Beijing, 1960. Fifteen-year-old Chen Shou kneels outside a courtyard house.
His parents have starved to death, his younger siblings are crying for food, and Third Master blocks the gate, demanding a “toll.”
As everyone in the courtyard watches for a laugh, a prompt suddenly rings out in his mind
[Supply and Marketing System activated!]
[Scrap Exchange Mall opened: 1 jin of scrap iron = 2 jin of cornmeal; 1 piece of tattered clothing = 1 jin of white flour]
[Blind-box lottery unlocked: receiving “special scrap” can grant nationwide supply rights for local specialties!]
A broken copper stove swindled from Silly Zhu’s home unlocks the supply rights for Tianjin fried dough twists!
A “broken bowl” bought from Third Master for five yuan sells for 500 yuan!
One month later
Chen Shou: pushing a handcart, earning 100 yuan a day.
Third Master: kneeling at the gate, begging to work with him.
Section Chief Ma from the neighborhood office: sneering, “That’s profiteering!”
Chen Shou calmly takes out a tin of canned goods from the System: “Chief Ma, want to try some Fujian canned food?”
[Warning: Target “Chief Ma” has launched an in-depth investigation!]
From king of courtyard-house junk to underground supply king, then one of the first ten-thousand-yuan households after reform and opening-up!
This scrap dealer is going to make everyone who ever bullied him kneel and beg him for goods!
