After adventuring and travelling together for many years, the three young 'men' gradually became middle aged, and had gained some fame in the region. As age caught up with them and they found their bodys were no longer as lithe and fit as their younger years, they decided to settle ddown in the vicinity of where they had first met. After the escape of not only the young miss of the Wang family, Wang Ji, but also the young master of the Qing family, Qing Ma, the local Wang family village that had been prosperous for a few hundred years… had pretty much scattered, with everyone going their own ways and moving to the villages of their spouces, cousins, or distant family.