Courtyard House: Rebirth of a Shopkeeper in 1937

Song Yanxing failed to get into university after graduating high school due to his poor English. Disheartened, he went to work in Shenzhen, working in various factories for over a decade. He self-taught various skills and gained extensive management experience, but due to his lack of education, he only managed to become a foreman, achieving little success. Returning to his hometown, he became a self-employed individual. Inexplicably, in 1937, over 40 years old, he was transported to a small mountain village in Baoqing, Hunan, becoming a three-year-old child with the same name. He also gained a small space, about one acre in size, containing a spiritual spring and a thatched hut. His family ran a small shop on the Xiangqian Road: his father, Song Dawei; his mother, Liu Sanniang; his elder brothers, Song Yanbang and Song Yanguo; and his twin sister, Song Guixiang. He learned to read and write with his elder brother, practiced martial arts with his father, and studied with a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. Using the spiritual spring, they managed to improve their family's health and cultivate high-yield crops. However, fate is unpredictable. During the Anti-Japanese War, his elder brother was forced to serve two terms as a village head, his future uncertain. Fortunately, he gained merit during the Liberation War, allowing him to lead his family out of the mountain village and settle in Beijing.