Zhang Fei originally killed pigs and sold meat. One day this year, he killed a pig. He was afraid that if he couldn't sell all the pigs, it would become smelly and bad. Although Lao Zhang was a reckless man, he was not an unscrupulous businessman. Where should he put the meat? I thought the well water was cold, so I hung a piece of pork into the well at the door. In order to prevent others from taking it away, a heavy stone was built on the well mouth.
Zhang Fei’s wife was doing needlework at the gate. She saw all this and wanted to stop him. She felt that her husband had left a message on the big stone and it was difficult to speak, so she He greeted: "Hero, please leave your name!" "Guan Yu." The big man pointed to his red face and his chest-length beard, and said, "I'm at the grain market on Guanyin Street in Zhuozhou. If you need anything, come to me. It can't be wrong."
After Zhang Fei came back, his wife told him everything. Hey, Zhang Fei is so angry! He shouted: "You asked someone to take away my flesh for nothing, and you made me look embarrassed. This is too much! I'm not a cheap person. I'll go find him to settle the score later!"
Zhang Fei stretched out his hand Insert the bag, grab a handful of mung beans, squeeze them hard, and the mung beans immediately turn into bean powder. He took it out, spread his hands in front of Guan Yu, and said mockingly: "Selling mung bean powder as mung beans, you are a liar!"
Guan Yu became angry and accused him of breaking his own mung beans. Zhang Fei But he refused to admit the blame, and insisted on saying that Guan Yu was selling bean noodles. The two of them started arguing with each other. More and more people gathered around to watch the excitement, and no one knew which of the two was telling the truth.
Guan Yu immediately understood: Dare to love! This is the owner of the pork knife. Oh, someone can eat your pork, and you are not happy, so you come to fight. At this time, a straw sandal seller came over and shouted to stop the fight: "Stop, you guys, you dare to fight on my land and cause trouble, isn't it a big deal? If you have any problems, you can sit down and talk about it."
Seeing his fair appearance, thin body, and tattered clothes, the spectators couldn't help but laugh at him: "Toad yawned so loudly! If you really want to break up the fight, just go and pull them away."
As expected, the straw sandal seller jumped out to the street, grabbed Guan Yu’s arm with one hand, and Zhang Fei’s arm with the other, parted it to both sides, and pressed it down again. The two immediately became wedged. The peg that was driven into the soil could not move at all. What a great power! This is what people often say: one dragon separates two tigers.
People all cheered. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also admired him from the bottom of their hearts. After asking, they found out that the man selling straw sandals was originally called Liu Bei, and they had heard of it a long time ago. As the saying goes: A good man loves a good man. We happened to meet each other, how could we miss it so easily? Both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei expressed their desire to make friends with Liu Bei. When Liu Bei saw that they were all heroes, he also expressed his admiration and hoped to become brothers.
Zhang Fei was cheerful by nature and said: "If you don't fight, you won't get to know each other. Just do it and we'll sworn sworn brothers here immediately." He took some soil and piled it in the street; he also picked up a few thin sticks of firewood. The sticks were inserted and used as joss sticks, and then Liu Bei and Guan Yu were forced to kneel down and kowtow together. They were regarded as sworn brothers - the local people said this was their first sworn bond.
As the saying goes: "Couples with rice and noodles, friends with fair food and meat." Liu, Guan, and Zhang met each other, and they became so passionate all of a sudden. Get some bargains. At that time, Zhang Fei was the richest and sold meat, so he often entertained guests. Guan Gong sold grain, so he had no worries about money and came to the house empty-handed, so he packaged the wine;
He was the richest man at that time. He almost screamed, quickly covered the mat, turned back to the table, and informed Guan Yu. Guan Yu understood that Liu Bei was just a hero in ruins at the moment, but he would definitely become rich in the future. If he followed him, he would be successful someday, so he looked at him differently and said, "Brother Liu, I think it was too hasty when the three of us sworn sworn brothers in the street." .
Now that we are at the third brother’s house, it is easy to prepare the three sacrifices. It seems that we should offer sacrifices to heaven and earth again and have a sworn ceremony. "What does Liu Bei want to do?" A rich friend, who often took advantage of free food, agreed wholeheartedly.
Zhang Fei also quickly understood what Guan Yu meant and echoed loudly: "Second brother is right. We must swear to God again that we will live and die together and never change our minds!" So they Then came the second sworn friendship.
The more he stretched, the more he refused to leave. He had to get to the bottom of things. He suddenly hugged the bag with both hands, pushed hard, and turned it upside down. Hey, it was indeed filled with golden gold, fifty-two pieces of large ingots! Zhang Fei hurriedly opened several other cloth bags, and they were all the same!
Liu Bei and his wife were also shocked: "Sure enough, the three of us are of one heart, and the loess has turned into gold!?" Guan Yu suddenly realized and said: "I think this is a sign from heaven! As long as we are always in the same boat, we will be together. The world can be conquered. We should swear to the Heavenly Alliance once more."
Liu Bei lives in Lousang Village, and there is a big peach garden in the west of the village. At this time, the peach blossoms were in full bloom, red as fire and full of vitality. They took a fancy to this place, and there they swore their vows for the third time and vowed to each other. This was the third sworn bond in Taoyuan.
Extended information:
The Three Brothers in Taoyuan is the first story in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Speaking of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, people will always think of their early years in the peach garden behind Zhang Fei Village in Zhuo County, where they prepared black oxen and white horses, offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, burned incense and worshiped again, and became brothers of different surnames without asking for anything. Born in the same year, the same month and the same day, I only wish to die in the same year, the same month and the same day.
People have been telling this story, and people have imitated it again and again by burning incense and forming a bond of friendship. Liang Qichao said in an article: "Today, our country's heroes are everywhere, and they are worshiped by Taoyuan every day..." ("On the relationship between novels and mass governance") Some guilds in the Qing Dynasty, such as the Triads, etc. , during their rather solemn initiation ceremony, they would not forget to insert peach branches to symbolize that they were sworn brothers in the peach garden.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Taoyuan Three Brothers (the story recorded in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms")