"Today's little information is: Qin Huairu, who lives in the middle courtyard, actually hides three gold bars left by her husband before liberation, buried under her locust tree."
In 1975, in the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluogu Lane in Beijing, Su Mo, a 26-year-old educated youth who returned to the city, acquired a strange ability - every early morning, he would receive a secret piece of information about someone or something in this courtyard house.
At first, Su Mo thought this was just some insignificant neighborhood gossip:
"Xu Damao in the backyard secretly resold industrial coupons last week and made fifteen yuan and thirty cents."
"The third uncle in the front yard didn't buy his bicycle, he got it in exchange for helping the factory leaders do things."
Until one day, intelligence began to involve human lives:
"Tomorrow night at ten o'clock, Mrs. Jia Zhang will die on her kang because of a bottle of antihypertensive medicine - someone changed her medicine."
Only then did Su Mo realize that this information could not only change a person's fate, but it could also be life-saving or fatal.
In this undercurrent of the courtyard, everyone has their own secrets and calculations. Su Mo holds a piece of information every day, and gradually becomes an invisible operator of this micro-society from a bystander. However, when the intelligence began to involve larger historical events, and even pointed to his own past and future, Su Mo found that he was also involved in the network woven by the intelligence.
