Reborn in 1981: My Life as a Fisherman

But there's no rush now; my eldest sister is getting married in a few months.

It has to be said that in this day and age, the time from a matchmaker's visit to marriage is really fast.

The entire process can be completed in one month.

Of course, there are exceptions for those with special requirements, such as the eldest brother, Shi Haifeng.

After the two parties reached an agreement, they waited for the house to be built before getting married.

This delay caused the woman to break up.

My older brother is quite the romantic!

I will never look for it again...

Perhaps, what we can't have is always the best!

At dinner time, the whole family sat around the table, and the dishes were quite plentiful.

However, this abundance is only relative to Shi Hailong, the reborn individual.

Dried small fish, seafood collected while beachcombing.

But these foods are low in fat and oil, and offer no health benefits.

The reason why people living by the sea are so thin in this era is because they lack oil and fat.

You need coupons to buy pork fat and pork lard.

The production team only gets about seven or eight catties of rapeseed oil a year.

Many families go to the mountains to pick wild tea seeds and press them for oil.

Shi Hailong calculated the time; the wild tea seeds would be ripe soon, in about a month.

It usually happens around the time of the Cold Dew solar term.

Camellia seed oil, which will be very valuable in later generations, was not yet systematically cultivated and produced in this era.

They were all looking for wild ones.

There's no shortage of rice at home, and we also have corn and sweet potatoes to go with it.

Sweet potatoes are usually dried into dried sweet potato chips and added to rice porridge.

It can also be eaten dry, as a snack.

Rice porridge definitely needs some of that, plus a little cornmeal or something.

This is dinner.

The Shi family had enough food to eat, and they could even save their food coupons to exchange for other coupons.

Pickled bamboo shoots and dried anchovies are great accompaniments to rice.

There are also those small, worthless seafoods that you find while beachcombing.

After harvesting the valuable seafood, they were sent to the supply and marketing cooperative's purchasing point to be sold.

As Shi Hailong ate, he was lost in thought.

The parents and their eldest sister and brother would occasionally chat about the household responsibility system.

The two younger sisters would occasionally whisper about their friends in the village.

Only Shi Hailong ate in silence.

He then realized that the sale of fish catches was still subject to centralized purchase and distribution.

That is to say, there are no private dealers.

They can only be sold to the village's supply and marketing cooperative and the purchasing point of the state-owned aquatic products company in the town.

Seafood was subject to national planning and allocation, and the opening up of private trade and trafficking did not occur until 1984.

Of course, self-production and self-sales are unaffected.

However, it cannot be used across regions.

"Hailong, what are you thinking about?"

Shi Mu glanced at her and noticed that her second son was lost in thought, but she asked him with a mischievous smile.

Shi's father, Shi Haifeng, and Shi Hailan all glanced at Shi Hailong.

Shi Hailong knew exactly what his mother was about to say the moment he looked up.

It's nothing more than, are you thinking about Wu Guizhen, the one you saved?

Then he praised Wu Guizhen a lot, saying that he had experienced all of this.

Shi Hailong is determined to break these rules and also wants to take the opportunity to put forward some different viewpoints.

"I'm thinking about whether I should join the contracting group. I don't want to go to sea with the contracting group."

I want to do it myself...

Sure enough, these words immediately changed the subject.

However, his parents did not scold him. Shi Guangqian nodded and said:

"That's fine, we can't have the whole family join in."

You've only been at sea for a few months in total, and when you're not on a boat, you stay home helping with the farming in the mountains.

"Going beachcombing can earn you seven or eight yuan a month..."

Shi Mu He Caizhi naturally did not object.

Making a living at sea, no one wants all the men in their family to go out to sea, especially if they're all on the same boat.

Shi Hailong's words served as a reminder to He Caizhi, who turned to Shi Guangqian and said:

"Why don't you and Haifeng split up and go to different groups?"

Shi Guangqian naturally understood what his wife meant and immediately nodded.

"Hmm, how about we send Haifeng to Boss Chen's group..."

Upon hearing this, Shi Haifeng nodded, "Okay, there happen to be a few people I get along with over there..."

This approach effectively disperses the risk.

Because nobody knows what will happen after private contracting.

However, Shi Hailong spoke up to stop him, saying, "Brother, you should go to Yang Minghai's group!"

Shi Hailong knew that Boss Chen's motorboat was going to have an accident next year.

Of course, we must stop it.

Now everyone's eyes were on Shi Hailong again.

Shi Hailong also knew that he had little influence in his family and didn't speak out.

But nobody listened to him.

Shi Guangqian raised an eyebrow and said sternly, "Call me Master Hai, not Yang Minghai."

"You're being disrespectful; it wouldn't look good if someone heard that..."

Yang Minghai is the oldest among those with the surname Yang, and he is also quite old, so Shi's father disliked his son calling him by his given name.

Shi Hailong nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, it's Master Hai. I was just saying it at home."

I might have spoken too quickly, but I'm very careful about what I say in public.

I also think that Uncle Hai is a reliable person, and it shouldn't be bad for my brother to go on a ship with him..."

Neither Shi Guangqian nor He Caizhi denied this, saying that Haiye was indeed a reliable and steady person.

Although Shi Haifeng was somewhat unwilling, it was mainly because he was not close to many people with the surname Yang.

In the village, the only people he got along with and was close to were a few members of the Chen family who were around the same age.

However, since my parents and second brother all said so, I figured I might as well go with Haiye.

You have to work no matter where you go.

After dinner, Shi Hailong brewed a porcelain jar of tea and sat down under the ancient banyan tree.

Although it's autumn, it's still a bit hot.

The seawater wasn't actually that cold; he had a fever simply because he was weak.

After exhausting themselves rescuing people, people are easily agitated by the seawater.

This isn't enough physical training from working under the sun and wind!

He wasn't the tall, 1.8-meter-tall man typical of reborn individuals, nor did he have a body full of muscles.

He also lacked the unparalleled beauty of Pan An.

He's only 1.73 meters tall, very thin, and his appearance can only be described as slightly plain.

For this height, he's considered tall in this day and age.

However, he is indeed too thin, so he needs to work on his physique.

No special training is required; just keep working.

Just like in his previous life, after a few years on the ship, he developed a muscular physique.

Moreover, he looks very healthy because he is dark-skinned.

Except for the mother and eldest sister, who had to wash the pots and dishes, the rest of the Shi family went to the ancient banyan tree.

Shi Hailong took a sip of the hot tea, and it was indeed sweet and refreshing.

The tea leaves are wild tea from the mountains, and the water is stream water from the foot of the mountain. It's still the way things are these days!

Everything is completely natural.

Countless times, Shi Hailong has dreamt of this ancient banyan tree in the dead of night.

The family gathered together happily, chatting and laughing as they enjoyed the cool evening air.

His dream finally came true, and he returned once again.

When I was first reborn, my desire to avoid suffering again had already vanished.

I feel very fortunate now.

At this moment, the father and the eldest brother were talking about searching for their relatives again.

They searched for many years, but there was still no news.

Upon hearing this, Shi Hailong's heart stirred. He knew the whereabouts of his grandparents and several uncles and aunts.

And also my mother's maternal grandparents, uncles, and aunts.

Before liberation, they were all boat people living at sea. In the years after liberation, many things happened.

We got separated during that special period.

Anyway, the reasons are complicated, and Shi Hailong is not very clear about them either.

However, it wasn't until decades later, when both parents were no longer alive, that they were able to get in touch again.

However, by then the older generation had all passed away, and the younger generation had no feelings for them at all.

Even after finding it, it was all very ordinary.

Ok?

Suddenly, Shi Hailong had a flash of inspiration; he seemed to sense that he had found a direction for his initial funding.

The only question is whether we can get in touch at this time.

If you want to get started in this period, you need to get there early.

As the saying goes, "If you start early, you'll start early every time," but you can't rely on accumulating experience.

No matter how much they accumulate, they can never catch up with the three major surnames, those who control the means of production.

The contractors can earn hundreds or thousands of dollars per trip.

He's saving up a few dollars at a time, how long will it take him to save up?

Then we'll have to try something unconventional.

In fact, he had a few other ideas in mind that would allow him to get started quickly.

However, he hasn't made up his mind yet, because all of these decisions involve taking risks.

It's also improper, easily questioned, and more likely to be exposed later.

It is said that the first pot of gold in capital is never clean.

But he still couldn't make up his mind, or rather, he needed to think it over and consider it more carefully.

After all, he had just been reborn, so there was no rush.