Reborn in 1981: My Life as a Fisherman

Shi Hailong was very satisfied with Xuchang's new service attitude.

Who says that the people in the supply and marketing cooperatives these days are like big shots?

Xu Changxin is very conscious of maintaining relationships with major clients.

Shi Hailong bought two cans of malted milk powder, two jin of peach shortbread, and half a jin of White Rabbit candy.

That's all for now. I'll buy more after we finish eating.

For the same reason, there are no airtight plastic bags for storage these days.

It won't taste good if left out for too long.

Malted milk powder is fine; even if it clumps, you can eat it dry.

After paying, Shi Hailong carried the money out the door. Just as he left the supply and marketing cooperative, he encountered a young man.

Shi Hailong recognized him as Chen Yaozhou, whose surname was Chen and whose seniority was quite high.

He must be only fifteen or sixteen years old now, covered in dirt, and dressed in even more tattered clothes than he is.

As they passed each other, Shi Hailong paid no attention. He knew this person from his past life was an ingrate.

When he was a child, his father fell into the sea and was never found, and his mother ran away with someone else.

I was raised by my uncles and aunts in turns from childhood to adulthood.

Before Chen Yaozhou's grandfather died, he was a goose and duck herder in the village.

Raising geese and ducks was a characteristic of the production team era, meaning that every household owned both geese and ducks.

The animals were raised by a single person, and at that time each household had only one quota per person.

For example, if there are eight people in Shi Hailong's family, then regardless of whether it's geese or ducks, the total number can only be eight.

Each household marked their geese and ducks with bright red and green paint.

Then they are handed over to the people in charge of unified grazing.

They can only take them home and raise them themselves when the production team has free time.

However, this model was discontinued after Chen Yaozhou's grandfather passed away.

The production team will no longer assign a herder...

Shi Hailong was surprised when Chen Yaozhou called out to him, "Brother Hailong, I came to see you."

Shi Hailong was surprised. Why did Chen Yaozhou want to see him?

"Looking for me? What's up?"

Chen Yaozhou's hair was messy, his face was covered in grime, and he was extremely thin.

However, at this moment, Chen Yaozhou's eyes were bright, or rather, filled with expectant hope.

"Brother Hailong, could you lend me a few fish trap nets? I need to make money too."

Upon hearing this, Shi Hailong immediately understood that he had seen Zhao Hu delivering a fish trap.

I guess this kid also asked Zhao Hu about the situation.

I was waiting for him at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Shi Hailong shook his head. Although he disliked this person, he did not mock or ridicule him.

Instead, he said very seriously and calmly, "Yaozhou, I really want to help you and lend you my fish trap."

But my abilities are limited; you can discuss it with your uncles and elders.

I think they will definitely help you.

Don't blame me for helping Zhao Hu but not you, because there's really no one in Zhao Hu's family who can help him...

This kid has so many uncles and cousins. If he wants to make money properly, all his uncles and cousins ​​will do.

They certainly won't refuse to help.

But this kid is an ingrate and doesn't know what's good for him.

It's not too bad now, but his uncles and aunts who raised him will be tormented to the point of despair by this kid in the future.

Even if Shi Hailong didn't have enough fishnets, he wouldn't help this guy, even if he had fishnets he couldn't use.

Everyone who saw Chen Yaozhou's ghastly appearance assumed that his uncles and aunts had treated him badly.

Actually, this was all done on purpose by the kid himself.

To deliberately make himself look like this, you can imagine how disgusting this guy is.

Chen Yaozhou looked disappointed. "Brother Hailong, then help me out when you've made more money in the future..."

Shi Hailong was speechless. "Chen Yaozhou, you don't really need to do this. Go back and think about it carefully."

In fact, everyone in the village knows that your uncles, aunts, and cousins ​​have treated you well.

Your father's death, your mother's...

In the end, Shi Hailong didn't finish his sentence and simply walked away.

I'm too lazy to talk about it; it has nothing to do with him.

He is no longer afraid of anyone. After Lin Shaowen and Yang Guangwu, he doesn't believe anyone in the village would dare to mess with him.

It wasn't that he looked down on Chen Yaozhou; he genuinely looked down on him.

Chen Yaozhou watched Shi Hailong turn the corner and disappear, then walked away dejectedly.

Indeed, he dared not harbor any resentment towards Shi Hailong.

A few days ago, he might have done it, but after yesterday, he didn't dare.

In the past, whenever he saw Lin Shaowen or Yang Guangwu, it was as if he had seen a ghost.

Not to mention Shi Hailong, who crippled both of them.

When he got home, his mother glared at him as soon as she saw what he was carrying.

"I knew you had money to burn. Why buy all this stuff when it's not a holiday?"

Are you not going to live a normal life anymore?

"Hurry up and hand over the money you have on you..."

Shi Mu immediately reached out and began searching Shi Hailong's pockets.

Shi Hailong had already prepared his explanation: "Mother, I bought it to nourish my body."

I felt really weak after yesterday's fight...

Stone Mother completely ignored her, "You're still scared? You're about to kill someone and you're still scared?"

Shi Hailong didn't hide the money from selling the fish, so his mother took it all.

After receiving several hundred yuan, Shi's mother's expression improved considerably, and she even said to Shi Hailong:

"These will be used to pay for medical expenses later. I'll keep them for you so you don't squander them..."

Shi Hailong deliberately made a bitter face, but his mother ignored him.

Shi Hailong didn't put the things he bought in his own room, but placed them on the incense table in the central hall.

We bought it to eat.

Moreover, they look nice placed on the incense table. These two cans of malted milk powder give you a sense of a better life.

Yang Guangming didn't come over today; he's probably at home making cage nets.

The cage netting for the Shi family is almost finished.

Let's wrap things up this afternoon.

His father and older brother also returned around 2 o'clock.

They were carrying two large baskets of small miscellaneous fish, along with some snails and shellfish.

There was nothing of value, something Shi Hailong had already guessed.

If it weren't for the fact that nobody wanted the small fish and shellfish, his father probably wouldn't have picked them up.

Shi Hailong quickly tied up all the ropes of the fish trap, while his mother and eldest sister went to deal with the small fish.

His father and older brother also helped out.

Shi Hailong would occasionally glance up at the horizon.

I'm calculating whether I can remove all the fish traps today.

The typhoon will definitely arrive tonight or tomorrow.

Last night, only the forwards arrived, but judging from the clouds on the horizon, it was clear that the main players hadn't arrived yet.

But it will be soon.

With decades of experience, Shi Hailong has great faith in his intuition.

It's not a judgment, but a feeling.

Or you could call it intuition.

His family didn't have a radio, and even if they did, the weather forecast was useless these days.

His intuition was more accurate than his intuition.

These days, fishermen rely on experience, and some can even tell if a typhoon is coming just by sniffing the sea breeze.

Shi Hailong could smell the difference in the air.

To put it simply, it's just a change in humidity and salinity.

All the fish traps were tied with the final ropes and strung together in groups.

Shi Hailong then went to find the old buoy and the stones.

Shi Guangqian looked over and walked over. "Second brother, are you planning to go today?"

Shi Hailong nodded. "I want to set up all the ground nets before the typhoon."

"The weather might change, and the harvest might be even greater. Didn't you all have a huge harvest today?"

Mr. Shi agreed, saying that today's harvest was indeed greater than the previous ones.

It sold for over 460.

It was full of swimming crabs and prawns, as well as a lot of scallops and small groupers.

"Alright, your brother and I will go downstairs in a bit..."

Shi Hailong shook his head and said directly, "Father, my elder brother and I can go. You stay home and rest."

Hearing this, Shi Haifeng, who was helping to clean up the small fish, washed his hands and came over.

Then the father and his two sons helped with the final preparations.

With everything ready, the three men carried the fish traps on their backs and headed towards the dock.

Upon arriving at the dock, Shi Hailong could see several people standing in the distance.

Upon closer inspection, one of them was Yang Guangtao.

His muscular, dark skin certainly gave him the look of a tough guy.

This guy threatened to beat him up, and now that they've run into each other, are they going to fight again?

However, Shi Hailong was overthinking things. Yang Guangtao and several partners with the surnames Yang and Chen were involved.

Upon seeing the Shi family father and his two sons, he turned and left.

Yang Guangtao, in particular, only glanced at Shi Hailong and remained silent.

Shi Hailong glanced at the women mending nets and drying goods not far away.

Then he glanced at his rented small boat, sandwiched between the motorboats.

He seemed to understand something in his heart; Yang Guangtao and his group had probably already set their sights on his small boat.

However, he also knew that this day was only a matter of time.

It seems that once the typhoon passes, he will also go to the shipyard to buy a boat and get ready.

When I get home tonight, I'll discuss it with my parents and start building momentum for borrowing money...