Chapter 1

Looking at the quadrangle courtyard in front of him, which was as nostalgic as his own village but much more grand, Yizhongyun, who now occupied Yizhonghai's body, felt a bit flustered.

Recalling a few hours earlier.

The poverty alleviation cadre came to his house and asked him, "Uncle, what’s missing in your house?"

At that time, with a whimsical thought, he straightforwardly replied to the poverty alleviation leader, "I, I’m missing something, I’m missing a child, a wife."

As a result of his words, the leader, who was in his thirties and still unmarried, almost lost his composure.

At that moment, the leader, with a face full of grievance and a quavering voice, shouted, "I don’t even have a wife."

Perhaps due to a lack of tact or a subconscious response, he directly replied to the leader, "If you don’t have a wife, what kind of poverty are you alleviating?"

At that moment, the poverty alleviation leader was so angry that he picked up his poverty alleviation supplies and turned to leave.

Before leaving, he angrily said, "If you want a wife, you should go back to the 1960s. Back then, if your house had food, women would come to you. Now, if you want a wife, just wash up and go to bed; you’ll find everything in your dreams!"

Because of the poverty alleviation leader’s words, Yizhongyun dreamed all night.

He first dreamed that he had become Wei Xiaobao and married seven wives.

Then he dreamed that he became the protagonist of many TV dramas and also married many beautiful wives.

What he never expected in his dreams was that when he woke up, his dream had come true.

He really did travel through time, and he ended up in a world filled with TV drama plots in a quadrangle courtyard.

Moreover, he had now become Yizhonghai, who appeared to be a good person but was actually a cunning old man in the drama.

At first, when he traveled through time, Yizhongyun was greatly startled.

Because he was lying in bed, hugging a middle-aged woman (who was already in her forties and still couldn’t bear children) in the drama.

Yizhongyun had always wanted a wife, not an old companion!

So, he was so scared that he quickly put on his clothes and ran out in a panic.

Then, standing at the gate of the quadrangle courtyard, he couldn’t help but feel flustered as he looked at the courtyard, which was similar to his village but much grander.

"Grandpa, it’s only a little past six, why are you up so early?" At that moment, Shazhu, a young man of only twenty-two, rubbed his hands and appeared.

The moment Yizhongyun saw Shazhu, he immediately felt as if he had been enlightened, forcibly receiving all of Yizhonghai’s skills and memories.

After receiving the original body’s memories, Yizhonghai knew that the current time was 1958, not the 2022 he had previously lived in.

Moreover, Shazhu hadn’t started matchmaking yet, Qin Huiru wasn’t pregnant with Xiaodang, Banggeng was still a four-year-old child, and Qin Huiru’s short-lived husband, Jia Dongxu, was still alive.

Thinking of this, Yizhonghai turned to look at Shazhu and asked, "I’m old and have light sleep, so I wake up early. Why are you up so early, Shazhu?"

"I’m going to buy breakfast for my sister. She’s been lazy lately and won’t eat if I don’t bring breakfast. She’s already as thin as a rail, and if I don’t feed her, the aunts will say I’m not giving her food and abusing her," Shazhu explained, feeling wronged.

At this moment, although Shazhu’s salary was only about twenty yuan, because he didn’t have to support Qin Huiru’s family, he was really good to He Yushui, who was only twelve or thirteen and had just been abandoned by her father. He almost spoiled her.

However, even though Shazhu was good to He Yushui, she remained very thin and couldn’t gain weight, which made Shazhu constantly accused by the aunts of not feeding her.

After hearing Shazhu’s grievances, Yizhonghai laughed and took out a two-liang meat ticket from his pocket, handing it to him and saying, "He Yushui isn’t hungry; she needs more fat. Take this two-liang meat ticket and buy some meat for her."

"Ah, this... then I won’t be polite, Grandpa. I’ll go buy meat and make dumplings for my sister, hehehe." Knowing that Grandpa was an eighth-level fitter with a high salary and received a lot of meat tickets each month, Shazhu thought for a moment and then took the ticket and ran off to buy meat.

"That poverty alleviation cadre is really good, not only bringing me here to be Grandpa but also giving me a wife who can’t have children!"

"So, I have to repay him, I have to be a good person, I have to help Shazhu marry early and stay away from Qin Huiru, though Qin Huiru is so beautiful..."

"Ah, why can’t I be Jia Dongxu? If I were Jia Dongxu, I wouldn’t work, I’d stay at home and play with my children and love my wife. I’d have ten or eight children, and with so many children, it would be great to go out and fight."

Watching Shazhu leave and muttering a few words of regret in the direction of Qin Huiru’s house, Yizhonghai directly went out to buy breakfast, hands behind his back.

He didn’t want to go home at all because the aunt at home was definitely still in her pajamas and not up yet, and seeing her made him feel restless.

After walking for a while and buying baozi at a bun shop, Yizhonghai ate the baozi and went to work.

There was no question of bringing baozi home for the aunt; he didn’t even run back to fix her because the current law didn’t allow him to divorce easily.

Eating the baozi and arriving at the steel plant, Yizhonghai didn’t go directly to the workshop to prepare for work.

Instead, he sat down in the security booth at the gate, eating baozi and admiring the female... workers coming to work.

Watching beautiful women at the factory gate was something the former Yizhongyun had always wanted to do but never had the chance to.

Because he had no education, he had spent his entire life in the village and never had the opportunity to personally do what the male protagonists in TV dramas did, like watching beautiful women at factory gates or school gates.

So, faced with this easily accessible opportunity, the former Yizhongyun, now Yizhonghai, directly took over the security guard’s position, sitting there, slowly eating baozi, and pretending to eat while watching the beautiful women in the factory.

"So many beautiful women, but it’s a pity, none of them are mine. Mine is... sigh, don’t think about it, it makes me lose my appetite and gives me a headache." After watching the women for a while and finishing his baozi, Yizhonghai went to work with a dispirited look.

Because of his jealousy of Jia Dongxu, who had a beautiful wife, while he only had an old companion who couldn’t bear children, Yizhonghai was busy producing products all day and ignored his beloved apprentice, Jia Dongxu, leaving Jia Dongxu completely baffled.