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Baochili in Changping Village is located about 8 kilometers away from the west gate of Jiezhou urban area, at the foot of Zhongtiao Mountains and south of the saltpeter pond. As riding horses is prohibited in the city, Lu Bu can only ride his Red Hare and walk slowly along the city wall. It can be seen that the Jiezhou city wall looks very old, but it is also paved with loess and glutinous rice juice. It is not very tall but looks very thick. It is surrounded by turbid moats, with a rather decadent atmosphere.

Lu Bu looked around inadvertently and saw the lush and green Zhongtiao Mountains not far away, which was particularly pleasing to the eyes and had a unique flavor.

Zhongtiao Mountain is located at the southernmost tip of Bingzhou. It is named for its narrow and long mountain range located between Taihang Mountain and Qinling Mountain. It lies across the Hedong land from northeast to southwest, and meanders from east to west. As midsummer approaches, the water does not flow, but there are gullies and lush vegetation.

Chimali Village in Changping is built on the mountainside. An ancient tree-lined road covered with weeds passes through the village. At the foot of the mountain, there is a winding stream that flows down the mountain and forms a natural pond at the east end of the village. The water is clear and you can vaguely see fish and shrimps swimming.

Lu Bu asked several teenagers in succession, and they all replied that they did not know there was a person named Guan Yu in the village. He couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that Guan Yu's real hometown was not Changping Village in Jiezhou?

So I asked a few older people, and they said they were old people, probably in their forties. You should know that the average life expectancy of people in the Han Dynasty at that time was generally not long, usually only around 35 to 40 years old. Most of them were afraid to speak. Later, an old man with the surname Hu replied that there was only one outsider household with the surname Guan in the village, and the head of the household was named Guan Yi, and there was no male in the family named Guan Yu.

After Lu Bu learned the details, he found out that Guan Yi, the owner of the Guan family, was originally a man who fled from other places. He knew a little about medicine and married into the Hu family in the village. He was able to live a stable life. However, because his wife, Hu, was beautiful, she was targeted by the lustful bully in the village. As Guan Yi was an outsider with little power, he was eventually bullied to death by the bully and his family due to the conflict. Hu also committed suicide by hitting her head against the wall in anger.

Guan Yi's twelve or thirteen-year-old son, Guan Changsheng, did not know martial arts but was born with great strength. That day, he went to the mountains to pick dates to supplement the family income. When he came back from picking dates, he happened to see the scene of his parents being forced to death. In a hurry, he beat the bully to death with the date-picking pole. According to today's standards, it is a legitimate act of self-defense, but the clans in the Han Dynasty were so powerful that there were not so many laws to talk about! Then the young Guan Changsheng was hunted down by the bully's clan family and fled from Changping Village like a fugitive, and finally no one knew where he went.

Lu Bu had no choice but to return empty-handed and went back to Yuelai Inn first.

Afterwards, the sparrows flew back one after another and reported to Lu Bu the various news they had heard. It was not until nightfall that Li Su and his twenty personal guards returned to Yuelai Inn one after another.

According to the information gathered by the sparrows as well as Li Su and his personal guards, after Guan Changsheng escaped, he often lived a displaced life in Zhongtiao Mountain, making a living by picking dates in the mountains and selling them. Because of picking dates frequently, he also developed martial arts skills. Wherever his long pole passed, he could basically hit wherever he pointed. The sparrows also got accurate information about Guan Changsheng, and he is now living in Yuxi Cave in Zhongtiao Mountain.

Guan Changsheng, who became an orphan, was suspected of causing death in a fight, so he had to flee under the name of Guan Yu. In order to make a living, he had to become a jujube vendor. The jujube trees growing in the wild became Guan Yu's source of income. With his strength, Guan Yu often took a long stick with a tied stick head and went into the mountains every day to find jujube trees to pick jujubes, then picked them up and carried them around to sell. Over time, he developed martial arts skills.