After working overtime for seven days straight, office drone Lin Xiangyang's vision went black. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a fourteen-year-old boy in 1950.
His parents were dead, his home was bare, and three gaunt, hungry younger siblings depended on him.
Faced with calculating relatives and an era of shortages, Lin Xiangyang's vision went black again. Raising kids was harder than hitting his KPIs!
Luckily, transmigrating came with a modest golden finger: he could "copy" a pound of grain each day, and he also had a "brain library" full of knowledge from the future.
Well, if he couldn't go back, he might as well make the best of it.
Raising kids was simple enough: make money, get food, and make sure they got an education!
And so life in the crowded courtyard houses of the capital gradually took an unexpected turn:
While everyone else folded matchboxes, he converted a hand-cranked generator and became the courtyard's landlord for "electricity bills."
While everyone else fought over cabbages for winter storage, he and his siblings used scientific methods to grow bean sprouts and earned a commendation from the neighborhood committee.
While others were fighting over half a meat bun, his little sister was already trading information she'd "accidentally" overheard for candy...
His eldest sister, Xiaomei, could outdo the market's seasoned vendors at mental arithmetic. His second brother, Weiguo, could subdue black-market thugs with his bare hands. His youngest sister, Xiaoyu, had mastered the art of cuteness all on her own.
Lin Xiangyang had a simple goal: make sure his siblings had enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, help them get into top universities and become pillars of the nation, and quietly make a little money himself as a behind-the-scenes tech genius.
Then one day, he realized that he might have raised his siblings to be... a little too "outstanding."
This is a lighthearted, feel-good story about a fourteen-year-old "old dad" and his three adorable little "tagalongs," growing together and bringing warmth to a vibrant era with knowledge and humor.
We want to read chronicle stories. If a child is being abused, I might as well read a survival story.
It's unbelievable how difficult it was in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China!
Good, good, good