Boyue Who Hasn't Seen the World

The newcomer was Liu Zhu, magistrate of Mianyang, but Ma Chao remembered his former name: Yang Song.

Back when Ma Chao was defeated in Longyou and fled south to seek refuge with Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Yang Song had been an honored guest at Zhang Lu's side. The disdain in his eyes as he looked upon Ma Chao—the very thought of that expression was revolting.

Then time flowed on and the world changed. Ma Chao entered Shu and pledged himself to Liu Bei; intimidated by Cao Cao's military might, Zhang Lu surrendered all of Hanzhong to Wei. Having fallen for a scheme because of his greed for wealth, Yang Song drifted with the refugees to Yi Province, ultimately changing his name and becoming one of Deng Ai's settlement farmers.

After Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Zhu was rewarded for his merits with the title Marquis of Guannei. Later, when Deng Ai established agricultural settlements near Mianyang, he recommended Liu Zhu as Mianyang's magistrate.

The wealth Liu Zhu had once hidden in his home was all stolen by the attendants who fled midway through his southward escape along Micang Road.

When Cao Cao forcibly relocated the people of Hanzhong into Guanzhong, those attendants who had stolen the valuables were among them. While traveling along Baoxie Road, the path was slick and crowded, and the rivets fastening the plank road came loose. Most of them plunged from the mountainside into the valley below, then tumbled into the surging Bao River. The gold, silver, and valuables they carried were swept away by the current, eventually buried beneath silt and sand on the riverbed, where they returned to nature.

When Liu Zhu returned to Hanzhong, he did not brood over his stolen property. After all he had been