Siheyuan: Transferred from the Army as a Battalion Commander, My Whole Family Benefits

In 1956, Gu Chuan returned to Beijing after leaving the People's Volunteer Army with a chest full of honors. All he wanted was to make sure his parents had enough to eat and his younger siblings could live well.

His eight-cubic-meter portable space gave him confidence, and a former senior commander put in a personal word for him, landing him the post of security chief at an electronics tube factory.

He found his younger brother a way forward, got his sister-in-law a job, bought a private courtyard home, and married a beautiful wife. The family had five full-time workers between them, and they had all the three major transfers and one big ring, too.

The neighbors grew more and more jealous, but his life just kept getting better.

By the time Gu Chuan was selling radios overseas and had risen to deputy director of the production department, all those scheming neighbors finally understood: no one could push around a man who had returned from the battlefield.

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