"How can you do that?" the bear couldn't believe his ears, this bet was really harmful.

"Hey, it was because I was so confused that I did this crazy thing. "After that, I had nothing but begging on the street for a living, and I did it for twenty years." ”

"What about your wife and children, where are they now, do you know what?" asked the bear suddenly.

The beggar shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen them since I lost, and she must have been taken away by someone else." ”

After listening to the beggar's story, Xiong only felt angry and hateful, and he didn't know what to say, "Gambling hurts people! Will you continue to gamble now?" Xiong remembered the ten taels of silver he had just given to the beggar, and was worried that the beggar would continue to gamble with the ten taels of silver.

When the beggar heard this, he shook his head vigorously, "No, it's going to kill me now, I won't gamble anymore, I've lost my wife and children, I can't lose anymore, I can't"

Xiong nodded, in this case, this money is still a little meaningful in the hands of the beggar, otherwise, giving the beggar more money will not only not help him, but will make him fall deeper and deeper.

"Ten taels of silver, although it's not much, but it's estimated that it's enough for you to set up a stall or something, and it's probably no problem to earn some money to support yourself. You are a normal person, and there is nothing wrong with you, why don't you work for your own money and make a living, but you have to beg for a living?" Xiong looked down on those who were healthy but begged for a living.

"Before, I was so uncomfortable that I didn't have the idea or urge to stand up again. The beggar suddenly looked at the bear firmly and said, "But now, seeing you, I don't know why in my heart, and suddenly a spark of hope is ignited." From now on, I will definitely stand up, work hard to make money, and then redeem my wife and children!"

"Well done!" said the bear.

"Two guest officers, your food is here!" The shopkeeper came over with wine and food at this time.

Xiong took the wine and food, smiled and said to the beggar, "I am very happy that you can have such an idea, this money is not given to you in vain, in this way, I will give you another ten taels, I hope that next time if I have the opportunity to see you, it will not be like this again." ”

At these, the beggar was directly moved to tears, and he was choked up and speechless, "I really thank you!"

"It's useless to talk more, it's all in the wine!" Xiong smiled and poured the pound of daughter red into the beggar's bowl, and filled his own wine bowl again, "Come,!"

"Okay, dry!" The beggar also raised the wine cup excitedly and drank it all, "Good wine, really good wine, I don't know how long I haven't drunk such good wine!"

"Come, then let's continue!" said the bear, and poured the beggar's empty wine cup to the brim.

Two beggar-looking men drank in the tavern with a large amount of silver, which made the surrounding guests very puzzled and cast puzzled eyes.

But the bear and the beggar were not disturbed by the others, and they drank until midnight

"Big brother, are you really not going to participate in the competition tomorrow?" asked the beggar as he staggered out of the tavern with the bear.

"Well, I'll leave early tomorrow morning, I still have things to do, and I can't stay here. "The bear didn't drink much, and he was still sane.

"In that case, then big brother, you have a good rest tonight, we have a chance to meet again, and the next time I see you, I will definitely be a person!" The beggar shook his head and walked away with a messy step.

At this moment, a cold light flashed and quickly disappeared. Not long after, in the martial arts hall where the martial arts competition was held, a man in a night suit was reporting to the hall owner, "Qi Qi Pavilion Master, the man who has won dozens of games in a row, is actually going to give up tomorrow's competition." ”

"What?" the hall owner couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, "how is this possible? Isn't he at all interested in the 1,000 taels of silver that won the grand prize?"

The man in the night suit shook his head, "I don't know this in Xia, but he told the beggar that he would leave early tomorrow morning, which he heard with his own ears." ”

I saw that the pavilion owner nodded, waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know, you can go down." ”

The man in the nightcoat trotted and quickly disappeared into the night. Leaving the hall master alone, pacing back and forth in the hall of the martial arts hall.

"Why the hell did this person want to participate in the competition, since he has won dozens of games in a row, there is no reason to give up the competition at all!" The hall owner couldn't figure out what Xiong was thinking in his heart.

At this time, Xiong was walking alone on the street with faint lights, thinking about the whereabouts of passerby A. He didn't expect that it was precisely because of his own thought that he would avoid a catastrophe.

In fact, before the owner of the martial arts hall held this competition, in addition to arranging such a master of the formation, he also secretly invited several killers, the role of these killers is to kill those who have the potential to win the championship on the day before the finals, either kill or seriously injure, in short, they must have no hope of winning the game.

Xiong, who has won dozens of games in a row, was targeted by these killers all of a sudden, and the person in the night suit just now was a killer sent by the owner of the hall to assassinate Xiong.

However, when the killer heard what the bear said to the beggar, he gave up the idea of assassinating the bear. After all, the purpose of these killers is to make it impossible for these to win tomorrow's game.

Since Xiong offered to give up tomorrow's game, the killer didn't bother to attack Xiong again. After all, the killer also understands that a person who has won dozens of games in a row is definitely not an ordinary person, and if he assassinates him, he will also risk missing, so it is better to let him go directly, anyway, he will leave early tomorrow morning.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Xiong took three hundred taels of silver on his body, rented a fast horse, and galloped out of Handan City.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the bear rode through the avenues outside the city, stepping on the fragrant soil of the early morning, and hurried towards the next city.

The next city is called the City of Bitterness. Xiong also heard the name of this city from other people's mouths, but as for the origin of the name Bitter City, Xiong is not very clear. However, the bear doesn't like the name, and it sounds very miserable.

After riding his horse for a day and a night, the bear finally saw the figure of the bitter city a few miles away, which was a city within a city, and it seemed that half of the city was in the mountains.