I Forage for Seafood in Ancient Times

When Tang Chichi woke up after a car accident, she discovered that she had transmigrated to ancient times. Her birth mother had died young. Her father, a former sailor turned fisherman, had fallen ill while saving her and had been bedridden and unconscious ever since. Below her were her two six-year-old twin siblings, still crying to be fed. Their family of four had just been cast out by their selfish grandmother and two uncles. Their empty thatched hut contained nothing but a clay jar, two quilts, three pairs of chopsticks, and four pottery bowls! What could she do? Keep on living, of course! Luckily, the miracle medicine her father brought home gave her the golden finger of being able to breathe underwater! From then on, the sea became her second home (crossed out), restaurant and treasure vault (correction)! Today, she'd catch crabs bigger than her head and take them home to make crab roe porridge. Better add extra ginger to dispel the chill and fishiness. Tomorrow, she'd drag home a lobster bigger than her arm and steam it with garlic. What would she eat the day after that? Abalone? Yellow croaker? Salmon? Should she add some MSG, chicken bouillon, oyster sauce, and shrimp paste too? Or maybe she could dive to the depths of the sea, find a couple of shipwrecks from the previous dynasty, and haul up box after box of gold, silver, and jewels? With all the eating and drinking, the family grows better off by the day. They make a fortune and build a big house; her father's illness is cured, and the twins grow up plump and healthy. The delicious smells even attract the great general stationed next door. He says he won't marry anyone but her? But why are there two of him? One by day, one by night? Other notes: 1. The male lead has a split personality and never deliberately deceives the female lead. 2. The seafood, food, recipes, and so on in the story are based on encyclopedias, cookbooks, videos, documentaries, and other sources. They are not all original. This is hereby stated. Coming soon: I Turned My Scumbag Dad into the Grand Secretary [Book Transmigration], new blurb Xu Cong transmigrates into a novel called The Road to Officialdom of a Concubine's Son and becomes a miserable cannon-fodder character: the Xu family's fake legitimate eldest son, who is actually a concubine's son. The cannon-fodder Xu meets a tragic end because his father, a scumbag obsessed with climbing the career ladder, neglects and ignores him as a child. When he grows up, he's manipulated into doing all sorts of bad things. Xu Cong: o(╥﹏╥)o! To turn his life around, he stays up all night drawing up six life plans, one through six... First: He absolutely has to change his name! Fifth: Study for the imperial exams and outdo his scumbag dad, who only knows how to take exams and become an official! If his scumbag dad comes in eighty-ninth, he'll come in eighty-eighth! He won't just do better than his dad, he'll have their rankings written side by side in the family genealogy (pay attention to this part) and carved onto their tombstones! If his dad becomes a county magistrate, he'll become a prefect! If his dad becomes Grand Secretary, he'll become Grand Tutor! Still holding a grudge.jpg But things don't go quite as smoothly as he hopes. When little Xu Cong stamps his handprint onto a letter and sends his scumbag dad a slap from afar, Xu Mingcheng is touched: My son is so filial. I'll treasure this letter. Little Xu Cong: ? When little Xu Cong masters the Four Books years ahead of his dad, takes first place again and again, and becomes the famous "other people's child," his score for outdoing his scumbag dad goes up by N. Xu Mingcheng flips through his books all night: "The king quickly issued an order in response." What does that mean? Little Xu Cong: ?? You're proud of giving a three-year-old a scrambled quotation question?! So... When little Xu Cong studies hard, his scumbag dad studies even harder; When little Xu Cong is filial to his mother, his scumbag dad is even more filial, or rather, even closer to her; When little Xu Cong works his way through the imperial exams, comes first in the palace examination, becomes Minister of Revenue, and opens up trade at home, across the borders, and overseas, earning the title "the richest man of the age," his scumbag dad also rises through the ranks, pushed all the way up to Grand Secretary by his son. And what of the original novel's amorous male lead? He's long since been left behind in some corner by the thoroughly ordinary little Xu Cong. Everyone says the Xu family is a scholarly household, and both father and son are geniuses. Only the "scumbag dad," Xu Mingcheng, secretly wipes away his sweat: I had to give it everything I had just to avoid being outdone by my son! Theme: Work hard to live