legend begins with lord of the rings

"Hey...Pangbo, why are you still eating...give us some..."

Dwalin shouted to Pombo, who was grabbing the chicken leg and tasting it carefully.

At this time, everyone had been drifting on the river for most of the day.

There were some tiny ice shards floating on the river in November. The body temperature was definitely below zero, and the dwarves were now tired, hungry and cold.

"I only have this last chicken leg left." Pombo protected the food and said to the dwarf, "You should ask Abel, he may still have some reserves."

The dwarves looked at Abel eagerly again.

"Ahead is the Long Lake. Let's go ashore to eat something and then find a way to pass the Long Lake." Abel said to the dwarves.

Ahead is a pass between a long lake and a river. Only after crossing the pass can you reach the long lake.

To get to Gushan, you have to cross the Long Lake, and people's boats can't pass through the wide Long Lake.

If they were forced to pass through, the ship might be destroyed and people would be killed.

"Go ashore~"

Thorin obviously saw the current situation clearly and shouted to the dwarves.

Everyone docked the boat. The dwarves went to find some dry firewood and lit a bonfire.

At this time, Abel also took out enough food from his leather bag. Everyone huddled around the fire and roasted the food.

When Fili asked Abel for a barrel of bulk wine, the atmosphere in the team gradually became heated.

"Who's there?"

Abel was roasting a piece of beef over the fire when he saw a man walking towards the crowd with his back to the light.

The person who came was none other than Bard, the ferryman from Changhu Town. He held a bow and arrow in his hand, pointing the arrow at the dwarves.

"Don't get excited, we are not bad people..." Abel persuaded the man who was walking towards him. At the same time, his right hand slowly touched the semi-automatic repeating crossbow on his waist.

Seeing this, Heili also grabbed the shield beside him.

"Whoosh~"

"clang……"

Bud discovered the little moves of the two men and launched a decisive attack.

However, the moment Bard fired the arrow, Heili raised his shield and knocked the arrow away.

"Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh..."

Before Bard could draw his bow and arrow again, Abel raised the repeating crossbow in his hand and shot a string of arrows at Bard.

Bard was surrounded by arrows.

"No matter who you are, if you dare to move again... I guarantee that the next arrow will pierce your neck." Abel stood up and pointed his repeating crossbow at Bud.

"Okay... I don't mean any harm." Bard slowly put the bow and arrow in his hand on the ground and said, "You shouldn't appear here... I know your ship, it is made by elves."

"What do you want to say?" Abel asked.

He recognized the man in front of him as Bud, the ferryman from Changhu Town.

The man is very tall and should be around thirty-five years old. He looks like a weathered man and is wearing a tattered coat.

"You should have escaped from the Woodland Kingdom!" Bard raised his arms and slowly walked to the boat, looked at the dents made by arrows on the boat, and said: "No matter what grudges you have with the elves,

I have no intention of interfering... I'm just a passerby..."

"He should be short of money. We can ask him to help us go to Changhu Town." Balin, as the oldest dwarf in the team, observed the details that the dwarves did not see. He suggested to Abel in a low voice.

Thorin also looked at Abel at this time, obviously letting Abel make the decision.

"We have no grievances with the elves, you can rest assured." Abel put down his repeating crossbow and continued: "Now we are going to Changhu Town. I wonder if you can give us a ride."

"Well... only the mayor can bring outsiders into Changhu Town." Bud shrugged and said, "Although I am the ferryman, I have no right to bring you in."

"Are these enough?" Abel didn't talk nonsense and took out a handful of gold coins from his wallet.

"Well...actually it's not non-negotiable." Bud took a gold coin and bit it with his teeth. After confirming that the gold coin was genuine, he became much more enthusiastic towards everyone.

"You send us to Changhu Town, these are all yours..." Abel weighed the gold coins in his hand.

"Okay~"

Bud agreed immediately and enthusiastically invited everyone to climb aboard a big boat.

As for the small boat that no one wanted, Bud didn't waste it. He hooked the small boat behind his own big boat.

After all preparations were completed, everyone rushed to Changhu Town.

At this time, Thorin walked up to Abel and whispered: "When I get the treasure from Gushan, I will pay you back every penny."

He was referring to the cost of the boat trip for everyone.

"Okay." Abel said casually, holding a glass of fruit wine in his hand.

The food that Abel had brought out before was taken to the big boat, and the dwarves continued to hold the banquet.

Balin saw the opportunity and came to the stern of the ship with a plate of barbecue and found Bard at the helm. As a steady dwarf, he wanted to get some information from Bard.

"Looking at how handsome you are, your child must also be very cute." Bahrain is very good at finding topics. He knows what kind of person he is talking to and the most appropriate words to say.

A man like Bud, who is in his thirties and almost forty, has to talk to him about his children and family.

"Yes, I have a son and two lovely daughters. They are both outstanding." Bud took a bite of the barbecue and responded to Bahrain with a smile.

"Then you must have a virtuous wife who can make you feel happy." Bahrain continued to talk.

Bud didn't speak this time. He chewed the roast meat in his mouth seriously, and the smile on his face disappeared.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to bring up your sad past." Bahrain saw that something was wrong with the other person's expression.

"It's okay, it's been a long time." Bud said, "Go back and sit tight. The road ahead is not going to be easy."

The search for information failed, and Balin returned to the dwarves.

"How's it going? Did you get any useful information?" Thorin asked.

Balin shook his head helplessly.

The next section of the road, just like Bud said, became difficult to walk.

Thick mist rose from the lake, and there were many strange rocks standing in the water.

The boat can only carefully shuttle among the boulders.

"Are you trying to kill us here?"

When the big ship passed by a huge boulder again, Thorin couldn't help but ask Bard.

This situation where the direction could not be seen clearly and the ship might hit the rocks at any time made Thorin very uneasy.

"Don't worry, I am very honest. After collecting your money, I will definitely send you to Changhu Town." Bud answered Thorin.

"Oh, my God! Look, what is that?"

Bilbo pointed not far away and shouted to everyone.

Under the thick fog, everyone saw the outline of Changhu Town, which was already very close.

"We'll be here soon, you need to disguise yourself." Bud explained to everyone: "I said before that Changhu Town does not allow outsiders to enter."

"Disguise? I don't like that," Fili said.

"How about we swim across the water." Qili also came up with a crooked idea.

"Please...we'll be frozen like popsicles..." Dwalin retorted Kili's suggestion.

Under the driving of Bud, the fishing boat docked at a small port outside Changhu Town. This is the only place to enter Changhu Town, and it can be regarded as the foreign trade port of Changhu Town.

What Bud means is to let everyone buy some disguise clothes here.

"Take these and buy some practical items...the more the better." Abel took out a handful of gold coins and handed them to Bud.

Abel has a good idea that can help everyone enter Changhu Town in an honest way.

"You are the boss, you have the final say..." Bud took the gold coins and walked to the Foreign Trade Office in the port.