Period: Reborn Beachcomber, Trading a Croaker for Meat From the Start

[The Sixties] [Beachcombing] [Myriad Things Exchange System] [Stockpiling in a Spatial Dimension] [Face-slapping the Worst] [Life in a Fishing Village]

In the winter of 1961, the coastal village of Kaoshan Tun runs out of food. Chen Hai has just woken up when he catches his heartless grandmother trying to trade his little sister for twenty jin of sweet potato flour. His whole family is also being forced out with nothing.

At his lowest point, he awakens the [Myriad Things Beachcombing Exchange System]. Its radar pinpoints the finest seafood, his spatial storage keeps it fresh forever, and he can trade fish, shrimp, and crab for ration coupons, pork, medicine, and industrial vouchers.

While everyone else gathers clams, he hunts for green crabs, abalone, and large yellow croaker. In an era when people are arrested for speculation, what can he do if he can’t sell live seafood? The System instantly exchanges it for universally accepted goods!

[Trade in: five jin of wild golden croaker] = [Receive: 30 jin of pork belly + 100 jin of nationwide grain coupons + one industrial voucher for a Flying Pigeon bicycle!]

[Trade in: deep-sea bluefin tuna] = [Receive: penicillin + a Shanghai-brand all-steel mechanical watch + 50 tins of premium meat from the supply and marketing cooperative!]

While other families fight like mad over half a moldy red bean bun, Chen Hai’s home is piled high with supplies, secure as an iron fortress:

His mother gets the hard-to-find life-saving medicine, while his younger siblings drink high-calcium malted milk like water!

His parasitic uncle keeps hoping the family will starve to death, yet can only watch as Chen Hai wears a wool coat, rides one of only two “28-inch” bicycles in the whole county, and brings home on the back seat the most sought-after beauty in the county!

Together, the couple make a formidable team and build a wonderful life for their whole family!