"Stinky baby, let me ask you, why did you ask me instead!

Seeing that the master asked himself for the second time, Shanhe hesitated for a long time before giving his answer:

"If it were me...... Alas, most of them won't accept it!"

As soon as these words came out, I saw the corners of Jiang Nong's mouth curl slightly, and asked with a smile: "Why?"

"Alas, that's half of the annual resources! Give it to others as protection money, it's better to use it all on your own sect's disciples, so that they can grow up as soon as possible. If you want others not to bully you, the best way is to make yourself strong, instead of relying on the protection of others! Therefore, disciples will not accept such conditions!"

"Well, that's good! Under the law of the jungle, it is the wolf, not the sheep, that achieves. Even if you were born a sheep, you have to find a way to arm yourself!"

After listening to Shanhe's opinions, Jiang Nong immediately showed an appreciative smile, but soon changed his voice:

"It's a pity that Julingmen didn't understand this truth, not only did they agree to each other's conditions, but hundreds of years later, they still haven't been able to stand on their own until now, and they are still relying on the protection of the Tailoring Alliance...... Hey, I'm talking and digressing again, hehe, look at my memory......"

Shaking his head and laughing at himself, Jiang Nong brought the topic back:

"Back then, after Julingmen accepted the proposal to revise the alliance, it did get the protection of the other party, and no one dared to make trouble, and at the end of the year, it handed over the resources in accordance with the agreement. Among the resources, in addition to a large number of herbs, pills, and primordial stones, what was unexpected was that the resources provided by the other party also included more than a dozen Void Breaking Fruits! Seeing this, the old guys of the Tailoring Alliance were overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to investigate on the spot......

After investigation, it turned out that in a valley not far from the Yanling Palace, which is now Juling Gate, there was a wild and hollow forest hidden.

After inquiring with the surviving disciples of Yanling Palace, they discovered this valuable resource when Yanling Palace was first built, and used a lot of means and formations to hide this Broken Sky Forest. If it weren't for the destruction and reorganization this time, the outside world might not know at all.

The discovery of this hollow forest can be said to have made all the sects that can share the resources of Julingmen very excited. In comparison, what kind of elixir, resources such as raw stones are not so important anymore, and the eight major sects have all set their sights on that small piece of wild Broken Sky Forest.

For the sake of "fairness", at the strong request of the Revision Alliance, Julingmen reported all the data related to the Broken Void Fruit left by the Yanling Palace to the other party.

Originally, I just wanted to check if there was any hidden fruit in Julingmen, but after carefully checking the data, the old guys of the Tailoring Alliance discovered a strange thing.

According to the records of Yanling Palace, the yield of this hollow forest has been declining sharply every year since it began five years ago.

There was even a year or two when there was no harvest! Compared with the stable output of more than 10 years before, there was an obvious abnormality, which is very puzzling.

So, the old guys began to investigate the matter again......

"Wait, wait, uncle!" As soon as he heard this, a big question mark suddenly popped up in Shanhe's mind, and he interrupted:

"I remember that the Broken Void Fruit only bears fruit once every five years?

Hearing Shanhe ask such a "stupid" question, Jiang Nong raised his hand and came lightly on the back of Shanhe's head, and said with a disgusted face:

"I just praised you for being teachable, why are you stupid now? The hollow trees in the Broken Hollow Valley are artificially cultivated, and they are put into the soil at the same time and bear fruit at the same time, so they are harvested every five years. However, the Broken Sky Forest at the foot of Yanlinggong Mountain is wild and natural, how can a wild forest bear fruit in the same year?

After listening to Jiang Nong's explanation, Shanhe immediately understood the reason, and said embarrassedly while rubbing the back of his head that was faintly painful:

"Uh, it's the disciple who was negligent, hehe, you continue, keep going......"

Seeing that Shanhe admitted his mistake, Jiang Nongfang continued:

"The Revision Alliance originally thought that Julingmen had done something to the data, and wanted to deliberately deceive it, so as to hide the empty fruit. But after a careful investigation, it was finally found that this incident seemed to have nothing to do with Julingmen, and the data were all recorded by the previous Yanling Palace, including the surviving disciples who also confirmed the matter, so they cleared up the suspicion of Julingmen's fraud. ”

"Ah, didn't they do it?" The result also surprised Shanhe, and he said with puzzled eyes:

"How can the fruit be reduced for no reason?"

"Hehe, what is the reason for the decline in the production of the Broken Void Fruit, maybe the Yanling Palace has investigated before, but after the disaster of annihilation, the people in the know are nowhere to be found, and even the Repair Alliance has not been able to find the answer in the end. ”

After blinking incredibly, he couldn't wait to ask Shanhe, "Then what happened later, will the fruit continue to decrease?"

Hearing this, Jiang Nong smiled slightly, shook his head and replied:

"Hehe, what's interesting is that in the next few years, the yield of the broken forest managed by Julingmen gradually began to pick up again, and within a few years it returned to the previous production. Seeing that the yield of fruits recovered, everyone no longer paid attention to the previous unsolved case, and the bizarre reduction in production in those five years soon faded out of people's sight. ”

"Production has recovered again?" After muttering with a confused face, he heard Shanhe frown and say:

"In that case, it's really not the secret fruit of the Juling Gate, so what is the reason?"

In the face of the mountains and rivers full of doubts, Jiang Nong smiled and said nothing, as if he deliberately did not inform him of the answer and let him guess by himself!

Seeing this, Shanhe had to support his cheeks with one hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he analyzed while thinking:

"Well, I thought it was Julingmen who did it, but it stands to reason that if they want to hide the fruit privately, the yield shouldn't rise soon, so there's no point in doing that...... Could it be that Yanling Palace made a false account before destroying the door? That's not right, why should his own people deceive themselves? And once he cheated it is five years, the risk is too great, right? That is a high-profile empty fruit, everyone is staring at it, and this assumption is not very valid...... Therefore, neither Julingmen nor Yanling Palace seem to be the masterminds of the production reduction! By the way, Uncle Shi, could it be the ghost of the people who repaired the Alliance?"

"You said they?" Hearing this, Jiang Nong shook his head and smiled:

"Hehe, although the old guys of the Tailoring Alliance have their own ghosts, they are no longer thinking about fighting for the interests of their sect all the time. But that's why it's so hard for them to fake, because everybody is monitoring each other. You don't have to doubt them!"

(End of chapter)