Chapter 963: Tang Lu Moves Into Territory Two

That Tang Lu got into university didn't surprise Xia Qing. When a person has only one path left to walk, she will unleash boundless potential.

Because switching bases and entering a university with security guarantees was, apart from marrying, Tang Lu's only way out.

Why didn't Tang Lu choose to marry? Because her target was a young, handsome high-level Evolver, and without her father's generation's protection, that path was simply impassable.

Under the painful grinding of eleven years of natural disasters, people today who have the conditions and the mind to study are few. So even though the 86 universities remaining in Hua Country after the disaster don't enroll many new students each year, the pool of candidates has shrunk on a massive scale, and the college entrance exam isn't all that difficult.

Xia Qing's grievances with the Tang family are already settled, so she doesn't care which university Tang Lu goes to. But she can't stop people from being loose-lipped.

Tang Huai soon messaged Xia Qing again: Tang Lu came to find my sister today and asked her to help sell her house in the inner city of the safe zone. It can fetch over nine hundred thousand credits. Those credits are more than enough for her to attend university at Bai Yi.

Tang Lu going out of town for university is to avoid people looking for trouble or revenge. Bai Yi is far enough from Hui Three — a very good choice.

Xia Qing had thought Tang Lu's business was finished there, but who would have expected that the next evening, Tang Huai, who had just returned from a mission and hunting at Mountain Fifty, announced in the lord channel that Tang Lu had arrived at Territory Two with a whole cartload of luggage.

Zhu Li, who had also just returned from a mission, couldn't understand it at all. "She's leaving a comfortable house in the inner city of the safe zone empty, and coming out to the territory to eat dirt and suffer?"

Xia Qing answered on Tang Huai's behalf: Because Tang Lu needs to sell her house in the inner city of the safe zone, and has nowhere else to go.

Tang Huai's side was clanking and banging — clearly packing things up. "She says she wants to learn the basics of farming."

Everyone……

Zhao Ze asked curiously, "She got into an agriculture-and-forestry major?"

"Medicine!"

Everyone……

Wen Nengjie, lord of Territory Seventeen, who had also just returned from a mission with his brothers, suddenly figured it out. "Brother Huai, she wouldn't happen to know that the green-light bugs you're raising are about to come out of their cages, so she came to freeload, would she?!"

Everyone……

Tang Huai, who was in the bathroom stuffing his personal items into a bag, instantly widened his eyes.

Zhang Three lazily came online. "Which university did she get into?"

Tang Huai answered immediately. "Bai Yi University — supposedly pretty impressive. Third Brother, do you know this school?"

Zhang Three, who had recently been eating well and sleeping soundly, was in a rare mood to enlighten everyone. "Bai Yi University's medical school has eight majors. Her target major should be one of these three: Pharmacy, Evolutionary Biomedicine, or Public Health. All three of these majors list Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Forest Ecology as required courses."

Wen Nengjie jumped right in. "So that's how it is! Third Brother really knows a lot — if you hadn't said it, none of us would have known!"

Xia Qing……

Zhu Li sighed. "I didn't expect her to be so ambitious."

Ambitious, my foot! She came to inspect — to check on Territory Two's planting situation, afraid that their family would cheat her and shortchange her share!

Tang Huai, who was packing his personal belongings inside Territory Two, said sulkily, "Third Brother, the moment she entered the territory, she started asking around whether Zheng Chen of Territory Seven ever comes out to move around."

Zhu Li: I take back what I just said.

Shi Du asked, "Brother Huai, where is she staying now that she's here?"

Tang Huai was in a terrible mood. "How should I know where she's staying! I'm moving back to Territory Twelve. If you need anything, come find me at Territory Twelve."

Yuan Yan asked, "Didn't Tang Lu hand over full authority for managing the territory to you guys? Her moving in doesn't violate the contract?"

"She got my dad's approval." Tang Huai, still sulking, shouldered his personal belongings and left the dormitory in Territory Two, heading for Territory Twelve.

Tang Lu, dressed in a full protective suit and wearing a protective mask, stood behind the window of the next room watching his retreating back, a victorious smile rising on her fair, delicate face.

Xia Qing spoke up. "How many people did Tang Lu bring?"

Tang Huai answered immediately. "Two — bodyguards my dad assigned her."

Hearing Tang Huai say that, Xia Qing was reassured and moved on to the next topic. "The red-leaf bamboo in my territory has been completely dried. I still have bamboo poles left over that can build ten sheds. Does anyone need them? If so, take them first."

Red-leaf bamboo is excellent material for building greenhouses. Before the second Killing Rain, only Xia Qing and Qi Fu had planted red-leaf bamboo in their territories. Besides that, Xia Qing had also planted a grove on Mountain Fifty.

In the second Killing Rain, Xia Qing harvested 294 stalks of red-leaf bamboo, and Qi Fu harvested 120.

The red-leaf bamboo at the foot of Mountain Fifty's First Peak was sold by Xia Qing to the various territories at 10 credits per stalk.

Although each territory bought 40 stalks of red-leaf bamboo, their territories had a lot of farmland to clear, and the red-leaf bamboo they hauled back simply wasn't enough. Hearing that Xia Qing was willing to hand out the hardness-evolved bamboo poles she couldn't use, everyone wanted some, but how to divide them was a problem.

Kuang Qingwei, head of the Territory Alliance Commerce Department, spoke up. "Many thanks to Sister Xia Qing for bringing out such good material, so that during the third Killing Rain we can protect the important crops in our territories to the greatest extent possible. Third Brother, Xin Yu, do you need hardness-evolved bamboo poles?"

Zhang Three answered lazily. "Don't need them."

Xin Yu answered coldly. "Don't need them."

Good — the two big households don't need them, so the rest will be easy to handle. Kuang Qingwei continued, "Alright. Are there any other territories that don't want any?"

After waiting a few seconds and hearing no one speak up, Kuang Qingwei announced the distribution method. "Territories Seven and Eight don't need any. The remaining nine territories of us — each territory takes the materials for one shed, and the remaining materials we'll decide by drawing lots. How about it?"

This was the fairest method, and everyone agreed unanimously.

In the end, the result of the online lot-drawing in the phone group was that Zhao Ze, Xia Qing's neighbor, got the evolved materials to build two sheds!

Tang Huai couldn't help but roast him. "Brother Zhao, did you evolve some kind of luck-bonus ability?"

Zhao Ze chuckled. "It's not that my luck is good — it's that my territory is next to Sister Qing, so the feng shui is good."

"I'm next to Xia Qing too!" Tang Huai, standing at the bathroom door of Territory Twelve, cursed and grumbled.

"You know what, you really can't dismiss it — it might actually be for this reason." Shi Mu, a steadfast devotee of the Wolf God, came online. "Tang Lu is the lord of Territory Two, right?"

Wen Nengjie also caught on. "It really is like that! Her whole family plus Su Feng all collapsed, and only Tang Lu was left unscathed, and even got into university smoothly!"

Xia Qing had no intention of accepting this bizarre character setting. "Tang Lu being able to live safely until now and still have the chance to get into university is because Lord Tang Dong, in his great generosity, set aside past grievances and provided her with assistance."

Yuan Yan, who had just made a trip to the safe zone and nearly had her magnetic-sense evolution ability exposed, understood empathically what Xia Qing was worried about, and immediately changed the subject. "Xia Qing's right. If Lord Tang Dong hadn't sent people to protect her, she would have been torn apart long ago by people seeking revenge or jealous of her. What is everyone eating tonight?"

Xia Qing, who was hauling pollution-free spring water for bathing together with Ram Boss, listened to her allies' menus and decided on her and Ram Boss's dinner. "Boss, how about we use spinach juice to mix the dough tonight and roll out noodles? I'll eat pork-rib noodles, you'll eat cold tossed vegetable noodles."

"Baa~~" Ram Boss replied — it liked cold tossed noodles.

What Xia Qing hadn't expected was that the moment she set Ram Boss's dinner on the table, Broken-Waist Wolf actually hobbled into the kitchen, took Wolf Lao Er's food bowl in its mouth and put it on the table, indicating that it wanted a bowl too.