Courtyard House: Passing through the Silly Pillar, Activating the Blessed Cave Heaven

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As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt his mind become unusually clear, and he immediately jumped up to examine the strange stone carefully.

"Could this be the legendary Enlightenment Stone? But I don't know any cultivation techniques!"

He tried to pick up the jade, but found that it didn't move at all.

Only then did he realize that the treasures of the cultivation world were not something that mortals could easily shake.

He sat back down on the jade, trying to use it to enhance his understanding in other areas.

Recalling his various cooking experiences in his past life, he discovered many shortcomings that he had never noticed before.

Even without this Enlightenment Stone, with my culinary skills from my previous life, I would be more than qualified to be a master chef in this era; now that it has my blessing, I can at least become a grandmaster-level chef in this lifetime.

He Yuzhu began to plan his life.

It is now 1946. The original owner was not good at studying and dropped out of school in the fourth grade to learn cooking from his father.

Because of his young age, he can only start by practicing knife skills. He has not been able to go to work at the factory recently due to a cold.

With less than three years to go before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Nationalist government was about to over-issue currency. Fortunately, Beiping would be peacefully liberated, so as long as people behaved themselves, there should not be too much danger.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first major event was the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, followed by the public-private partnership that began in 1953 and was fully completed in 1956.

The third major event is socialist transformation. You have personal space, so getting through this period shouldn't be too difficult, but you need to be extra careful not to attract too much attention, otherwise you'll be labeled a counter-revolutionary, which would be troublesome.

The fourth point is the ten-year special period, but since my family doesn't have a capitalist background, the impact shouldn't be too great.

In addition, starting in 1953, grain was rationed, and various industries gradually implemented rationing.

As long as I can get through these special periods and wait for the reform and opening up, I will be in my early forties, in the prime of my life, and have great potential to achieve great things.

The future holds great promise.

He Yuzhu pulled his wandering thoughts back. Although he had just turned eleven, he had to start planning now so that he could live a comfortable life in the future.

The beginning is always the hardest, and the first task is to manage this empty and desolate blessed land.

Although it's a treasure trove, it's currently bare and has nothing there; we'll have to transform it ourselves.

Thinking of this, He Yuzhu couldn't help but sigh. Even filling his stomach required working from dawn till dusk.

Looking at the protagonists in other novels, who can sow and reap with just a thought, my own space seems so "simple".

Despite the complaints, the work still had to be done.

In the decades to come, everyone knows what the situation was like in China; the days of food and clothing shortages were still long ahead.

He Yuzhu stepped out of the palace gate and stood on the stone steps, gazing into the distance.

"This is my territory, and I'm free to decorate it myself from now on."

"I have to do everything myself, so I need to grow some easy-to-manage perennial crops."

These days, without machines, you can't cultivate much land even if you work yourself to death. He thought to himself, "We can plant camellia trees and various fruit trees on the barren mountains, and also plant some bamboo and tall trees."

Two hundred acres of land were reclaimed by the lake to grow crops, and the rest of the land was sown with pasture seeds so that cattle and sheep could be raised in the future.

"When spring comes, we'll go to the Yongding River and get some fish fry to release into the river."

He muttered to himself as he strolled toward the lake.

The lake, about seven or eight hundred meters away, was as clear as a mirror, reflecting the clouds in the sky as they drifted slowly.

Unfortunately, the lake was too clean; not a single fish could be seen.