When Ruan Xiaoluo was five, her own father sold her to a cruel old woman in a fishing village to be a child bride.
When she woke up, she discovered she could understand the sounds of the sea and had become bound to a magical Tide Ledger that turned its own pages.
While others combed the shore for clams, she found pearls, sea cucumbers, and ambergris.
While others feared the wind and waves, she took her older and younger brothers out to sea.
While others fought tooth and nail over a few coins, she was already earning 200 coins a day from a basket of seafood, and later made a fortune every day.
The people in the fishing village all laughed and called her a burden.
But before long, the village's wasteland had become a treasure beach, its rundown shacks had become grand houses, and the poor Ruan family, once too hungry to afford a meal, had become famous seafood merchants throughout the region.
The county magistrate wanted her to teach him aquaculture, a prince wanted to buy her nautical charts, and enemy spies wanted to steal her treasures from the sea.
Hugging a dried fish, Ruan Xiaoluo said in her childish voice, "Want seafood? Get in line and pay first."
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(Cute Little Girl Foraging at the Shore) (Ancient Farming Romance) (Getting Rich from Seafood) (Pampered by the Whole Family) (Treasure Hunting at the Shore) (Imaginative Spatial Powers) (Five-Year-Old Heroine) (Earning 200 Coins a Day) (Feel-Good Story) (Lighthearted Comedy) (Infrastructure and Aquaculture) (Business Comeback)
About the heroine:
Ruan Xiaoluo, five years old, nicknamed Little Miss Luo.
She's fair and chubby, with round eyes. She can't resist delicious food, and when she sees a bad person, she's bold enough to grab a crab claw and pinch their face with it.
She has three special talents.
First, she can understand seafood and knows where to find schools of fish and where pearls are hidden.
Second, she can see the Tide Ledger, which tells her every day when the tide will go out and which beach is most likely to yield good finds.
Third, she's especially good at making money.
Her goal is simple: first, earn 200 coins,
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