The Yan Family Patriarch of the Siheyuan

Sha Zhu isn't stupid, he's just plain dumb. Stupidity can be corrected; being stubborn, overly naive, or overly innocent can all be remedied. Sha Zhu knows everything, his brain isn't faulty, he just wants to be a pushover, he's obsessed with saving face, he has the desire to steal but not the courage, he wants to eat but is afraid of gossip, he thinks of both Cao Cao and Liu Bei—he's beyond help.

I'm truly speechless. Other novels are all well-written, but it always comes down to money. The protagonist always acts all generous, even when he's broke. In other novels, the protagonist has a cheat code and can be generous, but this protagonist only earns a meager monthly salary and is still incredibly generous, giving twenty yuan of his thirty-odd yuan to his family, eating terribly every…

Chapter 16, is the author really not considering revising it? That's really poisonous. Catching 500 jin of fish with a fishing net... Does he think everyone else who's starving is a fool (including the old man)? Changing it to a "golden finger space fishing" method is reasonable.

Watching the stories of educated youth sent to the countryside made me feel sorry for them. Then I realized I'm from a rural area myself, and my parents were born in the early 1950s. They had it even harder. My father told us about the production teams, and he said it was quite interesting. He never mentioned that they didn't have enough to eat back then.

The true protagonist of this book: Xu Damao

The supporting characters have more screen time than the main characters, the hierarchy is blurred, everyone is a protagonist, and there's nothing new or original in the writing.

If you're really writing an essay, 90% of the time it's just typing a character's name, a colon, and then a whole bunch of rambling. Please, take a look at how others write! You can't even write a proper essay! It's just dialogue over and over; you don't even have a single interjection, dynamic description, or emotional description. Even essays aren't written like this! At least other people can describe the terrain, the characters' appearance, and their expressions.

The bombshell finally exploded, only to turn out to be a dud. After swindling and draining people of their livelihood for over twenty years, all they get is an equal division of assets, with absolutely no punishment. They even end up opening a shop together – it's ridiculous. I'm dropping this.

I really want the protagonist to take Lou Xiao'e in, otherwise it won't be good for Lou Xiao'e to appear later in the story. It seems like only Lou Xiao'e has decent character. The others in the courtyard are corrupted by the old lady, the old man, the simple-minded Zhu, and the widow Qin.

I've read quite a few courtyard houses, but not a single one where the protagonist marries Lou Xiao'e, takes her family to Hong Kong, and gains a golden touch to rival the five-hundred-million-dollar detective, Reno? Why not come back to invest after those ten-odd years? Is it really necessary to stay in a courtyard house?