Reborn in 1994, escaping from marriage and going sea fishing, I won!

Seeing that Tang Xiaoyu was being tricked, she also ran towards Brother Zhang Jiange.

Her brothers were all busy and not in Sifang Island, but her grandfather's bodyguard Zhang Jiange always came to pick her up.

Liu Meilan remembered Zhang Jian's kindness.

Brother Zhang Jiange hasn't been home for more than a year and will be recovering in June next year.

This year during the Chinese New Year, I bought more seafood and asked Brother Zhang Jian to send them back home.

"Meilan, sit tight." Zhang Jian rode a bicycle with Liu Meilan.

"Okay, Brother Zhang Jian." Liu Meilan replied, "By the way, Brother Zhang Jian, do you have a girlfriend?"

Zhang Jian replied: "Yes! I will get married when I am ready to be discharged from the army."

"Congratulations, Brother Zhang Jian." Liu Meilan smiled and asked, "Where are you from?"

Zhang Jian replied: "We are from Fujian Province. Our place is poor, with many mountains and little land. After the reform and opening up, many people sneaked abroad to work. Those who left early and established themselves abroad took the whole village with them."

"I make money and go home to build a house. The journey is long and I can only come back once a year. It would be a pity if I don't come back to live in the nice houses they build."

"But I understand them. If they can't make money in their hometown and don't have any connections, they can make a lot of money washing dishes abroad. I hope they will have a better life abroad if they leave their hometown."

Hearing this, Liu Meilan was startled and asked again: "Brother Zhang Jian, have you ever thought about staying in Shenzhen to work?"

Zhang Jian shook his head. "Meilan, I know your good intentions. You want me to stay here so I can make a lot of money. I've already heard about this from Wu Yong and Zhou Ze."

"I am the eldest grandson of the Zhang family. My four uncles, six cousins, and many other people, including my aunt, cousin, and aunt, have all gone abroad. My grandfather's branch is the direct descendant of the Zhang family and is responsible for guarding our Zhangjia Village."

"If I stay here, I can make money, but my Zhang family may be left empty-handed. If I can't make it abroad, my relatives will have no way out."

Hearing this, Liu Meilan was stunned. "So that's how it is, Brother Zhang Jian, you are right to think so. I want to ask, visas are not easy to get now, how can you make so many people go abroad when they want to?"

Zhang Jian chuckled, "We don't need a visa, we just need to ask Mazu for her approval."

"Well...what if the Holy Grail shows disagreement?" Liu Meilan asked again.

Zhang Jian laughed again, "If Mazu agrees, I'll throw it."

"Haha!" Liu Meilan laughed, "Great."

Zhang Jian also smiled, "May Mazu bless us! Fortunately, everyone in our village has reliable people. If people from the same village go abroad together, they will be united, know each other well, and will not be easily bullied. If they go abroad individually, it may not be the case."

"Although life abroad is easier than at home, it is also much more dangerous. Unlike our country, where people are not rational, the so-called legal system abroad is a lie and serves the capitalists."

"Therefore, many people in our village want to make money abroad and come back to retire in the future. Their roots are here. Abroad is just abroad, not home."

Hearing this, Liu Meilan smiled and said, "Everywhere has advantages and disadvantages. It is enough to know where the roots are."

"Yes." Zhang Jian said with a smile.

Liu Meilan was curious, "Brother Zhang Jian, if your group doesn't go out and stays to look after the family, the money you earn in a year won't be as much as what you earn in a month. Aren't you afraid that others will become rich and your family will be left with no money?"

Zhang Jian laughed, "Don't worry, other people don't know. Anyway, when my uncle and aunt come back, they will give my grandfather money. Grandpa's money belongs to my father, and my father's money is left to me."

"Although I was serving in the army and never went home, my uncles and aunts paid for the house I would marry in. It has three floors up and three floors down and an attic, and it looks very nice."

Liu Meilan was relieved, "That's great, your family must be very united."

Zhang Jian nodded, "Of course, who knows what will happen in the future? One more way may mean one more way out in the future. Our country is poor now, but it doesn't mean it will be poor in the future. My aunts and uncles are abroad, and if there is chaos abroad, they can still run back to China."

"My grandfather told my uncles and aunts that we are poor and earning money through labor abroad is not shabby. But anyone who speaks ill of China and smears it abroad is not a member of the Zhang family and we will never accept them and will erase them from the family tree."

Liu Meilan was surprised, "The old man is very far-sighted!"

Zhang Jian was proud, "Of course, a nest of gold or silver is not as good as your own doghouse. Besides, a son will never dislike his mother's ugliness. Our country is poor, but it will not be poor forever!"

"Grandpa used this method to tell the family that they should be responsible for their words and actions outside. In fact, it was also to leave them a way out. Don't think that just because you have some experience outside, you can be so arrogant and cut off your own way out."

Liu Meilan benefited a lot from chatting with Zhang Jian.

Everyone has a way to survive, but as long as there is a bottom line.

Being poor, it is not shameful to make money, but one must not betray, otherwise one will lose one's roots and become a rootless duckweed.

When people are young, they may sneer at this, but when they get older, it’s different.

The next morning, while eating breakfast, Liu Meilan said to her grandfather, "Grandpa, when you go shopping for groceries, please buy some dried seafood for Zhang Jian's family and send it over as New Year's gifts."

Old Master Liu nodded, "Don't worry, I know what's going on. Xiao Zhang is by my side and takes care of me, which is really great. His family lives in the mountains, and there is no seafood. Sending dried seafood is the most suitable."

"Okay, I'm going to sea." Liu Meilan felt warm all over after eating the soup dumplings.

"Meilan, take care!" Grandpa Liu sent his granddaughter to the dock and watched her board the boat.

"Well, don't worry, Grandpa." Liu Meilan smiled and stepped onto the ocean again.

Fu Chen wanted to come and see Liu Meilan these days, but he was never available.

When I had some free time, I wanted to invite Liu Meilan to dinner, but Liu Meilan was out at sea and was not there.

Looking at the endless sea, Fu Chen fell into deep thought.

What should I do if I really want to see Liu Meilan?

Chen An saw this and said, "Captain, stop looking. We are late. Captain Meilan has gone out to sea."

Zhang Meng snickered, "Our company commander has fallen."

Fu Chen glanced at Chen An and Zhang Meng, and for the first time he didn't glare at them.

After the rest, the boatmen were in good spirits.

They have checked the account and the commission has been credited.

Those commissions make their hearts beat faster.

People with family backgrounds like Xu Kaifa and Tang Changping will not be scolded if they don't help when their parents fall over.

The family status rose sharply.

The women at home have also become gentler and will no longer complain just because their men smoke a pack of good cigarettes.

The child became more obedient because his father gave him more pocket money.

The status of female boatmen at home has also been greatly improved.

I am not allowed to do any housework.

The husband does the work at home. If the husband doesn't do it, his parents-in-law and children will do it.

Economic ability determines family status, which is too realistic.

Mrs. Chen, who used to be reluctant to spend money, has changed her stingy behavior.

She took advantage of the two days of rest to make delicious food and send it to her daughter who lived in the school dormitory.

Not only that, I also bought my daughter nice clothes, shoes and school bags.

Seeing the happy smiles of her two daughters, Mrs. Chen felt sweeter than drinking honey.

It was such a good decision that I didn’t go back to my hometown!

My hometown is not only poor, but also patriarchal.

Not only will her husband’s pension be lost, but her two daughters will also grow up in a depressing atmosphere.

Now, every month, she sends half of her pension back to her hometown to her parents-in-law to support them on behalf of her deceased husband.

The remaining half is used to raise children.

Plus, she is making money now and her life is prosperous.

As for her parents' home, forget it. Ever since her parents were demanding money when she got married and asked for a dowry of 500 yuan, she has no parents' home anymore.

I still remember that in order to get married, my husband borrowed money from many comrades-in-arms, and it took him two years to pay it back.

From now on, she lives for her children and for herself.

The job Liu Meilan provided her with gave her the confidence to face everything in the future.

It is in this kind of atmosphere that everyone works very hard.

Liu Meilan also felt it and was very happy.

Everyone wants their team to be positive and motivated, rather than being depressed and lazy!

This time, trawling did not begin until three hours into the sail.

This time the trawling took quite a while. Liu Meilan noticed that there were fish in the net and said to Tang Changping, "Uncle Tang, pull up the net."

"Okay!" Tang Changping responded cheerfully and started to lead people to set up the net.

After a while, the huge net emerged from the water and no one could see what kind of fish was inside.

Nowadays, everyone is very superstitious. Mrs. Chen pulled Liu Meilan over and said, "Meilan, you untie the net. You are lucky."

Liu Meilan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Actually, she already knew what kind of fish it was, so it didn't matter who untied the net.

But the boatmen just didn't believe it.

People who deal with nature are very superstitious.

This is true for boatmen and fishermen.

Liu Meilan couldn't refuse the kindness, "Then I'll do it."

Only when a large number of fish fell from the fishing nets could everyone see clearly.

"Yes, it's the gray pomfret. Although it's not as expensive as the silver pomfret, it's very popular and men like to eat it."

Liu Meilan blinked her eyes, not understanding. "Gray pomfret tastes good, why do you have to say that men like to eat it?"

“Hehehe!” Tang Changping smiled, not wanting to tell the real reason, “We all like to eat it, we all like to eat it!”

Zhou Ze and Wu Yong were even more confused. When they saw pomfret, they thought the white ones were silver pomfret and the golden ones were golden pomfret. As for other colors, they couldn't tell them apart.

I don’t even know why gray pomfret is popular among men!

Seeing Liu Meilan's suspicion, Sister Zhao glared at Tang Changping, then leaned close to Liu Meilan's ear and whispered, "It's said that gray pomfret is aphrodisiac, and men like it. Not to mention the delicious gray pomfret, if dog shit can be aphrodisiac, men will try it."

Liu Meilan didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she heard such lewd words, "Sister Zhao, your analogy is too... too... what the hell!"

"What's the big deal?" Sister Zhao said carelessly, "Let's not talk about anything else. For the sake of looking good, we women have done everything from ancient times to the present. In the past, we put rouge with lead powder on our faces. Now I heard that in Hong Kong, in order to make the eyes bigger and have double eyelids, they cut their eyelids! They are not afraid of going blind."

Liu Meilan thought about it carefully and realized that it was indeed the case.

However, when I think about the fact that some people in later generations would undergo plastic surgery such as bone grinding and nose padding in order to look better, double eyelid surgery is nothing worth mentioning.

The craziest thing is that some people break their legs in order to grow taller.

Liu Meilan couldn't figure it out and would never do it.

She is short, but she is healthy and well-proportioned, that's enough, why bother pursuing height?

However, after seeing the heights of her biological parents, Liu Meilan was convinced that she must have suffered from malnutrition as a child, which was why she was the shortest in the family, eight centimeters shorter than her mother, Professor Xie.

If she had good nutrition, Liu Meilan felt that she could be taller than her mother and grow to at least 1.7 meters, instead of the current 1.58 meters she was wearing when wearing shoes.

Without shoes, he might be only about 1.5 or 1.6 meters tall.

When she talked to her brothers, she always looked up, not to mention standing in front of someone taller than Fu Chen. She felt like she was from a dwarf country.

Liu Meilan smiled and said, "Since men like to eat it, then Sister Chen, please make more later."

Mrs. Chen smiled and said, "Okay!"

Zhou Ze and Wu Yong didn't understand and asked Tang Changping, but Tang Changping was too embarrassed to say anything in front of the female boatman.

After sorting the gray pomfret, the two young men went to the cockpit to consult Xu Kaifa.

Xu Kaifa told Zhou Ze and Wu Yong about the wonderful uses of the gray pomfret, which immediately opened a window of hope for the two young people.

During lunch, Zhou Ze and Wu Yong picked up their chopsticks faster than anyone else and ate more than anyone else.

Xu Kaifa didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and secretly laughed and scolded: "You two young men, you are so young and powerful, aren't you afraid of overdoing it?"

At this time, Tang Changping also hurriedly reminded, "Don't go to whores. Captain Meilan told you from the beginning. No gambling, no whoring. Once discovered, you will be fired."

"This job is so good, you must cherish it and don't do whatever you want, otherwise you will never find such a good job opportunity in your life."

Earning tens of thousands a month is really too much for today's boat workers.

In another ten years, there may not be any boatman who earns more than them.

Wu Yong chuckled, "Uncle Tang, we will never do anything reckless. I received a telegram yesterday saying that my parents have already given the betrothal gift to Xiaofang's parents and have arranged our engagement."

"You're engaged, don't you need to go back?" Tang Changping was stunned, looking surprised.

Wu Yong shook his head. "I'm busy making money now, so I don't have time to go back. Xiaofang and I know each other. We've been dating for two years and we usually communicate through letters."

"Besides, engagement is not marriage, so I have to go back. Now is a good time for business, so of course making more money is more important. Xiaofang will understand me. After all, I am fighting for our better life."

Tang Changping smiled, "That's right! Young man, when you get married, live a good life with your wife. As long as your wife gives you face outside, you should obey her at home."

"Yes, I know, Uncle Tang." Wu Yong nodded, looking forward to making money to get married.

Finally, the marriage doesn't have to be delayed because of the bride price.

Xu Kaifa turned his head and looked at Zhou Ze, "Young man, what about you?"

Zhou Ze shook his head. "I don't have a partner. My parents died early, and I only have a grandmother at home. I want to wait until the fishing season ends, go back, and bring my grandmother to live with me. However, I have my second and third uncles, so my grandmother may not be willing to come."

Hearing this, Xu Kaifa's eyes lit up, as if he had seen a treasure, and his expression became a little warmer.