[Period Setting] [Adorable Child, Everyone's Darling] [Tidepool Foraging and Farming] [Daily Intel] [Easy Fortune-Building]
Shen Zhinuo, a tidepool treasure-hunting blogger, opened her eyes to find herself reborn as the five-year-old granddaughter of the Shen family in Haixing Village in 1975.
Their earthen house was drafty, the pot was so empty it reflected faces, and the whole family was starving, with a few shameless relatives dropping by to sponge off them.
Luckily, a “magical little blackboard” had appeared in her mind. Every morning at eight, it displayed three pieces of intel.
[Today, during the Chen hour, a clump of wild Chinese yams grows beside the stream at Eagle Beak Cliff on Qingfeng Mountain. Thick roots, tender flesh. Value: ★★]
[Today, after noon during the Wei hour, the tide will recede. Blue crabs swarm among the rocks at the western end of Crescent Bay. Value: ★★]
[Today, at dusk during the You hour, Gu, a young intellectual at the village's eastern settlement, is a person in trouble who will be greatly blessed in the future. Value: ★★★]
Wild ginseng, big blue crabs, Chinese yams, antiques hidden in the salvage yard, future lottery numbers, and more...
With one little pout from Nuonuo, her family found the things others could only dream of getting their hands on.
“Grandma, Nuonuo dreamed of a divine old man! There's something good buried behind the mountain!”
“Dad, there are huge crabs under those rocks. They're so fat!”
“Big brother, that uncle is a good person. Give him something to eat, okay?”
From scraping by on three meals a day to eating meat at every meal, from a soft little darling of a fishing family to a lucky little treasure known throughout the county,
the return of the college entrance exams, household farming contracts, private businesses, and every other big opportunity: the Shen family rode each wave with perfect timing.
Curled up in Grandma's arms, Nuonuo counted off her three pieces of intel for the day on her chubby fingers, smiling until her eyes narrowed.
“Hehe, today is another day of carrying the whole family to success!”