Chapter 1030 No, the crazy person is Ji Liancun!
On April 4, Dongfuyu 4 went out to sea.
There are three reasons why people are in such a hurry to go out to sea on this day that people are very taboo about.
First, the real owner of the ship, Ji Liancun, had no money.
Last year, when the reform and opening-up policy was introduced, bricklayer Ji Liancun saw a newspaper promoting the household contract responsibility system in Xiaogang Village and wanted to do something big himself. So he joined forces with several familiar fellow villagers to form the Dongshan County Liancun Engineering Team, which specialized in taking on construction work near towns.
It can be said that he really seized the opportunity. Firstly, the engineering team in the entire county was originally a blue ocean field. When he came in, he directly filled this gap and did a pretty good business. Later, many state-owned units, factories, and even township governments came to him for building houses.
As time went by, Ji Liancun's business grew bigger and bigger.
As a result, the engineering team gradually expanded and later took on the work of expanding the Pengxu Wharf.
However, when it came time to settle the project payment, the Port Authority was unable to come up with the money, so they discussed with Ji Liancun and asked them to talk to the Shipping Authority to transfer the Dongfu Fishing Boat that had been mortgaged to them and then mortgage it to them.
This is a triangular debt.
Ji Liancun originally disagreed, but what he had to do was that some time before the New Year, many units had not received their project payments, and he was anxious. He thought that having a ship was better than having nothing, so he gladly accepted it.
Then, he found his classmate Wang Huaijun, who was in charge of operating a collective ship under the Shipping Bureau, and asked him to be the captain so that they could make big money together.
Wang Huaijun thought about it and realized that a large ship like the Dongfu Yu was one of the top five ships in the entire Dongshan Port. He was delighted and agreed. He resigned from the Shipping Bureau and followed Ji Liancun to work.
So the repair work on the Dongfu Fishing Boat began.
Unexpectedly, the boat was so big that it took until the end of March to complete the repairs.
Ji Liancun had the pressure of loan repayments and could not sit still for a moment. He hurried to go out to sea and said that he had to go with the boat to catch as many fish as possible.
This leads to the second reason, which also exacerbates Ji Liancun's debt pressure.
Originally, all the fishing boats in Dongshan Port used the sea fishing mode to catch fish, and the only ones that actually used large nets were two large ships of 350 tons or more.
Because Ji Liancun was anxious, he borrowed money from the bank to install two large fishing nets on the boat and built two trawl devices.
This led to Ji Liancun, due to personal pressure, asking Wang Huaijun to hurry up and prepare to go to sea, and naturally he would not be bothered about whether it was Qingming Festival or not.
third.
Under pressure to go out to sea immediately, Wang Huaijun asked someone to find his childhood friend Shi Sanzi, hoping that he could help form a team that could go out to sea to fish as soon as possible.
It’s not that Wang Huaijun himself has no one, but that he is within the system. The people he knows who can drive a boat and do ship work are basically from the Shipping Bureau and related state-owned units. They don’t have the pressure of life, so naturally they won’t quit their iron rice bowl easily.
So he only managed to gather seven or eight people after dragging them here and there. Ji Liancun was in a hurry, so this time he had to leave the rest of the task of finding people to Shi Sanzi.
The third reason was that Shi Sanzi was also anxious to go out to sea immediately.
At first, Wang Huaijun thought that Shi Sanzi was sympathetic to them and was quite happy.
So Dong Fuyu set sail on April 4th, heading towards the coast with 4 people on board.
Ji Liancun is a bricklayer who has lived on land all his life. He has never gone fishing, let alone stayed on the sea with strong winds and rough sea for several months.
He got seasick as soon as he went out to sea. Although he regretted joining the ship, he was the boss after all. He had to return home and face the pressure of repaying the loan and maintaining the engineering team, so he swallowed his anger with mixed feelings.
However, the violent storms and rough waves at sea still made this land man fear the ferocious power of nature for the first time, so he was in a bad mood for a while.
As the captain, Wang Huaijun was listened to by Shi Sanzi and his people, who were grateful to him for providing them with jobs and opportunities to make money.
But the boss Ji Liancun doesn't understand anything about maritime work and always likes to give orders.
As a result, his relationship with Shi Sanzi, the first mate, became very strained, and the twenty people he brought with him also had a bad attitude towards Ji Liancun.
Eventually the conflict broke out.
After one and a half months at sea, at the end of mid-May, according to the pre-planned trip, we had to return regardless of whether we caught any fish or not, because Dongfu Yu’s fuel tank was only so big and could not carry so much diesel. If we sailed any further, there would not be enough fuel to return to Dongshan Port.
But at this time, the sailors discovered a container floating on the sea.
The fishermen in Dongshan Port are very wary of any inexplicable things appearing at sea, and generally will not catch anything they are unfamiliar with or have never seen before.
So the sailors watched the containers pass by the ship without taking any action to catch them.
But the people of Ji Lian Village are not fishermen, so they don’t need to pay attention to such requirements.
After more than a month of fishing, he was eager to make more profits, so he not only asked the sailors to start salvaging the containers, but also forced Wang Huaijun to turn around and chase the containers.
The oil on the ship was just enough to return to Dongshan Port. If he did what he did, it would probably add a huge burden to the return journey.
So a conflict is inevitable.
The people led by Shi Sanzi said directly that this thing of unknown origin was cursed and they would not touch it.
Even though Ji Liancun threatened to cut his salary in half, it was useless. It even caused Shi Sanzi to break up with him. He directly confiscated half of the catch and threatened to tell everyone in Dongshan about Ji Liancun's actions after returning to the port, making it impossible for him to continue working in Dongshan.
The quarrel between the two became more and more fierce. Wang Huaijun was caught in a dilemma and had to compromise. He asked the seven or eight of his own people who came with them to find a way to salvage the container. He also asked Shi Sanzi to worship the Dragon King in the boat and pray for God's blessing. Only then did he calm down the matter.
As the container was approaching the ship, they would immediately know what good stuff was inside. Ji Liancun had no time to argue with Shi Sanzi and was only focused on finding a way to open the tin box.
So Shi Sanzi warned Ji Liancun at this time that if he insisted on opening the box, they would no longer help the ship for the remaining half of the journey, and he took all the staff to hide in the lower cabin.
Wang Huaijun was in the captain's room at the time. Without Shi Sanzi and his men to help, he had to stay in the wheelhouse and use the few remaining fellow villagers to keep the entire ship running.
Naturally, the container was opened by Ji Liancun.
Wang Huaijun only knew that Ji Liancun gave him a few big bottles of beautiful red wine and some turkey, and he often disappeared.
When I asked my fellow villagers, they all said that Boss Ji must have found something good in the container and was enjoying it on his own.
He was troubled by the return journey and it was very tiring to drive the boat alone, so he took advantage of the second half of the month to train a first mate and a second mate to help him drive the boat during the day, while he worked the night shift and rushed to Dongshan Port day and night.
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After saying this, Wang Huaijun raised his head, tears flashing in his eyes. He took out a cigarette from his pocket tremblingly, took off his mask and smoked.
Li Xiangnan narrowed his eyes and asked, "Something bad happened on the ship a long time ago, how can you still go home?"
"Doctor Li! When I docked, Ji Liancun suddenly came to the wheelhouse and told me that I was too tired after sailing all the way back. Boss Ji told me to get off the boat and go home to sleep. I don't need to worry about unloading the cargo later!" Wang Huaijun said in fear: "I was too tired, my head was completely muddled, I didn't know something like this would happen!"
"So, the crazy man... is Shi Sanzi?" Li Xiangnan frowned and asked, "You brought the Norovirus out of the container, and he thought it was cursed? The people in the bottom cabin were killed by him? Boss Ji is also dead?"
"No!"
Wang Huaijun turned to look at Li Xiangnan with a complicated look that he couldn't let go.
"That crazy person...is Ji Liancun!"
"???"