"Don't worry, I won't take your second-in-command position," Li Ruo said, repeating her previous statement, "nor will I join you."

Xie Xiao snorted, "You think I care about you joining? Our Black Wind Stronghold is full of talented people."

“Yes, so I won’t drag you down,” Li Ruo said with a smile. “However, even if we can’t be brothers and sisters, it doesn’t stop us from being friends, right?”

When almost all his brothers were dead, she was foolish enough to be his brother.

Xie Xiao pressed his tongue against his cheek and looked at her, "Friend."

Sun Ergou and Xiao Lizi were overjoyed. "Great! There's no difference between brothers and sisters and friends. From now on, we'll all be good friends."

"I'd go to great lengths for my friends."

"Going is for the sake of a friend, even at great personal cost."

"Yes, that's why my sister saved me like that." My chest hurt just watching it.

Xie Xiao looked at those two idiots and felt pain in his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. "Get lost."

Having successfully won over Miss Li, Little Li and his companions gracefully withdrew, leaving their two friends some private time as they went out to help row the boat.

The boat was moving very fast.

Because the brothers are full of energy at this moment.

Li Ruo glanced at the binoculars beside the person with the stern face and laughed, "Sun Ergou gave you the stuff so quickly, do you know how to use it?"

"Hmph, what can stump me?" Xie Xiao's eyes held a deeper meaning. "I must say, these things from overseas are really useful, especially those life jackets. You know, we never thought of doing that, and we couldn't make such materials."

Li Ruo remained unfazed. "So you see, there are always people beyond the heavens, mountains beyond mountains, and one mountain can always be higher than another."

Xie Xiao chuckled. "You still won't reveal your accomplice, huh? Fine."

As he spoke, he looked at the water through his binoculars. "There are more and more corpses on it. If there were higher mountains, wouldn't so many people have died?"

Li Ruoxin thought to herself, "It's pitch black outside, you'd be lucky to see anything. It's probably just a dream. What do you plan to do next? Are you going to be this mountain?"

Xie Xiao sneered, "Friend, I'm just a bandit."

Li Ruo saw his eyelashes tremble slightly as he lowered his eyes and said, "What's wrong with that? When the tiger is away, the monkey becomes king. Are kings and generals born with a special destiny?"

Xie Xiao suddenly looked up at her, "Why didn't you just say the last sentence? Why did you have to bring up tigers and monkeys? Do I, a handsome man, look like a monkey?"

Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?

Damn, that's such a good sentence.

The psychological trauma of being slapped by my mother seems to have dissipated somewhat.

When he turned his head, a fire seemed to flicker deep in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly. "It depends on my mood."

Li Ruo glanced at him and smiled.

He raised his wrist. "Hey, thanks for the hidden blade."

Xie Xiao's expression immediately became a little unnatural. "Didn't you also give me a lot of good things, like binoculars and a raincoat? We're even now, friends."

Li Ruo ignored his sarcastic tone, "But those little arrows will run out once they're used up. Do you have a blacksmith here? I have the materials."

He finally regained some composure, his eyes brightening slightly. "You have it? Where did you collect it?"

"On other high mountains."

Xie Xiao: "...Okay!"

"I can provide you with the amount of weapons you need, but you will have to exchange them for weapons and an unlimited supply of hidden blades."

"Good!" Xie Xiao's eyes shone even brighter. "Many of the brothers from Zixia Mountain are unarmed, but it seems I still have the advantage. Do you have any other requests?"

"You're getting a good deal?" Li Ruo said, "If I need manpower in the future, just lend me some, Chief Xie."

Xie Xiao scoffed, "Do you even need to ask me? You saw for yourself just now that they treated you like one of their own."

"Thank you," Li Ruo said.

Their eyes met.

One eye was deep and unfathomable.

A gentle smile.

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Li Ruo pulled out a whistle and made a "beep" sound. "We're friends now, so here, take this. Blow it a few times whenever you come to Ziyang Peak to see me."

That's louder than Ruth's whistle.

Xie Xiao chuckled, "It's like nobody wants to be friends with you. But, considering this unique little thing, I'll accept it."

He took it and blew on it.

"Beep: Owl."

"Beep beep: Xie Xiao."

“Beep beep beep: I am Xie Xiao.”

"Beep beep beep beep: I am Xie Xiao."

Xie Xiao talked and laughed as he played the flute.

Li Ruo: Big brother, your image hasn't collapsed, has it? Why does it feel like you've met an idiot?

And you blow it without even wiping it?

"I'll go outside and take a look. You should put your clothes on quickly."

Li Ruo left with a smile, leaving Xie Xiao staring blankly at the huge bow on his chest.

Damn, so he hadn't been wearing a shirt all along.

Sun Ergou came in, "Wow, boss, your bow tie is so big and nice." Waaah, his used one was so small, I'm a little biased.

Xie Xiao looked at him with displeasure: "Give me the outer robe you're wearing."

Sun Ergou was wearing a raincoat, so his clothes weren't wet, but his outer robe was a bit thin. When he put it on, the bow on his chest bulged out, which looked a bit strange. "Boss, how about I help you re-tie it?"

"Are you bored?" Xie Xiao glared at him. "Why aren't you going boating yet!"

It was just dawn, and everything on the water was clearly visible.

"Sister, those are corpses." Sun Ergou's scalp tingled; so many dead people.

"He looks like he's from out of town," said Xiao Li.

"You can tell that too?"

Little Li said, "Of course, you can tell from their clothes and appearance."

Everyone looked very serious. "My goodness, outsiders have come too. Won't the territorial disputes on the mountains become even more intense?"

Along the way, driftwood occasionally floated on the water, with people on it calling for help. Sun Ergou didn't dare to make a decision on his own, so he went in and asked Xie Xiao.

"The leader said, first announce the name of Black Wind Stronghold. If they resist, ignore them. If they still ask for help, then rescue them. If they are not obedient after being rescued, throw them back into the water. If they are obedient, throw them on General Mountain to fend for themselves."

As a result, about half of them heard about Black Wind Stronghold and quickly rowed away, while the other half, since they were going to die anyway, preferred to die under the blades of Black Wind Stronghold rather than in the water, and were rescued. There were about twenty of them.

When they were halfway there, they came across a small boat. When they looked, they saw that the person at the bow of the boat was none other than Commander Zhao, who was guarding the city gate.

Commander Zhao was using a bamboo pole to rescue people. Besides his family, there were many other people being rescued on the boat.

The brothers admired Commander Zhao; at this time, only he was still tirelessly saving people.

Xie Xiao heard this and came out, shouting across the distance, "Old Zhao!"

Commander Zhao's eyes lit up, and he rowed the boat over. "Haha, Brother Xie, long time no see."