"What about the rest?" Han Ruochen asked with a raise of her brow. She knew the reason, but at the same time she wanted to hear it with her own ears. In case those men were to return in the future to work at her docks, she could always refuse them on the pretext that they were the ones who had refused to work with her in the first place. Who asked them to look down at her just because she was a woman?
Old Man Long hesitated; in the end, it was Li Qiufang who spoke up, "They said they don't want to be unlucky. Women are not allowed at the sea and they are not allowed to climb up on the boat either. When they found out that you were the one who had taken over, they immediately refused to work on these docks and wanted to look for some other docks."
"Say a little less," said Old Man Long as he tugged at the sleeves of the young man's shirt.
