Chronicles of Shushan Village

Shu Yi, the granddaughter of Old Shu, has been known as the village "odd one" since she was little. She never liked jumping rope or making looped string figures. At just three years old, she started going fishing with Old Shu. When she went to university, she didn't study finance or trade. What kind of major was aquaculture for a girl, anyway? And after finally graduating, she didn't stay in the big city to make a fortune. Instead, she insisted on coming back to raise fish and shrimp, talking about rural revitalization! The villagers of Shushan Village all thought Old Shu's granddaughter had been baked stupid by the scorching sun. Their village was so poor it didn't even have a decent road. What was there to revitalize? But when the "sun-baked" Shu Yi came back and took over Old Shu's fishponds, she happily got to work building an aquaculture business. At first, the villagers made sour remarks behind her back: How much can you earn raising fish? A pretty young woman like her should dress up and marry into a good family! And now she's always running around with that dirt-poor village official from out of town. Isn't she worried about her reputation? What a pointless fuss! But Shu Yi's business kept growing. She went from raising fish and shrimp to growing lotus flowers and roots, renovating old homes for rural tourism, and developing e-commerce to sell branded fish and shrimp... The village roads were fixed, streetlights came on, and more and more restaurants served fish, shrimp, and crab. More and more families made money thanks to Shu Yi, and fewer and fewer people gossiped about her behind her back. Later, the girl people used to call "Old Shu's granddaughter who loves fishing" became "the most promising girl in the Shu family." For years, she held the top spot on all kinds of rankings, including "the person girls under ten in Shushan Village most want to marry" and "the person girls aged eleven to twenty in Lianping City admire most," without ever losing her place. Just as the villagers were speculating about which young man from the surrounding villages could possibly be worthy of the "Jewel of Shushan Village," Shu Yi quietly got together with that "dirt-poor" village official! Only Shu Yi was happily thinking that finding a poor but inspiring, hardworking, independent comrade-in-arms was just perfect~ Who knew this comrade-in-arms was so good at keeping secrets? Inspiring, hardworking, and independent, sure, but what happened to the poor, handsome guy persona? Why does your family have more fishponds than mine, and why are they bigger, too! Still, in a way, her lifelong dream came true twice: she now had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight fishponds! She could fish for carp in ponds one and three, crucian carp in ponds two and four, and shrimp and crab in ponds five and six! She could fish in the village during odd-numbered months and at the village official's home during even-numbered months. What a lovely life... Theme: Hard work brings wealth