sbdcsierra Chapter 1887 Accident
Chapter 1887 Accident
Chapter 1887 Accident
The three of them spent only one day picking up the car and measuring the land.
Ye Chenghai also borrowed Ye Yaodong's cell phone to make a call and have someone come over to clear away the weeds on the land they had measured.
He has wasted a lot of time since the beginning of the year, and he needs to hurry up and deal with it now.
Not all areas offer roaming, but the provincial capital is the only place in the entire province, besides those with the Fujian province code (闽D), where roaming is available…
It was opened after the Fujian D line, so the provincial capital's prestige is a bit lacking, but it's still the provincial capital, so it was still included in the list.
Hehe...better than Fujian BCEFGHJF and others...
After Ye Chenghai called someone to take over, the three of them could still take Ye's father to get a haircut before sunset.
Ye's father gripped the steering wheel and said happily, "It's so convenient to have a car. It's easy to go anywhere, and things can be done in a day. Otherwise, I don't know how long it would take to get things done on foot."
"Am I that stupid? I'll take a taxi even if I don't have a car. Who the hell relies on two legs?"
"That's true. Things are different now than before. There are cars everywhere on the streets. Before, we had to walk everywhere. Bicycles were a luxury, and we couldn't afford them."
"Times have changed. In a few more years, after 2000, things will be even more different."
Ye's father looked at Ah Hai and said, "If you earn more money, you can buy a car. It will be much more convenient to go out that way."
“I don’t have any extra money to buy a car right now. All the extra money I have is invested in production. Now I need to build a factory, and I have to take out a loan from the bank.”
"Take it slow, earn it slowly. It was so much better a few years ago. Dongzi got loans from banks without paying interest. The banks were giving him money for free. Now, loan interest rates are higher than deposit interest rates."
"It must be higher than deposit interest rates, otherwise people would just deposit the loaned money back into the bank to earn interest, wouldn't that be like getting something for nothing and making a profit without any investment?"
"It was better before, when there were still loopholes to exploit."
Ye Yaodong said, "That's because the system wasn't perfect before; it's gone now."
"You've made a profit."
"It only took two years. In the third year, I needed to make a large deposit, so I just paid it off. I only got a small advantage, unlike others who took out loans and didn't pay them back."
Mr. Ye looked on in astonishment, "You can take out a loan and not pay it back?"
Ye Chenghai also said, "I think I've heard that some people have taken out loans and haven't paid them back, so there's nothing that can be done but treat them as bad debts."
"Yes, treat it as a bad debt and turn the page. I'm a law-abiding citizen, so I'll just pay it back."
It's not a big deal!
Father Ye agreed, saying, "Then it has to be paid back. It can't be left unpaid. How can it not be paid back? Paying back debts is a matter of course. If you don't pay back your money, you'll become a deadbeat."
Ye Chenghai chimed in, "Others don't think that way. Of course they'll take advantage if they can, and if they can avoid paying it back, that's the best course of action. What they've gained is theirs."
Ye Yaodong: "As the saying goes, those who don't care about their conscience earn more money."
"You can't be a heartless person. Just earn what you should earn. Dongzi isn't short of money. He'll feel uneasy if he does bad things."
Ye Yaodong smiled. Some people don't care about their conscience as long as it benefits them.
If everyone had a conscience, there wouldn't be thieves and robbers in this world.
They took Ye's father to get a haircut, and Ye Yaodong also shaved his own head. His hair was growing too fast, and since the weather wasn't warm yet, it wasn't suitable to shave his head completely, as his head couldn't get cold.
I'll shave my head now, and when I go back to sea, it'll be just right.
The sun was about to set, so they just strolled around the nearest bustling area, bought a couple of clothes, and went back with Ah Hai.
"Dongzi, shall we go home first thing tomorrow morning?"
"Yes, I'll go home once I've finished my business."
"Do we have to rush? It's a rare opportunity for you to come all this way, stay a few more days. I'll show you around. You haven't had a proper chance to explore yet, you just arrived yesterday. What's the rush? Stay a couple more days." Ye Chenghai reluctantly tried to persuade them to stay.
"I'm not going shopping anymore, I don't have time, I have a ton of chores to do at home."
Mr. Ye quickly refused, saying that time is money and if he stayed a few more days, he would lose several tens of yuan that he hadn't earned.
Besides, the provincial capital can't compare to the bustling metropolis of Shanghai. He's been to Shanghai countless times and seen all its dazzling sights. What's so new about the provincial capital? The places are pretty much the same everywhere.
I drove across a large part of the city today; it's good to have seen it all.
After they go back, Dongzi will also have to leave. Then there will be no one to take care of the old couple. They can take advantage of the seaweed harvest season to work a few more days.
If he works a full day, he can earn even more. At this point, he can't stay in the provincial capital. He can't even stay there. He was already surprised that he solved the problem in one day.
Ye Chenghai raised an eyebrow and retorted, "You're all retired in your hometown, what work could you possibly have left? Stop collecting seaweed. When we go back for the New Year, everyone will give you a red envelope. You won't be able to spend it all in a year. I bet you'll never run out of money in your lifetime."
"It would be best if you couldn't spend it all. After we two old folks pass away, we'll give you some money."
Ye Chenghai scoffed, "Who among us needs your meager savings for your funeral? Even a tiny bit of it between our fingers is more than your retirement money. You should keep it for yourself."
"I can't take all the money with me to my grave, can I? I'll share it with you all then."
Ye Yaodong: "Then you should work less now and earn less, and you'll spend it all later."
"Then we still have to do it."
The two were speechless for a moment, unable to communicate or understand each other; there was a generation gap.
"After Uncle goes back, will he return to Zhou City and then go out to sea?"
"Almost. After we get back to Zhoushan, we'll see how things are at the Canton Fair. They've already set off for Guangdong Province in the last couple of days."
He was reassured, but he still needed to check on the preparations.
"That's a pretty tight schedule."
"I'm busy. I've been home for over a week now. I was thinking of taking care of picking up the car at the same time, so I'm waiting for a call at home instead of coming over immediately. I'm also taking this opportunity to stay home for a few days and keep my parents company."
"Since you're so busy, I won't keep you any longer. Let's have dinner together tonight, and you can leave tomorrow, right?"
"Okay, even if it's urgent, we can't leave tonight. Let's at least have dinner and leave tomorrow."
The provincial capital isn't too far from their home. Once the highway opens in a couple of years, it will be much easier to go home, unlike now when the mountain roads are winding and it's not easy to get home.
If I want to go back then, I can just step on the gas and be home in a few hours.
Ye Yaodong stayed another night, and the next day, he and his father got up quietly at the crack of dawn. Ye's sister-in-law also got up before dawn to cook breakfast for them, and they ate before leaving.
Calculating the travel time, they were away from home for three days on their trip to the provincial capital, spending most of their time on the road. It didn't take them long to actually resolve the matter.
Ye Chenghai escorted them all the way to the dock. Just as they were standing on the shore watching the car being hoisted onto the ship, a commotion suddenly broke out in the distance, and everyone looked over with curiosity.
"What happened?"
"Why are there so many people gathered over there all of a sudden? Everyone's crowding in that direction."
"That looks like a yacht docking point?" Ah Hai craned his neck and asked uncertainly.
"The yacht had an accident?"
Mr. Ye had already started walking forward. "I'll go take a look. There must be something going on with so many people gathered around. I have to go check it out."
"Go and take a look; there are people watching over the boat."
The three of them started walking forward. There was a bend in the road, and they had to walk about two or three hundred meters. The dockworkers who were originally just loading and unloading cargo also started to go over there to watch the excitement.
The closer they got, the more noise they heard. They couldn't understand the local dialect or the broken Mandarin mixed with local dialect, mainly because the noise was too loud.
As you get closer to the dock, the more people crowd around, the less you can see; all you can see are people packed together, layer upon layer.
Ye Yaodong patted the short man in front of him, who was dressed in coarse linen clothes. The man looked impatient and was about to swear, but when he saw the two cigarettes offered to him, his expression immediately changed and he smiled.
"Oh, it's Zhonghua cigarettes! Thanks, boss."
The other person took the cigarette, sniffed it under their nose with a look of rapture, and then tucked it behind their ear.
"Hey buddy, what's going on? There are so many people here, it's impossible to squeeze in."
"I heard from everyone that several law enforcement boats caught two smuggling and drug trafficking boats, and more than a dozen smugglers. The area was surrounded early in the morning, and the police were dispatched wave after wave."
Ye Yaodong and the other two were utterly shocked.
"Oh! Is that so? There weren't this many people gathered up ahead..."
"We only saw the police being mobilized, but we didn't see the boat or the smugglers. They just towed the boat back, that's why everyone rushed over."
The crowd suddenly became even more agitated; those in front stood on tiptoe, jostling, commotion, and commotion erupted...
"...Ah, here it comes..."
"The person has been brought in..."
"They're all handcuffed, and they've been brought in..."
Ye Yaodong couldn't see anything even when he stood on tiptoe, while Ye Chenghai was already bouncing around watching.
Mr. Ye's neck was stretched so far it was almost as long as a giraffe's; if he weren't so old, he probably would have jumped up like a young person to watch.
The man who had just been asking around didn't have time to pay attention to them anymore and was squeezing his way inside.
Ye Yaodong tugged at his clothes again, and just as the other man was about to start cursing, Ye handed him a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes, saying, "Help us squeeze in."
"No problem."
The other person happily stuffed the Zhonghua cigarette into their pocket and then shouted, "Who dropped a 100-yuan note on the ground? Whose 100-yuan note is it?"
The people next to him quickly lowered their heads as he charged around twice.
Ye Yaodong grabbed Ye Chenghai with one hand and Ye's father with the other, pulling them straight in until they reached the police cordon, where the officers were holding hands and surrounding the area.
The person was being yelled at by the people next to him; I don't know what happened, I didn't see it anyway.
Ye's father, being small and dizzy from being jostled around, didn't even know how he ended up in the front row. He opened his eyes wide and watched as criminals, heads bowed and wearing silver handcuffs, were escorted off the ship and into the vans in front.
Several vans were parked in a row, indicating a major case. Ye Yaodong stroked his chin as he watched people being escorted into the vans one by one.
Mr. Ye was terrified at the sight of these peaked caps, let alone seeing them being escorted onto the vehicle with silver handcuffs on their backs.
He felt a chill run down his spine and asked in a low voice, "Are all these people involved in drug trafficking?"
Ye Yaodong: "Shh, it must be true, otherwise why would they make such a big fuss about arresting someone?"
Ye's father: "Why did you have to do something illegal..."
Ye Yaodong: "It's a quick way to make money, otherwise why would they say that all the ways to make big money are written in the criminal law?"
Father Ye grabbed one of them with each hand, saying, "You two better behave yourselves. We're all honest and law-abiding people..."
"Don't worry, we're doing legitimate business..."
Just as they were whispering among themselves, two people being escorted over made their eyes widen in surprise.
Ye's father gripped Ye Yaodong's hand tightly, "thump thump thump..."
"Stop slamming, I saw it."
Ye Chenghai also felt that the two people who had just been taken away looked somewhat familiar. "Third Uncle, were those two from our village? They look a bit familiar."
"It's from our village, Chen Weihaozi has been caught."
Mr. Ye was both excited and trembling. "So they really did commit illegal and criminal acts, they were involved in drug trafficking? Holy crap."
Ye Yaodong looked at the car with a complicated expression: "A country has its laws, and a family has its rules."
"This...this guy got caught on the spot, will he be executed? Sigh, if word gets back to the village, his reputation will be ruined, how will his family ever hold their heads up again? This good guy, how did he go down the wrong path step by step? This is it, will he be executed, Dongzi?"
"I doubt it. These days, unless someone is extremely vicious and has murdered someone, they're rarely executed. But it depends on the severity of the case. I don't know. Someone caught red-handed like this would probably spend the rest of their life in jail."
Ye's father looked on with a sigh, "They're all so young, yet they'll spend the rest of their lives in jail. There are so many good things young people could do."
"Food and lodging are provided, and there's also medical care. Don't think of prison as so bad; at most, you won't have freedom."
"You're making it sound like you're going to a retirement home, with all the medical care included? So comprehensive?"
"Look, look, what are these boxes of confiscated goods?" Ye Chenghai watched as the people were taken into custody and the goods began to be unloaded.
"I don't know I can't see..."
"They were wrapped up tightly, so no one could see anything."
"No need to guess, it's definitely contraband..."
People around them were pointing and commenting on the unloaded items, but they couldn't understand what others were saying, and the others couldn't understand what they were saying either.
The two police officers in front, who were holding hands and standing around the cordon, didn't even glance at them and ignored them.
Mr. Ye: "How much stuff will they have to confiscate..."
Ye Yaodong: "It has nothing to do with us. We'll leave after we finish watching."
"When you get back, tell your mother that our village has produced such a person, and we mustn't let it damage our reputation."
"You're one of the people who got firsthand information."
"Their family probably doesn't know yet, I need to go back and let them know. Oh wait, you can call them right now with your cell phone..."
"What's the rush? Let's talk about it when we get back. It's not like it's anything good. You can't wait to call back and tell us now."
"That's true, it's not a good thing either. Let's talk about it when we get back."
They stood there watching for a while, until several vans drove away, before they finally withdrew from the crowd.
The crowd was still packed there, wanting to keep watching.
(End of this chapter)