Siheyuan: a Pair of Skillful Hands Shocked the Whole Courtyard at the Beginning

In 2024, Chen Yiming, a quality inspection engineer at a precision instrument factory, was accidentally electrocuted while working overtime to repair a 19th-century Swiss pocket watch. When he woke up, he found that he had become a third-level technician at the Beijing Watch Factory in 1960 and lived in a lively courtyard house in Nanluogu Lane. Now he has a pair of "skilled hands" - he can sense faults by touching any mechanical device and repair it intuitively. Clocks, radios, sewing machines, bicycles... In an era when supplies were so scarce that there were long queues for repairs, people who could repair things were hard currency. Help Liu Haizhong repair his bicycle, help Shazhu calibrate the air inlet of the stove, and help Qin Huairu repair the sewing machine - each of the repaired items allowed him to gain a firm foothold in the yard. The more people he can help, the more people he owes him. Yi Zhonghai trained him as his successor, Yan Bugui sent his son's homework book to "ask for advice", and Qin Huairu began to linger at his door—— Everyone approaches him because he is "useful". Only the woman who insisted on paying after repairing the sewing machine made him stop and think for the first time: ——Is helping others kindness or a kind of power? Repair clocks, equipment, and cultural relics. As for the human heart - he's still learning.