Chapter 239 Fighting in the Arena
Chapter 239 Fighting in the Arena
"Yes, nearly a thousand pounds, all on the boat. Come on, I'll take you to the boat to have a look!"
Chief Chen warmly invited Jiang Lili and other villagers to come and have a look: "We caught a lot of species this time, including two small sharks and two sea turtles, one big and one small!"
"Fellow villagers who are interested can go and have a look. Miss Jiang will buy them all later, so you won't have a chance to see them!"
He looked back at his fishing boat and said excitedly, "This turtle shell can be made into hawksbill turtle shell, which is very valuable and is known as the gold of the sea."
Jiang Lili had heard of this. In modern times, a hawksbill turtle shell the size of a fingernail could be sold for more than 10,000 yuan.
The hawksbill turtle is a hawksbill sea turtle that symbolizes warding off evil and disasters, as well as good luck and longevity. It is usually regarded as a symbol of the mythical beast Xuanwu.
Captain Chen shouted so enthusiastically. If it were the villagers of Yeli Village, they might be curious about what he said, but now most of the people setting up stalls are from the Xin family army, and they are very vigilant.
The cook closest to him just smiled and asked, "It's less than ten days until New Year's Eve, and you still have to go out to sea? It's really tiring!"
"Is it too late to go out to sea and sell the fish back now?"
Facing the cook's question, Chef Chen answered fluently: "We can still make it in time. We can rest for two or three days on the South Bank and then we will go back to the North Bank."
"Fishermen like us who do offshore fishing have familiar fish shops. You know the He family, right? We are very familiar with Zhufeng Fish Shop, owned by He Xiuzhu on the north bank. We have been partners for many years."
Jiang Lili curved her lips. What a coincidence?
The owner of the fish shop told her a few days ago that he would not accept goods from individual investors in the near future and had already started inventory and liquidation.
The cooperating fishing fleet has also stopped fishing at sea in the past few days and has returned home one after another.
Before Jiang Lili left, she specifically asked about the names of several captains of the fishing fleet and the size of their ships, saying that if any accidents occurred at sea, they could come to the south coast of Haizhou Island for help.
The names of Captain Chen’s three ships were not on the list of the cooperating fishing fleet.
After a while, Master Liao came with the pirate Wen Xu.
Wen Xu is one of the "poison masters" in the pirate group. He studied medicine in the wrong way and is good at making some cheap drugs and poisons. He can only poison but not treat illnesses.
While Xin Jiajun opened coconuts, he wiped off the coconut crumbs and inserted straws into them.
Master Liao handed a cup of coconut juice from a bamboo tube to Chief Chen with an innocent smile, "Uncle Chief, you must have been tired from fishing out at sea! I really admire you heroes who can conquer the ocean!"
"Hahaha, this young man is exaggerating!"
When Captain Chen heard what Master Liao said, he laughed so hard that he couldn't stop. He took the bamboo tube and started drinking.
He didn’t know whether it was the coconut water that was sweet or the two-year-old baby’s sweet words, and he drank up the coconut juice in the bamboo tube with a “ton ton ton”.
When Jiang Lili was delivering coconuts to the group of fishermen, she took photos of the unfamiliar fishermen and then sent the photos to Wen Qiao.
She asked Wen Qiao to distribute the portraits of these fishermen to various tribes and ask the tribal people whether there were any relatives or familiar people among these fishermen.
She also took photos of the fishermen that Captain Chen brought last time, so this time she could tell which ones were new faces by comparing them.
To prevent any trouble from happening, Jiang Lili sent a message to Guan Yue.
[@江麗麗: The captain of the fishing boat invited us villagers to go on board and take a look, but I don’t know whether they are carrying fish or something else. I suspect there are still people on board. ]
【@Guan Yue: OK, I will lead my men down the mountain right away. Some of them will hide at the foot of the mountain, and some of them will hide in the government office of the county magistrate you mentioned.】
While the villagers of Yeli Village were preparing food, many people from the fishing village east of Dacangsha Wharf came one after another.
They were also pushing five or six carts covered with tarpaulins, which seemed to be filled with cooking utensils such as pots, pans, and bowls.
It seems like he's going to compete with Jiang Lili and the others for business.
When Chen saw the people near the fishing village, he said unhappily, "Are you guys planning to sell us leftovers at exorbitant prices again?"
The head of the nearby fishing village smiled and said in a flattering manner, "No, it was all a misunderstanding last time. We were worried that you were hungry, so we gave you our food in a hurry. We thought you wouldn't mind. After all, it's just to fill your stomach, not to interfere."
Chief Chen and several fishermen who had been threatened by villagers from nearby fishing villages snorted coldly and ignored them: "Miss Jiang, we have chosen your shelter."
The people from the nearby fishing village were still trying to persuade them, "We are well prepared this time. Their tents are not big enough for the seventy or so of you. Our houses in the nearby fishing village are very spacious!"
Jiang Lili noticed that a large group of people had come to the fishing village, almost the entire village.
So many people want to make money from these 70 fishermen?
There are more stall owners than customers.
Jiang Lili and Xin's army both noticed something was wrong.
Jiang Lili sent a message to Master Liao: [Master, how many people are there in our village?]
[@Master Liao: Stay calm. The twenty people setting up stalls are all from the Xin family. My mother is equipped with the latest gunpowder pellets developed by Xincheng, which are equivalent to small grenades. There are also two hundred elite soldiers hidden in our village, each with a fire pole, and sufficient ammunition.]
Jiang Lili suddenly felt at ease.
All fear stems from lack of firepower.
The fishing village nearby has already started setting up their old-fashioned tents on the pier. "As long as you buy food and eat here, staying in our tents used to cost 100 wen a night, but now it only costs 50, half price!"
Two women from the nearby fishing village set up another stall, selling vegetable and dried fish porridge, but this time it looked fresh and hot, and it smelled nice, but still not as good as the coconut chicken hotpot.
"No, Miss Jiang, this one tastes better."
The fishermen who came here last time all shook their heads. What could be better than a pot of coconut chicken?
The head of the nearby fishing village sighed, waved his hand resignedly, and told the villagers: "Forget it, forget it, don't set up so many stalls, take out the tarpaulin tents at home and set them up. I don't believe that they can have so many tents in Yeli Village!"
So the villagers from the nearby fishing village all took action, set up tents, and left a woman to sell vegetable and dried fish porridge.
Some of the unfamiliar fishermen discussed, "The hot pot is not ready yet, why don't we go try the vegetable and dried fish porridge first to fill our stomachs."
People came one after another to buy the vegetable and dried fish porridge, 20 cents a bowl.
“The taste is just okay, but coconut chicken is better!”
Finally, as everyone expected, ten pots of coconut chicken were cooked.
Jiang Lili invited everyone to eat hotpot, and Captain Chen asked her to go to the boat to inspect the goods first.
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