[Period setting, feel-good story, a touch of ensemble cast, neighborhood gossip in a crowded courtyard, everyday family life]
The winds of reform are sweeping across the land. Recently retired Li Yinghua is eager to keep up with the times, find something to do, and earn a little spending money.
In an era when even pigs can take to the skies, the formidable mother of the crowded courtyard, a woman skilled in both letters and arms, transforms herself into a business founder and hands out rich-kid treatment to her whole family, one by one.
She steps out with her own BGM:
Life is good, everything’s rosy and thriving~~
What a wonderful era, full of joy and celebration~~
The neighbors in the courtyard turn green with envy. Heaven is unfair: how could such a hateful little person get rich?
So one by one, they follow Li Yinghua’s lead and start studying the secrets of getting rich, muttering “Money, come to me” all day long.
Outsiders all sneer that the world is going downhill and people’s hearts are no longer what they used to be. Everyone’s got their head in the money, and it’s all that troublemaker Li Yinghua’s fault for setting a bad example.
Li Yinghua glares and points at the goods she just brought back. “No discounts, take it or leave it! We’ve been neighbors for half a lifetime, and you think you can take advantage of me? Don’t expect special treatment just because we go way back. There are no friends or family in business, so quit acting like a big shot... Hey, pay up and take your stuff. It’s not easy making a little money off the neighbors. Next time, it’s the same price!”
