The daily life of Yuanbao family who got rich through demolitionUpdated at Jul 20, 2025, 20:11
Introduction to "Jin Yuanbao's Family's Daily Life of Getting Rich Due to Demolition"
This is a black humor novel set against the backdrop of urban demolition in China in the 1990s, telling the absurd story of Jin Yuanbao, a nightclub doorman, and his family who got rich due to demolition. The full text shows the various aspects of life in China's social transformation period through seven core chapters:
The wisdom of survival at the bottom
The protagonist Jin Yuanbao, as a doorman disguised as a man, thrives in the nightclub with her ability to read people's expressions. Her father Jin Laifu has brought the wisdom of the market to the extreme - from bribing the household registration police with two bottles of Laobaigan to name his daughter "Jin Yuanbao", to the family borrowing high-interest loans to buy a house after the news of the demolition leaked.
Rhapsody of getting rich due to demolition
By eavesdropping on the conversations of nightclub guests, the family mortgaged their property to borrow 350,000 yuan to buy a house to be demolished. In the end, they obtained 6 resettlement houses and 880,000 yuan in compensation, achieving a class leap, but attracted the jealousy and calculations of relatives and colleagues.
Magical Realism Illustrated Book
There are many absurd plots in the article: Ye Fangfang's mother deliberately jumped on the stairs and gave birth prematurely for eight months for the demolition money; Wei Daxiong wanted to make a fortune through "pawnshop marriage"; Lin Jinjun and his wife abandoned their sick baby at the door of the Jin family to extort money, but were framed and labeled as "baby eaters".
Mark of the Times
Vividly restore the characteristics of the 1990s: nightclub dancers singing "Dancing Girl Tears", mobile phones, Hongtashan cigarettes, layoffs in state-owned factories, and Hong Kong businessmen's investment boom are intertwined to show the chaos and vitality of the early market economy.
Ironic Growth
After becoming rich, Yuanbao was forced to return to school. He changed from a nightclub veteran to a senior repeater. Under the arrangement of Director Zhen, he received tutoring from a special teacher. His political sensitivity gradually emerged, laying the groundwork for his subsequent political career.
Through the bizarre experience of Jin Yuanbao's family in "demolishing their future", the novel sharply satirizes the social conditions under the demolition economy. It not only vividly depicts the wisdom of the market, but also implies a profound reflection on the mentality of getting rich quickly.