Siheyuan: From the Start, a Shotgun to My Head

[Reborn + System + stockpiling supplies + immensely satisfying face-slapping + industrial powerhouse]

Back in the bitter winter of 1962, when supplies were scarce, Lin Changqing, an orphan of a fallen hero, awakens at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Faced with Jia Zhangshi’s attempt to seize his property and Yi Zhonghai’s despicable moral coercion, Lin Changqing refuses to keep putting up with it. He drags out the double-barreled hunting rifle his father left beneath the bed and points its pitch-black muzzle straight at the courtyard’s bullies. With an unapologetic display of force, he shatters the Siheyuan’s hypocritical pretense of “neighborly harmony” and lays down a hard-edged rule: “We respect the law, but we respect the laws of physics even more.”

He activates the [Everything Exchange System], collecting the bullies’ “jealousy points” and trading them for rice, flour, oil, meat, and top-secret blueprints. While the whole compound schemes and fights over half a steamed bun, Lin Changqing enjoys hotpot and Maotai in his home. When the steel mill is hit by a technological blockade, he casually produces core Soviet blueprints and shocks the world!

Xu Damao is so furious he spits blood = one bottle of Maotai? Jia Zhangshi curses for an hour = one box of penicillin? Lin Changqing: “Listen up, you animals. You’re nothing but my score-farming tools!”