Siheyuan: Emptying the Eastern Gold Vault, Then Returning to Beijing to Lie Flat

In 1955, Han Shouzhuo, a dockworker at the Hong Kong harbor, awakened a storage cave realm and was bound to a Settling-In System. Bone-tempering paste, the shrinking-earth technique, a hometown dialect tablet: he could speak five foreign languages fluently.

While others stockpiled supplies just to get by, he hoarded entire fortunes: bank vaults, arsenals, torpedo boats, even the imperial garden's treasure vault, emptied overnight.

Thousands of tons of gold, entire batches of machine tools, and shiploads of military supplies quietly flowed to places where they were needed more.

Back in the capital, he moved into a courtyard at No. 95. The whole compound was waiting for him, along with the ration-ticket era: four months to move in, then twenty-five years living there.

He hoarded in silence and made his fortune on the sly. When grain rationing finally began, the whole compound was stunned. Could this newcomer really even empty out the meatpacking plant?

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