Siheyuan: From Collector to Mastermind

He Yuzhu wakes up to find himself back in 1962 in a courtyard house, once again the "Silly Zhu" everyone can bully.

Looking at all the "good neighbors" filling the courtyard, he smiles.

In his past life, they had drained him dry and left him to freeze to death beneath a bridge. This time, he has returned with top-tier culinary skills from the twenty-first century and a mysterious supermarket dimension.

While the courtyard's schemers are still calculating how to get their hands on his meager wages, He Yuzhu has already traded a gold bar for the Third Uncle's treasured stamp album, two pounds of pork for Xu Damao's family's heirloom porcelain bowl, and a bag of white flour for the Deaf Old Lady's prized paintings and calligraphy.

"Silly Zhu, are you crazy? Why trade for all this junk?"

"Silly Zhu, can that stamp album feed you?"

"Silly Zhu, you're a wastrel!"

He Yuzhu just smiles without saying a word.

A few years later, the turbulent era ends and the antiques market rebounds.

That piece titled A Land of Red Mountains and Rivers sells for a million.

That pair of Chenghua doucai chicken cups fetches an astronomical price at auction.

That galloping horse painting by Xu Beihong becomes a national treasure.

The courtyard's schemers are left dumbfounded.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.