As night falls, a warm bonfire is lit.

With Li Zhen's coming and going.

A large table of snacks and homemade wine has been prepared.

The moon rises above the willow branches, and people gather after dusk.

then.

By the stream, next to the campfire.

There was a stone table, four rows of bamboo chairs, and seven or eight people from the martial arts world sat around it.

A group of friends of different ages who admired each other started a lively session of drinking and toasting to the east wind.

Since ancient times, heroes have always been accompanied by fine wine.

Often, heroes who have never met each other can quickly integrate into the group as long as they have similar interests and appreciate each other, even if it is the first time they meet.

The young man's righteousness and the knight's heroic ambition are all expressed in bowl after bowl of mellow wine.

At this drinking party, except for Lin Yuxia who was too weak to drink, Jiang Nan and Xiao He were no longer reserved and picked up the wine to toast each other.

Everyone drank with great enthusiasm and had a great time.

Because this wine is not only a celebratory wine, but also a farewell wine.

Lin Yuxia recovered from the burn, and Lu Xiaohu successfully became his apprentice.

Therefore, Lu Bei and others will embark on a new journey the next day.

At the dinner table, they toast each other, thank each other, and make appointments to meet again in the future.

Wang Wu and his two brothers were grateful for the arrival of Lu Bei and others.

Lu Xiaohu was reluctant to see his brother leave.

Therefore, after drinking for the second half of the night, the boy who was originally the most lively became depressed.

Holding Lu Bei's arm in arm, they drank cup after cup, expressing their true feelings and being reluctant to part.

Each cup comes with a line of poetry that Lu Bei once recited in his spare time.

Lu Xiaohu had a particularly deep memory of these poems and was deeply touched by them.

He picked up the wine, patted Lu Bei's arm and sighed, "Don't worry about having no friends on the road ahead, everyone in the world knows you."

"Brother Lu, after this farewell, you are destined to become famous throughout the world."

"You must rise to prominence as quickly as possible. I hope to hear your unparalleled fame often, so that I can be motivated."

Lu Bei smiled calmly and clinked glasses to drink.

Lu Xiaohu picked up the wine bowl again, shook his head and said, "I urge you to drink another cup of wine, for there will be no friends west of Yangguan."

"Brother Lu, drink up! I'm afraid that after this separation, you'll never find a friend as good as me again."

Lu Bei smiled bitterly, nodded, and drank it all in one gulp.

He toasted Lu Bei with one glass after another.

Gradually, because the night was too cold, Wang Wu took the weak Lin Yuxia away.

When Li Zhen got to the back, he found that he couldn't get a word in, so he left with a wry smile.

Everyone drinks based on their actual alcohol tolerance; no one cheats on purpose.

Therefore, by the end of the drinking, Lu Xiaohu was already completely drunk, and even though Lu Bei had an amazing physique, he was already drunk.

The two of them were no longer as disgusted with each other as usual, but instead put their arms around each other's shoulders, leaned close together, and talked drunkenly to each other.

Lu Bei was still able to control his own will, and mostly just sat there in silence as a listener, letting Lu Xiaohu chatter to himself.

Jiang Nan watched Lu Xiaohu and Lu Bei drinking together quietly without saying a word, but his mind kept recalling every detail of the past year, and his mood inevitably became depressed.

Miss He was a sensitive person and could sense the sadness of parting spreading across the table.

She felt the same way and gradually fell silent, with tears in her eyes and she remained silent.

Lu Xiaohu muttered to himself and suddenly turned to look at Jiang Nan, his eyes blurred and serious.

"Jiang Nan, you and my brother Lu must get along well. As a bystander over the past year, I understand this best."

"I don't want to say much, but no matter what the outcome is, even if you become the Empress, I hope that in the future we can have the opportunity to gather together and discuss state affairs and have a good laugh like before."

"It doesn't matter if you guys team up to bully me, as long as we can still be together."

Jiang Nan said softly, "Yeah, I know."

She spoke calmly, but her voice trembled slightly.

She neither agreed nor refused.

Maybe she is also confused about her future life. After all, after becoming an empress, can she really be as free and at ease as before?

She didn't know, so she was confused.

Lu Xiaohu also knew this. He nodded, said nothing more, and just smiled bitterly.

He looked at Miss Xiao He again and said with a smile, "Sister Xiao He, you must also take good care of my brother Lu."

"The best way to take care of him is to feed him delicious food and keep him plump and white."

"If he gets fat, he might have difficulty moving and won't be able to beat me, hahahaha."

Lu Xiaohu seemed to imagine that scene and laughed out loud at his own amusement.

Little Miss He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "I will, Brother Lu."

"I will take good care of my son."

Lu Xiaohu smiled and nodded, looked at her, then looked at Jiang Nan, and finally felt a kind of admiration inexplicably in his heart.

Then he refilled Lu Bei's and his own glasses with fine wine, picked them up, and joked boldly under the influence of alcohol.

"Drink, Brother Lu. After today, you won't have that annoying third wheel you once said you were. You'll be living a life of being surrounded by beautiful women. I'm so envious of you, brother."

As he said this, Lu Xiaohu grinned and drank it all in one gulp.

Lu Bei was startled and looked at Jiang Nan and Xiao He, only to find that both of them had their heads down, pretending not to hear.

This time, Jiang Nan did not hit Lu Xiaohu.

Lu Bei quickly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all, secretly sighing that it was a close call.

He really couldn't bear to see Lu Xiaohu getting beaten at this moment of separation.

I guess Jiang Nan couldn't bear it, so he let him say such nonsense this time.

This guy is the same. How come even Miss He is making fun of him now?

Lu Bei shook his head helplessly.

The two of them sat together, arm in arm, clinking glasses, completely separating Jiang Nan and Xiao He.

Jiang Nan and Xiao He also just listened quietly and never left.

Time always flies when you're drinking.

Before I knew it, dawn had arrived.

There were wine jars scattered all over the table, and it was impossible to count how much wine had been drunk.

Lu Bei only knew that the twenty jars of wine that Li Zhen brought back had been opened, plus Wang Wu had previously dug out more than a dozen jars from the cellar.

Finally, Lu Bei had no choice but to take out two jars of medicinal wine given by his uncle Gai Nie.

This kind of alcohol is stronger and can easily make people drunk, but Lu Bei saw that Lu Xiaohu was not satisfied and did not seem to be drunk enough to fall asleep, so he had no choice but to take it out.

After drinking two jars of wine, white smoke came out of their bodies. This was because the medicinal properties in the wine took effect.

The strength of the two men slowly increased at this moment, the hot blood flowed in their bodies, and their physical fitness became stronger quietly.

Lu Xiaohu finally fell down drunk before the sun rose after dawn.

Lu Bei silently took out a cloak and put it on him, then looked at Jiang Nan and Xiao He.

They both nodded in tacit understanding.

Lu Bei sighed helplessly.

He knew it.

When drinking with a close friend, a thousand cups may not be enough, but people always have to leave.

On the branches of the world, everyone rides the current.

On this long journey of life, even if the beautiful mountains and rivers are right before our eyes, we are all just lonely travelers, unable to stop and linger.

Being able to spend a happy time together is fate and God's blessing.

Everyone has his or her own unique life and different brilliant fireworks.

So, Lu Xiaohu decided to stay and live his own life.

And it was time for them to leave.

Lu Bei stood up while still drunk.

Jiang Nan and Xiao He also followed in silence.

The sun is shining and the breeze is blowing.

Lu Bei, carrying his sword on his back, climbed onto his donkey and muttered to himself, "The road ahead is long, with only my sword as my companion. Let us go forward with the strong wind."

After saying this, he galloped on his horse and left the direction of Daowang Valley with a determined look on his face.

Jiang Nan and Xiao He each rode a white donkey and chased after them.

At the wine table, Lu Xiaohu crouched on the table, murmuring in a dreamy voice, "I hope the gust of wind will also find its way home."

Little Miss He caught up with Jiang Nan's speed and looked at Lu Bei's back curiously, "Sister Jiang, why did the young master say that the long road is accompanied by the sword?"

"Hasn't he still got the two of us for company?"

Jiang Nan looked at Lu Bei's rapidly receding figure, smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "Ignore him, he always says nonsense."

"Maybe he thought it was very handsome and artistic."

Miss He nodded in confusion, "Okay."

“But it does have a poetic meaning.”

Jiang Nan smiled, "So you should praise him more often in the future. He likes to hear it."

"Oh."

So, the three young men in their prime rode on their donkeys, basking in the morning sun, and quietly left Daowang Valley like a breeze.

Since they had already said goodbye to Wang Wu, Li Zhen and others last night, it couldn't be considered as leaving without saying goodbye.

. . .

After leaving Daowang Valley, the three did not go directly to Nanhai Fulong City in the eastern land, but went south and traveled to various cities in Nanyue.

Since you have come to the Kingdom of Nanyue, how can you not travel around the beautiful mountains and rivers here and witness the different customs and cultures?

What's more, Lu Bei once made a bold statement that wherever he went, he would spread the reputation of Xiake Island.

The order to reward good and punish evil must be inserted into every dark corner of the Shenwu world.

Although Nanyue was a remote small country, its land area was less than one-third of that of Damang.

But where there are people, there will be the underworld, and where there is the underworld, there will be fighting. Too much fighting will naturally breed a group of brave, cruel and unforgivable people.

Birds of a feather flock together, so there are many gangs in South Vietnam that oppress the people and exploit the locals.

So, the three men and three riders spent a month traveling around the famous cities of South Vietnam, killing countless evil people, confiscating a huge amount of ill-gotten gains, and distributing them to poor families in various ways.

The order to reward good and punish evil was implemented throughout the Kingdom of Nanyue, and its reputation shocked the world.

In the end, the reputation of the King of Passersby on Xiake Island spread throughout the streets and alleys of Nanyue Kingdom. The elders sang praises to him and the children sang while playing.

Doing these things naturally caused a stir in the South Vietnamese underworld.

Many of them were shocked and adored beyond measure.

Many righteous people and heroes in the martial arts world followed the whereabouts of Lu Bei and others and went to follow them, hoping to catch a glimpse of the heroic style of Lu Ren Wang.

There are also many veteran Free and Easy Realm bosses who are proud of their status and are unwilling to go.

But whenever the three men from Lubei passed by those people's sphere of influence, they would immediately come down the mountain in person and cordially invite the three heroes from Xiake Island to a banquet.

However, although Lu Bei likes to make friends with heroes all over the world, he no longer has the leisure to make new friends since he parted with Lu Xiaohu.

Moreover, these people only made friends deliberately for their own reputation, and their feelings were far less sincere than the one Lu Xiaohu had with the poor and destitute people he met at the grassroots level.

So Lu Bei politely declined all of them.

However, after refusing, Lu Bei would repeat the purpose of the Island of Heroes and bring out Zhang Lao's Four Sentences of Hengqu, so that those big brothers in the martial arts world would be awakened and reflect on themselves.

Finally, after the work was done, he left, hiding his achievements and fame.

A group of South Vietnamese underworld bosses were shocked on the spot, and from then on they remembered the reputation of the King of Passersby on the Island of Knights.

Lu Bei and the other two originally wanted to stay in Nanyue Kingdom for a while longer, because once they went east to Fulong City, they would probably no longer be able to get along with Jiang Nan as freely as they pleased.

She will surely be busy with work and state affairs, and will no longer have the heart to enjoy the beautiful night, so she will just let the bright moon go down to the west building.

However, due to the deliberate promotion of Zhuang Buyi's Baixiaotang, the reputation of the Island of Knights had already spread throughout the martial arts world. In addition, Lu Bei and his two companions had verified the reputation of the heroes in the martial arts world of South Vietnam, so it attracted the attention of all forces in South Vietnam.

Even the little princess of Nanyue, Li Caiwei, a fifteen-year-old girl in her prime, led a group of guards to sneak out of the palace and came to the world to look for Lu Bei and others.

After finding him, the little princess Li Caiwei was so excited that she admired Lu Bei and wanted to become his apprentice immediately, join the Island of Knights, and follow him in the martial arts world.

Of course Lu Bei didn't dare to agree. How could he kidnap a princess of a country? His reputation would be ruined.

So Lu Bei and his two companions had no choice but to drink with Li Caiwei enthusiastically, got her drunk, and then asked the guards to send her back to the palace safely.

After this incident, Lu Bei never dared to stay in Nanyue again, for fear of causing more trouble.

After all, he is already a star in the world, so he still needs to pay attention to the public impact.

Besides, what needs to be faced will have to be faced sooner or later, so let Jiang Nan face her life.

So the three of them headed east all the way to Fulong City.

On the way, a spirit bird suddenly delivered a letter.

Lu Bei took a look and saw that it was the spirit pigeon from Bai Xiaotang. He thought that Zhuang Buyi must want to tell him some secret.

So he immediately took it, opened the envelope and looked at it.

After reading it, his face became solemn and he began to urge the two to hurry up, saying that time was running out and they must get back to Fulong City as soon as possible.

It turned out that during the two months that he had been away from Damang, there had been great turmoil in the court of Damang.

The Great Mang, which had been recuperating, suddenly declared war on the Great Yan Kingdom.

Zhuang Buyi said in the letter that it was the Great Yan Kingdom that took the initiative to provoke.

The reason turned out to be that the Emperor of Dayan suddenly passed away in his prime, and the eldest prince Qiu Beishan ascended the throne.

The eldest prince Qiu Beishan was aloof and cowardly, but after becoming the Emperor of Yan, his personality changed drastically. He became warlike, bloodthirsty, and self-willed.

He even threatened to recapture Xuncheng, a small frontier city that was taken back by the Great Mang a few years ago. It was poor and desolate and completely insignificant in the overall situation.

Qiu Beishan took the initiative to provoke and sent people to take down Xuncheng without even saying hello.

This angered the even more warlike Da Mang.

Wang Mang was furious and threatened to teach Qiu Beishan a lesson.

So Wang Mang sent a large army to attack, mobilizing a million troops to take Yanjing directly and capture the Yan Emperor Qiu Beishan.

Therefore, the two Eastern powers went to war in a confused manner.

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