[No System | Fishing and Hunting Across Mountains and Rivers | Ancestral Craftsmanship | Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Disaster | Hard Times and You Are What You Eat]
When Chen Shanhe opens his eyes again, he’s back on the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1979. He’s nineteen years old.
In his previous life, he spent his days being an honest man, drained dry by Sun Yanhong and her family, then froze to death in a snowdrift at sixty-two.
In his previous life, his father sold the family’s ancestral hunting rifle to scrape together his bride price. He secretly went into the mountains during a blizzard and froze to death in the snow.
His younger sister, Chen Xiaoman, had her engagement ruined and was married off to a remote mountain village. She never made it home again.
In the end, Sun Yanhong took the last of the family’s money and ran off with a southern trader.
Reborn in 1979, Chen Shanhe is nineteen.
This time, there’s still time to put everything right.
Save his father, support his sister through school, and gradually pay off the family’s debts.
In this life, he won’t be a pushover or suffer in silence. He’ll get even on the spot, and repay every debt owed to the Chen family, with interest!
And he’s gained two new abilities.
You Are What You Eat:
[Eat bear gallbladder, and your strength surges]
[Eat a fish caught during the spring thaw, and your eyesight sharpens until you can see in the dark]
[Eat roe deer heart, and your mind grows steady, so your hands won’t shake when you aim a gun]
Seek Fortune and Avoid Disaster:
[Where your chest grows warm, there’s treasure. Where the back of your neck turns cold, danger lurks]
From then on, he fishes and hunts across the rivers, mountains, lakes, and seas:
Ice fishing: ice chisels, netting, fishing holes, eddies, reading the color of the ice
Group hunts: chasing roe deer, surrounding wild boars, raiding bear dens, hunting drives, field dressing, leaving breeding stock
River fish: spring-thaw fish, setting trotlines, hauling up fish traps, carp, crucian carp, the three-flower and five-common varieties
Mountain goods: hazel mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, pine nuts, hazelnuts, schisandra berries, lion’s mane mushrooms, deer antlers, bear gallbladder
Furs and hides: sable pelts, water rat pelts, bear hides, hide inspections at the purchasing station, and grading and price manipulation
What nonsense! You're all a big boss, picking up words! This kind of person will never survive in the Northeast! To be more honest, you'd better write about the South!
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