1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 153 Must be severely punished
Yang Xi's face was pale, and he was missing a lot of teeth. He cursed Yang Qing incoherently:
"You coward, why are you talking so much to them!"

"If I don't tell you, I'll die. I don't want to die..." Yang Qing sobbed, his voice even more unclear than his brother's.

"They are deliberately scaring you. Few people dare to actually kill someone..."

The two of them sounded like two drakes, which was extremely unpleasant to hear, so a few people went up and beat them up again...

The hemp ropes were prepared long ago, and there was still some left after tying up the two men. In order not to waste the ropes, Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai had to wrap a few more ropes around them, tying them up like dumplings.

While being tied up, Yang Xi kept begging for mercy:
"Don't send it to the police, please don't! As long as you don't hand it over to the police, I will return all the losses you caused by losing fish! No, I will pay you ten times as much! Ten times should be okay, right..."

"What are you going to use to pay back? Are you going to continue smuggling to make money to pay it back?" Zhong Kang said sarcastically.

After they tied them up tightly, they were too lazy to bother with the two thieves anymore and started to sail back.

Among them, Deng Zhaocai was assigned to the pirate ship and was responsible for driving the boat to the shore.

Before setting off, they also fished up a few empty sea cucumbers from the sea, preparing to take them as evidence along with the boatload of fish.

When the four boats arrived at the shore, it was already completely bright.

"Should we stop the boat at the dock first? I'll notify my dad and ask him to come over and deal with it?" Zhong Kang asked everyone.

After all, his father, Zhong Yongrui, is the village party secretary, so Zhong Kang wondered whether he should first go through the matter with his father and then consider sending it to the police station together.

"We must inform your father, but we can't wait. Think about it, we have to take that boatload of mullets to the police, and then we have to sell them. If we delay too long, the fish will go bad and we won't be able to sell them!
It would be best if we run both ways at the same time. Send someone to the village to inform your father, and we will escort them directly to the police station. When your father gets the news, he can just rush to the police station to meet us!"

Liang Ziqiang did not agree to take Yang Xi and Yang Qing back to the village, and first handed them over to the village party secretary for handling. Although the village party secretary himself was also a victim in this matter, and the amount of money stolen was huge, but the village was full of complicated connections, who could explain the matter clearly?
If you want to avoid unnecessary trouble, the best way is to cut the Gordian knot and hand these two guys over to the police first!

Of course he couldn't say it directly, so he used Mei Tongyu as an excuse and made up a decent statement.

Zhong Kang probably didn't think too much about it. After listening to his words, he thought it was a good idea, so he moored the boat at the pier for a while and let Zhong Ming get off the boat and go to the village to inform his father Zhong Yongrui.

The remaining five people did not even go ashore, but continued driving the boat straight towards the police station.

Yang Xi and Yang Qing on the boat continued to beg for mercy, but no one paid any attention to them. They drove all the way to the shore closest to the police station, dragged the two off the boat, and forced them to walk to the police station.

After all the hassles, it was getting late. When I knocked on the door of the police station, there were only two police officers on duty. I was halfway through my conversation when more police officers came to work.

"He stole several thousand kilograms of fish, worth three or four thousand? He also stole a boat? What, he also participated in smuggling? Wait, I thought it was a small case at first, but the director happened to be here, let's go find him directly!"

They had only done half of the transcript when the officer on duty sounded more and more serious and quickly brought them all to the director.

"Director Gong, this is it..."

The police officer on duty first briefed Director Gong on the situation he had learned about, and the rest was left to Liang Ziqiang, Zhong Kang, Li Liang and others to speak directly to the director.

After listening to their story, Director Gong Jin immediately decided to go on board the ship and asked someone to bring the institute's special camera with him.

In fact, it was not far to the shore, but Gong Jin and several other police officers still got on a three-wheeled police motorcycle and drove to the shore. Liang Ziqiang and his team arrived soon after. "It's this boat. They stole the boat from outside. They said it themselves. You have to interrogate who they stole it from. The plum fish and other fish on the boat were all stolen last night. There are thousands of kilograms. They have stolen it many times before. They have admitted it themselves!"

Liang Ziqiang pointed at the pirate ship and showed it to Gong Jin and the others, and told Gong Jin who in other counties Yang Xi and Yang Qing had sold the stolen fish to.

Gong Jin and his friends boarded the boat, looked at the fish carefully, and then looked at the empty seabed on the deck. While watching, he asked one of the police officers to take a lot of photos.

After getting off the boat again, he pulled Yang Xi and Yang Qing to the side of the boat and asked them to raise their hands and point at the fish on the boat and take a few photos together.

During this time, Yang Qing was fine, but Yang Xi was not very cooperative and was kicked several times by a police officer and fell to the ground. When he got up again, Yang Xi had made obvious progress and became more cooperative.

Gong Jin specially took two empty nets found on the seabed from the boat and took them away as physical evidence.

When we returned to the police station, Zhong Ming and the village party secretary Zhong Yongrui also arrived.

"All these fish thieves and those whose fish were stolen are from your Pomfret Village, right?" Gong Jin asked, knowing Zhong Yongrui.

"Captain Gong, this matter is really not my fault for not managing these people in the village well! Think about it, I don't want my things to be stolen, do I? My family is the one that suffered the greatest loss from the stolen fish this time! These two thieves are the rotten apples of Pomwang Village!" Zhong Yongrui complained angrily.

After shirking responsibility, Zhong Yongrui also demanded severe punishment for Yang Xi and Yang Qing. This time he was quite clear-headed. Of course, the most important thing was that the Zhong family itself suffered extremely heavy losses...

Gong Jin has already arranged someone to call the county bureau to report.

The amount of several thousand yuan, plus smuggling. The county bureau must send someone to participate in this matter as soon as possible.

"Master Gong, the fish on the boat are waiting to be sold. They've gone bad if they're left out for too long. Do you think we can start selling them first?"

While waiting, Zhong Yongrui proposed to Gong Jin.

Liang Ziqiang didn't expect that Zhong Yongrui's considerations were so down-to-earth, and he was more anxious about selling fish than he was...

The people from the county bureau haven't come down yet, how could they let the boat leave like that?
Sure enough, Gong Jin looked at Zhong Yongrui and said:

"That won't do. The boat and the Mei Tongyu you mentioned are all evidence! Wait a little longer. The people from the county bureau are already on their way. They will be here soon!"

After two people sent by the county bureau came over, they interrogated and recorded, then went to the shore again to check and take pictures, almost repeating the previous steps.

After doing all this, the Mei Tong fish can be sold, but the boat has to be kept because it was stolen from another village.

Liang Ziqiang and his companions divided the fish, shrimps, crabs and other fish on the boat and loaded them onto three boats respectively.

It doesn't have to be exact, just follow the ratio. Liang Ziqiang has four Haidichuan, Li Liang has six, Deng Zhaocai has ten, and Zhong Kang and Zhong Ming also have ten.

On the way, Liang Ziqiang couldn't help thinking that he caught a lot of fish last night, and the fish caught from the bottom of the sea was another big deal.

But these should not be the biggest gains of last night. The most unexpected achievement was that I accidentally caught Yang Xi and Yang Qing...

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