At Three and a Half, I Scoured the Shore for Treasure and Made My Five Brothers Rich

[Adorable child] [beachcombing] [farming] [five older brothers] [the whole family gets rich] [beachside bargains] [pampered-family wish fulfillment]

Just as the Shen family was about to run out of food, a tiny child washed ashore.

Everyone else thought she was just a burden they'd picked up.

Who could have guessed that when she spoke, she could hear the sea talking?

“There's a giant clam buried under this sand.”

“There's a big yellow croaker hiding behind that reef.”

“There's a spring tide tomorrow. Hurry and gather the salt!”

From then on, the lives of her five brothers changed completely.

The eldest hauled boats and repaired houses, the second kept accounts and ran a business, the third went out to sea to catch fish, the fourth studied his way to a better life, and the fifth charmed everyone while running himself ragged.

As for the littlest one, she stood in the sea breeze and spoke in her sweet, babyish voice. The whole family followed her to fortune.

The villagers waited for a joke, but instead they watched the Shen family buy farmland, repair boats, open shops, and build salt fields. They even turned the county's most difficult seafood trade into a success.

Later, the whole village knew.

The Shen family's little Tide Treasure hadn't come just to eat.

She'd come to change their fate, with her five brothers by her side.