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San kuo; or, Romance of the three kingdoms (volume 1 of 2)

Note 1 — Chapter XIX · Tsʻao Tsʻao Fights at Hsiapʻei: Lü Pu Perishes at the White Gate Tower.

C. H. (Charles Henry) Brewitt-Taylor translation

Liu Pei thanked him and went his way. The party took the road by Liangchʻêng and as they were going out they saw not far off a thick cloud of dust. When the troop came nearer they found they were men of Tsʻao Tsʻao’s army, and with them they travelled to the main camp where they found Tsʻao Tsʻao himself. He wept at the sad story of Liu’s distress, the loss of the city, his brothers and wife and children. When he told him of the hunter who had sacrificed his wife to feed them Tsʻao sent the hunter a present of a hundred ounces of silver as a reward.1

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