The people onshore saw his anger and agitation, which did not seem fake, and believed him to some extent.
Ye Yaodong went back to the side of the boat and cursed, "You fucking want to keep it all for yourself! You bastard just happened to run fast, and there's a whole bunch of assholes waiting onshore. Otherwise, I'd get in the water and kill you."
"We really didn't steal any money... fuck you, we'd only just got here when you showed up..."
"Bullshit! You'd nearly finished undoing the bolts holding down my diesel engine." The more Ye Yaodong spoke, the angrier he became. He grabbed the bamboo pole by his feet and jabbed it straight into the water.
"Die, you bastard... fuck your mother..."
The man in the water flailed as he dodged. Seeing so many people onshore, he did not dare climb out, so he simply plunged underwater and swam toward the beach first.
"Fuck, you took my money and now you want to sneak off and keep it all! No wonder you jumped in so readily just now. Throw the one on the boat overboard too. Fucking bad luck, just my rotten luck..."
The people onshore shone their flashlights on the man swimming away in the water. After a hurried discussion, two of them jumped in to chase him.
The diesel engine kept chugging away, and Ye Yaodong could not hear what the people onshore were saying. He just carried on with his own performance.
Seeing them pointing and getting worked up, he knew without thinking that they were cursing. He just did not know whether they were cursing him or the man in the water.
He had been too busy putting on his act earlier, and the light was poor. Only now, when he shone his own