"Auntie, aren't you going to the town for odd jobs today? It's past nine o'clock, why haven't you left yet?"
"Aren't you just as idle, staying home instead of working?"
"That's different for me. Why should that little bastard Shen Lang always manage to come back with a full boat every single time!"
Early in the morning, a large crowd of villagers had gathered at the dock. Liu Deshui pulled a long face, making snide and gloomy remarks that went on and on without end.
The reason the townspeople had gathered here so early in the morning wasn't just to catch the first glimpse and see what kind of good treasures Shen Lang could haul up this time. It was even more because Shen Lang had taken a full dozen or so people out to sea with him on this trip. The parents of these young men had been on tenterhooks since last night. Shen Lang was a master beachcomber and fisherman, but the others certainly were not. The sea is ruthless, and wind and clouds change in an instant. Unless they could see with their own eyes that their children had returned safely, how could any father or mother set their minds at ease?
Chapter 29