[Historical setting + Old Beijing + courtyard compound + father-and-son team + outsmarting the compound’s schemers + getting rich through food]
[If He Daqing hadn’t run off, what kind of game could he have played right there in the courtyard compound?]
In 1951, the carriage bound for Baoding never budged. He Daqing stayed in Beijing, and stayed in the courtyard compound. That one change completely transformed the compound’s world, its power plays, and its rules.
He Yuzhu was still the same “Silly Zhu,” but this time his father hadn’t left the compound. With an old man who knew Tan family cuisine inside and out, and understood the compound’s social game even better, guiding him every step of the way, it would be hard for Silly Zhu to stay “silly”!
When the schemers in the compound tried to play by the old rules, they found the He family’s defenses were already maxed out:
Qin Huairu wanted to trade tears for a lunchbox in the compound? He Daqing puffed on his pipe: “Tears are salty, food is delicious. You want to trade salty for delicious? Huairu, that’s not a good deal. You’ll have to pay extra.”
Yi Zhonghai wanted to use moral pressure to find someone to support him in old age? He Daqing laughed: “Old Yi, save that sermon of yours for yourself. My son has to support me here, and one day he’ll be running the best restaurant in Beijing. When would he have time to carry your chamber pot?”
Xu Damao wanted to spread rumors and trip them up? Before he could even open his mouth, He Daqing had already blocked every avenue at the dinner table: “Playing dirty? I was doing that here before you were weaned!”
The father and son stuck together by the stove, turning a life of frustration and being exploited in the compound into a feast of wealth and prosperity!
Anyone who can deceive is one
🧀🧀🧀 🌹All actions are impermanent. All dharmas have no self. Nirvana is silent. 🌹Contemplating the body is the body, contemplating the mind is the mind, contemplating the feelings is the feeling, and contemplating the Dharma is the Dharma. 🌹Contemplate the impurity of the body, the impermanence of the mind, the suffering of feelings, and the non-self of the Dharma.
Why do you feel that the relationship between the characters and the plot of the characters are a bit messy? . It feels different from the Siheyuan novels I have read in the past. It seems very irritable, the plot is a bit too rude, and I curse in just a few sentences. It feels like they are not familiar with each other's grudges, but Yi Zhonghai is. There seems to be no plot, could it be missed so early?
Too wordy and too extreme
Extremely poisonous.
What the hell? Can't read
It looked baffling and confused.
The writing is really boring, whoever wants to read it should read it.
Damn. Even if my own father hadn't run away, he would have admitted stealing the chicken. Speechless😅
???? What about Golden Chapter 3? Doesn't the protagonist be introduced at the beginning? Even if the protagonist is He Daqing, you should use some space to describe it. It's baffling. No wonder there aren't any good reviews.