The people on that boat saw two boats moored at the little island and thought everyone would get along.
They had just found a spot and were about to drop their bundles of branches into the sea when they saw both boats closing in on them. They panicked and started their engine, intending to flee.
But how could a boat that had only just started outrun boats already going at full throttle?
They had barely gone a dozen meters before they were boxed in from the front and rear, with nowhere to run.
Ye Yaodong had already seen from a distance that there were three people aboard: a middle-aged man and two young men, probably a father and his two sons.
The moment they surrounded the boat, Lin Guangyuan was beside himself with excitement. "We caught them! We caught them! We've surrounded them! Give them hell..."
Ye Yaodong rapped him on the head. "You just love stirring up trouble. Shut your mouth."
Seeing that they could no longer escape, the father and sons noticed that the other two boats only had four adults and a half-grown boy aboard. They immediately felt less panicked.
"What are you doing? Why are you surrounding our boat out of nowhere?"
Seeing all the branches piled on their boat, Ye Yaodong knew without asking that they also planned to trap cuttlefish around this island. He got straight to the point. "We've already claimed the waters around this island. Find somewhere else. You're not allowed to put branches here."
"This island isn't yours. Did you buy it? What gives you the right to stop us?" The young man opposite him stiffened his neck and argued boldly, very much a calf unafraid of tigers.
"Because we claimed it first. If we say you can't put them here,