Siheyuan: From the Start, I Studied Abroad and Built a Plane by Hand Back Home

Yao Aiguo wakes up to find himself a young student studying abroad in the 1960s! His brain comes with “super memory,” unlocking the ability to remember everything at a glance, and he also has a mysterious pocket dimension: Secret blueprints? Bring them here. I’ll take them! Life as an overseas student: By day, he studies technology over Western bread. By night, he hides in his dorm and builds engine blueprints by hand. The professor exclaims, “This young man from the East is a genius!” He returns home, keeping his achievements under wraps: The organization asks, “Engineer Yao, would you like to live in the military compound?” He waves them off. “Just give me a side room in a courtyard house. Anywhere I can live will do!” So: When the women in the front courtyard argue, he squats by the door and builds an airplane tail fin to use as a stool. When Xu Damao steals a chicken, he turns around and wraps the roast chicken in tank-tread blueprints. When Qin Huairu complains about being poor, he hands her a machine-tool upgrade plan. “The neighborhood factory will boost production, and your wages will double!” Then one day, the West discovers that all its embargoed technology has leaked... Yao Aiguo scratches his head and grins. “Wow, this toilet paper sure is valuable!”