The Sixties: Bringing a Pocket Dimension to the Courtyard

After transmigrating to 1960, during the famine, Su Bai becomes a teenage boy in a refugee column. He drags along his gravely ill younger brother, his sister who has fainted from hunger, and his exhausted parents. With only a few hundred li left before they reach the capital, his pockets are emptier than his stomach. Just as the whole family is about to collapse by the roadside, he unexpectedly activates a mysterious pocket world. Its black soil can grow fast-ripening crops, a tiny spring bubbles with spiritual water, and he can secretly raise poultry and livestock in its coop. He can even quietly strengthen his body!

With potatoes and sweet potatoes from his space, Su Bai manages to get his family to the capital and squeeze into the fabled Red Star Courtyard. But as soon as he settles in, he freezes. Isn't this the courtyard from the story of the "Beasts of the Courtyard"? There's Yi Zhonghai, who uses morality to blackmail people; Jia Zhangshi, who throws tantrums and rolls on the ground; Yan Bugui, who schemes to get food coupons; Qin Huairu, who leeches off everyone; and He Yuzhu, who can't tell right from wrong... A whole pack of "beasts" surrounds him, each eager to take a bite out of the newcomer.

Su Bai sneers. Want to fleece my family? Better think carefully about whether you're up to it!

There's more food in his space than they can eat? Then he'll quietly improve his family's meals until they look so rosy-cheeked that everyone in the courtyard envies them. The neighbors try to guilt-trip them? He'll shut them up with a few sharp words. Nothing they try will work. The steel mill job isn't good enough? He'll use the fine grain from his space to build connections, working his way from apprentice to team leader while earning money and securing household registration!

While others in the courtyard scheme against each other and fight over food coupons, Su Bai fills his space with fruits and vegetables and raises chickens, ducks, fish, and rabbits. While others fall out over a mouthful of food, Su Bai has already secretly saved enough money to move his family away from this troublesome place and open a shop of his own.

As for those "beasts" who scheme against him? Let them make whatever fuss they want. Anyway