Siheyuan: A Spirit Spring in My Pocket, Cooking That Stuns Fengze Garden

After transmigrating to 1950, Li Cheng becomes an orphan in a courtyard house, with both parents dead. The whole courtyard eyes the three tiled rooms his father left behind, while Yi Zhonghai calls a meeting to pressure him into "voluntarily" giving them up.

"If anyone mentions exchanging houses again, I'll donate all three rooms to the neighborhood office to use as a storeroom." Sitting on the doorstep, Li Cheng shuts everyone up with a single sentence.

The day his spirit spring space awakens, he discovers that the vegetables he grows taste naturally sweet, and the soup he cooks can leave people spellbound. The head chef at Fengzeyuan happens to taste his chicken soup and immediately sets down his spoon. "With skills like these, you have to come work in my kitchen." Meanwhile, Jia Zhangshi sneaks a bite of the meat he laced with laxatives and soils her pants in front of the whole courtyard. Yan Bugui blocks the toilet door, and the two old fogies spend the entire afternoon shouting insults at each other through it.

His new boss, Lou Zhenhua, arrives with betrothal gifts, wanting to introduce his daughter, Lou Xiao'e, to him. Li Cheng looks back at the brand-new two-courtyard residence behind him, then over at the grimy, chaotic courtyard across the alley. From now on, he'll be braising meat while they smell the aroma, getting rich while they turn green with envy.

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