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He had transmigrated, but Wang Ze didn't even know why he had transmigrated.
On October 17, 2024, he was watching a TV series on a pirated platform when his vision suddenly went black.
The next second, Wang Ze found himself in an unfamiliar room.
The simple room contained only a wooden bed, a set of chairs and benches, and a cabinet standing by the wall.
Wang Ze felt bewildered; what exactly was going on?
As he was in a daze, he suddenly felt a pain in his head, and a flood of memories surged into his mind.
It turned out this was Beijing in 1954, and this body was also named Wang Ze, or rather, Wang Youze.
One was the name used publicly, and the other was his Wang Clan name.
He was only 16 years old this year, already in his second year of high school.
His education had allowed him, a rural boy, to reach this level at his age because his original body came from a large family.
Wang Ze was the newly appointed Wang Clan leader.
However, Wang Youze's academic performance was mediocre, making it impossible for him to get into university.
His mother had died early during the war years, and the original Wang Clan leader, Wang Yizhi, had led the Wang Clan through difficult times during the war.
After much toil and effort, upon seeing the establishment of the mainland, his spirit finally relaxed, and his entire body collapsed.
He couldn't hold on for many years, and it was under these circumstances that Wang Ze was arranged by his father to inherit the position of Wang Clan leader before his death.
Under the arrangement of his father and the Wang Clan elders, the family paid for him to get a job and housing in the City, directly arranging for Wang Ze to work and gain experience in the City; once he was well-trained, he would return to officially assume the role of Wang Clan leader.
In their view, Wang Ze, who had been studying all this time, clearly lacked the ability to be the Wang Clan leader and needed more tempering.
After his father's death and burial, he hid the family's assets and was then protected by young Wang Clan members and sent to the City, but to his surprise, the Wang Youze who was sent to the City was replaced by someone else in less than a day.
However, Wang Ze always felt something was not quite right in his memories.
After a moment of careful thought, he suddenly realized that this was No. 95 Courtyard on Naluo Gulane; when the Wang Clan members sent him here yesterday, the neighbors even came out to greet him.
The one living next to him now was Grandma Long.
This was the world of the Forbidden City Courtyard? Wang Ze was dumbfounded.
He had just watched many Forbidden City Courtyard novels and, on a whim, searched for the TV series to watch, but he hadn't even finished one episode before transmigrating to experience it himself?
Thinking of the demons and ghosts in this Forbidden City Courtyard from various novels, Wang Ze felt a chill down his spine.
Cheat, system, space?
Wang Ze quickly called out softly.
Having arrived here, he didn't know how he would survive without a cheat.
Suddenly, Wang Ze felt a virtual projection-like interface appear before his eyes.
The moment it opened, a surge of information was transmitted to his mind.
Level 1 of the panel can enhance various skills of the main body, Level 2 will reveal Boundless Space, and Level 3 will be a life farm.
Wang Ze felt that this thing was more like a logistics support cheat.
However, he was only at Level 1 now, and the information was just a simple introduction, with no explanation on how to upgrade.
The first row of the panel read Wang Youze, 16 years old, Level 1, and the level was flashing with a faint white light, as if breathing.
Below it was a large blank space, and on the right was a square empty box.
However, in the blank space on the left, Wang Ze saw something familiar but impossible to appear in this era.
Java / Level 3, Experience 56.
Computer programming language was actually on the panel; this was his survival skill from his work in later generations, Wang Ze immediately became excited. With his experience of reading countless books, this system was most likely a skill-upgrading system.
Wang Ze had no doubts about his Java level being only Level 3; after all, he was just a code monkey who could complete tasks assigned to him, not some big shot.
However, judging by his Java level, Level 3 was already a practical level; at least he could make a living with this skill.
Wang Ze tried to tap on the words 'Java' with his hand, and then he found that the square box on the right lit up slightly.
He tried tapping the box again, and the next moment, Java skills appeared inside the box.
However, Wang Ze didn't feel any change, nor did he experience the legendary knowledge pouring into his mind out of thin air.
"Maybe it's not enough time," Wang Ze mumbled, then directly clicked on the chef skill below.
There was no need to improve his Java level; he probably wouldn't need it in this life anyway.
Currently, there were only two skills on the interface; the other was a Level 1 chef skill.
Wang Ze estimated that if he had to cook the food of this era himself, he would starve to death.
So, in his opinion, the chef skill needed to be at least Level 3, but he didn't know how long it would take to level up.
After fumbling for a while, Wang Ze stopped exploring the system. After all, the interface was very simple, and he couldn't find any information on how to upgrade it, but he still felt it was best to let nature take its course. Upgrading was most likely related to skills, and even without an explanation, Wang Ze was very certain of this.
Getting out of bed, he put on the cloth shoes by the bed and walked to the cabinet by the wall.
According to the memories he had just received, this was where the Wang Clan had prepared food for him.
Opening the bag, the white granular substance inside made him frown.
Was this cornmeal? It was just not quite what he had imagined.
This bag of cornmeal, though called flour, actually contained many small granular pieces, indicating it wasn't ground very well.
Next to the bag were basic seasonings like oil, soy sauce, and salt.
Sigh, Wang Ze sighed. He could already imagine the difficult days ahead.
Why didn't the Forbidden City Courtyard's standard planting and breeding space just appear for him instead of waiting for an upgrade?
Just thinking about what would happen next, Wang Ze couldn't help but want to wail.
If it were just him alone, that would be one thing, but he also had a family behind him, a hundred-plus households.
Could he, as the Wang Clan leader, just stand by and watch his Wang Clan members starve or even die?
Having inherited this body, Wang Ze also couldn't escape the karma behind it.
In his memories, the original body's emphasis on the family unconsciously changed Wang Ze's thinking.
He had already begun to strategize how to help the Wang Clan members get through the difficult days.
Wang Ze sat on the stool, thinking for a long time but couldn't come up with any good ideas. If it were just one family, or even two, he was confident he could feed them with this system, but a village, over a hundred households, nearly a thousand people—he had no solution for such a scale.
Rubbing his face, Wang Ze once again regretted why his Level 1 wasn't a space. If the panel's space was a cheat like those in many novels where a single space could feed a nation, why would he need to worry about these things?
With a thought, the system panel reappeared before his eyes. Wang Ze looked at the panel, knowing that the solution could only come from it.
However, it was just the beginning, and currently, he only had one usable skill: chef.
Wang Ze felt that learning as many skills as possible was the most important thing.
Standing up, Wang Ze opened the door.
He was met with a wall directly in front of him.
Wang Ze walked out of the room and found that his two back rooms were just to the east of Granny Long.
The entrance to his room was a two-meter-wide passage that directly connected to the East Courtyard's garden.
Wang Ze walked to the moon gate leading to the garden. The door here was closed. Fumbling around on his person, Wang Ze pulled out a string of keys.
He directly inserted it into the keyhole, and with a click, the lock opened.
The scene inside the garden came into Wang Ze's view.