Chapter 48 Liu An: Killing his wife

Liu An is a hunter. Liu An's family lives at the foot of Mount Peng outside Xuzhou City.Zhuangzi is not big, with more than a dozen families. A hand is stretched out, with long and short fingers.The life of the people in the village is also rich and poor.Liu An's family is the poorest, and they are often too poor. It's fine to be poor, and you can live on stuttering.The problem is that Liu An has a beautiful wife.A woman is pretty, but she has a high heart. She always feels that she is wronged by marrying into this poor nest, and when she is free, she will criticize Liu An. ——Marrying you is bad luck for eight lifetimes.Eat the last meal without the next meal.

——The men are all handsome outside, and the women are also pretty at home. I've been with you all day in disgrace, and never had a good time. ——Get out, don't embarrass yourself in front of me, I'm out of sight and out of mind! As soon as the woman scolds, the man can't sit down, so he puts on his bow, arrow, and fork, and goes into the mountains to look for wild animals. Liu An's luck is bad, and he often doesn't get a harvest every day.In the middle of the night, others carried forks with a bunch of wild game hanging on them, and returned to the village singing folk songs.Liu An sat under an old tree, holding a fork in a daze.

Didn't come back until very late.There is no one in the house, cold pot and cold stove.The woman went out to visit again.Now, this woman can't stay at home and always runs outside.Liu An knew that this woman had completely lost confidence in him, so she didn't bother to say anything to him.She went to the neighbor's house to complain.The thought of a woman running on him in front of the neighbors bored him.Now, Liu An lowered his head when he saw anyone, unwilling to make eye contact with others.In the eyes of others, what a profound meaning it is.Even though he was laughing, when Liu An saw it, it was like a steel needle piercing his heart, it hurt.

One day, Liu An went hunting in the mountains, wandered around, and found that he had forgotten an important thing, so he came back.When I came back, I found that there was not only my wife alone in the house, but also a man in the house.Liu An knew this man, he was his neighbor Zhou Da.The two are practicing inside the house.Liu An was stunned, the blood welled up for a while, and he picked up the fork and wanted to come up desperately.I never wanted to slip and fall.When he got up, all his anger disappeared, he patted his buttocks, went out of the house, ran to an open space outside the village and lay down on his back.He really wanted a wolf to come over suddenly and bite him to death.However, two hours have passed, except for some mosquitoes, where did the beast come from?In the middle of the night, Liu An got up and went home with red ideas all over his body.

When I got home, I lay down quietly, as if nothing happened. He actually fell asleep and had a dream. In the dream, an old man with a white beard said to him, Liu An, the opportunity has come.Uncle Liu Bei is in Xuzhou, you can join him, make contributions, and wash away your shame. Liu An wanted to hold the old man to ask what happened.But the old man shook his hand and walked away.Liu An chased after him, tripped over the threshold, and woke up. At this time, the light on the window paper penetrated into the room little by little.Liu An thought, a new day has begun, and it's time to get up.

Thinking of the hopeful dream last night, Liu An couldn't help but sighed softly in his heart. I really should go outside the mountain to find the soldiers and horses of the emperor's uncle Liu Bei. I would rather die on the battlefield with my uncle Liu Bei than live like this. Yes, I will leave in a few days and go to Xuzhou to find Uncle Huang.Now, I have to go into the mountains to find some fresh game as a gift to the emperor.Thinking of this, Liu An's energy was greatly increased, he sat up straight, and went out with a fork.This move startled the woman, she had never seen Liu An go hunting so actively.

In the afternoon, the lonely and tired figure of the hunter Liu An walked slowly against the wind on the back hillside. He has been wandering the mountains all day. The sky above Liu An's head was cloudy and gray, like a huge rag, and the hillside in front of him was also broken into a desolate yellow. Winter is here, and the wild animals on the mountain are becoming rarer and scarcer.Nothing was found this morning again, Liu An's heart was as gray as the sky. Liu An lowered his eyes from the heavy sky.He thought of sitting down on the big bluestone under the old tree and resting for a while.Whenever Liu An was overwhelmed, he would sit down on the big bluestone, talk to the old tree for a while, and express his depression and even his future aspirations.As I spoke, my anger dissipated, and my heart became brighter.

The bare old tree came into his sight again.However, that tree no longer belonged to him.There is a white horse under the tree, and there is a man standing beside the white horse. The man was standing on tiptoe on a rock, trying to throw a belt over the old tree trunk above his head, then he tied the belt in a knot and stuck his head inside. Liu An understood: that person wanted to commit suicide.Liu An scolded bad luck in his heart, no wonder he didn't get any game today. Think again, is it a man?There is nothing you can't think about! Liu An took off the bow from his back and picked up an arrow from his waist.Liu An didn't want anyone to die in front of him.

Liu An saw his arrow leave the string, and the man fell to the ground like a bear. Liu An walked up to him and teased, your belt is too weak. The man raised his head, his face was full of sorrow, and he sighed suddenly: Oh, can't I, Liu Bei, die even if I want to? Liu An's face froze with contempt, and he said in a daze: What did you say? Could it be that I, Liu Bei, can't even seek death? Which Liu Bei? Uncle Emperor of the Han Dynasty, General Zuo, Tinghou of Yicheng, Liu Bei. Are you Liu Bei, Uncle Liu Huang? The man nodded. "Plop", Liu An knelt down on the ground: Uncle Huang is above, forgive me, Liu An, for being reckless.

Liu Bei stretched out his long arms to support Liu An, and said, I should thank the strong man for his rescue. Liu An asked: It's just that Xiaomin doesn't know why the emperor committed suicide? Liu Bei sighed and said, I was defeated by Cao Cao a few days ago, and I was separated from my second and third brothers. I fled here alone, thinking that I spent half my life fighting for the restoration of the Han Dynasty. I couldn't help feeling sad in my heart, so——Liu An persuaded Liu Bei. Liu An said, it's getting late now, the general, why don't you stay with me in the small house for a while, buy some dry food to satisfy your hunger, recharge your energy, and then set off tomorrow morning?

Liu Bei said, it had to be like this. When the mountains and the sky went into darkness together, the village at the foot of the mountain lit up the lights one after another.Liu An led Liu Bei into his house.He shouted loudly, Uncle Liu Huang is coming, hurry up to meet him. Liu An's woman came out of the main room.Originally, this woman didn't care at all when she heard Liu An's shout.But when he heard clearly that Uncle Liu Huang was coming, the woman got up and looked out the window.She saw a man with an extraordinary bearing follow Liu An into the courtyard.The woman hurried out. Liu An said to the woman, this is Uncle Liu Huang.He said to Liu Bei again, this is a cheap wife. Liu Bei opened his eyes and took a look.This woman is very beautiful, her eyebrows are curved like willow leaves in early spring, her face is pink like peach blossoms in March, she is graceful and graceful, and her figure is graceful.Liu Bei thought to himself, it is amazing that there is such a beautiful woman in this mountain. Women also look at Liu Bei.This emperor's uncle is really unusual, with a peculiar appearance.The two ears are so fat, and the two arms are longer than the knees. Outsiders are different. A bit of shyness appeared on the woman's face immediately. Liu An brought out a jar of wine from under the bed, and ordered the woman to get some food, but the woman just stood there for a long time without moving.Only then did Liu An realize that there was nothing left to drink at home.Liu An said in a low voice, go to the house of your neighbor Brother Zhang to borrow some bacon.The woman walked out slowly. Half an hour later, before they knew it, the two of them drank a few big bowls, and both were a little tipsy. Liu An said: "Uncle Huang, I am not talented. My greatest wish in this life is to follow the emperor's uncle and obey orders. Today, the heavens let me meet the emperor's uncle. Please grant my request." Liu Bei waved his hand: Liu An, I, Liu Bei, was the general of the defeated army, and now my brother is separated, and the future is difficult. Besides, you have a beautiful wife to accompany you, and your life is happy and contented, so don't come to suffer with me. Liu An said that the villain has admired the emperor's uncle for a long time, and with the greatest wish of being able to follow the emperor's uncle, he often wants to look for the emperor's uncle. Last night, I had a dream by chance. An old fairy gave me directions and asked me to find you. Today we have a meeting, how can we bear to say goodbye?Uncle Huang should fulfill the villain's wish. Liu Bei sighed, alas, whatever. Liu An said to the woman, fill up the emperor's uncle's wine, and I will toast the emperor's uncle a few more glasses. The woman came to Liu Bei with a wine spoon.Coincidentally, at this moment, a gust of cold wind came from the window, and the lights went out.The room was suddenly plunged into darkness.In the darkness, Liu Bei stretched out his hand. He wanted to put his wine bottle away, but it happened to touch the back of the woman's hand.What a pair of small hands, delicate, soft and warm.Liu Bei was startled and wanted to withdraw his hand, but the woman shook his hand back and grabbed his hand. Liu Bei thought, it turned out to be a coquettish fox. At this time, Liu An had already lit the lamp.The light shone on Liu Bei's face like a red cloth.Liu Bei said, "Brother Liu An, I've already had too much to drink, and I have to hurry tomorrow morning."I think it's better to rest as soon as possible. Liu An looked at the table, the plate was empty, only some soup left.Liu An said, "Uncle Huang, wait a moment, I'll get some food, and I want to toast Uncle Huang a few more times." Liu An said, stood up and walked out of the main room. Liu An stepped into the kitchen.The woman was hiding her face and thinking in the kitchen, her cheeks were rosy. Liu An opened the pot again, and the pot was empty.Liu An said, bring me some more dishes, and my uncle and I are having a good time talking.The woman was thinking about something, when she was disturbed by this, she suddenly became agitated, and said, "Fuck you, do you think there is something to drink with?"Liu An said, think of something else!The woman said, do you think my old lady is a fairy and can change?Liu An said, but the emperor's uncle is here, how can he be ignored?The woman suddenly laughed, if you want to eat, you can eat me. What does the woman's words mean?Maybe it was out of anger, but there was really nothing to eat.But also a bit lewd.Liu An was startled suddenly: This girl's heart is too wild! In a single thought, evil started from the heart, took the knife on the wall, and stabbed the woman's heart... At that time, Liu Bei was lying on the table in the main room, drowsy.The days of running around made him physically and mentally exhausted.He saw his two younger brothers in a trance in a dream.Just as he was crying with his two younger brothers, he felt someone pushing him and calling out to the emperor.Liu Bei raised his head, he saw Liu An standing in front of him, and said with a smile, please let me taste it. It was only then that Liu Bei realized that there was a large plate on the table in front of him. The plate emitted mist-like heat, and a strange fragrance drifted into his nostrils along with the heat. Large and small pieces of meat piled up on the plate. Liu Bei took a piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth, feeling that the taste was very special.Liu Bei asked, Brother Liu An, what kind of animal meat is this? It tastes so delicious. Liu An said, this is actually not a rare wild animal, it is mutton. Liu Bei asked in surprise, hey, why is it different from the mutton I ate before? Liu An said, this is the meat of a wild goat.If you like to eat, you might as well eat more. Liu Bei ate a few more yuan while he was drunk, and then went to the inner room and fell asleep drowsily. A fire scorched Liu Bei's throat, waking him up from his sleep.He got up, touched the water tank in the kitchen, drank two bowls of water "gudong gudong", turned around and walked back.At that time, the moonlight came in through the window like broken silver, and shone on the white flowers behind the door.Liu Bei took a closer look and recognized the body of Liu An's woman.The flesh on the woman's arms and buttocks had been chopped off. Liu Bei shivered involuntarily, and suddenly woke up from the wine. He vaguely remembered the drinking last night, and the last plate of "mutton". Cold sweat ran down Liu Bei's forehead, and his towel was soaked... At this time, Liu An came over. Liu Bei pointed to the woman's body and asked, why is this? Liu An fell to the ground with a thump, Uncle Emperor, Liu An is guilty.Liu An wanted to find some more food to satisfy the emperor's uncle's hunger, but his family was poor and had nothing, so he had to kill his wife and take meat to offer to the emperor's uncle. Liu Bei said, it's rare for you to be sincere, but your wife is so beautiful and virtuous, how can you be so cruel? Liu An said, for the sake of the emperor, Liu An is willing to give up everything, not to mention a bitch! Liu Bei burst into tears. Back in the house, Liu Bei couldn't sleep no matter what.Seeing that it was dawn, he got up quietly, came to the courtyard, flew on his horse, and ran down the mountain road in panic. He heard Liu An behind him calling him anxiously: Uncle Huang, stay on, Uncle Huang, stay on—but Liu Bei's horse ran even more happily, and he didn't stop until he saw two horses coming from the opposite side.The people on the horse are his good brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. The two have been looking for Liu Bei for a long time, and they are anxious. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei asked Liu Bei why his brother was so flustered.Liu Bei pointed in the direction of the mountain and said, Liu An, the hunter, wanted to murder me. Liu Bei saw Guan and Zhang urging their horses to meet Liu An. Liu Bei looked up at the sky, the sky was still grayish yellow, like a huge rag. He jumped off his horse, held onto a big tree by the side of the road, and vomited.