Siheyuan: Handing It Over from the Start, Silly Zhu Whips the Vermin into Shape

[Low on negativity. If you don't like it, don't read!]

At 95, Lin An died peacefully of old age. When he opened his eyes, he had somehow become He Yuzhu, the ultimate scapegoat in the 1955 story Love in the Courtyard!

That wasn't all. A QQ Farm had appeared in his mind, complete with a vial of “Heaven and Earth Spirit Milk” that could bring the dead back to life and regenerate flesh from bone, plus seeds for high-yield crops.

Anyone else would surely drink the spirit milk themselves and keep their head down while getting rich. But after living nearly a century, Lin An had seen it all. Why become some kind of superhero? He had lived through the great famine of 1942. Only in the hands of the state could this stuff save hundreds of millions of his countrymen from the famine that was on its way!

So he went straight to the highest-security government agency. “This drop of medicine can save a great leader, and these seeds can yield thousands of jin per mu. I'm donating it all. I have just one condition: don't interrupt me while I'm cooking. Just give me some backing.”

The news sent shock waves through the highest levels of government, and He Yuzhu was immediately designated a top-level protected person!

Back in the courtyard, everything changed completely.

Qin Huairu wanted to freeload off his lunch boxes? Yi Zhonghai wanted to guilt-trip him? Jia Zhangshi wanted to throw a tantrum?

He Yuzhu gave a cold laugh and sat in the courtyard with a plate of top-grade braised pork specially approved by the state. “Want some? Sure. Jia Zhangshi, go clean out the public toilets at the end of the alley. Yi Zhonghai, chop a hundred jin of firewood for me. Anyone who wants to report me can go ahead and try!”

When they saw the people who reported He Yuzhu being taken away on the spot, the whole courtyard of animals finally despaired. What kind of untouchable big shot had Silly Zhu gotten involved with?!