The Steely Father-in-Law Joins the Army, and His State Banquet Cooking Tempts the Entire Island

[Period novel + veteran returns + farming and business + face-slapping wish fulfillment + all-capable dad + island survival] In 1983, Chen Dapao wakes from a nap to find his son-in-law trying to sell his military hunting rifle, engraved with seventeen hash marks. Seventeen hash marks, seventeen enemy agents killed. And he's asking fifty yuan? One jujube-wood club breaks the ingrate's hand. One letter severing family ties sends two stray dogs packing. He once worked as a cook at state banquets and is a second-class-decorated veteran reconnaissance soldier. The shrapnel in his chest was never fully removed, yet his knife skills can slice cured meat as thin as a shadow puppet. His son is stationed on a remote reef in the South China Sea. His daughter-in-law, pregnant with twins, is drinking pickle broth, and a typhoon has cut off the supply line. While everyone else runs for cover, he charges forward carrying three hundred jin of supplies. The whole supply ship is laid flat by seasickness? One pot of fish soup with shredded ginger steadies the entire crew! The soldiers' wives on the island gossip that he's living off others? He brings out imported baby formula and aged cured meat, delicious enough to make the neighbor's child roll around on the floor! A roof beam comes crashing down? One jujube-wood club holds up hundreds of jin of solid timber! In these times, if someone is guarding the nation's borders, someone else has to guard the home front. Starting today, this island is under my protection! Anyone who lets my daughter-in-law go hungry again will find that this tiger-head hunting rifle of mine still has bullets in it!