The fourteenth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and 1660 in the Western calendar.
Nanyang, Manila!
"..."
"Brother Yu, brother Yu, wake up!"
"How do you feel now?"
The sound ringing in his ears awakened his consciousness from his drowsiness.
Zhu Hongyu opened his eyelids that seemed to be stuck with glue with difficulty and looked at his surroundings.
The space was low and cramped, and the air was filled with a strong smell of sweat and blood.
If you smell it carefully, you can see that the smell of blood comes from yourself.
"I...am I not dead?"
Zhu Hongyu opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse and dry, like rough gravel rubbing deep in his throat.
"Brother Yu, it's great that you're okay!"
Li Guangyuan's voice was full of uncontrollable excitement and joy.
"The supervisor was so cruel during the day. I almost thought you wouldn't be able to survive!"
Zhu Hongyu looked at the people around him and gradually began to recall information about this person in his mind.
But this memory seemed to open a certain valve.
Severe pain came like an overwhelming force, as if someone had opened the lid of his heavenly spirit, poured cement into his skull, and stirred it like crazy with a mixer.
Two completely different memories began to collide and merge with each other in the depths of his mind...
His name is Zhu Hongyu, a member of the Ming Dynasty clan of the King of Chu.
After the Jiashen National Disaster, the Qing army entered the Pass, and while marching southward, wherever they went, they hunted down and massacred the Ming Dynasty clan members.
In order to avoid being hunted and massacred by the Qing army, my father and his young self fled from the Central Plains to Manila.
On the way south, more than a dozen members of the family died, and only Zhu Hongyu and his father died.
But just a year ago, my father went to sea for business and encountered a shipwreck on his way back.
At only seventeen years old, he lost his last relative and no source of livelihood.
He was tricked into working as a coolie in a mine!
But in another memory, he is also called Zhu Hongyu, a senior veteran of the Rabbit family's strongest army on the surface.
He joined the army at the age of eighteen. After two years as a knife scout, he was selected to serve in the special forces.
As the two memories merged, an emotion called happiness emerged!
Before traveling through time, he was performing a secret mission.
At the last moment of the mission, the crazy criminals ignited the explosives.
Fifty kilograms of high explosives exploded at close range. Zhu Hongyu didn't expect that he survived!
Although we have traveled through the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this era of blood and fire is still a living hell for the Chinese.
However, life is better than death!
After sorting out the memories in his mind, Zhu Hongyu said to the people around him.
"Guangyuan, thank you for carrying me back."
Today, I was knocked unconscious by the supervisor in the mine and beaten until I was seriously injured and dying. It was Li Guangyuan who carried me back.
Li Guangyuan is his brother who grew up with him.
They are also Chinese who moved their families to Southeast Asia and moved to Manila after the Jiashen Incident!
The two families are neighbors, and Li Guangyuan's family background is not very good.
His father died of illness on the way to Nanyang, and his mother raised Li Guangyuan, a younger brother and a younger sister alone.
Zhu Hongyu and Li Guangyuan were deceived into the mine together, and they have always taken care of each other.
Today he was beaten by a supervisor. Li Guangyuan also rushed to the scene after hearing the news.
But when he arrived at the scene, everything was over and the supervisor had left.
Only Zhu Hongyu was left on the spot, lying on the ground with weak breath, lingering on the edge of life and death.
All he could do was bring Zhu Hongyu back to the shack, and he couldn't change anything else.
While he was talking, Zhu Hongyu's stomach rumbled.
After not eating for a whole day, Zhu Hongyu was also very hungry.
"Brother Yu, give it!"
Li Guangyuan took out a piece of cake from his arms and quietly stuffed it into Zhu Hongyu.
"Brother Yu, eat quickly and don't let anyone see you. I know you were knocked unconscious by the supervisor and didn't eat. I left this for you specially!"
Zhu Hongyu took the cake and looked at Li Guangyuan without blinking, his heart filled with emotion.
In order to save costs, the colonists not only did not pay wages to the miners, but even the food was pitiful.
Everyone is allocated a daily quota, and only when they work can they eat!
Because the colonists wanted to ensure that the Chinese miners would be too hungry to cause trouble and resist after finishing their work.
This means that if the cake is left to Zhu Hongyu, Li Guangyuan himself will be hungry.
Li Guangyuan felt a little uncomfortable with Zhu Hongyu's eyes, scratched his head and said.
"Brother Yu, please eat quickly!"
But while he was talking, his stomach was growling.