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.