Father Ye thought it over and felt that what he said made good sense.
"So we won't stay in this village today? Let's draw a couple more buckets of well water to put aboard later. This jellyfish season feels like it's almost over. We don't want anything going wrong now."
Father Pei agreed. "Sounds good to me. It's not like we haven't stayed aboard before. I'd sleep easier on the boat."
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua exchanged a glance. "We have no objections."
"Then we'll just draw a few more buckets of water later. No need to move our things off the boats yet. We'll find an uninhabited island nearby with a little beach and unload there. If it rains, we'll stay at a guesthouse and leave one or two people aboard to watch the boats."
"We'll take the catch to the island to process it too. Once it's ready, we'll pack it into baskets and deliver it to the town pier. We can have the tractor collect it there. That'll save us changing locations every other day. It's a nuisance for them too, and they can never find us," Ye Yaodong added.
He knew how to handle people and had spent quite a bit on cigarettes lately. Otherwise, who would put up with all his trouble?
With him moving from place to place every other day, never staying put, who would want to follow him around collecting his catch? It was only because he handled things well. Though they were reluctant, having accepted his gifts, they felt obliged. They also took into account that his group were outsiders and friends of someone at the factory, and cut them some slack.
Everyone nodded.
"Then that's settled. No need to move to the next village. Staying on an island will be