But before he could bring it up himself, she stopped coming over to deliver vegetables. He had no idea whether her family had stopped her.
He simply put it out of his mind. It was better if she did not come. If they ran out of vegetables, he could trade fish and shrimp for some with the villagers. It was that simple.
The two villages fought for three or four days straight, and it only ended after two people on each side died. There were several more days of trouble afterward before things finally settled down.
Once things quieted down, the villagers began turning their attention to their group of outsiders.
Especially when the villagers saw them bringing in huge catches of jellyfish day after day.
Afraid of attracting too much envy, they did their best to process everything on the boats or the beach and have the tractor come straight over to haul it away. They did not dare carry it all through the village in plain sight.
Still, people on the boats moored nearby saw their catches and watched them cut up and sell the jellyfish on the beach.
And it was not just one boat bringing in large catches. Three Ships brought in just as much every day, which stunned the villagers.
Three Ships were now making two trips a day, with each boat catching over ten thousand jin. Even after cutting them up and losing some weight, they still had seven or eight thousand jin left. Any one of their boats caught more than two of the villagers' large boats combined.
Nobody had paid much attention at first, but after the fighting ended, plenty of people began watching them. Over the past few days, whenever they handled their catches on the beach, many villagers came over