Siheyuan: Yan Bugui’s Comeback as a Model Teacher

(Spanning several decades: the 1960s and 70s, the Reform and Opening Up era, and the new century. If that bothers you, please move along!)

Yan Liangzhi, a fine young man of the twenty-first century, had just graduated from college and gone to teach in a poor mountainous region in the west. On his way home from a family visit, he accidentally slipped and fell off a cliff…

He transmigrated into the body of an elementary school teacher named Yan Bugui, living in a courtyard house at No. 95, South Luogu Lane, in the old city of Beiping during the 1960s in a parallel world.

Isn’t this the world of Love in the Courtyard?

Thinking of all the beasts in this courtyard, Yan Liangzhi (Yan Bugui) felt utterly despairing. Of all the places to transmigrate, why here, to this beast-filled courtyard in an era when people could barely afford to eat?

With a meager salary and scarce supplies, how could he support a family of five? Was he doomed to repeat the original owner’s miserable life of penny-pinching?

What? There’s a “Model Teacher System”?

Then let me, the Third Uncle, teach and educate, cultivate virtue, help others, and safeguard the flame of hope. I’ll straighten out the conduct in this courtyard and lead its beasts to strive for a better life and grow rich, so everyone can live well… and truly make this Love in the Courtyard!

Three members of the Yan family get into Tsinghua or Peking University! He Yuyu, He Yuyang, and He Yushui all attend Fudan! The younger generation of the courtyard all become students at 985 universities…

Teacher Yan’s students fill the world, and the courtyard’s fame resounds throughout China!