To cut to the chase, after Lin An transmigrates into a courtyard house, his biggest problem isn’t being poor. It’s that his family has too much money.
All five members of the Lin family have steady jobs, yet they live in a five-room house, and the smell of meat drifts from their table at every meal.
Scene one: Jia Zhangshi weeps about being broke. Lin An appears with his bowl of food, and she starts wailing even louder. Everyone asks, “Wait, why don’t we get any meat broth?”
Scene two: Third Uncle comes over to borrow soy sauce. Lin An digs up the old accounts and even tallies the sugar Yan Bugui borrowed three years ago. Yan Bugui wonders, “How does this kid remember everything?”
Scene three: Yi Zhonghai holds a neighborhood meeting. Lin An plans to use the Check-In System to exchange points for ration coupons, but the System says he has to expose the accounts in front of everyone. Lin An says, “Then bring out the ledger.”
Scene four: Liu Haizhong has his eye on the Lin family’s side room. Lin An produces the steel mill’s housing allocation papers, and then his big brother drives up in the factory director’s car. Liu Haizhong’s legs go weak on the spot.
Scene five: Zhang Degui wants to arrange a match for Lin An’s second sister. Lin An crushes a walnut, and soon the whole post office knows Zhang isn’t good enough for her. From then on, Zhang Degui is cut off from the Lin family.
Lin An only wanted to keep his head down and live quietly, but the System’s rewards are always tied to iconic scenes.
Chapter 47, all the cash machines are out...