The Pitiful Girl of the Seventies: I Found a Giant Yellow Croaker and Made the Whole Village Drool

[Ensemble Cast in the Late 1970s + Adorable Child Who Loves Foraging at the Shore + Lucky Wealth + Satisfying Comeuppance, Soft and Cunning Little Sea God x Sickly, Sharp-Tongued, Sweet-and-Sour Big Shot] On Whale Tail Island in the late 1970s, five-year-old Su Xiaoyu and her blind grandmother were heartlessly thrown out by her uncle's family, without even a broken bowl to their name. The whole village sat cracking sunflower seeds, waiting to watch them starve in the sea breeze. But who could have guessed that the moment the little girl slung a broken bamboo basket over her back and went to the shore, everything would change? Other people dug for seafood. She just picked it up. In the cracks between the rocks at low tide, several-pound yellow croakers hopped in a line straight into her net. She casually pried open a sea snail, and a pearl as big as a pigeon's egg rolled out. She even went up the mountain to gather firewood and happened to step on a hundred-year-old wild ginseng of the finest quality! In just a few months, their broken hut became a grand brick house, her blind grandmother wore a gold bracelet, and they ate braised abalone and ribs at every meal. The delicious aroma wafted through the whole village! Her envious aunt tried to barge in and steal their things? A crab snapped off her toe, leaving her screaming in agony. The greedy village chief tried to seize the bay? One letter of denunciation sent him off to enjoy a free stay in jail. Top experts flocked to the island with huge sums of money, all hoping to meet Xiaoyu and ask her to work with them. The villagers who had once looked down on her now knelt in a long line outside her ancestral home, weeping and pleading: "Auntie Xiaoyu, take us foraging with you!"