Courtyard House: Drunk and tipsy, the whole courtyard exposed at the start.

The system had previously compromised under his threat to ignite natural gas and self-destruct, resulting in mutual destruction.

I've never seen such a reckless host. He doesn't even listen to what good things the system will give him, and he just wants to die together with everyone else?!

You can't reason with a drunkard; there's no way you won't compromise...

The house came with him, and Zhang Dabiao could sense that he could enter at any time. However, because it violated the system's preset rules, and in accordance with the humanitarian protection principles for transmigrators, the system also made some modifications to the house.

1. Entry and Exit Method – As long as Zhang Dabiao silently thinks "Go home," he can return to this house he's lived in for 25 years. His entire body disappears from the spot where he disappeared and returns to any point within the house. He exits from the same spot where he vanished. Therefore, as long as he's fast enough to grab the items, a blink every half second is possible.

2. Welfare Compensation - The flow of time inside the room is the same as outside, not static. Temperature and light are constant. Water, electricity, natural gas, and air are unlimited. There is no network. Items that already exist inside the room will automatically refresh at midnight every day, no matter how much they are consumed or destroyed.

3. Time-related limitations – Books, materials, appliances, and items that cannot be produced in the current era cannot be taken out of the house – for example, his computer, mobile phone, and 2025 civil service exam questions cannot be taken out.

4. Security Patch – When other items that can be taken out, such as food and clothing, are taken out, the information on the packaging and the labels on the main body are automatically erased;

5. Physical Enhancement – ​​The original 25-year-old corpse is fused and enhanced with the current 60-year-old body. Physical constitution, lifespan, and other aspects are doubled without leaving the human body, gradually strengthening the body into its complete form within a year.

Then the system immediately unbound itself and ran away; it had to find the next transmigrator to meet its KPIs!

However, in return, all those big gift packages—the sign-in system, the personal space, gene potions, the spirit spring farm, and so on—are gone...

Zhang Dabiao was somewhat amused and exasperated, because if he "compromised" even slightly, he would essentially have his own little world. Especially the portable space—he could simply toss anything he touched into it, making it a powerful tool for home, travel, murder, and arson!

Not to mention the gene-enhancing medicine and the Spirit Spring Farm, that's practically turning yourself into a "god"!

But now?

There's only one small house that's supposedly 82 square meters in gross floor area, but actually only 64 square meters in usable area. It's barely usable space.

We've lost a fortune!

But he was drunk and intoxicated at the time, and he couldn't control himself and couldn't say anything!

Zhang Dabiao was helpless, but he had preserved the dream he had struggled for half his life, and more importantly—

The photos and belongings of my parents in the room were also preserved, which is the most important thing!

All things considered, we didn't lose out, did we?

That's it—

Since we're here, let's make the best of it; every cloud has a silver lining.

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Then Zhang Dabiao carefully examined and recalled the memories of the body's owner.

Well, it's a tragedy, but it's not a tragedy either.

This person is an idiot, or rather, he's missing something in his three souls and seven spirits, and his intelligence is not sound.

He had no parents and was taken in by Zhang the fortune teller in the courtyard and raised as his son, so that he could take care of Zhang the fortune teller in his old age and see him off when he died, and perform rituals such as breaking pots and waving banners.

Zhang Banxian'er's full name was Zhang Qianshan, and thankfully, he was classified as a poor peasant. Before liberation, he learned a few tricks from the Taoist priests in the mountains and helped villagers with weddings and funerals, barely making a living. He was a fake Taoist priest with a few real skills.

Later, when he fled the disaster to Beijing, he happened to save Lou Bancheng's life. As a result, Lou Bancheng gave him two west wing rooms in the central courtyard and asked him to work as a warehouse manager in the factory. Because Zhang Banxian was a bit old, more than ten years older than Yi Zhonghai, this kind of gatekeeper job was the only one suitable for him.

At that time, Lao Jia had just come to the city and was working at Lou's Steel Plant. Lao Jia was assigned a room, which was rented.

The two lived next door to each other, so they were neighbors.

After Jia Zhangshi married into the courtyard house and gave birth to Jia Dongxu, both Zhang Banxian and Yi Zhonghai had designs on her.

Yi Zhonghai tried everything to get the older woman to give birth, but she still couldn't conceive.

When Zhang Banxian was young, he suffered a serious injury, so he simply didn't marry to avoid harming others. At most, he would just stroll around the Eight Great Hutongs when he had nothing to do.

So after much consideration, he went to a social welfare institution (a comprehensive institution that takes in orphans, people with intellectual disabilities, blind, deaf, and mute people who are helpless and have no source of income) to adopt a little boy with a slight intellectual disability but a good physique. He was a bit less intelligent than other children his age and didn't speak much even at the age of 5.

Originally, he wanted to adopt a healthy child, but he shared the same concern as Yi Zhonghai: what if the child found their biological parents when they grew up?

People of this generation have experienced a lot, and their thinking is inherently more complex.

So, in the end, Zhang Banxian adopted Zhang Dabiao, perhaps as a way to do some good deeds and accumulate merit. Given the five deficiencies and three lacks, it's quite reasonable that the fake Taoist's adopted son has a minor disability.

In fact, he had also noticed Yi Zhonghai's problem, since he had learned some skills from the Taoist priest and also knew a bit about medicine.

So he also advised Yi Zhonghai that if all else failed, they should adopt one, since there were quite a few healthy children at the children's welfare home.

However, Yi Zhonghai felt that Zhang Banxian was insulting him, so he naturally refused, and from that time on, the two families became enemies.

As for the Jia family, Old Jia was a decent man, not much of a nuisance. But Madam Zhang was always unhappy that the Zhang family next door had two side rooms. "My family has a son, and Old Jia is a skilled worker in the factory. Your family is just an adopted fool, and you, Zhang the fortune teller, are just a gatekeeper. Why do you two have two rooms?"

The three of us in my family have to squeeze into one room?

This world is unfair!

Therefore, the Jia family and the Zhang family did not get along very well.

Among the younger generation in the courtyard, Jia Dongxu is the oldest, followed by Shazhu, Liu Guangqi, Xu Damao, Yan Jiecheng, and then Zhang Dabiao, He Yushui, Liu Guangtian, Liu Genhuzi, Datou, and others.

We used to play together when we were little, but as we got older, our relationships deteriorated.

Zhang Dabiao was constantly teased, but since there were adults at home, no one bullied him too much. Zhang Banxian was a "remnant of feudal superstition," a notorious figure who was frequently reported, arrested, and sent to the neighborhood office for "re-education," and even paraded through the streets! The neighborhood office had also stated that he was a fake Taoist priest, classified as a poor peasant, and not a "religious professional."

But with this kind of thing, it's better to believe it exists than not, right?

Don't judge a product by its ingredients, judge it by its effectiveness! See if it truly has the ability to make something out of nothing!

So no one dared to offend the Zhang family too much. After all, which family doesn't have weddings and funerals? Sometimes they had to consult Zhang the fortune teller to predict the auspicious and inauspicious dates, and he was surprisingly accurate!

As a result, the Zhang family's quality of life was still decent, and Zhang Bansian was willing to spend money on Zhang Dabiao, ensuring he never lacked for anything from food and drink to toilet needs since he was a child. Therefore, Dabiao was very sturdy and resilient from a young age, and since roughhousing among young people is normal, it never went too far.

A few days ago, Zhang Bansian felt that his days were numbered. After all, he was already 58 years old and his health was not good to begin with. In addition, 59 had officially entered a year of famine, and his meager salary was really not enough to support himself and his half-grown son Zhang Dabiao's food, drink and daily necessities.

So they held a "feudal superstition" ritual in the courtyard to summon back Zhang Dabiao's missing soul and spirit.

He was thinking of trying to cure his child before he died, otherwise how could he survive in this dilapidated courtyard?

Whether Zhang Dabiao's soul and spirit were summoned back is another matter, but after Zhang Banxian finished his ritual, before the neighborhood committee could arrest him for criticism and struggle sessions, he vomited a mouthful of blood in front of everyone in the courtyard and passed away the next day.

Rumors circulated that Zhang Banxian was attempting to defy fate, but his skills were insufficient and he suffered a backlash.

He's different from Lao Jia. He didn't lose his job while working in the factory; he lost it all because of his "feudal superstitions" in the courtyard.

So there was no compensation. Out of humanitarian concern, the factory gave Zhang Dabiao 50 yuan as a condolence payment, and then, together with the neighborhood committee, they buried Zhang Bansian. Expecting the local thugs to help with the funeral arrangements was out of the question. However, during the final funeral procession, most of the younger generation did come out to help carry the coffin.

The factory reserved a workstation for him. Zhang Dabiao is 16 years old this year. He can start working at the factory when he turns 18. The original rule was that 16-year-olds could start working at the factory, but the steel rolling mill is a heavy industry with heavy physical labor. A few years ago, some 16- or 17-year-olds started working at the factory and ended up having accidents due to exhaustion. Therefore, the steel rolling mill set the starting age at 18.

The factory also gives him 5 yuan a month for living expenses. This arrangement ensures he won't starve, and it's more than enough. No one can find fault with it.

But since there were no adults in Zhang Dabiao's family, his two private rooms became coveted.

贾家59年刚得了一个孙女小当，全家5口挤在一个14.85平的厢房（宽3.3深4.5米）里，旁边一二傻子独占两间厢房总计29.7平。

Do you think I'm envious or not?

They were not only envious of the houses, but also of the work positions in the steel rolling mill. Although they were warehouse keepers, they only earned 22 yuan a month with no room for advancement and a fixed salary.

But that's a regular employee position in a steel rolling mill!

Zhang Dabiao is too young to work in the factory right now. If we could "rent" a room from him and "borrow" a workstation for Qin Huairu for two years, then...

Jia Zhangshi and Yi Zhonghai hit it off immediately. With Zhang Bansian gone, a simpleton like Ershazi could be easily controlled!

And so this whole thing happened. Before the meeting, Jia Donglu, Sha Zhu, and a group of other young people got Zhang Dabiao drunk.

When the old man spoke up at the meeting, the drunken Zhang Dabiao agreed in a daze. With everyone in the courtyard as witnesses, the matter was settled and there was no way to back down.

As for how much the rent is and when the workstation will be returned, well...

Unexpectedly, the younger generation got drunk themselves and drank Zhang Dabiao to death in this world. The Zhang Dabiao from the future, drunk, transmigrated here and, upon hearing that they were going to take his house...?

I've already time-traveled, and someone still wants to mess with my house?

This world is filled with deep malice towards me!

I, Da Biao, felt it at that moment—

It's going to explode!