around, we have several households, they are different, you can't make a mistake."
"We can do it ourselves..."
They don’t care whose property it is, as long as it’s Lao Wang’s.
There were many people there, and they picked up all the meat in the sacks. They just grabbed some at random, but most of the meat was still there. So the Wang family ended up losing more than they gained, and they regretted it so much.
He actually treated me as a fool. If he had just been honest, the matter would have been settled long ago.
No one sympathized with them.
Ye Yaodong carried the winnowing basket they brought back and poured it onto the cart with satisfaction. He then handed the winnowing basket to Ye Yaosheng, and those people ignored him.
"Dongzi, are you planning to set up the net? Don't you plan to leave it there for another day or two?" A Guang asked from the side.
"There are no more scallops on the beach. They have all been taken away by everyone. There is no point in gathering them there. We should just collect them back. Otherwise, if we leave them out for too long, what if they are stolen? Besides, the net is not mine. I can just take it back and return it."
"Yeah, you're quick and got the net out early. Who knows how much you can catch?"
"We'll know once we pull it up and take a look." Xiao Xiao rolled up his sleeves and went into the water, ready to help collect the fish and see how much they could catch. They were also curious.
"Okay, then you help me collect that one, and I'll just be with my dad here."
The villagers gathered on the shore and did not disperse, wanting to see how many scallops they could catch with the two nets laid out here.
Ye Yaodong and Ye's father stood in each direction, untied the ropes tied to the bamboo poles and sticks, then held the corners of the fishing net in their hands and went to untie the next one.
After he had untied everything and held one end of the fishing net in his hand, he walked towards the shore.
The water level was low on Ye's father's side, and the waves were small, so it was easy to untie the rope. He had already untied it before him and brought the rope to shore, waiting for him to come over.
At this time, the villagers on the shore were also discussing, "It was only released not long ago this morning, there shouldn't be much, right?"
"The net is not stretched far, just a few meters, so it shouldn't catch much."
"Yeah, it's only been two or three hours since it was put down, and everyone is still picking up the fish on the shore. They have been divided up..."
"At least there are a handful of them. Didn't we just dump a handful of them into the fishing net? A handful of these shells must weigh more than 20 kilograms, right?"
"It's not in vain that he cast the net. He'll take a look after he pulls them out. At least it saves time. If he can catch as much as he can, he'll let them run back into the sea. I heard that these scallops are difficult to catch..."
…
There is bound to be gossip in places where there are many people. Ye's father listened but did not respond. He just said that you will know when you fish it out.
After Ye Yaodong came ashore, the father and son put in some effort to pull the fishing net up from the sea.
As soon as the fishing net was lifted into the air, the water underneath dripped onto the surface, and the net felt heavy and sank, with the bottom sticking to the shore.
The villagers on the shore were also surprised, "Oh, that's quite a lot."
“And they caught quite a lot?”
"This one with the shell is really heavy, maybe 70 or 80 kilograms? Hey, can it be sold for 20 or 30 yuan? This is just one net, there is another one over there..."
There were also sounds of surprise from the people next to him, and they were also saying that they had gained a lot of information online.
"This net sells for twenty or thirty yuan, so the two nets together must sell for fifty or sixty yuan? My God... That's a lot..."
"Ah! There are quite a lot of scallops that escaped. Could it be that all the living ones have escaped?"
At this time, someone slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, you little one, aren't we digging up shells? The living ones will be washed by the sea water, and those that can run will just run away."
"Not to the extent that..."
"He caught so much with one net..."