Li Huai quickly explained: "Mr. Chen, Shopkeeper Cao is indeed Xiaguan's cousin, but in today's matter, Xiaguan absolutely enforced the law impartially and had no selfish intentions."
Chu Zichen ignored Li Huai, but looked at Ruan Xiangxiang and handed the letter to her.
"Since this is a letter from Shopkeeper Cao, you'd better keep it properly."
Ruan Xiangxiang reached out to take it and said thank you.
Chu Zichen's eyes moved around the potato vines, and then asked: "Did shopkeeper Cao grow this crop, or did you grow it?"
Ruan Xiangxiang scratched her head and said, "We actually grew this. After all, we stay here to visit the store and we also need to eat. Although shopkeeper Cao left some food for us, it is not enough after all."
Chu Zichen nodded: "Then... what is it called?"
Ruan Xiangxiang shook his head: "We don't know what it's called. I dug this one from Baotai Mountain..."
Having said this, Ruan Xiangxiang put on a posture and looked like she was bragging.
"...I still remember that day, my mother fell ill and the whole family was starving to death. I had no choice but to go into Baotai Mountain to collect herbs and find food.
But all the edible food on the outskirts of Baotai Mountain was eaten up by the nearby villagers. I couldn't find any medicinal materials or food at all.
Until I came to a stone boundary monument deep in Baotai Mountain, with the four characters "No living persons allowed to enter" written on it."
When Ruan Xiangxiang said this, a look of horror appeared on her face.
For a moment, everyone in the room was stunned.
“At that time, I was still quite scared because there was darkness and mist inside, and weird sounds came from time to time.
However, in order to collect medicine for my mother and for our family to survive, I had to step into the depths of the boundary monument.
I walked a little way inside, and suddenly I saw a white light in front of me, which penetrated the dense layers of black fog.
I thought to myself that it must be the guidance given to me by the gods, so I immediately followed the guidance of the gods and ran forward.
Not long after running, I saw many green vines like this growing where the white light came from.
I immediately pulled out the green vines, then used a sickle to throw away the soil and dig out all the round beans inside.
After I finished digging out the round beans in the soil, I knelt on the ground and thanked the gods for their guidance, and then I took those round beans home."
Everyone suddenly realized that this round thing actually had such origins.
Li Huai asked: "Then why did you plant those round beans in the ground instead of eating them when you dug them?"
Ruan Xiangxiang said: "I took it home and originally wanted to eat it, but my mother said that this is something given by the gods. If we eat it ourselves, we will fail the gods' intention. We should plant it."
As she said that, she looked at Li Cui and winked at her: "Mom, is that so?"
"Ah?" Li Cui was stunned for a moment and nodded quickly: "Yes, that's it. Our country of Chu is experiencing a drought now. Since the gods guided us to find these round potatoes, they must not be for us to eat, but for us to plant them.
Come out and help more refugees who have no food to eat."
Li Huai never expected that things would turn out like this, and he didn't know how to answer the call for a while.
And Chu Zichen never expected that such an ordinary village woman could have such an awareness.
He couldn't help but praise: "I can't believe that you are still on the verge of starvation, but you can still think about other people. For such righteous people, I believe that they will never do anything to seek wealth or harm.
Therefore, Mr. Li, this so-called case ends here, you must not cause any more trouble to them."
"Yes." Li Huai had nothing to say and could only nod in agreement.
At this moment, an officer and soldier hurried in from outside.
