Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1220 Catch them all in one fell swoop

This is not a glorious thing.

Given the current level of backwardness, if someone is arrested, the whole village may not hear about it for a month or two.

If the family members don't speak out, no one may know about it for half a year, and at most there will be some rumors.

If he told it out loud, it would be a different story, and Lin Ji Shang would be immediately implicated.

Now we have only caught his cousin, not him, so there is still some time to react.

There had been rumors in the village that he was involved in smuggling, but they had only died down in the past year or two. If the news got out that his cousin was caught at sea, he would have been convicted.

There are so many sailors on the boat. Even if you tell them not to tell anyone when they go back, they will definitely tell their families or wives.

Moreover, he was not a native of their village, so they were specifically told not to tell anyone about it. It always felt weird, as if he was involved and there was something fishy going on, so they didn't want anyone to know. It had nothing to do with him in the first place.

Fortunately, he stopped it temporarily and didn't tell anyone, so there's no need to worry about it leaking out from him.

Although it had nothing to do with him, it was related to Lin Jishang. He felt that as a fellow villager, he had the obligation to help cover it up and not talk nonsense.

Then after reaching the shore, the prophet will inform Lin Ji and ask him to find a way to deal with it.

Anyway, he said that he recognized one of the middle-aged men who was arrested as his cousin, but he didn't know anything about the others, so he let him figure it out for himself.

Even if people knew that he was the one who leaked the information, he could easily say that he informed the villager because he recognized a relative of his. He could not be implicated.

Ye Yaodong held the telescope and continued to observe the situation, ignoring his father's urging in his ear.

"Dongzi, tell me, why are you so secretive and afraid to let anyone know?"

"Who is this person? Why are you keeping it so secret if you know everything?"

"Is he from our place? Or from the surrounding area? I have heard that there are people around us who are also involved in smuggling..."

"Forget it. If you don't want to tell me, I'll go down and find someone else to analyze it."

Ye Yaodong pulled his father and said, "Why are you so curious? I've already told them that they recognized the wrong person, but you still have to go down there to make a presence?"

"Then tell me who it is, and I promise not to tell anyone."

"That middle-aged man is my cousin from Linji. I thought he was familiar when I saw him just now. Uncle Qi hadn't mentioned it, so I didn't remember it. But when he mentioned it just now, I remembered it."

"Ah? Really?" Father Ye was surprised.

"Really? When the three of us were planning to build a house a few years ago, didn't he ask Linji to let us give him the old land there? And then he gave us a small wooden boat as compensation. Have you forgotten?"

"I remember this, but when did you see him? He wasn't here at the time, and he came to Linji and told me about it. You shouldn't have seen him, right? Not to mention you, I haven't seen him in the past few years either."

Father Ye didn't think about it this way, because he thought that Dongzi probably had never met Zhou Yechi.

"I saw it once before in the village late at night. I only took a quick glance at it at that time, so I didn't recognize it at this moment. I just felt that it was somewhat familiar, as if I had seen it before. I thought about it for a long time, and only remembered it after Uncle Qi reminded me."

"No wonder. I said I hadn't seen anything in the past few years. How did you see it? It turns out that the villagers said a few years ago that there were often noises at the dock at night, and it turned out to be true."

"Ah."

"Did they tell you about moving the goods at night?"

"If you know it, then you know it. Why are you asking so many questions? Just know it yourself and don't tell anyone."

"Why? It's none of our business. You kept it under wraps just now, and you didn't say anything when asked. It's none of our business if the boatmen tell others about it, and we can't control other people's mouths."

Ye Yaodong looked at his father and sighed, "Although his cousin is not from the same village as us, if he goes back and says it directly, it will affect a large area of ​​villages around us. There must be people from his village or other nearby villages who follow him..."

"That's even better. If we pass the ball back, some of those who haven't been caught can hide in time."

"We have to say it in private. Once we spread the news, wouldn't all the previous rumors be confirmed? Let's not tell everyone for now. Let's go back and tell the village's Linji, and give them some time to react."

Father Ye looked at him suspiciously, "You have interacted with him a few times, you don't think of him as a friend, do you?"

"No, at most we have a little bit of tacit understanding."

"Then you must stay away from him. His cousin has been arrested, and it seems that he can't escape. It turns out that there is really no smoke without fire."

"I know. We don't usually interact with each other."

"I didn't expect to be caught, and caught red-handed at sea. This is terrible. I don't know how many people in the nearby villages will be implicated."

Seeing that he was holding a telescope, Father Ye hurriedly urged him, "Hurry up and take a look at the other boats. Since one of them is from Zhou Yechi, there may be a small number of boats here from nearby villages. See if you know any of them."

"I'm still looking. Apart from the people from this village, I don't know many from nearby villages."

Actually, I do know some of them. After all, I lived here for most of my previous life and had contacts with several villages, so I can still recognize some people.

But there won't be many. After all, the population is changing rapidly, and those who have a little money have already moved to the city, and he himself is not a celebrity.

In his previous life, he had never heard of anyone being caught in Linji, nor had he heard of anyone in the nearby villages being caught for smuggling.

It’s completely different now, the trajectory is different.

Ye's father, who was standing beside him, also looked into the distance and muttered something.

Anyway, the meaning is that he should never do things that he shouldn't do, never associate with dangerous people, and must behave himself.

During the short time they were talking, three boats stopped side by side on both sides and all came over.

"What's going on, Dongzi?"

"You were close just now, and you were the first to arrive. Can you tell me what's going on now?"

"We just watched and knew that one boat seemed to have sunk. Now that we are closer, we can see that the other two boats have also been seized."

"Dad, what's going on? You guys were just checked, are you okay? Is it okay for us to be so close now?"

Ye's father explained the situation to them, only briefly mentioning that among those arrested there were people from their nearby village.

"They are driving the people onto the law enforcement ship. I guess they will chase the other two ships as well." Ye Yaodong said while watching through the telescope?

Now they were all handcuffed with silver handcuffs and driven onto the law enforcement boat. He recognized two of them, but most of them had their heads down and could not be seen clearly.

Just as they were watching carefully, they did not expect that the law enforcement ship did not immediately chase the two fleeing fishing boats, but issued a warning to them, and then the three boats surrounded them first.

Everyone was a little surprised, "Why are they coming towards us..."

"Are we getting too close?"

Ye Yaodong comforted him, "It's okay, we are just watching the fun, we are not in the same group, it's okay, we are not afraid of being searched on board."

"Then wait for them to come."

When they were getting closer, Ye Yaodong went down to the deck first.

The three law enforcement ships looked at the four boats lined up side by side with vigilance. Although they looked honest and had not moved in the front, they were just gathered together now and did not run away out of guilt, but they had to get closer to check first.

Now any fishing boat that appears in the nearby sea is a suspect, not to mention that they are so close to each other. These boats look big and look similar, which makes it hard not to be suspicious.

Ye Yaodong is now the spokesperson for the four ships, and everyone obviously follows his lead.

Of course, when the law enforcement team came over to question them, the job of answering naturally fell on him. The others couldn't speak Mandarin fluently and what they said was incomprehensible.

Ye Yaodong repeated what he had said to the previous boat, and also said that the previous fishing boat that came to support had already checked on his fishing boat, and also focused on how he would cooperate.

"Sir, what are these people doing? Why were they caught?"

"Their boating on the sea was suspicious. We notified them to stop the boat for inspection, but they refused to cooperate and accelerated to get away. They even rammed and attacked the police from behind. Their behavior was extremely bad and they must be detained at all costs."

"Since you are ordinary fishermen, you should leave here immediately and find another fishing spot. There are still two fishing boats chasing us. You must not get close to them. It will affect our work. Leave immediately."

The others nodded in agreement.

Ye Yaodong also agreed, "Okay, let's move to the side, but we have been fishing in this area for a long time, so we are familiar with this area. We are not sure if we move to another place. Can we stay nearby? We must not interfere with official business and will definitely not get so close."

Seeing that they were frowning and disagreeing, he quickly said, "If anything happens, it will be convenient for you to cooperate with us. Those boats look so big, and you can tell at a glance that it is not easy to force them to stop."

"I just saw a ship sink. What a pity! How much loss is that? How much is the ship worth?"

"If the two boats behind had come faster, they might not have sunk. Or if you had called us for help, we could have gone up and surrounded them, and they might not have sunk."

The two leaders whispered to each other and nodded.

"Okay, then you guys just fish nearby. If we need any help, we'll let you know. Don't get close unless necessary."

"Those two ships that came to support us seem to be bigger. They are a little different from your ship, right?"

"We requested support from the province and they were temporarily dispatched here. They happened to be patrolling the sea."

"Then you should hurry up and chase those two ships. Do you want us to help you keep an eye on the two ships you just seized?"

"No need, we will stay on the ship to watch, you guys hurry away."

"Ok."

Only Ye Yaodong was talking nonsense to them. When the Coast Guard told them to leave, the other three boats quickly cooperated by raising the anchors and starting the fishing boats.

After he finished speaking, Ye's father ordered the anchor to be lowered.

There were more than 20 people squatting on the law enforcement ship at this time, and there were navy officers pointing guns at them to prevent them from taking any rash actions.

While talking to them, some people curiously raised their heads and looked at their boats. Some of them probably recognized Ye Yaodong and looked a little excited. Then, they were pointed at with guns and forced to retreat and squat obediently.

Ye Yaodong also looked at those squatting people curiously. Since Lin Ji was not there, it seemed that he was only responsible for receiving the goods on the shore.

His cousin Zhou Yechi is in charge of the work at sea. After all, he is also a fisherman and is familiar with the sea.

Those people were forced to shrink back, but some of them would still secretly look at him with tears and pleading in their eyes.

He could only throw up his hands in his heart.

We still can't rely on luck and take unpredictable actions.

Not all smuggling gangs have protection.

Just like in Journey to the West, all the monsters with backgrounds were taken away, and the monsters without backgrounds could only be beaten to death by monkeys.

"Come on, Dad, let's just trawle the net nearby and see if they can stop the other two boats at the same time."

"They should all have been arrested. So many people have been arrested."

I will post one more before 9pm tomorrow night, and another one tomorrow night. I will go home tomorrow, so I will post the update later.