It was precisely because Huangyuan Technology was such a major employer.
That labor had become extremely scarce in Pinghai County.
As a result, many people who had left Pinghai County and failed to make it in Blue Island began returning home.
After all, their parents and children were here.
Now, they could return to their hometown to build a career and earn the same wages they would working elsewhere.
Unless they had already made something of themselves.
Otherwise, who wouldn't prefer a life with a wife, children, and a warm bed?
Did people really think migrant workers were cattle?
Unless they had no other choice, who enjoyed working away from home?
In just over ten days, more than ten thousand people who had left Pinghai County had returned.
The once-small county town gradually became livelier as well.
And all of that was happening in Pinghai County.
None of it had any effect on Ye Yuan's Fishing Bay Island.
As for Ye Yuan himself? Aside from occasionally going to Blue Island to visit his parents, he stayed alone in his courtyard house.
Every day, he either made furniture or crafted musical instruments.
Even something as major as Huangyuan Technology's opening had failed to draw him away from the island.
As for going out to sea, Ye Yuan did not pay much attention to that either.
With the enormous Sea Grapes growing area they had discovered last time.
The crew no longer cared whether Ye Yuan took the boat out to sea himself.
Every week, under Yu Hongbo's lead, they went to that Sea Grapes harvesting ground and brought back huge quantities of Sea Grapes.
It could be said that the Yushui Hao's income from that patch of Sea Grapes alone was enough to make many fishing boats green with envy.
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