Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

1957 October.

On a railway in China leading to Sijiu City.

Along with the roar of the steam locomotive is the sound of collision between the rails and wheels.

An old steam-powered train slowly moved along the tracks towards its destination.

Inside the carriage, a young man in his early 20s was leaning against the window, looking at the scenery outside in a daze.

The young man in military uniform seemed somewhat out of place compared to the passengers around him.

However, most passengers were kind to the young man.

Nowadays, Chinese people have a natural affinity for soldiers.

Especially the Korean War just ended a few years ago.

Many soldiers sacrificed their lives on the battlefield to defend the dignity of China.

After the war, there was a wave of enthusiasm for joining the army.

It was during this wave of enthusiasm that young people signed up to join the army.

Wang Jianjun rested his head on his hands, looking at the scenery passing by outside the window with some boredom.

He was used to riding high-speed trains, but this was his first time riding in this kind of old car.

Apart from the initial novelty, all that's left is boredom and torment.

The old steam trains are not only slow but also noisy.

Not only is it noisy outside the car, but it's also smelly inside.

The weather in northern China is already very hot in May.

The hot weather and crowded environment, the smell of sweat mixed with cigarette smoke and some unknown odors filled the entire carriage.

The only thing I could be thankful for was that the ticket I bought was near the window.

The windows on trains of this era can be opened.

Otherwise, if it's very hot and there's no air conditioning, people will really get heatstroke.

Feeling the somewhat hot wind blowing towards him, Wang Jianjun couldn't help but recall the process of his time travel.

Before traveling through time, I was just a delivery man wearing a yellow robe.

While delivering a takeaway, he was brought to this era by a dump truck that ran a red light.

After traveling through time, I was told by an unknown being that this time travel was an accident.

The driver of the dump truck recognized the wrong person.

Because time travel is a one-way ticket, it is impossible to go back to the original world.

An unknown being simply threw his soul into this world and attached it to some unlucky person who had just died.

Along with the package was a novice time travel gift package as compensation for accidentally sending him to this world.

The most valuable item in the novice gift package is a portable farm space.

The farm space has auxiliary planting and breeding functions, and also comes with ten times time acceleration and three teleportation coordinates.

In addition to the farm space, the novice gift package also thoughtfully gave him a box of genetic medicine to ensure that he would not die again due to lack of rescue.

Wang Jianjun is a person who traveled through time and space. His experiences in two lives have left his memory somewhat confused since he woke up.

At this moment, he was leaning against the window, searching his head for memories of his original self.

Coincidentally, the original body was also called Wang Jianjun like him.

The face was 80% similar so he didn't feel strange when looking in the mirror.

To the point that he even wondered if he had traveled through time to a parallel world's own body.

This body is nearly 1.8 meters tall and looks even more handsome than his previous life.

Apart from being a little thinner and darker, there's nothing wrong with her.

In addition, the body he traveled to was only 20 years old, several years younger than his previous life. This also made him very satisfied.

In my memory, my original home was in a large courtyard house in a quadrangle in the old city.

Originally he was an only child.

My mother died young, and my father worked in a steel mill. A few years ago, my father died of a hidden disease due to poor health in his early years.

Originally, he could have taken over his father's job as a worker in a steel mill, but he encountered the craze of joining the army, and he signed up to join the army and became a glorious soldier.

He trained in the army for two and a half years. Then, during a mission to suppress bandits, he was shot several times and died without rescue.

Then he was replaced by Wang Jianjun who came from the future.

Wang Jianjun, who luckily managed to survive, was so seriously injured that he injected himself with a shot of genetic medicine as soon as he opened the novice gift package.

But he underestimated the effect of the genetic medicine.

He was originally on the verge of death, but after being injected with the genetic medicine, his wounds were almost healed in five days.

Seeing the attending doctor staring at him as if he were a mouse, Wang Jianjun just wanted to leave the hospital as soon as possible.

So after confirming that there was no serious problem with his health, he couldn't wait to go through the discharge procedures, return to the army and apply for early retirement.

Not only in the hospital, he didn't even want to stay in the army any longer.

Wang Jianjun doesn't want to be a soldier.

As I recall, life in the army was not easy. Every day was spent training and the food was not good.

Being a soldier in this era is really hard.

The training tasks were also much heavier than in later generations.

After checking his original body's memories, he didn't want to go back to that hard life.

Moreover, the army is a place that emphasizes discipline and collectivism.

Even though I have a golden finger, I can't use it at all in the army.

If I were discovered, I would probably be sliced ​​into pieces.

Fortunately, my application for discharge from the army was approved quickly. After all, I almost became a martyr.

The injuries on his body also earned Wang Jianjun a second-class merit.

After retiring and making contributions, the army not only gave me some bonuses, but also arranged a formal job for me.

Coincidentally, the job assigned to him by the army was right in the steel mill where his father worked, the Red Star Steel Mill.

Combined with the name of the steel rolling mill and the names of several residents of the courtyard house in Wang Jianjun's memory.

Wang Jianjun immediately guessed which world that unknown being had thrown him into.

Isn’t this exactly the period drama “A Courtyard Full of Birds” that I watched in my previous life?

Wang Jianjun recalled the period drama.

When I was watching the drama, I sped up and skipped through the episodes.

I can't remember many of the details clearly.

Fortunately, there are only a few characters in the play.

First of all, there are the three uncles who are in charge of the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui.

These three gentlemen can be said to be more outstanding than each other.

Among them, the third uncle was called an abacus expert by netizens, and his favorite thing was to calculate and take advantage.

They are so calculating that they even scheme against their own children.

It is said online that even the pickles in Uncle San's family are divided by the roots, but I don't know if it is true or not.

Wang Jianjun didn't have the memory of dividing the pickles by the roots, but he was deeply impressed by the words of the third uncle, "You won't be poor if you eat well and wear well, but you will be poor if you don't plan well."

As I recall, Uncle San always loved to quibble with words, and this was the sentence he often repeated.

The second uncle’s bangs are similar to those in TV dramas.

He is a fool who likes to put on airs. He usually tries to imitate the leaders' official language but his learning is just a mess.

As for the Moral Lord Yi Zhonghai, Wang Jianjun's impression of him is still that of a good old man.

As far as I can remember, he had a good relationship with the Jia family in the Central Courtyard.

A few years before Wang Jianjun joined the army, Jia Dongxu, the son of the Jia family, took over his father Lao Jia's job as a fitter in a steel rolling mill after he became an adult. As soon as he started working, he became a disciple of Yi Zhonghai.

Because of this incident, his shrewish mother boasted to everyone in the yard for several days about how smart her eldest son was since he was young.