Back in My Village After the Army, I Got Rich from Coastal Foraging

【Period setting + beachcombing + fishing + making a fortune + no saintly self-sacrifice + wish fulfillment】 In 1983, He Chaoshen, a demobilized soldier, returned to the fishing village on Haique Island. His father was gone, his mother was sick, and his younger siblings were skin and bones from hunger. The whole village was waiting to see him make a fool of himself. While everyone else came back from fishing with empty nets, he casually cast a line and hooked a hundred pounds of giant yellow croaker! While others only picked up snails and clams while beachcombing, he turned over the rocks and found heaps of abalone, lobsters, and sea cucumbers! While others spent three days casting nets without catching a thing, he only had to stand on the sea, and the fish leaped right onto his boat! He started with a battered wooden boat and went on to lease an entire stretch of sea. He went from being a penniless laughingstock to the undisputed ruler of the ocean, someone everyone looked up to. When someone asked him his secret, He Chaoshen smiled around his cigarette and said, "Heaven provides. When the things in the sea see me, they know they're coming home." The head of the fisheries station slammed the table. "Your catch alone beats the output of our entire county! Are you a man or a fish?" He Chaoshen replied, "I'm not a fish. I'm the King of the Sea."