Nine days had passed, and there was still no action from Mr. Han and his wife, the Port Director.
The day before yesterday morning, they went to see Big Commander Ling with the bank receipt and the recently re-issued procedures. Seeing that the fine had been paid and the sand dredging ship's paperwork was now in order, Commander Ling, along with the military transfer official Hu, didn't even ask how they managed to re-arrange the procedures so quickly and allowed the ship, which had been detained for ten days, to leave without much fuss.
Considering that Mr. Han might play some tricks, they didn't start working yesterday.
Meanwhile, a few other sand dredging bosses, perhaps feeling the loss from their ships being detained for days, paid the fines and hurried to resume work as soon as their paperwork was sorted.
It is worth mentioning that three more sand dredging ships arrived upstream the day before yesterday.
