share time: 2026-01-26 12:32:39
Lin Xiaoman, a modern poor guy selling congee at dawn, is chased by city management and falls into a hole in an old ancestral hall. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the Dayong Dynasty, where starvation runs rampant—even his electric tricycle, loaded with bags of rice, has followed him! Seeing refugees gnawing on tree bark, he immediately sets up a pot to cook congee, but the emperor (investigating the disaster incognito) thinks he’s a “sorcerer” and tries to arrest him. It’s only when the emperor witnesses Lin using his tricycle’s battery to start a fire, modern queuing to maintain order, and teaching refugees to grow high-yield potatoes (from his bag) that turn the disaster zone around in three months, that the emperor kneels down on the spot, begging him to be the “Congee National Teacher.” Next, the prime minister’s daughter sends a jade hairpin, the general’s sister brings a sword (vowing to protect him), and even the princess slips him a handkerchief. Yet Lin stares at the hole in the ancestral hall, torn: he misses his sick mother in modern times, can’t bear to leave Ah Zhu (the little refugee who helps him start fires), and never expects that the “little beggar” watching him from the crowd is the emperor’s long-lost princess…
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