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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.

Nian and Ou Yu, hoping they would halt this unexpected consumption of

without having enough to eat, stand this? He erupted, “Are you speaking

crowd: “You’re the ones who was in charge of distribution, you dumped this on Master Ou and me! Tianjiao said as long as we build the city, we would not have to worry about food. Do you want to go back on your words? Nine million catties of grain are gone in ten days. I think you’ve been stuffing your own pockets

turned pale, a pound hit his heart. Because after he had spoken his last sentence, the faces of everyone in the room darkened, more than a dozen murderous eyes focused on him, all filled with

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 1000 helpers, none of these people got a grain

to you!”

than the slander against 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

spoken out of his desperation, Nian Bo’s

million catties of grain in the past ten days. Although our family members did eat relief food, it was because the Xue Family had given out all of our own stored grain before

Xue, I…I didn’t mean that.” Nian Bo looked at the furious expressions of the people in front of him, anger flaring in their eyes, how could he

to calm the crowd’s anger as soon as possible,

“Crack!”

breaking echoed in the council hall. Elder Nian had broken his little finger on his left hand and placed

yet still twitching finger