Siheyuan: A Legendary Generation

There's a scene in the TV series where He Yushui comes home starving and tries to borrow food from the neighbors but can't get any. She goes to a deaf old woman, who immediately hides the food under her bed when she sees He Yushui. Do you think someone like that would like He Yushui? No matter how much she changes, her patriarchal mindset means she would never like her.

This master craftsman seems a bit unreliable. Back then, people were paid according to their rank. No rank exams? Is this really a master craftsman?

Once the exam is over, you can't study anymore... It feels like someone's stupid.

Anyone associated with the Lou family is doomed. Back then, the entire family was certain to die. Only a high-ranking official could save them. Even that official himself was exiled to the south. Unless you have ambitions to change the world, it's best to stay away from them.

Chapter Two: Died from Poisoning. I passed the exam and received my due payment; does that mean I can't continue studying? Nonsense.

First, he takes on a master, then pressures him by saying that even if he's talented, he can't skip levels; he'll only get paid at level 2 if he's at level 4. Later, after marrying Lou, he wants to donate to an orphanage—is he just showing off his capitalist wealth?

Do they really think capitalists are idiots? Even if she's an illegitimate daughter, she wouldn't marry just anyone. Look at Xu Damao's family background; without parents in that era, the protagonist would have no chance of marrying Lou Xiao'e. There's a superstitious belief about widowhood and loneliness. If the protagonist wanted to marry Lou Xiao'e, he'd need to have a good social standing, a wealthy family, and be someone Lou's father could control.

I won't read any novels about licking the boots of deaf old ladies! Deaf old ladies and Yi Zhonghai—those two are the most detestable!

I've read dozens of chapters, and it's as bland as a diary entry. Many things are written based on assumptions. The master wouldn't let him take the grading exams, forcing him to train at low levels? I don't understand what the master was thinking. The donations to the Jia family—the neighbors in the courtyard only donated five or ten yuan at a time—are completely fabricated. Besides, the Jia family had just received compensation from the factory at that time.

There are now so many people traveling through the courtyard houses that it's like half of Beijing is doing it, all for the women in the original story. It would be illogical if they didn't fight tooth and nail over it.