I remember when I was in junior high school, I followed the example of Sister Taoyuan and became sworn brothers with two other students at the back of the school playground at night. Of the three, I am the oldest, and naturally I am their eldest brother. One of my classmates hit it off with me. We not only share the same surname, but also were born on the same day in the same year, which happened to be the same day. I am fifteen days older than him. According to our local address, we call each other "Lao Tong". Isn't it a coincidence?
Now that we are brothers, we three brothers can also be said to be "sharing weal and woe". If someone bullies one of our brothers, then we three brothers will go together. If someone is punished by the teacher, we will all be punished together. Anyone who has something delicious will share it. The three of us are inseparable. Wherever we go, we always go together. We were called "Three Musketeers" by other students in our class.
From grade one to grade three, for three years, our relationship has been very good, and there are few quarrels and conflicts. We are really brothers. We stayed apart until we graduated from junior high school. Before graduation, we applied to the same high school. Later, because of different grades, we failed to go to the same school. After several years of separation, we still exchange letters and get together in the summer vacation. Later, after graduating from high school, everyone went out to work and everyone lost contact. Looking back on the friendship between our three brothers, I still miss it.
You know, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei finally fulfilled their vows when they became sworn. Did all three of them die on the same day? Of course not. It is not easy to be born on the same day in the same year, and it is difficult to die on the same day in the same year. Do you think the three brothers we once formed an alliance can finally realize their loyalty vows?
Perhaps it was fate. Two years ago, in a classmate group in our junior high school, we contacted our former three brothers again. Later, we held a reunion. After nearly 30 years' absence, it is really a special honor for the Three Musketeers to meet again. We talked together all day. When we left, our three brothers made an appointment again, ready to get together again with their families.
However, the agreement between our three brothers fell through again. Less than two months after we were together, we were shocked by the bad news that the youngest of our three brothers was diagnosed with early cirrhosis. Later, unexpectedly, the accident happened again. A year later, I went to the hospital for examination because of gastrointestinal discomfort, and the result was cirrhosis, middle and late stage. What is even more amazing is that the "old boy" with the same surname as me in the same year and month was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment a few days ago because of massive bleeding in his mouth. The test result turned out to be cirrhosis, but it was too late!
Is this God deliberately playing tricks on our three brothers? How can such a coincidence happen? We three brothers have the same disease? Is it because we swore an oath when we took the oath, and now God wants us three brothers to fulfill our vows?
Why do we three brothers all have the same disease? I think it should be that one of our three brothers got hepatitis B in those years and then infected the other two, so all three brothers got hepatitis B and finally developed cirrhosis.
Alas! It seems that my three sworn brothers have really achieved "sharing weal and woe"! I feel that our three sworn brothers are quite similar to Liu Bei, Xiang Yu and Zhang Fei in Taoyuan. Maybe one day, our three brothers can really fulfill their vows and die on the same day in the same year, which becomes a historical myth!