After transmigrating, Li Laiyun becomes a fifteen-year-old "young granduncle" in a dilapidated village during the great famine of 1960. The whole village is out of grain, the bark has been stripped from every tree, and starving bodies are everywhere. Though he is the highest-ranking member of his generation, he cannot even get a bowl of thin porridge. Fortunately, a shriveled kernel of corn pried from a crack in the heated brick bed activates the All Things Enhancement and Synthesis Space! One kernel becomes three ears, one animal becomes three, black soil speeds up ripening, and white soil enables breeding. As long as he can find the raw materials, he can turn nothing into granaries full of grain and pots full of meat. But the System comes at a price: every use drains his stamina, and he can use it only once a day. Outside, there are bullies from the neighboring village, commune officials making inspections, and sinister hands reaching in from the county. Inside, shameless relatives show up to sponge off him, while class-status inspections tighten their grip. Li Laiyun holds the iron rice bowl of seniority in one hand and the golden key to the space in the other. Leading more than a hundred grandnephews and great-grandnephews, he carves out a way to survive in an era when eating a meal of white flour is enough to make it feel like the New Year! If they can't starve to death, then they'll work toward eating themselves to bursting!
