The great-grandfather was a storyteller, and on his deathbed he told us a story about how he fell into a gang and drew a "life and death ticket."

He said that in the depths of Yanshan Mountain, there was a group of bandits who were robbing houses. When the bandit leader killed someone, he had to draw a life and death ticket to see God's will. If he drew a "death" ticket, he would be forced to drink a bowl of brine to end his life; if he drew a "life" ticket, he would conform to God's will and give him a bowl of hot bean juice to let him live.

One day, his great-grandfather was taken to the mountains. The Li twin brothers were in charge of it. Blame him for his bad luck and drew the "dead" sign.

It just so happened that the Li brothers were a pair of "book fans", and before they were executed for drinking brine, they insisted on telling a paragraph of a book to listen to. My great-grandfather loved storytelling all his life, so he agreed with the Li brothers and said a paragraph of "Yang Sect Girl General Twelve Widows' Journey to the West." Great-grandfather's storytelling has always been authentic. Although it is a matter of life and death, he still speaks the book carefully and intricately. Only the Li brothers were stunned and exulted when they heard it. But when he said Marshal Yang Wenguang was trapped at three levels and sent a general to break through and move back to the dynasty, he suddenly stopped, leaving a dead button. Said: "I want to know what will happen in the future, and listen to the decomposition of the next life." Then he picked up the brine and wanted to drink it.

If the storyteller drank the brine and died, what would Yang Wenguang, who was trapped in the third pass, do? Because of this, the Li brothers grabbed the brine bowl and quietly released their great-grandfather.

The Li brothers violated the mountain rules by releasing them without permission. The bandit leader wanted to execute one of the two brothers, so he placed a bowl of brine and a bowl of hot bean juice in front of them, saying that since they were milk compatriots, they didn't need to draw lots to decide life and death. It was up to them to decide who drank the brine and who drank the bean juice. Anyway, they just drank a bowl of brine and bean juice.

Just as people stared at Li brothers with wide eyes to see how they chose this bowl of brine and a bowl of hot bean juice, the older brother of Li brothers suddenly grabbed the bowl of brine and drank it. But when he was halfway through drinking, the younger brother grabbed the bowl, raised his neck, and drank the remaining half bowl of brine. After that, the two of them mixed the bowl of hot bean juice into two bowls and drank half a bowl each.

At this point in the story, the lives of the Li brothers were at stake. But he didn't want his great-grandfather to say: "I want to know what will happen in the future, and listen to the decomposition of the next life." He smiled.

Later, the great-grandmother told us that if one of the Li brothers drank the brine and the other drank the bean juice, they would definitely die. But they both drank a bowl of brine and then drank bean juice. Once the brine in their stomachs allowed the bean juice to dissolve, the brothers naturally survived.