After taking a tumble into 1985, Lin Hai opens his eyes to find he's become the lazy fourth son everyone in the fishing village despises.
His three sisters-in-law are making a fuss about splitting up the family, pointing at him and cursing him for being lazy and eating his fill without lifting a finger. His parents protect their son and stubbornly refuse to divide the household.
But his pockets are even emptier than his face is clean. He can't even scrape together enough to buy a girl a piece of candy.
Luckily, there is always a way forward. A "ding" rings in his mind, and the Random Information System successfully binds to him!
[At four in the afternoon, the tide goes out in the mangroves and green crabs appear.]
[At nine in the morning, fish in the reef area and grouper will bite.]
Other people depend on the weather when gathering seafood at low tide. For him, it's as good as picking up money.
He fills buckets with green crabs, goes after black groupers weighing over five jin, and picks up sand crabs, clams, and sea bass along the way.
One swing of his broken bamboo rod brings in a valuable catch; one step in his worn-out rubber shoes fills a bucket with seafood.
He goes from being called a "lazy bum" by his sisters-in-law to having the whole family ask, "Are you going again tomorrow?" And from having empty pockets to earning fifty-eight yuan in two days.
How much does a worker earn in a month during this era?
But making money is easy; winning a wife's heart is hard.
Su Wanqing, the girl with two braids at the town clinic, has a father who teaches at a middle school, and she has a secure public-sector job. Why would she choose a poor kid from a fishing village like him?
"Mom, I'm going to marry her."
"What are you going to marry her with?"
"I'll support her by gathering seafood."
See how a modern-day overworked office drone uses an information System to make waves along the coast in the 1980s, going from the poor fourth son whose family wanted to split him off to the fishing village's first ten-thousand-yuan household, and bringing home the girl who loves digging for oysters along the way!
Gathering seafood to make money + System intel + getting rich in the 1980s: dive in without worry!
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