Siheyuan: The Jia Family's Eldest Son Returns from the Battlefield

In the bitter winter of 1960, reconnaissance soldier Jia Dongyu was discharged under the disgrace of “killing prisoners” and reassigned to the security department of the Hongxing Steelworks. On the day he reported for duty, Deputy Director Li's remark, “Have Silly Zhu whip up a couple of dishes,” jolted his buried memories awake: he was actually the eldest Jia son from the courtyard, the one who was supposed to have died young! Armed with battlefield-forged vigilance and a hidden System space packed with mountains of grain and meat, he faces not only the security chief's open and covert power plays but also the Jia family's financial black hole: the shrewish, cutting Jia Zhangshi, her exploited daughter-in-law Qin Huairu, and three gaunt nephews. In this famine era, when a pound of rice can buy you a wife, he navigates the company of moral paragon Yi Zhonghai, wannabe official Liu Haizhong, and calculating Yan Bugui, while staying on guard against lecher Xu Damao and hot-tempered cook Silly Zhu, who are always stirring up trouble. From a cafeteria grain-theft case to a network of undercover agents, from a family-splitting crisis to famine relief, Jia Dongyu uses an iron fist and secret supplies to turn the tide, setting off a turbulent upheaval that tests people's humanity in the courtyard and at the steelworks.