Chapter 81

  Peach Garden Oath: Young heroes gather in Peach Garden, risking life and death for a common ideal. The peach blossoms will eventually fall, but the names of these heroes will be passed down forever.

  Cheng Dairen stared at this line of system prompts, falling into a long silence. Hidden attributes were very rare, and until now, Cheng Dairen had only encountered a handful of people with them. And the fact that three people had to gather together to trigger the hidden attribute was something he had never experienced before.

  Looking at the three people in front of him, Cheng Dairen's mind involuntarily recalled those three names that had been passed down for thousands of years: The eldest brother was surnamed Liu, named Bei, and styled Xuande, from Zhuo County; the second brother was surnamed Guan, named Yu, and styled Yunchang, from Xie Prefecture in Shanxi Province; the third brother was surnamed Zhang, named Fei, and styled Yide, from Zhuo State.

  Such a name, such hidden attributes, these three people in front of me, wouldn't they have something to do with those legendary three?

  "Where...are you from?" Cheng Dairen asked tentatively.

  "Fan Yang County." Liu Bei replied.

  That's right, Cheng Dalai took a deep breath and asked again: "Then there is a man named Zhang Fei, do you know him?"

  Three people looked at each other in dismay, all bewildered.

  Cheng Da Lei was somewhat perplexed and also a bit disappointed, and asked: "Why did you want to rob at Gua Zhai Village?"

  "The local tyrant in our village was killed by us brothers, and the government is now wanted for us. I heard of Mr. Cheng's reputation, so I came to surrender." Gu Yu replied.

  Cheng Dalai glanced at Guan Yu and thought to himself, "I knew it was you who killed the man." Legend has it that Guan Yunchang had indeed killed a local tyrant landlord before changing his ways and selling mung beans.

  "Which one of you three killed him?" Cheng Dairen asked with feigned ignorance.

  Unexpectedly, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's eyes both fell on Liu Bei. Liu Bei was only seventeen years old, but he had a deeply bitter expression, with an air that seemed like seventy-one years old.

  "It's not worth it."

  It's really a case of "a leopard can't change its spots", from now on I truly can't judge people by their appearance.

  "Big master, I suddenly remembered, you mentioned Zhang Fei, he seems to be my great great great... grandfather..." said Zhang Fei.

  Cheng Dalai's spirits lifted instantly as he listened, and after asking many more questions, he finally figured out what had happened to the three of them.

  The history of this world is not Three Kingdoms, and naturally there is no Liu Guan Zhang. After the end of the Han Dynasty, it was not the three kingdoms that stood together, but the nineteen countries fought in chaos, until the Great Wu unified, the country has been established for 120 years until today.

  But Liu Guan Zhang's names were not exposed in history, it does not mean they did not exist. The three people before you are the descendants of Liu Guan Zhang.

  According to Liu Bei, his ancestors were idealistic people who made an oath of brotherhood with the ancestors of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the Peach Garden, forging three weapons: the Mandarin Duck Sword, the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and the Eight-Chi Snake Halberd. They vowed to eliminate rebels across the land and restore the Han dynasty.

  But things didn't go smoothly, they suffered a defeat when attacking the Yellow Turbans and failed to achieve anything. Later, during the war of nineteen states, he joined various factions but ended up with nothing. Liu Bei spent most of his life wandering in the chaotic world, but gained nothing. At the age of sixty, he returned to Zhuo County with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to settle down.

  Liu Da'er sells grass shoes, Guan Hongmian sells green beans, and Zhang Huzi is a butcher. Among the three families, Zhang Fei's family is relatively well-off. In their youth, they were full of ambition, dreaming of making a name for themselves with swords in hand. Now, as they've grown old, their temples have turned white, and their eyes are filled with the vicissitudes of life. Every day, Zhang Fei opens his door to sell pork, Guan Yu pushes his cart in front of the door to sell green beans, and after a while, Liu Bei comes carrying a pole selling grass shoes.

  After nightfall, the three of them would gather together to drink, day after day. Guan and Zhang were easy-going about it, but Liu Bei was not necessarily so. Every day when they got drunk, he would inevitably start quarreling and say things like "I am the great Han Emperor's uncle; if Heaven helps me, who in this world is worthy of being called king?"

  The village children often teased him about it, and later on, a white-haired old man was often seen shouting something.

  Died at the age of 72, a peaceful death.

  Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also passed away one after another, and the descendants of the three men settled in Fanyang County. The later generations of their children and grandchildren would forever be sworn brothers in Taoyuan, with Liu's descendants always being the eldest brother, not necessarily by age.

  It's been many years since the incident, and even the names of our ancestors are no longer clearly remembered by these three people, Liu, Guan, and Zhang. It wasn't until today that we brought it up, taking turns to recall the stories of our ancestors.

  Up to their generation, Zhang Fei learned winemaking, Guan Yu inherited the legacy of his ancestors, usually liked to read military books, and Liu Bei learned medicine with a man named Hua.

  After hearing this, Cheng Dairen's heart was filled with emotion. In the turbulent world, people are at a loss for what to do. If given a stage, that half-mad and half-senile old man with white hair who was ridiculed by mischievous children would be the renowned Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty.

  Who would have believed that the old man who stood on Chang'an Street, shouting that he saw heroes everywhere under heaven as numerous as tiles and dogs, had ten million true heroic sentiments in his belly.

  His gaze fell on the three of them again, and Cheng Dairen thought to himself, would these three people grow up to be the legendary Liu, Guan, Zhang?

  Indeed, the current level of the three is still very low, and they are all life professions. In game terms, that means the growth potential of the three is extremely high, with an upper limit of legendary level.

  It's not necessarily impossible.

  "After a while, you'll stay in the mountain stronghold, and everyone will call each other brothers, don't mind... " Cheng Da Lei said, suddenly pausing, slightly leaning his body to ask: "Do you... know someone with the surname Zhuge?"

  Liu Bei

  "...". The fish is closed.

  "......" Zhang Fei.

  Cheng Dalai arranged for the three to go down and rest, letting them get familiar with the mountain stronghold environment first, and not rushing to arrange work for them. After all, these three are all highly promising babies, what if they get exhausted...

  At this time, Sun Jiu finally handed Su Ying's letter to Cheng Dairen. Cheng Dairen read it hastily and realized that this was a good thing. The hot peppers were only sold to one wine house at the bottom of the lake, and the income was not bad, but after all, the sales route was too narrow. Hot peppers are condiments and not staple foods, and relying on one wine house alone cannot consume too much. Opening up the sales route is a matter of time, it's just that I didn't expect someone to come knocking on the door today.

  Cheng Dairen called Liu Zhi over and had her write a reply to Su Qian on his behalf. The letter simply stated that the price could be entirely up to Su Qian, and as for supplies, there was no need to worry; whatever the other party needed, they could provide it here.

  After finishing writing, Cheng Dairen let the carrier pigeon deliver the letter to Su Qing.

  The mountain village's chili peppers have been harvested again, with a yield of around 3,000 catties per mu. Cheng Dairen remembers that the yield per mu in his previous life was over 10,000 catties, possibly due to improper cultivation or weather conditions. After all, chili peppers are a new species, and there is no one in the mountain village who knows how to cultivate them, so they can only slowly explore and learn.

  Now there are about 30,000 kilograms of chili peppers in the mountain stronghold, filling up the entire warehouse.

  At first, some pepper seedlings were outsourced, but other villages thought they were being deceived and only a few took it seriously. However, there were also several villages that took some pepper seedlings back to cultivate, and by now, the harvest should be ripe.

  Cheng Dalai had Xu Shenji post a notice at the foot of the mountain: The Frog Village began to purchase chili peppers, exchanging one catty of grain for one catty of chili peppers.