A Rural-Era Awakening: Daily Intel Helps Me Win Over a Curvy Beauty

[1980s] [Beachcombing and Fishing] [Veteran Reconnaissance Soldier] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Daily Intel] [Building Wealth] [Multiple Heroines]

In the twelfth lunar month of 1983, veteran reconnaissance soldier Chen Hai had barely returned to Dongling Fishing Village when his own uncle threw his luggage into the snow.

The homestead his parents had left him had been seized, and the whole village was waiting to laugh at him.

Only Xiulan, a curvy widowed sister-in-law, braved the snow to bring him home and served him a steaming bowl of seafood congee. Its warmth brought tears to his eyes.

At four in the morning, the Daily Intel System activated, providing one precise tip a day.

Which reef held abalone weighing a jin, which tidal inlet hid a school of large yellow croaker, and which village bully was plotting to trip him up.

From then on, while others risked their lives and relied on luck to gather seafood, he used his information advantage to seize opportunities with ease.

Village bully Zhao Dabiao monopolized the fishing boats, hoping to cut off his livelihood. His uncle made a scene to steal his hard-earned money, while the villagers, who judged people by their status, waited to see him fall into poverty and beg for food.

The curvy sister-in-law blushed to the tips of her ears as she sewed him a close-fitting shirt. His pretty childhood sweetheart at the supply and marketing cooperative saved scarce goods for him, her face flushed, and the fiery widow next door was always bringing fat crabs into his house.

At first, he only wanted to save money to build his sister-in-law a new house and make sure his niece could eat white rice. Who knew he would go from working off a battered sampan to building an ocean-going fleet, ultimately becoming the Great Fishing King, revered by everyone along the South China Sea coast?

But then that day's intel suddenly refreshed. The shipwreck beneath the reef held more than just seafood, didn't it?