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Chapter 677 Black Market
"The chicken soup is almost done. I'll bring it over."

Halfway through the meal, Xiaozui thought it was almost time, so he stood up, said something to a few people, and went into the kitchen with a smile. After a moment, he came out holding a casserole that was still bubbling with steam, holding a rag.

The smell of chicken became stronger and stronger. Lei Baoer, who had been concentrating on eating, immediately raised her head and stared at the casserole in Xiaozui's hand.

Place the casserole on the table and remove the lid with a dish towel.

The extremely rich and delicious aroma of the chicken soup, along with the rising steam, rushed into the mouths and noses of several people at the table.

"It smells so good!" Milong stared at the steaming casserole, just like when he first met Shangguan Jieci near the Nantianmen.

"Gurgle gurgle." Milong swallowed his saliva subconsciously.

"elder brother!"

"chicken soup!"

Xiaozui used a spoon to skim off the chicken fat floating on the surface of the chicken soup and scooped half a bowl of chicken soup for Wang Zhong.

If it were someone else, they would want to scrape all the chicken fat floating on the surface of the chicken soup into their own bowl and drink it all by themselves.

But Wang Zhong was different from others. When stewing old hen soup, he would not drink the oil on the surface, but only the clear soup at the bottom. He would not even eat much of the chicken used in the stew.

Milong and Shangguan Jieci stared at the casserole, but neither of them tried to touch it.

Xiaozui scooped a bowl of chicken soup, scooped out a chicken leg, and handed it to Lei Baoer.

In order to make the chicken softer and the chicken soup richer, Xiaozui did not stew the whole chicken directly, but cut the chicken into large pieces, stir-fried it, and then stewed it with mushrooms.

"Thank you Auntie Xiaozui!"

"You're welcome, eat quickly!" Xiaozui said with a smile.

"Sister Shangguan, Brother Milong, don't just stand there and watch, eat quickly!"

Seeing that neither of them took action, Xiaozui hurriedly greeted them.

Milong quickly stood up and scooped a bowl of chicken soup full of chicken fat and mixed it with two pieces of chicken. However, he did not eat it himself, but handed it to Shangguan Jieci beside him: "Wife, you eat first."

Shangguan Jieci turned his head to look at Milong, and couldn't help but smile, but he didn't take the bowl that Milong handed over and said, "You eat first. You have been on the other side for so long and haven't had a good meal for a few times!"

Milong was stunned at first, but then his heart felt warm, and his eyes were full of tenderness when he looked at Shangguan Jieci.

But at this moment, the sound of Wang Zhong tapping the edge of the bowl with chopsticks rang out at an inopportune time.

"Okay, let's eat first. If there's anything, we can talk about it after dinner."

After eating and drinking, Shangguan Jieci took the initiative to take on the job of washing dishes and cleaning up. If it were usual, Xiaozui would never let her do it alone, but today Wang Zhong finally came back, and Xiaozui had a lot of things to say to Wang Zhong, so she didn't go to help Shangguan Jieci.

"Brother, are you going back to the barracks or staying at home tonight?"

"Let's go back to the barracks!" Wang Zhong said after a moment's silence, "We just got back and have a lot of things to deal with. It's more convenient to live in the barracks."

Hearing Wang Zhong's words, Xiaozui's eyes couldn't help but flash with disappointment.

Wang Zhong said again: "Don't worry, I will come back to see you as soon as I have time!"

"Don't slack off at home. Remember everything I taught you. After a while, I'll use my connections to see if I can get you into a field hospital."

"Field hospital?" Xiaozui was stunned. This was something she had never thought about before. She previously thought that Wang Zhong taught her to identify and make medicines in order to let her open a small clinic and do some small business in ready-made medicines. She had never considered the field hospital at all.

"Now that we are in the field hospital, we will meet more often and we can work together for the war of resistance."

"Of course, if you don't want to, just pretend I never said that!"

"No!" As soon as Wang Zhong finished speaking, Xiaozui immediately said excitedly: "I do."

"I'm just worried that I'm clumsy. If I really go to a field hospital and make mistakes at work, not only will the wounded soldiers be implicated, but I might also implicate you, my brother..." Xiaozui said a little nervously.

Wang Zhong smiled and raised his hand to rub her head again, saying, "I'm just talking. This may not be possible. After all, your brother is just a small battalion commander in a local army. He has no connections and no background. It's not easy to get people into a field hospital."

"Brother, you have made so many contributions in Burma. The higher-ups will definitely reward you this time. Maybe in a few days, you will no longer be a battalion commander, but a regiment commander!"

“I’m afraid it’s not that easy.”

"Hmm?" Xiaozui looked at Wang Zhong in confusion: "What's not that easy?"

"nothing!"

In the evening, Wang Zhong took Milong, who was reluctant to leave, back to the old shelter which served as the temporary base of the Third Battalion.

"Just now, Yu Xiaoqing sent someone over here, asking you to come over. He has something to ask you."

As soon as Wang Zhong entered the shelter, Bula and Yaomashebuti came up to him.

"Ask me something? What do you want me to do?" Wang Zhong muttered to himself in confusion.

Several people shook their heads and said, "I don't know, but Commander Ayi and Si La Si La have already passed by."

"When did they go?"

"A few hours ago! It wasn't even dark yet."

Wang nodded and said, "It must not be a serious matter, otherwise, he would have gone to Zenda City to look for me long ago."

Wang Zhong ignored him, found a corner, spread out some straw, sat cross-legged, and went straight into deep meditation.

After hundreds of years in the copy world, the true energy in Wang Zhong's body has long been extremely pure and powerful. Wang Zhong no longer needs to practice martial arts deliberately. When he walks, sits or lies down, the true energy in his body will circulate spontaneously.

Sitting in meditation only allowed Wang Zhong to empty his mind, clear his soul, and enter a deeper sleep.

"Milong, have you found your wife and children?" As soon as Wang Zhong left, everyone's attention was focused on Milong.

"That's necessary!"

"Hey! You didn't run away?"

"impossible!"

"People must have thought that he died at the Nantianmen Gate and had remarried a long time ago, and became someone else's wife and child."

The cannon fodders all started to mock Milong one after another.

Under normal circumstances, Milong would have either responded rudely or slapped someone in the face, but today he changed his attitude and did not take the sarcasm of others to heart at all.

Until everyone was looking at him, Mi Long waved his hands and said proudly: "You are a bunch of bastards. I have a wife now. I don't want to bother with you. I envy you so much!"

As he said this, he walked straight to Wang Zhong who was sitting cross-legged in the corner, pulled out some straw, patted it, and then lay down on it with a smile on his face.

"What a bastard! Would he really bring his wife to live with his cheap son in Boss Wang's house?"

"Of course!" Snake Butt staggered into the house, "Otherwise why would he come back with Boss Wang so late?"

"I could smell the smell of chicken soup on him from a long distance away." Snake Butt was the head cook and quartermaster of the Third Battalion, with seven or eight people under him. He had just returned from Burma, and he got a bone-cutting knife from somewhere and hid it behind his butt. He treasured it very much.

"By the way, why haven't Si La Si La and Commander A Yi come back yet?"

"It seems true?"

"It seems like they've been gone for quite a while, right?"

"Could it be that he was detained by Yu Xiaoqing?"

“It’s hard to say!”

"Boss Wang let Yu Xiaoqing get away with it today. Who knows, Yu Xiaoqing might be thinking about how to get revenge this time."

"I heard that Yu Xiaoqing is not a very kind-hearted person. He personally chopped off the head of the battalion commander in charge of the river defense."

Everyone's eyes turned to Bu La who was standing next to them.

Bu La was frightened by the gazes of the crowd. He shivered and quickly took a few steps back, trying to avoid everyone's gazes: "Why are you all watching me?"

"When we pointed guns at Yu Xiaoqing today, you were the one who shouted the loudest!"

"What do you mean I was the loudest? Milong's shouting was no less loud than mine!"

"Lazi! Be careful and don't let Yu Xiaoqing find any excuse to get you!" Yao Ma Taishou, who has always been inseparable from Bula, patted Bula on the shoulder and comforted him.

"May good luck to you!" Fanla dragged his crippled leg and limped to Bula's side. He left after saying that.

Next came Kang Ya and She Pit. Even the usually quiet jinx left the words "my condolences" when he walked past them.

The veterinarian just patted him on the shoulder. Although he didn't say anything, the meaningful look in his eyes made Bula's heart beat fast.

The next morning, Zhang Lixian and He Shuguang drove Yu Xiaoqing's car to the shelter again.

"Where is your deputy battalion commander, Wang?"

Ever since the confrontation outside Zenda City that day, conflicts had arisen between Zhang Lixian and other elite confidants of Master Yu and the cannon fodder.

"The battalion commander left early in the morning."

Before, the cannon fodders might have had some concerns when facing Zhang Lixian and his men, but since the last confrontation, the cannon fodders discovered that these so-called elites were actually the same as them, with two shoulders supporting one head. In the face of bullets, they were all the same, with no difference. Naturally, the awe in their hearts disappeared.

"go out?"

Zhang Lixian frowned, but before he could say anything, the hot-tempered He Shuguang grabbed the cannon fodder who answered by the collar and asked sternly, "Doesn't he know that our division commander wants to see him?"

"Deputy Battalion Commander Wang said that he has to go out for something and cannot go to see Commander Yu. Battalion Commander Lin and our regiment commander know more about our Third Battalion's affairs than he does. Just let Commander Yu ask the regiment commander and battalion commander."

The cannon fodder whose collar was grabbed by He Shuguang still had no fear on his face, as if the person being grabbed by the collar was not him at all. He still told the others what Wang Zhong had left behind with a calm face, and there was a hint of arrogance in his expression.

He Shuguang was so angry that the three corpse gods jumped up and down, and just as he was about to take action, he was stopped by Zhang Lixian.

He Shuguang then noticed that there were a lot of cannon fodder surrounding them, looking at them unfriendlyly, as if they would rush over if they took action.

Thinking of the confrontation between the two sides outside Chengda City yesterday, He Shuguang's face turned red instantly.

"Did your battalion commander tell us where he was going?" Zhang Lixian was still calm.

Cannon Fodder slapped He Shuguang's hand away, straightened his collar, and said calmly with his head tilted back, "The deputy battalion commander has gone with the veterinarian to get medicine for the wounded."

Zhang Lixian was stunned for a moment, then he remembered the more than 200 seriously injured people he saw outside Zenda City yesterday.

Although Yu Xiaoqing had agreed to help the wounded soldiers apply for some medicines from the field hospital, the current situation was turbulent. The Japanese invaders had occupied nearly half of our country's territory. Various supplies in the country were in short supply, especially military supplies, which had to be sent to the major battlefields in the country first.

There is not much left in Yunnan.

But this is not the end. These are only the materials allocated by the central government to the Yunnan war zone. As soon as they are allocated from the treasury, they must first be passed through the hands of officials from the Ministry of Finance. When they arrive at the provincial capital, they have to be passed through the hands of officials in the provincial capital again. After so much exploitation and deduction, by the time these materials are actually delivered to the front line, they are considered a lot if they can get 30% of the original amount.

Although Yu Xiaoqing is the commander of the Nujiang River Defense, the one who really has the final say is his father, not him, Yu Xiaoqing.

The medical supplies that Yu Xiaoqing ordered people to send were just a drop in the bucket compared to the number and severity of the wounded.

However, the doctors transferred from the field hospital were all real talents. With their participation, not only the pressure on the veterinarians was reduced, but the wounded also had a better chance of survival.

At the same time, in a residential building in Zenda City, Wang Zhong frowned as he looked at the medicines piled up under the eaves, “Is that all?”

"And that's all!"

"There are wars everywhere right now, and these medical supplies are in short supply. Military sir, you need them urgently. Even if I have supernatural powers, I can't make medicines appear out of thin air."

"That's all. These are just the little things I have saved."

The black market boss, dressed like a country gentleman in a mandarin jacket and a hat, explained to Wang Zhong helplessly.

"It's okay. We have plenty of time. Get as many medicines as you can. If you have amoxicillin, I'll take as much as you can."

Wang Zhong also knew that he needed it urgently and time was tight, so it was not easy to get so much together.

"My God, if it's sulfa, I can get some by gritting my teeth, but amoxicillin is hard to get. It's very expensive!"

"No matter how precious money is, human life is more precious than it is."

"Just go ahead and get it. You also said that this medicine is expensive. Even if you get it, I can't afford it, but you will definitely not have trouble selling it."

In this day and age, amoxicillin is a life-saving drug. It is generally in short supply in the market, so naturally there is no difficulty in selling it.

"It's just that amoxicillin is hard to get. It's controlled much more strictly than other drugs."

The black market boss naturally knows the huge profits of amoxicillin, but he can't make money just by wanting to.

"Just do your best!"

"Fine!"

"Try the little one!"

"I heard from Mr. He that the general is planning to exchange weapons for this batch of medicine. Do you know?" The black market boss's eyes were shining and his face was full of shrewdness.

Wang Zhong also smiled, turned his head and shouted to the side: "Milong!"

"Here!" Milong stood up immediately.

"I'll leave the rest to you!"

Boss Mi's nickname was not called out out of thin air. Although Milong could barely read, he had good business skills. There were so many defeated soldiers in the shelter at that time, but his small shop was the only one that was doing well. He had no worries about food and clothing every day. Even though he was injured, he wore seven or eight watches. His life was very comfortable.

The smile on the black market boss’ face froze when he saw Milong for the first time.

As the biggest local boss in the Zenda black market, how could the black market boss not know Milong, the guy who goes to the black market to purchase goods every few days.