After several busy days in a row, Ye Yaodong was exhausted and drained. Every day, he lay down to rest as soon as he got home and went nowhere else.
It was A-Guang who came over beaming to tell him that his name change was done. His name was now Pei Shun, and the household register had been updated that day too.
Ye Yaodong was hardly surprised to hear it. In his previous life, A-Guang had only changed to that name when he was nearly fifty.
He hooked an arm around A-Guang's shoulders as the man tried to head inside and steered him toward the tree by the entrance. "Sounds good. A fortune-teller picked it, right? Smooth sailing is good. Those of us who make our living at sea need everything to go smoothly."
"Yeah. My dad also bought our neighbor Auntie Ma's boat. He's not planning to work on the big boats anymore."
"Huh? You mean Lin Yongshou's family, the guy who just fell into the sea? You acted that fast? Didn't they only just finish the funeral?"
A-Guang confirmed it. "Yeah, that's the family. Seeing me get a little boat gave my dad ideas too. Didn't I mention it to you that day? After you left, we started planning to buy a Trawl Net boat."
"Auntie Ma happens to live nearby, and relatives have been coming to her door wanting to buy her boat every other day lately. She was fed up, but there wasn't much she could do. My dad took her some seafood and had a chat. Maybe his offer was a little higher. She thought it over for two days and simply sold it to him."
Ye Yaodong slapped his thigh. "You snagged a bargain! I had my eye on it too, damn it, but