The City Lord's Mansion is located in the bustling Beicheng District of Shangyuan City, covering an extremely vast area, almost the size of two or three Su families.

Moreover, it is also the oldest force in Shangyuan City, and the Lin family has occupied the position of city lord for a hundred years.

At this time, in an extremely pleasing garden of the City Lord's Mansion, there were five people sitting in the gazebo.

"Brother Lu, come!"

A slightly gloomy middle-aged man was pouring wine for another middle-aged man with a rather arrogant expression.

"City Lord Lin, your status is noble, why do you need to pour wine, Feng'er!"

Lu Yanting hurriedly covered his wine glass and prevented City Lord Lin from pouring wine for him.

"Uncle, this kind of trivial matter should be done by the juniors!"

A young man hurriedly stood up and stretched out his hands very respectfully.

"Brother Lu, isn't it just pouring wine, what's this, I, Lin Dong, am not a pretentious person. ”

Lin Dong smiled bitterly, but the wine jug was still handed to the young man named Lu Feng.

"Brother Lin, I don't know what you are doing with me this time?"

Lu Yanting looked at a very quiet old man sitting next to him, groaned, and then looked at Lin Dong.

The old man's expression was indifferent, and there was a middle-aged man standing next to him.

"Brother Lu, what do you think of the strength of the Zhao family?"

Lin Dong smiled, glanced at the old man who was drinking to himself, and then asked.

His eyes were slightly condensed, as if he wanted to find some answer from Lu Yanting's eyes.

"Very strong. ”

However, the other party only nodded slightly, and his face was calm.

"Why don't I think Brother Lu thinks so in his heart. ”

Lin Dong shook his wine glass and smiled.

"The Zhao family dares to provoke Baiqilou, but my Lu family doesn't dare, and the strength is weak, and everyone has to retreat. ”

Lu Yanting hurriedly shook his head, and seemed to have a lot of respect for the Zhao family in his words, but several people heard sarcasm, and even a trace of unhappiness.

Lin Dong nodded and did not answer.

He knew that the children of a small family attached to the Lu family 'borrowed' a lot of priceless treasures from Baiqilou, but these things had not yet been honored to the Lu family, and they were cut off by the Zhao family, and anyone would be a little unhappy.

"The Zhao family's style has become more and more high-profile over the years, and I can't see it anymore. ”

The city lord was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth with a deep gaze, he drank a cup of himself, and looked at Lu Yanting with deep eyes.

"Indeed, the Su family occupies the land of your city lord's mansion and is unwilling to return it, but the Zhao family still has to protect it, which is obviously against the city lord. ”

"Brother Lu is serious.

But then again, the Zhao family seems to understand the righteousness, and they don't hesitate to protect the Su family even if they work against my city lord's mansion, but who knows if they really share the same breath with the Su family. ”

"Oh, what does Brother Lin mean?"

Lu Yanting didn't seem to understand what the other party meant.

Could it be that the Zhao family doesn't really want to protect the Su family, but for some kind of benefit?

He was very strange, the most valuable thing for the Su family was the thousands of acres of psychic orchards, but this was the Lin family, and the Zhao family would not hit the City Lord's Mansion no matter how bold they were.

Lu Yanting was puzzled, apart from this, what else was attractive to the Su family?

"Talent Fruit Tree!"

At this time, Lu Feng, who was sitting on the other side of Lu Yanting, solved his doubts, and the young man took a glass of wine, and then said lightly.

"Talent Fruit Tree, by the way, why didn't I think of it. ”

Lu Yanting slapped his head, and then reacted.

The Zhao family of the psychic orchard did not dare to be careful, but the talent fruit tree was a real 'ownerless' thing.

That's a talent fruit tree!

"The dog is good, smart and smart!"

City Lord Lin nodded and glanced at Lu Feng with appreciation.

However, the other party was not proud at all, his expression was flat, and he drank wine by himself.

"I see, no wonder the Zhao family is willing to protect the Su family all the time, it turned out to be the idea of playing the fruit of talent, and they are really patient. ”

Lu Yanting completely understood at this moment, and couldn't help but sneer.

If this is the case, then the Su family is finished, and they will definitely die!

"This is just speculation, what if the Zhao family is sincerely helping the Su family, after all, we can all rise quickly because of the Su family, and the strong people in the clan have greatly increased, maybe they just remember the other party's kindness." ”

Lin Dong glanced at Lu Yanting, played with the wine glass in his hand, and then said slowly.

"Kindness? impossible!"

Lu Yanting sneered, then shook his head.

"I remembered that you reminded me like this, it was not only Zhao Lin who helped Wang Feng speak in Baiqilou at that time, but also Su Yue's yellow-haired girl, but afterwards the Zhao family did not distribute the things in Baiqilou to the Su family, I think the Zhao family is also clearly going to the interests of the Su family. ”

Wang Feng's incident had spread all over Shangyuan City, and as the head of the family, he knew the ins and outs of this matter very clearly.

At that time, he still wondered why the Zhao family didn't give the Su family a part, but now he suddenly realized that he seemed to see through the essence of the Zhao family.

"Hey, it's a pity to talk about Su Yue, at that time, the talent was called a demon, and he reached the Linghe Realm at the age of ten, if there was no accident halfway, maybe the current realm would be almost the same as ours. ”

City Lord Lin sighed, as if he was sorry for Su Yue's untimely death, and couldn't help but feel melancholy.

"I see you've been secretly rejoicing in this old ghost. ”

Lu Yanting glanced at the other party and said in his heart, but he said, "Yes, with that girl's talent, almost no one in her generation can surpass it, and she is comparable to the peerless pride of the Spirit Sect." ”

"You can only be considered a demon if you can grow up, Brother Lu, what do you think?"

There was also a young man sitting next to the Lord of Lin City, the jade tree was in the wind, with a graceful demeanor, as if with a scholarly atmosphere, holding a folding fan.

He said with a smile, looking at his peers across from him.

"The Si people are gone, she is no longer what she used to be, which is why we have the reputation we have now. ”

Lu Feng looked up into the distance, drank a cup of himself, and then spoke softly, without looking at the young man holding the fan.

Back then, when Su Yue was still in the middle of the day, there was nothing to do with them at all, all the light and eyes were on that person, and they might not even be green leaves.

Now Su Yue's reputation is not obvious, but it has made the three of them.

"Brother Lu doesn't have to be too humble, you have always been the top four geniuses in our Shangyuan City, how can you say that it is because of Su Yue that you have achieved us. ”

The young man continued to speak, smiling.

However, Lu Feng didn't answer, but drank a glass again, and he didn't know what he was thinking, looking at him in the distance was a little distracted.

Lu Yanting glanced at Lu Feng with a slight frown, and then said:

"Although the Zhao family has been protecting the Su family, they have ill intentions, Lord City, when you attack the Su family, we can help you. ”

"I can do without the psychic orchard, but the talent fruit tree must belong to me. ”

Before Lin Dong could speak, the old man next to him was the first to speak.

The old man's expression was indifferent, and although he spoke flatly, his tone was full of undoubtedness.

Lu Yanting's eyes were slightly condensed, and he glanced at him with a deep face.

"The value of the Talent Fruit Tree is so high, can you swallow it alone?

City Lord Lin, where did you invite the guests, no matter how you speak, you don't use your brain. ”

This old man Lu Yanting has not seen it in the City Lord's Mansion, which means that he is a guest invited by Lin Dong.

But he was a little unhappy in his heart, an old man who was mortal dared to make a big statement in front of him!

Lu Yanting had already thought about asking, a mortal who had not cultivated was also worthy of sharing the table with him, just thinking that this was a guest of the City Lord's Mansion, and he wanted to give Lin Dong face, so he didn't say anything.

However, at this time, this old man had the whimsical idea to take down the entire talent fruit tree, which made him have to question, and he was very unhappy.

"Come, let me introduce you two, this is the Loess Soul Cultivator from Tianyuan City, Huang Xuan!"

Lin Dong didn't answer his question, but stood up and solemnly introduced the old man to the two of them, with a smile on his face.

"Loess Soul Cultivator!"

Lu Yanting was shocked, then quickly got up and bowed respectfully to the old man.

However, the old man did not raise his head, and kept drinking a little wine by himself, even if the lord of the noble family of Shangyuan City saluted him, he did not mean to be reasonable, and his expression was still indifferent.

"The younger generation has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and I hope the seniors will forgive me!"

The head of the Lu family did not have a trace of annoyance, but a chill came out of his back, and he glanced at Lin Dong deeply, with some annoyance on his face.

Knowing that the old man was a loess spiritual cultivator, he hadn't introduced him before, did he want to watch him make a fool of himself?

Lu Yanting stood aside trembling, it seemed that there was no old man to speak, he didn't dare to sit anymore, and he was sweating, and his face was terrified.

After a long time, the old man seemed to have drunk enough, so he raised his head slightly and glanced at Lu Yanting indifferently.

"Do you think I'm still qualified to swallow the Lower Talent Fruit Tree?"

"Swallow, swallow, as long as the seniors come out, the Su family will definitely give it to you with both hands!"

Lu Yanting nodded hurriedly, very respectful, completely devoid of his previous majesty.

How noble a soul cultivator is, except for the one who is dying, there is no loess soul cultivator in Shangyuan City at all.

These people are all high-ranking figures, with extremely high status, and they are admired by thousands of people no matter where they are!

And now, the City Lord's Mansion has an extra loess soul cultivator for no reason, what does this mean.

It shows that Lin Dong is imperative to the Su family's psychic orchard!

..........

On this afternoon, the sun was thin, and the Su family was in the mountains.

Su Yue came to her own psychic fruit industrial park, and she walked in the psychic fruit forest while carefully inspecting these fruit trees.

After a while, her brow furrowed and her face was solemn.

This was the harvest season for psychic fruit trees, but the leaves of these fruit trees were yellow, and there were very few psychic fruits on each tree, and the originally golden earth began to fade and turn into red soil.

Cultivating heaven and earth spiritual creatures, with the land as the cornerstone.

Originally, the land on which these psychic fruit trees were cultivated was high-quality loess, but since her mother's accident, there was no one to take care of the land, and the psychic fruit trees continued to absorb the nutrients of the land, and the loess began to dry up, and began to change to the most useless laterite.

"With my mother's current situation, I am afraid that I will not be able to restore the quality of this soil to the level of loess. ”

Su Yue frowned deeply, the main industry of the Su family is to plant two seasons of psychic fruits a year, if before, the annual harvest of psychic fruits can reach as many as 100,000, but looking at the situation this year, I am afraid that the number of harvests is far from reaching, maybe not even half of the output.

"With the current inventory in the clan, it can still provide the psychic fruit needed by the major families, but next year I'm afraid it will be..."

The Su family's annual output of psychic fruits is indeed huge, but most of them are used to buy and sell in exchange for other resources, and generally speaking, sixty percent of these outputs are provided to the major families and the city lord's mansion.

I thought it could last a few years, so this year's agreement with the major families was also signed, but it didn't take long for the soil quality of the loess to decline rapidly, and the output of the last season was almost half lost, and I am afraid that the loss this time will be huge.

You must know that planting psychic fruit not only requires soil above loess, but also has to use other spiritual resources to cultivate and irrigate, and even let the subordinates take care of it often, with an annual output of 100,000, the net amount that the Su family can get is only about 80,000.

In addition to providing psychic fruits every year, the Su family also has to practice and some daily expenses, and only 10,000 can be stored in the treasury every year.

"If you hire a soul cultivator... No, it won't work!"

Su Yue shook her head, if hiring a spirit cultivator could solve the problem, the Su family would have done it a long time ago.

Soul cultivators are too rare, and the cost is high, with the current situation of the Su family, they can't afford to hire them at all, not to mention that even if the Su family is willing to hire them, the City Lord's Mansion will not agree.

Because the Su family's psychic orchard is not the Su family's, but the city lord's mansion!

At that time, this was just a barren and vast wasteland, and the quality of the land was inferior to even the inferior red soil, so the City Lord's Mansion never took care of it.

It wasn't until her mother came to this place that she liked the vastness of the wasteland, so she wanted to buy it, but the lord of the city was also cunning, and only leased it to her mother at a cheap price for twenty years.

Then, her mother's capacity as a Purple Earth Spiritual Cultivator also took nearly two years and spent a huge price to cultivate this land that was nothing into loess.

When the lord of the city heard the news, his bowels were full of remorse.

But he couldn't help it, after all, there was no noble soul cultivator, so he could only watch dryly, and he also needed the low-grade psychic fruit planted by Su Yue's mother.

The higher the level, the purer and more vast the aura contained in the psychic fruit, and the less impurities there are.

It's just that in a small place like Shangyuan City, how can there be medium-grade and above-grade psychic fruits, before Su Yue's mother arrived, the output of low-grade psychic fruits here added up to less than 10,000, and it was also piled up by some unpopular spiritual cultivators with massive resources, and the cost was huge, so most people used the inferior psychic fruit at that time.

Until the arrival of Su Yue's mother, the lower grade psychic fruit began to become popular, and gradually became the transaction currency of many families.

The huge value of the Su family's psychic fruit land began to make the city lord covet it, but at that time, with Su Yue's mother supporting, he didn't dare to show this kind of thought, until three years ago, Su's mother was seriously injured and could barely get out of bed, and the city lord's greed was gradually exposed, and he began to suppress the Su family.

In the past three years, except for the psychic fruit industry, which can continue to be maintained, the rest of the industries have basically been suppressed and closed down.

Although the Su family complained, they didn't dare to say anything, who made the Su family's strongest and most honorable spiritual cultivator, Su Mu, fall.