In front of the huge stone gate of the palace is a river that flows through the dark jungle and flows continuously to the outer plains to the long lake.

A narrow stone bridge spans the river and connects to the palace gates.

Xu Jing and Galadriel were in the forest across the bridge.

Around them, several people were required to hug the huge trees and fall to the ground in pieces, as if they had been broken by life, clearing a clearing.

In the forests around the clearing, in the trees or in the shadows, human figures flickered from time to time, and the wood elves drew their bows and arrows, aiming at the dragon, but they were all in a panic.

They never dreamed that one day the terrifying Smaug soldiers would descend on the city, and the sheer size of the smaught would suffocate every elf.

Xu Jing ignored the surrounding wood elves, and his spirit scanned the palace across the bridge, and had already found that Thranduyi was coming, so he waited quietly.

Beside him, Galadriel stood quietly with a look of helplessness on his face, holding a wooden box containing a necklace of white gems.

After a while, the palace gate slowly opened with a buzz, and Thranduy walked out with Legolas and the guards, his eyes immediately attracted by the huge size of Xu Jing on the other side of the river, and although he had learned the facts, he was still shocked.

And the guards behind him were all in a commotion, and they felt panic in their hearts.

Legolas had already seen Xu Jing's might, but he was still calm, and he looked at Galadriel, and then found the wooden box that the latter was holding.

For elves with permanent life, a few hundred years is only an extremely short part of life, and as the son of Thranduil, he naturally knows where the dwarves and their conflicts come from.

Seeing the wooden box held by Galadriel, Legolas's eyes froze, and after reacting, he hurriedly signaled to Thrandui.

Thrandui came back to his senses, turned to Galadriel, saw the wooden box that the other party was holding, his pupils suddenly contracted, and then a flash of realization and joy flashed on his face, and he didn't care about anything else, and strode towards the other side of the river.

Xu Jing could clearly observe Thranduyi's expression, and the latter had clearly understood his intentions.

Soon, Thrandui came to him, bowed to them slightly, and said, "Smaug, King of the Mountain, Queen Galadriel. ”

Galadriel nodded in response, while Xu Jing snorted and said bluntly, "Thranduil, I came with the treasure you want the most, do you want war, or do you want friendship?" ”

Galadriel glanced at Thranduil, then opened the wooden box, which was filled with white gems, and a star-studded silver-white necklace was placed in the center of the pile.

Seran Duyi couldn't take his eyes off anymore, looking at the necklace close at hand, his eyes showed a look of memory, and after staring for a long time, he removed his eyes, took a deep breath, looked up at Xu Jing, and said with some excitement: "What conditions do you have?" ”

He knew that the strength of the two sides was not equal at all, Smaug had every strength to destroy them, and it must not be unconditional to come with the treasure he wanted the most, and friendship was just an accessory to this transaction between the two sides.

Xu Jing's eyes showed appreciation, and he said calmly: "You have to take out a treasure with a higher value than this chain to exchange with me, but as compensation, you can gain my friendship, and Galadriel has been a guest here recently, and her living materials need you to provide." ”

"Yes."

There was a look of surprise on Thranduil's face, he didn't expect the conditions to be so simple, and simply agreed.

At the beginning, he asked the dwarves of Irub to make this necklace, but the greedy dwarves actually sat on the ground and raised the price after the construction was completed, not because he couldn't pay the payment, but he couldn't swallow that breath, so he angrily chose to refuse, and the friendship between the two sides was conflicted.

What he didn't expect was that the dwarves then went around preaching that he refused to pay and wanted to take advantage of him, constantly ruining his reputation.

As a noble elven king, Thrandui disdained to argue with people, and the wood elves lived in the dense forest, rarely dealing with outsiders, and even if there was a voice to argue for him, they were quickly drowned out in rumors.

Through Riverdale, his bad reputation spread to the dwarven races, to all human nations, and even to the orcs of the Misty Mountains.

Thranduy still didn't have much to argue, and he didn't care what outsiders thought of him, dwarves, humans, orcs, etc., these races were nothing compared to the eternal life of the elves, and all gossip would be drowned in the vast river of time sooner or later.

He was patient enough to wait until the day when the kingdom of Irub fell, and sure enough, the dwarven king paid the price for his greed.

When Smaug destroyed the kingdom of the dwarves, he watched from the hillside not far from Irub with his army of elves, and he knew better than the dwarves the horror of dragons, because he had experienced the war with them during the battle of rage, and had seen Ankara just become powerful.

Thranduy did not help, he knew that the strength of the Woodland Kingdom was simply not enough to compete with Smaug, and for the sake of the overall situation, in order to prevent Smaug from taking his anger at the Woodland Kingdom, he did not help the exiled dwarves.

In this way, the dwarves spread the word about the treachery of the Elven King, and they resented him and hated him, forgetting that it was they who first caused the gap between the two friendships.

Thranduy knew very well what a dwarf was, greedy, arrogant, blind, stubborn, forgetful, and always distorting the truth, but he still didn't care about fame, he cared about the necklace of white stone starlight.

After Smaug took possession of the Lonely Mountain, he did not despair, and chose to wait silently for the opportunity, waiting for the prophecy to come true, believing that the treasure that belonged to him would return to his hands sooner or later.

When he heard that Smaug's body shape and strength had changed, he was still worried, but he never expected everything to be so simple.

He was so excited that he immediately commanded, and Legolas immediately led the people to the treasury, and soon brought out a variety of treasures of the same value as the necklace.

"Dear Smaug, these treasures are all yours, I wonder if you are satisfied?"

With a wave of his hand, Thrandui gave away all these treasures generously, he was not a money-greedy elf like the dwarves said he was, and he was unwilling to pay the dwarves more, but he just couldn't swallow that breath.

Xu Jing looked at the pile of treasures in front of him, which was far beyond the value of the necklace itself, but there was still an inexplicable desire for more in his heart, this was Smaug's miser gene at work, fortunately, he was not the original Smaug, and immediately suppressed the idea of this pit father, and showed a look of satisfaction.

Thranduil was satisfied, and he found that Smaug was not as brutal and evil as the legend suggests, and that greed had limits, and that he was much better than the dwarves.

In addition, he had a big doubt about Galadriel's appearance together, and after thinking about it, he sent out an invitation to hold a grand banquet to entertain Xu Jing and Galadriel.

In this regard, Xu Jing happily agreed, he hadn't eaten for a long time, and in the past, Smaug was hungry for everything, such as spirits, dwarves, humans, orcs, etc., and he liked ** spirit children the most, human beings...... Woman.

But since he crossed over, although he instinctively longed for feeding on the intelligent creatures of all races, he still firmly prevented himself from indulging and insisted on his principles.

The wood elves of the woodland kingdom usually hunt and eat meat, and Thranduyi naturally knew that Xu Jing was a carnivorous creature, so he immediately arranged it.