Good news: Ding Yuanyuan has transmigrated to the 1960s and gained a gossip System that lets her dig up tidbits for fun whenever she likes.
Bad news: Her dad is a "landlord's son." On the eve of Liberation, he brought the whole family into the city and bought a permanent worker's identity to pass themselves off as proletarians. There are too many people like him who slipped through the net, and now the authorities are rechecking everyone's class background!
Ding Qingyun: Hmm...
A high school senior's simple mind can't handle such complicated social problems.
Forget it. I'll lie flat and enjoy the gossip~.
**
At the Ding family's household meeting, everyone was worried about how to get past the police station's background check.
Ding Yuanyuan worried along with them for a while, but couldn't think of a solution, so she started digging through gossip to clear her mind.
[WTF?! The ancestral grave of the Tian family next door has been dug up?! His father's and grandfather's bones were dragged out and left to roast in the sun?!]
[Oh, oh, so that family really does have a landlord background! Before Liberation, the well-informed old man heard that they were "smashing the landlords and redistributing the land" in Hunan and Jiangxi, so he quickly sold his land to the tenant farmers for a low price.]
[The tenant farmers thought they were landowners at last, never guessing that just a few days later they'd be classified as rich peasants...]
Ding Yuanyuan stared at her father in shock. So landlords really were all such awful people?
Ding Dad jumped, and was about to defend himself, but Ding Mom stopped him.
Ding Mom pretended to reminisce to Ding Dad: Back then, your father was pretty decent. Not only did he properly implement the old government's "Thirty-Seven-and-a-Half Percent Rent Reduction Order," he also helped the villagers during years of famine.
Ding Mom: If your father hadn't saved my dad, who was nearly starving to death, with three jin of grain, I wouldn't have married you.
[Ugh, you only thought my dad was the dumbest one among all the guys pursuing you...]
Ding Mom quickly stuffed a piece of strip-shaped rice cake into Ding Yuanyuan's mouth, then smoothly redirected the conversation: I heard someone dug up the ancestral grave of Old Tian's family next door!
Ding Yuanyuan happily chewed her rice cake and kept digging into the Tian family's gossip...
[Oh wow, the Tian family hid the gold bars they got from selling their land in his dad's coffin?!]
[Wait, no. He stuffed them into Uncle Wang's butt! Uncle Wang was the neighbor who held his funeral on the same day! That's vicious...]
[He knew those "rich peasants" were sure to use the ancestral grave incident to force him to show himself. He... he planned to hire my dad to collect the bones, then, while they were furious and busy arguing with my dad and beating him up, use a diversion to dig up Uncle Wang's grave?!]
The entire Ding family: ...
They suddenly realized that they couldn't change their class background, but they could earn merit by reporting class enemies!
Later, the Ding family reported one enemy agent, spy, and corrupt official after another...
The military even established a special affairs office just for Ding Yuanyuan.
She was appointed its director.
Director Ding spent her days as a miserable high school senior cramming for exams, then got picked up by a military vehicle after school.
Her classmates stared in disbelief as soldiers in green uniforms saluted her. "Reporting in, Director. These are the latest case files requiring your assistance. Please review them!"
Theme: Who says high school seniors can't make a difference!