Chapter 377, Hard Fate

Of course the Zong Clan didn’t want the merchant road to open here, after all, the Zong Clan was located in a barren region, which had always been an important factor limiting their development, and because of this, the Zong Clan Consortium had always wanted to expand.

If the commercial road is opened, there will be countless caravans coming to the Northwest, the 178 Barrier will become more and more powerful, as the saying goes, one mountain can’t tolerate two tigers, even if the 178 Barrier has no intention of expanding nowadays, can the Zong Clan not be afraid of being next to the 178 Barrier?

Of course, Zong could have continued to cultivate new bandits to take control of the river valley region, but in the past, it was 178 Barrier Zhang Jinglin who was absent, so the barrier’s temporary commander didn’t want to take care of matters outside of the barrier.

And now it was different, Zhang Jinglin had returned!

How strong the 178 Barrier was more than ten years ago, the top management of the Zong Clan Consortium was vividly aware of it, they had been holding back and developing for more than ten years, and now if the 178 Barrier was allowed to regain the glory it had more than ten years ago, then the Zong Clan was afraid that they would have to cool off.

So Qing and Yang are now fighting so ferociously, but also do not see Zong’s south to take advantage of, on the one hand, because of Qing Zhenjian cut off Zong’s shortcut to the south, and on the other hand, Zong’s scruples 178 barriers on the side, do not dare to act differently.

At night, Zhou Yinglong led them to find a place to camp with the wind at their backs, this Zhou Yinglong seems to often mix with the wilderness as if, on the wilderness of things clear.

Ren Xiaosu now had the black medicine and his injuries didn’t hurt as much, but he still pretended to look like he was having a hard time moving.

When he slowly got out of the car and wanted to move around, Wang Sheng Yin even came over to help him, but Ren Xiaosu refused, saying that he could move slowly.

On the contrary, this Wang Sheng Yin didn’t care about the blood stains on his body at all.

Ren Xiaosu found a mound to lean against and sat down, suddenly someone said, “I heard that many barriers over in the southwest have broken down, I don’t know what’s going on, but all the barriers in the Central Plains are still fine.”

Zhou Yinglong was happy: “Let me tell you, I have a good brother named Xu Xianchu, as long as he has been to the barriers, all of them collapsed except for my 178! At first everyone thought he was a calamity, and then realized that 178 was fine and didn’t think so much about it, but as a result, once he went to the 88 ledge a while ago, the 88 ledge collapsed as well ……”

Wang Shengzhi laughed: “Is he himself okay?”

“That can be something, he all left before the collapse, with him half of the relationship is not,” Zhou Yinglong joyfully laughed: “I this Xu Xianchu brother life is hard, the barriers collapsed he is all right.”

“That’s really the Chosen One,” said Wang Shengzhi, “Can you introduce me when you arrive at the ledge?”

“Haha, of course you can,” Zhou Yinglong said, “But old Xu himself does not recognize this thing ah, he said there are even harder than his life, he is before the wall collapsed to leave, so it’s fine, and his particularly good relationship with his brother time and time again did not leave early, as usual, it’s okay! ……”

Ren Xiaosu knew who Zhou Yinglong was talking about when he heard this, he carefully recalled it seemed to be like this ah, the barriers he had been to had all collapsed, even Yang’s 88 barriers were no exception.

But these barriers collapsing should have nothing to do with him ……

The first few were either caused by earthquakes, or by Li Shentan’s attempts at revenge as well as the invasion of the experimental body, and even the 88 barriers collapsing was Qing Zhen’s attempt to get to Luo Lan.

It really doesn’t have anything to do with yourself!

At this moment, Wang Shengzhi was even more interested in what Zhou Yinglong had said, “If I could meet this Chosen One that you are talking about, it would be very interesting, right?”

Zhou Yinglong carried a box of wine down from the car and asked, “Do you drink? This Qiang (qiang) wine of mine is made from the finest barley, and the water used is all snow mountain water, sweet!”

The others all shook their heads, except Wang Shengzhi who said, “I can drink with you, but is it possible to drink in the 178th Wall Army?”

Zhou Yinglong said with a big grin, “In our part of the world, drinking is allowed during winter rotations, without alcohol to warm up your body you simply can’t.”

“It’s almost summer now,” Wang Shengyin said.

Zhou Yinglong thought for a moment, “It’s good that you guys didn’t tell the commander, but I saved this wine for the winter.”

“But there shouldn’t be many grain-producing areas around the 178th Barrier, where did you guys get this barley?” Wang Sheng Yin was curious.

Zhou Yinglong suddenly stopped speaking, as if this matter was a very important secret.

Ren Xiaosu also realized that this 178 barriers really have secrets, the barley origin is not close to the 178 barriers, if it is really like the outside world said that the 178 barriers will not come out of the barriers under normal circumstances, then how does Zhou Yinglong know so much about the river valley region’s stragglers’ settlements, and how is this barley transported to the 178 barriers?

Zhou Yinglong changed the topic and said: ”What kind of business are you planning to do with Commander Zhang from Zhongyuan this time? Is the wine of the Central Plains good?”

“The Central Plains is rich in grain of course, as well as tea and cloth,” Wang Shengzhi said with a smile as he sat in his wheelchair, “But what Commander Zhang wants most should not be these, but medicines.”

Zhou Yinglong’s eyes lit up when he heard medicines, those who marched and fought in the war knew best what the 178 barriers lacked the most.

What outsiders didn’t know was that they were indeed short of food, but they weren’t actually short of meat, and starvation was something they definitely couldn’t starve.

And medicine was something that was just too valuable, in a random battle, medicine would determine the survival rate of the wounded.

It dawned on Ren Xiaosu that it was no wonder Zhang Jinglin wanted to open up the trade routes so badly, and Zong probably guessed the significance of it as well.

When he used to listen to Zhang Jinglin’s lectures, Mr. Zhang had talked about the importance of the ancient Silk Road, only that the times were different, and the commodities on this Silk Road were bound to be different as well.

At that time, Ren Xiaosu still didn’t understand what Zhang Jinglin suddenly mentioned this for, but now it seems that Zhang Jinglin has been thinking about this for a long time.

Wang Shengzhi stopped after two mouthfuls of wine, and Wang Shengyin covered his knees with a blanket.

“Drinking is too bad,” Zhou Yinglong muttered in a low voice, and suddenly, he looked at Ren Xiaosu, “Do you drink?”

Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “No, I still have injuries on my body.”

Zhou Yinglong thought for a moment, “Wounds need to be anti-inflammatory, wine can reduce inflammation, if you drink some wine your wounds won’t be inflamed, do you think it’s true?”

Next to him, Wang Shengyin said in a bad mood, “What kind of crap theory is that, after an injury you need an immune system to deal with the damage and infection, after you drink alcohol and paralyze the immune system just wait for death!”

Zhou Yinglong opened his mouth, limited by the level of knowledge can not refute the words of Wang Sheng Yin, and finally had to whisper to Ren Xiaosu muttered: “Do not listen to her, what she said is not necessarily right, you have heard of the Guan Gong scrape the bones to heal the wound, people martial arts sage Guan Gong are drinking after the injury…… ”

Ren Xiaosu shook his head helplessly, he wasn’t afraid of the effect on his wounds, but he didn’t want to lose his sobriety and sanity in an unfamiliar crowd and environment.

Zhou Yinglong muttered, “It’s so meaningless.”

But just then, Ren Xiaosu suddenly heard the roar of a vehicle’s engine in the distance as it traveled across the wilderness, Zhou Yinglong put down his bottle and sneered, “This Zong’s dog’s guts have really gotten a lot bigger.”

“Do you think this is Zong’s order to attack our people?” Wang Shengzhi looked at Zhou Yinglong, “Would the Zong Clan dare to lay hands on the people of 178 Barriers?”

“Over the years, the Zong Clan has developed rapidly, so it probably has something to fall back on,” Zhou Yinglong sneered.