Three Kingdoms

"This year's peach blossoms are about to bloom..." Liu Bei stood in the backyard, looking up at the peach trees.

"Brother!!!" Zhang Fei yelled in the front yard, which was so penetrating that the whole courtyard could hear it clearly. The little sparrow that was perched on the peach tree almost fell off when its feet staggered. Then it kicked hard and flew away crookedly.

"Brother, don't make any noise again!" Guan Yu, who was in the backyard with his eyes closed and turning the sword with extremely slow movements, opened his eyes in dissatisfaction and shouted softly.

Zhang Fei shrank his neck and walked in. Speaking of which, he respected his eldest brother Liu Bei the most, but the one he feared the most was his second brother Guan Yu.

Zhang Fei first looked at Guan Yu, and saw that he closed his eyes again, strode into a horse stance, and began to dance the sword extremely slowly. He felt relieved and said to Liu Bei: "Brother! Haha! Guess what? What did you buy today?"

"Well, what did you buy?" Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei and smiled slightly.

Zhang Fei smiled naively, stretched out his fingers and gestured, and said: "Two pigs! I bought two pigs! Someone was selling them at the market. Fortunately, I grabbed them quickly..." Halfway through the sentence, he realized that he had missed the point. mouth, quickly stopped, glanced at Liu Bei, and then looked at Guan Yu with his eyes tilted.

Guan Yu, who was wielding a sword at the side, had already withdrawn his posture. He raised the sword with one hand and brushed his long beard with the other hand. He squinted his eyes and looked over like a knife.

Zhang Fei hurriedly waved his fingers and said: "I paid for it! In full! The Tang family in the west of the city also wanted it, so, that, so..."

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei helplessly. Zhang Fei's voice became softer and quieter, and finally he lowered his head. Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Third brother, you send the pigs to the military camp. Use one to feed the soldiers in the army, and pickle the other to take with you on the road."

"Oh, ah?" Zhang Fei said indifferently, "That... that... what does brother want to eat? How about sending one over?"

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei quietly and said nothing.

"This... how about giving away one and a half? How about just keeping half?" Zhang Fei's big round eyes were full of expectation.

"I'll send it to you as soon as I tell you, don't be nagging!" Guan Yu said with a frown.

Zhang Fei was still unwilling to give up and made a last-ditch effort: "How about leaving a piece of pork rib? Oh, is it okay to leave a hoof? Just leave one?"

Liu Bei sighed, unable to bear it, and finally nodded.

Zhang Fei was overjoyed, fearing that Liu Bei would regret it, so he hurried out, muttering, "Okay, okay, I will definitely keep a fat hoof this time..."

Liu Bei smiled slightly, shook his head, and thought, this is my third brother——

When the peach blossoms were in full bloom, it was he who said with a naive smile, "Brother, I will go with you..."

At that time, his beard, which looked like needle pricks all over his face, was trembling. He sold off all his family property without hesitation and spent all his money to recruit an army...

The third brother loves to eat pork, especially pig's trotters. He always said that his strength came from eating trotters when he was a child. But now, I haven’t eaten a piece of meat for two months...

The third brother loves to drink rice wine, especially wine made from corn. He always says that no matter how much he drinks, he will never be able to get enough of this kind of wine. But now, I haven’t had a bowl of wine for nearly half a year...

The third brother didn't even complain.

You must know that at the beginning, he had always been happy without alcohol or with meat.

The third brother came from a wealthy family and had not suffered much hardship since he was a child.

The hardships I have endured will all follow me.

Back then, out of righteous indignation, he whipped the postal superintendent, but lost his official position. At that time, the third brother still said with a naive smile: "Brother, I will go with you..."

Third brother is the one who believes in me the most, more than I believe in myself. He believes that I can definitely achieve something.

I was very poor when I was a child, and my family was extremely poor.

The only thing in the house that is somewhat unique is the crooked neck tree in front of the house.

My martial arts skills are average, my reading is average, and I have studied poetry and calligraphy, but I am not as smart as those talented people.

The only thing I can praise is that the bloodline with its seven twists and turns can be traced back to Prince Jing of Zhongshan, but Prince Jing of Zhongshan——

He is so prolific that his offspring are as numerous as the weeds in the field...

My thin bloodline is like a meager ray of glory in the middle of the night.

But I long for that glory.

That is the deepest desire of my soul!

In Taoyuan that year, the third brother listened quietly, then smiled naively and said, "Brother, I'll go with you..."

The peach blossoms that year were as cold as blood.

That year, under the peach blossoms flying in the sky, my second brother Guan Yu, my third brother Zhang Fei and I burned incense and prayed, and we became sworn brothers.

Liu Bei turned around and looked at Guan Yu who was dancing his sword with his eyes closed again.

The second brother is a passionate hero.

In my memory, the sweetest dates are those from my second brother’s car.

I remember the first time I saw him, he was nine feet tall and had a face like a jujube. He seemed as calm as a mountain when he sat casually.

Such a strong man could push a cart full of jujubes.

I asked him: "Where are you from?"

The second brother replied calmly: "Kill the bully and go into exile here."

He spoke in an understatement and answered openly.

He never bothered to cover up, nor was he willing to hide.

Just like his knife, it goes straight and inexhaustible.

Even if you dance slowly now, when you dance fast, you can only see the light of the knife...

That year, in the peach garden, under the sky full of peach blossoms, I saw my second brother's knife, which was as bright as lightning...

That year, in the rebel army, I saw the cold and bright red knife of my second brother in the rolling yellow sand...

It was that knife that cut a road in front of me, a bright red bloody road in the rolling yellow sand.

From then on, I felt at ease wherever I went, because I was always protected by this cold sword light, just like the peach blossoms floating down in the peach orchard that year, as cold as the moon and as bright as blood.

Liu Bei was staring blankly at the peach tree, when he heard Zhang Fei yelling and coming in with a pottery basin. In the pottery basin was a boiled hoof...

Zhang Fei put the pottery basin in front of Liu Bei and said with a naive smile: "Brother, you can eat it." After saying this, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Liu Bei shook his head, smiled, and said, "Third brother, you can eat it."

Zhang Fei looked at Liu Bei, then at the hooves, shook his head and said, "Big brother won't eat, and I... won't eat either." But he took a look at it secretly.

Liu Bei smiled, took the two-pronged sword, divided the hoof into three parts, and said, "In this case, the three of us brothers will divide it and eat it!"

Zhang Fei was so happy that he first offered a piece to Liu Bei, and then handed another piece to Guan Yu. Then he grabbed the remaining piece, put it under his nose, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath...

When he opened his eyes, he saw Liu Bei and Guan Yu looking at him, and Zhang Fei couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed...

Liu Bei raised the meat, gestured to the two of them, and said: "Although I say no wine today, I will continue to practice with this meat, and I will try to get drunk again when I succeed tomorrow!"

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei suddenly agreed.

Liu Bei raised his head and looked at the peach trees in the courtyard. The spring breeze was coming, and the peach blossoms were about to bloom——

That year the spring breeze in Zhuojun blew all the peach blossoms.

The vows made that year resounded through the clouds.

Now that the army is about to start, a small secret is no longer a place to miss.

Second brother, third brother, let us embark on our own journey and pursue the glory that belongs to us together...