Seaside Foraging in the 1970s: My Brothers Are Both Big-Shot Kids

[1970s] [Adorable Child Heroine] [Beachcombing] [Everyone's Darling] [Making a Fortune]

Winter, 1976. In a fishing village on an island, the Shen couple die in a shipwreck, leaving behind a dilapidated thatched hut and five young adopted orphans.

Their six-year-old adopted daughter, Shen Nianyin, steps forward. Facing her greedy, vicious aunt, who keeps closing in on them, she grips a woodcutter's knife and fiercely shields her four older and younger brothers.

At the brink of despair, Shen Nianyin awakens a special affinity with the sea. The moment she steps into the water, she can understand the whispered conversations of sea creatures.

A little sea turtle shows her the way, a yellow croaker brings her news, and a pod of dolphins drives fish toward her. While others return from beachcombing empty-handed, she follows the receding tide and comes home with overflowing baskets every time!

Blue crabs, yellow croakers, groupers, giant abalones... Pot after pot of fragrant seafood soup nourishes the four underfed children and thoroughly ruins their greedy relatives' schemes.

Her four brothers each have their own talents and become devoted little sister protectors: the eldest, their muscle, vows to guard the door to the death; the second, their strategist, lays his plans step by step; the hot-tempered third and the blunt fourth join forces!

As the family prospers, influential people from the capital and the military come knocking, searching for their lost relatives.

Faced with their distinguished birth families, all four boys say in unison, "Wherever our little sister goes, we go. No one is tearing our family apart!"