After parting ways, the two of them went home separately. Mother Ye had already left, but his two brothers were still uneasy. They sat by the door, craning their necks toward the junction as they waited for him.
As soon as they saw Ye Yaodong, both brothers and their wives came over to meet him.
"Dongzi, how did it go?"
"Dongzi, what did they say? Is everything all right?" Ye Yaodong took a crumpled ball of paper out of his pocket and showed them.
"Everything's fine for now. Here's the letter. I'll burn it in a minute. It's anonymous, so who knows which black-hearted bastard wrote it?"
"Anyway, we've done nothing wrong. The whole village can vouch that we're just ordinary fishermen. There's nothing to worry about. Secretary Chen said so too."
"That's good, that's good." Both brothers were honest, simple fishermen. Hearing that someone had reported them had scared them to death. Only after this reassurance did they breathe a sigh of relief and feel a little less worried.
"It must have been some jealous bastard in the village," Ye Second Sister-in-Law said viciously. "Black-hearted scum. We all live in the same village and see each other all the time, yet they'd do something so vicious. May their whole family, eighteen generations of them, die without even knowing what killed them..." Ye Yaopeng frowned and sighed.
"We really drew too much attention when we came back a couple of days ago. We'd already made plenty of money, then we sold all that stuff too. Plenty of people were jealous. Some people are so rotten inside, they just can't stand seeing anyone do better than them."
"We need to keep a lower profile. We can't draw so much attention again and make people jealous." Ye Yaohua felt some lingering fear