On the deck, a middle-aged man in his mid-forties was shining the searchlight on the bow of the ship towards the sea, and said to a young man next to him: "I heard someone calling for help. I wonder if you all heard it?"
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This is a small to medium-sized fishing boat. There are only six people on board, including the captain and crew. Except for the middle-aged man holding the searchlight, the rest of the people are much younger.
"Abba, you heard it right, I heard the shouting too." The young man called Xiaojun by the middle-aged people is twenty-three or four years old, and his appearance is sixty-seven years similar to the middle-aged man, but he is
They are father and son.
"Second uncle, I heard it too. Someone was calling for help..." A young man next to him opened his mouth and then closed his mouth because another call for help came from the sea breeze.
"Stop the motor and prepare to rescue people!"
This time, the middle-aged man heard it clearly and quickly fired the searchlight in the direction of the sound. However, although the distance was not very far, it was not easy to find a person on the vast sea.
"Abba, I saw it, there... there is someone there!" After all, it was the young man who had sharp eyes. While the middle-aged man was still searching, his son Xiaojun had already seen Qin Feng's waving hands.
"Quick, pull the boat over, it's us Chinese!"
The middle-aged man yelled towards the cabin. He grew up in a family that made a living by fishing in the old days. If you encounter someone in trouble at sea, you must lend a helping hand.
"Second uncle, don't worry yet!" Just when the fishing boat was approaching Qin Feng and the middle-aged man was about to untie the lifeboat on the boat, a young man reached out and stopped him.
"Rescuing people is like putting out a fire. How can we not be in a hurry..." The middle-aged man stared and said, "The sea is very rough today. If a person is hit and sinks, he will not be able to save him even if he wants to..."
"Second uncle, but...but what if the person we rescued is a bad guy?" The young man hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Second uncle, do you still remember what happened to the old Zhao family last year?"
"Huh? You mean Lao Zhao from the town?" After hearing what his nephew said, the middle-aged man couldn't help but hesitate. He now understood what his nephew meant.
Lao Zhao, as the young people call him, is the leader of the first group of people in their town who started fishing and became rich.
In the early years, Lao Zhao was not engaged in fishing, but in smuggling. However, after the country's crackdown on smuggling became increasingly strict, Lao Zhao went ashore and purchased a large fishing boat with ocean-going capabilities.
When others had just turned their oar fishing boats into engine boats, Lao Zhao's fishing boat was already equipped with fishing winches, refrigeration devices, air compressors and other equipment, making it the largest fishing boat in the area.
When fishery resources were increasingly depleted, Lao Zhao was not affected in any way.
His ocean-going fishing boats can go fishing in places that ordinary fishermen cannot reach. They always return with a full load, creating huge wealth for Lao Zhao, and the profits are even far greater than smuggling.
As the saying goes, people are afraid of fame and pigs are afraid of being strong. Little did Lao Zhao know that he was already being targeted.
Just one summer last year, Lao Zhao personally went fishing on a boat. When he was returning, he rescued a man who was said to have been in a shipwreck at sea.
People living by the sea believed in Mazu and were very kind-hearted. After asking about the man's name and origin, Lao Zhao left him on the boat and prepared to take him back.
But what Lao Zhao didn't expect was that this man was actually an internal agent of a member of the pirate gang. On that night, this man and the pirates collaborated inside and outside to capture Lao Zhao's fishing boat.
Pirates usually do not rob fishing boats because they have no channels to sell fish, but Lao Zhao is so famous that these people started to kidnap him.
After subduing everyone on the ship, those people used the ship's communication facilities to extort 30 million yuan from Zhao's family within a three-day time limit.
Lao Zhao had also been on the road before. He promised that his family could raise the money and give it to the pirates. This was indeed the case. In just two days, the money was transferred to the account designated by the pirates.
But what Lao Zhao didn't expect was that these pirates were ruthless. In order to eliminate the root cause, they killed more than 30 crew members on the ship, causing a shocking murder.
After this case occurred, it caused great panic to the fishermen along the coast. For a long time, the fishermen did not even dare to go to sea to fish.
It wasn't until the beginning of this year that the case was finally solved. It turned out that the pirates colluded with Lao Zhao's acquaintance in the town to commit the crime. Through that acquaintance, they learned about Lao Zhao's movements at sea and arranged the kidnapping operation.
Although the case was solved, Lao Zhao and his two sons who were on board the ship could never survive again. The Zhao family, which was once prominent for a while, was completely ruined and would never regain its former glory.
Now that he heard his nephew mention this matter, the middle-aged man suddenly felt nervous. He knew what his nephew meant, and he didn't want to meddle in his own business. If he encountered pirates, the ship would be destroyed and everyone would be killed.
"But... if we really don't save someone who fell into the sea, Mazu will blame her!"
Listening to the miserable cry for help on the sea, the middle-aged man hesitated for a while and then said: "Save the person first, bring him up and interrogate him. If he really came from the wrong place, throw him into the sea...
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"All right!"
Seeing the middle-aged man's insistence, the young people immediately got busy and put the lifeboat into the sea. Old Zhao jumped on it himself, and naturally someone on the boat used lights to point him in the direction.
"Help, help!" Seeing a speedboat approaching, Qin Feng's cry for help became louder. If he hadn't been afraid of scaring these people, Qin Feng would have boarded the boat himself.
"Throw a lifebuoy down..." When Qin Feng approached, the middle-aged man asked his son to throw a lifebuoy, but he was in no hurry to fish Qin Feng up.
"Who are you?" Seeing Qin Feng grabbing the lifebuoy, the middle-aged man asked.
"Help!" Qin Feng looked at the people on the lifeboat strangely and said, "Isn't this obvious? I am a person who fell into the water. Please help me get up quickly..."
"Second uncle, something is wrong!"
The middle-aged man's nephew who followed down came close to the middle-aged man's ear and said: "It's not like we have never seen people who fell into the water. How can anyone be as spirited as him? I think there is some fraud..."
"Well, something is wrong..." The middle-aged man nodded and hesitated in his heart.
"Damn it, brother Daqing, did you forget to act?"
When the middle-aged uncle and nephew spoke, he thought his voice was very low, but he didn't expect that Qin Feng could hear everything. This made Qin Feng in the sea very annoyed. He only called for help and forgot about it.
In his current state, he doesn't look like a person in distress at all.
"Hey, let me tell you, uncle, I am really a shipwrecked person..."
Qin Feng's mind turned and he said: "My surname is He, my name is He Feng. I went to Africa to work illegally. I worked in the gold mines for several years. I made money and wanted to return to China. Who knew that the smuggler's boat capsized and we all
Only four or five people on the boat survived..."
Before Qin Feng entered that space, he once heard Bai Zhentian talk about how many domestic laborers smuggled to Africa to mine gold. Some made a fortune, and some died in other places. Now Qin Feng is borrowing this
an identity.
"Four or five people? Why are you the only one?" The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "When did you fall into the water? Where were the other people?"
Although the middle-aged man knew about illegal labor in Africa, he could not believe Qin Feng, especially since the flaw in Qin Feng's words was obvious. What does it mean that only four or five people in a boat survived? What about the four or five people?
"It's been many days since we capsized."
Seeing that the middle-aged man didn't believe it, Qin Feng quickly said: "After our boat capsized, we drifted to a small island. We stayed there for several days without seeing a boat passing by. We had no choice but to make a canoe and let it pass by.
I went to sea to ask for help..."
"Xiaojun, what do you think?"
After hearing Qin Feng's explanation, which was quite reasonable, the middle-aged man looked at his son. If he didn't save him when encountering such a thing, his conscience might not be able to get through it.
"Abba, let's save him on the boat first." The middle-aged man's son hesitated for a moment, then said, "There are so many of us, as long as we keep an eye on him, there should be no problem..."
After the piracy incident last year, these fishermen also took some precautions when they went to sea. The fishing boats not only had two shark guns, but even a pistol, both for self-defense.
"Okay, bring him up!" After hearing his son's words, the middle-aged man took a bamboo pole, let Qin Feng in the sea grab it, and slowly pulled him into the lifeboat.
"Thank you, thank you very much, I...I will definitely reward you!" Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He was now thinking about how to fool these people and go to the island to pick up Qin Dongyuan and others.
"Forget the reward, rescuing people at sea is not about money."
The middle-aged man shook his head, took the ginger soup that was always in reserve on the boat and handed it to Qin Feng, saying: "Drink it first to warm your body. Although it is summer, it is still very cold in the sea at night..."
"Thank you, thank you uncle..." Qin Feng nodded gratefully, drank the ginger soup in one breath, and took off his backpack from his back and took it in his hand.
"Uncle, what kind of sea area is this place and where are you from?" Qin Feng took a breath and asked like a middle-aged man.
Although the middle-aged man was a little defensive, Qin Feng had so much experience in the world of martial arts that after a few words, he found out all the details about these people.
It turned out that Qin Feng's guess was not wrong. His current location was less than 200 nautical miles away from the Zhoushan Islands, and the general direction was completely correct.
The middle-aged man in front of him, whose surname is Feng, is Feng Youcai, and he is the captain of this ship. Like many coastal families, Feng Youcai's ship was purchased by him and his eldest brother, and he also had shares from some relatives.
Although it is only a small and medium-sized fishing boat, it is still considered a family business, so his son, his eldest brother's son, and several nephews all work on the boat.
ps: First update, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket! (To be continued...)
