Siheyuan: I Speak Every Language, So I Set the Beasts Against Each Other

He opens his eyes and finds himself back in the 1960s, as Wang Weidong, a truck driver at the Hongxing Steelworks, living in a courtyard full of scoundrels.

Silly Zhu gets caught stealing a chicken and drops to his knees to beg for mercy. Qin Huairu tries to mooch a meal and ends up being ordered around in front of everyone. Bang Geng clutches a chicken feather and still tries to make excuses, unaware that someone in the courtyard can understand chickens clucking, dogs barking, and mice cursing up a storm.

The System bound to him is called "All Things, All Tongues." Every bit of gossip in the courtyard becomes his network of informants.

"Xu Damao's old hen says Bang Geng did it."

"The mouse spirit reported overnight that Jia Zhangshi has twenty jin of white flour hidden under her cabinet."

The lunchbox Silly Zhu just put down is immediately ratted out by a pigeon. When Qin Huairu tries to slack off at the workshop, the crickets by the wall broadcast it on the spot.

As time passes, the courtyard's scoundrels finally realize something is wrong: they can curse someone one day, and the whole neighborhood knows about it the next.

Yi Zhonghai, the courtyard's senior elder, leans on his cane and asks in a trembling voice, "H-How do you know everything?"

Wang Weidong points to the old locust tree by the courtyard gate. "It told me."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.