Educated Youth in 1975: It Began When I Opened the Door Between Two Worlds

[Period] [Educated Youth] [Two-Way Portal] [Time-Stopping Space] [Feel-Good Fiction] [play the pig to eat the tiger] Ye Fan and his younger brother grew up alone and helpless, constantly looked down on by others. Even after they were sent to work in a poor mountain village, they were still ostracized. Desperate to get a bowl of porridge for his younger brother, who had been gravely ill for days, Ye Fan went into the fields to catch fish and trade them for rice. By chance, he stumbled upon a two-way portal! He could travel freely between 1975 and 2025, and he also had a portable space where time stood still! In secret, he began stockpiling scarce supplies and sought-after goods from both eras. Wild softshell turtles, loaches, and eels from the muddy paddies of the 1970s countryside, along with unwanted pork chops, pig trotters, bones, and offal... Fruits and vegetables discarded at produce markets in 2025, as well as soon-to-expire food and household goods such as rice, flour, cooking oil, soybeans, sugar, salt, and soap... He began a secret trade spanning two different eras. In the 1970s, his space was filled with more supplies than he could ever use, yet everyone still thought he was a pitiful pauper. When the policies encouraging people to get rich through reform and opening up finally arrived, he revealed the trump cards he had been building up for years. A business empire spanning the century had already taken shape in secret. Everyone was stunned. It was as if he had been ready all along, just waiting for this day! Countless reporters surrounded him, demanding to know his secret. He scratched his head. “I’m really just an ordinary porter.”