Zhao Jun shook his head. Zhang Fei cursed a little, when Liu Bei came. He heard the whole conversation. “Can we take both of them with us?”

“Brother, that’s impossible. We can only take the man. That’s the rule.” Guan Yu said.

“The lady can go with us. The boy can fight against the enemy here. If we are quick enough, all will be safe.” Zhuge Liang had helped Liu Bei make the choice. I doubted whether this was his real reason. I guessed that Zhuge Liang had foreseen that Zhao Jun couldn’t be persuaded and any further delay would be dangerous. Then he made his quick decision.

Liu Bei agreed, and we started to go. Zhao Jun looked at me straight in the eyes before we left and said,“This may be the last time we meet. After this parting, I don’t know if we are lucky enough to see each other again. Maybe yes, maybe no. Or maybe this is just a dream. In a sea of people, it is our luck to meet each other and to be tied together by the dream. I hope you will never forget me.” After saying this, Zhao Jun picked up the spear on the ground. Before I could say something, I was urged to go by other people. I looked back several times and he was still standing there and looking at me with a spear in his hands. The farther I walked, the dimmer his image became. Zhang Fei was urging us to walk fast. I walked as tears fell silently from my cheek.

Suddenly, I woke up, and all the vision was vanished. I didn’t know whether Zhao Jun and I both arrived at Jiang Xia safely and whether we joined each other again after that. I was conscious that I was still lying on my comfortable bed.

When I got up, I was surprised there was a toy spear on my bedside cabinet which I’d never seen before. I didn’t know who’d put it there. I thought that perhaps the dream had been real. Then tears fell down my cheek again like pearls.