Reborn in 1981: My Life as a Fisherman

After his rebirth, Shi Hailong stayed home for three days to recuperate and did not go out.

I didn't even go beachcombing. One reason is that I need to plan many things, and the other is that I need to adapt to this era as soon as possible.

Although I experienced this era in my previous life, there are still many things to adapt to after being reborn.

In other words, things like clothing, food, housing, and transportation are really hard to adapt to all at once.

So, reality is reality after all. It's really not easy for a modern person to adapt to this era all at once.

It's hard to go from extravagance to frugality!

Also, you need to be careful when you speak, so as not to say anything too futuristic.

My father and eldest brother also boarded the ship, returning every day or two, instead of going to the open sea.

My father worked in Zheng Nengquan's contracting group, and my elder brother worked in Yang Minghai's contracting group.

Over the next few days, Shi Hailong, along with his mother and elder sister, went into the mountains to dig sweet potatoes, then washed, sliced, and dried them.

During this time, Shi Hailong also picked some wild tea and learned about the situation of wild tea seeds.

The mountain land in the village was allocated to each household at the beginning of the year.

Shijia has a large population and several acres of mountainous land.

Meanwhile, Shi Hailong also began preparations to excavate those silver dollars.

He spent several nights thinking about this.

The final decision was to start with the treasures in the landlord's old house.

He can't do anything without money.

With money, you can rent a boat, and with a boat, you can go out to sea.

Go dig for abalone.

You can also buy materials and make your own fish traps.

During this period, bamboo woven cages were used along the coast, and wire mesh cages were not yet available.

Come to think of it, this thing didn't start coming from the Taihu Lake region of Zhejiang until the mid-1980s.

Besides, it used to be a production team, and nobody did this before.

Most fishing gear is made of bamboo because bamboo is abundant in this area.

So, he might just be the inventor of the wire mesh fish trap.

Of course, you should hide it well at the beginning to delay the use of the cage net and prevent others from imitating it.

The three major surnames in the village are wealthy and have abundant resources.

Once it's imitated, it certainly can't match the scale.

Although I know it's impossible to hide for long, let's try to delay it as much as possible!

So we have to raise money first; without money, nothing can really get started.

This age is also awkward; no one listens to what you say, and no one believes what you want to do.

Otherwise, just contract the diving equipment, go and catch some abalone, and everything will be solved reasonably.

To put it bluntly, they're too young, the kind of age where, as the saying goes, "a young man with no beard is unreliable."

Therefore, it's impossible not to take risks; everything has a beginning.

In other words, everything is difficult at the beginning!

Furthermore, one's first pot of gold is rarely honorable, just like those people from the three major surnames.

From now on, they will all be captains and major ship owners, with many ships under their command, as well as deep-sea fishing operations.

But their starting point was to contract the production team's boats.

Then they quickly accumulated funds, and these funds belonged to all the villagers...

Although the landlord's old house is now a production team warehouse, Shi Hailong knows the location of the hidden treasure.

I experienced it in my past life; I witnessed firsthand what happened when houses were demolished and dug up.

It's not underground, nor at the foot of the wall, but inside the wall where the incense table is located in the central hall.

From this position, he could easily hollow out the brickwork from the outside and take out the silver dollars and small yellow croakers.

Then the blue bricks were rebuilt.

So he went to the lime pit at the village brigade headquarters and secretly dug up a small jar of lime paste.

Place it in your backyard, and when you need to use it, mix it with some wood ash.

It is used to lay blue bricks and make mortar joints.

The walls of the landlord's old house were made of blue bricks, and the mortar joints were made of lime mixed with plant ash.

It should be easy to hollow out the gaps.

Shi Hailong prepared an old sickle head, the thickness of which was just right for cleaning the mortar joints.

With all preparations complete, Shi Hailong began his operation.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were few, and the sea breeze was gentle.

His father and elder brother had both gone out to sea, so he would go out at night without his elder brother noticing.

When it was almost time, Shi Hailong went out alone.

He had a folded ammonia fertilizer bag tucked into his waistband; these things are rare these days.

They were all obtained by my parents back when we were in the production team.

Ammonia fertilizer will no longer be available; from now on, it will be compound fertilizer or urea.

But this period is for ammonia fertilizer, as well as ammonia water from liquid ammonia fertilizer.

Therefore, woven bags are a rare item.

Every time the production team applied fertilizer, the fertilizer bags were fought over by the villagers.

One hand carries the mixed lime paste.

After going around in circles, we finally arrived at the landlord's old house, which wasn't far from the brigade headquarters.

There weren't many other houses near the landlord's old residence.

Shi Hailong arrived at the back of the landlord's old house and determined the location of the hidden treasure.

Then he took a conch shell out of the lime jar.

I went to the foot of the mountain to fetch water from the stream, first wetting the area I wanted to dig, and then waited for a while.

He then took the old sickle head and slowly began digging along the cracks in the mortar...

While digging, he also watered the soil from time to time, and kept an eye out for any sounds around him.

Including the sounds and noises inside the old house.

He didn't bring a flashlight; he only had one very old flashlight at home.

His father treated him like a treasure, even locking the dry cell batteries in a drawer.

In those days, when people went beachcombing at night, they used gas lamps, just like the gas lamps used on ships.

Flashlights are rare because the batteries don't last long.

It's not as bright as a gas lamp.

As for headlamps, forget about them; they don't exist in this day and age.

Fortunately, Shi Hailong was young and had good eyesight; at least with some moonlight, he could vaguely make out the general outline.

Also, the moon seemed to be real in that era, much brighter than in later times.

Persistence pays off. Through Shi Hailong's unremitting efforts, he finally obtained the first blue brick.

Now, it's much easier to work with the other bricks.

After three bricks were removed intact, Shi Hailong also found a series of silver coins wrapped in yellow oil paper.

The small yellow croaker was wrapped separately and placed on top of the silver dollar.

Shi Hailong took it out, weighed it in his hand, and felt that the weight was not right.

So they untied it to check, and there were actually ten small yellow croakers inside.

Didn't those people in my past life say that there were only three?

Who embezzled it?

However, Shi Hailong chuckled and stuffed it directly into his pocket.

This heavy feeling is so reassuring!

Then they started taking out silver dollars one envelope at a time, a hundred dollars per envelope.

You can tell they are all unopened silver dollars.

It wasn't until he could no longer touch them that Shi Hailong realized there were 4,500 silver dollars.

A total of forty-five letters.

However, he wasn't dwelling on it at the moment; in his previous life, he only had a little over two thousand.

Instead, they immediately grabbed the jar and started laying bricks.

The old sickle head was used as a trowel, and Shi Hailong was also skilled at building walls.

For many years afterward, there was a house-building boom in the village. He had learned how to build houses by watching others build them in his previous life.

Not to mention that he was already very skilled with his hands, and he became a bricklayer.

Later, when he built his own house, it was a joint effort between him and the villagers who helped him.

They just hired a carpenter...

At this moment, Shi Hailong was not nervous at all; on the contrary, he became even calmer.

Ultimately, he's an old soul; this is a small matter.

Slowly repair the mortar wall and make all the mortar joints perfect.

Then I grabbed a handful of wild grass and wiped it on the patched area to make it look more natural.

Finally, I straightened out the weeds to cover up the newly patched area as much as possible.

Everything's done, and it's getting late.

Shi Hailong slung the bag over his shoulder, carried the jar, and once again circled the foot of the mountain to return home.

Of course, it wasn't enough to move everything in one trip; it took two round trips to move everything back.

Back at the foot of the mountain in his backyard, Shi Hailong buried the small yellow croaker and the silver dollar in two separate places.

He only took out ten silver dollars and buried the rest.

Even if these ten silver dollars are discovered, it will cause a lot of trouble.

Therefore, even if he had a way to make money, he couldn't cash it out at this time.

These days, you have to be extremely careful; you can never be too careful.

After burying it, Shi Hailong washed himself by the stream and prepared to go back to the house.

Huh?

Are there lights on the beach in the distance?

Who would be at the beach at this time?

This isn't the time for low tide, is it?