The 1970s: A Cute Kid Fishes Up Giant Treasures to Feed the Family

With a typhoon on the way, the whole village was scrambling to stock up on food and board up their windows. But six-year-old Xiaoman was sprawled on a reef, listening to a huge crash from a tidal pool after the tide went out.

At her call, her three brothers rushed down to the shore in the rain, and came back carrying a giant grouper weighing over a hundred jin!

Life on the island in the 1970s was hard.

Their father had gone out to sea and never returned. Their mother fell ill, their uncles had their eyes on the family boat, and the neighbors were waiting to see the four children go hungry.

Xiaoman didn't understand big ideas. She only remembered the tides, wind direction, and fish routes her father had taught her.

She took her brothers to dig for razor clams, gather snails, and check crab traps, hauling in enormous catches from the surf time and again.

When people came to take advantage of them, the four siblings exposed them on the spot. When someone came to their aid in their hour of need, they worked hard to repay the kindness.

But when a once-in-a-century storm bore down on the island, Xiaoman spotted her father's wooden chest, marked with his name, beneath the destroyed old pier...