The Twelve Great Generals II

Lastly there is the youngest general. Zhu Ming. Zhu was born into a peasant farmer in the Kura River. 

He has seven siblings in his young days. They all die in a plaque during the war after the Vern Empire crumble and the Blood Brotherhood take charge.

Poor and destitute, Zhu buried his family by wrapping them in white clothes. 

It was said that he look silently on his family grave for three days and three nights until a monk chance upon him and share some bread with him in which the monks invites him to join the monkhood.

He then becomes a monk in local temple.

He did not remain there for long as the monastery ran short of funds and he was forced to leave. 

For the next few years, Zhu led the life of a wandering beggar and personally experienced and saw the hardships of the common people.

After about three years, he returned to the monastery and stayed there until he was around eighteen years old.