sbdcsierra Chapter 1674 What a coincidence
Chapter 1674 What a coincidence
Chapter 1674 What a coincidence
Another successful trip.
Another 40-meter cargo ship had already returned after collecting the cargo from the Dongyu, but his ship didn't lag behind for long, only falling behind by more than half a day's journey.
They accelerated and encountered each other in the near sea, entering the port one after the other. His boat entered the port first, while the 40-meter boat lagged behind.
Looking at the cargo ship, everyone couldn't help but feel envious. Big ships are great, so efficient!
Ye Yaodong finally breathed a sigh of relief after completing this trip.
When he returned to the factory after unloading the goods, he saw his father sitting in his office with his legs propped up on the table, his face covered with a newspaper, sleeping with his eyes closed while sunbathing. He was jealous.
The old man is so comfortable.
"Time to get in the car!"
Mr. Ye jolted awake, the newspaper slipping off his face, his eyes still blurry.
"What do you mean, 'drive'?"
What did you say about driving?
"Dongzi? You're back? You've finished unloading the goods?"
"if not?"
"Then hurry up and go take a shower, eat, and rest. Did both trips go smoothly?" Mr. Ye stood up and said as he straightened the newspaper and put it back on the table.
"Hmm, everything went smoothly. Any news? Sleeping under a newspaper means all the knowledge will be absorbed into your brain."
"What?"
"Because it's close to the brain, it's not as close to the eyes as it is to your head."
Ye's father knew immediately that he was talking nonsense again.
"There really is big news. Today's headline says that the Soviet Union may no longer exist, that it has disintegrated, and that Russia has taken its place."
"Ah! It's disintegrated?" Ye Yaodong picked up the newspaper he had just put away and spread it out to take a look.
"How could such a good country just fall apart?" Ye's father lamented. "Now that the country has disintegrated, the people don't know what to do."
The newspaper headline prominently displayed large black text: Is the Soviet Union on the verge of collapse? Various countries sign an agreement!
"There have been news reports about this all year. A few months ago I heard that some countries were starting to gain independence, but I never expected that they would disintegrate now."
"Not yet. The title is misleading; it only says that it is about to disintegrate, but it doesn't say that it has already disintegrated."
"These past few months have seen the independence of several countries, and it should be pretty much over by now, just one last breath away. If it disintegrates, it could bring us some industrial technology."
"Why? Are we going to poach people?"
"Probably, but I don't know either. If you ask me, who should I ask?"
"Judging from the way you're talking, I thought you knew it."
"If I knew better, I wouldn't be struggling to make a living as a fisherman. I would have already made it big in the business and political worlds, with assets exceeding 100 million and a successful official career."
"In your dreams."
After complaining, Mr. Ye went to sit on the bench by the door and bask in the sun. It was a warm morning, and the sun felt wonderful.
"We just finished unloading the cargo, and everyone's just back. Take a rest, and you'll come out to sea with us tonight."
"Are we going tonight?"
"Well, we'll be using two boats, one big and one small, to collect the cargo, so we need to be on a tight schedule. You won't need to do anything on the boats; just assess the situation and make a decision if anything comes up. Whether you want to learn how to sail is up to you."
"Okay, got it."
"I'm going to take a shower and go to bed."
"Hey, wait a minute, I remember when I just fell asleep, you said 'drive,' what kind of car?"
Ye Yaodong took two steps, then turned back and asked, "Did Ajiang and Chenghe call to say when the truck is leaving?"
"No, those two rascals have been gone for five or six days. They haven't said when they'll be back, and they haven't called."
"I'll go to Shanghai tomorrow and see if I can get a car. If so, I'll have someone drive it back."
I'll also take a look at his eldest son; I can't just leave him there unattended. I'll go check on him and ask when winter break starts.
After taking a shower, he relaxed and lay back in bed. His own doghouse was still the most comfortable place.
When he woke up, his father had already taken care of everything that needed to be done, and there was nothing he needed to do.
Coincidentally, he received a call from the car dealership informing him that the car was already available.
At night, Ye's father took a few of his clothes and got on the bus with everyone. Everyone teased him, saying that he didn't know how to enjoy life and was suffering at sea instead.
Mr. Ye could only smile and say, "Dongzi still can't do without me. Wherever he needs me, I have to go and watch over things. If he wants me to stay at the factory, I sit there. If he wants me to go to sea, I go and watch things. Isn't that what it means to be a father?"
"Besides, last time you exposed the Japanese's trick of secretly building a lighthouse, I haven't even gone out to sea to see which reef it was. I have to go and take a look. Even if I don't have the chance to participate, it's good to see it."
He convinced himself.
It always feels better to hear words spoken by yourself than by someone else.
If I don't tell them now, they'll regret it later, saying he didn't participate in capturing the Japanese.
Hearing that from someone else's mouth is unpleasant.
Now that he's said it, all that's left for everyone is to offer comfort.
“Those Japanese devils are disgusting, full of schemes and tricks. We saw through them this time, but they might not let it go. If we see them again, it will be another opportunity to earn merit and be commended.”
"Yes, although we don't want to see them in our waters again, they're definitely still up to no good."
"Next time we encounter them, we'll kill them. Not just the Japanese, but all foreign fishing boats will be driven out. We won't allow them to steal our fish."
"They stole it. Our fish are getting fewer. We can't let them poach our fish."
Mr. Ye nodded repeatedly, "That's right, we won't allow any fishing boats that aren't from our own country to fish."
Joining everyone in their shared hatred of the enemy, Ye's father happily rode in his car to the dock.
Once he got on the big ship, he was filled with pride! He stood up even straighter!
This huge ship belongs to his third son!
If he doesn't go to sea, who will?
Ye Yaodong also went straight to Shanghai early in the morning to take care of things outside before he could return and collect the debts with peace of mind.
Knowing he was going to drive to pay the final installment and worried about safety on the way back, he brought a few more people with him.
When he arrived in Shanghai, it was almost noon. Since he was in Pudong, he thought he might as well pick up his son and then have lunch.
Ye Chenghu was brought here by him, so he knew which way the school gate faced and went to wait for him near the school gate in advance.
The group of 10 people standing at the school gate put a lot of pressure on the security guards and the surrounding small shops.
Ye Yaodong noticed that everyone was glancing at him, and the gatekeeper was watching them warily, even holding a stick in his hand.
"Who are you? This is a school..."
Ye Yaodong looked around and realized that it didn't look good for him and his group to be at the school gate. There were also four or five blond-haired guys squatting in a corner smoking not far away, watching them.
He waved to everyone, "Go wait a little further away on the side road, get out of class should be over soon."
"Good boss."
"What's there to be afraid of? We're perfectly respectable people, while those guys over there with their yellowish hair don't look respectable at all."
"Those aren't proper."
Jingle bell~
The school bell rang, and the quiet school instantly erupted into noise as students came out one after another with their schoolbags on their backs.
The employees he was with craned their necks, even more eager than him, wanting to get to the door.
Ye Yaodong stopped him, saying, "He's riding a bicycle, he can't go that fast. He needs to go to the parking shed to ride. He doesn't need to go forward, he can just wait where he is."
Everyone waited patiently for a while before seeing bicycles emerge in droves.
Even with their necks craned, they couldn't see Ye Chenghu.
Just as they were getting impatient, and there weren't many students riding bicycles left, they decided to go up to the gate to take a look.
Ye Chenghu pushed his bicycle and walked with a few boys. A basketball net was hanging on the handlebars of his bicycle. His face was flushed and he was all smiles.
"Out."
"Damn it, why doesn't this brat know what he's doing, coming out so late?"
Just as they were about to step forward, a group of blond-haired men who had been squatting in the corner smoking rushed over, shoved them, and stole their bicycles.
Ye Chenghu and his companions were furious and quickly ran after them.
"Damn it, my car..."
Ye Yaodong frowned. Before he could even speak, several veterans had already blocked the road and stopped the group of blond-haired men.
The group of blond-haired men, some speaking the local dialect and others speaking Mandarin, were swearing and cursing.
"Fuck you, get out of here..."
"If you don't get out of here, you'll regret it..."
The veterans didn't say anything, they just grabbed them and got them off the bus, cursing them under their breath.
They all looked like young people around fifteen or sixteen years old.
Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up when he saw the group of people blocking the road. "Dad..."
"Holy crap, it's my dad and the others..."
"Haha, my dad's here..."
He was overjoyed and ran over quickly, "Dad, what brings you here?"
"I came here to run some business. It's lunchtime, and the office I'm dealing with isn't open yet, so I thought I'd take you out for lunch first and improve your meal."
"Great, Dad! You've come at just the right time! These bastards stole our bicycles! If you hadn't come, our bicycles would have been stolen."
Four boys were gathered around Ye Chenghu, all looking at Ye Yaodong with curiosity.
He excitedly introduced him to everyone in Mandarin, saying, "This is my dad. He came here specifically to take care of some business, so he came to pick me up for dinner."
"Dad, we just finished playing basketball, so we were a little slow to come out."
Ye Yaodong nodded to his classmate, "Please claim your own bicycles."
"Thank you uncle!"
"Boss, what should we do with these kids?"
“Search them to see if they have any weapons, then send them to the police station. Stealing five bicycles would get them locked up for a few days and their parents would be called in. If this happened 10 years ago, during the crackdown, they would have been executed.”
Several fifteen- or sixteen-year-old youths shuddered at the mention of execution and immediately became obedient.
Ultimately, they're all naive and ignorant kids who have no money and whose parents are too busy to supervise them, probably unaware of what they're up to.
If they aren't properly educated, they could easily go astray and ruin their lives.
After a quick search, Ye Yaodong was shocked to find that some of them were actually carrying knives and clubs.
He thought they might be carrying sticks, but he didn't expect them to also have knives.
The boy who had the knife found was terrified, stammering, "I...I didn't hurt anyone, I just carried it with me, it was only a threat..."
Judging from their accent, they're from out of town.
"Boss, these guys all look like repeat offenders. If this were seven or eight years ago, they would all have been shot."
"Even if they aren't executed, they'll all rot in jail."
"A young man who doesn't go to school and instead comes to the school gate to rob people, do his parents know?"
Ye Yaodong said to Ye Chenghu and the others, "Are there any teachers left at the school? Is there any dean of students? Go and call them, tell the teachers or principal to strengthen security at the gate. This guy is obviously a repeat offender; this is definitely not his first time."
"We'll go right away."
"Acheng, take Ye Chenghu's bicycle to the nearest police station and ask the police to come and take him away."
"Ok."