Reborn in 1981: My Life as a Fisherman

At dinner time, Shi Hailong sat quietly and ate his meal in silence.

Because there was an invisible, immense pressure at the dinner table.

The older and younger sisters also sensed something was wrong and behaved very well.

Shi Guangqian and He Caizhi, as well as Shi Hailan and Shi Haifeng, would glance at Shi Hailong from time to time.

The reason is the materials that Shi Hailong bought.

Shi Hailong used the same rhetoric, but Chen Dabiao and his group envied him.

At home, however, he was always rude and hostile, even though the money he spent came from Shi Hailong selling conch shells.

Shi Guangqian and He Caizhi, Shi Hailan and Shi Haifeng, all felt extremely sorry for him.

Naturally, they didn't give him a pleasant look.

I spent a little over 150 yuan to buy these wire mesh panels.

Shi Mu really wanted to beat the second son up again.

Also, she didn't expect that this second son, who was so quiet, was actually quite cunning.

She was quite surprised that the conch shells she had dug up had been hidden until now.

"How much do you have left?"

Finally, the Stone Mother spoke.

Shi Hailong feigned ignorance, looking up with a blank expression. "Huh?"

Shi Mu immediately got angry, "What nonsense! Didn't you say you sold the conch pearls?"

What about money?

"It can't be exactly 150, can it?"

Shi Haifeng wanted to laugh, but he held it in.

Shi Hailan glanced at her second brother's face, where the bruises hadn't faded yet.

Feeling a pang of sympathy, she said, "Father, Mother, Hailong just wants to do something respectable..."

Upon hearing this, Shi Guangqian sighed, "Xiao Lan, don't be so protective. This is 150 yuan."

It takes workers three or four months to earn these wages.

This kid actually spent it all like that, even on some new-style fishing cage.

I think he's just messing around.

He Caizhi nodded, "We need to start preparing by the end of the year to find a wife for Haifeng."

They've already found a matchmaker to talk to people in Zhuxigou.

Once the agreement is finalized, we will definitely build a house.

Your father and I are still struggling to make ends meet, and you, on the other hand, don't know how to help the family now that you have money.

All you do is cause trouble...

Shi Hailong muttered to himself, "That girl from the Li family in Zhuxigou died young..."

Fortunately, Shi Hailong mumbled something in his throat, and it seemed no one could hear him clearly.

The stone mother angrily asked, "What were you muttering just now?"

She thought it was Shi Hailong refuting her, which made her even angrier.

Shi Hailong also realized that he had almost let something slip.

Feeling fortunate, he quickly said with a grin, "I said that once I earn money, I'll hand it over to help my older brother get married."

Upon hearing Shi Hailong's words, Shi's mother's expression softened slightly.

But the stone sea fish, standing to the side, suddenly revealed the truth:

"Mother, my second brother said that the Li family girl from Zhuxigou was destined to die young..."

Upon hearing his younger sister speak, Shi Hailong knew he was in trouble.

He immediately picked up his bowl, took two bites of food, and quickly got up and walked out.

Sure enough, a roar came from that direction.

And there was his father's cursing.

Shi Hailong accelerated and ran away.

Sitting under the ancient banyan tree, Shi Hailong finished his rice and was completely satisfied.

Looking at the colorful clouds filling the sky in the southwest corner, I smiled.

It's good that my younger sister brought it up; he didn't know how to say it anyway.

If you rashly stop your older brother from finding a wife, what will your family think of him?

Perhaps the term "short-lived ghost" is the most appropriate way to describe it.

As for the girl really dying after the New Year, when asked how he could tell, he had already come up with an excuse.

Wasn't there a crazy monk before?

Just push it to him, and say that the mad monk taught him some things before.

The eldest sister's marriage is easily changed.

The elder brother's excuse was a bit more complicated, and the mad monk's excuse wasn't perfect, but there weren't any other perfect excuses either.

With the "mad monk" theory, there will be a ready-made excuse for many things in the future.

That's a good thing.

Everything is attributed to metaphysics, although superstition has not yet been revived.

But over thousands of years, these ideas have been ingrained in the hearts of ordinary people.

Just like when they went to sea, during the production team days, they would secretly worship the Goddess of the Sea.

Now it's becoming increasingly public, and nobody cares anymore.

The older sister came over and brought him a teacup.

Shi Hailong took it, and Shi Hailan took the bowl and chopsticks away, but Shi Hailong still took out fifty yuan.

"Sister, there's only fifty yuan left. Give it to Mom."

There was no other way; I still had about twenty yuan on me, which was enough.

He had prepared the fifty dollars separately.

Because he knows his parents too well.

This is also why he bought the materials first and then consulted his parents, because he didn't want to discuss it with them.

He would then become a penniless pauper again, with not a single penny left.

Sure enough, after the older sister took the money back, everything was fine, and her parents looked much better.

Soon his mother and eldest sister went to the dock to gut and clean the small fish.

All three groups are coming back together; all the women in the village will be working overtime tonight.

From afar, you could see that the supply and marketing cooperative and the dock were already brightly lit.

Just like back in the days of the production teams.

Shi Guangqian and Shi Haifeng, carrying teacups, also came to the ancient banyan tree.

"Hailong, your mother said that since you've already bought them, you should tell her what to do with them tomorrow."

She and your older sister helped you with it.

And don't say things like "someone's going to die young" in the future; people will come to your door and yell at you.

The last sentence was spoken very sternly by Shi's father.

Shi Haifeng wasn't bothered; he didn't even know what the other person looked like.

All I know is that his surname is Li, and that's what my mother told me.

I just don't understand why my second brother would say such a thing.

Shi Hailong thought for a moment, glanced at his elder brother, and said, "Father, elder brother, I'm not just making this up."

I heard it from people in Zhuxigou, who were in the town.

They said the matchmaker in Lantau Village was going to introduce the sickly Li family's son to the eldest son of the Shi family in Lantau Village.

They also said that the Li family's daughter was sickly from a young age, like Lin Daiyu, and the fortune teller said she would die young...

Shi Hailong discovered that over the past few days, he had begun to truly integrate back into this era.

And they've become so shameless, spouting lies without even blushing.

Compared to my past self at this time, I was like a completely different person.

Both Mr. Shi and his elder brother frowned after hearing this.

It's clear that Shi Hailong isn't lying.

Then we must treat this matter properly and not listen to the matchmaker's one-sided story anymore.

We need to go to Zhuxigou to investigate.

Shi Guangqian nodded. "Alright, even if you heard it from someone, don't talk about it outside."

"By the way, that conch shell you dug up, can it really sell for over two hundred yuan?"

Shi Hailong hummed in agreement, then said, "They say it's called something like Meilezhu."

I just wanted to give it a try, I didn't expect it to be so valuable..."

Upon hearing this, Shi Guangqian sighed, "A few years ago, I heard that someone in the village had unearthed conch shells."

I never expected it to sell for so much money.

Shi Haifeng perked up and said, "Then let's go beachcombing and look for it when the tide goes out tonight..."

Shi Guangqian laughed and said, "You think there are that many coconut snails?"

Besides, not all coconut snails contain beads.

Shi Hailong's eyes lit up. "There should be a high tide tonight, right?"

Mr. Shi hummed in agreement, "Yesterday was the first day of the lunar new year, and these two days are the spring tide."

Shi Hailong immediately said, "I'll get up tonight and go beachcombing to see if I can find anything good."

During high tide, the water rises high and recedes far.

The coastline of Dayu Village stretches for more than ten miles, extending southwest to the border of Xiaoyu Village.

It borders Haichaotou Village of Haichao Town to the northeast.

However, the northeast side is a rocky beach with cliffs, so few people go there.

However, at low tide, that area of ​​shallow water, stretching two or three hundred meters, is exposed.

Shi Hailong decided to go to the rocky beach to the northeast at night to go beachcombing.

Because the beach near the village will be too crowded.

Although they can retreat to the beach a few hundred meters away, the whole village will go there.

Few people visit rocky beaches, partly because they are difficult to walk on, and partly because they are full of rocks and puddles.

Visibility is poor at night, making accidents very easy to happen.

People died in that place during the production team era.

Some people accidentally stepped on tigerfish and died from the excruciating pain for days and nights.

Some people slipped off the rocks and couldn't get back up, and were killed by the rolling waves.

Even more terrifying are the rocky caves; if you accidentally fall in, you'll be swept away by the surging seawater.

They were taken to the depths of a dark, sunless cave and suffocated there.