Chapter 502: Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Responsibility

Red Cloud Mountain, Xiling, Du Clan Territory

The famous scholars sat together again with worried expressions on their faces, none of them daring to look at each other. Sun Jinfang couldn’t believe it – within just ten days, almost all of the ten million catties of grain that they had obtained from the Xiao Family had been consumed. What was expected to last for twenty days was now just under a million catties.

Even if distributed at the lowest standard, this million catties of grain wouldn’t last more than five days. Sun Jinfang had no choice but to gather all the famous scholars of Xiling to discuss the issue of food supply. He had hoped that everyone would eagerly join the discussion, but instead they were all silent, only speaking up to express blame.

Feeling the increasingly quiet atmosphere, the manager of Return to Spring Hall, Liu, spoke: “Master Ou, Elder Nian! I think the mountain mining and the city construction should be held off until Tianjiao comes back. Each of you has an enormous appetite. In these ten days, just the labourers and craftsmen spent several hundreds of thousands of catties of grain.

The so-called labourers are mostly cultivators in the Mortal Realm. Even though they don’t have martial skills, using spiritual power to nourish their bodies can generate great strength. One person can match the strength of five regular people. The craftsmen of the Ou Family are in a higher realm, even they joined in mining the mountain. While spiritual energy can be replenished by breathing exercises, energy expenditure needs food. Although the food conversion efficiency of cultivators is higher, the amount of food consumed by those in the Mortal Realm and the higher realm is still five to ten times that of ordinary people.

Normally, no one would mind the martial artists using excess food, but at this time of food shortage, the scholars, who didn’t dare to eat their fill, watched as these craftsmen consumed a significant amount of grain, causing strong resentment.

the crowd focused on Elder Nian and Ou Yu, hoping they would halt this unexpected consumption of grain. It felt as if the rapid depletion of ten million pounds

Elder Nian, who worked hard every day without having enough to eat, stand

as long as we build the city, we would not have to worry about food.

last sentence, the faces of everyone in the room darkened, more than a dozen murderous eyes focused

dare you insult me like this!” Manager Liu of Return to Spring Hall trembled with anger, pointing at Nian Bo’s nose, rebuked: “My hall has distributed 753,920 catties of grain in the past ten days. I sent members of the Liu Clan, over 300 managers and over

to you!”

them after pouring in their enthusiasm and effort. If these scholars of Xiling really coveted some grain, they could just close the door and not care about the life and death of the people, they could find ways to go on smoothly with the saved food and some poor soil for farming. But they wouldn’t worry about running around for

he had spoken out of his desperation, Nian Bo’s face changed,

own stored grain before the disaster relief. You say I’ve been filling my own pockets! If you can find ten thousand catties of grain in the Xue’s

Nian Bo looked at the furious expressions of the people in front of him, anger flaring in their eyes, how could he not know that he had caused a disaster? Actually, he was

knew that he had to calm the crowd’s anger

“Crack!”

had broken his

yet still twitching finger left

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