Chapter 47 Cao Yuan's soldiers crossed the Nanguan and jointly passed the five levels 1

Liu An asked Liu Bei to enter the house and rest. He asked his mother to accompany Liu Bei to talk. He went up the mountain with a bow and arrow to find it, but found nothing. He was afraid that Liu Bei would not stay on the mountain for a long time. As he went down the mountain, he thought: Uncle Liu is a big man who can't be invited, and he has the same surname as me. Now when my uncle is in trouble, if I can treat him well, he will read my benefits in the future and allow me to be a half-official. Even if I am a military commander in the army, it is better than hunting for a living.

Liu An gritted his teeth and quickly walked down the mountain to return home and went straight to the kitchen. At that time, Liu An's wife was making a fire to cook. Although there was no wine and meat at home, there were still some rice, fruits and vegetables. Liu An's wife is also quite capable, and the arrangement of a few vegetarian dishes is not too shabby. At this time, she waits for the meal to be cooked.

Seeing Liu An coming home, his wife asked, "Has your husband ever hunted prey when he went up the mountain?"

Liu An lowered his head and shook his head and said, "No!"

Liu's wife comforted him, "It doesn't matter. Uncle treats people generously, so there is no wine and meat, and he will not be blamed. Husband, go and chop some firewood to add fire, so that your uncle won't wait for a long time.

Liu An answered and picked up the axe for splitting firewood from the kitchen, but did not go out to chop wood. Instead, he looked at his wife's busy back in a daze.

Liu's wife looked back and saw that her husband was still in place and asked with a red face, "My husband won't go to chop wood to see what my concubine is doing?"

Liu An was awakened by his wife's question and disguised: "No...nothing. I just remembered that I hit a hare the day before yesterday. I want to ask if you are still there?

Liu's wife smiled and said, "Don't be stupid! The hare let you eat it that day. My husband doesn't think it's enough. Where can I find it at this time? If there is no meat, there is no meat. Maybe Uncle is tired of eating big fish and meat, and he still feels fresh after eating some vegetarian dishes. My husband doesn't have to think too much about it. After saying that, he got busy again.

When Liu An went down the mountain, he decided to kill his wife to take meat to entertain Liu Bei in good reputation. In this era of continuous war and famine, cannibalism is nothing new, so there is not much psychological burden for Liu An to kill his wife. But when he really saw his wife's busy back, he hesitated not to do it.

If people are not plants, who can be ruthless? Liu An is also a human. He has never done anything like killing his wife and treating guests before. How can he not hesitate? However, when he thought of following Liu Bei in the future, he would have endless money and beautiful women waiting for him to marry, so he tried hard and advised himself, "My wife is like clothes, and she can marry again in the future. Wu Qi also killed his wife and begged for a general. I have to do something big. How can I worry about my children's love? Anyway, if you want to be an official and general in the future, you will kill people. You might as well take it as a trial today. After thinking about it, he raised the axe for chopping wood and cut it at the back of his wife's neck.

Although Liu An does not know martial arts, he has been hunting and slaughtering prey all year round, and naturally practiced his strength and ability. This axe is extremely fast and accurate. Liu's wife was unprepared. When she felt that the wind behind her was about to look back, the axe had already been added. She didn't even have time to shout, and her head had been cut off by Liu An. Until the head falls to the ground. Liu's wife still stared at her husband in disbelief, and she didn't understand why her husband could be so cruel.

Looking at his desperate wife, Liu An couldn't help crying. However, he soon suppressed his grief and cleaned up the blood stains in the kitchen, cleared his wife's blood as usual, and cut the tender meat from the upper thighs of his arms to make dishes.

Liu Bei was talking to Liu An's mother in the hall when he saw Liu An serving the meal. As an uncle, Liu Bei is also a face-threate person. If he hadn't been hungry all the way, he would never have gone to the people's homes to beg for food. When he arrived at Liu An's house, he was already hungry. Liu An went up the mountain to hunt and killed his wife. By this time, Liu Bei's stomach had already cooed.

Chen and several relatives ate and drank closely with Liu Bei all the way. They were more hungry than Liu Bei and smelled the food and drooled. The people at this table stared at the food, and no one noticed that there was blood on Liu An's body.

Liu's mother saw the blood stains on her son's body, but as soon as she smelled the smell of meat on the table, she mistakenly thought that Liu An had hit the prey and began to greet everyone to eat. Liu Bei was polite, but his hand was not slow at all. He picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.

As soon as he ate the meat, Liu Bei's eyes lit up. He said that he had eaten a lot of good things as a state animal husbandry. He had seen the world, but he didn't know what kind of meat this meat was. I just feel that the meat is extremely tender, and the taste is a little like pork, but it is not fishy. He asked Liu An, "What kind of meat is this?" It's so delicious."

Liu An is not very old. Liu's wife is only 17 or 18 years old, with fine skin and tender meat. Liu An also took fresh and tender arms to entertain Liu Bei. No wonder Liu Bei thinks it is delicious. However, Liu An did not dare to say that it was human flesh, nor did he dare to say that it was common things such as pigs, cattle and sheep, so he replied, "This is wolf meat."

Liu Bei and his subordinates have really never eaten wolf meat. Even if they have eaten it occasionally, they have long forgotten the taste. One by one, they believe that they are really happy and have a full meal. However, what surprised Liu Bei and others was that Liu An did not eat much meat. At first, Chen was worried about the poison in the meat, but he was relieved to see that Liu's mother ate a lot.

That night, Liu Bei stayed at Liu An's house. The next day, he was about to leave. Liu Bei and others went to the backyard to get the horse. Only then did they see a woman's body die in the kitchen, and the meat on her arms and legs had been cut off. Liu Bei was shocked and thought that Liu An was a murderer and a meat-eating villain. He called Liu An and asked angrily, "Who is this?" Why did you die here?

Liu An had the heart to kill his wife in exchange for fame, and he was also quite scheming. He didn't dispose of the body overnight, just to let Liu Bei see it. So he pretended to be sad and said, "Uncle, don't be surprised. This woman is not someone else, but a villain's wife. Yesterday, there was a shortage of food and meat at home. For fear of treating the emperor's uncle slowly, the villain had to make this worst choice and kill his wife to serve the emperor's uncle. The villain was afraid that the emperor's benevolence would not enjoy it, so he let his wife die in vain, so he lied that it was wolf meat. Please don't blame him.

If Nan Ye catches up with this matter, he can chop Liu An and feed the dog without saying a word. However, Liu Bei has always taken "brothers are like brothers, wives are like clothes" as his motto. When he heard that Liu An killed his wife instead of an outsider, he was no longer angry and was very moved. Because in ancient times, men and women are inferior, and wives and children are like private property. If Liu An kills outsiders, he is a murderer. However, if he kills his wife and concubine, it is like killing his own cattle and sheep. As long as there is no one in his mother's family, the government cannot interfere.

Liu Bei was very sad to learn that Liu An killed his wife in order to treat him. At the same time, he thought that he had eaten human flesh and felt a little nausea, but he couldn't vomit after another night. The two uncomfortable feelings in his stomach were intertwined, which made Liu Bei couldn't help crying: "You and I can kill your wife and serve for a day. Now that I'm down, I don't have money to reward you. Why don't you join me to make contributions and seek a career?