[Comedy + Face-Slapping + Subverting Expectations + Black-Hearted Schemer + Pocket Dimension]
On the surface, Li Wenchuan is the only educated man in the courtyard compound: refined and cultured.
The neighborhood office respects him, the neighbors look up to him, and they even save him a front-row seat at community meetings.
But in reality?
He punches Xu Damao and kicks the Third Master, while keeping his hardened martial arts skills hidden in plain sight.
Li Wenchuan had only planned to stay for a few days, but then the System popped up:
“Congratulations on moving into the sample site: the Courtyard Compound. Binding successful! Move out and the binding ends; try to run away and you'll have bad luck.”
“Supplies unlocked: two sacks of white flour, three cloth coupons, and one lidded enamel mug.”
And just like that, Li Wenchuan became a man who didn't want to stay but couldn't move out.
From then on, the courtyard compound was thrown into chaos, and Li Wenchuan was the main reason the chickens and dogs were in an uproar.
The Third Master secretly reports him for “never volunteering to work, and probably suffering from class degeneration.”
Li Wenchuan immediately reports the Third Master's son for reading novels at work. When the boss makes his rounds, the son is caught dozing over The Plum in the Golden Vase and taken away for political study.
Silly Zhu adds “specially supplied pickles” to his bowl.
Li Wenchuan thanks him politely: “Much obliged for your kindness, Comrade Yuzhu.”
That night, Silly Zhu ends up in the hospital with a wok on his head. The doctor asks whether he tried to kiss a pressure cooker.
The First Master is the strangest of all. He watches Li Wenchuan eat meat every day, then gets so moved he bursts into tears and says, “Educated people really are blessed.”
Li Wenchuan promptly takes him to the hospital to get checked for infertility.
He can read quotations through his glasses while pounding someone into the clinic, then make them write a guarantee claiming they slipped and fell.
He isn't a do-gooder because he knows all too well “when to reason with people, and when to use physical force.”
His name is Li Wenchuan, and he is a respectable scholar.
…At least, that's what he says.
It's quite novel, but I'm tired of watching it.
It's written like a text. This is going to be printed and published.
It's good to have a lot of inner monologues! The explanation is also very good! 👍
It's okay, much better than other courtyard houses. It's just that the pace is a bit slow!