Linlin knew that Lu Zeyu had connections, so she decided to report him. That evening, she went home and told her mother about it.

Lin Zhilan was unaware of the relationships within the compound, so she inquired with her parents-in-law.

They are not a large compound, but you can find out if you ask around.

In reality, only his eldest uncle held some real power in the government agency, and he was considered quite successful.

However, the Lu family has now fallen out with the family with whom they were originally engaged.

He's always looking for something better, what girl would want to date someone like that?

Lu Zeyu was also severely scolded by his family, and they didn't let him go out for the entire summer vacation.

This summer, Jiang Chengzhou graduated and was directly assigned to the Yingtian Military Region.

Yan Yuan has taken on several projects and is extremely busy right now.

Linlin misses home more than her boyfriend.

Su Pei has already started working, and she and Su Yao have returned to the island together.

Su Yao is now a grown woman.

However, he still has one flaw that he hasn't changed: he likes good-looking people.

My uncle's family is quite pleasing to the eye, with some members being beautiful and others handsome, except for Su Li, who is currently an unlucky child.

However, besides appreciating her beauty, Su Yao still liked her aunt the most because her aunt was the most fun-loving.

Lin Zhilan felt that the children were too old to be taken to the park for boating like they were when they were little, so she decided to take them out to sea for a real trip.

In fact, Lin Zhilan and Su Lang have often gone fishing at sea in the past two years, but they have been doing so secretly without Su Li's knowledge.

If you think about it carefully, this is Su Li's first time going to sea.

The boat was borrowed from fishermen, so we had to prepare our own diesel fuel.

Su Li was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep until midnight, and when she woke up the next morning, it was still dark.

Fortunately, he was already quite dark-skinned this summer, so it wasn't very noticeable.

After a quick breakfast, everyone packed their things and headed to the pier.

The dock was full of fishing boats, some large and some small and simple. Gusts of sea breeze blew by, and the air was filled with a salty smell.

Now that reform and opening up have been implemented, the lives of fishermen on the islands have not changed much. However, more and more households are now taking on large-scale contracting responsibilities, with village collectives contracting out fishing boats and nets to boat crews, collecting only a fixed fee, and keeping all the remaining profits from the fish.

Fishermen hand over a portion of their catch to the seafood company according to the contract, while any surplus fish and shrimp can be freely sold at markets or fairs.

Although going to sea is hard work, the income is quite considerable.

Many young and middle-aged people make a living by fishing. Some go with large fishing boats and return after a few days or ten days, while most sail in dilapidated small fishing boats and can usually return on the same day.

If you're lucky, you can catch dozens of kilograms of fish and earn more than ten or twenty yuan a day, which is more than what a worker earns.

Fishing is still a risky and strenuous job, and people would prefer to work as laborers if there were more job opportunities.

Lin Zhilan prepared water shoes for the children and had them change into them at the dock. She then instructed several children to put on life jackets.

Once aboard, Su Lang started the engine, and thick smoke began to billow from the stern. The small boat, now untied from its ropes, began to move forward.

"Ah—" Su Li shouted excitedly as she lay on the deck.

The sea breeze was a bit chilly in the early morning, and Lin Zhilan held the two girls in her arms.

Linlin was slightly better off, but Su Yao was experiencing this for the first time.

As the boat gradually left the shore, the two girls were initially afraid, but later they were drawn to the sea. They lay on the boat, gazing at the ocean, their eyes shining.

The sea I saw at the beach is different from the sea I see now.

You can touch the seawater with your hand.

Once you leave the aquaculture area by the sea, you can explore the deeper parts of the ocean.

Su Lang first led the children to the net.

This time he prepared a gillnet, with a rectangular lead weight at the bottom that would pull the net down. As long as the fish or shrimp line went up, it would get "stuck".

The children were quite excited, eager to immediately pull up the net they had set to see if they had caught anything.

However, this process will take several hours.

Lin Zhilan and Su Lang began teaching the children how to fish.

Super simple version, it doesn't even have a fishing rod, just sturdy silver line.

The bait consisted of dead shrimp that fishermen couldn't sell, which were thrown on the dock and picked up by Su Lang.

Tie a thin thread to the hook, put a dead shrimp on the hook, hold one end of the silver thread, and you can put the hook in the seawater and wait for the fish to bite.

Linlin and Su Yao looked at the only fishing rod in Lin Zhilan's hand and silently asked, "Dad/Uncle, why don't we have a fishing rod?"

Su Lang was skewering shrimp for Lin Zhilan when she heard this. Without even looking up, she said, "It's good enough that I brought you out to play. Where did you get so many fishing rods? If you stayed home with us every day, Dad and Uncle would buy them for you."

Su Li, who was leaning against the side of the boat, turned around when she heard this. "What about me?"

Su Li once disliked her name because it had too many strokes.

Later, when the school teacher asked them to write an essay about the origin of their names, he asked Lin Zhilan and learned that the name "Li" was taken from his mother's name.

Su Li has fallen in love with the name again.

His older siblings all went to school in the capital, leaving him alone at home to "keep company" with his parents. As a result, he didn't even have a fishing rod. Who could tolerate that?

Lin Zhilan smiled and said, "How about this, if you catch a lot of fish today, we can keep some for our own family to eat, and you can sell the rest at your own stall. The money you make can be used to buy fishing rods."

The three children's eyes lit up, and they all nodded, carefully pulling their fishing lines tight.

Sea fishing isn't easy. By noon, only Lin Zhilan and Su Lang had caught a few small fish, which were released back into the sea.

Linlin and Yaoyao had tried hooking the fish a few times, but they weren't very skilled, and the fish would escape before they could even pull them up.

Since they hadn't caught any fish and everyone was hungry, Lin Zhilan took out the prepared rice balls.

She learned this from the fishermen.

Once the steamed rice has cooled to a temperature that is not too hot to handle, rub a little fine salt on your palms to prevent sticking. Then, pinch off a ball of rice and flatten it into a small round cake. Place fish floss and dried radish in the center, then gather the rice together and repeatedly knead it into an oval shape. Finally, wrap it with a layer of roasted seaweed. A fragrant rice ball is ready.

The salty and savory fish floss soaks into the rice grains, and the radish has a refreshing sweet and sour taste that perfectly balances the fishy smell of the sea. It's so fresh that it gets more fragrant the more you chew.

Although they didn't catch any fish, the rice balls made by their mother/aunt still comforted the children's stomachs.

Having been at sea for several hours, the two older girls were getting a little bored because they hadn't caught any fish. However, they had both brought their own drawing boards and started drawing to pass the time.

Su Li often says that her older sister is a little bookworm.

In fact, Lin Zhilan felt that she was the bookworm.

She doesn't have any special talents or hobbies. In her past life, all she did was study. She likes to cook, which is also her way of relieving stress.

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