Siheyuan: You Asked Me to Scavenge, but I Built a Great Power's Heavy Machinery

[Siheyuan + 1960s Dad + Scrap Upgrading + Industrial Power + Lighthearted Antics]

1963, Nanluoguxiang.

A four-year-old girl kneels beside the kang, sobbing as she begs her father to sell her so he can pay off his gambling debts and stop beating her mother.

Gu Cheng'an has just transmigrated, and he’s inherited a complete disaster: debt, alcoholism, and a man who beats his wife and daughter.

Fortunately, the [Junk Upgrade System] activates. A chipped bowl becomes fine porcelain with a touch; a gnawed pig bone turns into a pound of ribs; less than two ounces of coarse flour becomes twenty pounds of standard flour. The more his wife and daughter trust him, the more things he can upgrade. He can also repair items in bulk, choose how to upgrade them, and spot loopholes in regulations, contracts, and accounts.

So when Silly Zhu laughs at him for scavenging garbage, Gu Cheng'an turns around and puts white flour and meat on the table for his wife and daughter. When Yi Zhonghai uses “unity” to bully people, Gu Cheng'an publicly tears down the moral pretensions of the three courtyard elders. All 2,300 scrapped bearings at the steel mill are brought back to life, and the seventeen imported electric motors marked for disposal conceal the core of an industrial mother machine!

At first, Gu Cheng'an only wanted to make sure his daughter had enough to eat and his wife no longer lived in fear.

But when he turns mountain after mountain of scrap into precision equipment, the entire industrial system can no longer sit still.

Other people pick up junk to make money. He keeps scavenging until he gets his hands on the lifeblood of the nation's industry.

So is this guy just supporting his family...

or upgrading an entire country?