Starting With Parents Being Kicked Out of the Siheyuan

Shen Aiguo, a super soldier king from China's most elite special forces, was blown up in a suicide attack while covering his comrades' retreat. He woke up as a time traveler in 1956, inhabiting the body of a company commander with the same name who was injured in a firefight and forced to retire. To prevent his upright parents from being exploited by the cunning residents of No.95 Nanluoguxiang Siheyuan—a notorious den of troublemakers from the world of Full of Love Courtyard—Shen Aiguo rejected a civilian post in the military and arranged to become the head of the Red Star Steel Rolling Plant Security Department. On the train to Beijing, he was bound to an Emotion Collection System that harvests emotional energy from others for purchases in a system mall, though the system was playful and vague. His newbie gift pack contained a Personal Space (500-meter cube), an Ancient Spirit Spring that strengthens the body and cures minor ailments, a Personal Farm (ten one-mu plots with one-fifth real-world growth cycles and mental control), Grandmaster-level National Martial Arts, and a Life-Rebuilding Pill that heals all injuries and enhances physique to human limits. He merged the first three into a small world and decided to consume the pill and martial arts later for safety.Arriving at the train station, he bought meat buns and fried snacks, intending to surprise his parents. But as he neared home, he saw an elderly couple building a shack in an alley. Recognizing them as his father Shen Haifeng and mother Li Ruifang, he knelt in shock. Through tears, they revealed that the courtyard's three elders—First Elder Yi Zhonghai, Second Elder Liu Haizhong, and Third Elder Yan Fugui—along with the Jia family, had spread a rumor that Shen Aiguo deserted and was shot dead. Based on this lie, the Street Office reclaimed the family's four-room private house, awarded to Shen Haifeng as a disabled veteran. Yi Zhonghai lent Shen Haifeng 200 yuan to retrieve his son's remains, but the money vanished mysteriously that night. Unable to repay or recover the body, the parents were evicted and the house was given to creditors. Over the years, Shen Haifeng's monthly disability pension of 32 yuan was repeatedly borrowed by courtyard families under moral pressure and never returned. The parents had planned to return to the countryside after settling the debt.Shen Aiguo's blood boiled with fury. He realized the whole scheme was orchestrated by Yi Zhonghai, who used the Deaf Old Lady to spread rumors and manipulated everyone to steal the house for Jia Dongxu's future support. He comforted his parents, vowing to reclaim what belonged to them. After they ate, he took them directly to the local Street Office and Police Station, where Director Wang listened and agreed to investigate. The Red Star Steel Rolling Plant Secretary Peng Jun and Factory Director Yang Xinmin, upon learning that most residents were their workers, issued a statement supporting joint law enforcement. Armed police units and the factory Security Department, led by Deputy Head Xiong Guilin, raided the Siheyuan. All residents were ordered to the middle courtyard with the warning that resisters would be shot. The three elders—Yi, Liu, and Yan—and the Jia family panicked. Xu Damao also felt exposed. Yi Zhonghai initially tried to claim the house sale was legal, but Shen Aiguo exposed his lies one by one, revealing that the Deaf Old Lady was the source of the desertion rumors. Deaf Grandma fainted, then revealed herself while whispering to Sha Zhu. Shen Aiguo demanded immediate arrests and a systematic investigation, promising to recover the house and punish everyone involved. The street office and factory leaders supported him fully. With the law now on his side, Shen Aiguo had finally launched his counterattack. He also inwardly decided that after settling matters, he would use his personal farm to grow food, preparing for the coming natural disasters in the late 1950s, and live a life of peace or vengeance as the courtyard creatures chose. The emotions system chimed, ready to collect fear and anger from the panicking culprits. Shen Aiguo's first step was complete: the rule of law had entered No.95, and the rogues would soon taste justice.