"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel based on history and legends written by Mr. Luo Guanzhong, which is listed as one of the four famous works and widely disseminated in the world. But for the description of some of these characters, there is a bit of a brush stroke, or it is a subtle expression of what this person is doing? Especially the very shining character Guan Public Relations Second Master in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
I believe that people who have watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will struggle with a problem, that is, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is described that Guan Yu fled to Youzhou after killing people when he was a teenager. Finally and Liu Bei and Zhang Fei two people to worship, and then slowly began to enter people's sight, but one of the biggest problems, that is, Guan Yu and Liu Bei, Zhang Fei was 24 years old when he worshipped, but he was killed and fled because of his youth, the teenager of the ancients, that is, about thirteen or fourteen years old, at most fifteen or sixteen years old, so where did Guan Yu go in the middle of seven or eight years?
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu's appearance is to set up stalls in the market, while Zhang Fei is selling pork in the market. But the two people do not know, it is certain that Zhang Fei must have been selling pigs in the market, because he has his own shop, but Guan Yu does not know Zhang Fei, which is enough to prove that Guan Yu has not been setting up stalls, but suddenly came to Youzhou, and then began to set up stalls. That is to say, Guan Yu has been doing other businesses in these seven or eight years.
So what exactly is it doing for seven or eight years? In fact, Luo Guanzhong has a subtle description in the book. That is the appearance of Zhou Cang, as we all know, there is no character of Zhou Cang in the main history, but it is fictionalized in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". So, why did Luo Guanzhong invent the character of Zhou Cang? In fact, it is to explain what has been done in these seven or eight years?
The description of Zhou Cang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is because after the failure of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Zhanshan became the king, became a bandit, and then heard that Guan Yu was gone, and then directly defected to Guan Yu and did not lead the horse to carry the knife. Zhou Cang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not a small person, but a warrior with a thousand pounds of strength in both arms, but why should he directly defect to Guan Yu to be Guan Yu's younger brother? You must know that Guan Yu did not have any prestige and record at that time.
In fact, the point is that Zhou Cang is a bandit, and Guan Yu did not know where to go in those seven or eight years. After Zhou Cang knew about it, he directly defected. From the combination of these three points, it is actually not difficult to find the problem, that is, Luo Guanzhong is actually using the appearance of Zhou Cang to implicitly express where Guan Yu has gone in the past seven or eight years. That is, to take the mountain as the king and become a bandit. After all, Guan Yu had already become the second master of Guan during the Ming Dynasty, so he had to express it implicitly.
Imagine how a person who dared to kill people in his youth would go to the stall in peace. Moreover, he is already a fugitive, how can he appear in a densely populated place, you must know that in ancient times, he had to check the way everywhere. Then, Guan Yu only fled in a place with few people, and he knew that there were more bandits at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he would definitely encounter bandits, and as for the situation after encountering bandits, he did not need to describe it in detail. And these seven or eight years are also the time for Guan Yu's kung fu to improve, and seven or eight years of fighting, actual combat experience and personal strength will certainly have a considerable improvement