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

7

Therefore, I specially asked my senior apprentice Wu Baotian to take you on as an apprentice, and you will first go to Fengzeyuan to learn Shandong cuisine.

"Once you've mastered Shandong cuisine, I'll teach you Sichuan cuisine," He Daqing said slowly.

"Okay, Dad."

"If there's nothing else, I'm going to sleep now," He Yuzhu replied.

"Go."

Lying in bed, He Yuzhu recalled his first meeting with He Daqing and felt that this father was quite responsible.

Although her mother died in childbirth, He Daqing took good care of her daughter.

He Yushui looks clean, lively and cute, no less so than other children with mothers.

This may also be related to his relatively high income as a chef.

He Daqing did not have the patriarchal mindset common in that era; in contrast, He Yushui received more care.

Just as He Yuzhu was about to close his eyes and fall asleep, he suddenly realized that something was wrong—He Daqing kept calling him "Zhuzi" instead of "Shazhu" as everyone in the TV series he remembered calling him.

This discovery puzzled him greatly.

As He Yuzhu sorted through the original owner's memories, he noticed that He Daqing always called him "Zhuzi" and never "Shazhu".

He speculated that the nickname might have originated from some later event.

He Yuzhu flipped through the remaining plots of fan fiction in his mind and finally remembered a description: When Qin Huairu tried to set him up with Qin Jingru, Qin Jingru disliked him because she heard that he was nicknamed "Silly Zhu".

Jia Zhangshi once explained the origin of this nickname: In the early days of liberation, He Yuzhu was about eleven or twelve years old, and He Daqing asked him to sell steamed buns on the street.

On the way, they encountered a vehicle transporting wounded soldiers. When the wounded soldiers tried to grab some steamed buns, they were tripped by He Yuzhu and chased after him in a fit of rage.

He Yuzhu managed to escape thanks to his familiarity with the terrain, and then sold the steamed buns to a stranger before happily returning home to pay.

When He Daqing discovered that all the money he received was counterfeit, he angrily scolded, "Zhu Zi, you can't even recognize real money, you're such a fool." This money was originally enough for the whole family's food for a month, and from then on, the nickname "Foolish Zhu" spread throughout the courtyard and eventually even reached the steel rolling mill.

After figuring out the reason, He Yuzhu secretly rejoiced that he had transmigrated early and had not yet experienced the incident of receiving counterfeit money while selling steamed buns.

He realized that this was the key to changing his fate—after all, previous time travelers had all worked hard to get rid of this unpleasant nickname.

However, upon closer examination, there seems to be a contradiction in the details of the novel: He Yuzhu was already fourteen years old when Beiping was liberated, and the People's Army was strictly disciplined and would never have robbed the people of their food.

He judged that this event should have occurred after the Japanese surrender and during the period of the Nationalist government's rule, and that Jia Zhangshi had obviously misremembered the date.

He Yuzhu chuckled to himself, realizing that no one had noticed such an obvious error in the date, except for him.

"I'm such a clever fellow," he muttered smugly, imagining himself wearing a long robe, a turban on his head, and a feather fan gently waving in his hand, before drifting off to sleep.

In this era without cell phones and with a lack of nightlife, He Yuzhu went to bed early.

He woke up before dawn and stayed in his warm bed, unwilling to get up.

In the depths of winter, Beijing is bitterly cold, and the comfort of a warm bed is the best refuge.

He was figuring out how to obtain the seeds for the various crops in the plan.

At this time, the internal war had just begun, the Nationalist government was launching a fierce offensive, and the Workers' and Peasants' Party was on the defensive.

He Yuzhu didn't care about any of that.