An Ancient Pearl Diver Arrives in the Modern Era and Hauls in a Bumper Catch

[Ancient to Modern] [Two-Way Time Travel and Beachcombing] [Same-Day Cash] [Stockpiling and Infrastructure] [Rugged, Wild Hero] [Exhilarating Face-Slapping]

Chen A Shui, a pearl-diving serf from the Great Qian Dynasty, plunged into a modern mangrove mudflat after diving a hundred feet into a deathly deep trench with thirty jin of pig iron tied to his legs!

Modern beachcombers were stumped by a deep hole, even with long-handled tongs. Chen A Shui stripped to the waist, plunged into the water, and blindly fished out a four-jin, two-liang wild king crab with his bare hands. Then, without an oxygen tank, he dove forty meters to haul up golden croaker!

The seafood stall owner, Huang A Fei, stared with shining eyes and shoved thick stacks of red bills into his muddy hands. "Handsome, this is top-tier star-quality wild catch. I'll pay you 300,000 in cash right here!"

[Holy crap! He tore apart a big green crab without puncture-proof gloves? That guy is absolutely ripped!]

[Lin Tingwan, a female streamer with a million followers, blushed and her heart raced: Don't film my face. I'll take all the diesel and rice from Brother Shui!]

With one hand, he made a fortune in modern seafood markets, earning cash each day. With the other, he swept through the town's hardware district, buying everything in sight!

A vicious tax official boarded his ship to seize his sister and force him to pay tribute pearls? Chen A Shui flung a handful of pure white salt at him and smashed his wrist with an oar. "Your Honor, can you handle this salt?"

Ruthless river bandits launched a village massacre at night? Blinded on the spot by a thousand-lumen tactical flashlight, they found their wooden boat's rudder tightly tangled in an invisible nylon net, while a high-speed underwater steel drill punched straight through the flagship's hull!

The Thousand-Household Commander of Leizhou Guard sealed off the harbor, hoping to starve his entire clan to death? Chen A Shui brought back fifty portable diesel pumps, over a hundred tons of northeastern rice, pork lard, and quick-setting cement!

He drained the reef trench around a century-old shipwreck and dug out rotten silver. Then he cemented the reef and, in just a few days, raised a stormproof island paradise from the sea. His refitted diesel ironclad fleet swept across the South China Sea!

Watching the ironclad fleet race against the wind, the Great Qian court's supervising eunuch went completely mad. "I asked you for a single tribute pearl, and you went and rebelled to become the Dragon King of the South China Sea?!"