In the dim room, the moonlight shone obliquely through the window, the evening breeze swayed the green leaves, and the white curtains were slightly raised, and a long figure appeared on the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xia You sat in front of the piano, his fingers unconsciously pressing the keys, and the notes beat intermittently.

He stopped abruptly and looked blankly at his hand.

The hands looked thin, the fingers were slender, the joints were not as thick and stiff as those of ordinary men, but they were also very clear, the fingertips were thin, and the nails were cleanly repaired.

There is no doubt that these are very beautiful hands.

But it was different from the hands he remembered, which had been burned by the fire, leaving a glaring scar.

Xia You muttered, "Sure enough...... Isn't it a dream?"

He got up from his chair and looked around, "But this ...... And where?"

This room is a little old and cramped, and the furniture on display looks to be a certain age, but the room is quite clean and seems to have been cleaned on time.

Xia You rubbed his eyebrows lightly, trying to find memories about this place, but to no avail.

Obviously, it was the first time he had been here, and the unfamiliar environment exuded a faint sense of alienation.

Suddenly, Xia You's body trembled suddenly in a casual glance.

On the diagonal table is a picture frame with a picture of a little boy and a woman, and the two look somewhat similar and look very intimate.

"That's ......"

The Adam's apple rolled up and down, Xia You stepped forward in a daze, picked up the photo frame, looked at the person in the photo, an inexplicable nostalgia arose, and he felt that his heart was warm.

At this moment, he seemed to have an illusion, there seemed to be something whistling in front of him, it was a fragment of disorder, a mess of memories, converging into a rushing river.

Countless pictures are swept by.

The gentle gaze of my mother, the scenes of learning the piano when I was a child, the correction of mistakes when I played the wrong notes, the joy of attending the concert for the first time, and the fact that I took my sister to visit my mother in the hospital......

"Mom's ......"

When the words blurted out, Xia You suddenly woke up, and the memories that had just passed by him had never been experienced by him at all.

......

Xia You lay on the bed, pressing his forehead with his hand, his head still faintly swollen and painful.

At this moment, two very different memories ran side by side in his mind, and it was a wonderful feeling, as if he had lived two lives.

One of them is naturally his past memories, a life of waste wood that has not left the house at the age of twenty-six.

The other is a new memory of this world, the life of a sixteen-year-old boy.

In this regard, Xia You was indeed a little flustered at first, but he quickly accepted the facts. I have to say that the ability of the dead house to adapt to these things is still quite strong.

On the basis of accepting the facts, through this new memory, Xia You learned a lot of information:

First of all, the world he was in now was not the world he had before.

There is no change in the timeline, it is all 2017, and the development of the tech tree of the two is about the same, and there are still celebrities who should be.

But in the history of the world, there is a big difference, and to be more precise, it should be a big difference in the history of China.

And that turning point was in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the development of the original history, the Ming Dynasty was inevitably destroyed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But in this world, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous general Shang Kexi was deeply used by the emperor, and the two staged a bitter trick to deceive the trust of Huang Taiji, and tried their best to worship him as a general.

As a result, less than half a day after this goods surrendered to the enemy, they single-handedly entered the camp to kill Huang Taiji, and by the way, destroyed seven of the eight banners, so that they completely rested.

In this way, the Qing Dynasty was strangled in the cradle, and history changed greatly.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty seems to have injected new vitality into its back, swept away the decline of the past, changed the name of the country to the Ming Dynasty, and revitalized the majesty of the past.

It was not until the beginning of the Opium War in modern times that the Ming Kingdom slowly declined.

But even if it declines, Huaxia is still Huaxia.

Relying on thousands of years of connotation, the Ming Kingdom stubbornly blocked the invasion of the Western army, and piled up a crushing victory with countless human lives.

Since then, the Ming Kingdom realized the importance of the science and technology tree, and the sword alone was not enough to deal with the Western countries, so many advanced intellectuals launched the 'Shiyi Changji' movement.

Since Japan here is still a small pony boy in the Ming Kingdom, there is no Jiawu to fight, so the movement has developed very smoothly, and a large number of young people have crossed the ocean to find a way to revitalize the country.

It took decades and several changes to complete the primitive accumulation of the bourgeoisie, and at the same time, the level of science and technology leveled with Western countries, and the national strength increased greatly.

Although in order to develop science and technology, the Ming Kingdom did not catch up with the First World War, but it coincided with the outbreak of the Second World War.

As soon as it entered the war, the Ming Kingdom, which was strong in science and technology and had a large number of people, immediately became the mainstay of the war, defeating the fascists who only had Germany and Italy, and forcing the end of World War II within five years.

After that, the world was divided into three countries: the Ming Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States.

It's just that the Ming Kingdom has no desire to compete for hegemony, and pulls many younger brothers to mediate in the middle to prevent the outbreak of the three wars.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 90s, the world situation changed again, from three polarizations to two superpowers and many powers.

Because the Ming Kingdom is as strong as ever, Japan has no intention of rebelling, and during World War II, it is also a loyal pony, which has not changed until now.

It is also worth mentioning that the body he occupies now is also named Xia You, and he is sixteen years old, ten years younger than before.

The Xia family is a prominent family of artists, whose family history can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty.

About seventy or eighty years ago, the then head of the Xia family was talented, not satisfied with the status quo, and tried to open up the business and political worlds, but was repeatedly excluded by other families.

As a result, he was furious and simply moved the focus of the entire family to Japan, a vassal country of the Ming Kingdom.

With many enemies and decades of rooting and development, the Xia family is now one of Japan's top chaebols, far better than those rival families back then.

Not to mention the cultural circles that have always been in business, they also have a lot of power in the business and political circles, and they belong to the kind of behemoths that will shake the whole of Japan if they stomp their feet.

And Xia You is the current head of the Xia family and the only son of Xia Yan.

Xia You looked around, although this apartment was very clean and almost not stained with dust, it was still quite far from the ultra-luxurious residence he imagined.

"Hmm...... In this way, I should be regarded as the rich second generation of the rich second generation....... So why am I living here?"

Xia You touched his chin and quickly remembered the reason.

The reason why the predecessor left the Xia family and moved to this old-style apartment alone was because of his mother, more precisely, his respect for his mother.

Four years ago, the predecessor's mother, Aragaki Aoku, died of illness, and the Xia family's housemother was vacant.

Three months ago, at the request of his elders, Xia Yanxuxian, who had been single since his wife's death, married a super-famous strong woman in the business world, who also had a daughter.

In this regard, the predecessor did not make trouble, but expressed understanding.

After all, his father is the head of the Xia family, and it is obviously impossible not to marry a wife all the time, and doing so will also have a great impact on the development of the family.

It is understandable that he wants to live with a mother and daughter who have never met, and calls the woman mother, the predecessor is very resistant, so he does not hesitate to quarrel with the grandfather who promoted this marriage.

In the end, Xia Yan compromised and agreed to Xia You's request to move out alone. In this way, it also avoided the situation of him and the mother and daughter arguing.

Originally, if you want to move out to live, with the Xia family's financial resources and power, it will definitely not be a problem to find a super luxury villa for Xia You to live in, and then send an almighty Sebas, with a few playable and controllable maid sauces.

But he would rather move out than agree with the stepmother's performance, which angered the old master, that is, Xia You's grandfather.

As a result, the old man ordered that no clansmen were allowed to help Xia You, and that he would never retract this sentence unless he came over to confess his mistake to him.

As the so-called lion is old, the residual power still exists.

For the order of the old family master, it is reasonable, and the current family head cannot ignore it, so even if it is his own son, Xia Yan can't give him more help.

Before leaving, Xia Yan stuffed the few money and a key to Xia You, and said that he would find a way to send him living expenses in the future, so that Xia You would not worry.

In this regard, the predecessor was very moved. After all, these things are all decided by himself, and even if there are any consequences, he should bear it alone, and his father is not obliged to help him at all.

After simply packing up his luggage, he said goodbye to his father and left home, took the Shinkansen to Chiba Prefecture, and finally moved into this old apartment.

The apartment is small but has everything you need and is very convenient.

To this day, he has been living here for more than two months.

Speaking of this apartment, Xia You is no stranger, because the owner of the apartment is his mother, Aragaki Aoku.

As far back as a child, he followed his mother to this place many times.

Later, his mother was hospitalized all the year round, and Xia You came here less often, and when his mother died, he never came here again, after all, it was easy to touch the scene.

But this place has always been a very important place for Xia You.

Presumably his father knew this and gave him the key to the apartment.