Jing'er rolled her eyes at Chujiu angrily and said, although gamblers look pitiful, what Brother Chujiu said is true. They never default on their debts and are willing to admit defeat.
Having said this, Grandma Jian Shu took a sip of tea and told us that actually the most powerful gambling was that of the ancient emperors.
The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the Western Han Dynasty was also caused by gambling.
According to legend, Song Taizu lost Huashan to Chen Tuan through gambling. Such a grand gesture cannot be compared to the gambling ghosts in the underworld.
"Okay, let's not interrupt anymore. Let's just listen to Jing'er and continue talking."
Grandma Jian Shu smiled and touched Jing'er's hair, praising Jing'er for being so cute and well-behaved.
"Black Bear, how long does it take to get from here to the town on the handwriting?"
After Jing'er finished her training, she asked about the first vice-captain she had made, Black Bear.
"If we don't have war horses, it will take us about ten days to walk there." Black Bear replied.
"so long?"
Jing'er mentally calculated the time for the round trip. It would take almost a month.
Jing'er thought that in one month, almost a year has passed in this world. Her brothers will definitely miss Jing'er if they haven't seen her for so long. When Jing'er was feeling depressed, she suddenly saw the three black bear brothers talking to each other.
Wink.
"Black Bear, do you have something to say?"
"Uh, captain, um, actually, I, we..."
Black Bear glanced at the two brothers behind him, his tone hesitant, as if he was hesitating whether to tell Jinger.
"Black Bear, if you are afraid, just stay here and wait for us. The same goes for everyone else."
Jing'er changed her tone and looked around with sharp eyes. More than a dozen teenagers had their backs straightened up.
"Miss, captain, how can I be afraid of a black bear? Everyone is used to the life of licking blood with the tip of a knife, so what's the point of being afraid of catching a bet?"
Black Bear eagerly explained to Jinger, as if he had lost his previous bossy demeanor and looked like a child at a loss.
"Captain! I said, we actually have a ghost ship that can be used as a transportation tool."
The black panther behind the black bear took a step forward and shouted loudly. This sentence seemed to have been suppressed in his heart for a long time. After saying it, the black panther let out a long breath.
"Netherworld ship? What is it?"
The black bear frowned and glared at the black panther. Seeing that the black panther had already said it, he was heartbroken and told Jing'er the whole story.
The three Black Bear brothers were killed together on the battlefield. For some reason, after arriving in the underworld, they did not cross Naihe Bridge to drink Meng Po soup as the old man said, but instead appeared in a barren mountain.
The three brothers didn't know what they would experience after death. The Black Panther said that after death, a messenger would come to take care of them, so the three of them simply waited where they were.
After waiting like this for several days, the three brothers' stomachs began to hurt from hunger. At this time, they also guessed that something went wrong when they went to the underworld after death.
"Brother, what should I do?"
Facing the inquiries from Black Tiger and Black Panther, Black Bear also felt angry.
I thought to myself that the three of them were ordinary soldiers in their previous life. They were at the forefront of numerous bandit campaigns. Although they did not achieve much credit, their hard work should be rewarded. Unexpectedly, they would be reduced to nothing after death.
To the point where people care about it.
"What can we do? Find a nest first. Black Panther, didn't you see a broken house nearby a few days ago?"
The three brothers explored all the places with a radius of dozens of miles. Except for the barren mountains, there was a broken wooden house on the mountainside and a broken road that had been abandoned for a long time at the foot of the mountain.
The three brothers came to the dilapidated wooden house and settled down briefly. Unexpectedly, there were no living creatures in the entire barren mountain. They thought there would be some small beasts to fill their stomachs.
Just when the three brothers were too hungry to speak, some food and paper money suddenly appeared next to them. It seemed that they should be sacrifices burned in the military camp for the fallen soldiers.
After a hearty meal, the three brothers felt sleepy for the first time in more than ten days, and fell asleep soon after.
"ah!"
The black bear was sleeping soundly when he was woken up by a scream. Then he saw an unbelievable scene. The black panther stared at him with a horrified face.
Look at the black panther's arm broken in two, with a deep wound on the chest showing bone. On the black tiger's back, a bow and arrow penetrated the chest cavity, revealing an arrowhead.
Black Bear lowered his head and glanced at his abdomen. Just as he expected, an outward wound was so glaring. Needless to say, half of his face must have drooped.
It turns out that after falling asleep, everyone will change back to the way they were when they died.
After Heihu woke up, he saw the two men shivering with the same surprise. The three brothers were silent for a long time before they completely accepted the fact of their death.
"Brother, we look like this, ugh."
Faced with Black Panther's words, Black Bear and Black Tiger both sighed and said nothing.
The three brothers just sat in silence in the wooden house. After some time, the three brothers returned to their normal appearance.
After discussion, the three brothers decided to use the wooden house as the center and explore further around to see if they could meet other people.
In this way, day after day, year after year, the three of them couldn't remember how much time had passed, and they had traveled hundreds of miles around.
They gradually gained some abilities, that is, they can control their appearance at will. They can turn into ghosts according to their own thoughts, which is what they looked like at the moment of death. The three of them will suddenly turn into ghosts to scare their companions while walking.
Gradually, even the three brothers began to find it boring to become ghosts. It turned out that after death, they only need to eat one meal a year to avoid hunger. Every year around the Qingming Festival, they always receive some sacrifices.
, and then it will be the Qingming Festival next year.
Later, the three brothers traveled a radius of three hundred miles. Finally they met a person, and he was also dying.
On this day, the three brothers decided to explore the mountains in another way. This time they planned to explore in one direction, and decided to go back after walking thousands of miles without success.
As soon as I arrived at the foot of the mountain and determined my direction, I walked not far when I saw a black war horse parked on the broken road. Next to the horse lay a figure dressed entirely in black.
The three brothers secretly rejoiced. After all these years, they finally saw someone else. The three people hurriedly ran towards the figure. They saw the figure wrapped in black clothes with only its eyes exposed. There were wounds all over the body, and black fluid was flowing out from the wounds.
liquid.
"Hey, wake up, wake up."
The black bear squatted down and gently patted the man in black's arm, trying to wake him up.
The man in black didn't move for a long time. The three of them made eye contact for a moment, and then the black bear reached out and pulled off the man in black's mask.
The moment the mask was pulled off, the man in black suddenly opened his eyes, picked up the crossbow under his body, and fired it towards the black bear. Fortunately, the black panther had quick eyesight and quick hands, and pushed the man in black's arm away.
The bow and arrow hit the black bear's face and shot into the distance.
"Hey! I was kind enough to save you, but you killed me with a crossbow?"
The black bear's eyes widened and he roared at the man in black in front of him.
"How dare three lonely wild ghosts roar at me? I order you to go thousands of miles south to guard and report. If you disobey the order, I will make your souls fly to pieces."