Between Two Worlds: From Hauling Bricks on a Construction Site to Ruling a Great Clan

Travel Between Two Worlds | Farming and Management | Family Rise | Slow Burn | From Illiterate to Success | Surviving in Troubled Times | Construction Worker | Humble Clan Rises | Civil and Martial Skills | No Mindless Power Fantasy

In a year of famine, food runs out and the whole family awaits death. Chen Hu goes hunting in the mountains, stumbles into a tiger's den, and kills a tiger in a desperate struggle. His blood stains a jade pendant, and he transmigrates to a modern construction site.

He cannot read a single character, not even write his own name. At the construction site, he hauls bricks but cannot understand the job postings or read road signs. He can only gesture when he wants to buy a bowl of noodles. Still, he relies on his strength to earn money hauling bricks in the modern world, buying rice and grain to secretly bring back to ancient times and feed his family.

As someone of unknown origins, he fears becoming a specimen for people to study. He does not dare, nor can he, make a quick fortune by selling antiques and relics from another civilization. He can only keep a low profile, choosing to haul bricks at the site and do his best to blend into the background, so fewer people will notice him.

His eldest brother gets jealous and causes trouble. His sister-in-law wants to sell his younger sister as a concubine to a bully. The town's headman watches him with ill intent. Chen Hu hauls bricks by day and attends literacy classes by night. From illiterate to literate, from literacy to understanding, he gradually leads his family from having enough to eat, to eating well, and then to reclaiming wasteland.

Water pumps turn barren land into fertile fields. He helps his clan, starting with those closest to him. He establishes a family school to teach the children to read. He trains his younger brother in martial arts and teaches his son the blade. For a humble family to rise, he has to forge a path through the Nine-Rank Official Selection System. He turns the Chen family from a dirt-poor household into a powerful clan in their region.

He travels between two worlds, bearing the weight of two lives. He hauls bricks in the modern world and runs the household in ancient times.

From a construction site to a powerful local clan, Chen Hu builds his path one brick at a time.